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Post by TV Eye on Jul 21, 2007 21:59:16 GMT -5
Lol, old boxart tended to have more "mature" looking characters Check out Bomberman
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Post by parrothead on Jul 21, 2007 22:25:09 GMT -5
Lol, old boxart tended to have more "mature" looking characters Check out Bomberman I've seen that. Take a look at Japan's: Also, here are the American and Japanese box arts of the first MegaMan/RockMan title: And here are the American and Japanese box arts of the second one:
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 22, 2007 4:59:44 GMT -5
Doesn't the manual also tell the game's plot, like how did Alice's brother, Jim, accidentally fly away from home? I assume the setting takes place in Pencilvania, which explains the pencil-shaped skyscrapers, while the name sounds exactly like the second state in the United States, Pennsylvania. It sure does. From what I can tell, it's the same story as on the Japanese website for BFGB. But here goes. 1. GAME STORY
In the little town of Pencilvania, there lived a brother and sister who loved to play with balloons. Alice and her younger brother Jim, with spend endless days filling the skies with their balloons.
One day, Jim filled all his balloons and tied them together to make a beautiful balloon rainbow across the sky. "What a great idea this was Jim", said Alice, "but please be careful!". Just then, a strong wind blew and Jim was carried away into the sky. "On no! This is terrible, I must save Jim!", thought Alice. Meanwhile, Jim who was a very clever boy, thought, "I wonder how Alice will find me.........Wait! I've got an idea. I'll leave a trail of balloons for Alice to follow!".
Help our Balloon Kid Heroine Alice find her brother Jim, by collecting the balloons he has left behind. But watch out! Mean animals and dangerous obstacles will try to prevent Alice from completing her search.I tried to write the story as grammatically close to the manual as possible. Horrible! The items are Balloons, Double Balloons, Game Boy, and Power-Up Balloons - but I can't be bothered to type out the descriptions
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jul 22, 2007 5:05:37 GMT -5
Lol, old boxart tended to have more "mature" looking characters Check out Bomberman Haha, that reminds me of Bomberman: Act Zero:
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 22, 2007 5:16:11 GMT -5
Haha, that's what I thought when I first heard of Act Zero. I wish they had been cool about it, and tried (at least a little) to mimic the design of the original artwork. But no. It's Robo-Spawn!
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 22, 2007 12:10:08 GMT -5
I'm touched about the gallery. So there ARE people into obscure-for-Westerners tites? So cool!
+Watch!!
And the boxarts will basically scare people off if shown nowadays.
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Post by TV Eye on Jul 26, 2007 16:47:30 GMT -5
Yeah, the Japanese art seemed to be more kid friendly...but that's basiacally how everyone in Japan draws right? Just that "anime" style? I've never seen anything different come from Japan so I have to give America props for that.
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 27, 2007 7:50:48 GMT -5
Actually, artists styles in Japaan do tend to differ. You probably just haven't seen enough Japanese artwork to notice. The stuff that's sent here and made mainstream is roughly 20% of the actual stuff that exists in Japan. Hey, it's over-populated, whatcha gonna do?
However, it does bug me when certain breeds of interweb fanpersons insists on trying to follow a set model for an and all artwork that might be considered "Japanese-styled" and put it all under one banner when in reality it's no different than animation from anywhere else in the world and has about as many genres as novels or movies.
I mean, you don't see anyone trying to separate European cartoons from American ones, do ya?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 27, 2007 8:16:26 GMT -5
Yes, all the damn time First of all there's the glut of France-Japan crossover cartoons where the two nations worked together to produce wonderful toons such as Inspector Gadget and Dogtanian and the Muskahounds. I refuse to lump in British cartoons with American - look at Dangermouse, Count Duckula and Bananaman. The styles were different, but more importantly, the HUMOUR was different. Like trying to say an American sitcom like Friends is indistinguishable from a British one like the Office.
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Post by Smashchu on Jul 27, 2007 13:11:18 GMT -5
British comedy:Man is women's clothing American comeby:Man gets kicked in junk
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 27, 2007 16:17:06 GMT -5
I'm not going against the fact that the stylings or content of what's in them are different, I'm trying to make it a point that anime and cartoons are not two different forms of media. While cartoons from Britain have themes you'd find in a piece of entertainment that comes from Britain, it's still regarded as a "cartoon", while the so-called "animes" from Japan are treated like an entirely different thing, even though it shouldn't be.
You don't see people trying to follow an all-encompassing art model for cartoons from the UK, do you?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 27, 2007 21:11:03 GMT -5
No, but perhaps we should - and some day all cartoons will strive to be like Danger Mouse
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Post by parrothead on Jul 27, 2007 22:03:05 GMT -5
I remember seeing some French cartoons that looked like they came from Japan. For several examples, The Noozles, The Adventures of the Little Koala, The Adventures of The Little Prince, and The Littl' Bits.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that some French cartoons look like animes.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 28, 2007 4:27:29 GMT -5
ALMOST correct. Many old French cartoons were written in France and produced by Japanese animation houses. If you like, it IS anime, but for France rather than Japan.
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Post by Flip on Jul 28, 2007 14:15:07 GMT -5
A lot of American 80s cartoons had that look too. Transformers and GI Joe, for two. Were those also produced in Japan?
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