“Apparently Raiden II’s “Salaryman Laser” is an in-game depiction of the mentality used by men when aiming for the urinal freshener while doing their business.” – Minoru Ikeda, owner of Game Center Mikado
You get little hints at it with the between-level scenes found only in the arcade version, but the ending is all of the werebeasts and monsters taking off their costumes and revealing the human actors beneath.
“Of course I’m very happy to be singing the theme song, but I’m happiest of all to be a part of the Namco Stars, the team that I’ve loved to play as since I was in grade school.” – MCU
Data East did do a good job of including plenty of references to their own properties into Bad Dudes though, in a way that wasn’t really done up until this point, creating their own sort of Data East culture.
