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"Oral history" records testimonies from the people involved, preserving even the background and ideas of the content. A lecture on "archiving" was held, and because it is difficult to physically preserve a wide range of games, testimonies from people at the time are important as academic primary sources.

From "300 hits on the first day" to 3.3 billion page views per month - Behind the scenes of the explosive growth of Maho no iLand How was the "miraculous service" that captivated junior and senior high school girls in the early days of mobile born? - An interview with Rei Tanii

I take pride in having created the microcomputer era - To Japan's "crazy" engineers. Have you heard of Sword, the Japanese microcomputer venture in the 1980s? - Interview with Takayoshi Shiina (Part 2)

Koei Tecmo's president, Yoichi Erikawa, talks about the time before the video game industry was established. He made "The Battle of Kawanakajima" hoping to sell 10 copies, but it ended up being a huge hit, selling 10,000 copies. He mobilized all the "neighborhood ladies" to dub the tapes and shipped them out by hand.

Preserving "reliable primary sources" rather than "history written by the victors" - why is ZEN University, an online university set to open in April 2025 in partnership with the Nippon Foundation and Dwango, collecting "oral histories" of the content industry? To pass on the "history that will disappear if not told" that has shaped game, animation, manga, IT, and internet culture.

A product in three months! The reason why the 8080 was put into practical use in the fastest time in the world. Have you heard of Sword, the Japanese microcomputer venture in the 1970s? Interview with Takayoshi Shiina (Part 1)

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