Post by Discoalucard on Jan 7, 2011 21:38:43 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/asterix/asterix.htm
Did you know there are over 30 games starring European comic book hero Asterix? One of our staff members called the series "the French equivalent of Dragon Ball" based on how prolific it is. As an American, I've always been mostly in the dark on it, as the article's introduction indicates. I only first found out about it when one of the Genesis games was localized, then later had a brief discussion with a French woman during my tenure at a Borders bookstore, mostly in discussing how astoundingly popular it was in Europe and how astounding unpopular it was in the US. I guess it's not something that that would have gone over well, even had it been properly introduced, especially since the average US citizen probably doesn't know what a "Gaul" is. This isn't a disparagement of the general public but rather an indictment of an education system which (in my experience) was perfectly content in teaching the same 300 years of American history over and over.
But I digress!
There are tons of amusing facts to be found in the the Asterix piece. There are at least two games that were released in North America that were Asterix games overseas. There were three live action movies, all starring Gérard Depardieu, two of which had games based of them. One title features tons of amusing video game parodies, including foes dressed up as Ryu (from Street Fighter), Rayman, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Some of the Sega Master System games were done by the same guys behind the Mickey Mouse games for the system, which were quite good. And some of them have quite good soundtracks too. Please do enjoy the history lesson.
Did you know there are over 30 games starring European comic book hero Asterix? One of our staff members called the series "the French equivalent of Dragon Ball" based on how prolific it is. As an American, I've always been mostly in the dark on it, as the article's introduction indicates. I only first found out about it when one of the Genesis games was localized, then later had a brief discussion with a French woman during my tenure at a Borders bookstore, mostly in discussing how astoundingly popular it was in Europe and how astounding unpopular it was in the US. I guess it's not something that that would have gone over well, even had it been properly introduced, especially since the average US citizen probably doesn't know what a "Gaul" is. This isn't a disparagement of the general public but rather an indictment of an education system which (in my experience) was perfectly content in teaching the same 300 years of American history over and over.
But I digress!
There are tons of amusing facts to be found in the the Asterix piece. There are at least two games that were released in North America that were Asterix games overseas. There were three live action movies, all starring Gérard Depardieu, two of which had games based of them. One title features tons of amusing video game parodies, including foes dressed up as Ryu (from Street Fighter), Rayman, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Some of the Sega Master System games were done by the same guys behind the Mickey Mouse games for the system, which were quite good. And some of them have quite good soundtracks too. Please do enjoy the history lesson.
I knew that there's many Astérix games out there, but not this many. I've only played like three games.
