Post by stintergalactic on Jul 10, 2017 20:02:03 GMT
I'm very excited. It took me a while to find, but now I have my own copy of the YYB1 ad! It's the final, Funco version. I also picked up a copy of the Family Trainer game too.
i cant answer all your question but i can answer a few
i say its not a power pad game because it was in a section of only NES games super mario 1 & 2 terminator tetris superman pitfall
also i remember hearing from a comment that there's other unknown games on the list i found that there was nightmare on elm street (existence confirmed and lost) and password( i couldn't find anything)
i'd say dweebers is unlikely because there's no a's y's or h's and also the game ends with an I and starts with yeah yeah and dweebers is well just dweebers so i'd say dweebers is off the table
i'd say there are not words missing because in its last appearance a word was removed nothing was added since the last add was quite awhile later they should have noticed there mistake and added instead of removed
Which Nightmare on Elm Street are you talking about? I remember renting it. But the original version of the game never came out because you played as Freddy and killed the kids. I don't think anyone has ever found any form of that version.
I honestly wouldn't put it past them to misprint a Power Pad game in a section just for regular NES games. I guess Dweebers really isn't a good guess though. I believe it's the same game as Gathers. The screenshot for Gathers could very well be an early build of Dweebers and that doesn't fit at all either. It was also a Game Boy title. But maybe allowing for misprints right out of the gate makes it harder to track down anyway. While it's not 100% impossible for a game to be put in the wrong section, it's just confusing to think that's the answer until other avenues are exhausted. So I'll take that theory back. ^^;;
I'd like to know how these lists were compiled. Were they done by hand then typed and printed up or were they just fed outright into a computer? They'd have to be updated regularly to adjust prices and to include new titles. How were they distributed to other vendors? Via fax? Were multiple people compiling and editing these lists as needed? I imagine having it up on a computer where they can just edit in new entries and price adjusts then printing out new copies would be the easiest. If someone made a small typo and already printed out hundreds of copies they might not want to waste more paper and ink by trashing those copies and reprinting them.
Yeah Yeah Beebiss 1 sounds like a very bizarre title and is probably chalked up to really bad translation. Which is why I don't believe it is Ufouria and I don't believe that guy got a copy with Yeah Yeah Beebiss printed on it. It wouldn't be a commercial copy at all since the game wasn't released in NA until the VC version in 2010. He'd either have some sort of rare prototype copy or an unlicensed version. Seems a bit odd that it would pop up on a list for order like that and he'd actually get it instead of his money refunded.
Why have we never heard of this game turning up in people's collections then? Even the hardcore collectors who track down everything? If this was the case someone else would have it. Usually when this sort of info pops up the convenient excuses of "it broke", "I lost it", or "it was thrown away" are included so existence cannot be confirmed or denied. So I'd consider Ufouria to be a red herring. I won't even take into account the years of release not matching up due to the unfortunate development process of the game. I just don't see why such a bizarro title change would have occurred between the NA and PAL versions. Unless they wanted to avoid comparison with a certain episode of Beverly Hills 90210 that was about a dangerous drug called Uf4ia (pretty sure it was spelled that way). I don't know. I feel like I'm needlessly splitting hairs on that last part. But I think it was a first or second season episode.
Post by Paul McCartney on Jul 12, 2017 15:13:12 GMT
well there was a 1 month gap between the play it again ad and the funco ad meaning that they had 1 month to fix the typo before printing if they had noticed and according to the power pads Wikipedia article Rai Rai! Kyonshis: Baby Kyonshi no Amida Daibō 's English translation is Come come! Fallen Corpses: Baby Fallen Corpse's Amedia Great Adventure
Post by Paul McCartney on Aug 19, 2017 22:59:36 GMT
this was something I noticed on the flyer recently
boldface is well thebold font of course
why do I mention this? because my theory is it means "bold face GAMES coming soon" what is my proof
the flyer was made in june "marvels xmen" is bolded and this is definitely a shortening of "The Uncanny X-Men" which came out in DECEMBER of 1989 "nightmare on elm street" is bolded and was delayed till 1990 (note: theres also an article on the wiki for this game) "roger rabit" was released in September "willow" was released in july for nes
some games that were bolded were released earlier BUT it could be possible that the marketed games could have been the ports of the games so we have 2 possibility's
1. yeah yeah beebiss 1 was a port of another game 2. yeah yeah beebiss 1was a game that was set to be released later than the ad but was cancelled
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this was something I noticed on the flyer recently
boldface is well thebold font of course
why do I mention this? because my theory is it means "bold face GAMES coming soon" what is my proof
the flyer was made in june "marvels xmen" is bolded and this is definitely a shortening of "The Uncanny X-Men" which came out in DECEMBER of 1989 "nightmare on elm street" is bolded and was delayed till 1990 (note: theres also an article on the wiki for this game) "roger rabit" was released in September "willow" was released in july for nes
some games that were bolded were released earlier BUT it could be possible that the marketed games could have been the ports of the games so we have 2 possibility's
1. yeah yeah beebiss 1 was a port of another game 2. yeah yeah beebiss 1was a game that was set to be released later than the ad but was cancelled
It could provide a cover if someone tried to buy a game that didn't exist, like a copy trap. (My theory)
But even if it wasn't released, how would the game companies know about it. There must be insider memos about it.
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Meaning it wasn't released within the US region. So why in the world would they go through with translating a Japanese title to English if they were never going to have it in English in the first place?. (And also I've seen the only images are in Japanese)
Post by LSuperSonicQ on Sept 16, 2017 17:39:25 GMT
I think it's totally possible the game could have been planned for localization and then canceled after it had already been printed in the magazine. It's been a long time since I familiarized myself with the Power Pad and its release in different regions, but I think a canceled game fits in the timeline of sales and expectations in the US market based on what I remember reading.
Plus, I don't think a single theory has come forward that is more likely or more convincing than the Rai Rai theory, so I just don't see any reason to invalidate it.
Last Edit: Sept 16, 2017 17:43:44 GMT by LSuperSonicQ