This current Hanabi Festival is proving a treat for shmup fans. Of the ten games released so far under the Hanabi banner, half have been shooters, including the two released today, Japan-only pair Star Parodier (in which you can use Bomberman or a giant PC Engine as a ship!) and Gley Lancer. They're joined this VC Friday by Digital Champ Battle Boxing. Oh, and fun fact: the name Gley Lancer was (allegedly) supposed to be "Grey Lancer," but ended up as Gley Lancer due to a pronunciation error (the Japanese language can't tell the difference between the English "r" and "l" sounds). Either that, or we've just been duped into believing a rather racist joke.
- Gley Lancer -- Mega Drive -- 900 Wii Points
- Star Parodier -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 900 Wii Points
- Digital Champ Battle Boxing -- TurboGrafx-16 -- 700 Wii Points
Gley Lancer (Mega Drive)
Star Parodier (TurboGrafx-16)
Digital Champ Battle Boxing (TurboGrafx-16)
Want to know what else has been available to us PAL gamers these past few weeks? Just check out past editions of VC Friday here, as read exclusively by Wii Fanboy's most intelligent, good-looking readers.
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5-16-2008 @ 12:04PM
mian said...
The brain tends to sort meaningful distinctions from meaningless ones while we're developing, and begins to ignore the latter. So a large percentage of speakers of a language without a distinction in meaning between two sounds will have a very difficult time coping with a language that does distinguish if introduced to it later in life. That mechanism helps us learn faster the first time around, but slows us down later in life.
That may not be how the name happened, but there's no explicit racism in the theory.
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5-16-2008 @ 12:11PM
Bones3D said...
The L/R slip-up is a common problem across the board, regardless of whether it's poor spelling of an english word on a Japanese product, or poor translation error correction.
For example, in the U.S. Super Mario Brothers 2 ("Super Mario USA" / "Doki Doki Panic" in Japan), the boss enemy "Clawgrip" is mistakenly spelled "Clawglip" in the game's ending sequence. This was most likely a post-translation error that was never corrected and made it into the final release of the game. (Not sure if it's still present in Super Mario All-Stars or the Gameboy Advanced version of the game though...)
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5-16-2008 @ 1:43PM
Jhongerkong said...
Im not so much jealous of the imports as I am about them having more than 2 games.
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