Revenge of the Gator is a really fun game. By the time I got a Game Boy in the mid 90s, it seems it had drifted out of print. I had a ton of friends with Game Boys and we were all obsessed with them but I never heard of this game. No one I knew had it. I didn't get a copy until the early 2010s when I picked up a nice DMG on here for cheap.
Strange, because there were plenty of other early GB games still knocking around in shops at that time, like Wave Race. Although looking at the dates, 'Gator was a fair bit earlier - 1989 versus Wave Race's 1992 release.
I do think Japanese alphabets, particularly katakana and hiragana, are probably some of the most aesthetically appealing for me personally.
But I think the most important factor with the appeal is the association like QC says.
There was something so impossibly intriguing about games and toys splashed with indecipherable moon runes back in the day.
When it comes to graphic design of game covers, there's no doubt that Japan was leagues ahead for many many years. Some of the Western covers for things like Mega Man were absolute war crimes...
...and even when the changes were subtler, they're for the worse. Why does Kirby have to be so angry for Westerners?
But on the topic of Kirby, it wasn't only the Japanese that could do a good cover back in the day. Look at the lovely Western art for Dream Land, which I think was by a British team, versus the original Japanese art. I think the British team did a better job.
By the way, the reason he's white on the Western art is because they were faxed concept art, and the fax was in black and white. No one told them he was meant to be pink!
Anyway I took us way off topic but I thought this was an interesting sidebar
Strange, because there were plenty of other early GB games still knocking around in shops at that time, like Wave Race. Although looking at the dates, 'Gator was a fair bit earlier - 1989 versus Wave Race's 1992 release.
Originally posted by hudson
Originally posted by QualityChimp
But I think the most important factor with the appeal is the association like QC says.
There was something so impossibly intriguing about games and toys splashed with indecipherable moon runes back in the day.
When it comes to graphic design of game covers, there's no doubt that Japan was leagues ahead for many many years. Some of the Western covers for things like Mega Man were absolute war crimes...
...and even when the changes were subtler, they're for the worse. Why does Kirby have to be so angry for Westerners?
But on the topic of Kirby, it wasn't only the Japanese that could do a good cover back in the day. Look at the lovely Western art for Dream Land, which I think was by a British team, versus the original Japanese art. I think the British team did a better job.
By the way, the reason he's white on the Western art is because they were faxed concept art, and the fax was in black and white. No one told them he was meant to be pink!
Anyway I took us way off topic but I thought this was an interesting sidebar
Amazingly, the RPG mode is just that. You start on a table resembling an 8-bit RPG game. Trees and castle walls. Pinball is on-going and about 30 seconds later some ghost appears. You hit him and a text box appears (game pauses) "I've been waiting for you. You look like you're really on the ball
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