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Originally Posted by Einar72
I think it would have been quite a shock to see someone manipulating tiny people on the new-fangled TV screen to someone with no understanding of computers or even how a CRT worked. This is aside from the fact that Japan was fighting to the death against our own people, and the words Sony or Nintendo in your hands would surely land you in Federal custody...
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I once heard that "Sony" was a misspelling of "Sonny", for Sonny Boy". So it might not be a Japanese word. But "Nintendo" sure is.
Anyway, people back then, like today< would figure that the "small people on a TV screen" was just nothing more than new technology. After all, people then saw the invention and implemetation of radio, cars, airplanes, movies and cartoons (people would guess that the TV was just a minatureized movie theatre screen showing a cartoon show), and various other such things. "What will they think of next?"...