Back when I was around 9 or 10, one of the networks in my area (can’t remember whether it was channel 17 before it became part of “The WB” or channel 57 before it became part of “UPN”) used to air Samurai Pizza Cats after school. This was pretty much before anime caught on big in the U.S. (after Speed Racer and Robotech, but before the first dub of Dragon Ball Z, I think). My brother and I used to have a good laugh at the jokes on the show. Looking back on it, I find it even funnier when I found out that the English script writers had to resort to making up all of the jokes because they got the animation they needed, but not the transcripts of the original Japanese dialogue (consider that there are quite a bit of vocal anime fans who don’t like it when script writers stray too far from the source material). Arguably, it kinda worked, as even the original creators of Kyattou Ninden Teyandee prefer Pizza Cats to their original version.

The reason I bring this up is because I’m still playing through Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, and a few players have asked why these guys hadn’t appeared in the game. Heck, I didn’t even know this series was a Tatsunoko property until I looked it up on Wikipedia. It’s funny how far a little research goes.

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Some intrepid soul stumbled upon an old RPG Maker 2000 game called Romancing Walker and started a liveblog of it on the TV Tropes forum. I remember playing this game…it’s got a sound concept, though it’s incredibly hard to play through. It’s not that the game’s difficult…it’s just that the translation is very, very literal and filled with both Engrish and what’s known to some as “gratuitous Japanese” (I think I noticed the translator leaving in words like “baka” and “sugoi” from place to place). I’d like to try to retool the script so that it’s a bit more accessible to most other gamers (think Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSP vs. Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS1), but I probably may wind up not releasing it at all, since almost everyone (including both the game’s original author and the translator) has moved on from RPG Maker 2000, and releasing it would be tantamount to stealing…not that anybody would want to really play a game that’s almost a decade old using an engine that’s also a decade old.

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So Capcom’s invaded the comic book universe with Marvel vs. Capcom, and they’ve taken on a rival video game company with the SNK vs. Capcom series, so…where do they go from here? It seems the answer to that question is “the anime world”, as they’re now butting heads with the various masked heroes from Tatsunoko’s library in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars. Click to read more…

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So it turns out that the rumors of Ibuki, Makoto and Dudley joining the Super Street Fighter IV roster were correct all along. This would bring the playable character roster to about 34 or 35, right up there with Tekken, which in its latest incarnation has 40, by my estimation. Of course, if Capcom were to add Birdie, Eagle, Yun and Yang, and several other characters, there’d be more than enough for them to kick-start the real Capcom Fighting All-Stars.

That last one isn’t likely to happen any time soon, but one can dream…Oh, well…there’s always MUGEN…

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Looking at the latest sales figures for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, I’m surprised that it’s selling as well as it has been. Now, just 100,000 copies in two weeks is definitely nothing to sneeze at (your average Mario game will sell that much in one day), but is still impressive for a console that isn’t known for its versus fighters. The Vs. Capcom series isn’t traditionally a big-seller anyway. The last games in the series to crack the 200k barrier were Capcom vs. SNK and Capcom vs. SNK 2, if these figures kept by VGChartz.com are any indication.

There are still some gamers out there who will insist that TvsC will sell better if they had been released on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Of course, the games would then be drowned out by the likes of Bayonetta and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 instead of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and people would still complain about them not selling well enough. I still say, “Let’s just be glad that this game’s even coming to the U.S. at all, and enjoy!”

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