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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 15, 2009 7:23:57 GMT -5
Before he had an automatic weapon named after him, Ken Lobb used to to bring nightmares to completionists like me by enthusiastically sneaking in multiple quests in his games through tease-like ending messages. He's probably the only developer that got away with signing his name in semi-personal ending messages on Japanese-to-USA developed games. It was common for European developers to put really personal ending messages and thanking their whole family (and even their pets), but not so much in Japanese developed games. You'd be lucky if you find a Japanese NES game with credits or using real names even. He produced and/or created Burai Fighter, Low G Man and G.I Joe for Taxan. Did some stuff for Namco and then apparently left for Taito and made the G.I. Joe clone Kick Master (pretty cool game too). After that, he worked on Super Punch Out and then went to Rare, where KLOBB was born. Or maybe he had a company for hire? Because in the only 2 Taxan and Taito games with credits, the same people are credited. Burai Fighter  Oh then I'll just have to see that won't I?  This was it? And who is this Kal fellow? His name doesn't appear in the credits.  Thank you Ken! Low G Man   Next! G.I. Joe  Kick Master   |
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 15, 2009 9:20:05 GMT -5
Hmm, most of these were only Western releases, right? I didn't realize they weren't Japanese developed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 10:19:44 GMT -5
What about Magician? Was he involved in that? I never was able to finish the third quest on that one.
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Post by Sturat on Aug 15, 2009 12:08:06 GMT -5
Hmm, most of these were only Western releases, right? I didn't realize they weren't Japanese developed. I'm pretty sure Low G Man and the two GI Joe games were developed in Japan by Kid, but they weren't released outside of the US, so it would make sense to have a westerner like Ken Lobb act as a liaison between the publisher and developer, making sure the games' content matched the publisher's needs. Burai Fighter may have been the same deal, but it turned out well enough for Taito to publish it in Japan. Gamefaqs says Kickmaster was also developed by Kid; they say it was also only released in the US, but it was published by Taito. |
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Post by Smithee on Aug 15, 2009 13:06:41 GMT -5
Those graphics are amazing! The cobra! *faints*
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Post by aganar on Aug 15, 2009 13:15:19 GMT -5
Isn't Ken Lobb a gun in Goldeneye?
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Post by Garamoth on Aug 15, 2009 13:26:55 GMT -5
Yes it's the honorable Klobb from Goldeneye, which is what Rey was referring to. Worst gun EVAR, if I say so myself :  If anybody would care to know, the gun's real name is the Skorpion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0korpion_vz._61(I'm honestly a bit surprised that guns have wikipedia entries now) Yeah, I heard Ken Lobb had a lot of little insides in a lot of games from Rare, but I didn't know about these. Aren't there more examples from the N64 era? |
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Post by Sturat on Aug 15, 2009 13:42:20 GMT -5
It looks like Ken Lobb worked on marketing for Taxan back then. Bonus trivia: Taxan and Naxat have intentionally-reversed names because they were owned by the same company.
Also, Isolated Warrior was made by KID, meaning they made a good portion of the good-looking NES games that I haven't bothered playing yet. (Although I bought Low G Man, and I'm not sure I can tolerate the frame rate enough to play through it.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 13:45:24 GMT -5
Jesus...I can't believe I never made the connection between Taxan and Naxat.
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Post by r0ck3rz on Aug 15, 2009 15:12:28 GMT -5
This was it? And who is this Kal fellow? His name doesn't appear in the credits. Just taking a wild stab here... Ken A. Lobb? Jesus...I can't believe I never made the connection between Taxan and Naxat. I can believe I never did, since I'm not geek enough to know who either company is.... ....alright, thanks to you geeks here, I know Naxat was behind those kickass pinball games, but that's it  edit: *sigh* I suppose here's where I get my geek on(aside from realizing I got notihng better to do on a Saturday night than post at a message board). Kal = Kal-El=Superman=sign of arrogance? |
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 15, 2009 16:08:30 GMT -5
Hmm, most of these were only Western releases, right? I didn't realize they weren't Japanese developed. I'm positive they were developed by Japanese people (since the credits are all Japanese names), but for release only in the USA. What about Magician? Was he involved in that? I never was able to finish the third quest on that one. I'm wondering the same thing. I'll try to beat the game 3 times, but I doubt he has any messages there. I'll let you know if there's any. This was it? And who is this Kal fellow? His name doesn't appear in the credits. Just taking a wild stab here... Ken A. Lobb? Hmm, that does sound interesting. |
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 15, 2009 17:32:32 GMT -5
Damn this hobby of mine. I was determined to find out if Ken worked on Isolated Warrior. I opened up the game in text form and saw no ASCII characters. I had to quickly learn how to make tables and dump game scripts and voila! I found a hidden credits list in the ROM. No Ken though.
STAFF
PRODUCER
HAL
CO.PRODUCER
YUJI
JPROGRAMMER
TAKA
GRAPHIC.ARTS
.BY
RATS
AND
DAMY
MUSIC.BY
EDEN
MUSH
MR.N
SPECIAL.THANKS
ICHI
TIGEN
OKU
AND
FAL
HOSO
AMAN
OZA
YAGA
ZEN
I also found what looks like a sound test, but I see no way of activating it.
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Post by Sturat on Aug 15, 2009 18:23:43 GMT -5
Damn this hobby of mine. I was determined to find out if Ken worked on Isolated Warrior. I would assume he didn't since Isolated Warrior wasn't commissioned, localized, or published by Taxan. Check their other games. Also, Ken Lobb was the voice actor for Chief Thunder in Killer Instinct, and supposedly the "Phoenix" move was named after where he went to college. There is a character in Mario Clash named Lobb, so he may have helped localize that. |
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 15, 2009 18:34:12 GMT -5
Well yeah, but neither was Kickmaster. So I had to make sure he wasn't in it.
I'll be trying Magician in a bit. I'll be back in a couple of weeks if I'm not dead from playing that game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 20:05:41 GMT -5
I'll be trying Magician in a bit. I'll be back in a couple of weeks if I'm not dead from playing that game. Ha ha. Yeah, it can definitely drain a person's reserves. Still one of my more favorite NES titles, though. |
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