as announced by online Sega history zine Beep21: Hideki Sato, the "father of Sega hardware" who stewarded the design of Sega's home consoles from the SG-1000 through to the Dreamcast & presided over the company from 2001~3, passed away on Feb.13 aged 77 🇯🇵
R.I.P.
Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo!, a 40th-anniv Goemon comp with 13 games spanning FC/SFC/GB, out July 2
the district court case between ex-Konami composer Motoaki Furukawa and Pixel Co.ltd's Hidekuni Sasaki concerning the undelivered crowdfunded game Steam Pilots has reached a verdict, as summarised by Sasaki (and then me) https://mastodon.social/@gosokkyu/115981259478341478
tl;dr: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Streets of Rage 2 manual illustration by Ayano Koshiro: a painting of some of the enemies.
In April 1990, the Koshiros founded Ancient to work with Sega on Sonic and Streets of Rage 2. But Ayano Koshiro continued to collaborate with former colleagues on titles such as Actraiser, Gage and Lunar.
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NiGHTS into dreams... logo
Speaking of Kazuyuki Hoshino, he recently said that he designed the NiGHTS logo:
"In my logo, only the “i” is lowercase.
It represents a tiny “love” (pronounced [aɪ] in Japanese) just starting to bloom between Elliot and Claris — a small love story."
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I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know that Mana (Yay) had a regular column in short-lived game magazine Jugemu! But I've begun atoning for this mistake by translating his article from the final installment of the magazine with Koichi Sugiyama (Boo)
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Speaking of Katsuhiro Harada, Mitsuo Kodama recently stated (without naming him) that Tomonobu Itagaki publicly criticised Daraku Tenshi, as he did with Tekken at the same time. While I can understand the logic behind doing this with Tekken, given the popularity of the series, 1/2
I really appreciate what you do, I guess typos just come with the business
Automaton spoke to producer Riichiro Yamada on the new Virtua Fighter (why now?) automaton-media.com/articles/int... 🇯🇵 mostly same ol same ol, but they do mention the slow-mo moments seen in the proof-of-concept video have been decided against for the actual game, and that...
I’m sorry to say, third time is the charm…
The name is Yoshio.
pencil sketch of a man/cyborg in armor shooting at a creature in the background
Street Fighter 2010 rejected cover proposal by Greg Winters:
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On this episode of Scrolling Down the Belt, you and the Captain DO make it happen! Captain Commando, that is! Oh right, there's also Robo Army too. Though to be fair...you DO get to transform into a car!
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There’s a Shinichi Sakamoto song in there directly referencing Konami’s The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough rendition but I don’t know what’s the connection. Fantastic game and soundtrack, so good that it’s coming to modern platforms as well.
Street Fighter Alpha (Adon), Street Fighter 3 (Hugo, Makoto), Capcom Vs SNK (Yamazaki, Terry, Dictator, Geese), KOF XIII (Takuma) - Baki
Street Fighter 6 (Gouki) - Baki
SNK vs Capcom (Mr Karate) - Baki
Capcom Vs SNK (Yamazaki) - Baki
If you were wondering how much Baki influenced Capcom and SNK (as well as Ancient for Streets of Rage 2 and Namco for Tekken)
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STOP THE PRESSES.
The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one.
Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon.
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I've been a little busy and scattered but I pulled together a very quick post from the older posts we made here about the #Nintendo Museum's #Zelda exhibit and the thoughts about the "new" art discoveries a few of us had: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Feena from the title screen of every version of Ancient Ys Vanished - The Omen:
2 character sprites with their respective names (Western and Japanese versions) as well as the names of the graphic designers who worked on each of them.
2 character sprites with their respective names (Western and Japanese versions) as well as the names of the graphic designers who worked on each of them.
I'm doing a little test with a page of sprites and backgrounds, with the names of the graphic designers who worked on each one. And I'm starting with Muscle Bomber / Saturday Night Slam Masters.
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out-of-nowhere news from Cave: they'll soon be opening DANMAKU, an official Cave storefront in Shibuya, and they've put out the call for people interested in part-time work 🇯🇵
Kuroko's stage in Samurai Shodown 2 features art copied straight from the The Evil Dead film's Necronomicon Ex-Mortis book
I hope your Spider Sense is tingling, because this episode of Scrolling Down the Belt is all about Spider-Man's Sega arcade beat 'em up debut! And also...the weird sequel to Irem's Kung-Fu that never left Japan! youtu.be/Zkx0OQh5u0Y
Box art of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, featuring Alex Kidd and a few enemies.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mark III:
Rieko Kodama, Part IV: Alex Kidd in Miracle World or the birth of a Master System icon (+ Double Target/Quartet, Miracle Warriors and The Black Onyx)
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from a recent event commemorating what would've been Kenji Eno's 55th bday, a roundtable interview with 4 former WARP devs: Tomohiro Miyazaki, Hideki Sudo, Naoya Sato and a fella by the name of Fumito Ueda www.4gamer.net/games/999/G9... 🇯🇵
can't go over the whole thing atm, but one related story:
Gradius composer Miki Higashino recently said that she did not compose the game's boss theme and don't know who did it.
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out now: ZOMBIES ATTACK / 丧尸兵团 测试, the latest game from Liao Kai/LKKGAME, the CN dev behind GanaBlade, G-WARRIOR, Red Blue Cells, etc store.steampowered.com/app/3757240/... this one's a specific homage to the FC/NES version of Konami's Green Beret/Rush'n Attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcK...
City Connection's Psikyo ports will be leaving Steam on October 31 psikyo-portal.com/notice_25101... the console versions will remain available (for now, at least)
it wasn't heavily advertised by either party but CC sold Psikyo successor studio Zerodiv to Edia earlier this year
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• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
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A mix of 3 SG-1000 covers: Flicky, Girl's Garden and Ninja Princess
Did you know that Rieko Kodama worked on Girl's Garden? In this third chapter, we also talk about Flicky, Ninja Princess, and Quartet.
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