I don’t think you want to link directly to images on Gamengai.

I’d just like to add that GDRI doesn’t necessarily have to be about old games. It’s just that I’m not as interested in the newer stuff. Anybody is free to edit and create entries, as long as you’re fairly accurate and do a good job and don’t just blindly copy info from Moby Games or something.

I’m also not so interested in doing game lists for companies like Capcom and Konami that publish what they develop, but there’s certainly lots of research to be done on various divisions and subsidiaries.

Since it’s on my mind and I don’t feel like waiting for a post about this particular game to bring it up, I noticed Loretta Hieh on Facebook. A Loretta Hieh worked on the PCE version of Ninja Gaiden. I’d like to know if she’s the same person. There can’t be that many Loretta Hiehs out there, can there? Since I’m not on Facebook, is there anybody who is who’d like to make a go of trying to contact her?

Seems a Famicom game to me but the last Enix famicom game should be Just Bread ( to the mid-left in that scan ).

Can you , Kevin, do a quick translation ?

Thanks

I think that perhaps writing some more narrative-oriented histories of development firms and pushing those on the front page (instead of presenting the majority of the site as an alphabetized list of companies) would help make things friendlier and easier to navigate. This is history that 99% of even hardcore game fans aren’t aware of, so going the more anecdotal route and discussing more about where a company was, what they did, and how you figured out that they wrote Game X or Game Y — that sort of thing would be great, I bet.

Somebody somewhere got RazorSoft mixed up with Laser Soft. That’s Laser Soft’s Taiketsu!! Brass Numbers, which was released in the US by Renovation as Doomsday Warrior.

> Site organization is kind of awful, though.

Do you have any advice?

Personally I find interesting knowing about the people behind a game because that game is the result of those lives ( those experiences ) and all the talks about unreleased games has the same attraction of a “What/If” scenario.

It’s really incredible the hard work and dedication of the persons behind sites like GDRI or unseen64.

BTW I know at least 2 Razorsoft games that shouldn’t be released.
One is The Brass Boss for Super Famicom the other is Keeper of the Gates for Genesis.

Never heard about Akira for GG , I only know about the Snes/Sega CD version ( well aside from the amiga one that actualy got released ).

Speaking of Kevin Spaghetti, in GameFan march ’95 there is some images of Dinoblaze for 3DO.

The interview with Shouichi Yoshikawa is awesome but I don’t understand what he mean for “A sample ROM had come from Hudson that I played, but…No, I think the correct answer is that it never existed.”
Was it for real or no ?

Never know about Ultra Genjin however I read on an old magazine that Hudson had planned a sequel of Hagane for N64 ( TGS ’97 ).

Good luck CRV

As far as Japanese-English translations on the site go, I’m sure that’s not the only part that’s “a little off.” Getting in touch with Japanese developers without any knowledge of Japanese has been surprisingly easy. Getting stuff translated has been harder since it’s time-consuming. I certainly can’t afford to pay anybody to do it.

Let’s see if this post motivates me to polish up the interviews. Probably won’t…