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In the 80s, Japan was honestly more hated in some circles than Russia was. It wasn't workmanship so much as the fact that their automotive and electronics industries were eating the US alive in the 1980s, and the fact that Japanese companies were buying up a lot of American companies and real estate. In 1995, due to a stock market spike, the Japanese economy was briefly worth more on paper than the entire US economy was. The market correction that followed pretty much put an end to the "Japan is taking over the world" meme. If you've ever seen movies from the 80s set in the future, notably Back to the Future II, you'll notice they all have America's economy pretty much owned by Japan in its entirety.

And Nintendo got a lot of this hate because it was the most familiar face of Japan in American homes. The American video game industry was on life support at that time. Atari and Activision were going bankrupt, and even EA wasn't doing all that well.

I'm lucky to do a blog a year, and I don't have the excuse of six kids to hide behind. :)

Yeah, but we also had great video games back in 1980s America, even with all the Japan-bashing that went on back then.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a PS4 version of Dragon Quest VIII will show up. :) If it does, that's the version I'm getting.

Also hoping for Valkyria: Azure Revolution and HD remasters of the PSP games for PS4.

SanAndreasX.

I think I might have already added you though, or you might have added me.

FFVII

FFXII

Dragon Quest VIII

A Link to the Past

Valkyria Chronicles

1. Final Fantasy VII (favorite game of all time, I'm replaying it now on PS4).

2. Xenogears

3. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

4. Final Fantasy IX

5. Tie between FFVIII and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete

Too many other RPGs to mention: Valkyrie Profile, Tales of Destiny and Eternia, , Star Ocean 2, Parasite Eve, Dragon Warrior (Quest) VII, Brave Fencer Musashi, Breath of Fire, Suikoden, Thousand Arms, and the list goes on. There were also great games like Resident Evil 1-3, fighting games like Tekken, Tobal, Bushido Blade, and Ehrgeiz.

I only beat a handful of games last year because of that real life thingamabob. :)

Zelda, of course. Also Final Fantasy XV (if it comes out in 2016), Persona 5, Tales of Berseria, Dragon Quest VII, Valkyria: Azure Revolution, and quite a few others.

I played Space Invaders and countless clones thereof, Space Dungeon, Elevator Action, and Rastan.

Did you ever play Jungle King/Jungle Hunt? The original version was Jungle King, and you were Tarzan traveling through the jungle to rescue Jane (vine swinging, swimming with crocodiles, dodging boulders, and getting past cannibals). It even had a sample of Johnny Weismueller's famous Tarzan Scream. Then the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs sued Taito, so they changed it to Jungle Hunt, replaced Tarzan with a generic British jungle explorer, and removed the Tarzan Scream.