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Galaga - 30th Anniversary Developer Interview

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This interview with Galaga creator and design Shigeru Yokoyama offers a unique loo...

Tsuneki Ikeda – 2004 Developer Interview

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There are many interviews at shmuplations with Tsuneki Ikeda, leading man at Cave, b...

Gunpei Yokoi x Yukihito Morikawa - 1997 Developer Interview

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This interview with legendary Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi and Yukihito Morikawa of li...

Clover Studios and Okami – Developer Interviews

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These two interviews with Clover Studio founders Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya mainly cov...

KTL-NAL – 2008 Superplayer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/scorer8/
In this short interview, superplayer KTL-NAL talks about his experience playing Dodonpachi ...

Animal Crossing – Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/animalcrossing/

These two Dōbutsu no Mori (Animal Crossing) interviews from 2003 and 200...

Artdink Corp. – Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/artdink/

Founded in 1986 and still active today, Artdink is a Japanese pc/console developer famou...

http://shmuplations.com/scorer7/

This short but sweet interview with STG superplayer Dame KK covers his experience at th...

Shigeru Miyamoto x Yuji Naka – 2001 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/miyamotoxnaka/

This is a very special piece of gaming history: the first ever interview wi...

Crimzon Clover - 2011 Composer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/crimzoncloverost/ 

This very short Crimzon Clover interview with composer potechi ...

3DO - Console Discussion

http://shmuplations.com/3do/ 

These 3DO interviews represent a kind of time capsule, taking you back to the eve of the ...

Undercover Cops - 1993 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/undercovercops/ This Undercover Cops interview with creator Meeher (of later Metal Slug fame) a...

Koji Igarashi - Castlevania Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/kojiigarashi These three short Koji Igarashi interviews go over design details from several of his...

Bloodstained - 2015 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/bloodstained This interview with Koji Igarashi about Bloodstained first appeared in game*spark, an...

Battle Garegga - Composer Commentaries

http://shmuplations.com/gareggaost/ This composer commentary on the Battle Garegga remixes for the Saturn port was found at...

Senko no Ronde - 2010 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/senkonoronde/ This interview with G.Rev director Hiroyuki Maruyama mainly covers the origins and ...

Ys IV - 1993 Developer Interview Collection

http://shmuplations.com/ysiv/ These lengthy Ys IV interviews mainly came from an Ys IV strategy guide published in 1993. They cov...

Capcom 1991 Retrospective

http://shmuplations.com/capcom1991/ This 1991 Capcom retrospective catches the arcade all-star team of Okamoto, Nishitani, ...

Motoi Sakuraba - 2002 Composer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/motoisakuraba/ This interview with veteran composer Motoi Sakuraba of tri-Ace, Wolf Team, and Da...

Valkyrie Profile - 1999 Developer Interview

http://www.shmuplations.com/valkyrieprofile/ This Valkryie Profile interview with director Yoshiharu Gotanda cover...

Metal Slug - Developer Interviews

http://www.shmuplations.com/metalslug These three Metal Slug interviews cover the design of the first two entries in the ...

Metroid Fusion / Zero Mission - 2003 Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/metroidgba Closing out April, these two short interviews with Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission direct...

Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap – 2004 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/minishcap/ This very short Minish Cap interview with supervisor Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fu...

Cosmic Fantasy – 1992 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/cosmicfantasy/ Cosmic Fantasy is a relatively unknown series of four RPGs by Telnet released for...

Gimmick! – 2011 Composer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/gimmick/ This short Gimmick! interview with composer Masashi Kageyama was featured in the liner notes ...

Dragon Quest vs. Dragon Slayer – 1987 Developer Interview

http://shmuplations.com/kiyahorii/ Yuji Horii and Yoshio Kiya were two of the giants of the Japanese RPG world in the 80s. T...

Ace Attorney: Justice for All - 2002 Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/justiceforall/ Long before it was re-released on the DS in the west, Ace Attorney (or Gyakuten S...

Mega Man X Development Diary

http://shmuplations.com/megamanx/ This Mega Man X developer diary is a funny look at what sounds like a very difficult develo...

After Burner II – Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/afterburner/ These two Afterburner interviews are from 1988 and 1996, but I have compiled them (by...

Blazing Star - 1998 Developer Interviews

http://shmuplations.com/blazingstar/ These two Blazing Star interviews from 1998 cover the game's stage design, characters...