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coinheaven God Member Offline I don't trust books; they're all fact, no heart. Posts: 500	english in famicom games 15. Apr 2007 at 14:17 why do famicom games have english and japanese in the games?
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JC Ex Member	Re: english in famicom games Reply #1 - 15. Apr 2007 at 21:14 Pearl Harbor.
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FamicomJL God Member Offline Fami, Fami, Famicom? Posts: 689 Long Island, New York Gender:	Re: english in famicom games Reply #2 - 15. Apr 2007 at 21:50 I think it's sort of like how English terms are used and accepted by the Spanish, and how Spanish terms are used and accepted by the English. The world is just really a big melting pot.
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Reply #3 - 16. Apr 2007 at 06:32

It's like we have Japanese in some of our games (Strider). Grin

Seriously, in Japan, they can read Arabic numbers & some of our English words.

You know how you access the Super C music menu & the last track says "MEDOLY" ? That's actually romajic for 'medley' . Tongue

Thank God, eh? Because we can play some of their games! Cheesy

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mewithoutYou52 Full Member Offline It's dangerous to go alone. Take this! Posts: 144 Pensacola, FL. Gender:	Re: english in famicom games Reply #4 - 18. Apr 2007 at 04:23 The entire introductory storyline for Zelda 1, The Hyrule Fantasy is in English. I was really surprised.
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mikeroach113 Full Member Offline Old School 4Ever Posts: 146 Gender:	Re: english in famicom games Reply #5 - 21. Apr 2007 at 23:48 There's some Famicom games where ALL the text is english. Some examples are: Rockman Top Gun And I've played ROMS of a few of Sunsoft's Famicom titles, and all the text including the dialogue is in english! How are japanese people going to understand that dialogue?
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Reply #6 - 22. Apr 2007 at 08:12

You're right. Same's true of Punch-Out!! and a bunch of others. I think a lot of Famicom games in which they were preparing for an NES release had English more so than not. With Punch-Out!!, the first release had poor English, but they straightened it up for the second Famicom release and the US release.

Plus, Japan is just highly multilingual.

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FamicomJL God Member Offline Fami, Fami, Famicom? Posts: 689 Long Island, New York Gender:	Re: english in famicom games Reply #7 - 22. Apr 2007 at 14:46 Quote: Plus, Japan is just highly multilingual. That's pretty much the exact reason. They've even got English educational games for the kids there to learn the English language.
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Jordan MacNamara God Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP/Whatever it is Posts: 1758 Gender:	Re: english in famicom games Reply #8 - 23. Apr 2007 at 02:27 Popeye no English
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