Chris Davies wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Rhea Seraph wrote:

Given that I have a tape with a Japanese ad for Tomb Raider on it, I would
assume the game has been released in Japan, and that's how.

        According to the makers of Tomb Raider, it's very popular in Japan.
It's very popular among Japanese women, for some reason.

I was mainly thinking that the Tendos aren't likely to own a game 
machine.  They don't have a lot of disposable income.