How Early Anime Video Games Influenced What We Play Today

While nothing about Lupin III will blow anyone away now, it’s incredibly fascinating in that it’s essentially an early stealth game and quite possibly the first anime video game.

We are inching closer to the fortieth anniversary of anime video games, so that begs the question: What have current games taken and learned from these very early adaptations?

It’s interesting from the standpoint of what an early Gundam game would look like, but outside of that, it wasn’t doing anything that other games weren’t also doing.