"The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers" Book KickStarter

[Medic_wheat]

Ok I don't know if I am being nit picky or just a dick but this is his DVD case art?   It is fugly....why couldn't he just use a tastefully black and white picture of an actual developers studio from that time period that would have been much more eye catching...

I could have pooped out a better cover.

But, and you will kill me, but I like the DVD better than the book.

The DVD has a cheesy 80's aesthetic to it. It's lame (it was lamee in the 80's, after all), but at least it fits the source material better (IMHO).

The book cover is just sad...a pathetic attempt to sexy sexy-up the content of a book. I'm sure 12-year old's will love it.

I have seen porno dvd covers with more appeal.

[NightWolve]

It's like reading the unibomber manifesto interspersed with REALLY AWESOME developer interviews.

He does fancy himself a "guerrilla journalist" (his words) and I guess that's what you're seeing. Also what got him slapped with that lawsuit of course.

You know, I've kind of taken a liking to occasionally reading articles on HG101. Nothing by him, that I've seen, but from Kurt and other contributors. Sometimes they're so massive though, I don't think I could dive into them, like this recent mega MegaMan article...

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/megaman/megaman.htm

Comes in at about 55,000 words, and I think it's still ongoing, the pieces of it were being added piecemeal. Might be almost finished though. I actually caught 2 typos that Kurt quickly fixed on the first page of it, but most of the time he doesn't when they're pointed out. As a matter of fact, quite a bit of their articles need editing I noticed (maybe a dozen that I've looked at), like the last one I read of the Legendary Axe series which has about 4 typos I caught and pointed out. I'm assuming this is a frequent enough problem (have heard it from others too).

[ccovell]

You're being overly harsh about the DVD cover... I like it, definitely an inspired mix of Hokusai [edit: oops, actually a direct copy!], Peter Max, and Heinz Edelmann.

(The back of the DVD sucks aesthetically, and so does the book cover... but sometimes publishers take away control of this from the writer, so, y'know...)

[NightWolve]

Oh, his porno comment. Yeah, I think that cover really sucks too actually.

[Medic_wheat]

Oh, his porno comment. Yeah, I think that cover really sucks too actually.

The dvd cover art honestly reminds me of a learn to speak Japanese cover.

But yes maybe he didn't have a say on the layout of either item. But I would think with my vast knowledge of the publishingwworld that something he was doing on hisbown with backer money he would retain complete control over from its editing page layout and so forth.

[MrFulci]

Oh, his porno comment. Yeah, I think that cover really sucks too actually.

The dvd cover art honestly reminds me of a learn to speak Japanese cover.

But yes maybe he didn't have a say on the layout of either item. But I would think with my vast knowledge of the publishingwworld that something he was doing on hisbown with backer money he would retain complete control over from its editing page layout and so forth.

I know nothing of this author, or how the book was put together. I just want to say who knows what agreement the guy had with the publisher.

I knew of someone, she had some books published, non-fiction stuff.  Her main complaint, about one book in particular, was that the title of her book was changed.

[NightWolve]

I remembered seeing a post with that shitty cover from his Facebook account. Looked it up:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=457670467655694...

He says, "Artist's impression of a game development studio circa the 1980s." And there's a copyright "Szczepaniak 2013" on the bottom left.

I could swear I read Kurt Kalata saying his dad contributed artwork for the project, so it might be from him, not for sure on that though, but whatever, regardless of whoever did it, it sucks...

[Punch]

There's some stuff on PCE. I might end up buying the dvd and book when available to the general public.

[Medic_wheat]

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2014/08/mitchell-corporation-arcade-games.html


Mitchell Corporation arcade games available to license
"I'm going to take 90% credit for giving Mr Ozaki and Mr Yotsui this idea."


Well at lest the guy is humble.

[xelement5x]

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2014/08/mitchell-corporation-arcade-games.html


Mitchell Corporation arcade games available to license
"I'm going to take 90% credit for giving Mr Ozaki and Mr Yotsui this idea."


Well at lest the guy is humble.

Interesting, in the comments at least a rep from Marvelous pipes up about trying to contact them to work out a deal.  Could be very cool.

[ccovell]

"I'm going to take 90% credit for giving Mr Ozaki and Mr Yotsui this idea."

Well at lest the guy is humble.

Like a young Ralph Baer...

[Medic_wheat]

"I'm going to take 90% credit for giving Mr Ozaki and Mr Yotsui this idea."

Well at lest the guy is humble.

Like a young Ralph Baer...

The inventor of png.  After some other made it...

[Punch]

I wasn't aware that Baer had his hand on this open source image format project.

By the way, I've noticed that they posted the whole exchange of emails, no parts omitted, from John Skekpadasfpuqoiwreupouczxvz to the translation agency, in this spreadsheet. GO NUTS!!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qhykJyFu70YA8RSrb710WKOM4ghD4TiVHcBvxQb2zrU/edit#gid=881524424

[NightWolve]

Wow, that's a lot to parse out of an Excel tabular type system and read... Am just real glad Mr. "guerrilla journalist" picked a fight with people that weren't willing to let his bullshit slide so easily.

[Medic_wheat]

Wow, that's a lot to parse out of an Excel tabular type system and read... Am just real glad Mr. "guerrilla journalist" picked a fight with people that weren't willing to let his bullshit slide so easily.

There is a lot of content.....what are the good bits to read?