"The Stars of Famicom Games" picture book

[UglyJoe]

Not sure how old this is, but I just found a link to a scan & translation of an old Japanese picture book about how Famicom games are made.  Some pretty cool photos of 80s Miyamoto and some sweet behind-the-scenes photos showing production hardware.

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

[MS-DOS4]

Very interesting!

[docmarionum1]

Miyamoto sure is stylish.

[michaelthegreat]

I like that automatic labeler. I wonder if nes/snes carts could be automatically labeled since the labels turn the corner.

[MS-DOS4]

If there are robots that can build cars on an assembly line, I bet there's one that can bend a sticker.

[skyrunner14]

I spy with my little eye... a poster for MOTHER. Great article, by the way. I'd love to own a physical copy of that book...

[JC]

That's cool. There's something different about that Famicom controller in Miyamoto's office. I remember Japan-Games finding a weird Famicom one time and he wondered if it was for development or something. I don't know if he posted it here or on Assembler.

[cubelmariomadness]

The controller sort of looks like the one in Chibi Robo Park Patrol.

[JC]

There's something different about that controller, but it's not what Japan-Games had. The Famicom itself, not the controllers, had this:

The bottom blue label reads, "Bandai Osaka Office" and the top blue label reads, "Promotion F-002-1."