/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7062314]

ITT: Retro games that were released everywhere EXCEPT America.
I'll start with this underrated shmup.

[Anonymous No.7062315]

>>7062314

[joke spoiler tag No.7062323]

>>7062314
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all TWINBEE and PARODIUS
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[Anonymous No.7062592]

[Anonymous No.7062638]

>>7062592
Super Butoden 2 was planned for a US release for Mexico specifically in 1996, but in English, because DBZ took off surprisingly there.
For some reason Nintendo of America was too incompetent to allow that to happen in a reasonable time frame.

[Anonymous No.7062642]

>>7062638
Yeah, it even got a cover on the latin america club nintendo mag.
The localization was going to be weird, as they'd change the title of the game "Dragon Ball" (no Z). USA was still mostly oblivious to Dragon Ball in 1995 or 1996, which is when this game was going to be localized, and in latin america, DBZ was mostly known thanks to importing VHSs from Spain, as the mexican dub of DBZ wouldn't happen until late 97 or 1998, we were still watching OG Dragon Ball (which is why the club nintendo issue explained who all these Z characters were).
However, I live in latin america and I did play Super Butouden 2, in japanese, thanks to piracy. The other Butoden games were also around, as well as the Genesis game. Bless the chinese pirates.

[Anonymous No.7062649]

Too cute for the US market.

[Anonymous No.7062807]

A lot of Japanese games weren't released in America though were released in Europe. Mostly stuff considered too "cute" for 90s America.

[Anonymous No.7062823]

(Mr.) Gimmick!

[Anonymous No.7063091]

>>7062314
Whirlo.

[Anonymous No.7063112]

>the quintessential bomberman game
>americans didn't get it

[Anonymous No.7064402]

>>7062314
You're only posting that coz youre a zoom zoom who only heard about it coz it got released on switch.

[Anonymous No.7064464]

>>7062638
You mean Classic Dragonball, DBZ didnt premiered until september 97.

[Anonymous No.7064702]

[Anonymous No.7064742]

>>7064702
thats just a hack of ghost house

[Anonymous No.7064769]

>>7062649
noobow is great

[Anonymous No.7064820]

>>7063112
t.bh I didn't even remember there was a 2

[Anonymous No.7064847]

>eurocope thread

[Anonymous No.7065142]

also the firemen on snes

[Anonymous No.7065154]

[Anonymous No.7065757]

Too satanic for American puritans. Perfectly acceptable by European Catholics and Lutherans.

[Anonymous No.7065762]

>>7065757
The only black box game not released in the US

[Anonymous No.7065813]

>>7062649
>>7062823
In addition, Sunsoft was allergic to releasing Hebereke games in the US. Europe got three of them - Ufouria: The Saga on NES and two puzzle games on SNES.

[Anonymous No.7065825]

>>7062649
>>7062823
In addition, Sunsoft was allergic to releasing Hebereke games in the US. Europe got three of them - Ufouria: The Saga on NES and two puzzle games on SNES.

[Anonymous No.7066959]

>>7065154
What's this game play like?

[Anonymous No.7067072]

>>7062642
ehhh yo tenia esa revista

[Anonymous No.7067123]

[Anonymous No.7067897]

>>7065757
I'll never understand why they removed the Trophy of this game's main character in SSBM, only to have this game's antagonist be an assist character in SSBB.

[Anonymous No.7068909]

>>7062642
>The localization was going to be weird
The French localization was already weird. It was distributed in Spain despite the language barrier but with occasionally translated packaging. DBZ was having its first air run in France around the same time the games were dropping, but occasionally the games would feature characters that didn't have an official French dub name so Bandai France would make up their own translation (not accurate).

Nintendo of Europe would then take some of the staff from Bandai France and hire them, after giving them distribution rights for the NES and SNES in France until 1993. Shit was weird.
Despite being technically under NoA, they were very loose with the content guidelines.

[Anonymous No.7068926]

>>7067897
It's perfectly understandable when you read interviews about the Fire Emblem series when Nintendo of America intended to purge Roy, an entire character, from SSBM, simply because NoA didn't release his series in the West and really wanted to hide the fact it existed at all. They rewrote the trophies for something Perfect Dark related as well and then kept Famicom Tantei Detective for some reason.

NoA loves to hide evidence games they didn't localize existed. With SSBB that somewhat changed because NCL saw some worth in using it to gauge interest in Japan-only Nintendo franchises (a cooking book app, Stafy 5, Glory of Heracles 5, Mother series, and counting)

[Anonymous No.7068934]

>>7067897
>>7067897
It's perfectly understandable when you read interviews about the Fire Emblem series when Nintendo of America intended to purge Roy, an entire character, from SSBM, simply because NoA didn't release his series in the West and really wanted to hide the fact it existed at all. They rewrote the trophies for something Perfect Dark related as well and then kept Famicom Tantei Detective for some reason.

NoA loves to hide evidence games they didn't localize existed.
One of their guys worked at iQue on the Chinese version of SSB 64, and they outright removed the list of games each character appeared on altogether.

With SSBB that somewhat changed because NCL saw some worth in using it to gauge interest in Japan-only Nintendo franchises (a cooking book app, Stafy 5, Glory of Heracles 5, Mother series, and counting)

[Anonymous No.7068953]

>>7067897
Attitudes about the religous stuff in Nintendo games were lightening up around that time.
Plus, it'd cause problems online if they only removed an assist trophy in one region.

[Anonymous No.7068960]

>>7062314
Can you *really* say you got it when the speed was butchered?

[Anonymous No.7069026]

>>7068960
>>7064847
real cope

[Anonymous No.7069030]

>>7062323
we got the second twinbee in usa it was called stinger here

[Anonymous No.7070084]

>>7068934
>One of their guys worked at iQue on the Chinese version of SSB 64, and they outright removed the list of games each character appeared on altogether.
That's because almost all of those games were never released in China beforehand.

[Anonymous No.7070203]

Pop'n Twinbee Got brought to the states with Nintendo Switch Online, so technically it did come to the states, just not nearly within its initial release window.

[Anonymous No.7070306]

>>7068960
>didn't know what I was missing when it was released
>snes emulation has been viable for 20 years now, allowing people to play broken Euro shit and Japanese originals at will, for free.
What's there to cope with?

[Anonymous No.7070308]

>>7070306
>>7069026
Meant for (you) fuck you I'm sleepy.

[Anonymous No.7070327]

I regret posting a Gamecube game but this is the only one I could think of. I tried it a few months ago and thought it was boring as shit.