“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”.
Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s.
While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to make an impact. That’s probably why Sony Computer Entertainment took a rather unique approach with its commercials for early PS1 releases WipEout and Destruction Derby, billing them explicitly as British-made software.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”.
Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s.
While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to make an impact. That’s probably why Sony Computer Entertainment took a rather unique approach with its commercials for early PS1 releases WipEout and Destruction Derby, billing them explicitly as British-made software.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
