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How were Original Nes (Nintendo) games & Game Music made in the 80s?

Today it's simple to visualize how Video Games are made, but how were the original video games made back in the day when computers weren't as efficient? What tools did they use? What did their interface look like? How was the music made back then for NES? Any photos/videos showing the game making process for early Nintendo?

Slowly.

basically from binary, and a form of C++, it was a shot in the dark, there were some early midi mixing programs out there. Here is a video of some dos, this has the dosshell which is odd, generally it was worked off completely from command lines. computer mice weren't standard until after 1994, before then a home computer wouldn't have a mouse plug, and was completely navigated by the keyboard. These examples are late 80's early 90's, so dumb it down a bit. Nintendo had custom equipment for writing game programs and to the cartridges. I'm not sure how exactly it would have worked. I'm sure they had programs that helped with it. But basically everything needed to be configured by text in relation to lines and rows of pixels.