SpriteCell

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Making charts and graphs of video game data, and archiving video game history. https://spritecell.com/

A Gantt chart of U.S. gaming magazines showing when they were active.
Page of UK magazine Zero, featuring the title "hand jobs", with reviews of Ax Battler and Rampart.
A screenshot of potential future projects by their code name. There are columns for my enjoyment, other's enjoyment, and difficulty/time. Each cell has a number from 2-10. There is also a section scored in the same way about completed projects.
A picture of an interview from Hyper magazine issue 251. It features an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto by James O'Connor. Picture by James O'Connor.
Mick Hocking in an interview with Edge. He is optimistic about the future of 3DTV. Scanned and/or uploaded by mattandi. https://archive.org/details/Edge_Gaming/Edge%20Gaming%20Magazine%20227/mode/2up
Screenshot of Happy Puppy's about us page, where they claim to be "the first-ever commercial games site".
Page 10, issue 113 of Power Unlimited See https://dn721609.ca.archive.org/0/items/pu30jaar/jaargangen/11/113.PDF
Shigeru Miyamoto working at Nintendo in 1995 or 1996. The subtitles read "In the end, the fifty-four colors were chosen not by the hardware designer, but the game designer Miyamoto."
Mini article from Game Informer about Mario's 15th anniversary, featuring Shigeru Miyamoto holding a Mario cake. Scan from Retromags.
Total interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, scans by RetroMags.
Scan of Videogames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine about Mario. Shigeru Miyamoto is shown holding a cake with Mario.
Eiji Aonuma interview with N-Zone in May 2007, in original German.
Shigeru Miyamoto saying that the GameCube controller probably represents the future.
N-Zone interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, part 1, in German.
Shigeru Miyamoto interview from N-Zone in May 2006.
The culture it disseminates is, of course, junk; but what isn’t these days? Its music is the unmodulated beep that is the authentic voice of the transistor. Its heroes are cartoon blips, chasing one another mindlessly through that familiar computer-fantasy landscape that is disconcertingly both medieval and postnuclear. The Super Mario Brothers, mute protagonists in two of the most popular among the more than 100 Nintendo game cartridges, make He- Man or G.I. Joe seem figures of Shakespearean complexity by contrast. This hasn’t hurt their popularity, though.
A picture of Shigeru Miyamoto with his arms raised, against a black wall.
Cube magazine scan from Out of Print Archive covering a press Q & A with Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma.
Picture of Casa BRUTUS EXTRA ISSUE SUPER MARIO BROS. AND DESIGN page 31, talking about the origin of some Super Mario enemies. Some of them have quotes from Shigeru Miyamoto.
Excerpt from an MTV.com interview with Shigeru Miyamoto about getting people into Star Fox and its declining sales in Japan
End of a review of Doom from Dimension PS-X magazine. It got a 93%.
Toys R Us ad for Tiger Electronic's R-Zone from 1995.
Part one of an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto in Family Computer Magazine. Scan by RevengeOfTheHubz.
Text on top says "How Often Nintendo Games Go on Sale: An Analysis of Video Game Pricing and Sales". The bottom left has box art of Super Mario Odyssey with a price tag that has $59.99 crossed out and another price tag that reads $39.99. The bottom right has box art of Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT with a price tag that has $69.99 crosses out and another price tag that reads $19.79.
The revamped SpriteCell Home page.
A correspondence from Hosiery Mills to Nintendo about "a real crimp in their ability to sell Donkey Kong socks".
Shigeru Miyamoto in a deposition saying that his favorite name for Donkey Kong was Build-On. Lawyer Fairhurst immediately says he has no further questions.
The cover art of Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition Complete Edition.
The cover art of PC game Just Grandma and Me. There are quotes from publications that claim it is in a class by itself, captivating, unexpectedly alive, and a stunning piece of work.
A digital "card" corresponding to the wikipedia page for If My Heart Had Wings as displayed on wikigacha.
Kurara Oosuzuki saying "I feel better about this now. Any good RPG party has at least four members in it."
A screenshot of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy's entry on howlongtobeat. A completionist run is listed as 164 hours.
AI generated pictures of Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, and Sid Meier, with likely AI generated biographies of them.
A screenshot of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim combat.
A picture of Milon's Secret Castle, an NES game. The Legend of Zelda is also visible.
A feature on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from Hyper #142. Scan by Retro CDN, possibly by Doc eggfan.
Statue of Donkey Kong in Bergsala.
A photo of a crowd around a statue of Mario standing atop a green pipe.
A photo of an odd looking, squat Mario holding a mushroom on top of a white pole that says Nintendo.
A picture of Kohn Architecture's Nintendo New York office plan, showing a Paper Mario Color Splash image, which was released in 2016, several years after the interview took place.
Shigeru Miyamoto and Geoff Keighley, wearing Luigi hats.
First part of the transcript of an interview between Geoff Keighley and Shigeru Miyamoto.
Shigeru Miyamoto looking at a black and white print out of Paris Hilton playing a DS.
A drawing by Shigeru Miyamoto of Mario playing a GameCube.
A screenshot of Kynseed, from its Steam page. It has colorful pixel art. A character named Twig is being talked to.
A screenshot of OOTP Baseball 17, a baseball simulator. From https://ootp-baseball-17.en.softonic.com/mac
The Fuji Broadcasting Center in Tokyo. It's like two buildings with several enclosed paths connecting them, and also a big metal sphere in between them.
A top three most played games on the Switch in 2025, featuring Labyrinth of Refrain, Romancing SaGa 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
A "Replay Value" section from Pokémon Power, a Nintendo Power supplement. It encourages readers to start a new save file because they can keep their current Pokémon. Scan by RetroMags.
A screenshot of a spreadsheet showing the 50 most visited pages to SpriteCell.com
A screenshot of Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, showing a Ninja in a post-battle victory pose. There is a banner that says "You learned Horror!"
Shigeru Miyamoto talking about being one of the first game designers, he used to joke he was one of the five best in the world.
A character uses an attack skill in Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
The Magic the Gathering card Quina, Qu Gourmet