This person uploaded their PS2 demo discs to Internet Archive. They got "restricted" and he e-mailed IA asking for them to be unrestricted, they said "no" with no further explanation, and then removed his uploads and banned him when he kept asking what the deal was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25C...

The Internet Archive Deleted My PS2 Project

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Final Fantasy and GameFAQs are closely linked in my mind. I've spent so much time reading all kinds of guides for the series, every game has so many, which made me curious which had the most. The 2D games and FF12 often have a separate map for each area, so there's also a graph without them.

They took the time to render Mario's reflection on the table.

I present: 5000 Years of The Legend of Zelda A flowchart of the media that influenced Zelda. Ranging from mythology and historical sources to ancient board games, D&D, 1930s pulp adventure films, and way more! Click through to see the full-size chart. namelessquality.com/5000-years-o...

New record, 402nd on the Guild Wars 2 North American achievements leaderboard. I probably won't be able to get much higher than this, I've done most of the PvP stuff and playing Crab Toss and Sanctum Sprint by myself is slow going.

Editorial from Hyper about the difficulty of communicating with Japanese developers and publishers.

In Megami Tensei games your skills don't list damage coefficients. Agidyne (single) and Maragidyne (all) will both just say "heavy fire damage". But actually the damage they do can vary wildly, depending on the game. The smaller the number the less multi-target skills do compared to single-target.

Rock the Rock was a promotional event for Sonic & Knuckles where 55 people were taken to Alcatraz Island to play the unreleased game and try to get as many rings as possible in three minutes. The two top scorers then faced off head to head in a dome.

Many of Nintendo's European websites have become lost, but thanks to the efforts of several people on the Lost Media Wiki forums the flash-powered Mario Megasite has been partially preserved, and a Miyamoto interview was found within the files. forums.lostmediawiki.com/post/159257/...

The ideal order for a video game magazine is: Staff credits/housekeeping, table of contents, editorial, mail, news, interview, cover feature, previews by system, reviews by system, tips/codes, comic/puzzles/quizzes, back issue orders/legal text, preview of next issue.

I'm currently working on two projects at once (code names Fire and Horizontal), something I haven't done before. Hopefully this helps prevent me from getting tired of working on the same thing for an extended period, but it will also be longer until either is finished.

shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/ When I first saw this new shmuplations discussion between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno I thought I was finally going to see a translation of Super Hit Game Studies, but no, it's an entirely different thing I didn't know about, which is also great.

Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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I made a Gantt chart showing when U.S. gaming magazines were active, and then charted how many there were by year. This uses Retromags' database, minus a few that were only peripherally related to gaming. Here's the 2327x8580 original Gantt chart: spritecell.com/wp-content/u...

It's in Japanese, but this site has every game Famitsu scored at least 35 (maximum is 40), up through 2015. web.archive.org/web/20161024...

This is what UK gaming magazine Zero called their handheld game review section.

Trying to figure out what my next project will be so I made a spreadsheet.

Something I found while researching was that the full performance of Mario & Zelda Big Band Live, from 2003, was uploaded to both YouTube and Internet Archive less than two years ago. Music and Nintendo developers talking in Japanese. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvBl... archive.org/details/mari...

Mario & Zelda Big Band Live (Nihon Seinenkan Hall. 14 Sep 2003)

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For the past couple months I have been working on compiling a list of Shigeru Miyamoto interviews that are lost, may or may not exist, are incomplete, unscanned, and/or untranslated. There are over 200 on this page, maybe you can help in some way: spritecell.com/shigeru-miya...

Hyper magazine's September 2014 interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has been added to the archive thanks to the author himself, @jickle.net. He got to see a version of Star Fox Zero at E3 2014 that was about two months into full development, with a Twilight Princess enemy used as a placeholder.

Game collecting is a hobby of mine. All of my console games are physical and that's mostly worked out for me as a JRPG fan, but I'm really not excited for a future where even a huge blockbuster game like Final Fantasy 17 is never released physically.

Mick Hocking of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe says that people are very excited for 3DTV and that sales are very encouraging for the future of the format. From Edge Magazine May 2011.

A 1999 Miyamoto interview from Happy Puppy. Some Ocarina talk, online gaming, hiring people who don't just play games, feeling envy about SimCity. web.archive.org/web/20000608... web.archive.org/web/20000608... I'm not familiar with Happy Puppy but it claims to be the first commercial gaming site.

I sure hope this is the full extent of the Miyamoto and Aonuma interviews in Dutch magazine Power Unlimited issue 113.

I love looking at attempts to list the video game genres, and here's one from Italian magazine Consolemania circa 1994. Arcade Adventure is an interesting one, they are described here as games where you search for things. A bit too early for "Fighting" games, and Strategy and Sim are combined here.

The subtitles on the video games episode of Shin Denshi Rikkoku that I reposted may be machine translated, so take this with a grain of salt, but it says that Shigeru Miyamoto chose the Famicom's color palette.

1990s NHK Documentary on history video games. Fascinating look at how they were developed and discussed in that era. youtu.be/Zb_74BEnFNc

The History of Video Games in Japan, Nintendo, Hudson and Sega

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Videogames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine had an article about Super Mario Bros.' 10th anniversary which included a stray Miyamoto quote that bothered me for years. I couldn't find the source, where he talked about invisible things above our heads.

@charstring.com I know this is a long shot, but is there a chance you have the video file of the Shigeru Miyamoto interview you conducted in 2006? It hasn't been available for a long time and I'd like to preserve it. www.engadget.com/2006-05-12-j...

Joystiq Video: Shigeru Miyamoto Interview - Engadget

If you haven't already read the transcript of our interview with the inimitable Shigeru Miyamoto, we've gone to all the trouble of putting video of it online. Get his thoughts on everything from the W...

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Eiji Aonuma talking Zelda with N-Zone in May 2007, and the Google Translate version.

Another N-Zone interview added, from April 2002. What really interests me is that Mr. Miyamoto is described as coming to Germany. This was the same month that the mysterious "Nintendo Power except it can't be" Q & A with European children was published somewhere. www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Intervi...