John Szczepaniak's Untold History Of Japanese Game Developers Is Reborn As Japansoft: An Oral History

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Back in 2013, video game journalist and historian John Szczepaniak embarked on a crowdfunded adventure to chart the hitherto untold stories of the Japanese game development community. He flew out to Japan and spoke to some of the unsung heroes of the gaming world - as well as few true legends, such as Henk Rogers and Yuzo Koshiro.

Szczepaniak's interviews would form the basis of a three-volume series of books, all of which we were happy to include in our round-up of the best gaming books money can buy - they're that good. Packed with anecdotes and amazing stories, they're utterly essential reading, so you can imagine how upset we were when we heard from Szczepaniak himself that the company he uses to publish them was shutting up shop and they would soon be going out of print; because of the amount of Japanese text involved, switching to another print-on-demand publisher sadly wasn't an option.

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