After finding out about The Legend of Alfur, a Japanese indy-made FPS for the PC, it struck me how weird it was to hear the words "Japanese-made" and "FPS" in the same sentence. While typically thought of as "overly violent games from the West" in Japan, they have recently grown in popularity here in Japan. Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 and 3 each sold a quite respectable 400k copies in Japan.

But despite there clearly being an FPS market, I couldn't for the life of me think of any first-person shooters made by a Japanese company. Could this be true? Have Japanese companies never dabbled in the FPS market? So off I went to do some research, and here's what I found.

(Note: The included games were all made in Japan by Japanese companies. That's why you won't see Metriod Prime or Killzone. Railshooters and lightgun games are not included unless you have free movement.)