Honestly, that edit is....kinda adorable. I can see why they initially had it for a character drawn to be 5, since it fulfills a lot of "tiny cartoon child" cues.
Just found out about this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1twI4QYFEw [edit: better video by nineko in 2006]
Actually, I had intentionally left the arched lines so that they'd serve as either eyebrows or lines indicating the extents of his eyes on his face :v:
Pretty much, yeah. Totoya uses the word "dummy" to describe the placeholder tanuki design. It was misunderstood by the news and quickly spread around (via magazines, because this was Japan and this was the 90s).
Oh, >.< I'm sorry. I didn't realize that's what you were going for. Now that I look at it again I can see the eyebrows now. At first I just thought that you colored in the white area but left the outlines. Lol, I apologize. Well, I guess now we have two different versions that we can look at then lol.
I'd say it looks surprisingly good without eyebrows, although it's difficult to tell where's he looking at.
Yeah, if they had gone with this style of eyes, they would be positioned differently. In this instance they'd be shifted up and to the right a little. Closer to where the centre of the eye-whites were. It's a different set of rules. Like, Fred Flintstone can move his pupils up and down and roll his eyes, but they have to take a different approach with Barney Rubble.
https://twitter.com/realhartman/status/952963882108141568 Well this was unexpected. Here have some meme Knuckles art drawn by Butch Hartman, the creator of the Fairly Oddparents show. Very, very weird.
Back in September of last year, someone made some strange edits to the Sonic & Knuckles Collection wiki page. Probably just misguided nonsense, but is there by chance any truth to this? Was there a separate version of the game in Japan (and the UK for some reason) with different music, and is there any connection between the game's composers and the Metal Slug series?
Right, I forgot to update this. I bought a copy of the Xplosiv UK S&K Collection, and it has the same MIDI music as the other versions. EDIT: Fairly certain the Japanese release also has MIDI music.
There will be differences between the 1996 releases and the early 2000s Xplosiv versions, though I imagine the biggest change is the move to a digital manual on the disc (assuming one wasn't already there). Maybe better XP support if the game needed it. I have my doubts about the Japanese version being different though - Japan has copyright law too.
http://youtu.be/PehjOq8OqLk OK this showed up in YouTube autoplay, and the boy without the glasses sounds A LOT like Kanemaru. Is he? I've searched for days, but no luck. The way he says "Oy, Emi," threw me for a loop.
It gets weirder: https://twitter.com/realhartman/status/953333791757488128 Anybody tell Gregzilla yet?
Sonic Adventure DX is one of the best games Atari ever released. Nicely done, Atari. Spoiler This is a Spanish edition. Infogrames originally had the distribution rights for Sega PC products across bits of Europe (France and Spain, mostly). The company got excited after purchasing the assets of Atari Corporation (which were in the hands of Hasbro of all people), changed its name, slapped the logo on things, and in true Atari fashion, forgot how to use money. They've spent most of the last fifteen years fighting near bankruptcy and releasing big budget flops. Needless to say, the "real" Atari bit the dust a long time ago.
I always thought it was a shame that the Infogrames to Atari name change didn't happen a bit earlier. Because Infogrames published Sonic Mega Collection in Europe. So we would have had a collection of Sega Sonic games published by Atari on a Nintendo console.
