I remember seeing a post somewhere that talked about the vastly different perceptions of Sunsoft’s NES-era games between US/Europe and Japan.
“The West” mostly remembers the high-quality late-NES-era games, like “Batman”, “Blaster Master”, “Journey to Silius”, etc., whereas Japan mostly remembers the rather underwhelming early titles, such as “Ikki”, “Route-16 Turbo” or “Atlantis no Nazo”.