Boxer, Claw, & Dicator

[mad_possum]

They’ve been raping ports for a long, long time. Anyone here old enough to remember that our Super Mario 2 isn’t the real SMB2? Or that Phantasy Star 3 had it’s parallax scrolling backgrounds removed? Etc. And I can’t even begin to count how many names have been changed needlessly over time. Like, they’ll take a perfectly decent name and change it to something odd over here…for no reason. English ports of Japanese games have been screwed up since the dawn of time.

Still, most of the time it’s just too much work to bother with deciding which names to use, or explaining what you mean. Other than with SF’s Claw, Boxer, Dictator, I generally use the english names for all games. After all, I’m rarely(aka. never) over in Japan, so it’s not much of an issue most of the time :wgrin:

Ya, but come on, SMB2 was a lot better than the “real” SMB2 that we lost out on (and later got to play anyway as “The Lost Levels”). I just loved it because I could time my button presses on the slot machine at the end of levels and get 3 cherries in a row almost every time. Lots o’ lives for me! LOL.

The only time I use generic or Japanese versions of the names is if I’m playing online with players from other countries.

Worse even than taking things out is refusing to even release games over here (I’m still waiting for Policenauts, Konami!).

[x64]

I’ll be damned if I ever use that “boxer/dictator/claw” nonsense. This is an english forum, it should be common sense what nomenclature we use. In fact, I purposely mispronounce Ryu (Rye-you!) to get a rise out of japanophile fighting-game enthusiasts.