In the few arcades left here, it’s almost unheard of to not see a Dance Dance Revolution machine. With the increased popularity of Japanese culture in the US, the borders to entertainment have opened. Both Romance and Taisen were best sellers in Japan but at the time were never seen on American shores, mainly because as good as they were, they just wouldn’t have sold here in the States. While American kids were marveling at the original Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer titles like Super Mario Brothers and the Legend of Zelda, Japanese gamers were learning military history and strategy in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, or planning the next moves of their menagerie of mecha in Super Robot Taisen. In Japan, however, there are seemingly limitless types of video games. First and third person shooters dominate the American market, with other genres like adventure, puzzle and role playing games holding their own. Here in the US, video games typically fall into a small set of genres.
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