Author: ageekinjapan

Videogames for everyone

One of the reasons why Sony was doing better than Nintendo some years ago was because they created a new market, Sony’s PS and PS2 and their games where aimed to entertain not only kids and youngsters but also young people from 20 until 30 years old. Nintendo focused on entertainment only for kids during some years, but with the DS and the Wii hey have created a new world, a new market. Now even 50 years old people are playing video games! And not only men but also women.

Look at the next charts, you can see the balance between men and women in Nintendo DS chart. Blue are men DS owners, pink are women, the x-axis represents age and Y the quantity of machines.

People with DS in Tokyo and Osaka. There are more 44 years old people with DS than 17 years old with DS! Isn’t it amazing?

Just to compare, look at the same data but for the old Game Boy Advance.

These charts are from japan.cnet.com. If you want more charts this is the one for the Wii and this one for the Game Cube where masculine predominance is obvious.

Food

Yakiniku – 焼き肉

Yakiniku (焼き肉: “bake, grill”, “meat”) is a Japanese “dish” where the main ingredient is grilled meat. It’s original from Korea, but it’s been a long time since it was introduced in Japan. Nowadays there are many differences between the Japanese “yakiniku” and the Korean “yakiniku”. Korean “yakiniku” is called bulgogi and the meat is marinated with soy sauce and sugar, it’s usually eaten with kimchi. On the other hand, in the Japanese version the meat is not marinated and it’s usually dressed with tare sauce.

The most common “yakiniku” is served with beef, if you like loin you should as for “rōsu” ( ロース), if you like ribs then ask for “karubi” (カルビ). The meat is cut in little pieces and bones are removed before serving, this way it’s easier to eat it with chopsticks.

Yakiniku

Trivia: “yakiniku” is Naruto‘s Choji Akimichi‘s favorite food.

Funny

Ballmer Peak

I liked a lot this joke 🙂

Ballmer

The president of Microsoft is “Steve Ballmer”, that’s why in the joke they talk about a supposed “Ballmer Peak”. Steve Ballmer is a man who sometimes cannot control himself, he can transform into an “animal”. Even though he can’t control his nerves and hi likes to insult Microsoft’s competence, he was intelligent enough to become one of the richest men in the world.

Here there are some Steve Ballmer’s videos that are pretty popular on the net.

This video is so famous that there is a Wikipedia article about it.

In this one he said the word “developers” fifteen times.

And the last video is a remix using the previous videos, pretty funny 🙂