dsheinem wrote:Why did Capcom, a Japanese company, make 1942 and other games in the series that require you to destroy Japanese planes and ships? Shouldn't the games be an attack on Pearl Harbor or some such?
I have no problem with them realizing that what they did was wrong. Sort of like how we don't (usually) make games based around killing Indians or Slave Tycoon.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
dsheinem wrote:Why did Capcom, a Japanese company, make 1942 and other games in the series that require you to destroy Japanese planes and ships? Shouldn't the games be an attack on Pearl Harbor or some such?
I have no problem with them realizing that what they did was wrong. Sort of like how we don't (usually) make games based around killing Indians or Slave Tycoon.
dsheinem wrote:Why did Capcom, a Japanese company, make 1942 and other games in the series that require you to destroy Japanese planes and ships? Shouldn't the games be an attack on Pearl Harbor or some such?
Differences in the Famicom version? Game made for an American audience?
I have no idea, I've been wondering about the same thing since I was a kid.
dsheinem wrote:Why did Capcom, a Japanese company, make 1942 and other games in the series that require you to destroy Japanese planes and ships? Shouldn't the games be an attack on Pearl Harbor or some such?
Differences in the Famicom version? Game made for an American audience?
I have no idea, I've been wondering about the same thing since I was a kid.
Hmm. I think it might have to do with the fact it may not have sold as well. Because, with a large audience in the states, playing a third of the bad guys from one of the worst wars in history might hurt sales. Just a thought.
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World War II has been a national source of shame for the entire nation-state of Japan. Whether because of the atrocities committed (maybe) or the fact that they lost in so dramatic a fashion after an unbroken string of victories dating back to the Meiji Revolution (probably), the Japanese have always had two ways of dealing with it:
1) Pretending it did not happen, the more common approach these days (See: Modern Japanese history textbooks).
or
2) Acknowledge it and make it into something wacky and better. Hence 1942 and the rest, where you are in a plane that can summon lightning and shit. But this doesn't really seem to be the most common reaction and I haven't seen anything like this from Japan since the 80's.
Maybe now Nintendo will acknowledge Metroid has a fanbase?
