Usually they were in the acompanying manual

Also, I wouldn't call the trait of harnessing the brain's ability to learn from intuitive means a specifically Japanese trait.

Portal actually did a lot of the same sort of tricks.

aye, but they applied is masterfully in vidya first

like with megaman

All the best games could be played without supplemental material.

original

Mega Man X does the Mario level 1 thing.

Japan dominated the vidya industry early on anyway.

The only reason they got the opportunity to dominate it is because america dropped the ball as hard as it did.

A complete and total lack of quality control.

their loss

All the corporations could buy the big licenses and make game swith recognizable titles. But they weren't programmers. So they made ALL the worst games.

This constant trickery of good licenses having bad games, and parents just buying them based on license, it did meltdown eventually.

All those games hit bargain bins, and the companies that DIDN'T melt down didn't know what that meant.

It just made the same problem worse.

So Tim said he had to catch a plane in his second channel video yesterday

CHEAP bad games against NORMAL PRICED good games.

Is he going to Portland?

So what do parents buy?

i still am very sceptical on games based on non game licenses

These were all problems of an age without internet.

Little Nemo Dream Master was pretty good.

Without youtube videos.

Based on a comic from the early 1900s

That was Capcom.

Every license game Capcom touched was

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Fan**tiss**imo~

But Scribble, one thing you've got to consider is this, saying that it's a basic Japanese trait in a way degrades the genius of Miyamoto himself.

It's a civilization that pops Miyamoto out like a sunflower seed.

Not a race. A civilization.

Japan is like madagascar. Isolated, so its weird self-reliance fluorishes.

I mean, I get what you're saying. I say Japanese in a cultural sense.

But I think you're giving way too much credit to the culture, and not enough to the individuals.

o: ... Well of course Miyamoto's individual-ness helped.

Which betrays Japanese cultural values as well.

But often as a creator, your efforts are quashed by people around you NOT GETTING IT.

Frequently on display is a flourish of individual exceptionalism

For example, Legend of Zelda was inspired by Miyamoto walking around forests without a map