A follow-up to Read-Only Memory’s Britsoft: An Oral History, focussing on the emergent Japanese games industry of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s via first hand interviews with lesser documented developers at companies including Sega, Enix, Capcom, Hudson Soft and Nihon Falcom. The book adapts game journalist John Szczepaniak’s three volume series, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers and adds new, specially-conducted interviews. Punctuating the texts are anecdotal illustrations by iconic Japanese illustrator Yu Nagaba and an illustrated guide to the key computers and consoles that defined the early Japanese game industry.