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Thank you. the loyal, faithful, retronaut of us just thought off of traveling. So if we seem a little loopy, that's why. But that's okay because this is one, we're

mostly going to let the pictures do the talking. This is called the Wild World of Japanese

Game Takes SIGA edition. Were any of you here, or not here, but in Milwaukee for Midwest

Gaming Classic this year? Oh, one of you. Did you see us? Yes, that's the, okay, so there's one man who knows

what this is all about. However, this is not the same presentation that we gave in Milwaukee. This

is a new presentation, but the premise is game tapes. Stewart, what are game tapes? According to the

UK. All games. Right. In all formats, no matter what, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, it's a game tape.

Right. But that is not correct.

The Japanese, only the Japanese had it right. They created videotapes of video games.

And in the 1980s, early 90s, but mostly the late 80s, when the economy over in Japan was just booming, it was surging, they just had yen to throw everywhere on anything they wanted to. It was still a lot to ask to buy an arcade machine, especially in the, you know, they live in very small houses in places like Tokyo.

It's a very, very dense place with very small square footage.

So instead, they would throw their money at having the next best thing, which was not video games,

because if you've played, let's take a master system version or the NES version of Afterburner,

you know that that is not the Arcay Perfect

experience. So instead, they would create something called simulation tapes. And there were

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