Japan has a wealth of region-locked games that have pushed boundaries, but many of these titles never made it to the West.

Taro Yamada, a member of the Japanese Diet's House of Councillors, wrote on X (via Automaton) that there have been numerous cases of Japanese developers of ...

many of which develop games for Japanese audiences first and everyone else second. While some gaming sensibilities are universal, regional preferences have led to some strange collector's editions ...