Japanese childrens book on the making of Super Mario 3

[Flabio]

You'd never see anything like this on Western game dev would you? Hehe.

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/weekly/Stars_of_the_Family_Computer.html

Some great photos in there.

[Lyris]

Very interesting - and the level of analysis the guy has done on the pictures is very impressive.

[wakka]

That's wicked, I really enjoyed looking at those photos. I didn't know 1980s Nintendo gear was exclusively manufactured by an army of middle aged Japanese women.

Shame there weren't more photos of Miyamoto and Tezuka's workspaces though.

[dataDave]

Friggin' awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

The NES is when I knew I'd be in the game forever. It's great to have finally seen the offices where the ideas and products were drafted. I wish I was that graphics dude, or Koji Kondo especially, at the same time I'm glad I'm not one of those coders!