Gameplay Harmonies: Japanese Recording Artists and the Video Games About Them by Brian Clark

Enter a bygone era of interactive entertainment when popular Japanese recording artists starred not only in films and music videos but in video games as well. Although these works rarely appeared outside of Japan, they spanned a wide array of genres including action platformers, adventure games, edutainment, and multimedia software. Often strange, always fascinating, these games mixed pure creativity and bizarre design decisions. Historian and translator Brian Clark has broken down the surprising links between Japan's video game and music industries in a decade-by-decade survey from the Nintendo Famicon to Sony's PlayStation 2 and beyond.