The Anarchyz on 26 December 2008
mrstickball said:
Parts of Europe are. Spain, UK and Russia are all in the Western hemisphere. The bigger argument is that European gamers share their taste with the Americans far more than the Japanese, which is usually (at least as far as I've seen) part of the whole 'East vs. West' gaming argument.
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Well, if we take the Greenwich meridian as the reference, the Western hemisphere covers Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, most of Spain, most of the UK and part of France... The rest of Europe is on the Eastern Hemisphere... But people consider all Europe as part of the West because of the civilization similarities, while most of Asia as the East (Middle East, Far East, etc.)...
This reminds me of a XKCD comic:
