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Japan's video game industry began in the mid-1960s. Sega introduced an electro-mechanical submarine simulator called Periscope in 1966, which became an instant success in Japan, Europe, and North America. The first blockbuster Japanese arcade game was Taito's Space Invaders in 1978, which marked the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games.
A JRPG, or Japanese role-playing game, is a genre distinguished by linear storylines, turn-based combat, and fully developed characters with defined personalities and relationships. Western media coined the term because Japanese-developed RPGs had distinct characteristics compared to Western RPGs. The genre gained traction after Enix published Dragon Quest in 1986, designed by Yuji Horii to be accessible to players with no prior RPG experience.
In 2018, Japan's game market had an estimated 67.6 million players. In 2022, Japan ranked as the third largest video game market in the world, after the United States and China.
Gacha games are named after the toy vending machines common in Japan. Players spend in-game currency, which can be purchased with real money, to receive random characters or items. The rarest characters are the most desired, encouraging repeated spending. In 2015, mobile game publishers in Japan had more than twice the ordinary income rate of console game publishers.
Shigeru Miyamoto is internationally renowned as a father of video gaming and is the only game developer so far to receive Japan's highest civilian honor for artists, the Person of Cultural Merit, known in Japanese as bunka koroshya. He was also among the group that crafted Nintendo's strategy for revitalizing its business model around the time of the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo launched the Family Computer, or Famicom, on the 15th of July 1983. After a product recall due to a bad chip set, the Famicom's popularity soared and it became the best-selling game console in Japan by the end of 1984. By 1990, Nintendo had surpassed Toyota as Japan's most successful corporation. The Famicom and its international version, the NES, sold over 60 million units worldwide and helped restore public confidence in video games after widespread skepticism following the 1983 crash.