/vr/ - Retro Games

Director and programmer Takayan stated in a 2004 interview:

At the time I wasn’t happy that most of the development budget was going to the SFC team. After I put that in, a FAX was sent to all the SEGA development studios asking them to refrain from using imagery that hurt other companies trademarks or characters. I think the only reason nothing happened at the time was the power of the Sunseibu president and the fact that SEGA themselves didn’t like Nintendo all that much.

>>9188972
>Did something happen with Trouble Shooter and Recca?

Yeah, they just thought it was risky. Both games explicitly parody (in a mocking way) their competitors. See picrel and the startup screen of Recca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY79-3AdGY

I wouldn’t say this is necessarily obscure now considering it tends to get posted in a fair few Mega Drive threads, but in Battle Mania/Trouble Shooters for MD, if you hold start on the second controller during the Sega startup screen, you get a little animation of Madison stomping on a Super Famicom. It was put there because one of the devs was sick of the development budget being sent to the SFC teams while the MD teams got far less. Apparently a FAX was sent out to all sega developers after the game was released asking them to not put in content that demeans their competitors. Pretty neat

>>6290235
The devs hated the Super Famicom/NES

why does she do that? how can one hate the snes ?

why must nintenbabby retards always shit up our sega threads? are you jealous?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1yVhXkpCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzPOwwNSOQM

>>1815535

Oh you, Anon.

>>996781

Bless you, Vic Tokai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9n3qro6tg