You may not think the '90s were a dead zone of lost records since people were publicly making things like 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden, but in the world of game development, the 1990s might as well be the dawn of civilization. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi says so many of its important artifacts are gone.
"We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left over from that period at all, practically none," Hamaguchi tells Eurogamer in a new interview. "Game development back then was a lot more Wild West – a lot of material was just not kept. Data management wasn't done to modern standards, so yeah, there's basically nothing."
