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Published: 2012-05-27 00:08:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 7425; Favourites: 68; Downloads: 93
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Another truth... In my case a lil' bit painful truthPrevious truth
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Game never been finished... but we got the book about Thrall's past
PS: My English sucks so feel free to point out my mistakes.
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At least Nintendo decided to cut all ties and even not mention it in the 25th anniversary Zelda book.
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So me being from the Netherlands, this is touchy aswell.
The animation was bad in forgiveable humerous way. Is just got turned into a meme and thats why it got blown up. BUT, me being an animator aswell, no, the problem was not the quallity it was the over-expressive motion and cheesy writing, not so much the beginners quallity. It was a product of its time where most cartoon tried too hard to be ''rad'' and ''relateable''.
Also, the game's bad gameplay was 90% due to the limitations of the system. 10% for the aesthetic that made no clear contrast between fore and background. The philips cd-i was a failure, so the games released on it face the struggle of trying to atleast be decent with alot of luck.
ps. the animation and art in the warcraft game was incredible imo, but working for blizzard at that time was nothing special, they werent as big as they are now.
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what? is she trying to DEFEND the Zelda CD-I games!?
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I don't think I've ever seen a game be so bad someone felt the need to absolve their country's part in it before. This is interesting & informative though. Good job!
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So you also should not be forgiven for peeing in your pants when you was 2 years old?
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>>Mistakes are FOREVER
So why you brought this up then?
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Sir the bunny woman just enhanced the presentation.
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no prob, and thank you for a great explanation and some lovely art.
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B-bunny say wat?...*shakes head*
What were we paying attention to again?
heh, anyway, I know people like to save money but you'd think they would choose a company (or a group of people) who have had some experience in animation.
I did indeed see this horrible game at a video store when it first came out, I don't even remember any gameplay, just those scary faces.
I think if the bunny girl replaces all the actors for that game, it would be much better.
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Hehehe 
One of the guys, creators of Animation Magic, was ex-Russian Igor Razboff. In Soviet times we have tons of good computer specialists. Animation side wasn't so good in St. Petersburg ( much much MUCH better in Moscow ), but there were a lot of traditional artists. If you look at those Zelda games you will notice that backgrounds looks nice. However, the animation sucks big time
>>I think if the bunny girl replaces all the actors for that game, it would be much better.
Oh I wish I could... But I bet my animation would look also terrible
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Haha, man, the CD-i.
Here's another neat factoid: The CD-i had only one audio channel, so every time they had to make a sound effect they had to very briefly pause the music! XD
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Wow. That technical abomination was doomed from the beginning
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Yup. Nintendo breaking it off with Sony and switching to Philips is widely regarded as one of if not the biggest business mistakes in the history of the game industry.
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It's from today perspective.
In that time Sony wasn't so big and Philips already did a lot of good devices.
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No, even back then the prototype playstation had better specs and more solid backing- it was a matter of contract disputes and this was back when Hiroshi Yamauchi thought he ruled the world by divine fiat. It was an intentional snubbing of Sony for not falling in line.
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Oh, I see. Then that was really stupid decision.
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Yamauchi's style was great for turning Nintendo into a juggernaut, but not for keeping it there. Ascending the throne is a different skillset than ruling from it and one he just didn't have, which led to the disastrous life-cycle of the Nintendo 64 and his subsequent stepping down in the GameCube era.
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I see you also know a lot of video games' history. Bravo!
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Heh, it's an interesting history, to be sure.
Listen, you ever need ideas for more of the game industry's dirty little secrets, you let me know, I've got a million of 'em, and if it keeps that bouncy braless bunnygirl bending over at us I'd be happy to help.
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Thank you very much
Make a hint for some hot, interesting fact about games. Maybe I already knew it and maybe it will be theme for new strip.
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I think one of the coolest ones is that Atari's biggest rival in the late 70's was Kee Games. Read up on them, it's really fascinating.
Other than that, there's the tempest around the original licensing of Tetris, right down to KGB involvement... Oh, and the lawsuit between Universal and Nintendo regarding their respective famous Kongs...
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Oh, I saw loooong documentary about Tetris.
Not exactly KGB. That's urban legend.
We had very serious special governmental department for selling thing abroad. So there was no difference what to sell: oil, wood or Tetris
The main thing: one company got license for producing cartridges, another for handhelds. At the end all copyrights ended in one company.
Kee Games? Oh yes. Good trick, but not enough scandalous. We need some huge pile of "skeletons in the closet"
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Hey, don't take my word for it; the KGB line came for Pajitnov himself in a documentary.
Hmm... Scandal...
Hell, look up Jack Tramiel and Ray Kassar. Both of them were just shy of terrorists to the early-80's game market.
And the Universal/Nintendo legal fight I mentioned was definitely full of sleaze for sure.
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KGB was interested more in spies
That legend must be editorial corrections. "Adding the spice", as they say.
Ah yes, those two... I really liked AVGN's "Swordquest" video. That would be perfect to find something like this.
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To be fair, there were representatives from major companies from three continents all in the ELORG building there. If Pajitnov says "There were probably KGB reading up on everyone who came through the door that morning" I'd believe him.
And yeah, that video was nice. Could totally see Jack just keeping those, it'd be so like him.
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thanks a lot for another great "forgotten secrets", y yo pensaba que sabia bastante de video juegos o.o!
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You are welcome and thank you
I have more secrets for new strips.
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First word balloon "thouchy" should be 'touchy'.
Otherwise she just sounds like a Russian person speaking English, which is actally pretty charming, combined with her Sexy Bunny Professor attitude. Nice poses and expressions.
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Fixed. Thank you very much
That's how I speak English... Like stereotypical Russian mobster from bad action movie
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О, я помню тот мувик с орком. Не знала, что русские руку приложили.)
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Мувик? Из него мувик сделали? Это ж заставки к несостоявщейся адвенчуре-квесту про Тралла.
И да, его делали русские.
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"Мувик" = "видеофайл", тупо так.
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Наверно в биках. Бик и смак тогда вельме популярны были
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Another interesting fact I didn't know...
tell me, what's your reasoning for educating us? And how long you plan on doing it?
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That was just random idea ( as always 
I know some more video games' forgotten secrets. So who know how long I am gonna do it
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Both sexy and enlightening, I remembered reading about this a long time ago and I am glad that I wasnt remembering wrong, sexy bunny lady you are getting more intelligent and frisky by the second... watch out 
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Thank you
You probably notice she has no bra
I colored in red only important parts and names... "Russian", in this case, is not important
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But Russia is always important! I may be American but I am of Scandinavian-Prussian-Russian decent so I love Russia
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>>perhaps she needs a nice swimsuit
I'll think about it
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