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Post by toei on Feb 15, 2019 13:30:10 GMT -5
Yeah, the Marsupilami was a spin-off from the Belgian comic Spirou, which also got a bunch of bad platformers. I was a big fan when I was 6 or 7 and owned a few books and a figurine. Not surprised his own game would be bad, being a European licensed platformer. Probably a good thing I didn't know it existed then, cause I would have wanted it badly.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 15, 2019 14:20:44 GMT -5
I remember I was really annoyed by that show. I'd forgotten it existed until you brought it up!
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Post by Ex on Feb 15, 2019 14:22:23 GMT -5
I don't know if I've ever even heard of Marsupilami. I guess it was after my time (time as cartoon watching kid).
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Post by toei on Feb 15, 2019 19:36:49 GMT -5
I never really watched the cartoon (which was a Disney production, apparently) but the character's been around on paper since the '50s. It's a situation similar to The Smurfs, but on a smaller scale of popularity; the comics were really famous in any French-speaking part of the world, but as an American, you'd probably only know it from the US-made cartoon. Here's a "great" idea for a monthly theme: Euro Comic Month! Tintin, Asterix, Spirou, The Smurfs, Marsupilami... So many of them! Bonus point if you play them on the ZX Spectrum or the Amiga. Joking, but there actually are some decent Smurfs and Asterix games.
--Woah, I had no idea there were so many Astérix videogames. Another crazy fact: Astérix (as a comic) has sold 370 million volumes worldwide. That's more than Dragon Ball, which is estimated at 250 to 300 million. In fact the only manga that has it beat is One Piece with 455 million, and that's only because it has an insane 91 volumes (vs 37 for Asterix and 42 for Dragon Ball). Tintin has sold almost as much as DB (200 mil. as of 2007). Also, the SNES Spirou game has some seriously awful music: The animations are pretty good, though. I've actually tried this one. It's a so-so puzzle platformer.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 15, 2019 21:04:53 GMT -5
The Tintin comics are awesome. My local library had a couple, and I really dug 'em.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 15:26:16 GMT -5
I vaguely remember Marsupilami being a thing, never heard of Spirou though. That made me wonder whether there was a Babar the Elephant video game and, woah, there is. Also, a Japan-exclusive Pingu game I actually played:
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Post by toei on Feb 17, 2019 17:13:12 GMT -5
Babar! I don't think I knew it was a French character until today, honestly. Spirou is basically Tintin's long-time rival comic in their native Belgium. He started out as a hotel groom, then became kind of a Tintin clone; he's a reporter who goes on adventures, with a similar supporting cast, including an irascible partner (Fantasio, with the bow tie), an eccentric scientist friend who lives in a manor, and an animal companion (a squirrel named Spip). Both were also iconic enough to have comics periodicals named after them (Le Journal de Spirou, VS. Le Journal de Tintin). The Smurfs were published in the Spirou Journal. Beyond the initial similarities, though, Spirou's adventures have a different feel than Tintin's. In Franco-Belgian comics, Tintin's creator Hergé and the comic book artists who learned from him are referred to as the Bruxelles School, while the artists who came up under Spirou's main author, Franquin, are the Marcinelle School.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 7, 2019 17:22:58 GMT -5
Bebe's Kids looks truly execrable.
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Post by toei on Mar 7, 2019 18:03:29 GMT -5
I'd heard it was bad, but I didn't even know it was a beat-'em-up. Now I'll have to play it for at least 2 minutes, even if it does look awful. It's crazy sluggish, the hit detection looks way off, and the layout of that mansion level seems super confusing.
I think probably the worst beat-'em-up I've ever played was Target: Renegade, Ocean's home-made Renegade sequel. It was flat-out unplayable. I don't know if this can actually be worse.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 7, 2019 18:31:44 GMT -5
Oh, this is definitely a target for Horrorble Month.
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