Recently in my internet wanderings, I chanced upon a rare buried treasure–the sort that used to pop up regularly before the death of the web.
The following piece of archived video only runs three minutes, but in that short time it captures the look and mood of Nintendo headquarters in the High 90s–right around the time Link’s Awakening, not A Link to the Past, came out.
Take some time to watch the video and return for a few brief minutes to the era when JRPGs came into the height of their powers, CRT monitors monopolized desks, and four-head VCRs were the only way to time shift TV shows.
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The one that always gets me is the promo tape for the original Donkey Kong Country. That might be the most Gen Y video game moment ever. Never would have been made before or after the mid-90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_YCSbWP78
I actually missed that game when it came out, but you’re right. That video is black tar 90s.
Music reminds me of Jan Hammer’s “Mind’s Eye”. Also from ’93
https://youtu.be/5XyNe8UESTs
The best use of a Jan Hammer song in a video game is on Emotion 98.3 in GTA Vice City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfbSTR48o50
The part at the end where Yamauchi (at least I think it’s him) flipping through the book showing all of the hanafuda cards Nintendo originally made back in the 1890s was really cool
Yeah, that was a treat.