Word: bushido
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy time to admit this, I have particularly enjoyed some of the bloodier ones. I've sat many an afternoon at the PlayStation, blowing enemy warplanes out of the sky in Ace Combat 2. I find it relaxing, almost meditative. I love fighting games, such as the Samurai-slashing Bushido Blade or the kung fu-ish Tekken 2. They work out my twitchy reflexes. I've become lost for days on end in strategic battle simulations, like Age of Empires, a game that lets you play God and create legions of workers and armies--and then lay waste to rival...
...piloting paper airplanes around heating vents that we all started to worry. So, naturally, I was a little defensive. "It is educational," I rejoined, nervously surveying the games I had picked out to seed what I hoped might someday grow into an extensive video-game library: SoulBlade, Tekkan 2, Bushido Blade and Crash Bandicoot 2. The Sony PlayStation plays more than 300 games, which is why I bought it. And that's just here. In Japan, PlayStation owners can choose from among 800 games. Which gave me an idea...
...didn't get to be the economic butt-kicker it undeniably is today by keeping to itself. A McDonald's on every street corner, a pair of blue jeans on every butt. And a little tangle of American silicon on everybody's desk. Take the 80s (please). Bushido was all the rage, Detroit was in the tank ? the Japanese were better at everything, and the American century was over. Take Gung Ho, a culture-clash Ron Howard heart-warmer starring a young Batman (Keaton) and an older Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe). And Norm. And globally, a happy ending...