Retro Development History - Pictures, Videos & Docs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWLaNmMPC0

>>3954340

>Sour grapes anti-PVM trolls BTFO

Every CRT thread there's some jerk saying that Nintendo developers worked with LCD screens and that BVM/PVMs aren't the way the games were originally intended to be viewed.

>>3954365
It seems that Fujitsu computers were the norm for Famicom development. The FW R-50 is everywhere in that video

>>3954407
Back in the day 99.9% of people had tube tv, why in that fuck nintendo would develop games for LCD screens?

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More development and other rare pics are surfacing on the web thanks to people buying and scanning old Famitsu and other japanese magazines.

>>3954340
Sitting on folding metal chairs at a computer desk is hell on earth.

t. tweaker who has spent hours and hours glued to a patio chair at his pc desk

>>3954826
That's why we should be thankful to those people.
They probably didn't went home for weeks to finish these games we play today, taking it for granted.

>>3954340
From the very little I could gather, Nintendo in the 80-90's was very IBM like, people wearing button shirts, suit pants and italian shoes

>>3954829
So like literally every Japanese company.

>>3954895
Yes, but this is not the standard for Japanese game companies anymore. Also, I think that western game developers never had that rigid clothing policy

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>>3954895
I remember reading Nintendo was famous for using matching uniforms, not much because of a rigid business enviroment, but rather as a quirky thing. They remind me of Kraftwerk in this picture.

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>>3954916
TFW EOP

>>3955001
It's them introducing themselves and saying what their part is, and the interviewer then asks them if these 5 people are all the staff, Miyamoto says there's more programmers and designers and the team has a total of 10 people.

>>3954340
ELF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZ-3zvs-38

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>>3955697
Japan 80s where the shit.

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>>3955709
whats the problem? you gay or something?

>>3955726
Don't respond.

>>3955732
good idea

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Capcom 1992 before they became Crapcum

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SONIC TEAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5HzMb3B76Q

>>3955751
Those bastards burned most of the development money in a fancy trip to South America.

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Compile 1989

>>3955765
>Dat sony HB-F500 MSX 2 in the background

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>>3955747
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fQHmBN-sY

You niggas need to watch the capcom friendly club videos if you haven't yet. It's so cool.

>>3955763
Sega wasted a shit ton of money so that trip was probably only a drop in the bucket compared to Shenmue.

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>>3955778
Plenty o' nice girls out there that aren't fans of dumblr, anon. You'll find someone you like.

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Namco Sound Team in 1988

>>3955792
That's pretty rad.

>>3955792
>sleeping at the job
Jesus Christ, japanese work ethics are pathetic.

>>3955804
He probably worked overtime and missed the last train home.

>>3954735
Ignore them. They're just easily triggered by an obvious troll.

>>3955809
All that work and they're still inferior to western games.

>>3955820
Depends on what we're comparing but that's a discussion for another time.

>>3955804
>He bring muh work ethic because of some cartoons
I don't think it's as pathetic as you are.

>>3955804
I would kill to have a sleeping bag under my desk and not need to go home in crunch time. Serioulsy

>>3955751
>sonic in a bikini
I see the cringy autism has been a thing since the beginning

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Some of Star Gladiator development from the Secret Files book.

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>>3956240
What software they're using? Actually, can someone please translate the pages?

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>>3956241

>>3955765
>guitar

why?

>>3956248
It's the composer.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NBcP0YUQI

There are some shots of this video which it shows Miyamoto in some different videogames generations.

https://youtu.be/DLoRd6_a1CI

This one shows development of SMB1, plus how young were Miyamoto and Tezuka.

>>3956241
>>3956243
Cute! Cute as heck.

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Not technically retro, but this is Epic Games before becoming the engine behemoth it is today. Tim Sweeney is on the left corner

>>3955765
Imagine being there, in that time.

>>3956684
Also, cool PS2TOOL 's beneath dude's desk

>>3956164
You got it all wrong.
They were trying to warn us about deviantart

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Intergraph station and monitor used by John Carmack mid-late 90's

>>3956241
That workstation looks a lot like SGI indy

Makes me wish I'd been born earlier

>>3956896
Exactly when was your opinion asked??
Stay irrelevant

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>>3956248
Playing guitars at work is fucking rad.

Taito Sound Team 1988

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>>3957007

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>>3957010
Hisayoshi Ogura

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>>3955765
More Compile 1987

They look so happy and fun

>>3957010
>just play your guitar at the computer until it magically digitalizes itself

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>>3957023
well maybe not "happy" but certainly more fun and full of gusto. I think this is Puyo Puyo Sun director Takafumi Tanida. This is my source btw.
videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/152130244585/compile-in-1987-feat-golvellius-creator-satoshi

>>3957029
yup. They wrote their music with real instruments first and then someone had to program it.

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Look they even had real women Akemi Sakai working in development in the 90s. Unlike a certain narrative will have you believe.

A lot of these companies seemed to be in houses, were they more affordable or something then compared to a small office?

Sega arcade devs Tetsuya Mizuguchi director of Rez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb9Vdc3DcDk

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Shigeru Miyamoto also played guitar at work. Nice telecaster. OH YEAH you could also still smoke cigs at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_fDpjs1WA

>>3957065
yes because most games could be made by like 5 people and you didnt need an office.

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Rieko Kodama during the production of Eternal Arcadia / Skies of Arcadia.

>>3957068
If only American school taught women how to get programming or designing jobs instead of ethnic diversity majors.

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>>3957104
or womenz studies ok im done

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Other than assembly, what languages were retro games written in? I'm pretty sure PSX games were written in C.

>>3955747
>>3955751
>>3955765
>>3957007
>>3957010
>>3957013
>>3957023
>>3957047
>>3957087
>>3957104

I don't know if you are the same dude anon, but thanks for this quality posting. Those are amazing gems

>>3957116
For computers there were a few coded in Basic during the 80's, usually hobbyist and simpler games. Also in the early 90's quite a bit of the PC games were already in C.
But for retro consoles, asm is the undisputed king

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The Sega Digitizer System, a tool used by graphic designers in late 80s/early 90s.
According to former Sega graphic designer @AGE43, it was attached to a NEC PC-98 with an HDD. Since the Mega Drive was based on the System 16 arcade board, the Digitizer System could be used with both hardwares.
An earlier version was used to develop System 1 games (Pitfall II). At least 3 versions were made: Digitizer System I, II and III.

http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/149092824100/the-sega-digitizer-system-a-tool-used-by-graphic

>>3957119
https://twitter.com/vgdensetsu?lang=en

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>>3957128
DELETE THIS

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A Konami employee working on the Famicom version of Gradius.

>>3957137
why?

>>3957146
oh yes pixels. Well when you zoom in you can see their squareness better especially in rgb on a computer.

>>3957128
That's some serious dedicated hardware.

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The making of a pixel art illustration by Micro Cabin graphic designer Hitoshi Suenaga / 末永仁志.
Graphic tool: Graph Saurus / グラフサウルス (MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX Turbo)
http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/151753820830/the-making-of-a-pixel-art-illustration-by-micro

>>3957162
>>3957146
they used dithering as a trick when the hardware didnt support transparency. and ntsc pixels are not square when they stretch to fit the tv.

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Rez

>>3955771
thanks these capcom vids are great and super comfy.

>>3957168
Sega almost released a digitizer tablet withe the mega drive.

HCG101 got some cool interviews with DQ3 dev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXflRB1048

>>3955763
Bit like the Happy Mondays then.

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>>3957197
because it cost too much money maybe? This was before Sega decided to start wasting money by the truck load.

>>3957197
oops misread your post but yes they also had a karaoke unit.

>>3957183
It's not "NTSC pixels" that aren't square. NTSC doesn't have pixels. Consoles can output pixels with any aspect ratio they want, and most consoles chose to output non-square pixels. For example, the NES/SNES pixels are exactly 8:7 when displayed on a 4:3 TV (except in the SNES's 512px mode, in which case they're 4:7).

https://pineight.com/mw/index.php?title=Dot_clock_rates

Incidentally, stretching NES/SNES emulators to a 4:3 window makes the pixels slightly too wide, because most emulators crop the overscan area before scaling. The correct window size to preserve 8:7 PAR should be a multiple of 292x240 for NES or 292x224 for SNES.

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Technos Japan working on Nekketsu Kōkō Dodge Ball Bu / 熱血高校ドッジボール部, AKA Super Dodge Ball (Famicom - 1987).

>In order to understand the rules of Dodge ball, game director Yoshihisa Kishimoto (the man with the thumb down) and a few Technos Japan employees organized a match in a public park.

>>3957247
>https://pineight.com/mw/index.php?title=Dot_clock_rates
hmm interesting and well over my head. Sony needs to start manufacturing crts again.

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>>3955771
You can see a Roland U-110 in the background of the part with the sound guy. That's where most of the instrument sounds in Super SF2 Turbo's soundtrack came from.

>>3957270
no they just wanted an excuse to dress up their female employees in cute shorts and throw balls at them.

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From >>3955771
Capcom using C in 1996.

Do you guys know this editor? Looks like Emacs

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>>3954340
Here is where the creators of the game Agony by Psygnosis worked.

>>3957375
Could be emacs, could be vim, could be an in-house editor, could be anything. No way to tell from that picture.

>>3957473
>the creators of the game Agony by Psygnosis
In other words this was where Psygnosis worked.

>>3957473
>Psygnosis

They made the official dev kits for a lot of the Sega consoles. I believe they also made some third party dev kits for a couple of the Nintendo consoles.

>>3957473
>working in a cramped dungeon with no shoulder room probably smells like ass.
looks like pure agony alright.

http://shmuplations.com/games/

Awhile back I foumd this site. This guy translates Japanese only interviews from developers. Mostly retro with a few more modern interviews.

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>>3957498
yeah that site rulez

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>>3957498
Some real legends.

>>3957539
RIP boing boing ;_;7

>>3957473
Depressed yet?

>>3957490
That'd be why that game is so bad.

n64 devkit on SGI workstation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyE9PGTRirI

>>3958457
Nice vid.
It's been a while that I've been thinking about getting one of these Silicon Graphics stations.

>>3954407
Those are consumer sets, anon. PVM/BVMs are not how the games were developed, and certainly not on LCDs, I don't know where you heard that. All of Ninty's dev pics from the era have consumer sets on the desks.

>>3956241
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>>3955718
Sauce?

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Lobotomy Software

1

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>>3958627
2

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>>3958630
>>3958627
3

https://lobotomysoftware.wordpress.com/

>>3958501
Back in the early 2000s I worked on a computer graphics lab and we had two Octanes, quite a few O2s and a giant Onyx 2. It was fun.
At the same time intel machines and nvidia graphics cards already surpassed them in performance for real time applications by quite a lot

>>3954340
Blizzard's gallery since they first started.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/photo-gallery.html

>>3956884
Because it is a SGI Indy. They been used a lot in the 90's for game dev and graphic design.

>>3958694
Their desks seem so small and uncomfortable

>>3957104
>>3957058
Hey post more women at work

>>3954916
>どこからきたの、マリオ?どこへ行くの、マリオ?
奥が深いですね。

>>3955804
It's why japanese music is so fantastic

>>3958608
Kimagure Orange Road.

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>>3958795
Its rare to find pictures of any dev since most didnt like having pics taken.

>>3958510
Pretty sure that's a GVM in OP's pic...

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Valis developer Nihon Telenet / 日本テレネット in 1986-87

look at these crazy mother fuckers

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>>3958795
It appears Valis devs made the female staff do all the boring paperwork work.

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Yoko Shimomura 1998

>>3958510
Developers used all the tools they could. They used both professional monitors and consumer sets to see the end results.

>>3954912
How many of our development companies back then were originally legitimate pre-existing businesses and not a start up or a bunch of nerds hired over a weekend and pushed together in the backroom to catch on to this "video game fad" for a quick buck?

>>3958701
Such memories. I was given 2 of them after meeting someone from SGI. All I actually did with it was take a video of me wanking using the indycam. Someone probably found that unit at the dump and had an awkward surprise.

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The Technos Japan staff, circa 1989.

>>3959407
yes the good ol days when women shut up and did their job to support themselves and their men. Dont worry women can be pervs too.

>>3955804
>Literally never going home to make perfect products
>Not even getting paid overtime for it because it should have been perfect the first time it was coded
>Human frailty = lack of discipline

>>3959436
>>3959407
I'll give you two something internalized

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Al Alamiah / العالمية, the Kuweiti company that produced the MSX Sakhr / MSXصخر series.
videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/152107359915/
even mudslimes made games

>>3959432
lets not get too off topic now

>>3959438
>sells like shit anyway unless there is a moe girl on the cover

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I really wish you guys would just report and ignore the tumblr faggots and get back to the meat of the conversation.

>>3959452
>team is forcibly disbanded
>instead of being fired, you're demoted to the equivalent of a new hire again
>only do grunt programming
>not even allowed to put your real name in the credits, if there are any
>try not to sob the one day that month you get to go home because you passed on an opportunity to work at Hitachi so you could make video games

>>3959465
I see... It does seem like they're genuine. Which isn't really any better.

>>3957104
MAMA KODAMA! Really wish people gave her more props.

>>3959420
Those are some tuff hombres. dont dare cross them in the arcade or youll get your butt whooped.

>>3959363
Was it a shyness thing of the old legend about people being ashamed to have their names and faces associated with video games back in the 80s in Japan?

>>3959492
Making children's toys is shamefur dispray.

>>3959438
>>3959452
>>3959469
Why has no one made a sappy J-Drama about working at a no name dev in the 80s?

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>>3959492
maybe some enjoyed using artist alias or nickname like in demoscene but most of the time in the 80s it was the bosses protecting company talent.

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>>3959506
Iwata is a cute

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HAL Laboratory
>>3959502
im sure a doujin exists somewhere at least.

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I really like these vertical monitors for programming

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>>3959517

The Devs play is new but the guys bring back some people from 1990 games
This is the creator of Rayman playing Rayman 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AgSHT8Ve0

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>>3959567
pls dont reply to retards

>>3959575
oh fuck I hate that smug cuck Tim Schafer

>>3959583
>>3959575
Why the hell is Schafer even there?

>>3959658
hes very popular and celebrated among millennial indie game devs similar to Keiji Inafune.

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>>3959575
Based IGA

>>3959669
So that give him a free pass?

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>>3959672
So Kojima takes IGA idea about putting pretty boys in the MGS2/

>>3959672
>>3959680
The guy who killed Castlevania. Thanks, coman.

>>3959676
After all his successful kickstarter embezzlements verified his status as a game dev.

>>3959408
Ooh, I need to get around to identifying all the stuff in that rack back there. I think I see an Akai S3000.

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>>3959713

>>3959658
I remember him talking about how much Rayman 2 on the dreamcast was a huge inspiration for Psychonauts So that's probably why,

>>3958501

Irix is shit. SHIT.

>>3955804
Americans do it too, I remember one video about the devs of Spyro had footage of some guy programming as another guy was just waking up from a nap in a sleeping bag.

>>3958641
that is so cool

>>3960406
Why would it be?

>>3960450
Most devs have slept in the office during deadline crunches. Just look up Sonic Xtreme the dev almost died from stress and no sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knvgx8KDbOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgjafuDOwjc

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>>3960574
>almost die from stress and no sleep
>Japan branch orders you to discard everything and start over
>3 times
>game never comes out
>console fails miserably in the west
>company goes under from having bled so much money and trust
>people blame this on the fact your name came out

>>3960574
Indie Sega asm coding with a dev kit. You could use an emulator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH94fKtGr0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kalmryn9_sE

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>>3960584
SoJ killed Sega due to mismanagement. Chrisu is not to blame. But you know whats really fucked up? Chrisu was a designer for SONIC BOOM Rise of Lyric. He got fucked by two different sonic disasters. I bet he has post traumatic disorder and has nightmares about sonic.

>>3960608
That's what they get for making Sonic's arms blue.

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>>3960608
>post traumatic sonic disorder

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SNK NEO GEO stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yyAA1wgDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BR1rE-CqMg
http://neogeocdworld.info/html/aide/programmation.htm

>>3955774
Yep. Ridiculous overseas treks weren't uncommon. During the development of Outrun, Yu Suzuki and one of his bosses went on a "research trip" that basically amounted to a road trip through Germany, the French Riviera, the Swiss Alps, Florence, Rome...

>>3959481
There were supposedly rumors back in the day of Technos having some form of Yakuza involvement. I don't think they were ever proven, but either way, they didn't really talk to press a vast amount as a result.

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Image of "Game Maker" (no, not THAT Game Maker...), an internal tool developed by HAL Labratory for NES development. It ran on a retail Twin Famicom with a trackball controller. Sakurai described using it as "like using a lunchbox to make lunch".

>>3960685
Practically everyone back in the day were likely involved with the Yakuza in some form or another. The Yakuza have always been heavily involved in Japan's entertainment industries, and video games are no exception.

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>>3960632
Holy cow, bro. This is freakin' rad.

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Animation data from an internal prototype of Kirby Super Star, running on NES instead of SNES. The game was never intended for a NES release, but developing the prototype made developing the actual game a lot easier.

>>3959408
Yoko a qt. I wanna fondle her body while she tries to play Guile's theme and blushes all over while whimpering and telling me to yamete kudasai.

>>3955747
Look at those odd aspect ratio monitors, they're more vertical than horizontal.

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>>3960712
Vertical monitors weren't that uncommon.

>>3959363
Look at those 2 top qt's on the left. Who are they?

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>>3960716
>>3960712
Aw man, I remember seeing a documentary or something about some shmup developers turning one of their monitors on the side to let their play-tester have a go at their game but I can't remember where I saw such a thing.

>>3957250
>tfw ywn be a Japanese salaryman in the 80's developing games and having fun with qt's that you will then fuck because you're the boss and they better lay with you if they don't want to get fired.

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>>3960724
>>3960716
>>3960712
tate or rotating your monitor is extremely common. If you think about it vertical arcade games were almost more common than horizontal games in the early 80s. Like pacman, galaga and donkey kong before home consoles became popular. Vertical shmups are very popular even today. Some programmers also like using vert monitors for better code reading.

>>3960694
>>3960702
wow super star on the nes must have been flickery as heck. Also isnt that the gameboy kirby dreamland title screen? How did they cross program that? they must have had another computer hooked up unless they coded it in famicom basic on a keyboard?

>>3960774
I'm glad the Switch is a thing now. Because Tate's so easy to do with that and developers are actually taking advantage of the fact.

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>>3960774
The data was saved to and loaded from the FDS's disc drive, so presumably they drew graphics, designed levels etc. on the Famicom contraption and passed the discs over to the programmers.

The Famicom contraption had no keyboard. If you wanted to type something, you had to click the individual keys on an on-screen keyboard with the touchpad!

Source for all this BTW: http://sourcegaming.info/2017/04/19/kirbys-development-secrets/

>>3960718
From left to right: Kumi Yamaga, Manami Matsumae, Tamayo Kawamoto, Harumi Fujita, Junko Tamiya.
>>3960730
Hey buddy company outings and socializing used to be normal. Many salarymen met their gf or wife this way and it was mutual. Its sad the current state of lonely pussified men in Japan & the west.

>>3960782
I do like trackballs but that one looks a bit uncomfy. Talk about a ghetto set up and yet they managed to make fantastic game in the end.

>>3956548
Good vids Im glad more companies are sharing their archives. RareReplay interviews are also great.
>>3956872
That workstation cost well over $10k. Totally worth it.

Why are nips so good at being comfy.

>>3960521
My freshmen year in college we had to use a bunch of badly aging O2's. Their architecture and built in avid shit were their only saving grace.

>>3960865
Because you've never lived in Japan and don't know anything about their culture aside from random bullshit posted by other foreigners on the Internet.

>>3960865
Small spaces

>>3960875
Nah that's not it.

>>3960876
That's it.

>>3960870
What was so bad about IRIX?

>>3959408
Is that a Korg Trinity 88?

>>3959523
Anyone knows that machine on the back?

>>3960917
I dunno but she has a very sweet setup. Is that a psyduck toy I spy on top of her monitor?

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>>3959532
Seems like pic related, but this one got internal drive bays

>>3957375
From the brief clips of the user interface it looks like IRIX, so I guess they're using SGI machines. IRIX had it's own version of Emacs, not GNU Emacs, but something analogous.

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>>3960929
>>3959532

It's actually this one

>>3960929
It's actually a PC-9801F model, with an HB-F500 on top of it.

>>3959528
Anyone knows what computer is this?

>>3960932
That chassis is gorgeous. Computers have lost all sense of aesthetics.

>>3960947

Damn this looks just like Monster Rancher

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>>3960940
In Japan, there are still some cool desktops.
I'm dying to get this one.

>>3960901

It was a hobbled os for using anything other than the graphical suite that you only had the privilege of using after paying through the nose. The O2's got replaced by chinky Compaqs with failure-prone software raids yet they absolutely trounced the o2's in render time, even though they were still 32 bit architecture. Once quadro cards became affordable they were dumpster tier. Seriously they're only good now for nostalgia or as cheap avids.

>>3959517
>is
Anon...

>>3956548
>https://youtu.be/DLoRd6_a1CI
>Mario was the first Famicom game with blue skies
>blue skies
>not purple

>>3961031
Should probably say it's at 1:35 too.

>>3961019
S..sorry to break this down to you ...b-but...

>>3961031
>putting any stock in what two nostalgia blinded dad-gamers inexplicbly pointing at shitty graph paper drawings have to say about NES games

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Stewart Copeland, the drummer of The Police, working on spyro 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc2gGycBXc

>>3956240
I didn't know Rimgal was supposed to be June's dad.

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A picture of Naoki Matsui, Kojima's former sempai and the lesser-known co-creator of Snatcher.

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>>3960778
>WOW NINTENDO, SUCH INNAVASHUN!

>>3961317
Fuck, post sent before I could type for some reason. Derp.

Original spritesheet from the development of Duke Nukem 3D, drawn "pixel by pixel in Dpaint".

>>3961101
nice usually they write music for the game much earlier before the games complete. wonder what daw he is using.

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The door to Tom Hall's office when he worked at Apogee/3D Realms. He'd stick plain white posterboard to his door, write "do not write on this board" on it, stick some markers nearby... and wait.

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Your dad, working on Rise of the Triad.

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>>3961204
wonderswan also did this

>>3959528
Not that uncommon. When you're running editors based on earlier terminals where everything is restricted to 80 character columns, you get more screen real estate by going taller, not wider.

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Making of Lunar 2 EB
>Vic Ireland is a dufus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtdElsEq2K0

Just look at all those PVMEMES

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Ghosts'n Goblins composer Harumi Fujita and the Capcom sound team (circa 1988).

>>3961445
In the 80s the 80 column limit was more of a microcomputer thing, most dumb terminals could display 132 characters per line.
But yeah, having a vertical monitor is quite useful when programming due to the fact you're usually not using that much horizontal space most of the time (especially in assembly language).

>>3961338
EVIL DOPEFISH
>>3961343
my dad works at nintendo

>>3961493
I thought that was your uncle?

>>3961495
same thing

>>3959692
Why do people keep saying that?

>>3960608
A lot of people try to blame SoA because they don't want to think that glorious Nippon could even be such petty dicks that they would mismanage their company down the drain.

>>3960660
Suzuki was an absolute mad-man who brought in results back then, though. Didn't he want the original Hang-On machine to be as near to being a real motorcycle as possible?

>>3961094
You know they are the ones who drew those drawings right? Pretty sure they remember what color they were using at the time.

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Why does it seem that in the past there were more skilled and attractive people than now?
Am I just being nostalgic?

>>3961652
Most companies just get pajeets to do all the grunt programming work now a days.

>>3961652
Picture not related I suppose, and even the Japanese posted in this thread aren't that attractive

>>3961710
That's what you get for taking /pol/ shit out of /pol/

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Ignore the snowflakes

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Kojima and team MGS1 /1

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/2

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/3

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Shinkawa /4

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/5

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/6

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/7

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/8

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/9

Fission Mailed

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>>3961913
Was is hideo or kojima that likes playing with legos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrW-fEmV70

>>3961932
Power Mac 9500
Didn't know they used Macs

>>3961978
Sony dev kits were IBM-PC/MAC/Nec PC compatible just like their home offering the NetYaroze.

>>3962001
Didn't know about that, thanks

>>3961932
That is a PS1 devkit (black PS1) connected to a CRT with composite. I guess they targeted design for composite in mind like what most people had. MGS1 features heavy use of dithering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpX_F8VxlbY

The 25th Anniversary panel is worth watching as well

>>3963135
cool but that interviewer is a bit awkward,

>>3963135
oh shit hes a swedish leaf. yuk.

Any one got some documentaries in English that aren't baby's first video game stories?

Here's a good one on BBS tech and the community that grew around it. For the kiddies here BBS was the internet pre-internet. You dialed a number, read text documents and could reply to them like a forum. Download files and such off them. Really interesting series as it's by actual losers who used the boards and gave a fuck.
https://youtu.be/mJgRHYw9-fU?list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv

>>3963168
I did use AIM. Where is the /vr/ bbs?

>>3963168
Holy shit people used to be smart in america?

>>3961928
>>3961932
>>3963048

There's also a blue one, did they use Net Yaroze in a production environment as well?

>>3961101
wat. how do i not know this. stewart is da man

>>3955718
>>3955697
>>3954772
>>3954340
>>3955751
>>3955771
>>3957047
>>3957183
>>3957250

*vaporwave boner*

>>3963901
Glad you like it, anon.

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The Taito Animator, an internal tool used for drawing pixel art graphics on the actual arcade hardware. Similar utilties were used by SNK, among others.

http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/160230210495/when-graphic-designers-from-taito-snk-and-other

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A screenshot of Art Box, SNK's internal art tool which apparently ran on the Neo-Geo hardware itself.

http://neogeocdworld.info/html/aide/programmation.htm

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>>3963832
No they didnt use Net Yaroze. There were a few different dev kit colors.

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>>3963048
Every dev had composite in mind since that was the standard video connection out of the box for consumers. They also have a VCR connected to record gameplay for testing. A lot of PSX games used fullscreen dithering. Thats how the gpu rendered the colors.

>>3964234
I wonder what those buttons do? Probably shortcuts for the drawing tool like copy, paste, line, ellipse and etc.

>>3964617
I'm sure someone here will be able to translate the labels.

>>3963832
I think I read somewhere that the blue one was a debugger, although it seems odd to me that there would be a separate machine just for that if there's already a dev machine.

>>3964642
That is very common practice anon. PS3 had that horrendous VCR ike devkit with more memory, serial connection and a lot of extras. The test kit looked like a normal PS3 with text written. It was used for testing and to be able to run unfinished versions to the press.
But that's not retro and I shall finish it here :)

>>3963048
The "targeted" composite in so much as a tv editor has a shitty LCD tv on their edit desk to check if the sound is ok on shitty tv speakers.

It's more of a way of testing to make sure it plays well on bad technology at least

>>3955751
that is sweet

>>3961913
>>3961928
>>3961932
>>3961939
>>3961946
SGI (Indy and O2), Macs, and PCs. Damn, they mad use of all different systems, operating systems, and software.

>>3955771
Oh man they were composing Sakura's Alpha 2 theme in this video. Awesome.

>>3965375
moeshit low tier shotokan clone character

>>3954828
You bet they took those hard ass chairs and hours away from home for granted

Fucking millennials

>>3965396
Sure but her Alpha 2 theme is great.

>>3958641
Crazy

>>3956872
>dat gargantuan CRT
It must have taken a crane to get that thing into place.

/vr/ needs a retro dev general

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>>3965497

>>3965696
>440lbs of pvmeme
>only 560 TV lines

Was that top of the line for 1989? Maybe I'm expecting too much.

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>>3965696

UGGGHHH! BIGGGGER!

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>>3965763
Jumbotron?
Did Sony or Mitsubishi have the bigger crt dick?

>>3965696
>>200 kg

Damn that thing is even heavier than I am.

>>3966041
I weigh 160lbs

>>3965521
You mean like making video games?

That'd be illegal. You need to be a licensed developer to do that.

>>3959446
Holy shit, this is a gem.

>>3965497
>only 28"
1 well built guy or 2 average dudes could lift it.
It's not that huge even for a CRT.

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>>3966058

I haven't read the book myself yet, but maybe some of you will like it. It contains interviews with Japanese devs, stories and such. Yeah.

https://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Japanese-Game-Developers/dp/0992926009

>>3967383
I have it in digital form

>>3967395
The Gold Edition? Could you upload it? If it's not too much trouble.

>>3967396
It's not the gold edition, it was something I got out of a book bundle, along with other dumb books I don't really want to bother to read. It was pretty nice.

https://my.mixtape.moe/mstmrw.7z

>>3967407
Gonna give it a read later. Thanks.

>>3965497
well worth it

>>3958635
> the noticeable cringeworthy bowing on that folding table

>>3961343
D P A I N T
P
A
I
N
T

> what I learned to use as a kid in '93

>>3966041
> be in japan, japanese are lightweight
> earthquake hits
> giant boner inducing tv falls on you at studio

>>3967921

This is how I wish to die.

Sorry for being late to the party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGySNVszN0

The Making of Radical Rex for SNES. It's about 45 minutes and shows all of the dev tools and team.

>>3968225
RADICAL

A documentary of Lobotomy Software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUUrFtwHDY

>>3961101
God I need to play Spyro at some point. And listen to more of The Police.

>>3968550
And watch the amanda show

someone save this thrade

>>3968563
It's going to be automatically archived

>>3968225
Anon, you may be late, but your post is truly a personification of "last but not least"

>>3957087
>that music in the beginning
I could be crazy, but doesn't this resemble it somewhat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwegKPNjnf0

>>3967383
This is the same dude that maintains HG101 right?
Both the site and his YT channel are very good, he's got a series of videos from the book trip

>>3959492
In small social circles (which the video game development was in the 80s), sometimes wierd ass conventions get stuck for no reason. Maybe that was the reason.

>>3968927
totally the same music good catch.

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>>3968563
Video Game devs started mimicking the film industry so a lot of big budget 3d developers used the same tools and professional software.
Alias Wavefront Maya
Softimage 3D
PowerAnimator
Lightwave
3D Studio MAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y2SYqp2IAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrNQQvAKO2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP9-sG6cEEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7LWXu3yZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2LpPCaldjY

This guy obtained the workstations used at Acclaim before they went bankrupt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxlVAQeJQEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECblvMZvpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEy_ybKWsg

>>3957094
It's ending, tons of signs everywhere saying No Smoking, threatening fines if you're caught smoking in certain public spaces, and designated smoking areas.

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>>3969392
>designated

>>3966058
>That'd be illegal. You need to be a licensed developer to do that.

I'm pretty sure that's wrong

>>3969447
its sarcasm anon

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>>3966058
>mfw germany's already pulling this for youtube
>mfw it'll prop be enforced in the rest of EU
>mfw it could well widen to cover vidyagams
help

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>>3959506
tfw a cool picture turns a little bittersweet when you realize who the guy on the left is

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nintendo-64-culmination-90s-virtual-reality-ethan-johnson

>>3969458
>Germany

I'm pretty sure that getting caught with a Pepe on your hard drive can land you in prison for 20 years already, Hans

>>3969464
I worry for my fellow man and not just myself

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>>3969463

>>3969475
Omg nice find

>>3969115
He's a former contributor. Kurt and Sketcz had a fallout if I'm not mistaken.

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>>3960685
They were originally based in Kabukicho, which is a famous red-light district in Shinjuku with lots of yakuza activity. Also, Kishimoto (the Kunio and Double Dragon) himself was a high-school delinquent.

>>3968865
Thank you, but really, thank themade.org

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment preserved it, got the rights, and put it on YouTube. They are awesome like that, and have a lot of cool videos, once you get past the support videos at the top of their feed from their Kickstarter.


https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMADEOak/videos

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>>3967921
At least one of the Fatal Fury games lost a lot of development time due to a major earthquake, and they didn't get a release date delay to make up lost time because Japan's work ethic is kinda fuuuuuucked.

>>3968636
How does the archive system work? Is it different for each board? Are some things archived permanently?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaIfPuziJ-0

>>3971626
>BEN HACK
His hacks make me cringe. But this video is interesting.

>>3971626
>emulator

I doubt anyone wants to make a full fledged emulator for an unreleased console with no games.

>>3972451
Well, considering one already exists...
http://problemkaputt.de/sns.htm

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>>3972451
You'd think that, but...

http://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk/index.php?id=emulator

MK3 NOOB SAIBOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSDqSjTO9fs&spfreload=10

so you want to be a vidya game designer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8k9bFsVWo

>>3972485
Not really. That's just a SNES emulator. It's not doing anything special to emulate SNES-CD aside from accepting SNES-CD format ROM images, which are literally just standard SNES programs with access to more data. That's probably not very representative of what the console was actually capable of/intended to do, had it ever reached production.

Used to watch this all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz0zaUtxxFM

>>3969324
Except 3D-animated movies have graphics which would take weeks to render in real time on a contemporary consumer system. Compare Toy Story 1 to the shitty polyhedra in mid-to-late 90s PC, PS1 or N64 games.