Konami quickly put Hashimoto-san to work making coin games but it wasn’t until a few years later that they realised the amazing potential of the Famicom (or ‘NES’ as it was known outside Japan) and started developing games for the new console. In a 2003 interview with Game Staff List Association Japan he confessed that when he first arrived, the company was still manufacturing circuit boards for coin-operated roulette and slot machines. For instance, when the late and great Kazuhisa Hashimoto first joined games company Konami in 1981, he probably had no idea that one day he was going to change the course of video games forever. It’s astonishing to think that history can turn on the smallest of decisions. This is why we have produced titles like the NES/Famicom: a visual compendium which showcases the very best of this trailblazing console. At Bitmap Books, we like to think we are cataloguing the very best of video games history.
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