April 30 1998, Bomberman Hero debuted on the N64 in Japan!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
April 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
April 30 1998, Bomberman Hero debuted on the N64 in Japan!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
Do you like to research video game history?
Well, than I have a site for you:
GDRI, the Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
Well, than I have a site for you:
GDRI, the Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Do you like to research video game history?
Well, than I have a site for you:
GDRI, the Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
Well, than I have a site for you:
GDRI, the Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
April 30 1998, Bomberman Hero debuted on the N64 in Japan!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
April 30, 2026 at 1:13 PM
April 30 1998, Bomberman Hero debuted on the N64 in Japan!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
In a GDRI interview, we learned from Super Bonk director Shoichi Yoshikawa that Hero started development as Ultra Genjin, a 3D version of Bonk/PC Genjin!
This partially explains the games more linear design and lack of multiplayer!
After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵
Some of the articles have notes. The most interesting: The article on Log, from February 1990, mentions they developed a golf game for Game Boy released in 1989. 100,000 copies sold. That's gotta be Nintendo's Golf, right? Log was the originator of the eroge brand Hard and made some shogi games.
July 26, 2026 at 8:52 AM
New on GDRI: Something Good gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
Something Good - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute
gdri.smspower.org
August 30, 2026 at 8:48 AM
New on GDRI: Something Good gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
You can now also find PS2 manuals on this site.
psinstructionmanual.com/ps2/
If you are looking for manuals for other consoles, you can find them on this other site (in addition to those scanned by the @gamingalexandria.bsky.social team):
gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com
bsky.app/profile/gdri...
psinstructionmanual.com/ps2/
If you are looking for manuals for other consoles, you can find them on this other site (in addition to those scanned by the @gamingalexandria.bsky.social team):
gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com
bsky.app/profile/gdri...
Japanese PS1 manuals psinstructionmanual.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
You can now also find PS2 manuals on this site.
psinstructionmanual.com/ps2/
If you are looking for manuals for other consoles, you can find them on this other site (in addition to those scanned by the @gamingalexandria.bsky.social team):
gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com
bsky.app/profile/gdri...
psinstructionmanual.com/ps2/
If you are looking for manuals for other consoles, you can find them on this other site (in addition to those scanned by the @gamingalexandria.bsky.social team):
gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com
bsky.app/profile/gdri...
Lot of stuff in the Volk papers, but about the only thing relevant to GDRI is this Japan trip report by Tom Sloper. archive.gamehistory.org/item/84f550c...
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Lot of stuff in the Volk papers, but about the only thing relevant to GDRI is this Japan trip report by Tom Sloper. archive.gamehistory.org/item/84f550c...
#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵
As usual, the GDRI steps up to make the story behind a game clear and, in this case, hilariously ironic. Knowing that the "tax expert" whose creative involvement the game touts so cheerfully was suspended by the SEC would be like learning that Wall Street Kid was designed by Michael Milken
Tax Avoiders requires someone with legal resources and knowledge of tax law because there's a whole story there. bsky.app/profile/jpar...
If you watch only ONE video today... I admire your sense of restraint. Well done.
But if you watch a BUNCH of video today, please make one of them this new episode of NES Works Gaiden, which explores perhaps the most impressive official Atari 2600 creation ever, Solaris. youtu.be/MlRSj4_ViB0
But if you watch a BUNCH of video today, please make one of them this new episode of NES Works Gaiden, which explores perhaps the most impressive official Atari 2600 creation ever, Solaris. youtu.be/MlRSj4_ViB0
January 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
As usual, the GDRI steps up to make the story behind a game clear and, in this case, hilariously ironic. Knowing that the "tax expert" whose creative involvement the game touts so cheerfully was suspended by the SEC would be like learning that Wall Street Kid was designed by Michael Milken
More traction for the Islam - GDRI saga. Monash claiming that he “holds no official position with GDRI and has not received any personal or material benefit from GDRI since its inception in 2010”. Hmmmh.
www.theaustralian.com.au/education/mo...
www.theaustralian.com.au/education/mo...
www.theaustralian.com.au
April 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
More traction for the Islam - GDRI saga. Monash claiming that he “holds no official position with GDRI and has not received any personal or material benefit from GDRI since its inception in 2010”. Hmmmh.
www.theaustralian.com.au/education/mo...
www.theaustralian.com.au/education/mo...
Now available bsky.app/profile/gdri...
Hiroaki Hontani (FDS/NES Volleyball) will be talking with Mindware's Mikito Ichikawa on July 21. www.youtube.com/live/jM4Aysi...
ファミコン版バレーボール、原作者本谷浩明氏出演！
YouTube video by Micky Albert
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Now available bsky.app/profile/gdri...
bsky.app/profile/gdri... Eis is nog geen veroordeling, maar toch...
'Taakstraf geëist tegen BBB’er vanwege vermeend gesjoemel met viskotter' fd.nl/politiek/157...
Taakstraf geëist tegen BBB’er vanwege vermeend gesjoemel met viskotter
Het Openbaar Ministerie verdenkt de voorzitter van de BBB in de provincie Flevoland van valsheid in geschrift en het niet naleven van milieuwetten. De zaak draait om een kotter van haar visbedrijf.
fd.nl
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
bsky.app/profile/gdri... Eis is nog geen veroordeling, maar toch...
Welcome Benny to GDRI. Information on him will be coming soon. He is a sweetheart and a great shotgun rider.
Greatdanerescueinc.com
#dogs
Greatdanerescueinc.com
#dogs
January 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Welcome Benny to GDRI. Information on him will be coming soon. He is a sweetheart and a great shotgun rider.
Greatdanerescueinc.com
#dogs
Greatdanerescueinc.com
#dogs
According to Kiyoshi Utata, the Mega-CD version of Nostalgia 1907 was outsourced.
(Sometimes I make posts that are essentially or even solely intended for GDRI)
xcancel.com/kurofunepai/...
(Sometimes I make posts that are essentially or even solely intended for GDRI)
xcancel.com/kurofunepai/...
February 28, 2026 at 7:29 AM
According to Kiyoshi Utata, the Mega-CD version of Nostalgia 1907 was outsourced.
(Sometimes I make posts that are essentially or even solely intended for GDRI)
xcancel.com/kurofunepai/...
(Sometimes I make posts that are essentially or even solely intended for GDRI)
xcancel.com/kurofunepai/...
According to Akira Sakuma, the development of the arcade game BurgerTime was outsourced to a company based in Akihabara (which is still in business). GDRI reports that a SAS programmer - Ken Obara - worked on it (as did Sakuma, who was still a student and later joined Data East).
1/3
1/3
January 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
According to Akira Sakuma, the development of the arcade game BurgerTime was outsourced to a company based in Akihabara (which is still in business). GDRI reports that a SAS programmer - Ken Obara - worked on it (as did Sakuma, who was still a student and later joined Data East).
1/3
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you'll never believe this, but "discover that the staff of diehard gamefan worked on an FMV game" actually *was* on my 2024 bingo card cohost.org/gdri/post/46...
GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute on cohost
I've been waiting a long time for the credits from the LaserActive version of Road Blaster (known in the US as Road Prosecutor) to show up online. 24 hours after finding them, I'm still baffled.
That...
cohost.org
February 24, 2024 at 2:12 AM
you'll never believe this, but "discover that the staff of diehard gamefan worked on an FMV game" actually *was* on my 2024 bingo card cohost.org/gdri/post/46...
Hudson once announced a port of this obscure Sega/Exa Planning arcade game to the Famicom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5L9...
Game of the day 1057 Pythagoras no Nazo - Riddle of Pythagoras (ピタゴラスの謎) Sega 1986
YouTube video by Ivan Paduano
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
(On a sidenote, George Foreman's KO Boxing for the Master System is partly responsible for GDRI.)
March 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
(On a sidenote, George Foreman's KO Boxing for the Master System is partly responsible for GDRI.)
my favourite tidbit about nintendo canada is that they once opened a pizza place on burnaby mountain. what? yes really x.com/gdri/status/...
x.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
my favourite tidbit about nintendo canada is that they once opened a pizza place on burnaby mountain. what? yes really x.com/gdri/status/...