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    Yup. Megaman started life as an Astro Boy tie-in before Capcom failed to get that license, too. It seems somewhat backwards to make the game before the license, but... I guess it worked for them? In a final twist, Nintendo DID successfully secure the Popeye license after getting Donkey Kong ready, and so next year they made, well, Popeye.
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    Pretty much. IT's my universal cleaner. Only thing I can think of, aside fro the obvious "keep it off the labels" is to be wary of inked details, which is usually only an issue on hardware. As it turns out, the controller port labels on an NES are printed in an alcohol-soluble ink. Yes, I learned this the hard way.
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    Quantum physics gives me a headache. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the double-slit experiment, to heck with entanglement. And THIS... just no. One thing at a time.
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    That was what I meant. Sorry for the unclarity. The game itself is Williams's, but since they don't own the trademarks or characters(aside from Jr), they can't do anything with it. Well, they could replace all the sprites and change the title screen and sell it as ORIGINAL MAZE GAME PIZZABEANIE., but... why?
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    Well, while I don't know any specifics on the Macross Movie, I DO know of a good example of the situatio from video games. Pac-Man Jr was created by Williams, before Namco revoked their license. Namco does not own Pac-Man Jr. It belongs entirely to Williams. Williams, however, does not own the Pac-Man brand. All rights to it reside solely with Namco. Neither company can port, reissue, remake, or do anything else with Pac-Man Jr unless both companies can come to a mutual agreement. No one has, and they aren't likely to ever do so. * I imagine similar issues would plague the Macross Movie script. *(Tangentally, this is not a problem with the Williams-created Ms. Pac-Man because Williams gave it to Namco. Basically, Namco got pissed that they were making unauthorized sequels in the form of Ms Pac-Man, so they transferred the rights to Namco as an appeasement so they could continue licensing the Pac-brand. Williams then proceeded to continue making Pac-Man sequels until Namco cancelled the license "for real this time" . So Namco owns Ms. Pac-Man, even though they didn't make it.)
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    I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at the existence of a TurboGrafX Gradius, but... I am. At least it's close to the arcade. Gradius without four options just isn't Gradius. It's like... R-Type or something.
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    This needs an anime!111
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    I hope someone does license it. And someone competent, at that.
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    No lie, I think the brainmaster gimmick is awesome. It just seems more "Transformer" to me than the headmasters and powermasters did, and I'm glad it made it into the MP version. Basically, the more I see of Space Brick, the more I like him.
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    I hope we're all pleasantly surprised at how awesome it is when it comes out. ... Hey, I didn't say it was likely.
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    That's good, then.
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    And that's what makes it so friggin' hilarious.
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    Totally. That gold bug is pretty awesome.
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    Thank GOD.
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    I thought Max said Basara was ALMOST as good as him. Either way, it's close. Unless we consider teamwork to be a part of skill.
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    Pretty much anything could be slotted in for comic backstory. It's not an issue that ever comes up. Amen.
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    In the Major's case, it's probably not even her "real" name. At least in the comics. Which is not to say that I'm looking forward to the movie, but, well... I've already had my heart broken with this franchise before. Another bad movie won't be the end of the world.
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    Gigil nothin'. GAMLIN singing, man. I think Basara only came out of his coma so Gamlin would stop butchering his song.
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    They will flee in terror as I belt them out the way no one in the franchise has since Exedol!
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    Which'd make Gypsy about 1/173 scale. And Cherno 1/187. Pity they aren't to a scale instead of to a size.
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    The SDF-3

    JB0 replied to Gubaba's topic in Movies and TV Series

    Herculite sounds like a trade name to me. Like Plexiglass, Lucite, or Lexan. Certainly, it implies a substance unknown to modern science, but in the lens of trade names it's less silly than in if it's a proper material designation. Edit: Wow, I literally missed an entire page of posts. Sorry.
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    I already won the role.
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    As far as I can tell, no english licensors at all. Damn shame, too.I want some disks!
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    What about when Luke is backflipping through Jabba's sailbarge fleet? Or does that not count since only one side had a sword?
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    So over the weekend I was made aware that the author of Full Metal Panic had another series animated recently, and marathoned Amagi Brilliant Park. In which a high-school student is drafted at gunpoint into managing a ratty amusement park and saving it from shutdown. It's... pretty much exactly what I expected. Except that I really really really wished there was more when I was done. And then I decided to rewatch Utena. And started with the movie, because I was apparently feeling the need to damage my sanity. Thing is beautiful, but defies almost all sense of logic and reason.
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