A REQUEST: If you own a French CD-ROM computer game called "Pop Anim'", please let me know. I could use it for some research but haven't been able to find a circulating copy yet. (It's at the BnF but I can't get there right now.)

The first 2 chapters out of a total of 15 (one per week) are already available in English and French. I will add appendices as I go along (chronology, detailed list of games, gallery, etc.). It took me nearly 4 years of work, so I hope you'll enjoy it.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

I updated my personal interview list - chiefly to account for deaths that I've missed. thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/f... Out of the 142 people I've formally interviewed, at least ten have passed away since I started. If you ever need a motivation to reach out - let it be that!

I thought something seemed off about the the image posted below: it's a photo that's been edited and colorized by AI. Please don't do that.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

I am offering a bounty for Neo Geo Pocket games you loan for me to scan. I will pay $10 for each complete game you send me to scan in good condition + shipping both ways. If you would be interested in helping please DM me. Link to spreadsheet with what's needed docs.google.com/spreadsheets... -

Movie poster illustrator Renato Casaro has passed away at 89. Some of his illustrations were used for game covers in the 1980s. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Henk Rogers mentions in his autobio that Sega had produced 300k cartridges of the Mega Drive version of Tetris. That seems like a lot to me for a console that had been released 6 months earlier and was only available in Japan at the time. He adds that Tengen had produced the same number for the NES.

Today I'm releasing an early prototype of Nintendo's "Joy Mech Fight" (FC), from over a year before its release! This build, then named "Battle Battle League" (FDS), was created for the 1992 Nintendo-Dentsu Game Seminar. Links are below! hiddenpalace.org/Battle_Battl...

30 years of PlayStation® history. Never-before-seen prototypes. Exclusive stories from the creators. PlayStation: The First 30 Years. Shipping Spring 2026. Pre-order now, only from ROM: readonlymemory.com/pages/playst...

This went completely under the radar, but the Star Trek mainframe game created by legendary game designer Don Daglow was found a few years ago. www.galacticstudios.org/the-other-st... I actually have info on yet another Star Trek game I need to publish at some point.

Thrilled to announce the release of scans for the entire run of Technopolis! Read about the history of this Japanese computer gaming magazine written by @ftb1979.bsky.social and download/view the scans. Enjoy and please RT to help spread the word. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/t...

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

New Real Bout 2 artwork by Capcom artist Shinkiro made for the Steam release:

Anyone have any idea what video game this art is for? The art is by Paolo Pantalena and is dated 2013. The art looks pretty distinct, maybe a fighting game, but I don't recognize any of the characters. This is marked on CAF as an unknown video game illustration: www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece...

Hi, I'm Melora, the main source of scanned #Zelda art & out-of-print publications since The Internet. I was also the lead campaigner for Zelda manga & art/info books to exist outside of Japan. Join me as I try to create a gallery of every piece of licensed Zelda art via collecting & with your help!

Update: Mitsuru Kawai (Designer) We finally got certifiable evidence from Akio himself, not only that MK and Kinte are one and the same, but also a nearly complete list of every game Kawai did graphics for while at Irem.

Kevin Murphy (b. 1968) previously confirmed for OVGA that he painted the box art for Viacom's 1996 PlayStation and Windows game Slamscape. Wonderful to see the full art! Scan is courtesy of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/58da0...

The Bologna museum of coin-ops and pinball seems to have unearthed the original schematics for the early (1976) Sega coin-op Heavyweight Champ (today considered to be lost media). Using them, the game could now theoretically be rebuilt from scratch.

King's Field II artwork signed Terry Wolfinger

Thanks to mo_the_pro, a prototype build of Mario Artist Talent Studio dated 6 months before release has been dumped and released! You can find it alongside a music rip here on 64dd.org. #64DD

I hope I'm wrong, but their main visual looks like something generated by AI (the art style is clearly different from what we see in the teaser). youtu.be/Ub_AoOjlEQY...

The first time I played most NeoGeo games was with NeoRageX in 2000, using a ‘super Eagle’ or “2Sai” filter (the pixels seemed too square and too ‘visible’ to me...).

The ROM for the unreleased Virtual Boy game Virtual League Baseball 2 has surfaced online. It was planned to be released in 1996 but was ultimately shelved. About 3 decades later and we can now play this once lost game. Play ball!

Square-Enix scanned the original Chrono Trigger production artworks and made a video containing very very close-up shots of them. an opportunity to see Toriyama linework/colorwork in such fine detail is a real treasure www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDI_...

One of the very few Square games directed by a woman (Miki Yukinoura). vgdensetsu.net/mikiyukinoura/

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Henk Rogers mentions in his biography that he connected two monitors to his PC-88 during the development of The Black Onyx: one with color display, the other in black and white, since this type of model was still widespread in 1983 and he wanted to see how it looked on both types of monitor.

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

In 2017, Tsutomu Maruyama wrote a thread about his work at ADK (without naming it), stating that he was head of the planning department and that he left the company in 1993 when he was about to be appointed head of development (the second most important position in the company). 1/2

Super Robot Wars producer Takanobu Terada planned Super Robot Daikuusen, an unreleased vertical shooting game for the Virtual Boy. x.com/TakanobuTera...

Artwork signed Andrews

An in-house Konami artist painting the main visual for the 1984 arcade game Circus Charlie. (I assume the illustration was already finished and she was pretending to paint while the photo was being taken)

The president of Athena said they only made a few hundred copies. x.com/Yoshidamian/... bsky.app/profile/kohl...

So apparently, I missed the 30th anniversary of the NA launch of the Sega Saturn that happened on May 11th, and it's been implied that I showed my anti-Saturn bias by not posting a chart. Honestly, I just didn't think about it. But here's the list. Next time, you can just, like, ask.

Been seeing a number of posts celebrating today as the 48th anniversary of the #Atari VCS (2600) launch. Offering a bounty to anyone who can provide a source for that date. Seems a little sus to me—September 11, 1977 was a Sunday.

Presumably illustrated by Ayami Kojima.

Former Sega AM3 developer Tetsu Okano: "I was planning to make a vertical scrolling SHMUP called "MICTLAN" for the Saturn ST-V, but unfortunately it has been put on hold." xcancel.com/HUGASTUDIO/s...

I'm seeing more and more news sites using Alinea Analytics estimates as if they were exact sales figures, when in fact they are only estimates (and sometimes way off the mark). By the way, do yourself a favor and stop using VGChartz, especially if you're a historian or journalist.

影山雅司 永眠のお知らせ We are deeply saddened to share that Gimmick! composer Masashi Kageyama has passed away.

One of the "few contractors" is none other than the composer and sound designer (Christopher Larkin). If you've played Hollow Knight, you know how much his work contributes to the game's atmosphere. And he's not the only one whose work matters.

tonight's ACA stream featured in-studio &/or write-in comments from damn near every Mach Breakers dev and showed off lots of materials: design docs, unused designs, flip-book anims, approx 765 logo drafts etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wNM... 🇯🇵 a sample: 50-inch chara panels, originally made for AOU

It seems that the person who animated the main characters in Landstalker and Dark Savior is in fact the same person, namely Ryushiro Miyazaki, a former animator who also worked on Ghost Pilots, Mutation Nation and Shining Force. web.archive.org/web/20211030... www.mobygames.com/person/65617...

Here's what the images are, on the #Nintendo Museum's #Zelda wall, for the first 4 games. There's 2 pieces I'm pretty sure have never been seen before but that one of Hyrule is 100% "new" If you guys want me to ID the art for the newer games just let me know, I just figured more people know it.

The main artwork for Mercs / Senjō no Ōkami II was initially outsourced, but Yoshiki Okamoto was not satisfied with the result, so Akiman, who was already very busy, was called in. Akiman didn't just draw the illustrations for the game, he also helped with its development, which was encountering

There is some debate surrounding the identity of the person who lent their voice to say ‘shoryuken’ in Street Fighter II. According to Hideki Ino, it was Hitoshi Nishio, but Yoshiki Okamoto has stated that Nishio only did the ‘hadoken’. xcancel.com/game7650/sta... vgdensetsu.net/streetfighte...

I don't know if we've found complete credits for Sqoon, but according to a former Home Data employee, Yoshihiro Nakanishi: K林 = programmer M原 = graphics, planning assistant M浦 = planning, team leader and president xcancel.com/FUTATSU24/st... tcrf.net/Sqoon#Hidden...

The Genpei Tōma Den logo was painted by Namco president Masaya Nakamura, while graphic designer Yukio Takahashi / 高橋由鬼夫 converted it into pixels. xcancel.com/nkgt5/status...