THE VERY FIRST APPEARANCES

[Anonymous No.3927116]

Post the very first known appearance of some games. Screenshots, videos, even mentions.

I'll start Zelda 64 techdemo, before Ocarina of Time development actually started. I wish I could get a better look at Link, so I could model it on 3ds max.
https://youtu.be/oav_0MiyJpA

Accordingly to interviews in The Legend of Zelda - Art & Artifacts, the initial art for the Zelda 64 project was supplied by the same anime studios responsible for the art of the previous games. I believe that's why the very first 3D Link was so close to Zelda 1 and 2 Links.

[Anonymous No.3927159]

>>3927116
He was right handed?

[Anonymous No.3927226]

Resident Evil 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CVafGGExU

[Anonymous No.3927238]

>>3927116
Nah, the stuff they outsorced to animation studios in the first 4 games was mostly promotional/packaging artwork and illustrations, created *after* the in-game visual style was already in place, not first stages concept art or anything (though they did ask for test pieces when they were beginning work on OoT before they decided to keep everything in-house)

I assume Link looked like earlier Links in those demos because... that's how Link used to look? It was not like today; a striking new visual look to get people's attention was not a priority, as the exhausting pre-release hype information drip was still not an industry standard practice. Radically changing link into a bishonen was a pretty big leap, and it took a person who knew he wouldn't lose his job to take it.

[Anonymous No.3927245]

https://youtu.be/ys723F9wiwU

[Anonymous No.3927564]

>>3927238
"Homever, when we started work on Ocarina of Time, the workflow we'd been using prior to this was also still in place, so we outsourced the art to the usual animation studio"

[Anonymous No.3927575]

Pokémon Gold & Silver, then Pocket Monsters 2: Gold & Silver.

[Anonymous No.3927585]

>>3927575

[Anonymous No.3927586]

>>3927585

[Anonymous No.3927662]

>>3927586
neat, looks like that's before it was colorized

[Anonymous No.3928137]

>>3927662
Yeah, the game was almost completly remade after the Game Boy Color announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4de7uwhoOyY
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver_beta

[Anonymous No.3928143]

The earliest known sketches for Pokemon, back when Sajiri was still calling it Capsule Monsters.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Capsule_Monsters#Artwork

[Anonymous No.3928146]

>>3928143
The iconic layout for Kanto, plotted years before the games were programmed.

[Anonymous No.3928203]

>>3928146
>The iconic layout for Kanto
Ah yes, the iconic cycling bridge known for going straight through the safari zone.

[Anonymous No.3928219]

>>3928146
Similar layout, not iconic layout

[Anonymous No.3928225]

>>3928143
But this was revealed many years after Pokemon first appearance. Actually, does anyone know when and were Pokemon was first announced?

[Anonymous No.3928237]

The very first images of MGS from an early 1997 issue of Famitsu.

[Anonymous No.3928239]

>>3928237
And here's an interview Kojima-kantoku himself.

[Anonymous No.3928241]

>>3928239
This seems to be Part 1 of a two-part interview, but the uploader only had this issue.

[Anonymous No.3928263]

>>3928143
>1990
I always thought this game drew inspiration from DQV.

[Anonymous No.3928271]

Not so much a first appearance but the roots of Final Fantasy 7 began as a SGI tech demo with FF6 characters