retro offices

Shmuplations doing what they do best and translated more old magazine interviews with Japanese game industry people of the time. This did small ones with several of them and each one had a photo of sitting by their work desk.

http://shmuplations.com/nextgen/

All these from 1993
Kazuma Kaneko - Atlus (Shin Megami Tensei)

Takeshi Miyaji - Game Arts (Silpheed)

Noboru Harada - SETA Corporation (holy shit it’s about Exhaust Heat!!)

Kan Naitou - Climax Entertainment (Landstalker)

Takashi Tokita - Square (Hanjuku Hero)

Ryoji Amano - Human Entertainment (Super Soccer)

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Jushin Thunder Liger just retired in January and it’s amazing that his toy is sitting on this desk in 1993. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how long he did his thing.

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extremely cool and stylish

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TEAM SILENT

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Kaneko’s workstation c. 1996/7 mid to late 1998 (judging by the release date of the book and the Innocent Sin artwork he’s working on). I think the gun is a lighter.

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I love the smiley TOOLS bag I might steal that logo for my toolbox

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office4

WARP

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love everyone felt the vibe and need for this thread so hard

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But do we have any pictures of the offices of Retro Studios?

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This is apparently Nintendo’s first headquarters in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan.

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now i’m wondering if this front has ever had a cameo in one of their vidcons

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would not be shocked if it was in warioware

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I’ve seen this image before but never noticed the ‘Marufuku Nintendo Card Co.’ at the top or the “Yamauchi Nintendo” at the bottom.

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hey so the reason i started this thread was because i was looking for an article: years ago i think polygon? had a feature on all of the offices / flats that old japanese developers made games in, along with those people drawing maps of them and commenting on the era.

since i read it, i have NEVER been able to find it. has anyone read it?

at Japan Home Video office, when they developing 誕生 〜Debut〜

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ZOOM, 株式会社ズーム, a company focus develop on X68000 in JAPAN

1991.10

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I found something not game development pics, but also about games. It’s a SD/CF card company office.

GBAlpha, at 2007. who made M3 series cards for NDS, their products are something like this:

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/nintendo_ds/nds-m3adapter.htm

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Riverhill Soft, 株式会社リバーヒルソフト

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System Soft, 株式会社システムソフト

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Compile, コソパイル

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Game Arts, 株式会社ゲームアーツ

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Telenet Japan, 株式会社日本テレネット

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Wolfteam, ウルフチーム


Hertz, ヘルツ


Micronet, 株式会社マイクロネット

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East Cube, aka 東峰通商株式会社EC事業部


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Maybe you will notice all employees of 株式会社(Japanese offical company) dressed more formally(suit and tie), and those who work for studio prefer to dressed up like a young man still in college life (there’s someone dressed short pants at Wolfteam).

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Gō Rijū, 利重剛, a film director, was working on his script works at 1989. A year that you could smoked at office to toxied all your colles.

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