29th November 2007, 10:17 PM
I don't even know what country made that game ABF, but if it wasn't then the fad probably started when some innocent Japanese collector obtained it as an imported copy from our side, was exposed to it's horror, and shared it with the world in the form of a hilarious web site based send up.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)