John has been documenting video games since 2005. Former staffer at Imagine Publishing and Retro Gamer magazine. Author of The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers series of books. Its amalgamated hardcover, Japansoft, was translated and published in France, Russia, and mainland China. Has interviewed over 150 people. Keynote speaker at academic symposiums. Hobbyist programmer. Licensed RYA dayskipper. Not a fan of social media.
Feature Meet The Unsung Hero Behind The Vectrex
Mark Indictor also worked at NASA and Disney
News Hudson Soft Almost Created A Castlevania-Style Dungeons & Dragons Game For SNES
"It would have taken a good 18 months [and] SNES would have been dead"
"I enjoyed this work more than anything else I've done since"
Feature The Challenge Of Teaching Game History In The Age Of Minecraft, Netflix And ChatGPT
"The sad news is that we have to force students to check it out"
Feature The Forgotten Legacy Of Taito Of Brazil
"Taito was one of the first multinational companies specialising in games"
Feature The Quest To Preserve And Document Tectoy's Zeebo Console
"I am a former employee of Tectoy Digital"
"People were smuggling Spectrums"
Feature Switzerland Granted £2.8 Million To Preserve Its Video Game History - Why Can't The UK?
"There is money there if we have the will to chase it"
Feature Taito's Chairman Was Almost Kidnapped By His Own Employees
It happened in Brazil, circa 1985...
Feature Did You Know Ireland Has A Secret History Of Coin-Ops?
Electro-mechanical games on The Emerald Isle
Feature In 1989, A Teenage Atari ST Dev Made One Award-Winning Game Then Vanished - What Happened?
"We often have two preferred paths, and then we choose... That's life"
Feature The Race Is On To Save A Valuable Resource Of Video Game History
We need the community's help - do you have old copies of CTW?
Feature History Of Games 2024 Offered An Embarrassment Of Riches, But Games Media Isn't Listening
"The push to publish academic work open-access is to share research"
"When I next woke up, I was temporarily blind"
The Making Of Ride To Hell, The Open-World Epic That Became One Of The Worst Games Of All Time
"I believe the potential was definitely there"
"I believe I still have a lot to learn"
Feature Bitmap Books Celebrates 10th Anniversary, And We Were There
Industry celebrities, veteran writers, an open bar, and a lot of off-the-record conversations
The Making Of Suikoden II, A JRPG To Match 'Game Of Thrones' In Intrigue And Impact
"I did not intend to force my own personal views on players"
The Making Of Suikoden, Yoshitaka Murayama's PS1 RPG Masterwork
Following the passing of Murayama, we look at one of his most famous games
The Making Of Nintendo Adventure Books, Mario's 'Fighting Fantasy' Period
"They shipped me a Super Famicom and a copy of Mario"
News This Game Preservation Group Wants To Archive LaserDisc Games Before They're Lost Forever
"This project needs international cooperation"
Feature Is Quintet's Robotrek The Most Underrated SNES JRPG Ever?
Too many people passed on this 16-bit gem
