Super Street Fighter Ii X For Matching Service


spaceboygp32x

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Hi...

just got this for DC - plays clasic SF2!! yay

antone ever notive the characters names are messed up?

i.e Balrog is M Bison etc!

>>>???
 
yep AFAIK they reverted back to the japanese names

they changed them for the western release coz M Bison sounds like mike tyson

its the same if u play the US version of SNK vs Capcom *the names are the jpn names)
 
mattmagoo posted on Mar 19 2005 at 07:07 PM said:
yep AFAIK they reverted back to the japanese names

they changed them for the western release coz M Bison sounds like mike tyson

its the same if u play the US version of SNK vs Capcom *the names are the jpn names)

thought i was going mad...

was gonna get the snes out to check! (ooh actually, mario cart, yes!!)

sPaCe :ph34r:
 
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not quite because it 'sounds like mike tyson', it's because in Japan, the african american boxer character was VERY obviously based on mike tyson, and "M. Bison" was their little joke, so yeah they probably changed it for the US release to avoid being sued. I think they should have just left the other names intact and just given the boxer a different name, instead of shuffling the names around like that.

Having bought way too many imported Street Fighter games back in the day, I always refer to the characters by their japanese names now.
 
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