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Independent games researcher, Ethan Johnson. Preserving gaming history!

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In 1989, Naoto Ohshima and Kotaro Hayashida began working on what would become Sonic the Hedgehog. Here is their story.
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Screenshot from a development version of Sonic 1, showing an early version of Labyrinth Zone.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Sadly, Death Race is still unavailable to play in MAME because many '70s games had logic that wasn't programmed into a ROM and thus requires extra work to bring back to life.
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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The working conditions at Sega and in the video game industry in Japan, from 1980 to ~nowadays (with sections on Capcom, SNK, Nintendo, etc.).
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Screenshot from the 1984 movie Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer, showing a broken clock with no hands.
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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It has a page on the publisher's (McFarland) site.

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Sega Goes Handheld - McFarland
Sega Goes Handheld A History of the Game Gear and Its Games Ken Horowitz 978-1-4766-9771-0 978-1-4766-5637-3
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I don't think that plane is operating within safety limits.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM