1990: NINTENDO and the JAPANESE SOFTWARE boom | The Money Programme | Retro Computing | BBC Archive

Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American business software developers be worried?

Gordon speaks with Charles Elliot of Goldman Sachs, Nintendo's resident design genius Shigeru Miyamoto, Kazuhiko "Kay" Nishi of ASCII, author Thomas Zengage, Bill Totten of Ashisuto and Ken Sakamura - the Tokyo University Professor behind Japan's ambitious TRON project.

This clip is from The Money Programme, originally broadcast 25 March, 1990.

00:00 Japan's relationship with computers
01:00 Software versus hardware
01:17 Nintendo Famicom
02:10 Charles Elliot on Nintendo's success
03:03 Inside Nintendo
03:24 Shigeru Miyamoto at work
04:34 Nintendo engineers at work
05:03 The trouble with business software in Japan
05:51 "Kay" Nishi - manufacturing versus designing
06:57 TRON Project computer controlled smart house
07:53 Ken Sakamura on Japanese language in computers
08:23 Corporations adopting TRON-based computers
08:53 Thomas Zengage on changing global software market
09:26 Japanese developed software packages
10:05 Bill Totten on American complacency
10:54 Nintendo's non-game software for Famicom
11:36 Will America lose its foreign software market?






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