Enter a bygone era of interactive entertainment when popular Japanese recording artists starred not only in films and music videos but in video games as well. Although these works rarely appeared outside of Japan, they spanned a wide array of genres including action platformers, adventure games, edutainment, and multimedia software. Often strange, always fascinating, these games mixed pure creativity and bizarre design decisions. Historian and translator Brian Clark has broken down the surprising links between Japan’s video game and music industries in a decade-by-decade survey from the Nintendo Famicom to Sony’s PlayStation 2 and beyond. Read more ISBN10 195518335X ISBN13 978-1955183352 Language English Publisher Limited Run Games Dimensions 6.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches Item Weight 2 pounds Print length 264 pages Publication date November 28, 2024