Pre-Pokemon Game Freak

[Malev]

Aug 25, 2014 23:36:11 GMT -5 Jungyin said:

I meant to post about the book after I got it, but kept putting it off until now.

I like it a lot, probably even more if I knew Japanese. It's split into 3 sections focusing on the games showcased on the cover. The Quinty and Jerry Boy sections have possibly complete collections of the manga made for the games as well as some development and advertising artwork. The Quinty manga in particular interesting because you can see the evolution of Sugimori's style, from the round and chubby look seen in Quinty to the taller, angular style seen in the early Pokémon games. The Pokémon section is much shorter than the other two, with some art of characters and Pokémon from the remake of Red/Green, a showcase of the main game's covers, and some promo art. At the beginning, end, and between sections there are interviews and art from other games and works, including some art showing Sugimori's style from before Quinty, and even a few sketches from Jerry Boy 2. All in all it was worth the money, in my opinion, and I'm tempted to buy another copy to send to someone to translate.

I would like to see a scanned copy of the book. I can at least translate the manga, slowly maybe. I did translate the sample manga used in the article.



Some places has some cam pics of the book. Here are the parents of Pulseman.

[Terrifying]

I love Game Freak, it's an interesting company. Jerry Boy, Pulseman, Bushi Seiryuden, and Drill Dozer are my favorite games by them.

[Malev]

Ken Sugimori's been posting pages of sketches and pages from magazines about the games he worked on.

twitter.com/SUPER_32X

A few are the original pencils of artwork and covers, along with gaming mag articles such as the early beta spritework of Smart Ball/Jerry Boy that's also on Chris' fansite.

A nice new find is another early Pulseman article page when it was still named "Spark" with some minorly different beta screenshots along with Sugimori's illustration for the unreleased Jerry Boy 2:

  

[Malev]

Sorry for the bump again, but can't find the scan thread and I found from one of my old EGMs a preview for "Spark" and scanned it myself.

s21.postimg.org/ifilygmo5/EGM_Spark_Preview.jpg

[Malev]

Old bump again, but someone ciphered the text from the intro for Pulseman

[zilliont]

Pulseman deserves praise not only solid gameplay and relationship to the Pokémon franchise, but also for how visually insane some of the later stages can get. The soundtrack is also pretty impressive, especially the PCM drums and effects.