I recently read that the Japanese term "Kusoge" (クソゲー) had been coined by writer Jun Miura in 2002, and that factoid didn't sit right with me, despite online gaming sites seeming to confirm this. Well, I spotted the infamous term in a 1990 Famitsu. Lore refuted, hopefully.
In the end cinemas to PCE-CD Ys II, there is a scene showing Feena as a crystal ball scrolls down. There are completely unused graphics of her arms -- they likely once animated to have her clasp the ball.
I've tried to reconstruct what the animation might have been. #イース
Ys Book II on the PC-Engine, VRAM dumps from real hardware nets some beautiful panoramas, maps whose full extent you would not usually see in-game, and...
an interesting discovery.
When the handheld systems GameBoy and Game Gear came out in the early '90s, several old MSX / home computer games got a second lease on life by getting unique conversions to them.
Now, does anyone know if the excellent GG action-puzzler Pop Breaker had an earlier version?
A small salute to the sad CD+G graphic artists whose work went largely unseen and -- I bet -- given a budget between zero and a few thousand yen. 🥂