Punch-Out Creator Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

As DICE is reporting, via Polygon, Takeda's absence from the spotlight was by choice. It sounds like he simply wanted to keep doing his job and not worry about the recognition. Similarly, he noted that engineers are typically looked over in the world of gaming and, as a result, he was accepting his DICE honor on behalf of his fellow engineers-- whether they were colleagues or craftsmen from competing platforms.