The Japanes Games

The Japanese have different types of games which are both traditional and digital games. The rules and materials of the traditional games may have changed these days but at least these games still exists and also gave a taste to different countries and you can say in Malta we know some games that are Japanese traditional games.

There are different types of games that are for children such as Origami, Ohajiki, Ayatori that some places call it ‘the string games’, kendama, Beigoma and more. There are the tile games that are ‘sudoku’ and the board games are Go, Renju, shoki that is the Japanese chess and more. There are more traditional games that are word games, card games, role playing game and dice games.

This is for example the origami.

This is the Go board game.

These types of games are not popular a lot because nowadays we have video games. The video games are big in Japan and they had created many different games such as Mega man, death rising and much more.

The video games in Japan began in the 1970`s and the first games that made a hit, are arcade video games; for example space invaders. In Japan there are many companies such as Sega, Namco etc… In the 1980`s Japan became the most dominant country within the global video game industry. In Japan there is a school that was founded in 1986 that specialises on game developments and 3d computer graphics design. They produce different work such as automobile and robotics.

The design itself in Japan is very important and the alignment, colour, are also very important on every game especially these days.

This is the Japanese game called 'Space Invaders' that was played in the 1980`s

This is a modern Japanese game called 'Final Fantasy' that is made on these days.

Some of these Traditional Japanese games in Malta we had, such as Sudoku, Ayatori and more, but the most popular in Malta nowadays they advanced and make them very realistic. There are also Anime games that are making a hit in Malta too, especially who like Manga stories and the characteristics. In Malta we had also Nintendo games that are made from Japan and they are very popular. This Nintendo game is portable and you can play anywhere you want because you can carry it with you. Basically you can say that Japan made a hit in Malta from the creativity and technology work that they made and are going to make because I think that they will make much more technology games.

This is a digital game that is popular in Malta that is the Nintendo.

Resource:

Byford.S.2014.Japanese Video Games.(online) Available at. <http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/20/5522320/final-fight-can-japans-gaming-industry-be-saved>