Back in August, The Japan Times ran a feature about a company called Naughty Dog that specializes in 3-D adventure games.
A lot of companies, U.S., Japanese, and European, specialize in making adventure games; but Naughty Dog stands out in that it is one of only two non-Japan-based companies to have a top-selling game in Japan.
Marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation, Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot games sold multiple hundreds of thousands of games in Japan.