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Konami was founded in 1969 by Japanese business Kagemasa Kozuki who remains the chairman of Konami to this very day. Konami began as a jukebox rental and repair company before the company would be formed as the Konami Industry Co., Ltd., shifting its focus on amusement machines. Konami would begin releasing arcade video games starting with 1977’s Block Yard, followed by a Space Invader clone called Space King in 1978. It wouldn’t take long before Konami began developing games for the Famicom to expand their investment into the home console gaming market. In just a few years time, the company would go on to create many arcade hits like Gradius, Twinbee, and Contra. <br>

Konami was founded in 1969 by Japanese business man Kagemasa Kozuki who remains the chairman of Konami to this very day. Konami began as a jukebox rental and repair company before the company would be formed as the Konami Industry Co., Ltd., shifting its focus on amusement machines. Konami would begin releasing arcade video games starting with 1977’s Block Yard, followed by a Space Invader clone called Space King in 1978. It wouldn’t take long before Konami began developing games for the Famicom to expand their investment into the home console gaming market. In just a few years time, the company would go on to create many arcade hits like Gradius, Twinbee, and Contra. <br>

Just around this time, Konami was seeing success in games like Gradius, there was one tiny game they made that would eventually become one of Konami’s other celebrated IPs for the years that followed...<br>

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Lunar: The Silver Star is a turn-based role-playing ~~video game genre where being a~~ game developed in tangent between Game Arts and Studio Alex and was originally released to critical and commercial success in Japan on June 26th, 1992 for the Sega Mega CD. The game made extensive use of Mega CD’s hardware capabilities, such as short video and audio segments to illustrate the game’s narrative, animated FMV sequences, compact disc audio tracks, and the ability to save game progress to either the console’s internal RAM or a separate RAM cartridge. To an outsider starving for titles to play on their Sega CD, this game would’ve fit the bill perfectly. Despite this, however, there remained a stigma that plagued most Japanese role-playing games from seeing a western release that almost persisted throughout the entire decade.

Lunar: The Silver Star is a turn-based role-playing game which was developed in tangent between Game Arts and Studio Alex and was originally released to critical and commercial success in Japan on June 26th, 1992 for the Sega Mega CD. The game made extensive use of Mega CD’s hardware capabilities, such as short video and audio segments to illustrate the game’s narrative, animated FMV sequences, compact disc audio tracks, and the ability to save game progress to either the console’s internal RAM or a separate RAM cartridge. To an outsider starving for titles to play on their Sega CD, this game would’ve fit the bill perfectly. Despite this, however, there remained a stigma that plagued most Japanese role-playing games from seeing a western release that almost persisted throughout the entire decade.

Though it might be hard to believe today, there was a lengthy moment in history where very few role-playing games were brought over and localized for the United States market. During a time when many video game genres were being birthed into existence through trial and error, there were certain genres that at least to video game publishers never seemed to be worth the investment - the roleplaying game genre. If you were to look back during the early 90s, it makes sense that role-playing games were not seen as something worthwhile to both publishers and the general audience. To a video game publisher, role-playing games for consoles were always the most costly and also the most troublesome to create. Since the dominating medium that housed games during this time were cartridges, which were expensive to manufacture and sell, a role-playing game would require much more memory on average in comparison to other video game genres at the time due to the necessity of storing large volumes of text and graphic data. Role-playing games imported from Japan were even more of an issue since there would often be a communication barrier that would extend localization development. In the United States, there was a social stigma surrounding role-playing games in general, in part due to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies role-playing game scare from the 70s and 80s] that dissuaded the general audience from going anywhere near these games. Since home console video games at the time were often seen as arcade-like experiences that one could take home with them, the general audience at the time was often interested in video games that offered experiences similar to that of the arcades. Role-playing games at the time carried very little potential in this lucrative market and were often seen as bad investments. <br>

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-Konami was founded in 1969 by Japanese business Kagemasa Kozuki who remains the chairman of Konami to this very day. Konami began as a jukebox rental and repair company before the company would be formed as the Konami Industry Co., Ltd., shifting its focus on amusement machines. Konami would begin releasing arcade video games starting with 1977’s Block Yard, followed by a Space Invader clone called Space King in 1978. It wouldn’t take long before Konami began developing games for the Famicom to expand their investment into the home console gaming market. In just a few years time, the company would go on to create many arcade hits like Gradius, Twinbee, and Contra. <br>
+Konami was founded in 1969 by Japanese business man Kagemasa Kozuki who remains the chairman of Konami to this very day. Konami began as a jukebox rental and repair company before the company would be formed as the Konami Industry Co., Ltd., shifting its focus on amusement machines. Konami would begin releasing arcade video games starting with 1977’s Block Yard, followed by a Space Invader clone called Space King in 1978. It wouldn’t take long before Konami began developing games for the Famicom to expand their investment into the home console gaming market. In just a few years time, the company would go on to create many arcade hits like Gradius, Twinbee, and Contra. <br>
 Just around this time, Konami was seeing success in games like Gradius, there was one tiny game they made that would eventually become one of Konami’s other celebrated IPs for the years that followed...<br>
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-Lunar: The Silver Star is a turn-based role-playing video game genre where being a game developed in tangent between Game Arts and Studio Alex and was originally released to critical and commercial success in Japan on June 26th, 1992 for the Sega Mega CD. The game made extensive use of Mega CD’s hardware capabilities, such as short video and audio segments to illustrate the game’s narrative, animated FMV sequences, compact disc audio tracks, and the ability to save game progress to either the console’s internal RAM or a separate RAM cartridge. To an outsider starving for titles to play on their Sega CD, this game would’ve fit the bill perfectly. Despite this, however, there remained a stigma that plagued most Japanese role-playing games from seeing a western release that almost persisted throughout the entire decade.
+Lunar: The Silver Star is a turn-based role-playing game which was developed in tangent between Game Arts and Studio Alex and was originally released to critical and commercial success in Japan on June 26th, 1992 for the Sega Mega CD. The game made extensive use of Mega CD’s hardware capabilities, such as short video and audio segments to illustrate the game’s narrative, animated FMV sequences, compact disc audio tracks, and the ability to save game progress to either the console’s internal RAM or a separate RAM cartridge. To an outsider starving for titles to play on their Sega CD, this game would’ve fit the bill perfectly. Despite this, however, there remained a stigma that plagued most Japanese role-playing games from seeing a western release that almost persisted throughout the entire decade.
 Though it might be hard to believe today, there was a lengthy moment in history where very few role-playing games were brought over and localized for the United States market. During a time when many video game genres were being birthed into existence through trial and error, there were certain genres that at least to video game publishers never seemed to be worth the investment - the roleplaying game genre. If you were to look back during the early 90s, it makes sense that role-playing games were not seen as something worthwhile to both publishers and the general audience. To a video game publisher, role-playing games for consoles were always the most costly and also the most troublesome to create. Since the dominating medium that housed games during this time were cartridges, which were expensive to manufacture and sell, a role-playing game would require much more memory on average in comparison to other video game genres at the time due to the necessity of storing large volumes of text and graphic data. Role-playing games imported from Japan were even more of an issue since there would often be a communication barrier that would extend localization development. In the United States, there was a social stigma surrounding role-playing games in general, in part due to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies role-playing game scare from the 70s and 80s] that dissuaded the general audience from going anywhere near these games. Since home console video games at the time were often seen as arcade-like experiences that one could take home with them, the general audience at the time was often interested in video games that offered experiences similar to that of the arcades. Role-playing games at the time carried very little potential in this lucrative market and were often seen as bad investments. <br>
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