Mix-up at snkplaymore.jp?

oldschool · Jul 13, 2003

I was taking a look at the SNK/Playmore site (checking out SNK vs. Capcom: Chaos) and it seem as though they have mixed up some of the names on the Characters page. Vega's picture says Balrog, Balrog's picture says M.Bison, and M.Bison's picture says Vega. Did anyone else notice this?

SNKJorge · Jul 13, 2003

Those are the JP names... Here in the US
they are switched. spock

slerch666 · Jul 13, 2003

oldschool:
I was taking a look at the SNK/Playmore site (checking out SNK vs. Capcom: Chaos) and it seem as though they have mixed up some of the names on the Characters page. Vega's picture says Balrog, Balrog's picture says M.Bison, and M.Bison's picture says Vega. Did anyone else notice this?

Yeah, they changed the name of M. Bison to Balrog in the US to not confuse us and think they were using Mike Tyson as a model (even if it seems obvious).

Pingu · Jul 15, 2003

But I fail to see why they made it the same here in Europe, there are several cases where names are not changed when the games arrives here.

sonofx51 · Jul 15, 2003

In the case of street fighter Mike was the original boxer in the first game later named M.Bison in SF2 (Mike Bison, a little too close to Mike Tyson) so rather than paying royalties to Mike in the US they changed the name. No need to do it in Europe or Jap because he doesn't remble anybody there (not anyone famous, I think). My 2 cents for the day.

Rade K · Jul 15, 2003

No, I'm pretty sure Playmore fucked it up.

Mix-up at snkplaymore.jp?

oldschool

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