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8691718 No.8691718 [Reply] [Original]

post games that somehow got localized
>anime before pokemon
>pcengine
>cute em up
it never stood a chance

>> No.8693958

>>8691718
Bump

>> No.8693978
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>>8691718

>> No.8693985
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bunch of Working Designs games, even if people shit on them for a lot of their choices, they were also responsible of bringing many games that would have otherwise remained Japan-only

also Snatcher, specially considering how superb the whole package is, commonly considered the superior version

>> No.8693997
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>>8693978

>> No.8694926
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One of 3 or 4 games JVC published in the US for the Sega-CD (which they did a lot of the hardware design for) launch in 1993.

I actually had a friend in elementary school in the mid 90s that had this game

>> No.8694958

Pretty much anything unabashedly explicitly culturally Japanese like this and Pocky & Rocky. Released in the same America where they would delete Japanese background text in anime and leave it blank, turn riceballs into jelly doughnuts, and pretend things took place in the US instead of Japan.
The most these two games did was change names and terminology, but then Starring Goemon came out and they just said fuck it and kept everything in tact.

>> No.8694965
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>>8694958
FUCK, forgot pic.

>> No.8694991

>>8694926
JVC did barely fuck all hardware design for the Sega CD. One of the late year Sega CD 2s used a JVC drive, and they had the X-Eye 1-2 which also used their CD drive plus a custom case. And even the CD drive they "made" just used a JVC pickup, but the actual drive logic was the same as other Sega CDs (Sony and Hitachi ICs).

At most they were OEMs for the console, but they didn't design the hardware at any point, Sega just used their off-the-shelf components.

>> No.8696535
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>>8694926
Imagine the loli fetish he got

>> No.8696834

>>8694926
I bought this off ebay two decades ago!

>> No.8698730

>>8693985
>superior version
>censored port with fan-fiction content not written by Kojima
Pick one. The only thing it has going for it is the fact that it's EOP-friendly and the intro with Gillian and Jaime is kinda cool.

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>>8693997
kek

>> No.8698756
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>> No.8699253

>>8694926
I had that as well. PAL release. Good good reviews back then.

>> No.8699320
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>> No.8699837

>>8696834
I wonder how good the prices was then and how awful they are now

>> No.8699843
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>>8699320
The fact Evolution Worlds got released over here, all of them, is another one. No OG Baroque, but Azure Dreams and Evolution. . .

>> No.8699858
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8699858

This one seriously blows my mind. A game based on an adult oriented manga series that had little to no exposure in the west in the 80's and it came here almost in its entirety. Beside the breasts you can see at one point basically everything was preserved, including the sex scene where you see the breasts and levels where you use a sniper to assassinate people.

>> No.8701760

>>8699858
Leeds Publishing had a U.S. subsidiary back then that translated a few of the Golgo 13 comics.

>> No.8701839
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8701839

one of the benefits of growing up in PAL land is that we got a lot of raw uncut weeb shit that was deemed unpalatable for the US market

>> No.8701843

>>8699858
What about the sequel mafat conspiracy?

>> No.8701845

>>8691718
>never stood a chance
A chance at what? NEC of America had basically had the plug plugged from under the TGFX by that stage. Their localisation projects had always been a labour of love and that needs to be emphasised ten times here. This game was released late, solely as mail order, to a tiny community. Hence it's rarity and, partly i'll grant because it is a good game, current value.

>> No.8701885

>>8694958
Funny that "the line" in regards to Pocky and Rocky was expecting Americans to accept a protagonist called Sayo, and a character who's a tanooki rather than a raccoon.
They also inserted another Japanese cultural reference by calling the character Pocky, and I don't know if anyone even knew what Pocky was in the early 90's.

>> No.8701898
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>>8701839
I remember playing a lot of this. Too bad none of SFC's Puyo Puyo games landed in Europe, if you don't count the reskinned Kirby version.

>> No.8701924

Weirdly, I'm pretty sure the only Final Fantasy games to get PAL releases before 7 were the ones on the Gameboy.

>> No.8701929

>>8701839
Europeans and even Latin America got uncut weebt shit long before US Americans who think they were the first to get anime in the 90's

>> No.8701937

>>8701929
Depends. France was very into anime, but that's not necessarily true everywhere.

>> No.8701967
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>>8701937
anime was really big in Germany and the UK (see pic related) as well. many amiga games developed in those countries around this time even had anime inspired art style

>> No.8701976

>>8701967
I don't remember anime being big in the UK at all. There was a short period in the 90's when you could find it on the sci-fi channel, but apart from that, it doesn't really have any pull on popular culture. We barely got Adult Swim or anything. France was airing Fist of the North Star and Galaxy Express 999 back in the 80's.

>> No.8701989
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>>8701937
If we Nordic countries had got Sailor Moon on the snes like the French did, I would have bought it immediately. Oh well, at least now I have the Japanese Megadrive version which I think is better except for the missing 2-player mode.

>> No.8701997

>>8699843
RPGs were big and they needed a Dreamcast RPG, so they brought Evolution.

>> No.8702005
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>>8701924
Gameboy Saga/FF Legend -games were not released in Europe. Only Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest for the SNES were. And neither of those mentions Final Fantasy in the title.

>> No.8702009

>>8702005
Weird, because a friend of mine had all of them. Could just be imports, because Gameboy was region free, but I don't know how he would have gotten them.

>> No.8702012

>>8701976
uk had one of the largest anime distributors in the west https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Entertainment

and there was some localised anime on uk kids tv in the 80s. Star Fleet, Ulysses 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, among others

>> No.8702030
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>>8702009
It may of course be that they have been sold somewhere in Europe. My sources are just my ass and wikipedia

>> No.8703805

>>8702005
That Gameboy cover is so fucking cool

>> No.8703914

>>8701989
>which I think is better except it's not
fixed :-)

>> No.8703946
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games that yanks can’t wank

>> No.8704409

>>8701967
>>8701976
There was a lot of shows that were co-productions between european countries and japan in the 70s-90s

>> No.8704424 [DELETED] 

>>8701976
> France was airing Fist of the North Star and Galaxy Express 999 back in the 80's.

First anime that aired here was UFO Robo Grendizer in 78

>> No.8704425

>>8701976
> France was airing Fist of the North Star and Galaxy Express 999 back in the 80's.

I believe the first anime that aired in France was UFO Robo Grendizer in 78

>> No.8704460
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>>8701843
Yeah, especially the ending. Maybe not up the exploding Hitler head, but some guy spread out on the ground, head blown open with brain leaking out, as bloody papers fall to the ground, is probably one of the grittier examples of blood and gore on the NES.

>> No.8704527
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>>8703914
To my eye, it has the more beautiful sprites and the more fitting arrangements. In general, I like it more mainly audiovisual reasons than the SFC version.

>> No.8704987

>>8703946
Burgerlards could play this on ZSNES a few years after its official release.

>> No.8705536

>>8704409
mondoTV. ive been watching Cinderella and Simba the Lion King with my toddler.

>> No.8706253

>>8701937
South America had a strong comic market until the late 80s early 90s when manga and anime fucked it in the ass so hard that it never recovered, like literally not a single comic meet success except for strips artists like Quino or Fontanarosa (who where cultural icons way before manga took over), Revista Fierro still exists but is not even a shadow of it's former self.

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>>8704527
I will respect your opinion

>> No.8706991

>>8691718
>somehow got localized
Coz it has no text in it dumbarse.... Also lots of shmups got released in the west before Magical Chase.

>> No.8707027
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8707027

>>8694965
This and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon piqued my interest in Japanese shit back in the day.

>> No.8707041

>>8698739
>>8693997
What If Shantae creates as TG-16 or NEC mascots?

>> No.8707048

>>8701989
Oh man

>> No.8707052
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>> No.8707097

>>8691718
>>cute em up
explain

>> No.8707102

>>8707041
What if you weren't autistic?

>> No.8707221

>>8707052
Great game but holy fuck, why do burgers insist on butchering artwork!?

>> No.8707330
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>>8707052
>>8707221
At least in Europe we got a decent cover

>> No.8708207

>>8707221
>Great game
It's just OK. Chougi Ranbu Hen is the only Ranma fighting game on the SNES that's decently good.

>> No.8708230

>>8707097
"The subgenre of cute 'em ups feature brightly colored graphics depicting surreal settings and enemies. Cute 'em ups tend to have unusual, oftentimes completely bizarre opponents for the player to fight, with Twinbee and Fantasy Zone first pioneering the subgenre, along with Parodius, Cotton, and Harmful Park being additional key games. Some cute 'em ups may employ overtly sexual characters and innuendo."

>> No.8708273
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Now I'm in the mood for some Parodius

>> No.8708316
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8708316

>>8699858
My favorite part was how you can pick up a pack of cigarettes and they heal you. Then you look at so many other NES games where they censor the shit out of everything, especially booze and cigs

in other news I'm pretty sure nobody bought this game at all

>> No.8708373

>>8699858
They censored the breasts but also the last boss and replacement with "Smirk".

>> No.8708509

>>8698730
>fan-fiction content not written by Kojima
Things written by Kojima alone already read like fan fiction, how can anyone tell the difference

>> No.8710873
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>>8707221
They are afraid

>> No.8710918

>>8710873
>cleopatras fortune
>put king tut on the cover

What was the tought process?

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>>8691718
>Pic related features japanese pop singer GACKT
>Gets released in US and Europe
How the fuck did this happen?

>> No.8711935

>>8701885
Maybe "Pocky" was just to go along with "Rocky", and the latter probably came on first. You know, it's forbidden to have a raccoon named anything but Rocky in the west. Thanks, Beatles... I guess.

>> No.8712143

>>8691718
Wow! For an Americanized cover (let alone a TurboGraFx one) it's somehow tolerable.

>> No.8713772
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8713772

>>8699858
>>8701760
>This one seriously blows my mind. A game based on an adult oriented manga series that had little to no exposure in the west in the 80's
It came out around the time that there was a concentrated push to make it a thing in the west. Same with this Fist of the North Star GB game and that SNES Ultraman game, they were localized and released entirely because someone wanted to get the series big in America.

>> No.8713867

>>8713772
Fist of the north star was on several european children tv channels back then.

>> No.8713874

>>8713867
What you're saying has no impact on my post.

>> No.8713886

>>8713874
Good for you, but in France this stuff was already a thing. So much for "the west".

>> No.8714069

>>8713886
Go to a french website if you want to talk about france, ouiaboo.

>> No.8714248

>>8713772
>>8713867
>>8713886
The Fist of the North Star GB game here did not release in PAL regions. That Golgo 13 NES game did not release in PAL regions. The Ultraman SNES game did not release in PAL regions.
Anything else, anon?

>> No.8716303

>>8708316
I did

>> No.8717135

>>8712143
I think it actually is a cover originally used in Japan, judging from some pics I've seen.
Which is weird because it has that airbrush look that so many video game covers had this time

>> No.8717175

>>8704527
i love her

>> No.8717341
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>>8694958
>kept everything in tact

>> No.8717869

>>8701929
this is true for France, Italy, Spain, Argentina and Chile.

>> No.8718826

>>8707041
Wtf does this mean

>> No.8718867
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>>8701929
>long before US Americans who think they were the first to get anime in the 90's

>> No.8719062

>>8701929
>>8701937
Anime has been huge and well known with Latin American and Arab viewers dating back to the '80s. It was not only popular in Europe in the '80s.

>> No.8719118

>>8708509
>Things written by Kojima alone already read like fan fiction,
t. Agness Kaku

>> No.8719330

>>8718867
People have said that

>> No.8719879

>>8719330
Point out one person here who said that.

>> No.8720127

>>8719879
>here
I bet there's another pretentious smartboy debatelord word for this shit you're doing, too

>> No.8720129

>>8720127
What, telling you to stop arguing against shit nobody said?

>> No.8720139

>>8720129
The third world is plagued with mental illness, anon.

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>>8691718
I am unfamiliar with PC-98, so it is nice to have DOS games which appealed to my sensibilities on a platform I had. Even had a chance to visit their booth at a trade show. It is a shame, despite being some of my favorite games at the time, they couldn't survive.

>> No.8722031

>>8721795
based

>> No.8724024

>>8707027
The N64 game having an anime like OP and other subtitled songs in the game, released in that era, was kind of crazy when you think about it

>> No.8724319

>>8708316
I bought in a fleah market 7 years ago in Southern Europe

>> No.8724473

>>8720129
>I have heard this said in the past
>Who ever said that in the last five seconds in this room? Heh, no example huh another internet argument won added to my log

>> No.8725198

>>8724473
>Who ever said that in the last five seconds in this room?
Yes, retard. Nobody said it, so it's fucking irrelevant. You bringing it up for no reason is just you trying to add another internet argument win to your log, you moron. You're not talking to the dipshit you were 10 years ago, you're talking to someone else entirely, so arguing against points nobody made HERE, IN THIS CONVERSATION, is pointless and irrelevant.