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Nintendo's Origins
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A Space Invaders Knock Off
In 1978, 1979 in America, what is selling is space invaders. That's made by a Japanese arcade company, Taito. Why don't you get the guys back in Japan to make something like space invaders and send it over to us? So minoroo calls up Yamauchi, he directs the R&D three team to come up with a space invaders knock off. They start producing them in Japan. Unfortunately to make the games from scratch, build them in Japan and then ship them over to New York takes four months during this time. The American space invaders mania peaks and starts to die off.
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