↑"IGN: Hideo Kojima Biography". IGN. คลังข้อมูลเก่าเก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ November 16, 2007. Born on August 24, 1963, Hideo Kojima is the Konami Digital Entertainment, Operating Officer and Studio Head of Kojima Productions.
↑ 9.09.1Parkin, Simon (May 23, 2012). "Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out – interview part 1". The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. สืบค้นเมื่อ September 7, 2020. It was during that time that my parents introduced a family tradition: every night we would all watch a film together. I wasn't allowed to go to bed till the film had finished: the opposite of how it is for most children. My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films. I'd even see the sex scenes.
↑Dawkins, Dan (June 12, 2018). "Why MGS4's final scene is more powerful than we ever realised". gamesradar. สืบค้นเมื่อ September 7, 2020. Kingo Kojima, a pharmacist, named his son based on the most common name among the doctors he met. He travelled a lot on business and watched a lot of movies, a trait he impressed on young Hideo.
↑Parkin, Simon (May 23, 2012). "Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out – interview part 1". The Guardian (ภาษาอังกฤษแบบบริติช). ISSN0261-3077. สืบค้นเมื่อ September 7, 2020. "I was born in a countryside town," he says. "But when I was four years old we moved to Osaka. It was a huge environment change and after that I would spend much more time at home, watching television or making figurines.
↑Itoi, Kay (December 30, 2001). "Hideo Kojima". Newsweek. สืบค้นเมื่อ September 7, 2020.
↑Parkin, Simon (May 23, 2012). "Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out – interview part 1". The Guardian (ภาษาอังกฤษแบบบริติช). ISSN0261-3077. สืบค้นเมื่อ September 7, 2020. We managed to trick our parents into giving us the money to go on a four day trip to an exotic island off the coast of Japan. But when we arrived we spent the first three days swimming in the sea. On the final day we realised how little time we had left so I changed the plot … to another zombie movie. The idea was still that the plane had crashed and high school student had survived. But this time they found zombies on the island.