Thread 535493345

Recently an old interview with Shinji Mikami surfaced, in which he mentioned that he personally visited US in 1991 and was passing through the cities of Allentown and Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, on his trip. He also stopped at Yocco's Hot Dogs fast food cafe joint, while he was in Fogelsville. He also visited Pittsburgh a bit later.

1. Population density, size of the area, topology of premises, infrastructure and elevation of Allentown, all nearly completely match Raccoon's city's classical maps, area's visual depictions in art, and it's descriptions in related media (such as books). Allentown IS Raccoon city, albeit being slightly juiced on steroids since Mikami wanted a subway and some Umbrella labs + parks and a zoo. Allentown's area is 46.64 sq kilometers (about 18 sq miles), while Raccoon's area is roughly ~68 square kilometers when not accounting for Stoneville. Population of Allentown is ~130k in the city itself, while Raccoon's estimated city populace pre-outbreak was around 300~320k (accounting only for permanently living citizens).

2. The skyline of Pittsburgh is literally Raccoon city how Mikami envisioned in his head in the 90's, straight up. Some of the topology and infrastructure also matched his personal vision of it.

3. The diner from the very beginning of Claire Redfield's OP FMV sequence in vanilla BIOHAZARD 2 was directly inspired by Yocco's in Fogelsville, it's interior was copied almost verbatim and some of the exterior elements as well (OP picrel in a nut).

4. Both Allentown and Pittsburgh are in Pennsylvania. Raccoon city is also in Pennsylvania by official established canon lore.

5. Raccoon city, essentially, is an amalgamated combination of Allentown (roughly 80%), Pittsburgh (16%) and Fogelsville (4%). If anything, Stoneville could've been potentially be actually inspired by Fogelsville as well (since it's a suburb of Allentown and Stoneville is technically a "suburb of Raccoon").

So, that's basically that, anons.
Raccoon is Allentown.

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Pretend its a resident evil general

>>535496123
Well, this is obviously going to be deleted by mod soon, so, hey.

Did y'all know that the whole entire character of Rebecca Chambers was created SOLELY ONLY because Mikami was a massive Homowood nerd in the 80's and 90's, and was schlicking HARD on "Murder By Death" (1976's Mel Brooks'esque absurdist black comedy), and also Alien and Aliens?

Rebecca Chambers literally has same exact mannerisms and behavioral quirks/patterns (like the memetic "thumbs up" gesture, for one) as the ones Rebecca "Newt" Jorden was doing in Aliens, and the entire friggin' Umbrella Lab section of first game is just a straight up copy-pasta shot-for-shot of Alien's and Aliens' ending sequence, all while 3D models of "flamethrowers" in first two games are ill-notorious for being just direct traces of flamethrowers from Alien and Aliens (not just "inspired by", but directly recreated 1-to-1 in 3D model form). Meanwhile, nearly 60% of all "puzzle" and "trap" rooms in first game are just direct copy-pasta of "Murder By Death" (such as the memetic "falling ceiling room", "poison room", "animal head room", and even the "diner room"), as well as the overall "feel" of the mansion itself.

And that's while not even mentioning that visually and physically Rebecca Chambers is straight up JUST Uchida Yuki (as nearly entire Japanese gamedev scene and industry was VERY "into her" in the late 80's and all through the 90's):

Also:

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>>535497025
Pretty cool findings

>"...izzat a girl or a boy there?"
>"Yes."

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