Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a minor 1970s video game hit in Japan that demonstrated how Western and Eastern media existed in conversation, even back then. Heiankyo Alien belonged to the late ’70s Japanese sci-fi media wave (see also Gundam, Space Invaders, and Urusei Yatsura) that had been inspired by the success of Star Wars. Of course, Star Wars creator George Lucas took many of his ideas from the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, which had in…
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