Unrelated games with similar titles

[edmonddantes]

So here's something I always found weird.

Capcom once made a series of games based on the manga Tenchi wo Kurau, which itself is based on the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.

One of the games they created was an arcade beat-em-up which came to the west under the name Dynasty Wars.

... a decade or more later, Koei (who also had a long history of creating games about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms) gave us a three kingdoms 1vs1 fighter called Sengoku Musou, which got a sequel called Shin Sengoku Musou which abandoned the 1vs1 Tekken clone concept and instead was a brawler... and these games came to the west under the names (respectively) Dynasty Warriors 1 and 2.

It just seems odd to me that these games by two different companies would happen to deal with the same subject matter and (in the west only) would have very similar titles.

.....

So I once heard of this text adventure that sounded interesting.  It was about hacking or something.  So I go on ebay to look it up.

Here's the problem:  This old adventure game?  It happens to be called Portal.

here's the wikipedia article for it

Another case like this... there's an MS-DOS game called Amnesia.

Yeah, trying to find either of these games online is a headache and a half because you usually get hits for more popular modern games that happen to have similar titles.

[mainpatr]

There's actually three games called Amnesia. The Dos game,A visual novel, and the famous horror game. How about Sierra's Manhunter series of games\Rockstar's stealth\murder fest Manhunt.

[phediuk]

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

[kingmike]

King of Kings on the Famicom was a medieval strategy game by Namco, while an unlicensed bible game was released with the same name on NES.

[edmonddantes]

Here's one that kinda sucks for me now.

I was looking to see if there was like, a retrospective or anything on a publisher called "The Adventure Company" which used to put out all sorts of weird-looking adventure games which usually sold at bargain prices and which, admittedly, I tended to ignore in the day even though I was sort of interested in them.

It turns out there's now an actual game called The Adventure Company and most searches now get me that.

Siiiigh.

...

Related, but okay recently I found out the name "Capcom" comes from Capsule Computers, which was Capcom's business before they became a game company.

But here's what odds me out about that... I could swear I read a novel or something from before the 1970s where a character describes something as "the capcom of excellence!" or something like that, making it sound like the term had actually been around longer than the game company (sort of like Atari being named after a term from the board game Go).

Did I just imagine that or has anyone else run into that as well?

[kingmike]

I'm sure I watched a sci-fi or something movie with my friend (unlikely it was a Bond movie?) with a UN-like group of (bad?) guys and one of them was "Capcom". I can't remember what it was.

[Discoalucard]

There's Radiata Stories and Radiant Historia, two completely unrelated RPGs (though they did share some staff).

[magic89]

Did someone forget aleady Unearthed(Trail of Ibn Battuta) & Uncharted series?
Rest of my findings
-Record of Lodoss War = Record of Agarest War
-G-Police = G-Force
-SOS(Septentrion) = SOS Sink or Swim
-G.I.JOE = Yo Joe!(Can be problem because Yo Joe! are warcry of G.I.JOE )
-Metal Gear = Metal Slug
-Freedom Force = Freedom Fighters

Racing games had similar fate

-GT Evolution(Corvette Evolution GT in US) = GTR Evolution(Race 07 Expasion pack)
-Playlogic World Racig games = Real World Racing by Playstos S.r.l
-Grand Prix Legends = GT Legends both are hardcore sim racing games

[kingmike]

Well Sink or Swim was originally named Man Overboard in its native Europe. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea to rename it for the US release when the other game was already released. Was Septentrion even released in EU?

[eatersthemanfool]

Capcom is also "capsule communicator", the guy in mission control who talks to the astronauts.

[Sturat]

Jan 11, 2019 9:15:35 GMT -5 magic89 said:

-G.I.JOE = Yo Joe!(Can be problem because Yo Joe! are warcry of G.I.JOE )

I've never heard of Yo Joe, but there's a Duo game called Yo Bro.

Bust-a-Move is a classic example.

There is a PlayStation game called Wreckin Crew which has nothing to do with the NES game Wrecking Crew.

[zellsf]

Prey (2006) and Prey (2017) have no relation to each other whatsoever, beyond being in first person and being about fighting aliens.

Bethesda bought the studio that made Prey (2006), but since they owned the trademark just stuck the name on a game that had nothing to do with it.

[edmonddantes]

Jan 11, 2019 9:15:35 GMT -5 magic89 said:

Did someone forget aleady Unearthed(Trail of Ibn Battuta) & Uncharted series?
Rest of my findings
-Record of Lodoss War = Record of Agarest War
-G-Police = G-Force
-SOS(Septentrion) = SOS Sink or Swim
-G.I.JOE = Yo Joe!(Can be problem because Yo Joe! are warcry of G.I.JOE )
-Metal Gear = Metal Slug
-Freedom Force = Freedom Fighters

Racing games had similar fate

-GT Evolution(Corvette Evolution GT in US) = GTR Evolution(Race 07 Expasion pack)
-Playlogic World Racig games = Real World Racing by Playstos S.r.l
-Grand Prix Legends = GT Legends both are hardcore sim racing games

G-Force, outside of gaming, gets even more effed up.  I remember when Disney made a CGI movie about gopher superheroes called G-Force, and I was like "how many people are gonna see that because they think its a remake of that one dub of Gatchaman?"

Any time a racing game has GT in the title, I wonder if they're trying to make people think its a spinoff of Gran Turismo.

[mainpatr]

Oh, the GT Advance games on GBA are called Advance GTA in Japan. It is hard not to mix it up with GTA Advance.

[eatersthemanfool]

I always get G-Force mixed up with D-Force.