A loooot of video game genres were invented by Japanese
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Adding "with tentacles" to every existing genre doesn't count, Japan 🦑🐙
Still quite a few genres that the Japanese didn't create first, based on their absence from that list.
Horde coop shooters/hack and slash. An array of strategy game genres. Arena shooters (and all other manner of first person shooters). Probably (combat) flight simulators too. CRPG's. Basically, a lot of genres that originate on the PC.
Obviously they got a good head start on consoles and arcade machines, and stuck with that stuff for quite a long time.
We did text based, board game ports, sports games, vehicle sims, puzzle games and first person shooters.
And RPGs and RTSes
Dayum. That's way more than I thought.
I mean, yeah. America, Japan, and the UK to a lesser extent are basically where the foundations of video games were laid.