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2. Tabletop role-playing games in Japan - Wikipedia

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   In the late 1980s, role-playing video games such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy helped popularize tabletop role-playing games in Japan. [6] [7] Around the same time, the Japanese game publisher Group SNE pioneered a new book genre called replays. Replays are logs of TRPG play sessions, arranged for publication in a similar style to light novels.

3. List of best-selling Eastern role-playing game franchises

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   This is a list of best-selling Eastern role-playing game franchises. For inclusion on the list, a franchise must have sold or shipped at least one million copies. For the purpose of this article, an Eastern role-playing game is defined as a franchise which: (1) is considered a role-playing game by reliable sources and was made in Asia or (2) made in another country, but otherwise the franchise ...

4. History of Western role-playing video games - Wikipedia

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   Western role-playing video games are role-playing video games developed in the Western world, including the Americas and Europe.They originated on mainframe university computer systems in the 1970s, were later popularized by titles such as Ultima and Wizardry in the early- to mid-1980s, and continue to be produced for modern home computer and video game console systems.

5. Boot Hill (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

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   As a role-playing game, there's not really enough here to put together a meaningful campaign." Swan concluded by giving the game a rating of 3 out of 4, saying, "Boot Hill works best as a board game, where players rough out a city map on a tabletop or floor, then use miniature figures to stage showdowns." [10]

6. Bushido (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

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   In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan called it "one of the earliest and most successful fantasy RPGs with an Oriental setting, thoroughly grounded in medieval Japanese history." However, Swan warned "It's not an easy game to learn — the rules more closely resemble those of a military simulation than ...

7. History of Eastern role-playing video games - Wikipedia

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   Also in 1984, The Black Onyx, developed by Bullet-Proof Software, led by Henk Rogers, was released on the PC-8801 in Japan. It became one of the best-selling computer games at the time and was voted Game of the Year by Login, the largest Japanese computer game magazine at the time. The game is thus credited for bringing wider attention to ...