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Post by parrothead on Nov 1, 2007 2:50:44 GMT -5
Anyone interested in any of Data East's titles, like Karnov, Joe & Mac series (also known as Caveman Ninja), Fighter's History series, Bump 'n' Jump, Ring King, Heavy Barrel, Burgertime, The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, Captain America and the Avengers, Metal Max series, Magical Drop series, Bloody Wolf, Trio the Punch - Never Forget Me..., Chelnov (known as Atomic Runner), Mutant Fighter (arcade) / Death Blade (SFC), Tumblepop, and Bad Dudes?
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Post by TV Eye on Nov 1, 2007 6:47:09 GMT -5
Never heard of any of 'em. I mean, I've heard of Captain America, but not the game...
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Post by Fryguy64 on Nov 1, 2007 8:26:31 GMT -5
Data East is one of those developers who did a very mixed bag of games (in terms of quality). While Karnov is awesome, as is Metal Max, quite a few of them are a bit shaky.
Karnov. Haha. He's so big and fat!
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Post by wanderingshadow on Nov 1, 2007 8:31:34 GMT -5
I think the only one of those games that I played is Burgertime. It's actually very fun, even though I'm not very good at it.
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Post by parrothead on Nov 1, 2007 13:37:34 GMT -5
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Post by Wildcat on Nov 9, 2007 23:03:25 GMT -5
I like Burger Time. I didn't know Data East made it. lol Ring King is quite infamous for its...in-between round antics...but I haven't played it. Karnov is bloody hard! One of the few games where your hero is not all that attractive...on purpose! Karate Champ is also one of the earliest fighters in existance, which was quickly ripped off...until Street Fighter II evolved the concept to the next level.
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Post by parrothead on Feb 18, 2009 23:58:23 GMT -5
In the arcade version of Ring King (a.k.a. King of Boxer in Europe), they don't look as questionable as in the NES version.
Anyway, I checked out the website of G-Mode (current owner of most of Data East's games) and noticed that there were some problems. They showed the 1988 Cobra Command arcade game and said it is also known as Thunder Storm in Japan, but Thunder Storm is the 1984 laserdisc game released outside of Japan as Cobra Command.
Another problem I've encountered was in the BurgerTime characters section, they only showed Peter Pepper (from the original BurgerTime) and Peter Pepper Jr. (from Super BurgerTime?), but where's Frank N. Furter from the Game Boy game, BurgerTime Deluxe? No wonder why most of the Game Boy line was ignored.
The largest problem was that there are several other Data East games missing in their list. So, I e-Mailed them this message:
The next day, they replied to me with this message:
e-Mailing a representative or someone like that feels the same way as asking the same kind of person at other big name video game companies like Nintendo and SEGA, but Mr. Kameda sounds pretty serious, kind and didn't say anything like "Thank you for your cooperation, but we are not allowed to do that." I really hope this helped them out.
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Post by Wildcat on Feb 19, 2009 11:46:17 GMT -5
That's cool. Nice to see a company appreciate their fans. ^_^
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Post by Manspeed on Feb 19, 2009 13:34:40 GMT -5
Man, who doesn't love Burger Time or Bad Dudes?  I remember playing Tumble Pop in an arcade once. Fairly awesome I must say. As for Bloody Wolf, Lizard Dude from TMK kept telling us all to play it back when it was released on the VC, so it must be some kinda good. |
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