it strikes me as odd that neither the Chinese or Koreans were interested in making video games during the retro era. there was this sense of competitiveness between americans, euros and japs at how to outpace one another in the gaming industry
>>11496701Most of China and to an extent Korea were positively medieval countries until a few decades ago.
gorea made some low budget pc and arcade games. but yeah china was too underdeveloped until recently.
>>11496701South Korea was still a dictatorship in the 80s and still on their way to becoming economically developed. The latter did start happening in the 80s with growth under their last actual dictator.What you got was cloned systems and pirated games with some bootleg tier production for the home market in the 80s. Their production value went up a bit for PC games by the 90s, but that's still largely a domestic affair. Clones of simple arcade games also started showing up by the later 80s and throughout the 90s, but from my experience these are either pornographic (with a possible DIP switch for non-porn images) or hilariously copyright infringing on all acounts. Picrel (Bomb Kick) is a 1998 arcade game that steals the idea from iirc a compile disc station game and rips sprites from various games, so they clearly didn't care much for copyright by that time still.
>>11496789Cadillac/Great Deal with guns?
They had a few though, Korea especially had a lot of DOS and PC games, China mostly had a few RPGshttp://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/korea.htm>>11496704Wouldn't go that far, but yeah they were behind, China was still poor in the 90's
Koreans banned anything Japanese so they couldn't learn from their neighbour, becoming reliant upon the meagre cultural imports from the US (bar MASH). This is how, despite RTS games never flourishing in Japan (despite Herzog Zwei inventing the genre) succeeded in South Korea.
>>11496701>it strikes me as oddHow old are you?>>11496704
>>11496701They made plenty of games. They were mostly PC games.
>>11496701I think there were unofficial copies of games in Korea and bootleg consoles like China had. I remember there was a game in the "Genghis Khan" series made by Toei that for the Korean release allowed you to play as the Goryeo state which was unavailable in the Japanese and other international ports. It was pic related and I thought it was neat.
>>11496789>Chinese girl with an L85Cheeky
>>11496704Basically this, the most China had were bootleg famicom shit, the most Korea had was crappy ass arcade games and the odd PC game.
>>11496704Pretty much. Go read A Chinese Life, it's a comic book and shows off how incredibly poor everyone in China was until the mid-00s. No one's making computer games when the most technology the majority of the population has ever seen is a radio.
>>11496701There are hundreds of Taiwanese DOS games (mostly RPGs) that people just don't care/know about due to the language barrier.
>>11497191No shit, but OP is talking about mainland China. Note the flag.
>>11496909Korea had some famiclones, but for the most part had legitimate consoles subcontracted to a local brand (Hynix for Nintendo, Samsung for Sega.) But for the most part Korea and China preferred playing on cheap IBM clones over dedicated consoles.>>11497459Those games usually had releases in Simplified Han for the Mainland market.
This thread is just peak /vr/. A bunch of zoomy zooms whose only understanding of retro vidya is from middle class american kids youtube channels with no understanding of anything else.China and Korea both had huge gaming cultures, and there are games there that have sold hundreds of times over your "all time genre classics" released on the N64 or whatever.
>>11497610Okay, name some
South Korea made many games that made it to Europe and Argentina thanks to Midas Interactive.
>>11496701I take it you are a Zoomer. It's understandable I suppose because you weren't there, on the other hand it's disconcerting that your mental model of "the way the world was" is so uninformed that you are asking this question. China was a mysterious third world country prior to the 2000s. Korea was slightly ahead of them economically, but was still not considered a developed country or part of any interconnected high-value global economy.We looked at paper maps and there were all these countries in different colours and they may as well have been on different planets.I know it's hard to understand. The internet changed everything and the interconnectedness of the global economy rapidly intensified only after the year 2000 or in fact later than that. I first went to Japan in 2006 and couldn't use my Visa card in 90% of the ATM machines, there was no signage in English anywhere, and going to Japan as a tourist was just not a normal thing to do. My Japanese friends looked down on Korea and went there for cheap shopping in that undeveloped shitty country as they saw it. That changed in the early 2010s as Japanese realised with a shock that Korea had caught up and Samsung was kicking Sony's ass with its Android phones. (I'm an old man, AMA.)
>>11497610Are you Chinese or Korean or something?
>>11496701Felipe Pepe often covers old Chinese games, although mostly RPG's. E.g. here's one of his articles:https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/articles/before-genshin-impact-a-brief-history-of-chinese-rpgs/Also, this series is basically their Final Fantasy:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuan-Yuan_Sword
>>11497598>Those games usually had releases in Simplified Han for the Mainland market.Irrelevant. They were made in Taiwan. China didn't have a game industry.
>>11497737>it's not China it's Chinese rebelsirrelevant
>>11496701fucking North Korea was richer than the South during the cold war and Chinese metallurgy was hardly capable of pig iron let alone semiconductors. These people were more interested in whether they'd eat tonight than making video games.
>>11497459You mean the failed state of west taiwan?
>>11497191Love that life bar.
They didn't develop any original games, but the "Little Tyrant" brand of Famiclones was successful enough in Mainland China to afford Jackie Chan as their official spokesperson.
>>11496701Rainbow Six had an exclusive game in South Korea.
>>11497191>looked up the PGM arcade machine which was basically "the three kingdoms beat em up machine">it was also made in TaiwanHuh.
>>11497598>Samsung for SegaThe Super Aladdin Boy is the silliest /vr/ thing I own.
My Korean friend who grew up in the 80s and 90s said that importing Japanese consoles was banned back then, so as other people in this thread had said, the only option was really PC. You have to remember that both China and Korea were recovering from extreme poverty at the time, so the adults probably weren't thinking that much about video gaming.
>>11496701China was ridiculously fucking backward to being basically 19th century until 2006 or so when things started changing.Korea was dealing with a military dictatorship that also kept things pretty damn backward, and even continued to be so about a decade after it ended.
