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MEGA DRIVE COMPLETE GUIDE: EXPANDED AND REVISED EDITION

  • 7 days ago
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Hiroki Abe, Hidekuni Shida, Katsuhiko Harada, Kiyoshi Tane, Masahiro Yuki, Porno Suzuki, Riichiro Abe, Shotaro Miya, Shinichi Yamoto, Sony Ibaraki





The magazine special of the same name has been greatly expanded, and the long-out-of-print Mega Drive Complete Guide, now traded as a collector’s item, makes a full return!


This edition features full-color reviews of all 554 games released in Japan, along with long interviews with Rieko Kodama, Yoichi Miyaji, Kan Naito, and Yuji Naka, the man who created Sonic!


“If I hadn’t made games on the Mega Drive, I probably wouldn’t even be working like this today. Sega was at its peak, constantly taking on the most exciting challenges at that time.” – Rieko Kodama


“Mostly Mega CD at the time, but it was a page of youth. It was the period when we could really go wild, and any experimental software was fine. In that sense, it truly was youth.” – Yoichi Miyaji


“The Mega Drive was the first console where I could make the games I wanted. I modified its internals to make development easier, analyzed other games, and studied everything in depth.” – Kan Naito


“I always thought the Mega Drive’s CPU was sufficient if the clock speed went up. You could make graphics however you liked. Sega released five different consoles, but I think this was the best.” – Yuji Naka


In this expanded and revised edition, the book also includes a super long interview with Masami Ishikawa, the man who created the Mega Drive, along with previously unpublished Mega Drive development materials.


“It was around the time we were thinking about making a new console, when Mr. Sato consulted me. He brought in dual-port DRAM from TI, and we wondered if we could design something using this feature.”


“Through the design of the Mega Drive, I learned a lot. Without this work, I wouldn’t have gained so much technical skill.”


“This is what I mentioned earlier, the inside of the graphics chip. Everything was hand-drawn, back before CAD existed.”


The book also features development materials for Landstalker unearthed by Climax Entertainment, and comes in a dazzling 16-BIT Special Box. Mega Drive Complete Guide: Expanded and Revised Edition is dedicated to all Mega Drivers!!!

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE

BINDING

EDITION

ISBN / ASIN

YEAR

PAGES

Japanese

Paperback


9784778314422

2015

320

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Mega Drive Complete Guide: Expanded and Revised Edition

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Publishers: #Ohta (Ohta Publishing)

Languages: #Japanese

Format: #Paperback

Accessibility: N/A

Year: #Year2015

Genres: #Compendium


Companies:

#Sega (Sega)


Public Figures:

#KanNaito (Kan Naito)

#MasamiIshikawa (Masami Ishikawa)

#RiekoKodama (Rieko Kodama)

#YoichiMiyaji (Yoichi Miyaji)

#YukiNaka (Yuji Naka)


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Misc:

#MegaDrive (Mega Drive)

#Genesis (Genesis, Sega Genesis)


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