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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

Alf was EXTREMELY popular here in Germany as well. The (pretty bad) made for TV movie even got a big nation wide release in cinemas and the original show is still constantly having reruns along with the two (again pretty bad) cartoon spin off's which are also immensely popular. I was actually very surprised how comparatively little impact Alf had outside of Germany.

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J-LIST's avatar

Interesting. Pop culture just goes all over the world, I love it. I had a partner company distributing our H games in Germany but he had to stop because he had won the license for Sailor Moon and couldn't be caught dealing hentai on the side.

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

Yes, Sailor Moon is extremely huge here as well. For a long time I actually had the biggest German Visual Novel website. In the end I didn't take very good care of it and ended up selling it for a few hundred bucks )-: But again, it was because I wasn't able to shake the more seedy image that people increasingly started to associate with those games.

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J-LIST's avatar

Fun! It was great bringing visual novels out to the West, and they were great for a long time. These days every game seems to eventually come out in English, so a tiny bit of the "specialness" of the genre is lessened. (I founded JAST USA as well ase J-List.)

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