Its´s an American thing right ?
World champion of video games in a time before internet and pretty much no one in the world has even heard of Ottumwa , video game capitol of the world ( LOL ).
In Japan people where playing Space Invaders the whole day long before the game even made it to the US , many played daily after work .
The fore runners of actual arcades called Invader houses which, as the name suggests where filled with just Space Invaders caused a shortage of Yen coins in Japan but when the first cabinet entered the US and some one put a coin in it, played two levels and died he was immediately hailed in a Ticker tape parade sitting in the back of a Cadillac convertible as the new World Champion .