Kenji Oguro explains in new interview how his video game idea for Monster Hunter came from the battles he'd wage with his cat.

"My cat Tinkerbell. Well she's mean. I'd come home from work and she'd slap the hell out of me. Slap, slap, slap, I was like a punching bag, so I fought back. I constructed some swords out of cardboard and I went to town spanking her bum. I spanked her so much into submission she stopped. And I thought, what if this was a game, complete with cats that slap you sometimes?"