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Steven L. Kent
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 11, 2002
Heroes for the hardcore
America's comic book industry, a shrinking business to be sure, may be taking cues from Japan's popular manga.
LIFE / Digital
Apr 4, 2002
Self-absorbed little Dreadly better love his Moop
Taking your children to see movies would not be bad if all cartoons were the quality of "Totoro" and "Princess Mononoke."
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 4, 2002
Better to skip this 'adventure' and just go to Osaka
You've probably already been inundated with news that Universal Studios opened a theme park last year in Osaka. If you have any interest in seeing that park, do not try to preview it with "Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure" (UA), a relatively new game for the Nintendo GameCube published by a company...
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 21, 2002
Xbox ball: 'Inside Drive'
Strip away the marketing hype. If you want to know what kinds of people video game console makers are targeting, take a look at the kinds of games they play.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 14, 2002
Junior hoops nearly scores
"Backyard Basketball," a new PC/Macintosh game from Infogrames, is not what you would call a full-fledged simulation. You play most of the game using one button on your mouse, and it only has two professional basketball stars on its roster.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 7, 2002
Xbox grapples for Japan footing
Imagine a Sumo tournament with a young Konishiki battling Akebono, the winner of which must then challenge Godzilla. Such a battle is going on right now in the video game arena.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 28, 2002
Make, don't play the green
If you are looking for a great game of virtual golf, try "Links Championship Edition," a PC game from Microsoft. "Links" is as close as you can get to real golf without picking up a club.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 21, 2002
Xbox gets a bit 'Wreckless'
Xbox is coming to Japan on Friday, and by all accounts, Japanese game players are pretty excited. Microsoft's new video game console is clearly the most advanced and most powerful video game console on the market. It is more powerful than Nintendo's GameCube. Sony's PlayStation2 is not even in Xbox's...
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 14, 2002
Utah host to more than Olympics
With the 2002 Winter Olympics happening in Salt Lake City, the world will recognize that Utah is America's greatest mecca for skiing. But Utah is also an exporter of video games.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 7, 2002
Monkeys rate second look
Not many people jumped at "Super Monkey Ball" when it hit the market.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 31, 2002
Nautical 'kombat' game is a wash
Role-playing games, probably the most popular genre in Japan, have a moderate following in the United States. Americans prefer action-packed, top-down view style RPGs like "Baldur's Gate" and "Diablo" to traditional "Final Fantasy" RPGs.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 24, 2002
E.T. has left the building
The year was 1982. Steven Spielberg shattered all box-office records that summer with a movie called "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" about an ugly but good-natured space alien named E.T. who gets stranded on Earth.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 17, 2002
Nintendo's Arakawa surprises with retirement announcement
Nobody really cared who the president of Nintendo of America was when Minoru Arakawa founded the company in 1980. With games like "Radarscope" and "Sheriff," it was just another Taito wannabe trying to break into the U.S. arcade market.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 17, 2002
Magic elfin adventures of Jak & Daxter land in Japan
Back in August, The Japan Times ran a feature about a company called Naughty Dog that specializes in 3-D adventure games.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 10, 2002
Can you take the Payne?
"Max Payne" falls somewhere between "Pulp Fiction" and "The Matrix." Well, OK, "Max Payne" is a video and computer game, so maybe it only falls virtually between those two Hollywood blockbusters.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 3, 2002
Sometimes the gaming is too rough
When it comes to video games, Japan generally gets the good stuff first. Nintendo, Sony, and NEC hardware generally comes out in Japan before the United States. "Devil May Cry," "Final Fantasy X," and "Luigi's Mansion" all came out in Japan before they made it to the United States.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 27, 2001
Get ready for Xbox
The last time an American company successfully launched a game console in Japan, Jesse Takamayama was the famous Hawaiian Sumo wrestler and Chad Rowan (aka Akebono) was still in high school. The last time an American company successfully launched a video game console in Japan, a famous hanafuda card...
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 20, 2001
Surviving the 'Pikmin' pickle
Captain Olimar, the main character in "Pikmin," isn't really a character, he's a cursor. He doesn't do anything other than tell the Pikmin what to do.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 13, 2001
License not always key to success
In 1982, Atari released a game based on the Steven Spielberg movie "E.T."
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 6, 2001
'Shrek,' 'Final Fantasy' raise bar for DVDs
When ogres and space monsters battled last summer, the ogres won handsomely. At least they did in box offices across the United States.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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