Christian Horn
"We do our best to confuse the foreigners.."
Article about the "green frog", the train car which was for many years prominently in Shibuya, next to the famous Hachiko statue. In Japanese, "green frog" is 青ガエル. 青 is actually "blue" but also used for "green". So "the traffic light turned green" in #japanese is expressed "青になりました", also using the kanji for "blue".
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220409/k10013573971000.html
Tagomago
@globalc That would explain why an 80s Japanese game (Payload) shows blue lights on the traffic lights instead of green ones... :thaenkin:
Tagomago
Benoit
@globalc @tagomago you can still find blue traffic lights. 🔵
Super rare, except I noticed every temporary traffic lights is blue when there are construction work.
Christian Horn
@tagomago Interesting.. never noticed anything special in showing it.
Tagomago
@globalc @benoit Localization for this game was built-in, which is really rare for a 1985 game. If you hit F1 on the title screen the game starts in Japanese, F2 for English.
Christian Horn
@tagomago
Would not be surprised if they actually made a localization for the west then with "real green" traffic lights. Maybe I drop https://legendsoflocalization.com/ a line about this.
@benoit
Christian Horn
@tagomago
Awesome, never saw this made it then basically back from 'calling it blue' into also actually using blue in video games..
@benoit
Tagomago
@globalc @benoit Blue(ish?) traffic lights in an early 1970s Spanish movie located in Madrid:
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