“To have arcade games playable on a home console at basically the same level of quality really made it a stand-out piece of hardware, and I suspect there were a lot of creators that were just floored by it.” – Naoki Horii, M2
“Treasure made games under the Sega brand name, but we were able to make them pretty much in our own way, without anyone meddling in the games themselves. I didn’t realize this until later, but publishers don’t typically give you that much freedom in making games for them!” – Masato Maegawa, President of Treasure
“We were pouring all of that technological prowess fully into Shining in the Darkness.” – Hiroyuki Takahashi, President of Camelot
“One that I remember very well is “Advanced Daisenryaku: Doitsu Sakusen”. The planner was a military fanatic, so I was trying to work on all of these aircrafts that I’d never seen before in my life.” – Rieko Kodama
“Honestly, I didn’t have confidence that I would be able to do it!” – Masami Ishikawa, creator of the Sega Mega Drive hardware