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'''Welcome to GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute)!'''
 
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GDRI is a website dedicated to finding out more about the companies and people involved with video game development.
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GDRI is a website dedicated to finding out more about the companies and people involved with video game development. For more information, please read our [[About]] section. All are invited to contribute!
  
 
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==People==
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===The LJN Mysteries: X-Men Part 2 and Some Other News===
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X-Men Part 2:
  
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*According to [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ボーステック Japanese Wikipedia], software company Bothtec merged with Quest in 1990. It separated from Quest in 1997, "but it is merged in the B B M F that performed a capital tie-up on May 1, 2009, and the company will become extinct."
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*In [http://ton.2ch.net/retro/kako/983/983720642.html this old 2ch thread], post 832 says Dungeon Kid (FC RPG from Quest and [[Company:Pixel|Pixel]]) shares a piece of music with the FDS version of Relics (published by Bothtec). Post 856 suggests Pixel and Bothtec may have been in the same building.
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*We know Pixel did stuff for Quest, but what about Bothtec?
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*I previously pointed out a cheat in FDS Topple Zip which involves entering "PIXEL" as a player name to become invincible.
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*The shared music between Dungeon Kid and Relics is not a solid piece of evidence. Composer Masaharu Iwata, who went on to work on several Pixel games, would have been a Bothtec employee when he was working on Relics, going by [http://iwata.cocoebiz.com/index.shtml his profile]. He was probably still with Quest when he did Dungeon Kid. He worked for Quest (post-Bothtec merger) for a year before becoming a freelancer.
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*Relics does have a X-Men vibe to it...maybe.
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*It's possible I read [http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=18325#18325 this old post from ArnoldRimmer83] long before he contacted me a couple days ago.
  
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*The Hitoshi Akashi interview is slowly coming along. I keep procrastinating editing it, and I still have more questions.
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*Thanks to PingvinBlueJeans for sharing his research of "pre-Crash" developers with us.
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*[http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~sumwel_h/doc/juris/odsbcj-h2-3-29.htm Judgment handed down by Judge Hashimoto from the Osaka District Court regarding the Ikegami/Nintendo/Donkey Kong case]. Of course, it's all in Japanese.
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*Read GDRI's past LJN exposé posts in their new permanent locations:
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:[[Blog:6#The LJN Mysteries: X-Men|The LJN Mysteries: X-Men]]
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:[[Blog:6#LJN and...Atlus? UPDATE!|LJN and...Atlus? UPDATE!]]
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:[[Blog:6#LJN and...Atlus?|LJN and...Atlus?]]
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<div align="right">[[User:CRV|CRV]], 17 May 2009</div>
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*[http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=20864637 GDRI on Mixi] (Japanese)
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*[http://www.atariage.com/ AtariAge]
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Revision as of 08:08, 21 June 2009

Welcome to GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute)!

GDRI is a website dedicated to finding out more about the companies and people involved with video game development. For more information, please read our About section. All are invited to contribute!

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Leave comments on the talk page (click "Discussion").

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The LJN Mysteries: X-Men Part 2 and Some Other News

X-Men Part 2:

  • According to Japanese Wikipedia, software company Bothtec merged with Quest in 1990. It separated from Quest in 1997, "but it is merged in the B B M F that performed a capital tie-up on May 1, 2009, and the company will become extinct."
  • In this old 2ch thread, post 832 says Dungeon Kid (FC RPG from Quest and Pixel) shares a piece of music with the FDS version of Relics (published by Bothtec). Post 856 suggests Pixel and Bothtec may have been in the same building.
  • We know Pixel did stuff for Quest, but what about Bothtec?
  • I previously pointed out a cheat in FDS Topple Zip which involves entering "PIXEL" as a player name to become invincible.
  • The shared music between Dungeon Kid and Relics is not a solid piece of evidence. Composer Masaharu Iwata, who went on to work on several Pixel games, would have been a Bothtec employee when he was working on Relics, going by his profile. He was probably still with Quest when he did Dungeon Kid. He worked for Quest (post-Bothtec merger) for a year before becoming a freelancer.
  • Relics does have a X-Men vibe to it...maybe.
  • It's possible I read this old post from ArnoldRimmer83 long before he contacted me a couple days ago.

Other news:

The LJN Mysteries: X-Men
LJN and...Atlus? UPDATE!
LJN and...Atlus?
CRV, 17 May 2009

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