@misty you might get a kick out of this: history of the role of the Mongol invasions in Japanese culture, which compares the Tokugawa-era samurai families copying historical scrolls with 1980s gamers getting together to copy floppies (at about 42:10)
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-historical-writing-of-the-mongol-invasions-in-japan
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