Game Boy World #061 is here, and change is in the air
Added 2016-01-30 13:38:46 +0000 UTCWow, this video took surprisingly little time to create. Wish they all could go that quickly, but I always overcomplicate things. Card Game is a fairly unexciting way to wrap up January, but there's some interesting stuff in the pipeline for February, during which I hope to wrap up Game Boy World 1990 Pt. 1 (Jan.-June 1990). After that... mystery abounds! As well as a book.
As a reminder, beginning Monday, early video access will be moved to the $2 support tier, while most other tiers will be coming down in price. I'm hoping that the loss from people at higher tiers switching to a lower contribution level will even out with people at the basic level moving up. It is, of course, entirely possible that this will be a huge disaster and it'll become much harder to fund Game Boy World et al.! But, fingers crossed.
Anyway, enjoy the video, and I'll see you in a brave new world on Monday.
Comments
Ah, I see. Makes sense, from a technical standpoint, and I suppose it's not so much English as to make the game impossible to understand. Still seems strange, but I guess there is a good reason for it. Thanks for the response.
Aaron Schafer
2016-01-30 14:51:06 +0000 UTCIt's all western card games. And the 26-character Latin alphabet requires a lot less storage space than Japan's 50-odd-character syllabaries. Made more sense to go this route for games with minimal text; Japanese kana only saves space if there's a lot of in-game text (kana requires more hard coded characters to work with, but expresses language with fewer of those characters).
Jeremy Parish
2016-01-30 14:45:16 +0000 UTCIf this only ever came out in Japan, why is the whole thing in English? I know there is a long tradition of certain words from English being commonly used, but this entire game appears to be in what would be, to a Japanese player, a foreign language. Any idea what the story is?
Aaron Schafer
2016-01-30 14:39:36 +0000 UTC
