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Raw footage of the Japanese games industry

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the making of Super Bomberman 3. Several interviews with the programmers and amazing footage of the technology they used to make SNES games at the time.

And other random stuff. All in Japanese, unfortunately.

You may also enjoy this documentary about game music in old Japanese video games:

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/10/diggin-in-the-c...

One moment that stands out was a composer showing her old graph paper notebook of waveforms.

The new documentary "Branching Paths" covers the independent part of the contemporary industry and the interactions between the older "doujin" model and the newer Western-inspired "indie" concept.

[0] http://indiegames.com/2016/07/branching_paths.html

Not Japanese, but very rare insight into id software in its heyday: https://vimeo.com/4022128

These clips ought to be put on archive.org.

I'm usually not one for office perks, but a miniature train track would be alright with me.

Hudson actually had a bunch of other train-related stuff in their R&D offices, if memory serves. It's a shame to see it abandoned like this.

I have the book he mentions, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, Volume Two. It is a fantastic book and worth your time if this stuff interests you.

I've looked through a friend's copy and I have to say, it's pretty amateurish work. Not worth the asking price, imo. These interview vids are actually more interesting than what I saw in Volume I.

It's done by the guy who runs hardcoregaming101.net. He has an insane amount of knowledge about gaming, but he tends to prefer quantity over quality in his writing.

All in all though, his knowledge is great and appreciated, so I still enjoy his stuff.

Love this kind of material. Myself and many other people have been collecting it in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/

There's been some talk about digital preservation of games and other software. I wonder if there are ant international projects on digital preservations.

I would love to visit a museum where I could experience old development software/hardware from Japan.

Check out this great article about the seemingly endless creativity at SEGA during the 80s/90s:

http://shmuplations.com/segahistory/

It would be so cool to have the original source code to those games available as well - let the kids (and adults:) at the museum edit/draw their own sprites, make modifications (jumping higher, etc) and let them collaboratively compile & run on original arcade cabinets..

One can dream :)

Am totally awed by the devotion and passion of Toru Hidaka.

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