In 1983, Yasuhiro Ohori published his legendary Xevious guide. It was later republished by Satoshi Tajiri of Game Freak magazine. Tajiri's autobiography contains a few nostalgic (and dramatized) stories describing the Xevious craze of that time period.

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Today, I rescued a lengthy interview of Shinta Nojiri, the director of Metal Gear Acid 2. This article is 20 years old by now, and was written for 1UP.com by James Mielke ("The Milkman").

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@playhistory.bsky.social Just remembered this. I found a series of Japanese blogs which contain more information about Kozuki than I've seen anywhere else. I machine-translated them, and posted them. The original author's citations might be useful to you.

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This video contains about 2 minutes of Biohazard Code Veronica footage from TGS Spring 99. I've never seen this footage before. This was about 11 months before the game came out. Unlike the videos from TGS Autumn 99, the game audio is mostly present with minimal VO.

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