Karaoke is a very popular form of entertainment in Asia. The first karaoke machine was invented by Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971. By the 1980s, there was a vast array of karaoke products on the market in Asia. The video game Karaoke Revolution 9 in 2003. In this game, players receive a score based on their singing performance. Karaoke services then 10 through mobile phones, and users could also play karaoke songs using software on their personal computers. Websites started popping up all over the Internet, creating a global karaoke community. On these sites, singers can record and even video themselves 11 . Even some car manufacturers jumped on the karaoke bandwagon and had karaoke players installed as part of a car's DVD player. There are even VCDs available now for Cantonese opera karaoke, so that the elderly can have fun singing songs of the past.