Why do nerds love East Asia so much?

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funnily enough I think Blockbuster, or rather the rise of home video, did a lot to bring Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest into homes, followed closely by Ninjas - it certainly did to mine (our weekends were a mix of Terrence Hill/Bud Spencer westerns or Kung-fu movies)

Like I said in my first post, through the 70s and half of the 80s you could not watch a movie or TV show "at will". You might have been able check a TV Guide, see when what you wanted to watch was on, and then make sure you were home to watch it.

Going into the mid 80's you could: with a VCR. You could record things right off the air. And you could rent or even buy VCR tapes of things. Instead of all too often just catching a fragment of a movie....you could rent the whole movie and watch it from start to finish.

TV did have Carradines Kung Fu ‘young grasshopper’ and even Saturday Morning cartoons gave us Hong Kong Phooey, at the time I didnt realise that G-Force or Voltron was Japanese or my very first exposure to anime

This was true for a lot of people.