In Japan, there is this old educational kids book called: "The Stars of Famicom Games: Game Software Production and Distribution". In it, they go on a tour of Nintendo and explain how games are made.
In this book, there are development pictures of Super Mario Bros. 3, dated from July 1989.
Look at scans and a translation of the book here:
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chri ... puter.html
Some of the more interesting pictures:
(Tezuka doing graphics work. A close-up of this picture reveals "Graphics editing was performed on a Fujitsu FM R-50 HD (modest spec.) business computer.")
(A close-up of the above picture. Part of the chr-rom. You can see the NES palette and the sprite palettes.)
(Nakago and someone else programming the game. The writer of the article can't recognize thise computers, nor can I. Anybody know?)
There are many other interesting pictures ther too, including prototypes, manufacturing process, and even Tezuka's Mega Drive collection (lol). Note that the site has a lot of close-ups of interesting portions.
If you know anything about Nintendo, perhaps from reading the excellent Iwata Asks articles, where the President of Nintendo very candidly interviews those who've made games (History of Mario and Zelda and Game and Watch ones were especially good), you may recognize some of the people here. They're all a lot younger looking.
I have to close by saying that I don't post here a lot, but I love reading the site, so pardon my intrusion.
In this book, there are development pictures of Super Mario Bros. 3, dated from July 1989.
Look at scans and a translation of the book here:
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chri ... puter.html
Some of the more interesting pictures:
(Tezuka doing graphics work. A close-up of this picture reveals "Graphics editing was performed on a Fujitsu FM R-50 HD (modest spec.) business computer.")
(A close-up of the above picture. Part of the chr-rom. You can see the NES palette and the sprite palettes.)
(Nakago and someone else programming the game. The writer of the article can't recognize thise computers, nor can I. Anybody know?)
There are many other interesting pictures ther too, including prototypes, manufacturing process, and even Tezuka's Mega Drive collection (lol). Note that the site has a lot of close-ups of interesting portions.
If you know anything about Nintendo, perhaps from reading the excellent Iwata Asks articles, where the President of Nintendo very candidly interviews those who've made games (History of Mario and Zelda and Game and Watch ones were especially good), you may recognize some of the people here. They're all a lot younger looking.
I have to close by saying that I don't post here a lot, but I love reading the site, so pardon my intrusion.