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Chaos Seed – 2010 Developer Interview

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This interview with former Neverland developer Junichi Kashiwagi explores the inspi...

59 Developers, 20 Questions – 1985 Interview Special

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This week, I made a massive update to this classic 1985 survey-style in...

Fire Emblem – Developer Interviews

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These two Fire Emblem interviews offer a good look at the early games in the seri...

Mega Man Legends – 1997 Developer Interviews

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Taken together, these two Mega Man Legends interviews—the first a pre-r...

The Story of Fumito Ueda

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This long and wonderful interview with ICO and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda fir...

The History of Sega Console Hardware

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This wonderful retrospective of Sega console hardware was originally featured i...

Mega Man 9 and 10 – Developer Interviews

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These two interviews with Mega Man 9&10 producer Hironobu Takeshita originally app...

The History of the PC Engine

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These two interviews offer a look back at the history and development of NEC and Hudso...

Parappa the Rapper – 1996 Developer Interviews

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This humorous PaRappa the Rapper interview with developers Masaya Matsuura, Gabin Itou, ...

Dodonpachi – 1997 Developer Interview

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This quick interview with Dodonpachi programmers Tsuneki Ikeda and Satoshi K...

Yoshi’s Island – 1995 Developer Interview

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This short-but-sweet interview with producer Shigeru Miyamoto provides some rare insight int...

Star Ocean 3 – 2003 Developer Interview

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This lengthy Star Ocean: Till the End of Time interview originally appeared in...

Battle Bird – 1987 Developer Interview

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Battle Bird was a stereoscopic 3D arcade game with a proprietary cabinet, deve...

19XX – Developer Interviews and DevDiary

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These interviews with the composers and developers of Capcom’s famous arcade shmup 19XX ...

Early Arcade Classics: 1985-1987 Developer Interviews

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This compilation of short interviews covers the arcade classics of Pac-Man, ...

Pasokon History: from 8-bit to 16-bit

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These interviews show a historical snapshot of the Japanese computer...

NiGHTS into dreams… – 1996 Developer Interview

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This NiGHTS interview is actually a compilation of several interviews originally featured ...

The Birth of Mega Man – 2011 Developer Interview

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Although Keiji Inafune is often cited as the man who created Mega Man, planner Akira “A.Kâ€...

Zone of Enders: The 2nd Runner – 2003 Developer Interviews

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I've added two more interviews to this page: Kazuma Kaneko, the guest characte...

Kasco and the Electro-Mechanical Golden Age

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Alongside Sega and Namco, Kasco was one of the first companies in Japan to make their...

Radiata Stories – 2005 Developer Interview

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This humorous interview with the main tri-Ace/Square-...

The Origins of SNK – 1996 Developer Interview

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Toshiyuki Nakai was a planner and designer at SNK from 1983-1987. After that he sw...

Revenge of Shinobi – 2003 Developer Interview

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Noriyoshi Ohba was a Sega developer responsible for classics like Streets of Rage, Reven...

Treasure – 2001 Developer Interview

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Conducted just before the arcade release of Ikaruga, this interview with Treasure’s ...

King of Fighters ’94 – Developer Interview

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This developer interview with the KOF’94 development staff first appeared in the All About...

Grandia II – 2000 Developer Interview

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In this Grandia II interview from the “Grandia II World Guidance...

New Forum for Voting/Questions!

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600+ new interviews added for voting!

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Season's Greetings! As many of you know, I spent three and a half weeks in S...

Super Mario World – 1990 Developer Interview

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This delightful interview from 1990 with the Super Mario Worl...

Twinkle Star Sprites – 1996 Developer Interview

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This lengthy interview with the ADK developers behind “vs. shoo...