Blind Ryan
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Banned for being a dipshit
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Post by Blind Ryan on Aug 14, 2012 2:03:10 GMT -5
Don't forget that the "A" button is used for twists as opposed to laboriously turning left and right... also, the music was beyond awesome.
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Post by Dee Liteyears on Aug 14, 2012 7:46:54 GMT -5
Anybody tried to use Sonic or Sega as their name? *g
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Post by nickz on Aug 20, 2012 17:50:13 GMT -5
I've bee working on revising the Unirally article lately and have been adding stuff that I missed. I'm also having problems finding where to get the court records to see if noclothes' comment is true. I can't even find the name of the case (Pixar v DMA?). If anyone has any information on this at all, please let me know.
On the upside, I watched Red's Dream enough that I think I know some of the exact frames of animation that look like they were stolen. Anyway, thanks for helping, everyone. I have a lot of work to do fixing everything up and I appreciate all the help.
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Post by nickz on Aug 22, 2012 18:36:40 GMT -5
Okay, I'm almost done with the revision. After spending hours looking for court records and coming up with nothing, I'm getting to the point where I'm willing to trust DMA Design's word from the Nintendo Life interview more than an anonymous poster in the comments section. I'm thinking I'll leave in the "moron judge" parts in because of this.
If anyone has anything to say about DMA Design being wrong and have some sources, then now is the time. I'm going to submit the revision soon, so speak up if you have anything.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 25, 2012 2:09:41 GMT -5
Updated!
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Post by Scylla on Aug 25, 2012 2:36:59 GMT -5
Pretty interesting. All these years later and it still seems like there's some bad blood going on there. I knew about the lawsuit, but I didn't know so much detail about it. It all sounds pretty fishy to me, in terms of Pixar's perspective. If I was to anthropomorphize a unicycle, I'd probably make the seat the head too. That just seems logical, even without outside influence. Then the movements would flow logically and naturally from there. It wouldn't surprise me at all if both the look and movements are completely coincidental.
It's a shame that the game had a shorter life than intended. It really seemed like they were aiming for it to be a huge title in the SNES library. Really, 300,000 is still a decent amount, so I wouldn't really say it's rare but definitely more uncommon than it should be.
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Post by vetus on Sept 6, 2013 8:03:27 GMT -5
Since it's a highly acclaimed retro game and has limited copies due to the Pixar charge (which was bullshit and made me lose my appreciation for this studio which made some amasing movies) I expected it to be quite expensive on eBay. However I found out that the average price is 20 dollars even for a boxed copy. I will never understand how the hell does the retro market works. Does it means that Unirally not popular enough at the retro fandom? Or that Unirally fanbase is reasonable enough to not fuck up with the prices?
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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 6, 2013 9:36:09 GMT -5
It's probably that Unirally just doesn't have much of a fanbase to begin with. It's one of those games that most people are just kinda indifferent towards, if they even know about it at all.
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Post by nickz on Sept 6, 2013 10:17:29 GMT -5
Since it's a highly acclaimed retro game and has limited copies due to the Pixar charge (which was bullshit and made me lose my appreciation for this studio which made some amasing movies) I expected it to be quite expensive on eBay. However I found out that the average price is 20 dollars even for a boxed copy. I will never understand how the hell does the retro market works. Does it means that Unirally not popular enough at the retro fandom? Or that Unirally fanbase is reasonable enough to not fuck up with the prices? I don't get the retro game market either. Chrono Trigger is supposed to be common, a bestseller actually. Yet it costs an arm and a leg. There are a lot of factors from distribution, to popularity, to even something as small as genre. www.racketboy.com/guide/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-video-gamesI've probably linked this before, but it somewhat explains weird prices on stuff. I still don't get why anyone would pay anything for Rex Ronan. That is very a bad game. |
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Post by vetus on Sept 6, 2013 10:30:58 GMT -5
It's probably that Unirally just doesn't have much of a fanbase to begin with. It's one of those games that most people are just kinda indifferent towards, if they even know about it at all. It seems so. Even thought I play SNES games on emulators (or I play their improved versions on later systems) and I'm not a collector I regret it for not buying a copy of Unirally when I found it years ago boxed on perfect condition on a super market for 5 euros only. Little did I knew how good it is. |
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Post by TheChosen on Sept 6, 2013 10:37:16 GMT -5
Doesn't help that one game is an epic RPG with time travelling while the other is just bunch of racing unicycles.
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Post by Garamoth on Sept 6, 2013 20:13:03 GMT -5
Wow, the legal issues sound a lot more interesting than the game itself. However, if the case was settled out of court (which sounds likely), there won't be any judgement to prove anything either way. The best you could do is find a mention of it on a court docket (but what country? which state?) but that stuff isn't on the Internet. That mention is the best you could get, because any proceedings that have been put in records have probably been shredded by now... it's been 20 years. I guess you could always phone the actual people involved.  |
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