Yeah Yeah Beebiss I Alternate Theory

So, the theory you posed is not really that different than current Rai Rai hypothesis. Basically, that is was a very (very) poor translation.

From an interview with FHUVG founder Neil Levin, we do know that they were importing games from Japan at the time. So everything in your theory could potentially vibe with what we know. But in that same interview, he also said that sometimes fake listings made it on to those game advertisements.

And that's what we're left with unless any new information comes to light.

Isn't the main YYB1 thread like, the longest thread on this dang site? I'm on there twice, like 20 pages apart, it's wild.

What's even funnier is that for as long as that thread was, we had another private thread discussing contacts that was almost just as long.




It's certainly possible that they had a go to Japanophile guy that could have helped them with stuff, but with the evidence we have so far, there isn't a reason they would have needed one. Bob and Neil had contacts in Japan, and did import games from there. So I'm sure they were at least somewhat aware of things from Japanese culture. And even without Google Translate, there were still ways to translate things back then. When I was still a Rai Rai believer, I assumed it was translated from Japanese-to-English book. To my eye, if your going to believe that the first title was translated to the second, it would make the most sense that someone not to familiar with the language was trying to match symbols on pages.



I don't have the ad in front of me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure there's language in there to the effect of "items subject to availability", so if anyone tried to order a fake game, I assume the process would be similar to someone ordering a game that was out of stock.

One thing that people seem to fail to notice about the Copyright Trap theory, is that it totally worked! Funco clearly and blatantly copied the Play it Again ad. And what did Bob do with this information? Nothing! There wasn't much he could do, and that was never the intention anyway. But now he knows what his competition is up to, and that was the only point in the first place.

Some crazy Nintendo collector out there somewhere has maybe saved one.

Would the ones in the magazines not be helpful though? I remember we struggled to find older listings.