Chris Gliddon 🐯

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Exploring Koei's secret history. 🎮 Historian, researcher, writer, dad, and dedicated fan. Producer @RocketSnail / VP of Creative @DigialDaylight by day. Ex-Disney, Tiny Mix Tapes, etc.

Cover art for "Jailus The Last Battle" (ジャイラス)
Dante's Odyssey: 魂の門 ダンテ「神曲」よ
Pokopia logo
Christ: The Journey of Love (クリス愛の旅立ち) cover
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Corridor cover
Star Wars poster
Japanese ad for the Egword Printer set
Suikoden (aka Bandit Kings of Ancient China) cover art
襟川 恵子
Stacks of Koei big box PC games and Famicom games from my collection
Fire Emblem book published by Koei in the mid-90s
Atelier Christmas nonsense 2024
New York Times article screenshot
Steam Deck SSD vs. D6 size comparison
Koey Microcomputer Systems ad from Micom Magazine, December 1981, a little over a month after the release of their first two video games.
A peek behind the scenes at the Koei ludography database I've been compiling for the past 5 years!
More Koei
Inindo on SNES
Two games from Koei's short-lived PasoGo (パソ碁) handheld console. It was expensive but also as low-quality as the Game Boy, so it presumably did not perform well in the market
The first generation of Koei games used a generic label hand-glued into cassettes. Most of the time this sticker was only on one side of the tape, but some of their cassette releases had a label on both sides.
The Wizard
Shin Megami Tensei 真・女神転生 Guidebook published by Koei
Random page from the DQB2 JP guidebook
Win95
A SangokushI Musou promotional VHS from November 1996 that I imported recently
2024 energy = the Supreme Catatonic
Samurai Pizza Cats animation cel featuring Princess Vi holding a blank notebook
Old people cereal ads for old people like me
Galaxy Strategy in its outer cardboard sleeve
The two Kyatto Ninden Teyandee CDs from the early 90d
A script book for Kyatto Ninden Teyandee episode 44 (aka Samurai Pizza Cats). It's probably a reproduction but I still enjoy having it
A chart posted on Reddit of the IMDB scores of every episode of The Simpsons
Prices for Romance of the Three Kingdoms II on Super Famicom in Japan circa 1992. The higher priced edition is the Deluxe version that includes the arranged CD soundtrack. The cheaper ¥14,800 Standard edition is basically $99, and that's in 1992 money! 😲
Front-end UX fever dream on Steam
Guess I've spent too long playing this game
My top 25 games
The Koei Voice Recorder would have emerged at some point between 1994-1999. Angelique was first released in 1994, and the Koei logo changed by early 1999.
Koei's first games used a generic red insert template, allegedly designed by Keiko Erikawa, the co-founder of Koei.
Godot Foundation funding numbers as of September 19, 2023
Google Trends for last 7 days worldwide comparing popular game engines
leaked internal Unity forum post
Godot pin
12 People Plan Tomorrow - Sakaiya Taichi (2002)
Can you imagine being surrounded by this much Dragon Quest? Slime mania!
Stop That Roach cartridge for Game Boy (US version)
Front cover of Das Boot in its original case with the complete sticker seal. Unfortunately a seller wrote 1000 in permanent marker on the front of the case.
Screenshot of Combat for the Atari 2600
PlayStation case, manual, and disc for the Koei word processor Egword