Who was the Atari of Japan?
>>11354594SEGA....Although they were also an American company, so idk.
>>11354624Counter argument, Taito because of Space Invaders being an international hit which caused a 100 yen coin shortage in its heyday.
An arcade company which ventured into home console business? Besides Sega, the only fitting company is Nihon Bussan, but comparing them to Atari feels ridiculous. Neither Namco nor Taito were interested in home ports until Famicom.
>>11354629>which caused a 100 yen coin shortage in its heyday.That's a myth.
Spiritually, it's SNK.
>>11354594They don't really have one exactly. Epoch had the most succesful console (which isn't exactly comparable to Atari's success), but they didn't make much in the arcade department. Mostly dedicated systems and handheld electronic games, I guess Atari did the former too so it's technically the closest. They had the opposite issue on their aging hardware though, too few games.
A company that was ran by greedy, incompetent retards? That’s obviously Sega.
>>11354594NEC I supposeBoth were prominent during the 8-bit era but disappeared after fifth gen
>>11354762This is assuming the same era of course.
>>11354679Why?
>>11354643The myth was the government needing to increase production because of the game, the shortages were really due to a combination of both the popularity of the game alongside the minting process removing silver from the coins, causing many people to hoard them.There are numerous accounts of coin shortages in change machines at numerous individual locations that had the games, which is what caused the reports in the first place.
>>11355192>There are numerous accountssauce
>>11354594Atari is literally, laterally loterally a Nipponese word.
>>11355480>i'm literally having a stroke at the age of 12
>>11355192>>11355448>We’ve got plenty of bills but we often run out of the coins and have to wait for the machine to be emptied.A single American report included a Japanese anecdote of coin shortages in a popular location which then became exaggerated into a national shortage as the story was retold. Best case scenario the impact was isolated to popular gaming locations as the original anecdote stated rather than being a nationwide shortage, and until we can find a Japanese report on the issue the validity of that anecdote remains inconclusive. I don't blame anyone for doubting the validity of the anecdote due to information scarcity, but at the same time I do find the anecdote plausible at the very least.
>>11354594What the fuck does that mean?
>>11355579The anecdote is entirely plausible. I can recall countless times an arcade ran out of coins. Even seen it happen at grocery stores and other shops. And I can recall at least as times when an expat hack embellished a story or just plain made shit up. Fake news is nothing new.
>>11354624only in its very early founding, everything except for marketing was made by japs
>>11355702>Fake news>>/pol/
>>11357036Yeah. No one would ever lie about video games.
