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Making charts and graphs of video game data, and archiving video game history. https://spritecell.com/

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Nov 10

I've added the latest Nintendo investor Q&A to the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive.
What's the Shigeru Miyamoto Archive? It's a collection of every interview, speech, and piece of writing by Shigeru Miyamoto that I can possibly find, with over 700 entries in English.
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The Shigeru Miyamoto Archive, SpriteCell

The Shigeru Miyamoto Archive is an archive of interviews, appearances, writings, and other recordings of Shigeru Miyamoto, all summarized.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 2d

Famitsu: www.famitsu.com/article/2024...
Denfaminicogamer: web.archive.org/web/20241002...
IGN: www.ign.com/articles/shi...

ニンテンドーミュージアム、宮本茂氏インタビュー。ミュージアムは新入社員やお客さんに「任天堂とは？」を説明するものも兼ねている | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

ニンテンドーミュージアムの報道関係者向け内覧会に合わせて行われた、任天堂代表取締役フェローの宮本茂氏のグループインタビューをお届けする。宮本茂氏がニミュージアムで実現したかったもの、そして伝えたかったものは。

www.famitsu.com

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 2d

Alright, the quote in the article is actually from an October 2024 interview, the "Hiroshi Yamauchi wouldn't want us to do the Nintendo Museum" one. From machine translation it sounds more like he is lamenting that software is more mutable than video, new versions replace old ones.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 2d

I can't find any full Japanese version of that Miyamoto interview. Kyodo News is a news agency that sells stories to outlets so it may appear somewhere soon.

I did learn that he'll be giving a lecture titled "Original!?" on January 24, though.
www.kyoto-np.co.jp/articles/-/1...

京都府南丹市で「スーパーマリオ」生みの親、宮本茂さん講演会　10月に先着順で申し込み｜京都新聞デジタル　京都・滋賀のニュースサイト

「スーパーマリオブラザーズ」生みの親として知られる任天堂の宮本茂代表取締役フェローが２０２６年１月２４日、出身地である京都府南丹市園部町のアスエルそのべで講演する。「独創！？」と題して、数々の人気ゲームをつくり出した経験などを語る。高校生以上の市民と市内通学者が入場でき、１０月１日から先着順で申し込

www.kyoto-np.co.jp

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 8d

Is there any video game series with a larger gap between games than Getsu Fūma Den (1987) and Getsu Fūma Den: Undying Moon (2022)?

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 11d

The outlet that has published the 9th most video game reviews, according to MobyGame's list of reviews, as of a year ago.
I see their twitter account has lost over 35,000 followers in the last year, too.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 12d

How did Gigadrake Online not become wildly popular?

Flyer for Gigadrake Online, a Konami arcade game from 2006.
Source: https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/5212

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 13d

The only picture I could find of a game (Gradius, PC Engine) running on i-revo, Konami's Japan-only web portal service that among other things allowed you to rent and buy some retro games.
Some sources describe i-revo games as being embedded in webpages, but this seems to be its own program.

Turbografx-16 version of Gradius on i-revo. Source: https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20060314/irevo.htm

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 16d

I'm glad he's crediting the magazines. Thank you for looking into it, you don't need to worry about looking for anything else.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 16d

I am pretty curious, if it's not much trouble.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, that SpriteCell is me. I don't host sprite art on my website.
He must have either read some reviews from my JRPG magazine review archive (which should be credited to the magazines), or used something from my big JRPG study and credited the whole site instead of that page.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 17d

Piranesi: The Video Game

Screenshot from a video game featuring a statue and running water.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 18d

I had never seen the arcade version of Bucky O'Hare, wow.

A very colorful screenshot of Bucky O'Hare for the arcade. From MobyGames.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 19d

Spears and javelins have some really cool skills in Diablo 2. Lightning Fury splits into several lightning bolts when you hit an enemy, and there's a passive that allows thrown javelins to keep traveling after hitting an enemy so it can shred through dense groups.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 19d

There's a website documenting moai heads in video games.
Apparently Pandora's Palace was Konami's first use of them, not Gradius.
moai.games

Moai in Video Games

🗿 + 🎮 = 😎

moai.games

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Chinese Nintendo @chinesenintendo.bsky.social · 20d

Kamek no longer tells Mario to "go to hell" in the Simplified Chinese script of the Switch version of Super Mario Galaxy 1+2.

The Switch translation is more literal to the Japanese script, where Kamek tells Mario to roll on the ground instead.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 21d

You can only get Mimic with Cheese in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince as part of a promotion with McDonald's in Japan, and it ended over a year ago, what a bummer.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 22d

Months after playing The Caligula Effect 2 I'm still thinking about this car (the only car in the game) that doesn't fit in this too-shallow, too-wide garage whose door, if visible, would be angled, and which requires the driver to drive over a curb.

A white car in a very odd garage in The Caligula Effect 2.

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · 24d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8g...

Konami Holiday Runway

YouTube video by Konami Gaming, Inc.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 19

Even this far into the project I'm finding new Konami games.
Like Etiquette Teddy, a Tamagotchi-like handheld game that checked how your breath smelled and a bear would become depressed if your breath smelled bad.

Google translated back of Etiquette Teddy box.
From https://www.etsy.com/listing/1808877182/rare-bear-virtual-pet-konami-etiquette

Untranslated back of Etiquette Teddy box.
From https://www.etsy.com/listing/1808877182/rare-bear-virtual-pet-konami-etiquette

Untranslated front of Etiquette Teddy box.
From https://www.etsy.com/listing/1808877182/rare-bear-virtual-pet-konami-etiquette

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 18

It wasn't available for long, seemingly replaced by a Momotaro Dentetsu game. I can't find anywhere that it was preserved, but it seems like we have the sprites, at least.

Bomberpino sprites.
From https://bomberman.fandom.com/wiki/BomberPino?file=BomberPino_-_Bomberman_Sprites.png

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 18

Bomberpino was a Bomberman game that was available by scanning a QR code in special boxes of Pino chocolates in 2023.
Many sources describe this is a "mobile phone" game. You were given an error message if you tried to access it outside of a phone or tablet, but it seemed to run on a webpage.

A cardboard container holding 6 chocolates that has been opened. Bomberpino is being advertised on the top flap, with a QR code for people to scan if they want to play it.
Screenshot is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuIUWHwkaBQ

Bomberpino title screen, featuring Bombermen with truncated cone heads that are presumably pino chocolates.

Screenshot of the Bomberpino game. It looks like your typical 2D bomberman game.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Oh yeah, all good to know, thanks!

SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 11

@foxhack.bsky.social Hey, I saw on tcrf.net/Dance_Dance_... that the PC game was exclusive to some store, and then I saw that you added that in 2012. Do you happen to remember what store that was? I can't find any info about that anywhere else.

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Games named "Dance Dance Revolution":
1998 - Arcade original
1999 - PS1
2001 - i-appli (maybe has subtitle?)
2002 - PC, US only
2006 - Mobile Phone
2010 - Wii
2010 - PS3/Xbox 360, apparently different from the Wii version
2013 - Another arcade game
2014 - Updated version of the 2013 game

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SpriteCell @spritecell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch and Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch - Pichi Pichi Party are two distinct Game Boy Advance games that came out the later part of 2003. One a rhythm game, one a Mario Party type board game.

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch box art

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch - Pichi Pichi Party box art, obviously