[STEAM] Tekken Boss Katsuhiro Harada Actually Tried to Get Colonel Sanders as a Guest Character — But KFC Turned Him Down

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Tekken development chief Katsuhiro Harada revealed he tried and ******* to have Colonel Sanders added to the fighting game as a guest character.

"A long time ago, I wanted to have Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Chicken ******," Harada told

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. "So, I asked to use Colonel Sanders and go to the head office in Japan."

Unfortunately, Harada’s pitch was turned down with a "bad look.” Since then, Colonel Sanders actually did appear in a video game:

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, a dating sim commissioned by KFC and released for free on Steam on September 24, 2019 as a bizarre promo for the fast food chain.

"[Harada] went to Kentucky Fried Chicken and tried to get Colonel Sanders," game designer Michael Murray added. "They weren't very open to the idea.

"[Colonel Sanders] appeared in games after that. So maybe it was just him fighting against someone [that] was posing a problem for them. But it just goes to show how difficult these types of discussions are."

So, no Colonel Sanders. But what about

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? "It's not something that we can accomplish on our own," Harada said, pointing to the need for Waffle House’s unlikely approval for such a DLC.

Still, Tekken 8 fans do have the game’s third DLC character, Heihachi Mishima, to look forward to. The once-***** fighting veteran joins the roster as part of the upcoming free story expansion for Tekken 8, titled

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