Japanese Gaming Glossary

I always find the differences in lingo between different parts of the gaming world fascinating, so here's a non-comprehensive list of all the Japanese terms I've discovered so far; lemme know if there's any others I'm unaware of and I'll throw them in there

Also yeah, I'm making more traditional blog-type posts now, since Twitter shit the bed and I like having an outlet for my game hyperfixation ramblings. Hope I don't flood everyone's dashboards too much

Go play EGGCONSOLE

The Switch has basically turned into a game historian's dream come true, with classic titles getting ported, remade, remastered and localized for the first time all over the place. From Hamster's weekly Arcade Archives, to M2's fantastic as always work with Sega Ages, and Nintendo's own library available via their online service, there's no shortage of great titles for anyone who wants to revisit their own childhood, or just dive deep to better understand the past.

What I definitely didn't expect was for classic Japanese computer games to start ending up on the console, much less in North America. For a long time, these games have kinda had a forbidden fruit appeal for Westerners, a last frontier of games that was difficult to navigate due to the language barrier, the aging hardware, Windows cannibalizing all other operating systems during the 90's and of course, few of the games being exported over here, but it's gotten a lot better in recent years, mostly thanks to D4 enterprises.

Some Famicom cassettes that came in today; really sucks we got uniform, gray carts over here when the molds, colour and artwork were so varied and appealing over in Japan