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1. No it did not change, when the NES came out the software was still largely dominated by the U.S. as a European, you guys usually did not get most games from the U.S. in the few NES consoles that were sold in your region, so I would not expect you to know that so i don't blame you.
2.Asteroids and SI were both responsible for starting the golden age, as Asteroids was already announced when Space Invaders came to the U.S. after a few months in Japan. They both influenced many games.
3.US never was over taken by Japan in the arcades, the highest selling arcade cabinets all were dominated by U.S. games and most the Japanese games that reached to the top were one hitters. Only 9 japanese games were in the top tier, while 12 U.S. arcade games were dominating the arcade unit sales (above 10,000). That's just the top movers, going lower, there were still some fairly successful U.S. machines moving units around 5,000-7,000 while smaller japanese games were almost non existent.
4.The NES did not show anything at all. How does the NES show that the video game industry (which is not the same as the arcade industry at all lol wut?) was complete? You ok brah?
5.The majority of the best games what? 1970's to 2000's? What's your criteria for this? Potato chips? This is an odd claim that has no sense to it.
6.No, it's boiled down to Japan Vs. West, because Japan is the only major gaming developing nation in that WHOLE REGION.
7.I am not sure if this post is bias or if you were trolling but it makes no sense to me. What are you basing the 1970's to 2000's off of? From what? Software? Dominated mostly by the US. Hardware? Yeah ok, that doesn't mean anything, and there were still a few american hardware manufactures. Arcades? Still US dominated until around 2000. Also lol this is a necro thread. Well, it's already bumped now to late.
NationProtector
1. Last I checked, most of the best-selling NES games were made in Japan.
2. It was Space Invaders that kick-started the arcade golden age. This might not be so obvious in the US, where Asteroids overtook it shortly afterwards, but everywhere else in the world, Space Invaders was still dominating.
3. In terms of total sales, the combined sales of those Japanese arcade games was higher than the combined sales of those American arcade games.
4. The NES established Japan's dominance over the console market.
5. I said "late 70's to early 2000's". The criteria behind my comment is mainly critical reception. In the majority of all-time greatest games lists, that period is often dominated by Japanese games.
6. China and Korea are also major developing nations, but their games have mostly regional audiences, whereas Japan's games have more international audiences.
7. Up until 2002, Japan controlled nearly 50% of the global gaming market. That figure was probably even higher back in the 90's.
 1.Software was still largely dominated by the U.S., even on the NES, and I like how you ignored other consoles existence. Or computers. I would go and say there are more US games on the NES than japanese games (not including famicom exclusive add-ons like disk.)
2.Actually no, because the golden age of arcade was mostly being spend on in the U.S. no other country came close the the numbers moved in the U.S. outside s couple japanese games.SI also did not dominate until months after release, where asteroids was announced WW.
3.No they were not. You like pulling numbers out your backside don't you? There is a reason why only one hits from certain companies even did better. Other japanese games that were not the popular ones were barely existent while the lower US arcade companies continued getting decent number all the way to 1963. Most of the popular arcade games that were everywhere came from the US.
4.IN Hardware. And technically, Sega and Atari (both technically american companies) still had a market share. Don't forget the fact the NES was made from off the shelf parts from the U.S. (so was SI arcade machine.) No to mention the Genesis did well in the console space as well. Either way you look at it, most of the software was still being made in the US. 5.No it didn't. You are basing this off a link with limited sources, some repeating, and some of them have different criteria like "only on nintendo platforms." you have nothing accurate to base this off of but bias.
6.No they are not. Korea is climbing but it's still not there. Gaming entertainment in china is a limited market.
7.Random estimate from a random website with no source Jag stop the pulls. How is that even possible? the only way it could be is by hardware. Softwares it's physically impossible and I think that's what you are trying to pull random figures for. It's not that hard to look a lists of games for a bunch of systems to see that I am right.
1. The best-selling NES games are mostly Japanese, not American. And I'm only "ignoring" computer games because it was a much smaller market back then. Very few 80's computer games back then sold over a million copies, with the only ones I can think of that did being The Last Ninja (British), Thexder (Japanese), and Prince of Persia (American).
2. Actually, arcade games were selling better in Japan than they were in the US even during the arcade golden age. For example, Space Invaders alone made more business in Japan than the entire US video game industry did in 1978, As for Asteroids, that was released at the end of 1979, almost a whole year after Space Invaders released in the US. The arcade golden age had already begun, though Asteroids certainly contributed greatly to it.
3. Pac-Man and Space Invaders alone sold more arcade machines than the top ten American arcade games of that era combined. Like I said above: "In terms of total sales, the combined sales of those Japanese arcade games was higher than the combined sales of those American arcade games."
4. Sega is a Japanese company. Just because it was founded by an American migrant, that doesn't make it an American company. According to your logic, ATI and NVIDIA must be Chinese companies just because they were founded by Chinese migrants.
5. The site I linked to combines almost every known "all-time greatest games" list published up until early 2012. It's probably the only unbiased compilation you'll find on the net. And even if you removed the several Nintendo lists, it would hardly make much difference, as Japan would still come out ahead of America for the 80's and 90's.
6. China has one of the largest gaming markets in the world, third only to the US and Japan. And in terms of PC gaming specifically, China has the largest PC gaming market in the world.
7. The 50% figure is for both hardware and software. If you believe the source is wrong, then why don't you any post a source that claims otherwise?
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