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16 Bit Sensation

Just wanted to recommend this manga. It's about PC game development in Japan in the 90's (starting in 92), dramatised fiction but loosely based on the personal experiences of Mitsumi Misato and Amazuyu Tatsuki. There are also essays about how things were back then in between chapters. Very interesting.

Also some retard on /v/ was claiming a month or two ago that back then they could totally just scan pictures into computers and use Photoshop to convert them to pixel art. According to this what Japanese artists did back then was draw the line art on clear plastic sheets, tape them to the monitors, and then draw the pixel art below. So fuck that guy.

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>>6963136
>There are also essays about how things were back then in between chapters
For example here's one about the influence Evangelion had.

It's really more of those "learn about X through manga" things than an actual manga, but all the more interesting thanks to it.

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>>6963143
Essay about the influence Doukyuusei 2 had on the industry

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>>6963145
Desire

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Pixel art

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Breakdown of genres of Japanese games released for PC

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Distribution chain

Some of the stuff in this is things that everyone already knows (stuff about Doukyuusei or Evangelion) but there's also a lot of topics that nobody talks about anymore like how Gainax used to be a major player and pioneer in PC games before Evangelion happened, how some computer hardware stores in Japan just made their own low budget game development studios, pre-2channel internet forums, that kind of thing.

>> No.6963348

Thanks for the recommendation anon, looks really interesting. I've been watching Hi-Score Girl, it's kinda okay besides the meh animation

>> No.6963360

>>6963145
I loved Doukyuusei but didn't really enjoy Doukyuusei 2 all that much
The player-character's motivation and behavior didn't make as much sense as the first game, and the system that had been fun exploration in the first game got turned into tedious trial-and-error in the second game
Also the girls were less connected with each other and more just a collection of individual stories, so the feel of participating in a large interwoven set of events was weaker
But it seems like I'm the only one who feels this way

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>>6963348
Hi-Score Girl's manga is great. I'm waiting on the tankoubon release to start reading the sequel

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Read Isekai Ojisan

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>>6963994

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>>6963998
I never cleared Alien Soldier or Gunstar Heroes.

>> No.6964045

>>6963994
Is that a game gear micro?

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>>6964045
Yes, they did a collaboration with sega for the mega drive mini too

>> No.6964158

>>6963994
This
I love this fucking ugly orc (no homo)

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>>6963348
I didn't watch the anime by the Hi-Score Girl manga was cool as shit

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Obligatory.

>> No.6964604

devil hunter yohko
not exactly about games but she's got a game gear, lynx, pc engine duo r and a mega drive

>> No.6965138

Bump

>> No.6966274

>>6963136
Got a link?
It doesn't seem to be on nyaa or sadpanda.

>> No.6967961

>>6964590
anime is so

>> No.6968847

>>6964590
what a cunt

>> No.6969725

>>6963136
Thanks for this anon, I'm getting pretty far into the core anki deck now so I've been looking for something harder to read, I doubt I'll get too far at the moment but this seems perfect

>> No.6971326

>>6966274
nvm just noticed I was being retarded yesterday and forgot to tag non-h.

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I highly recommend Genshiken — both the anime and the manga.

It's about a University club named "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture." One of the people in the club likes video games, particularly fighting games like Guilty Gear.

Another member of the club is really into cosplaying, and you can see her cosplaying Jam Kuradoberi from Guilty Gear in this picture.

It's a 10/10 anime and a 10/10 manga. Just don't read or watch Genshiken Nidaime because they got rid of all the characters and introduced a fucking degenerate faggot tranny.

>> No.6971789

>>6971386
makes sense that the only person who would love a loser nerd like madarame is a crazy tranny

>> No.6972223

>>6964604
a lynx? no way

>> No.6972248

>>6963994
this was a good rec

>> No.6972815

>>6972248
isekai ojisan is great

>> No.6972836

>>6963136
Wakaki's trash doujinshi.How far he has fallen.Just trying to be a npc japanese slice of life hack writer and still being shitter than them.

Wakaki Tamiki is a rabid dog that needs to be put down.If he wishes to die on the hill of keima and chihiro,he ought to quit.

Fuck him for twgok/kaminomi's shit ending and refusing to go quietly.

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>>6972836

>> No.6973553

>>6972836
Are you alright anon? Do you need help? You seem to be having some kind of seizure.

>> No.6973737

>>6971386
I can't get over how fucking different ohno is in the reboot, combined with her VA she's practically a different character

>> No.6974264

>>6963994
Decided to read all of this last night instead of going to sleep, real enjoyable read, thanks anon.

>> No.6974576

>>6973737
To tell you the truth anon, I didn't even bother with the reboot. Looked like shit.

>> No.6974690

>>6974264
Now read Hi Score Girl

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>>6963136
>they could totally just scan pictures into computers and use Photoshop to convert them to pixel art
That's what you can accomplish with modern tools which is an argument against the supposed effort required for modern pixel art and against how indie devs cry out how hard it is.
Without tools like that, it's no surprise Japanese artists did the analog effort to draw line art and tape on monitors before drawing in their preferred tools available at the time. There was specialized machines though, like Sega's Digitizer machines if you worked for a big enough company that produced video games at a large enough scale.

https://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/149092824100/the-sega-digitizer-system-a-tool-used-by-graphic

>> No.6977435

>>6972836
lmao