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Post by saberhagen on Mar 5, 2004 20:59:02 GMT -5
I have been wondering about this for almost 10 years now. In the golden years of crappy, made-in-two-weeks games, otherwise known as the 80s, some games were clealy slapped with a popular license ex-post-facto.
Exemple: the first Batman game of the NES (I think it came out in 1989 or 1990). If you never played it, it was a pretty good game, where you controled Batman through Gotham. Except Gotham is full of mutants, aliens and crazy laser-shooting demons. I doesn't feel like Batman, except that they added the Joker as a boss at the end, and he still feel slapped there.
There are other exemples around (Doki Doki Panic, anyone?). Anyone knows about those games? Were they changed in-project or during localization? If then, what was the original games?
Yes, I do care.
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Post by JuanSabini on Mar 6, 2004 18:14:18 GMT -5
THE PAIN it is to remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. LucasArts, a big gaming company of the USA that used to be called LucasFilms (it's not a coincidence...), produced a half-assed action game poorly based on the film. It was impossible to control, you lost life by the simple action of falling (not even hitting the ground), you couldn't get life back, and if you let the fucking torch to extinguish it's fire, you would suddenly lose the level. Oh, and you had limited whips, as if they were ammunition.
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Post by Professor Hazard on Mar 7, 2004 11:22:04 GMT -5
I hate to break it to you, but LucasFilms is still entirely in business. LucasArts is just a branch of said business that handles video games.
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Post by JuanSabini on Mar 7, 2004 11:45:45 GMT -5
What I meant is that in the first years, the gaming company was called LucasFilms, just like the films company, because they were to lazy to create a new name. Then, it changed to LucasArts.
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Post by Pjalne on Mar 10, 2004 8:42:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I think I remember the SNES Star Wars games being created by "Sony in cooperation with Lucasfilm Games" or something. Movie license games are often rushed out into stores before the hype settles, and there's a number of titles out there that originally had no connection to the movies they promote. Like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. This was an independent Robin Hood game that was produced at the time the Costner movie was shooting, and a few phonecalls and a couple of changes in the graphics was all it took for it to become the official game. Which is why you never see these scenes in the movie:    I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened to the Batman game. If it did, the designers sure did a better job than the Hood people, though. |
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Post by Professor Hazard on Mar 10, 2004 11:49:25 GMT -5
What the hell ARE those things in the last shot?
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Post by Mess on Mar 10, 2004 19:53:23 GMT -5
Giant Green Shrimp. It's in the movie, really!
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Post by Pjalne on Mar 11, 2004 8:26:55 GMT -5
Oh yeah, That's right. Forgot all about the extended DVD version.
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Post by Professor Fandango on Mar 11, 2004 18:21:09 GMT -5
With 20% more potato-sack Friar Tuck.
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Post by Northlander on Jul 5, 2004 8:54:14 GMT -5
And 15% more green. Was the color green even used ONCE in the third Indiana Jones movie? Because if it was, I don't remember it.  |
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Post by JuanSabini on Jul 5, 2004 14:31:18 GMT -5
The color of the tanks and the uniforms.
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Post by Northlander on Jul 5, 2004 17:36:19 GMT -5
Doh! And the jeeps.
Never mind. I'll just put on this "dunce" cap and go sit in the corner now.
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