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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
That same thinking, only by a different company (NEC Avenue) went into effect for the Turbo release of Vigilante. The Japanese cover had a close-up of the damsel in distress girl's face (I forget her name), with a male hand over her mouth, and a knife to her throat. Instead, we get some lame-o cover art that looked like a kid tried to draw an actual scene out of the game.

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You mean these?

Japanese version


US version




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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
Here is the complete crap that passed for the cover to the U.S. release...

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LOL, I can't honestly say I'm surprised, even as silly and irrelevant as that cover is. Charlie's Angels was a blockbuster hit in America back in 2000, and its sequel (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) was all set to drop into American movie theaters in June of 2003, less than three months after the official release of Mobile Light Force 2 onto the consumer market. So it was a valiant and incredibly transparent attempt to capitalize on the potential success of the movie by using the same imagery whether it had to do with the game or not. hehe Hardcore gamers might say it sucks, but hardcore businessmen might say it was their best hope to tap into the American consumer base. And as for that PAL cover, well, let's just say somebody's still hung up on Go-Bots & The Transformers.



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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
Transformers or Go-Bots? That's a compliment! I was thinking more like Rock Lords or something similarly lame.

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Oh no doubt, I loved The Transformers & Go-Bots myself as a kid, but when their image is being conjured up 20 years after their popularity has waned in order to peddle a game that has nothing to do with them, a man begins asking himself certain questions. LOL... By the way, I would've completely forgotten that the Rock Lords even existed if you hadn't just mentioned them. While we're strolling down memory lane, remember this one?



A feature-length film pitting the Go-Bots against the Rock Lords for the ultimate battle, and no doubt the highlight of Margot Kidder's career.



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A feature-length film pitting the Go-Bots against the Rock Lords for the ultimate battle, and no doubt the highlight of Margot Kidder's career.

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Margot Kidder did a voice in that? I remember sitting through the movie once when Showtime airred it many many moons ago with my cousin, who actually hated himself enough to go out and buy a couple of those toys. Didn't Telly Savalis do the voice of the leader of the bad Rock Lords? Magma or something like that?

The Go-Bots themselves were okay enough, toy-wise anyway with the die-cast parts (whereas the Transformers used plastic too often), but Hanna-Barberra had no business at all trying to do a robot cartoon. At least Hasbro was smart enough to go through Toei Doga for the Transformers cartoon, getting Japanese work on the show, since the Japanese had already been doing many fine robot cartoons for decades by that point and had the years of experience. Hanna-Barberra? Come on...all they were ever good for was Scooby Doo when the transforming robots craze hit America.

Back on topic, another under-rated game on the Genesis (Mega Drive) that I think should've got WAY more attention than it did during its hey-day:
M.U.S.H.A.
Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor

Otherwise known as Aleste for the purists.

It's a shame that Compile practically abandoned that series after Puyo Puyo became their big money-maker because they really had potential gold here, IMO. We got Robo Aleste a little later on for the Sega CD (also known as Nobunaga's Ninja Force) which was good too, but still didn't have the magic that the first game did and hardly utilized any of the CD capabilities. Then there was a very PISS-POOR Aleste for the Super Famicom (which, thankfully, never left Japan), and from what I understand a pretty decent Aleste installment on the PC Engine/Turbo CD (which I have yet to play ).

CJ, I know you're bound to have the ROM of M.U.S.H.A./Aleste. Fire that sucker up and tell me that that game is a damn fine example of good gaming! In fact, really listen to the music on that first stage. This may sound crazy, but do you think you could do an instrumental of that music?


The cover we saw...

Check out these screenshots. Awesome stuff!




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Margot Kidder did a voice in that?

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CJ, I know you're bound to have the ROM of M.U.S.H.A./Aleste. Fire that sucker up and tell me that that game is a damn fine example of good gaming! In fact, really listen to the music on that first stage. This may sound crazy, but do you think you could do an instrumental of that music?

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I'll definitely check that game (and its music) out later when I get a little free time to noodle. I've heard of it before but never quite got around to firing it up for one reason or another. So many roms, so little time!



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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
While we're talking about voice actors, didn't Leonard Nimoy do the voice of Unicron in the Transformers movie?

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Actually, Unicron's voice was provided by Orson Welles! I always thought that was really cool. You must've been thinking of Galvatron, whose voice was indeed provided by Nimoy. Other celebrity voices in that film included Judd Nelson, Casey Kasem, Scatman Crothers and Eric Idle.



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Originally posted by Lilith Astaroth:
for NES "Clash at Demonhead"
really awesome game where your char gets all kindsa power ups like super-speed boots, and over the shoulder tanks that allow you to fly across the whole zone.. its a pretty long adventure too, took me a good couple of months to complete the whole game. Whenver talking to friends about NES games I'd always mention that one and get blank looks and "nah never heard of that one." So sad! hehe

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I've heard the name, but I never played it. Was it a turn-based RPG like the Dragon Warrior series?

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How about Golgo 13, published, like "Clash at Demonhead", by Vic Tokai, if i remember well?

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Golgo 13? Now that game was cool! I never owned it myself, sadly, but my cousin somehow seemed to get it lent to him by somebody he knew pretty often, so we sat and played it a lot together. I don't think I ever saw the end of the game, but I'll never forget the sniping missions, seeing the spray of red pixels out of your target's head...and when Duke Togo got laid, his health meter filling back up...*lol* I have to wonder how Nintendo of America let that game slide with their seal of approval, being as the content got racey like that. I understand that there was a trick you could do on it where Duke would stop and light up a cigarette, then stand and smoke it. I never got him to do that myself...

Playing that game got me interested in Golgo 13, and when some of the manga got brought over and translated, I dove on those books and bought them up! Duke Togo, while being an interesting character, is really an unlikeable character at the same time. At the time I originally read the comics, I didn't catch exactly how self-serving he is...motivated purely by money and personal gain. He somehow got compared to James Bond when those comics were coming out, but in all honesty, he made James Bond look like a choir boy!

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