Epic Game Memories in Non-English World

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https://archive.ph/ZUPnE

https://www.4gamer.net/games/634/G063466/20240716042/

The editor-in-chief (X link) of Gameset recalls how the grand scene at the time when The Tower of Druaga released.

And some research of the scoreboard of TToD.

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btw he mentioned in the interview, the first one who beaten the game he known was Arita. Arita was one of the 10 men beaten the 60 levels in Japan at 1984, and the beaten place is Namco’s Sugamo arcade.

If you never been there, it’s still have time.

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https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20240813008/

backup: https://archive.ph/1tdCF

the editor-in-chief (X link) of LOGiN and ファミコン通信 recalls the trend from PC games to Console games.

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backup: https://archive.ph/tIgr7

Satoshi Tajiri recalls how Xevious shaped the game community and later his developments.

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Iran video games timeline: from 1970 to 2019

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good column by Kenjoh Kohji.

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This playlist from a Taiwan based nostalgia YouTuber has all their videos on video games, including DOS games and arcades. Unfortunately I don’t think they have Eng subs or even auto translate for subtitles turned on. But you can get the general idea. I guess unsurprisingly tw games culture was kind of an odd mix of Japanese and North American stuff. Afaik he hasn’t done any videos exclusively on locally made things but there are some interesting ones in the DOS video especially

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Oops I misremembered, there actually is one video all about Taiwan specific DOS games

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The interview of the creator of Black Oasis.

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https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae

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https://felipepepe.medium.com/how-a-25-year-old-german-mmo-became-a-pokémon-fangame-6ac8d60c4442

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https://www.gadgets360.com/games/features/yoddha-the-warrior-how-kargil-and-bollywood-inspired-indias-first-pc-game-868980

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It’s a project to map & preserve Czech and Slovak game history - it has over 7,900 games (incluiding cancelled ones) and 2.300 studios, plus dev interviews & extra articles

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https://www.4gamer.net/games/758/G075800/20251222045/
https://www.4gamer.net/games/758/G075800/20260112001/
https://www.4gamer.net/games/758/G075800/20260119001/

The history and memories of Fighting Fantasy series in Japan.

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One of background artists of the Shin Megami Tensei Card Game shares the original painting on sketchbook.

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