/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7732857
For some god forsaken reason the original Theme Park was a massive hit in japan, so much that it even got it's own unique japanese version and a board game spinoff.

>>7732857
Magical Hoppers (J) or Pandemonium (U) on the PS1, notable for its port to the N-GAGE.

>>7732857
Lode Runner is pretty big in Japan. As is Spelunker.

>>7733330
I thought it was weird how Broderbund games like Lode Runner were popular in Japan too, though it's probably because of their PC-Engine releases.

>>7733330
Both are so big I only learned way later they are not Japanese.

>>7733339
Lode Runner was already popular before the PC-Engine was a thing, though.

>>7733143
The artstyle is awesome, also the face of the girl is priceless. Anime cutscenes are nice too.

>>7734143
Different character sprites based on the selected language are a great touch.

>>7733339
>>7733348
Lode Runner became huge since it became of of the earliest Famicom 3rd party games.

>>7732857
That monster fighting game that turned into a magical girl anime.

>>7734482
Try 2nd, FAG.
Too many Hudson haters on this board, holy shit. Nintendo injections on /v/ have left you sterile, fat, bald, and stupid.

>>7734915
What the fuck are you even trying to say.

japan probably loves wizardry more than the original western creators do

>>7734216
Based jap version bringing reverse height difference back on the menu

>>7733330
>Spelunker
It's popular in Japan because the MC is absurdly weak in the NES port and Japan loves kusoge. They even made an anime about him

>>7734143
I love that the asian woman gets white washed in the asian version. Very Based.

Saw this at Bookoff and considered buying it.

Most people are familiar with the Super NES port of Prince of Persia, but it was also available on the NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000 and Fujitsu FM Towns and those versions became the basis for the Sega CD and TurboGrafx-CD ports.

>>7735616
That's just fanart and Splatterhouse is already a Japanese game.

>>7736361
Don’t, It’s basically Ultima Exodus NES but with JP localization; Unless you’re a series enthusiast then nobody’s stopping ya from buying it.

my absolute favorite, love shinkiro

>>7736492
Never played an Ultima game. Just thought it was interesting to see a cute anime art-style on an Ultima box.

When I realized I would probably never actually play it, I passed.

Myst was one of the Japanese launch titles for the Saturn

>>7734915
you sound like an autistic virgin

>>7736721
I'm not sure if I like the japanese version, why would you have the main protagonist on the cover twice? And her neck is not nearly that thick.

>>7736296
It's not kusoge. You got filtered.

Also counts as obscure/bizarre port since it was released ONLY in Japan.

>>7736296
that anime is total shit but the game is fine

>>7736257
Almost definitely. Wiz 1-3 still forms the backbone of Japanese blobbers to this day.

>>7736721
Japanese is one of the worst boxarts I've seen, it is amazing how trash it is

This is actually how the character Ripto got his name.

This is nice looking box art, I think.

>>7734216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXNR3pttz0

>>7736721
>why yes, I do play only imported Sega Genesis games, how can you tell?

>>7738858
The cursed non-SCUMM version

>>7736257
Best part of the Japanese versions of these games is the music they added. I like the music from the PCE ports.

>>7738679
>SF version costs an entire ¥3,000 more than the MD version

>>7734216

>>7738679
>>7738914
Green blood and cinematic black-and-white fatalities

https://youtu.be/mysUcyxPY1s

I suppose this doesn't count, since the original western licensed game was developed by Taito, then re-used to make another licensed game for Japan.

>>7738968
I wonder why. Japanese games and gamers are no strangers to gore. Mortal Kombat doesn't push any boundaries there.

>>7739009
Japan was just as random as America when it came to game censorship. That actually extends to today with games like God of War censoring the nudity in Japan despite...well...Japan.

>>7739057
I thought Japan's big censorship asspain was from blood and gore. Apparently (besides niche audiences) Japanese dislike games that go above teen.

>>7738991
I think it does, maybe vicariously. Are there any other examples of games that were given a specific American themed licence for the north american release? It'd blow my mind to find out something like Cool Spot was originally a game about some Japanese prefecture's mascot, or something.

>>7739091
Well, if you're right, I must add that the "niche audience" is pretty hardcore. I've seen some games and films that are extremely violent just for the sake of it, lots of blood and suffering. This kind of thing keeps going, so I beg to differ which japaneses dislike extreme violence from the ones downright lying.

Any japanese anon here? Or someone who lives/lived there and knows this stuff?

>>7736721
I am still not sure how the Japan version was made worse.

>>7739102
Cool Spot was a western developed game anyway, and though it did get a Japanese release it appears they left the visuals completely intact.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/586116-cool-spot/images/12576

Kid Chameleon was developed by Sega Technical Institute, an American company.

It got localised in Japan as Chameleon Kid, and the cover art was changed from the 80s film poster look to one of a manga.

>>7732857
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kglNHHlG6c
>that shitty music
not bueno

>>7738673
lmao

>>7739151

The general audience (and the censors) don't like anything too gory. But the niche audience will go above and beyond with that kind of content. Why is that too hard to understand? Just because it has some hardcore stuff it doesn't mean everyone there secretly likes it.

>>7739057
Realistic gore and dismemberment/disembowelment is far less accepted.

Here's a weird one. These are both the same game. The Donald Duck game in Japan was localized as a Snoopy game in the west.

>>7739102
Yo Noid was some random game about ninjas that Capcom quickly repackaged for Domino's.

>>7741757
Not that weird, when you realize that happened to many games back then. A lot of Brazil-only games for the Master System was just some game that its sprites changed to something famous in Brazil back then(like Wonderland becoming Monica's gang). There is also the example of The Jetsons posted above.

>>7736260
why is she taller in the japanese version?

>>7742015
She's not. They just moved her back for some reason.

>>7742021
Nice trick.
Fooled me.

>>7741757
A Roger Rabbit game got localized as Bugs Bunny in America due to license. Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle

>>7733010
Japs love theme parks.

>>7736721
This looks like one of those "How to draw manga" book only instead of teaching manga badly to Westerners it's about teaching comics badly to Japs
>>7738673
And this
>horry sheet Yamada your handwriting's so shit it looks like Roman alphabet!

>>7738871
yeah, galo sengen

Honestly love this box art even though I hate gex

>>7743832
T&E are my favorite small-time defunct JP dev

>>7741757
>>7742116
why are you like this, Kemco-sekai?

>>7743832
It's look like a japanese version of that one Tom Tom Club album cover

>>7743946
he cute

>>7743946
Imagine hating gex. Couldn't be me.

>>7743840
Is this super robot Wars with magical girls?

>>7737468

Weird. Released only in Japan, and yet the human characters look human and aren't afflicted with highmouth syndrome? How were Japanese boys able to tolerate masturbating to that sexy lady whose chin ISN'T as tall as all her facial features put together?

>>7745125
It's the unholy war with magical girls

>>7743946
Also Enter The Gecko got released under a completely different name (Spin Tail) and with Gex's named changed as well. It flopped massively and now sells for 100 bucks CIB on average, which for Japan is actually pretty expensive.

>>7745326
one of the few instances where the US game is cheaper than the import.

>>7738673
I honestly thought it said Ripto at first

>>7736416
The japanese pc ports came first in japan them those got ported to the Mega and PC Enginr CD's and then thr Super Famicom version was basically, the APEX REMAKE, the one who drawrfs all the above, which followed the original Mac and IBM layouts, SuFami PoP was the REmake of its time.

>>7745727
That's where they got Ripto's name from

This was released in the US as a Jetsons game first.

>>7742446
https://twitter.com/kilotango/status/1381271519251341321

>>7738673
Can someone post the katakana used here? I've seen people calling japanese the "moon language", and this handwriting here takes the cake.

>>7747051
スパイロ?

>>7747051
None of that is difficult to read if you have even a basic understanding of Japanese
Except for the ロ that looks like an O, no idea what they were thinking there

>>7747281
Do you not understand what ロ is derived from, or something? The only part that takes a second is the handakuten on the ハ, because it looks just like a P.

>>7747281
I find the パ more retarded than the ロ there.

>>7747109
Thanks! I had trouble discerning it. I don't know why they shaped everything so weirdly. At least, the "Ripto" story is a funny one.

>>7733143
The girl is definitely a huge improvement. The jester in the original was a bit cooler. Not really buying him as a cool dude.