October2018

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  5

  News John Szczepaniak's Untold History Of Japanese Game Developers Is Reborn As Japansoft: An Oral History

  With new content and images

  Back in 2013, video game journalist and historian John Szczepaniak embarked on a crowdfunded adventure to chart the hitherto untold stories of the Japanese game development community. He flew out to Japan and spoke to some of the unsung heroes of the gaming world - as well as few true legends, such as Henk Rogers and Yuzo...

  • Fri 19th Oct 2018
  • Books
  • Retro
  • Japan
  • John Szczepaniak

December2015

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  Feature The Making Of Red Alarm, The Virtual Boy's Answer To Star Fox

  "It seemed the game had drawn a lot of attention within Nintendo"

  This piece appears in full in John Szczepaniak's Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2, and is republished in part with kind permission. This interview signifies how unpredictable journalism can be. I was sitting in the Agatsuma office interviewing Yasuo Nakajima, and...

  • Thu 3rd Dec 2015
  • Feature
  • Retro
  • Virtual Boy
  • Red Alarm
  • John Szczepaniak

November2015

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  Book Review The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2

  "I hit my head against the monitor hard enough to make the screen crack"

  The term "labour of love" is often bandied around in media circles, usually relating to a personally important project by an artist writer, and while it's possibly overused in some cases, it most certainly applies to John Szczepaniak's quest to chart the hitherto unseen history...

  • Wed 25th Nov 2015
  • Book Review
  • Retro
  • Books
  • Development
  • Japan

July2015

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  2

  News Summer Video Game StoryBundle Features Some Awesome Nintendo-Related Reads

  Castlevania! Untold History of Japanese developers! Bible Adventures!

  The Summer Video Game StoryBundle is now available, and might be of particular interest to Nintendo fans thanks to the inclusion of some riveting reads. Hardcore Gaming 101's superb Castlevania retrospective is in there, as is John Szczepaniak's indispensable Untold History of...

  • Fri 10th Jul 2015
  • Books
  • John Szczepaniak
  • Castlevania

September2014

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  14

  Book Review The Untold Story Of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1

  Charting a golden era

  When journalist and novelist John Szczepaniak launched his Kickstarter campaign back in 2013 to record the hitherto undocumented story of Japan's game development community, there were a few raised eyebrows around the web. His funding goal was a lofty one, and the task seemed almost herculean in scope — he planned to travel...

  • Thu 18th Sep 2014
  • Book Review
  • Books
  • Retro
  • Japan
  • John Szczepaniak