Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KzCWNDwrA
Amazon page:
www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Japanese-Developers-Blu-Ray/dp/B081WPWM68/
General web page:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/the-untold-history-of-japanese-game-developers-blu-ray/
Author and journalist John Szczepaniak spent three months travelling around Japan, interviewing over 80 members of the games industry for a trilogy of books spanning nearly a million words.
This documentary, containing a selection of those interviewed, is a result of that epic quest.
- Region Free! Will play on NTSC and PAL Blu-Ray players!
- Around 132 minutes of Blu-Ray quality HD video documentary!
- Featuring brand new captured game footage!
Over two hours of tightly edited footage including:
* An unreleased MSX game from Tecno Soft
* PC Engine vs Famicom audio
* Design documents for Guardian Legend, MUSHA, and Aleste Gaiden
* Hudson's abandoned R&D laboratory
* Solomon's Key sketches
* Westone offices
* Ryuichi Nishizawa of Wonder Boy
* Street Fighter II distributor Roy Ozaki
* Kouichi Yotsui of Strider
* Cannon Dancer commentary
* Secret OutRun tapes
* Making Namco's Pac-Land
* How Taito did pixel art
* Parallax scrolling on PC Engine
* Cybernator artist and designer
* Yoshiro Kimura of Love-de-Lic
* Making Dragon Quest on Famicom
* Catrap on Game Boy
* Dissecting Namco's neGcon controller
* Human Entertainment
* Yuzo Koshiro of Sega
* Streets of Rage 4 on Dreamcast
* Enix coding
* Prototype MSX
* Data East's Deco Cassette and rare game footage
* The Japanese Game Preservation Society, and more!
Product details
Directors: John Szczepaniak
Producers: Coury Carlson
Format: Blu-ray
Language: English, Japanese
Subtitles: English during spoken Japanese
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Studio: SMG Szczepaniak
Run Time: 132 minutes