/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2473409]

Explain this, /vr/. The game in pic related - a lewd strip mahjong game - rips off stuffs from the comics Big Two - and the creator of the game gets away with it.

Rip-offs and "bland name products" in retro vidya thread, I guess.

[Anonymous No.2473419]

Pic related to OP, now go compare with it.

(Something that's funny in the game in this picture is that there is an arcade cabinet that Castle/Fury could destroy at the very start of the first stage. A "take that" to the game in the OP, I guess? That sounds unlikely though.)

[Anonymous No.2473582]

From what I can tell, Japanese copyright laws are... odd. There's a lot of ripping off going on that just goes unchecked because reasons. Add to that that the game never saw a western release, and it could have just as well been that the Big Two either didn't care or didn't know.

[Anonymous No.2473621]

I think the most famous example of all this might be Revenge of Shinobi. The original version had blatant rip-offs of Spider-Man, Batman, Terminator, Hulk, Rambo, Godzilla and maybe one or two others that I'm forgetting.

[Anonymous No.2473656]

>>2473582
Revenge of Shinobi had Spiderman and Batman as bosses.

[Anonymous No.2473665]

>>2473656
>>2473621
Derp.

There's actually four different versions of the game in America, Sega eventually picked up the Spiderman license in 1990 and added him back in the game. He was removed later when the VC version was released.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2473681]

Nichibutsu had a history of ripping off Western pop culture imports and getting wiminz to model in pink-like leotards for flyers. They also did Crazy Climber, Terra Cresta, and UFO Robot Dangar, so all's forgiven.

[Anonymous No.2474467]

Begin picdumps!

Here's those from Drift Out, the 1991 top down rally game that preceded Neo Drift Out. Look at the deliberate misspellings of drivers and car names.

1/6 - Mazda Familia/323, Ingvar Carlsson

[Anonymous No.2474472]

2/6 - Lancia Delta, Miki Biasion

[Anonymous No.2474484]

2/6 - Lancia Delta, Miki Biasion
(accidentally posted the previous one spoilered)

[Anonymous No.2474491]

3/6 - Toyota Celica, Carlos Sainz

[Anonymous No.2474492]

>>2473665
>He was removed later when the VC version was released.
I'm disappointed they didn't changed it back to a shapeshifter in the VC version. It makes no sense for Fake Spider-Man and Fake Batman to be separate characters anymore.

[Anonymous No.2474497]

4/7 - Ford Sierra, Francois Delecour
(miscounted the total pictures, sorry)

>>2474492
The second form of the boss in question in the Marvel licensed builds actually resembled some guy from the manga Devilman.

[Anonymous No.2474501]

5/7 - Mitsubishi Galant, Kenneth Eriksson

[Anonymous No.2474504]

6/7 - BMW M3 E30, Francois Chatriot (what a obscure driver to me)

[Anonymous No.2474505]

>>2473409
this actually looks pretty cool, shame it's just mahjong

[Anonymous No.2474507]

7/7 - Subaru Legacy, Markku Alen (according to the game data, it appears that the Legacy was added in the last minute. or late during the game's development)

Up next: Tail to Nose: Great Championship/Super Formula, a F1 game with similar trademark-evading misspellings.

[Anonymous No.2474509]

I feel like it's not just the japanese, copyright laws as a whole were a lot more lenient in the early 90s. Now with the internet we get entire companies who make a living from tracking down stuff like this.

[Anonymous No.2474514]

1/6 - Williams-Judd, Nigel Mansell/Riccardo Patrese

[Anonymous No.2474518]

2/6 - Lotus-Honda, Satoru Nakajima/Nelson Piquet

>>2474509
Related to my current picdumps, and not /vr/, but I've heard the stories of Ferrari sending C&D to BATracer, as well as Formula One Management sending C&D to VirtualR.

[Anonymous No.2474520]

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm

[Anonymous No.2474521]

3/6 - Benetton-Ford, Theiry Boutsen/Alessandro Nannini

[Anonymous No.2474524]

4/6 - March-Judd, Ivan Capelli/Mauricio Gugelmin

>>2474520
I got the OP picture from a thread in HG101's forums, related to the article.

[Anonymous No.2474528]

5/6 - McLaren-Honda, Alain Prost/Ayrton Senna (1988 World Champion, R.I.P.)

Fact: McLaren won all but one of the races in the 1988 Formula One season (the season the game is based on).

[Anonymous No.2474531]

>>2473681
>all is forgiven
>implying that flyer art and woman in pink leotards aren't awesome

[Anonymous No.2474532]

6/6 - Ferrari, Gerhard Berger/Michele Alboreto.

We have a thread on a F1 forum I read about making puns from F1 driver names and foods, and that one for Berger fits. He was the only non-McLaren driver to win a race in 1988 F1 season, too.)

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2474536]

>>2474531
No, the women in leotards are great. That's one reason why the company was so cool, should have clarified.

[Anonymous No.2475772]

>>2473409
There was a Nichibutsu thread a few months ago, and it's crazy the amount of rip-offs these guys created. Pic related : not Sailor Moon

As far as sports game are concerned, it seemed pretty common to use misspellings of famous sportsmen. I remember Tennis Ace using some (Y. Nova, I. Lender, J. Conner) and even PES

[Anonymous No.2475775]

>>2475772
>Sailor Wars
that is incredible, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.2476338]

>>2474532
The the original Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge game your competitors names are puns on the F1 drivers of the previous decade:
Nigel Mainsail,
Gehard Banger
Ayrton Sendup,
etc

[Anonymous No.2476360]

>>2474492
Not only did they remove Batman and Spiderman in the later releases, but they also removed Godzilla, and replaced him with a metal skeleton dragon, and if you notice closely, the ninja on the title screen is modeled after Sonny Chiba., and they removed him in faver of a generic ninja in the VC release as well.