Goemon Production Materials Museum Part 3 (Interview Translation)

During the development of the last two games in the Ganbare Goemon series, Ganbare Goemon: Tokaidouchu Oedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki for the Nintendo DS, and the compilation port GBA Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2 Yukihime to McGuinness, the Goemon Production Team seemingly took it upon themselves to make a website for the Ganbare Goemon series, with

Ganbare Goemon 2: The Strange General Konami’s Hidden Attack on the West!!

There are some Japanese games we cannot release worldwide because they are too specific to the home market —Goemon, Parodius, and games which use traditional Japanese characters, for example. Abroad, we release a game according to that market –sports games, for example, are numerous in Europe. — Interview with General Manager Nagata Akihiki in Next

Goemon Production Materials Museum Part 2 (Interview Translation)

During the development of the last two games in the Ganbare Goemon series, Ganbare Goemon: Tokaidouchu Oedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki for the Nintendo DS, and the compilation port GBA Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2 Yukihime to McGuinness, the Goemon Production Team seemingly took it upon themselves to make a website for the Ganbare Goemon series, with

[Translation] Ganbare Goemon ~ Yukihime Kyushutsu Emaki Soundtrack

Three years after the release of Ganbare Goemon 2, Konami released another original soundtrack for the hot-selling Goemon game at the time, Ganbare Goemon ~Yuki-Hime Kyushutsu Emaki, on September 21, 1991. The release of soundtracks for several Konami games in 1989 might have promised a future in which Konami would release soundtracks for most of

Goemon Production Materials Museum Part 1 (Interview Translation)

During the development of the last two games in the Ganbare Goemon series, Ganbare Goemon: Tokaidouchu Oedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki for the Nintendo DS, and the compilation port GBA Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2 Yukihime to McGuinness, the Goemon Production Team seemingly took it upon themselves to make a website for the Ganbare Goemon series, with

A Short Update About Mr. Goemon (Breaking News)

[NB: This started as a Twitter thread, and given the length and information in the thread, I decided to brush it up and clarify a couple of points for this blog post.] This month has found me doing a lot of research on various Konami and Goemon things, and an unlikely source led me to

Interview Translation: From Famicom: Ganbare Goemon 2 CD Booklet

On May 21, 1989, Konami decided to build on the success of its Famicom games by releasing the soundtracks on CD and cassette tape. Video game soundtracks were starting to become popular, and good business, for game publishers, and for Konami, which had already gained quite the reputation for its soundtracks on all of its

Ganbare Goemon 2 Goemon Production Materials Museum Part 6

During the development of the last two games in the Ganbare Goemon series, Ganbare Goemon: Tokaidouchu Oedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki for the Nintendo DS, and the compilation port GBA Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2 Yukihime to McGuinness, the Goemon Production Team seemingly took it upon themselves to make a website for the Ganbare Goemon series, with

Ganbare Goemon Karakuri Dochu Goemon Production Materials Museum Part 5

Part 5: Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū During the development of the last two games in the Ganbare Goemon series, the compilation port GBA Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2 Yukihime to McGuinness and Ganbare Goemon: Tokaidouchu Oedo Tengurigaeshi no Maki for the Nintendo DS, the Goemon Production Team seemingly took it upon themselves to make a website

Good Bye Family Computer (Developer Interview)

Konami in the Famicom’s Early Days ** This is my own translation of the classic interview with the trio behind the first Ganbare Goemon game, Karakuri Dochu, and other classic Famicom/NES games in the mid- to late-1980s: Kazuhisa Hashimoto, Shigeharu Umezaki, and Kazuhiro Aoyama. As I found out after having translated and proof-read the interview,