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The country has an estimated 67.6 million players in 2018. The Japanese role-playing game is a major game genre innovated by Japan and remains popular both domestically and internationally, with titles like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest selling millions. Japanese video game franchises such as Super Smash Bros., Pokémon, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Resident Evil, Dark Souls and Monster Hunter have gained critical acclaim and continue to garner a large international following. Shigeru Miyamoto remains internationally renowned as a "father of videogaming" and is the only game developer so far to receive Japan's highest civilian honor for artists, the 文化功労者 (bunka kōrōsha) or Person of Cultural Merit.Īrcade culture is a major influence among young Japanese, with Akihabara Electric Town being a major nexus of so-called otaku culture in Japan, which overlaps with videogaming heavily. Sony, already one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, entered the market in 1994 with the Sony PlayStation, one of the first home consoles to feature 3D graphics, almost immediately establishing itself as a major publisher in the space.

Nintendo, a former hanafuda playing card vendor, rose to prominence during the 1980s with the release of the home video game console called the Famicom or "Family Computer", which became a major hit as the Nintendo Entertainment System or "NES" internationally. Released in 1965, Periscope was a major arcade hit in Japan, preceding several decades of success in the arcade industry there. The space is known for the catalogs of several major publishers, all of whom have competed in the video game console and video arcade markets at various points. Japanese game development is often identified with the golden age of video games, including Nintendo under Shigeru Miyamoto and Hiroshi Yamauchi, Sega during the same time period, Sony Computer Entertainment when it was based in Tokyo, and other companies such as Taito, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Square Enix, Konami, NEC, and SNK, among others. Video games are a major industry in Japan. I am honestly not very familiar with these games at all and I do want to start playing them, with ACA/Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection being a seemingly great place to start, so if I do post scores before we figure it out (not likely too busy Toaplanning at this time lol), I'll specify if I used the ACA version or the Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection version or whatever.Sega Akihabara Building 2, known as GiGO until 2017, a former large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in 2006 No Gradius, though), I may just do that instead, especially since I will have control over what version I play.
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I may buy the Japanese version on PS4 or Steam so I can use my arcade stick, though with many of these likely coming to MiSTer (Nemesis is already available and I did play it the other day. I imagine the Japanese version of the collection is the opposite. I have the US Switch version of the collection, and it does not have the Japanese versions of Scramble or Twinbee for some reason. The collection doesn't seem to have as many options/toggles as the ACA games that I have, though it does have both the international (not sure what region, though.) and Japanese versions available, although the Japanese and international versions are listed in separate menus that you can toggle between. The Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection has a little thing in it that says "powered by Arcade Archives", so I imagine they are probably the same.
