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 designing
- 06:57 TRON Project computer controlled smart house
- 07:53 Ken Sakamura on Japanese language in computers
- 08:23 Corporations adopting TRON-based computers
- 08:53 Thomas Zengage on changing global software market
- 09:26 Japanese developed software packages
- 10:05 Bill Totten on American complacency
- 10:54 Nintendo's non-game software for Famicom
- 11:36 Will America lose its foreign software market?