[ICEknight]

To be honest, I always thought the "Tails" part felt a bit forced in the pre-title screen, and it only served me to hide the "Miles Prower" pun (which I also suspect Nilsen didn't get right away) for a few years.


EDIT: By the way, here's something from one of the first interviews I did:

Craig Stitt said:

Yamaguchi REALLY wanted the fox to be named Miles, but the battle was lost and he was named Tails. (although Yamaguchi managed to sneak the name 'Miles' into a LOT of the art in Sonci 2!!)

So we at least know of one "pro-Miles team" member. =P

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 28 August 2014 - 02:55 AM

[Casshern]

You know, somehow I thought that particular piece of history was well known. In fact, I don't think there wasn't any cool/rare Sonic information in the book that isn't common knowledge. The book does offer a lot of behind - the - scenes information on Sega, Nintendo, Sony, EA etc etc like what did SOA think of the first Sonic commercial, the start of the Welcome to the Next level campaign, Oshima saying how he came up with Sonic's design, Nintendo's sales strategies and the start of the Playstation.

Overall the book is a good read, but I do agree on the criticism that it's apparent that the book is just the first draft of a screenplay instead of taking a more journalism approach like other books of its kind. And you can tell since some of the dialogue is so cringe worthy. A particular part where Kalinske and Madeline are having a conversation made me gag a little bit because it made me think, "I really hope people don't talk like that in real life."

Even in the author's note there's a part that says, "In certain situations, details of settings and descriptions have been altered, reconstructed, or imagined." Which kind of sucks because you don't know which situations were changed (but you sort of get a feeling on some of them)

I would still recommend the book if you want a good read though.

[Falk]

Quote

"Oh, Sonic, you're my hero," exclaimed Miles as he ran around and around Sonic. Well, you can guess what happened next - Miles tripped over his second Tail and fell down. Tears came to his eyes.

"Hey, cheer up little fellow. What's the matter?" said Sonic.
"Sonic, I want to be just like you, but I'm a freak. I've got two tails."

[Sodaholic]

Y'know, I always have wondered how Tails is able to use his tails as a helicopter without them twisting together after only a few revolutions. It must mean that they're pretty loose at the socket, but that still doesn't take into account the skin getting twisted up. Maybe that's what causes Tails to stop flying after a few seconds and not exclusively fatigue? I think I might be overthinking this.

Oh, and Nilsen's story sounds like a bad fanfic if it was literally written exactly like that and wasn't just the author's poorly written interpretation.

[Chimera]

I always said SEGA and Sonic Team allow for so much bad fanfiction to exist because their work is no better :V

Hell, if that story MOVED some of the devs (and drove one to tears), that's... a pretty good sign that early on these people had a very low bar for quality control in writing. :|

[Tanks]

Chimera, on 28 August 2014 - 06:38 PM, said:

I always said SEGA and Sonic Team allow for so much bad fanfiction to exist because their work is no better :V

Hell, if that story MOVED some of the devs (and drove one to tears), that's... a pretty good sign that early on these people had a very low bar for quality control in writing. :|

See that's the reason I said "or so it says in the book." The writing is so that it feels like the author embellishes the story quite a bit. While Console Wars is based on a plentiful amount of first hand interviews, I wouldn't bet my life entirely on this for accuracy. For all we know, Nilsen just winged the naming story during an interview rather than reading from the original text he wrote. This is only a hunch though and we'll probably have to ask him ourselves just to confirm. Console Wars does an amazing job at conveying the general story, but reeks of creative license in several respects.

This post has been edited by Tanks: 28 August 2014 - 08:12 PM

[ICEknight]

Yeah... if the book itself says that it's making up certain stuff, I don't think we can rely on the details until those things are verified via personal interviews.

I'd even be wary of the "Tails Monotail" thing, for this reason.

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 29 August 2014 - 03:15 AM