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Post by eatersthemanfool on Oct 7, 2018 2:51:30 GMT -5
Let us not forget The Bard's Tale and The Bard's Tale. (Thought technically the 1985 Bard's Tale is actually called 'Tales of the Unknown Volume 1' but I'm pretty sure even the publisher never actually called it that.)
I get Shoalin's Road and Yie Ar Kung Fu mixed up all the time, even though they really aren't similar at all.
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Post by JoeQ on Oct 7, 2018 7:09:35 GMT -5
I always mix up Fighting Force, Freedom Force and Freedom Fighters, despite all of them being wildly different genres.
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Post by mainpatr on Oct 7, 2018 13:29:43 GMT -5
I always mix up Fighting Force, Freedom Force and Freedom Fighters, despite all of them being wildly different genres. Don't forget there's actually two different games called Freedom Force. One's for the NES and then you have the more famous PC games. |
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 7, 2018 18:07:03 GMT -5
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap - The third game outside of Japan and the fourth in Japan where it's Monster World II without Wonder Boy in the title. The European version lacks a numeral and the TG16 version is simply The Dragon's Curse. The original Wonder Boy was ported to the NES as Adventure Island which subsequent went on for two more similarly styled NES games, a SNES remake as Super Adventure Island and since everything WB related has to be confusing, a completely original Super Adventure Island II. You missed one. You mentioned the TG16 version of Dragon's Trap was called Dragon's Curse... but that's just its US-release name. Guess what its Japanese PC-Engine name was. Go on, just guess. .... <i>Adventure Island.</i> (The games with Master Higgins were called Takahashi-Meijin's Bokujima or something like that in Japan) |
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Post by phediuk on Oct 7, 2018 18:09:19 GMT -5
I'm not sure why edmonddantes's post brought this to mind, but the SuperGrafx's name bugs me. Why did they use the "Grafx" branding in Japan when the name of the console was the PC Engine there? Maybe they planned to bring it to America at one point, but that still doesn't explain why they used that name in Japan.
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 7, 2018 19:06:51 GMT -5
Who knows why Japan does anything? If I had to make a wild guess... its probably just that someone in Japan heard the TurboGrafx name, liked it, and since the Super was supposed to be the same thing but with better graphics, they thought calling it the SuperGrafx would be neat.
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Post by dsparil on Oct 7, 2018 19:23:37 GMT -5
The full name of it does include PC Engine though.
Also, Wonder Boy truly is a bottomless well of confusing nomenclature.
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Post by kingmike on Oct 7, 2018 21:22:07 GMT -5
Soldiers of Fortune and Soldier of Fortune.
I can't remember which was which but one was the US title for the SNES/Genesis (port of an Amiga original?) top-down run 'n gun perhaps better known as The Chaos Engine, and the other was a 2000s FPS (I only seen it when my friend showed it to me, I guess it was another game to push the violence envelope for its time?)
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Post by kingmike on Oct 7, 2018 21:26:28 GMT -5
Also have Renegade and Target: Renegade been mentioned yet?
I don't think they were directly related except that both were beat-em-ups, released on the NES and published in America by Taito.
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Post by phediuk on Oct 7, 2018 22:24:06 GMT -5
Also have Renegade and Target: Renegade been mentioned yet? I don't think they were directly related except that both were beat-em-ups, released on the NES and published in America by Taito. Target Renegade is a licensed sequel developed by Imagine Software (by then a label of Ocean.) There was also a Renegade 3 for C64/Spectrum. |
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Post by magic89 on Oct 8, 2018 19:16:50 GMT -5
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Post by phediuk on Oct 8, 2018 21:59:58 GMT -5
Don't forget Chris Roberts, Chris Avellone, and Chris Sawyer. |
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Oct 11, 2018 22:29:05 GMT -5
Oh! This is one that annoys the crap out of me. People often use MW when they're talking about the Modern Warfare call of duty games, but for me MW will always be MechWarrior.
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 11, 2018 23:53:44 GMT -5
On that note, you ever have those days where you meet someone who doesn't know MechWarrior is based on Battletech? I've literally shown people Battletech and been asked "is this like Mechwarrior?"
Some cases are more reasonable... I once was looking for Dungeons & Dragons novels and picked Ravenloft, and a guy didn't know Ravenloft was a D&D setting... though then again, the novels don't actually advertise that (TSR publishing and their successor Wizards of the Coast seem like they try to actively hide the connection). It actually sometimes wows people that D&D has so many different worlds rather than one predetermined setting.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Oct 12, 2018 0:47:28 GMT -5
Confession time: I've never really liked the lore of MechWarrior all that much. I'm all about the Battletech mech designs tho.
I loved the Ravenloft books. Way more interesting setting than Forgotten Realms.
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