Why Japan’s Games Get Extra Fingers

Name: Why Video Games and Cartoons in Japan Get Extra Fingers
Uploaded: 2019-01-16
Duration: 7 min 11 s
Description: While many video game characters have four fingers, the practice is frowned upon in Japan, resulting in special variants of everyone from Bart Simpson to

history | learning | January 16, 2019

Link

While many video game characters have four fingers, the practice is frowned upon in Japan, resulting in special variants of everyone from Bart Simpson to Crash Bandicoot. Censored Gaming looks at the history behind the strange 4-fingered discrimination in the country.