In the mid-1990s, a Japanese teenager named Nei finished Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War — a sprawling, text-heavy strategy epic. He loved it. But his friend in California would never play it. Nintendo of America had no plans to localize it. The game, like hundreds of others, would remain locked behind a language barrier.
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