Quote Originally Posted by Gamevet View Post
Arcade games like Street Fighter 2 had the joystick on the left. It must be a Japanese thing.
I feel that without the market corrections that the big crash brought, Japanese gaming would not have gained such a foothold in the West, possibly until the Sony Playstation came along.

Then again, what do I know? I didn't realize that Japanese companies were behind some of the classics of our day, simply because they were licensed by Western companies. Pole Position was covered in Atari stickers and billboards, and Pole Position II was the Atari 7800 launch game, but it was Namco all along. Same for Dig Dug, Galaga, Galaxian, and so on. I probably thought Coleco had more to do with Donkey Kong than Nintendo back then. Which goes to show, what we experienced, and what we think we understand, might not be the whole picture.

We should ask the author of Console Wars to construct some more phony dialogue to tell us the "inside story" of the crash from the perspective of Atari, Commodore, et al.