legendsoflocalization:

My new book is out! It chronicles the history of bad game translations from the 1970s until today 🍅 https://www.fangamer.com/products/this-be-book-bad-translation-video-games

More details: This be book bad translation, video games! chronicles the history of the phenomenon of poor Japanese-to-English video game translation from the 1970s until today. It also explains the root causes of bad translations, how translation practices have changed over the years as the industry matured (starting from the no-budget affairs in the early days and leading up to the machine translations found in the mobile market today), and specific patterns that are found in bad translations. The unusual title of the book itself is the result of modern machine translation.