The subtitles on the video games episode of Shin Denshi Rikkoku that I reposted may be machine translated, so take this with a grain of salt, but it says that Shigeru Miyamoto chose the Famicom's color palette.

1990s NHK Documentary on history video games. Fascinating look at how they were developed and discussed in that era. youtu.be/Zb_74BEnFNc

Videogames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine had an article about Super Mario Bros.' 10th anniversary which included a stray Miyamoto quote that bothered me for years. I couldn't find the source, where he talked about invisible things above our heads.

@charstring.com I know this is a long shot, but is there a chance you have the video file of the Shigeru Miyamoto interview you conducted in 2006? It hasn't been available for a long time and I'd like to preserve it. www.engadget.com/2006-05-12-j...

Eiji Aonuma talking Zelda with N-Zone in May 2007, and the Google Translate version.

Another N-Zone interview added, from April 2002. What really interests me is that Mr. Miyamoto is described as coming to Germany. This was the same month that the mysterious "Nintendo Power except it can't be" Q & A with European children was published somewhere. www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Intervi...

Looking through more N-Zone covers paid off, here's another interview from October 1999, which is of course about Zelda. Google Translate's take also included.

Sorry, one more new-to-me Miyamoto interview. N-Zone is a German magazine that is still around. A few years ago they released a DVD with scans of all their previous issues. This is from May 2006 and is mostly about the Wii and DS.

Shocked to find that Get Rich Playing Games actually does have a Miyamoto interview in it. In fact, 31 people involved with video games have an interview or write something, plus Nolan Bushnell's foreword.

A pretty derisive look at the growing phenomenon of video games and Nintendo in 1989 from the Sun Sentinel, with a side of possible plagiarism (more on that later). www.sun-sentinel.com/1989/05/04/n...

I was looking for something else and came across a single question Miyamoto interview from Cube that was new to me, the sidebar on the second image. The rest is about the London Virgin Megastore press Q&A.

The re-paginated Shigeru Miyamoto Archive is live. Please let me know if you see any links that don't work, inconsistent formatting, or typos. Here's an interview from 1990 where the BBC filmed Nintendo's development area and Miyamoto says he's not paid glamorously: spritecell.com/shigeru-miya...

Just finding out that there was an English version of the Casa Brutus Mario issue. Shigeru Miyamoto talks about 2D Mario being like drawing manga and 3D Mario being like a puppet show. @drewgmackie.bsky.social there's a few quotes from Miyamoto about the Mario enemies.

I realized I've never looked up the origin of "Miyamoto was inspired by Pac-Land". It seems as though some of it is from Toru Iwatani, but there's also a book by Kenji Iino where he interviews six game developers, including Miyamoto and Iwatani. www.fusosha.co.jp/books/detail...

I've been working on re-splitting the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive pages. One of the big hurdles is fixing the links to other entries within the archive since the URLs are all different. I finally got that done.

Shigeru Miyamoto talking about trying to get people playing Star Fox, in 2009. web.archive.org/web/20230124...

When I made the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive I wanted every page to cover 5 years. This has led some pages to become very large and slow to load so I want to redistribute them and not worry about keeping to a set number of years. I'm leaning towards #1 or #4, but let me know if you have any thoughts.

I didn't publish the full list of Metacritic's average publication scores in my game reviewers project, just highlighting some of the more well known outlets. I dug up an additional 78 averages and made this to show them. A link to the smaller 14MB version: spritecell.com/wp-content/u...

Some will say that I've gone mad. Perhaps they are correct, but here, enjoy a 40,000-word weird history of Mario. Checked names herein: Naomi Watts, Mordito, Giada de Laurentiis, Samantha Mathis, the prophet Ezekiel, the Loch Ness Monster www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/mario-1...

According to Dimension PS-X if you don't like Doom for PlayStation you are a communist vegetarian. Scan by Retromags.

I made a page to compile little projects, like the things I've posted here on Bluesky, because social media is ephemeral. If you're reading this you've probably seen most of it already. spritecell.com/micro-comp/

These ads for the N64 were found in New Zealand magazine Total Games. Not something Nintendo of America would have done.

All of the ads for Tiger Electronic's ill-fated interchangeable cartridge system R-Zone that I can find in the Video Game Catalog and Circular Ad Archive. There were a few versions of the device, but the original was strapped to the player's head.

The "Shigeru Miyamoto didn't like Zelda 2" story is going around again because Retro Gamer mentioned it and then GamesRadar reported on that, and now other websites are reporting on GamesRadar reporting on it.

Seven new entries have been added to the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive. Mostly from the Japanese premiere of the Galaxy Movie. There doesn't seem to be a transcript or recording of the Sonobe speech. Also a newly scanned (by RevengeOfTheHubz) Family Computer Magazine interview.

spritecell.com/bp15-game-pr... A study examining the physical and digital prices of 900 games on four platforms over the course of three years. Find out how often physical is cheaper, which publisher puts their games on sale the most, what days of the year have the most sales, and more.

The new project will go live tomorrow, 28 beautiful graphs to get you through the Spring. To prepare for its release I have reworked the Home page and extensively rewritten the non-project pages.

Universal v. Nintendo is up on the archive: spritecell.com/shigeru-miya... This includes the 24 out of 86 pages of deposition that were preserved, summaries of the deposition in other documents, and 17 Donkey Kong design documents. All scanned by the Gaming Historian.

After several months of work I am finished with the data entry part of my next project. 52,617 spreadsheet cells, entered one by one by hand covering 900 games.

I will work on getting the scans of Shigeru Miyamoto's deposition(s?) and summaries of them added to the archive, but it's going to take a while. Text searching doesn't seem to work with some of the distorted text and I'm not familiar with how these kinds of things are structured.

When I started the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive I wasn't expecting to trawl through movie premiere events for brief interviews and fast forwarding the parts where the Minions guy talks. youtu.be/D9iiT12dCHU?...

We're seeing more interviews with Nintendo people at the Nintendo Museum. For many years if you had an interview with a Nintendo employee it took place in a ground floor conference room in their headquarters, away from the developers. Hopefully this is a more interesting setting.

Now that I finally beat Hades it's time for my tradition of looking up how long it took others and feeling bad that it took me twice as long as average.

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Some glowing praise from computer magazines for Mercer Mayer's Just Grandma and Me.

Finally got a video game on wikigacha.

Sega's Super Game thing is supposed to launch this month, as announced a few years ago. I've been very curious as to what exactly it is, but it seems unlikely that they are releasing multiple AAA live service games any time soon.

It took over two months, but I have seen every ending in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. As much as I enjoyed it, it also would have been a much better game if it was half as long. An exercise in excess, the contrivances and repetition start to outweigh the amazing characters and story.

EpicArchives claims to be an Australian organization "Preserving the Digital Legacy of Gaming History", but the entire website is full of AI generated images, phony links to articles about themselves, phony links to social media, phony addresses, phony testimonials...why did someone make this?

Strategy/tactics RPG gameplay has sure become the go-to genre to add on to visual novels/adventure games. I can see the logic when the story involves battles in some way and the characters' personalities can be further expressed through their combat abilities.

After reading so many interviews, watching so many video essays, and hearing about how the series has changed so many people's lives over ~40 years I decided it was finally time to experience it for myself. I'm also going to play The Legend of Zelda for the first time once I finish The Hundred Line.

40 years of Zelda, over 150 different dungeons! This week I want to know your Top 10 Zelda Dungeons of All Time! Which stands out to you either because of the theming, the puzzles, the bosses, the item, or how well all those elements blend? This should have fun results! forms.gle/pvcvMKc1bZga...

Australian magazine Hyper has a short interview with Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Koji Kondo in the August 2005 issue, #142. Miyamoto said in a 1997 interview that his favorite item in 3D Zeldas was the boomerang, and here he says it is his favorite overall.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-... Another Miyamoto interview that had escaped me until now. Nothing about Zelda, sorry. Some details on the elephant hangers, a chair made of rope made for a school project. "I thought it would be nice to make a game people can buy while they’re at the pet store."

Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Korean, and more versions of Wikipedia use a picture of this odd looking Mario as the lead image for their Mario pages.

Game Head eventually became GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley and there was another Miyamoto interview in 2013. This is unfortunately only available on Amazon Prime Video and protected by DRM. So I bought it and copied the closed captions of the entire interview.

A couple of new-to-me Miyamoto interviews, starting with Geoff Keighley's Game Head from 2007. This whole episode was a tribute to Mr. Miyamoto, but he isn't listed on IMDB for it. Several people speak about him, including Mega64, Game Jew, and Koji Kondo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4X...

I've been overwhelmed with various crises happening all at once lately. And then today my internet stopped working suddenly. I managed to get that sorted out, but I still need more time before I'm back to where I want to be. I've got about 20% of the data I need for my next project. Maybe April.

Kensuke Tanabe announced that he is retiring in an interview today! He was a script writer who worked on A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, so let's talk a little bit about him and his career. #Zelda #TanabeQuote LTTP team (via @glitterberri.bsky.social's site!):

Trying something new today! Zelda Dev Highlight: Satomi Asakawa, Character Designer In (mostly) her own words, Asakawa's game dev career from start to end! #Zelda #TwilightPrincessQuote, #OcarinaOfTimeQuote, #MajorasMaskQuote #AsakawaQuote Full image: drive.google.com/file/d/1ywWD...