You may also enjoy<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLEAzsh2eg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLEAzsh2eg</a><p>the making of Norimaro - lots of footage from within capcom offices. Amazing clunky CRT displays and hand drawn art. Some ridiculous motion capture and voice recording footage towards the end too.
You may also enjoy<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4k1DhKJNU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4k1DhKJNU</a><p>the making of Super Bomberman 3. Several interviews with the programmers and amazing footage of the technology they used to make SNES games at the time.<p>And other random stuff. All in Japanese, unfortunately.
You may also enjoy this documentary about game music in old Japanese video games:<p><a href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/10/diggin-in-the-carts-series" rel="nofollow">http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/10/diggin-in-the-c...</a><p>One moment that stands out was a composer showing her old graph paper notebook of waveforms.
The new documentary "Branching Paths" covers the independent part of the contemporary industry and the interactions between the older "doujin" model and the newer Western-inspired "indie" concept.<p>[0] <a href="http://indiegames.com/2016/07/branching_paths.html" rel="nofollow">http://indiegames.com/2016/07/branching_paths.html</a>
Not Japanese, but very rare insight into id software in its heyday: <a href="https://vimeo.com/4022128" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/4022128</a><p>These clips ought to be put on archive.org.
I'm usually not one for office perks, but a miniature train track would be alright with me.<p>Hudson actually had a bunch of other train-related stuff in their R&D offices, if memory serves. It's a shame to see it abandoned like this.
I have the book he mentions, <i>The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers</i>, Volume Two. It is a fantastic book and worth your time if this stuff interests you.
Love this kind of material. Myself and many other people have been collecting it in <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/</a>
There's been some talk about digital preservation of games and other software. I wonder if there are ant international projects on digital preservations.