Thoru Yamamoto works (partially found interactive media; 1990s)

ZiZi Stories, Vol. 1 (Title Screen)

Status: Partially Found

Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹 or とーるやまもと), born 1955, is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books, websites, digital stickers and videos.

Websites

Over the past 30 years Thoru Yamamoto has had many different online homes.

Historial

Below is a list of those that have been found so far, in roughly chronological order judging by the contents.

• 1997 http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
• 1998 http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/
• 1998 http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html
• 2002 http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html
• 2002 http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html
• 2004 http://www.thoruman.com/tyhp/works/work.html
• 2007 http://web.mac.com/thoru/thoruman/top.html
• unknown and unarchived http://www.softmaterial.com/tb/

Current

Some websites are still online though all have not been updated in many years.

• 2004 http://pickle.cc/jp/
• 2004 http://www.languagegame.org:8080/zoo/1
• 2008 http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
• 2016 http://thoruman.web.fc2.com

CD-ROMs

A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order.

• 1994 Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) Found
• 1995 Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) Lost
• 1996 Crouton (CD-ROM) Found
• 1996? Penny (CD-ROM) Lost
• 1996 See The Sky (CD-ROM) Lost
• 1996 See The Sky (Printed Book) Found
• 1999 Trash (2HD Floppy Disk) Lost
• 1999 Bon voyage Chai (CD-R) Lost

Note: a port of Pickle's Book remains available for iOS but this differs in a number of ways to the older personal computer CD-ROM version, which would install icons to your desktop as you played.

HyperCard stacks

HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information.

A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of Motoyuki Tanaka, where they were hosted. These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website.

• A Little Tree Found
• Drug Store Found
• Hand to Hand Found
• Happy Man Found
• Mid Night Gig Found
• See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) Found
• See The Sky (Combined) Found
• ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) Found
• ZiZi on the Web Found

Found files have been uploaded to the HyperCard Stacks collection at Internet Archive.

Note: all 16 volumes of ZiZi Stories are still available online as HTML , but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the older HyperCard versions.

Other Software

Macintosh

• AsistantPickle Lost

PalmOS

• Coconuts World Found
• PalmPickle Found