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Shenmue (1999)

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Timeline of footage from the first idea of Shenmue until release of Shenmue I in Japan with never seen before footage. What's Shenmue, Shenmue Premiere and NHK Network Jungle III footage were skipped due to too big length.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 1994 (Project Guppy)
01:37 1995-1997 (Project Guppy)
05:00 May 1998 (New Challenge Conference - Tower of Babel - Shenmue Engine Demo)
05:35 December 1998 (Project Berkly announcement)
12:49 January 1999 (Shenmue premiere event footage)
15:32 March 1999 (GDC 1999)
18:36 March 1999 (Shenmue premiere event footage)
19:19 March 1999 (Japanese Dreamcast "Ooiri"-VHS)
20:54 March 1999 (Spring TGS)
32:27 May 1999 (NHK Network Jungle II - incomplete)
35:07 May 1999 (SEGA internal presentation, E3 behind doors?)
53:39 May 1999 (TV)
53:59 May 1999 (E3 public floor)
01:01:52 July 1999
01:02:22 September 1999 (TGS Autumn)
01:05:13 September 1999 (SEGA internal footage/TGS behind doors?)
01:07:33 September-December 1999 (Game Over leaked footage)
01:07:57 September-December 1999 (Tonight 2 interview)
01:12:25 Bonus: 2000 (Game Over interview for Shenmue EU release)

Note: I made a small mistake, Feb. 1999 AOC 1999 footage is from GDC 1999.

Sources:
Japanese show "GAMEWAVE" - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuXH9J-zamUAOJPYc_nAQrA
Japanese show "Tonight 2" (incomplete)
NHK broadcast/s (incomplete) - https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~minaduki/game99/dc/kikaku/index.htm
Game Over.TV (British TV) (incomplete) - https://youtu.be/wJaIwfVrSJw
Sega Dreamcast "Ooiri" Video VHS - https://youtu.be/C7PF0ElO6fY
Asian VCDs (體驗VCD, Game Station VCD, Game Plus VCD, etc.) -
https://www.youtube.com/user/rockieyu
https://www.youtube.com/user/wuleiyuehyin69
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwQ0U0SPCzYMk5CcHMLpWw (he did great job with breaking the VCD copy-projection/s!)
https://www.youtube.com/user/rockieyu/videos
NEO Plus VHS - https://youtu.be/XG527DVKfIU
Shenmue Kickstarter Videos - https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/rare-unused-scene-from-shenmue-i-translation.3901/
And other archive.org, nicovideo and sources I forgot about.

Old version v0 (unlisted): https://youtu.be/uwoNbTloDm4
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