Marvel Super Heroes for PlayStation & Sega Saturn Source: Tips & Tricks 33 (November 1997) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #playstation #sega

The newest Atari Archive video delves into Spectravision's three September 1982 releases, which include an unusual space shooter, a strange nuclear meltdown title, and a clone of the fairly nascent Snake genre:

A Rare Glimpse into Classic Japanese Game Development - An Interview with Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9P...

Game Cards. What is Hang-On II? (I know there's the SG-1000 game.) x.com/whats_this_V...

The art and engineering of Silpheed fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/

I’m very curious who did this art—it *feels* like a Japanese artist mimicking a more western style. Hiroshi Kajiyama, maybe?

Part of the giant near-1000 page Game Developers Conference 2001 conference proceedings - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/4777e25d-58a0-43f3-b0a4-06c5a50dd03b - here's data on the leading Korean game companies in 2000. (Yep, NCSoft and Nexon are still going strong today...)

According to Motekin, it was common practice at AM2 to simulate a game on a Silicon Graphics station before porting it to the actual machine. This was the case with Virtua Racing for MD and the 2nd version of Shenmue for Saturn (the one meant to use the accelerator cart). xcancel.com/motekin/stat...

hiroshi iuchi, artist, & kazuhiko ishida, programmer, from treasure co., sitting in front of table w/ light crusader concept art on it, mega drive (1995) archive.org/details/beep...

Thunder Force IV art director Yōichi Kubo plans to post excerpts from the game's design doc to celebrate its 34th anniversary (TFIV was released on July 24, 1992. The design doc is dated October 31, 1991). xcancel.com/REONIDASPART... vgdensetsu.net/yoichikubo/

Tired: The Simple 2000 series Wired: Daiso The Game Series www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

⚽ Football fever season is here! ⚽ The Classic Football Collection kicks off today. 10 retro games from Atari Soccer & Kick Off to Actua Soccer & World Cup Football. Plus 2 new challenge modes: 🎯 Honey! I Shrunk The Kits (Football Madness) 🎯 Penalty Pro (Kick Off) Which classic gets your vote? 👇

Smash gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p... They wrote the sound driver included with the Game Boy Advance software development kit.

(PCE/TG16)ジャック・ニクラウス ワールドゴルフツアー/Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf-Soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mafs...

In the latest Video Game History Hour podcast, Library director Phil Salvador and producer Robin Kunimune take you through the process of preserving a collection of over 10,000 digital files from our GamePro CD collection: https://gamehistory.org/episode-157-our-library-practices/

Sorry but we'll never shy away from an excuse to highlight one of the rarest items in our archive: Check out some clips of Nintendo veteran Steve Okimoto introducing the GBA to Nintendo of America employees for the first time! This tape is dated 9/22/00, nearly 8 months prior to the GBA's US launch!

Our Gear Is Packed. And Ready To Go. | Game Gear American launch Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly 26 (September 1991) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #sega

Interact accessories for Sega Saturn: There's no such thing as an unfair advantage. Source: Next Generation 16 (April 1996) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #sega

New blog post time! This week's game is Running Battle, a Master System action platformer in which you cannot attack and run at the same time despite the name. This is an odd game where nothing really feels right, but it ends up being fun in its own weird way. That's the good stuff! #gaming #blog

Most of the passwords in Air Fortress are references to HAL Laboratory staff. One password refers to the building they were in. x.com/nobusuma256/...

マイクロピンというメーカーが作った超小型のピンボール。家庭用ゲーム機ではなくきちんとアーケード向けに作られている。写真は2世代目だが生産数が極めて少ないので完全に幻になっている… #Pentacup #Micropin #1981

One collection in our library I'd love to see more people explore is the William Volk papers. Hundreds of spreadsheets and write-ups from the technology department at Activision in the early 90s, including: - Trade show reports! - SNES CD-ROM details! - Data on unreleased games!

R.B.I. Baseball 3 | The best just got better! Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly 26 (September 1991) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #nintendo #sega

Virtua Fighter Crosswords

Cancelled PC Engine game EPROMs (Peter Pack Rat, Marble Madness and Off the Wall) xcancel.com/kainanp/stat...

Tengen in-house employee Kainan drew the manual illustrations for the Japanese version of Gauntlet for Mega Drive. They wrote a thread about their time at Tengen Japan. xcancel.com/kainanp/stat...

The development team of Battle Bird from 1986, a 3D arcade shooter from IREM developed in association with its parent company NANAO (now known as EIZO Corp.) The game was produced in small numbers but the 3D effects were said to be impressive for that era. (1/2) #アイレム

Instruction Cards from Funco / Funcoland for Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo video games archive.org/details/func...

Smash gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p... They wrote the sound driver included with the Game Boy Advance software development kit.

If y'all are looking for some offbeat Sega Master System recommendations in light of that Cuphead game's reveal, I've covered some in juicy detail, such as the janky, weird, and extremely my kind of action platformer Danan the Jungle Fighter:

In this house we remember Hustle; we remember the Gremlin Girls. Part of a promotional series run throughout 1977, the Gremlin Girls showed their skills across the US and Europe by challenging people to Gremlin's games with $100 on the line.

うっでいぽこ制作風景がアーカイブされている… www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4P...

Xevious animated short film made by the Namco Computer Graphics Division. The short was shown at the 1989 National Computer Graphics Association Conference in the U.S. Video source: wadelyjp on YouTube

i don't think i've ever mentioned it here, but when i was fresh out of college, i got a job at Data Design Interactive, the infamous shovelware developer. a few years back i wrote some blog posts about what it was like working there qwarq.io/blog/tales_f... you can ama about it here too if you want

(PCE/TG16)ジャック・ニクラウス ワールドゴルフツアー/Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf-Soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mafs...

EarthBound may be beloved now, but it is no secret that it didn't launch to massive sales. Join John Rairdin NWR for a deep dive into the marketing and launch of EarthBound in North America. See what worked, what went wrong, and let's put EarthBound in context. https://youtu.be/M69F6Vj_DME

Not that anyone asked, but I keep forgetting to mention that Antstream recently added 14 Intellivision games: Horse Racing, Bomb Squad, Auto Racing, B-17 Bomber, Space Battle, Treasure of Tarmin, World Championship Baseball, Tower of Doom, Utopia, Thunder Castle, Shark! Shark!

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VGHF scanned the 1990 Summer CES show directory (from the days before E3!) - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/a4b7adcb-38db-4904-b051-14770416c4bc - including, listed just after Nice Base Industrial and Niles Audio Corp, a little company called Nintendo.

"It Was Magical" - The Vectrex Mini Gets The Blessing Of The Original Creator As Game Lineup Is Revealed. (Image: @VectrexOn)

"M*A*S*H" (Masayuki Oota), a former animator and game developer, recently posted about working in the game industry, more specifically working at Minato Giken. x.com/kumakakiya/s...

It's Ultimate Basketball! Source: GamePro 16 (November 1990) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #nintendo

Instruction Cards from Funco / Funcoland for Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo video games archive.org/details/func...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yisN... www.youtube.com/watch?v=42o7... www.blackmoonproject.co.uk/statements/r... bsky.app/profile/lanc...

Philips CD-i | The human retina contains 132 million light-sensitive components. Wake their tired butts up with these improved classics. Source: CD-i Magazine (US) 1 (September/October 1994) Scan Source: nasorna (Internet Archive) #retrogames #retrogaming

So there are two Kohei Ikedas (the other being the creator of Thexder)...

Double Action, Double Fun on Game Gear | Batter Up & Pac-Man Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly 26 (September 1991) Scan Source: RetroMags #retrogaming #sega

Volfied documents including working titles and logos x.com/whats_this_V...

R-Type III and Metal Storm design doc: xcancel.com/stormgunner/...