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Old photos of now famous game developers (Miyamoto working on SMB3)

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While browsing reddit I came across this magnificent photo set of Shigeru Miyamoto in his office working on Super Mario Bros. 3

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Master at his work indeed. Also didn't knew he smokes! Are there any other goldies like this?
 
WaveBird

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I don't have any off hand but I feel like Icons on G4 had a lot of old footage of them but I could be wrong.
 
ASaiyan

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Those photos are so 90s you can literally see the famous Jazz cup design in the last one.
 
AuthenticM

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In the first two pictures on top, he looks like a wax statue. Especially in the one on the right.
 
vestan

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The classic, id Software's first office. Think this photo here was taken in 1990. You can see Carmack working on the Super Mario 3 demo for Nintendo.

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This image here was taken in 1996 while they were working on Quake.
 

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Pretty sure they were in Nintendo Power once upon a time. They even mention how the game had ten people working on it. TEN. Can you imagine a game needing so many people.
 
Krvavi Abadas

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Two pictures of Masahiro Sakurai taken back in 1999-2000
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They're both sourced from Shigesato Itoi's website. Which should contain countless other photos of Nintendo employees.

The latter is particularly notable, as it's sourced from an interview around the launch of the original Smash Bros that mentions "Dragon King: The Fighting Game", the original concept for said game.
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The western audience wouldn't get to learn about it until 2008, with the Iwata Asks interview for Smash Bros Brawl.
 

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Deft Beck said:
Don't forget; his mother did all of the calligraphy for the Okami ending sequence. Talent runs deep in the family.
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That must be why he is so pissed that it got removed in other versions.
vestan said:
The classic, id Software's first office. Think this photo here was taken in 1990. You can see Carmack working on the Super Mario 3 demo for Nintendo.

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This image here was taken in 1996 while they were working on Quake.
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That looks exactly as I picture early game companies lol
 
Strings

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Here's baby Nomura:

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It's really neat seeing the developers who started super young. Like, dude isn't even 50 yet. Similarly, here's Keiichiro Toyama, writer/director of Silent Hill, and creator of Siren, Gravity Rush, etc:

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I think he'd be about ~22 there, since it's after Silent Hill released? He finished it at 21, and started at 18. Dude only just turned 40 in August.
 
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Yasuhiko Kamata, Kazuhiko Aoki, Keizo Kokubo, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoshinori Kitase, Katsuhisa Higuchi, Masato Kato, Takashi Tokita

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Hiromichi Tanaka

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???, Kazuko Shibuya, ???
Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, ???
 
ASaiyan

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Giever said:
And yet it's the 80s, considering he's working on Super Mario Bros. 3. :P
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Well, technically, Mario 3 didn't release in the West until 1990 (NA) and 1991 (Europe), so for most of the world it is very much a 90s game! :P

But of course, given that these are development pictures, they are mostly certainly from before the Japanese release in 1988 (I didn't realize the gap between versions was that big!). And apparently, the "Jazz" design was not mass-produced until 1992. So, the pen-filled cup on that desk is merely a similar ancestor design – a harbinger of the cultural juggernaut to come.
 
xxracerxx

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Hey! How about some of you list out who is in the actual pictures in case some others have absolutely no fucking clue who you are trying to showcase?
 
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