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Kenji Kaido: "MTJ, ONIJUST & FUJITA wrote extremely detailed ~300pp spec docs, w/ chara&enemy movement speeds notated in pixels per frame; the programmers could simply work to spec w/ minimal trial & error & in the meantime, those guys would draw dot art or work on other games"🇯🇵
all those people (including Kenji Kaido) were Taito arcade devs

MTJ: the late Fukio Mitsuji, designer of Bubble Bobble & Rainbow Islands

ONIJUST: Hiroshi Tsujino, designer of Fairyland Story, Arkanoid, Ninja Warriors & Cadash

FUJITA: Akira Fujita, designer of Arkanoid & Darius
as it happens, Onijust & Fujita were high-school buddies who joined Taito together—before that, they ran one of Japan's very earliest game zines, which they funded in part by hustling game design contests
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holy shit at most of this but especially Gimmick Land—this was an early game by AlphaDream (Mario & Luigi RPG devs) that they initially planned to publish independently, but Nintendo took an interest and had them rework it for GBA into the Japan-only game Tomato Adventure
also cool: Sutte Hakkun GBA! the original Sutte Hakkun game/s were the first works by indieszero (Retro Game Challenge, NES Remix, Theatrhythm) & based on a FCDS prototype made as part of Nintendo Game Seminar
(I say "game/s" because it was an episodic/level-pack game with a bunch of different versions that overlap to some degree, across Satellaview, Nintendo Power & genuine cartridge release)
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the next Tengo Project game has been revealed via Famitsu scoop: Kikikaikai: Kuro Mantle no Nazo, a sequel (not a remake!) of the first Pocky & Rocky SNES game ryokutya2089.com/archives/35779🇯🇵 one cute detail, the subtitle is an inversion of the SFC game's subtitle, Nazo no Kuro Mantle
oh and btw, I'm pretty sure the name "Pocky & Rocky" is owned by Natsume USA, a la Harvest Moon, so if and when this comes overseas, it'll probably retain the Kikikaikai title
...and here are a few screenshots! the article makes reference to the series's overseas popularity, which is maybe a little misleading but whatever
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should TTC to go back to restricting Tetris to 1 licensee at a time? no

do I feel players should simply migrate to the newest game instead of playing any & all alternatives? ofc not

is TTC's conduct in direct contradiction of their stated aims wrt enforcing guideline? no doubt
like, wasn't the idea behind guideline to unify players as a stepping stone to pro competition (or the friggin olympics, or whatever)? but TTC does & will not do anything to foster a competitive scene, the players can only do so much on their own & the licensees can't justify (>)
…doing anything themselves because it won't pay off in the short-term & will inevitably be killed in the long-term because they don't own the game & can't really profit from it peripherally

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