Electroplankton launch event at Laforet Museum photographs , April 8, 2005

Collection

Identifier: WILLIAMSON.15

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection includes roughly 700 digital photographs taken by game journalist Colin Williamson in Japan from 1999–2005. The subjects include include trade shows, interviews with developers, and general photographs from game stores and arcades around Japan. Many of the early digital photographs in this collection were taken at low resolution; their appearance in our digital archive reflects their original resolution and quality.

From the Collection:

Additionally, this collection includes a set of film photographs that Williamson took during a press visit in 1997.

Dates

Creation: April 8, 2005

Historical Note

IGN's article referred to this event as "ElectroPlankton Live." This title does not appear to have been used by the Laforet Museum, which did not list a name for the event in the visible signage in these photos.

Unusually, this collection includes photos of Shigeru Miyamoto's shoes (IMG_9413.CR2 and IMG_9414.CR2). Williamson says he took these photos at the behest of IGN writer Anoop Gantayat, who wrote IGN's article on this event. According to Williamson, Gantayat often told him to pay attention to what shoes people wore.

Full Extent

213 Digital Photographs

Language of Materials

Japanese

Additional Description

Abstract

Colin Williamson covered this launch event for the Nintendo DS game Electroplankton for IGN. The event coincided with the beginning of a month-long exhibition of Electroplankton at the Laforet Museum in Shibuya, Tokyo. The event included a panel discussion with Electroplankton designer Toshio Iwai, producer Shigeru Miyamoto, and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.

This exhibition also included a retrospective on Toshio Iwai's career, showcasing rare materials for Iwai's unreleased game Sound Fantasy (aka Sound Factory).

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

These files were delivered to the Video Game History Foundation in raw .CR2 Canon image format. They were converted to .jpg for display in VGHF's digital archive. The raw files may be made available to researchers at the discretion of Video Game History Foundation library staff.