ccovell wrote:
rainwarrior wrote:
I don't know the history of Nintendo's leadership, or anything about Hiroshi Yamauchi.
OK, but I think some amount of history needs to be known if one is going down the path of game credits / period art style, lest one send himself down the garden path. If you know that Yamauchi was famous for [boasting] never having played a video game, you can curtail research that would waste your time. Yamauchi had the same role in game creation as Roman emperors had in the fates of gladiators in the arena.
I was suggesting credits as a place to start looking. Finding out who the people in the credits are and what they did is the next step. You happened to know who Yamauchi was ahead of this step, I did not. Researching him would have been the next step, except I was leaving that to DRW, who is the person more interested in the question.
Unfortunately the credits seem too sparse to be of any further use in the same direction, so in this case that line of inquiry is probably a dead end, for the reason you just gave.
Again, though, I know that you're a person with a lot of knowledge of this kind of history, and I've read some of your articles. If there's a source you found interesting where you learned this stuff about Yamauchi, I'd kind of like to read it. (Not to answer DRW's question, obviously, just for interest.)