/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5911886
Damn, these guys had a little bit of that geek style but still alpha at the same time. Also, can I get some names? I can't recognize old photos of developers and shit that easily. I forget who liked Batman... It's not Mikami or Kamiya?

Takashi Iizuka

Sega R&D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRphv7x97uw

>>5911936
>It's not Mikami or Kamiya?
THIS is Kamiya

>>5912015
His mom looks like Miyamoto in drag

>>5911915
Did they test every single copy before shipping out ?

>>5912258
He wants to be hardcore but his mom won't let him.

Sega development team around 1993.

More... Sega? around 1993.

Sega Technical Institute in 1992.

>>5912718
>Sega
Obviously because of the Digitizer unit in the back

>>5912684
I think so bro, I worked at a (Japanese) place that makes cds, we listened to every single copy before sending them out.

>>5911936
Pretty based compared to the soiboy cuck developers today.

>>5912684
I would imagine so, someone's gotta do QA.

>>5911886
>>5911909
>>5911910
>>5911921
>>5911926
I remember these photos in the MGS1 strategy guide! I still have it. It's one of the best guides I have ever used for a game. The maps were fantastic quality!

>>5911921
Roland JP-8000
Roland Sound Canvas
Studio Electronics MIDIMini
Mackie Mixer
the rest I can't ID
Edirol Studio Canvas

>>5912715
Thats a badass casio midi guitar

Old Treasure.

Yu Suzuki in his studio with a cute japanese woman.

>>5912723
Neat she is working on the canceled Sonic 2 CD demo

>>5912835
Did they fuck?

Making music at the Sega Technical Institute around 1992.

>>5912846
What does Yu Suzuki face tells you?

>>5912718
>Work with wet clay around electronics
Yeah that seems like a good idea.

>>5912846
Does it matter?

>>5912847
Spencer Nilsen rocking that rad 90s mullet

>>5912852
>he doesn't know about oil or polymer clays
imagine my shock, basement dweller

>>5912858
I had the same haircut all the way until 2010

>>5912835
what a fucking chad

>>5912839
Wait, was there a version of Sonic 2 for Sega CD?

>>5911918
Thought that was Mike myers

Technosoft headquarters. Early 90s.

>>5912715
Holy shit look at all that hardware, Sega was based as fuck.
>>5912801
Based as fuck post, I have used some of that equipment, now I am using modern DAW type shit though with simple equipment.
>>5912831
I am gathering that an electric guitar was an important part of most companies daily operations.
>>5915178
Just follow these steps to make based games.
>>5912860
What's that stuff on the bottom left? Drives?
>>5912859
Only true alpha makes know of different clay types and their consistencies. Based.
>>5912835
Damn, alpha as fuck.

Bomberman 64

>>5915681

>>5915684

You can't look at these photos and tell me with a straight fucking face that the late 80's/early 90's aren't better than the present.

>>5915830
So you prefer an age where minorities and women were more oppressed? Nazi scum.

>>5915830
this, these guys all looked like they were having a good time doing what they were passionate about, whereas today everything is so soulless and grey, the games from back then were bursting at the seams with personality and just pure fun.

mfw we’ll never get to go back

>>5912715
soul and comfy

>>5915830
The 80s were. The 90s were a cultural slog like now.

>>5915960
Maybe in the U.S. sure, Japan at least until around 92 was pretty much indistinguishable from the 80's until the effects of the economic bubble bursting were felt.

>>5915217
>I am gathering that an electric guitar was an important part of most companies daily operations.
No you sperg, it was normal to bring your gear so you can play at the office.

>>5915923
>it's the early 90s, you have a cushy job at a game company. All you and your colleagues care about is making a fun product so you do your best. Your manager expects quality and there is no mention of lootbox surprise mechanic microtransactions with which to disguise some gambling scheme as a game.

Move over nerds, two Chads coming through!

Sega in 1991.

And even more Sega in early 90s. Developing the Title Fight arcade game.

>>5912847
what music exactly? it looks like sonic 1 but 92 is well past its release and it was done by masato nakamura

>>5916316
Yeah, probably the photo was badly staged. Sonic 1 was developed in Japan, so it doesn't make sense to show it like if Sega Technical Institute had something to do with it.

I wonder how comfy it must have been to be a video game developer back in the 80s and 90s?

>>5912723
Trannies in tech in '92?

>>5912879
>chad
You will notice, there is no anime shit (or tech!) in his office.

>>5915847
Yup.

>>5917147
And those paintings are by him.

Konami MSX development area.

Yuzo Koshiro playing arcade games at Ancient Corp. around early 90s.

>>5911916
gangster as fuck

>>5917141
Look up Rebecca Heineman

>>5911916
All dressed with class...business casual to smart casual. Most of the people in my office look like they dress with lights off...

>>5917069
Like all jobs it depended a lot on who you were working for, who you were working with, and what you were doing. I enjoyed it but know many people who found it a living hell.

>>5917141
Mentally ill always attract to hobbies or shit you can hide from the public in.

>>5916078
is chad the new word for fag?

>>5917390
depressing

notice how in every one of these the games are being made, tested, and played on PC. just as the developers intended. emulation wins again.

>>5917724
Old Konami building was sweet, though.

>>5915935
Indeed. There was still a good mix of digital and analog techniques in those days, which makes it more interesting and creative than the pure current digital development (even sketches are made digitally now).
Also, pixelart is very soulful.

>>5917728
You are an idiot. Stop talking about shit you don't understand. You still need development hardware.

>>5917786
lol look at this butthurt fag all serious. holy shit are you fucking autistic. Durrrr I can't tell when somebody is serious or making a joke.

fucking hell sperg

>>5917770
I'm a sucker for the old Konami logo

>>5918203
Cringe.

>>5918203
You are an idiot. Stop talking about shit you don't understand. You still need development hardware.

>>5915923
the greedy suits destroyed everything

>>5915217
(You)

>>5916930
>>5916316
Of course it was fucking staged, unless Sonic the Hedgehog provided his own vocals from the vocal booth in the back.

>>5912684
you have to play all the carts

>>5911985
is that sonic's head on a bikini girl's body?

>>5912015
>Kamiya: "Super Mario Bros. 3 was the game I waited in line for at the department store."
>"I waited at the door on the first floor and ran in as soon as they opened, knocking over a bunch of elementary-school kids (I was in high school at the time) and was the first one to buy it."
>"That same day I played it at my friend's house, leaving my friend alone because he was not interested in the game."

>>5912715
dude, tatsuro yamashita worked at sega?!

>>5911886
I love how all the classic retro JP games were developed by young people right out of college. A lot of them I don't think even viewed it as a career, just a job to pay the bills for a short time. Really seemed like a more authentic and genuine set of creators compared to a lot of the giant corporate teams of today.

>>5918287
games also take a lot of time and money to make, the jump in costs from say, famicom dev to even just late 90s was huge. The HD era then proceeded to kill off tons of devs that were maybe just hanging on or were stable but not able to keep up with heavily-funded studios.

You can look to mobile as a big problem that happened for sure, but more likely that is a convenient way to ignore real problems which became more and more apparent in gaming.

And yes, "greedy suits" destroyed everything, but that started in America in the 80's.

>>5912715
The soul. The fucking soul.

>>5911985

>>5920203
No idea. All I know is he made a song for Yakuza 6, but I don't know if that's his only collaboration with Sega.

>>5916078
get this faggy shit outta here and back into your containment edgethread

>>5922349
You know, I was just joking, cuz that dude has the same kind of long-hair + male-pattern baldness thing going on, but now as I look more at him he actually really does look like Yamashita.

Anybody know who all is actually in this picture?

>>5922349
also btw he didn't make the title track "for" yakuza, they licensed the song off of his '88 album 僕の中の少年 (boku no naka no shounen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybOa6BQyZa8

>>5911886
Awesome thread!

>good job OP

>>5923382
This

>>5912835
Yu Suzuki before Shenmue was even a concept in his head
>Full head of hair
>Respected arcade dev, who probably made Sega millions
>Slim and attractive
>Probably smelt good, that girl wouldn't be next to him if not
>Decent fashion sense

Yu Suzuki after coming up with the idea for Shenmue
>Fat from eating horribly to meet deadlines
>Doesn't pay his electric bills, sleeps in the office, probably smells bad
>Losing his hair due to stress, eyesight waning
>No longer respected, Sega see him as a nuisance with plans to make Sega great again while wasting billions
>No girls have been around him since the early 1990's

What happened, /vr/? Was Shenmue really this much of a killer?

>>5912715
Cho Aniki team?

>>5915684
are those Composite leads I see? hmmm

>>5924409
Unplugged, just like they should be.

>>5924297
The Cho Aniki games were made by Masaya, not Sega. The game you can see in the monitors is Title Fight, a very advanced arcade boxing game in 2D, running on the powerful Sega System 32.

>>5924362
What is the big device he uses his mouse on?

>>5915923
>>5916038
Videogames then
>your manager is an excentric bro who makes videogames because he loves them
>every concept is new and there is no imposed template for your next project, every idea is welcomed and studied
>you can recolor and easily modify your sprites
>everything is low budget so the company only cares about quality control, large creative freedom
>you can meet your fans who smell good and are sweet
>girls are cute office women who don't care about videogames and want a cushy job at big companies, also 90s fashion
Videogames now
>you need dozens of people to make shitty 3D models on unreasonable deadlines, you work seven days a week while having to discard the gameplay engine as the suits only care about making something that looks good, if the backlash makes the IP die, they have dozens left in the closet as neckbeard gamers will thank them for bringing back their waifu of then
>your PR manager thinks you have to please /v/ for some reason, he also wants the lootboxes in to lure the whales
>you get constant hatemail and tweet death threats from locked-in basement dwellers and your manager screams at you for not responding to this important tweet from Checked Account and thus spreading "exclusion" drama
>girls are gamur girls who live the Alternative LifeStyle™ with rainbow hair and are assholes even when they're competent, there's also the whiny incel guy and they work together to ruin the workflow every fucking day
>you have to go to E3 and wear the most retarded Proud G4m3r™ shirts in existence to get in touch with your live "fans", who are journalists
>even after resigning and working at McDonalds to get the stress-free life, you are constantly harassed by crazy fans who accuse you of ruining their childhood hedgehog hero while your name is cursed on the Internet and blacklisted by companies as a PR result

>>5920209
>A lot of them I don't think even viewed it as a career, just a job to pay the bills for a short time.
Along with that comes a more varied set of influences and tastes. Its when fans become developers that the product becomes more homogeneous. See American comic books.

And let's not forget the crazy / comfy offices.

>>5918221
When I saw it on the building the jingle played in my head.

>>5912715

Spoiler: making games was always hard work and downright self-abusive grind by groups of skilled professionals. Stop romanticizing bygone eras that never were what you retro-actively project onto them.

>>5927439
True. Except there was a garage-band punk vibe to it like how the monster models on Blood were articulated power rangers dolls.

>>5927456
>power rangers dolls
No, these were custom-made silicone/cloth puppets on stop-motion armatures

>>5912715
>Those books
Were they going to make a pinball game? Their pinball division was in Chicago so I'm assuming it was a digital rendition for the Genesis or arcade.

>>5927456
Garage band mentality until the CEO or publisher tears you a new one because you waste time (and money) with your laid back attitude. Happened to me unfortunately (not in game development but at a job in VFX).

>>5927465
No idea. Sorry.

>>5927439
Also you work with pseudonyms because fuck you you're a tool dear salaryman
This is why Yuji Naka is a hero

>>5911916
50% Bill Gates, 50% rooftop Korean

>>5911918
Yuji naka, what a chain smoker

>>5917393
He's cute, no homo

>>5924085
>What happened, /vr/?

Just got older. It'll happen to you too, but you never got to make OutRun.

>>5911915
Yes, this is why the job of video game tester is actually shit

>>5927484
Don't think Doom and Blood even had publishers though? Even then marketers and test groups had a much looser grip on the developers at the time, the earthworm jim guys for one stated in interviews they were free to do whatever the fuck they wanted.

Konami workers during the development of Gradius 2. Also, some sketches and concept art.

It's curious how some workers wear green uniforms with the Konami logo plastered there. They look like doctors.

Rare Gamadelic ad. Pretty funky colors they wore.

Final Fight motion capture.

Wheres all the pvms? /vr/ told me retro games were made on pvms, not pc monitors

>>5928835
Doctors of entertainment

>>5915830
>>5915923
I get it, I really do, but what's stopping future you in 2035-ish who'll think the exact same of the now?
it's a neverending conveyor belt, so try not to judge the present too harshly; you could very well regret not enjoying it later on

>>5928856
But 2035 is 16 years from now, and 16 years ago was 2003. The conveyor belt is running faster than you think.

>>5924573
I think they're called tables

Kind of unrelated but this thread is why I love watching 90's tokusatsu like super sentai. 90's japan looked so cozy and charming. I think i'm going to start Megaranger now since they had a 90's tech and videogame theme.

>>5928254
That's a rare situation. Making games isn't partying and fooling around.

>>5929032
It's true. Still, It seems that sometimes quite a few cool things happened, especially in Japan. For instance, this video of japanese comedians going to Capcom to create a new character (Norimaro) for a fighting game. There seems to bee a lot of videos of similar weird things happening at japanese game companies. Here are the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qltug4n5wFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyxSixalVVk

Yo can see the different energy of that colorful Capcom compared to the recent making of videos with a lot of balck computers and a more boring atmosphere.

>>5929110
>being this naive
>what are PR/staged events

>>5929126
>>what are PR/staged events
And who cares? It's still a cool thing to do. And If I worked there in those years, I'd prefer to have some stupid or crazy things happen sometimes.

>>5929126
One of the crew on SF2 showed up to his interview in pyjamas and got the job.

>>5929164
Yet people call the police on my ass when I do the same. Not fair.

>>5927439
Surface level highschool tier take if that’s all you got out of this. Yes, it always has been hard work, but the ambience and lack of politics in the workplace has drastically changed for the worse. There is also a lack of artistic integrity given how corporate suits and their underlings have gentrified the industry to their liking.

SNK artist creating graphics for Mutation Nation in 1992.

Another SNk artists around 1992-1993.

Fighting Golf! A golf tournament between game companies that was won by SNK workers in 1995.

>>5929303
Copic markers are this old? I thought it's just a hipster fad

Van Damme with Capcom's president.

>>5929310
Copic has been an industry standard for decades in Japan, especially for color pages in manga.

>>5929310
Could be. I believe Akira Toriyama used those around that time, or even before.

>>5929310
Dumbass

Namco developing an HD version of World Stadium in 1988. Unfortunately, It was not released, as far as we know.

Sega developers testing a Super Hang-On prototype in 1987.

>you will never be a salaryman
>you will never consider suicide riding the train home black out drunk
>you will never break up with your girlfriend because she wants to get married and have kids in the lost decade
>you will never grab sushi with the boys after finishing a cool audio track
>you will never do pixel animation on beige hardware on a rainy friday evening
>you will never ship a game and watch children play it with delight wondering if your last paycheck will clear

why live?

>>5930925
That's onions, actual salaryman smoke like a chimney, gambles all his money away on pachinko parlors and visit soaplands on a daily basis all while maintaining a loving stay at home wife.

The recording sessions of Street Fighter III: Third Strike hip hop tunes.

>>5915923
These are staged shots. We only ever hear how these games were made by the project leads and dudes so sucked enough dick to stay on until the 2000s. The real reason why no one else talks about the 80s dev scene is because they were worked to the fucking bone and treated like shit. The bubble economy had either not started or had just burst in some of these pictures, too.

>>5931095
Cope harder you indie dev nigger.

>>5928835
This is so fantastic. Imagine having suki-suki cute female designer's asshole while she's wearing shimapantsu. Japanese companies during 80/90 were pure heaven.

>crunch time, as always
>working on latest and top secret shmup
>your boss forces the team to down countless sake shots
>need to attend karaoke because losing face is not an option
>passing out on train floor while trying to get back home at 5am
>no time to change clothes need to go back to office in puke stained suit

>>5911886
>friggin Power Mac

>>5931056
Real niggers ruining a good game.

Rap doesn't fit SF. The only Street Fighter game about street fighters was the very first one.

>>5931981
This

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

Golden. I'll crop and upload a few photos but you have to check out the entire webpage for yourself.

>>5932027
>>5911886

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

>>5932027

>>5929329
this would be so fucking cool

>>5932035
http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

>>5932027
http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

>>5932043

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

>>5932047
http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

Holy fuck

>>5932053
chris covell does so much cool shit

Mini pictures of Nintendo in 2013.

>>5932364
Ooops, not retro, now that I see it.
Anyway, more pics of early Treasure. And a picture of Maegawa with some Dynamite Headdy toys.

Working on Secret of Evermore graphics. I suppose that would be Square USA.

>>5932420
I use that keyboard at work

>>5932394
So much fucking soul in one picture.
Can anyone identify the other guys there besides Maegawa?

>>5912715
i didnt know herman li worked for sega

>>5932565
I believe the guy with the light brown jacket it's Hiroshi Iuchi. It looks a bit like him.

More old Sega Technical Insitute. Apparently, working on Die Hard Arcade.

Capcom in 1997 developing Stret Fighter III.

Yu Suzuky's showing his amazing office around 1995.

>>5933662
>clock of death constantly looming over your head reminding you of the crunching deadline and lack of sleep day in and day out.
Sounds like hell. No wonder the sonic xtreme dev almost died.

>>5933676
I once owned that same Testarossa diecast. Kind of regret giving it away.

>>5933684
I dont see a testarossa anywhere

>>5920471
Sonic-chu's dad?

>>5915847
I certainly prefer it. If it's white it's right.

>>5920201
/OURGUY/

>>5915847
Report for your public flailing

>>5933662
That binder has some wacky Memphis style going on. I guess the JP artwork for the Sonic games was like that too.

The NBA Jam development bros.

>>5937061
absolute chads

>>5933748
Bottom pic second from the right just behind the black one. A company called Burago makes them, really nice quality.

>>5937693
That's a Diablo. Lamborghini.

>>5937709
My bad then. Looked like a Testarossa to me. I still think filling an office space with mini cars is neat.

>>5928835
They look like Konami-branded Arino Kachous.
Man, being a game dev during that period must have been incredible. Even in the usually souless Japanese corporate environment you can tell they were having a great time.
I hate how the era of doing a big mainstream game with a core team of three people total is gone forever. Doing all nighters close to release at the time means something completely different than today's AAA crunch time.

>>5928130
>It'll happen to you too, but you never got to make OutRun.

>>5928932
>2003 was 16 years ago
anon stop I dont need to be reminded of the constant lurching of time

>>5929168
stop sleeping naked then

Don't you 404 on me damn it

>>5935542
I want that wall pattern for my shower

>>5931056
cooooooool!

>>5924573
3D design tablet, I used to have one similar to this one for win 95/98, used it to make CGI music videos back in the days

>>5915847
seethe more, libtard