{"id":229,"date":"2006-01-12T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=229"},"modified":"2006-01-12T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T10:05:08","slug":"western-games-on-japanese-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/01\/12\/western-games-on-japanese-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Games on Japanese Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite obsession is to ponder the differences between Western and Japanese game tastes.  Hardcore gaming 101 has published <a href=\"http:\/\/hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com\/japanboxes\/japanboxes.htm\">shots of how the boxes of various Western games look in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just link straight to Deus Ex: Invisible War, American and Japanese covers:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com\/japanboxes\/deusex.jpg\" alt=\"Deus Ex US\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com\/japanboxes\/deusex-j.jpg\" alt=\"Deus Ex Japanese\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this would support the idea that the Japanese are more spiritual &#038; sophisticated. But if you check out the Backyard Wrestling cover, it looks a bit different. Not that Backyard Wrestling is the epitome of taste and sophistication, but still.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/thumbs.ars\/2006\/1\/12\/2470\">Ars Technica<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite obsession is to ponder the differences between Western and Japanese game tastes. Hardcore gaming 101 has published shots of how the boxes of various Western games look in Japan. I&#8217;ll just link straight to Deus Ex: Invisible War, American and Japanese covers: So this would support the idea that the Japanese are more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/01\/12\/western-games-on-japanese-shelves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Western Games on Japanese Shelves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}