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Handcrafted model of a convenience store used in promotions for Masterpiece's The Conveni, a simulation game where you manage such a joint.

>>1851686
CRW's in the Internet Archive download in the OP.

I just learned that Masterpiece's The Conveni, that series of games where you start a convenience store and manage a chain, started out as a Windows release in 1996. This explains their relationship with Artdink, though I guess the devs partnered with Human for some other reasons. Windows releases were self-published, but both of the other companies did console releases of The Conveni and its fantasy-world gaiden game; Human developed The Conveni 2 themselves. 3 and 4 also came out for Windows, with support for online feature as well.

FlipFlop, Masterpiece, and Artdink stuck together in those years, though only Artdink's had the ballast to float so long. Masterpiece is mobile game and IT now, and Yoichi Yamaguchi's presumably somewhere else. Also, I really like the papercraft Conveni models Masterpiece built, but I bet they're hard to reproduce.