History of Eastern role-playing video games

While the early history and distinctive traits of role-playing video games (RPGs) in East Asia have come from Japan, many video games have also arisen in China, developed in South Korea, and Taiwan. == Japanese role-playing games == === Japanese computer role-playing games === ==== Origins (early 1980s) ==== While the Japanese video game industry has long been viewed as console-centric, due to the worldwide success of Japanese consoles beginning with the NES, the country had in fact produced thousands of commercial computer games from the late 1970s up until the mid-1990s.

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