Sources & Links

Scanned Materials

Courtesy of Matthew Callis.

Funnily enough, the 1993 flyer said the release was planned for late November, assuming 1993.

General Coverage of Toshio Iwai's Works / Exhibits

TV and Exhibits

• NTT InterCommunication Center - The Trace of Toshio Iwai's Media Art (1997)
• JAMCO - Special Lessons TV show list from NHK (Flipbooks Become Art episode) (1999) (Archive.org Mirror)

Interviews

• Wired - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek (Toshio Iwai Interview) (1997)
  Provides context about the development of Sound Fantasy & SimTunes and way more.
• C3 Exclusive Interview | Toshio Iwai on Nintendo, Wii...& Musical Fish! (2006)
• Reincarnation of Media Art - Toshio Iwai Interview (English Subtitled) (2018)
  A very interesting interview about his past works and preservation.

Music Insects

• See This Sound - Music Insects

Electroplankton's Japanese Launch Exhibit (2005)

• Game Watch - Coverage of Electroplankton event (2005)
• itmedia - Coverage of Electroplankton event (2005)
• IGN - Electroplankton Live (2005)

Other Works

• Omaké Books & Nolife - #86 "Bikkuri Mouse" Les Oubliés de la Playhistoire (PS2)
• Internet Archive, therealsugarjoe - Tenori-on for the WonderSwan

Coverage of Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games" (2010)

• 1up.com - Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit Report and Photo Gallery (Archive.org Mirror)
• Nintendo World Report - Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit in Harakuju: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games"


• hondy3 - Personal impressions of Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games" (2010)
  Including pictures and impressions of the Toshio Iwai talk, who played Sound Fantasy live.

Other Sources

Various Personal Pages / Posts

• bwv971 - Page about Sound Fantasy
  Has Sound Factory flyer ads and some other general info
• omokurus - Page about Sound Fantasy
  Has scans of the final Sound Fantasy 1994 flyer
• sayonarafamitsu - Famitsu scans from July 8th, 1994
• sugar-youloute - Various scans from magazines (Archive.org Mirror)
• hagwar - Various pictures of Sound Fantasy

Interviews

• GPara - Interview of Benimaru Itoh (Archive.org Mirror)
  His first job was on Sound Fantasy. He also worked on SimTunes.

Videos of Sound Fantasy

1993 Coverage

• Super Mario Club - Famicom Space World 1993 Latest Information [At 0:43]

Winter CES 1994 Coverage

• jexora - Winter CES 1994 Footage [At 4:39]
• Televisator 2 - Winter CES 1994 Footage (French) [At 14:40]
• Internal Service Center Update February 1994 video [At 8:44]

Lectures & Exhibits

• NTT ICC Activity Record 1997–1998 - The Trace of Toshio Iwai's Media Art (1997) [At 8:20]
• Music Plays Images x Images Play Music (1997) [At 19:12]
• Associated Press Archive - "Japan - Digital Museum" [At 0:44] (Down)


• Toshio Iwai Lecture at futuresonic (English) (2006) (Archive.org Mirror)
• Toshio Iwai: From Flipbooks to Media Art (2006) [At 1:00:10]
• Toshio Iwai Lecture (2009) (60 FPS) [At 11:54]
• Toshio Iwai UCLA Regents Lecture - Sound Fantasy Direct Feed Footage (English) (2018) [At 1:03:41]

Footage

• Electroplankton Website - Toshio Iwai's Works (Mirrored) [At 0:57]
• 1up.com / IGN - Sound Fantasy Gameplay Demo (YouTube Mirror)
  From Gunpei Yokoi Exhibit: "The Man Who Was Called the God of Games" (2010)

Pages about Sound Fantasy as Lost Media

• Unseen64's Sound Fantasy page
• SNES Central's Sound Fantasy article
• Lost Media Wiki page (Wikia)
• Lost Media Wiki page

Magazine Coverage (DD/MM/YYYY)

• [UK] Superplay #14 (12/1993) p11
• [UK] Superplay #19 (05/1994) p27
• [UK] Superplay #24 (10/1994) p11
• [UK] Nintendo Magazine System #18 (03/1994)
  (Scans)
• [NA] GamePro #57 (04/1994) p101
• [NA] Nintendo Power #54 (11/1993) p113
• [NA] Nintendo Power #57 (02/1994) p112
• [NA] Nintendo Power #58 (03/1994) p28 & p111
• [NA] Electronic Gaming Monthly #51 (10/1993) p219
• [NA] Electronic Gaming Monthly #52 (11/1993) p86
• [NA] Electronic Gaming Monthly #62 (09/1994) p68
• [FR] Super Power #14 (10/1993) p17
• [FR] Consoles+ #28 (01/1994) p38-39
• [FR] Player One #39 (02/1994) p36
• [IT] Computer + Videogiochi - Anno 3 #31 (11/1993) p15
• [JP] Weekly Famitsu #248 (17/09/1993) p203
• [JP] Weekly Famitsu #290 (08/07/1994) p202-203
  (Scans: (1) (2)) [Thanks Tak @ famitsu.de]
• [JP] The Super Famicom #16 (16/09/1994) p38-39-40
  (Scans) [Thanks to @VGDensetsu]
• [JP] TVGamer (13/06/1997) p34
  (Photo) [Thanks to @bizspo]

Special Thanks

• Matthew Callis
• Florent Gorges - Omaké Books
• Video Game History Foundation
• Simon Carless
• Phil Salvador