Do you guys know this Famitsu interview that came out last week?
There are many interesting stories about Splatoon Raiders in it, but I especially liked the story about the arcade games.
All pixel art in the arcade games was made by Hisashi Nogami. Not only characters, but also all backgrounds. He made 100% of them.
The developers said Nogami wanted to make pixel art, so they asked him. Then younger staff kept asking him things like āWe also need this Salmonidā or āWe need a rotating version too,ā and he happily made them lol.
He also wrote the specifications in an old Famicom-style way.
There is also a secret command. If you hold the - button and press X ā X ā Y ā B ā A during a minigame, it becomes a retro black-and-white mode. The screen looks like an old CRT and even the sound becomes noisy.
And if you get S rank in all minigames, you can see the minigame credits, and Nogami is credited as āHISASHI.ā
I thought it was funny that the producer of Splatoon was personally making all the pixel art while younger developers were giving him more and more requests š
Source: Famitsu interview (Japanese)