1990: NINTENDO and the JAPANESE SOFTWARE boom , The Money Programme, Retro Computing, BBC Archive

Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American business software developers be worried Gordon speaks with Charles Elliot of Goldman Sachs, Nintendo s resident design genius Shigeru Miyamoto, Kazuhiko Kay Nishi of ASCII, author Thomas Zengage, Bill Totten of Ashisuto and Ken Sakamura the Tokyo University Professor behind Japan s ambitious TRON project. This clip is from The Money Programme, originally broadcast 25 March, 1990. 00:00 Japan s relationship with computers 01:00 Software versus hardware 01:17 Nintendo Famicom 02:10 Charles Elliot on Nintendo s success 03:03 Inside Nintendo 03:24 Shigeru Miyamoto at work 04:34 Nintendo engineers at work 05:03 The trouble with business software in Japan 05:51 Kay Nishi manufacturing versus design