Let's recap.
Legend.
EU - Europe
NA - North America
JP - Japan
Delusions
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| Platoon (2002) RTS claims to be 'the first strategy game about the Vietnam war'. |
Really?
'Nam 1965-1975 (1991) and the aptly titled Nam (1986) would disagree.
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| Fatal Frame (NA) is 'based on a true story'. What a load of Camera Obscura, because Tecmo's unsettling series was inspired by Japanese urban legends and ghost stories. |
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| Demolition Girl (EU) We clock Seattle's Space Needle. Trouble is, game is not set in America. Titular antagonist Riho Futaba is heading for Japan's capital Tokyo. |
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| Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing No cops, no physics, no hope. |
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| You don't haul loads to any destination and will never have to worry about staying one step ahead of the law in the most broken fucking game of all time. |
You're winner.
Goldeneye 007 (N64)
Going against the grain.
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| NA 12 interactive 3-D environments, Spyder gun and Bond shooting geezer oozing claret? Lies, lies and more lies. |
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| EU Screenshots remain unchanged, but at least navigating 20 environments is correct. |
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| Golden Axe (NA) Why is Ax=Battler holding an axe? |
Not sure.
As we all should know.
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| Conan wannabe slew enemies with broadsword. |
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| Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (EU and NA) Even though we play Tal'Set, box art shows Joshua Fireseed. Fireseed became the main character in Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. |
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| Tal'Set is more accurate in Japanese release. |
Love this one.
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| Space Invaders: Invasion Day (EU) Title makes absolutely no FUCKING sense, as game takes place after aliens invaded. |
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| Manual states INVADERS CAME! So scenario has already happened before we've even inserted disc? BRILLIANT. Also, Decenber. Annoyingly, said date was on a Thursday. |
Taito were that embarrassed by actual game, the remainder of PS2 and Gamecube versions were retitled Space Raiders.
False advertising
In the good old days of C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga etc, box art often warned that screen shots may not be from said format.
Consoles never did that, so images should always represent reality.
However, in the following cases.
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| Batman (Genesis) NES version shown. |
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| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Gamecube) PS2 version shown. |
Mixing shit up.
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| Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection/Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (PS3/360) Random screen states action is from Sonic The Hedgehog 2. First off, The should the. But more to the point, screen is actually from Sonic 3. |
Specifically.
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| Angel Island Zone Act 1 |
HA HA HA!
Trilogies and Compilations
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| Prince of Persia: Trilogy (PS2) Games are laid out chronologically. |
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| But back art displays them back to front. |
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| SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 Subtitles are omitted, namely King of Fighters (Fatal Fury), Roddy and Cathy (Top Hunter), Super Vehicle-001 (Metal Slug) and The Next Glory (Super Sidekicks 3). |
I get mindset because of space restrictions.
Anyway, Sidekicks 3 was released in 1995, not 1992.
Jesus Christ.
Ironically, original was released in 1992.
We never got a Vol. 2, but exclusive Japanese PSP sequel Vol. 0 featured 20 arcade games created before the Neo Geo.
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| Taito Legends More erroneous titles. Electric Yo-Yo should be The Electric Yo-Yo, New Zealand Story should be The NewZealand Story and Space Invaders part 2 should be Space Invaders Part II. |
Rainbow Islands was officially subbed The Story of Bubble Bobble 2, but conversions begged to differ.
Taito Legends 2 (PS2¹)
Now shit gets tasty.
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| Nastar (EU title) is indeed the sequel to Rastan, but was never known as Rastan 2. The nearest thing was Rastan Saga II (JP). The excellent Space Invaders '95 was subbed The Attack of the Lunar Loonies, but strangest of all is Gun & Frontier. Guess Gun Frontier was too boring. One of four games exclusive to format was G Darius, which should be G-Darius. |
Scrolling further down.
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| We're kindly informed that Puzzle Bobble 2, Darius Gaiden, Space Invaders DX ...and many more arcade classics are included. Thanks for that, but we ALREADY know. |
¹Xbox version boasted Bubble Symphony, Rayforce, Cadash and Pop'n Pop (written incorrectly as Pop 'n Pop).
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| Call of Duty: Trilogy (PS2) Finest Hour was brought by Spark Unlimited, and Treyarch were responsible for COD 3 and COD 2: Big Red One. So it begs the fucking question why Infinity Ward's COD 2 dominates background. |
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| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Trilogy (NA) The first in series was called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. |
To be fair, I suppose Modern Warfare gels better.
Turning over.
(Sigh).
Turning over.
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| Fine and dandy. |
But getting to the nitty gritty.
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| Everything is backwards. |
The hilarious twist.
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| EU is spot on. |
WTF?
Last few.
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| The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return Third instalment is called The House of the Dead III. |
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| Back art acknowledges fact. |
Phobia of 'The' escalates.
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| Xbox port of THOTD III includes unlockable version of 'House Of The Dead II'. |
More sequel shenanigans, this time on PC.
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| Published by Fair Game The sequel to the best selling House of the Dead. |
And something different.
Its such a shame (they fucked up).
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| Published by Xplosiv Empire brings you The House of the Dead 2, in all it's gory glory! |
Another series ends, but I'll be back with more catastrophic cock-ups.
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