Retro and New Video Game Picture/Video Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Louis
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Nah, sounds like your priorities are straight bro.Played some Bubble Bobble today. For some reason I still have the password EECFG memorized since when I was a kid. I'll die knowing that stupid password, but forget actually useful stuff like Math.
Pagan
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Me too, however I played the remake of F19 Stealth Fighter. And a crap load of this, I thought the graphics at the time were bad a$$And then one of the first games I played.
Tanoomba
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If I remember right, I did finish it, but it was a long time ago. I would love to play it again, but I only have the Japanese version (for GameBoy Advance).
It was certainly a charming game that I appreciated a lot for its time.
Unrelated:
If that was the market price back, my dad was a lot cooler than I thought back then for buying that for us.Paid $120.00 when this came out.
Joeboo
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I spent that much on the Genesis version of SFII because not only did I have to buy the $70 cartridge, but I also had to buy 2 new 6-button controllers. I think it ended up costing a good $120-$130 or so.
One of my favorite fighting games(great in the arcade, pretty shitty on consoles but I still played the hel out of it):
I would love to hear the reasoning behind why so many of these games replaced the original JP box art. The SF2 ones are as terrible as Castlevania. I'd like to be in their meetings where this was discussed. "Well, Americans don't like awesome looking character art. Let's spend more money and hire someone to make something not as good."
Szlia
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I suspect that most of the time it was because these covers were made by artists that were not in-house: famous japanese illustrators who were paid for the use of their artwork in Japan, but not abroad. As a result, paying the guy and retouching the artwork for localisation would probably have been more expensive than just having some schmuck make a cover from the ground up. I guess as the game industry grew both in professionalism and in market size outside Japan, the deals with the illustrators evolved.
Marmac
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Always wanted to play this so bad. I remember seeing pictures from the Japanese version in EGM way back in the day. I never even knew Snatcher was ported to the U.S.
Marmac
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It's simple, they just don't give a shit unlike the Japanese who take so much pride in everything they do.
Soygen
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Yeah, it was always a running joke with my brother and I. It's almost like they had to justify some amateur artist's payroll in the U.S.
