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Video gaming in Indonesia is a growing sector, holding the 16th largest market in the world and about half of the Southeast Asian market in 2017. Over 40 million people in the country are active gamers, with mobile gaming being the dominant sector in terms of revenue.
Sega Akihabara Building 2, known as GiGO until 2017, a former large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in 2006 Video games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming. Japanese game development is often identified with the golden age of video games and the country is ...
Japanese culture is well known in Indonesia, ranging from the traditional hallmarks such as Japanese cuisine, origami, samurai and karate, to modern culture including J-pop, manga, anime, video games and cosplay. The city pop music genre has influenced a local music scene known as pop kreatif.
In terms of economic relevance, the games for smartphones have expanded drastically from 2012. As a result, the market size of mobile games has a 70% share in the Japanese game industry. [73] This economic presence is parallel to the social presence mobile games possess, with most people who play video games also playing mobile games as well.
The Japanese video game industry has long been viewed as console-centric within the video game industry itself. Due to the worldwide success of Japanese consoles beginning with the NES , the country had in fact produced thousands of commercial PC games from the late 1970s up until the mid-1990s. [ 1 ]
Since the beginning of video game history, video games have been localized. One of the first widely popular video games, Pac-Man was localized from Japanese. The original transliteration of the Japanese title would be "Puck-Man", but the decision was made to change the name when the game was imported to the United States out of fear that the word 'Puck' would be vandalized into an obscenity.
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