A Kickstarter-funded labour of devotion that became the closest thing the medium has to an oral history of Japanese arcade and console development. Szczepaniak interviewed Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Hiroshi Iuchi, Toshio Iwai, Yu Suzuki, and dozens of figures whose names rarely appear in English at all — and printed transcripts long enough to be useful as research, not just colour. Two further volumes followed; this is the one to start with.
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The Reading Room
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers
Volume 1
Hundreds of interviews with developers who otherwise never speak to Western press — the indispensable primary source for any SNK / Konami / arcade-era piece.
- Author
- John Szczepaniak
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- SMG Szczepaniak
- Pages
- 524
- Shelved
- Essential