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I see LRG's putting out cartridge repros for Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel... a few thoughts:

  • they're putting out the Aero the Acro-bat spinoff before Aero?
  • the dude who conceived these IP for Sunsoft USA, David Siller, has claimed for years to have bought back the rights to the games from Sunsoft, but I see they're still credited/featured on this release alongside him, so I wonder if he merely bought the IP/character rights and not the publishing/software rights for the existing games... in which case, lol
  • did nobody involved give any thought whatsoever to editing that rising sun headband, jesus (even if they did, idk if Siller would be particularly accommodating; idk if their facebook's still up but when I had to check it years ago for [Project] it was full of MAGA bullshit)

Game's got slightly more to offer than the average western mascot game of the day, but not by much—it's an Amiga game that got lucky, to be sure, but you can tell the people involved really thought they were making Shinobi III or somethin'.

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did nobody involved give any thought whatsoever to that rising sun headband, jesus

He's named after one of the most famous fighter jets of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the act that brought said fighter jet to fame. If anything, the problem is that they put thought into it.

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@gosokkyu

I meant more in terms of removing it from the reissue—tasteless as it always was, the name on its own isn't quite as loaded, nor is it something one would reasonably expect them to change after so long

otoh the involved parties could always just let the whole thing wither away in obscurity where it belongs but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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