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Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

Hey, folks. I found yet another picture book at a Japanese library that details the making of video games, so here's my write-up on it:

"How Video Games are Made: The Making of Dragon Quest VI" (SFC)
http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/How_Games_Are_Made_DQVI.html

If you haven't yet, check out the amazingly awesome first picture book that I found, dealing with the making of Super Mario 3:

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

Nosuch · Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 107

Nifty stuff.

There was one little thing I wanted to mention, though. Near the bottom of page 1, I think the game Sugiyama is playing is Mother 2.

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

OK, thanks. I wasn't sure which game it was.

<---------------- Not an RPG fan, to be honest. 8)

sonikokaruto · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 7

holy shit that was fucking amazing, it's like looking from a time machine to the stuff you love with pink tinted rose glasses

damn!

*looking at toriyama's minicycles

that's why he's always drawing goku and everyone on bikes ...

Celine · Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 95

Thank you very much Chris, from a Dragon Quest fan.

Gil-Galad · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 39

That was an interesting read and look through. Good stuff.

Carnivol · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject:

Cool stuff. Thanks :D

Yet another lame excuse for me to re-post this "V-jump Special Video" too (Still shopping for dedicated translators for a lot of video content, by the way)

Deadguy2322 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:54 pm Post subject:

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ArnoldRimmer83 · Staff Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540

Nice find Chris. Perhaps not as detailed as the Mario 3 one, but it still has a lot of interesting bits.

It also reminded me just how nice the Super Famicom version of Dragon Quest VI still looks. Probably the only DQ game that can actually stand up to its remake in the visual department.

Carnivol · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

KingMike · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898

Sorry to bump for a tangential observation.

But we remember Miyamoto smoking in this kid's book.

But... did anyone ever notice the F1 Race box art features a Marlboro car? (maybe not, because I don't think anybody likes F1 Race)
(I mean, it's a hand-drawn image, so it's not like they took a photo of a real race and it just happened to be there.)

MY GOD THEY WERE TRYING TO GET US TO SMOKE!

Tongueman · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan

That Marlboro F-1 car was popular because in 1989-9x, it was Ayrton Senna's car. So, the red & white F-1 racer emblazoned with Marlboro, Shell, and Honda logos was used a LOT for F-1 games at the time.

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