FG reporter talks about the gaming industry

[den4]

Another wannabe reporter trying to explain about the gaming industry in Japan. Not sure why he chose Kyoto over Tokyo, but it would be nice if he could at least spell Romanized Japanese correctly. Damn, bloody gaijin...a few weeks in Japan and they're already experts on everything....

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/600/600851p1.html

[tonikoro]

I stopped reading when he mis-spelled "Natsukashii".

[Guile]

Damn, bloody gaijin...a few weeks in Japan and they're already experts on everything....

Hey, that's what I indend to be. An expert within weeks. But then again, isn't it all relative in comparison to someone who has never been to Japan? My Japanese history instructor (I don't think he has a phd) spent 5 years in Japan after high school in the late 1960s, worked during the Osaka expo or whenever, and he's "the expert" at my university. It's funny because there are some former JETs in that class who managed to stay in Japan for 4 years (maybe the extra year was with CLAIR) and they end up having to update him on stuff.

[tetsujin gaijin]

Wow this guy is an expert. I have never been to a "conbeni".

[Guile]

Especially when he writes something like this right after: "I feel obliged to educate in this column, so please get ready to swat."

[emperor]

...I stop a Japanese woman who must be in her early 50s. I intone "Famicom?" She replies with a grin and a nod. And then she proceeds to recite the original Super Mario Bros. theme tune. Even more remarkably, the recital is note-perfect...

maybe there some truth to this tale... but what the obaa-chan left out was how she was oblidged to kill her children in their sleep (with a spork) as their grades had begun to slide since getting that Famicon; meaning theyd never go on to get those places at Keio and Waseda repectively........

[dimwit]

I stopped reading when he mis-spelled "Natsukashii".

Maybe he meant Nazikashii - a nostagia for Nazi war games.