This unearthed documentary provides a rare look at Nintendo's humble beginnings

These days, you can follow every aspect of a game's development online before it comes out. There are countless trailers, interviews and mini-documentaries made about big games that didn't always exist a couple of decades ago.

Thanks to Game Escape on YouTube, you can now get a quick look at what life at Nintendo was like in 1994. This 12-minute clip is from a French documentary called "Otaku" that, according to the uploader, has never been translated into English before it was unearthed back in April. Hat tip to Kotaku for bringing this to our attention.

The clip begins by showing us some footage of 1990s Japan, which is great. It's always nice to establish a setting.

We then get a short interview with former managing director Hiroshi Imanishi, an important figure at Nintendo from the 1960s until his retirement in 2002. Here, he's talking about the legacy of the Famicom, the company's first big game console.

As an aside, the director of the documentary loved to show this statuette in the Nintendo office. It's pretty charming.