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Slur
Mar 6, 2013

It's the Final Countdown.
Back in the days of the NES, I noticed a lot of rather prominent names in the video game industry today were usually found credited under aliases as opposed to their real names. Was there a particular reason for using aliases when being credited on video games back then?

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Slur
Mar 6, 2013

It's the Final Countdown.

Doctor Goat posted:

putting your real name on something that fails is japanese business suicide so people used pseudonyms until they knew something would work out

Thank you.

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