#Old Boy Game Box Original #268 Author: Rayling
Video game culture has evolved for nearly fifty years since the birth of the first generation of games. Video games for the last century of Chinese is completely an imported object, when domestic games are in the ascendant, a large number of foreign game masterpieces have been introduced into the country, many post-80s, post-90s are bathed in Japanese games, European and American game culture light grew up.
Since it is an imported product, the problem of chineseification of the game has plagued the majority of domestic players from the beginning, but for all kinds of legal and gray game merchants at that time, what kind of name the game can be Chineseized to sell better is obviously the problem they are more concerned about, so there were many "unworthy of the name" games that year, some under the guise of other games have been circulated so far, and some translated names are completely nonsense, these games have long been enshrined in a long time, but many players have been kept in the dark for many years Until now, I didn't know that the god I had loved for many years should not actually be called this name.
Today @Old Boy Game Box will give you an inventory of a few RPG nostalgic players familiar with the "borrowed name" game!
Heavy Mech x Mech Warrior
The name of the red and white machine classic RPG game "Heavy Machine Soldier" is still relatively well known, the original name of this game is "METAL MAX", the direct translation should be called "Metal Max", to be honest, this translation is indeed not very credible Daya, considering that this game was tepid in Japan, so the production team at that time also had no time to consider setting a tone for the Chinese translation of this game.
The name of "Heavy Gear" is actually the "Assult Suits" series released by NCS, which is a mecha shooter game with a very different style from RPG games, the first work "Heavy Aircraft: Reynolds" was released in 1990, and later made a sequel "Heavy Gear: Wilken", and subsequent sequels are based on these two games. However, this game actually launched a PS4 version of "Reloaded Mechanic: Reynolds" in 2015, and I have to say that this "genuine reloaded mechanic" is also quite long-lived.
There are also some friends vaguely remember the red and white machine on the "heavy mechanic" and there is a skinned version called "Mech Warrior", in fact, this name is also borrowed, its original as Microsoft's "MechWarrior" series, is a 3D mecha game, the sequel to many platforms, before often raid the three mothers and Rangers and the computer configuration of friends should be more familiar with this series.
Dream Simulation Battle x Langulisa
In the era when Xiao Lei was still a primary school student, the correct translation of the correct translation of "Dream Simulation War" on the Internet had various gods fighting endlessly, some called Langulisa, some called Langurisa, Langolisa, Langulisa, etc., but at that time, everyone reached a consensus on the translation name of "Dream Simulation War" and general disdain, because this name and the game itself are indeed a bit incompatible.
"Dream Simulation Battle" was originally called "Langrisser", this Langrisser refers to the sacred sword in the game, which is an important weapon that determines the direction of the game through several series, and friends who are familiar with Japanese RPG routines should be familiar with this setting.
The reason why the game was translated as "Dream Simulation War" was because a line of small characters was written on the cover of the first generation of games, "ファンタジーシミュレーション", which translated as "Dream Simulation War", so the pirates of that year simply translated according to these words.
Devouring Heaven and Earth x Three Kingdoms Zhi Yingjie Biography
Friends with good memory should know that the FC game "Devouring Heaven and Earth 2: The Legend of Zhuge Kongming" was not called this name when it was first released in China, it was called "Devouring Heaven and Earth 3 Three Foreign Legends - Deluxe Chinese Edition"
The reason for this name, Xiao Lei speculated that this can not only pretend to circumvent copyright issues, but also trigger the curiosity of some players. As we all know, the "Devouring Heaven and Earth" series has only sold two games on the red and white machine platform, and this name can always attract the curiosity of some players, who will pay money to buy it to see what this so-called third game is like... Then he was deceived.
Personally, I think that the pirates' ideas at that time were a bit clever but they were mistaken by the cleverness, after all, many people were exposed to the Devouring RPG series through "Devouring Heaven and Earth 2", these players are simply unheard of for this series, and how can they be curious about whether this game has a third game?
In fact, the introduction of "Devouring Heaven and Earth 1" is also quite outrageous, when the name of this game was translated as "Three Kingdoms Zhi Yingjie Biography", borrowed from the name of the glorious PC game "Three Kingdoms Zhi Yingjie Biography".
Now it seems that the fame of the "Devouring Heaven and Earth" series in China can be completely as hard as the "Yingjie Biography" series, and borrowing such a name is a bit of a wedding dress for others. The most outrageous thing is that "Devouring Heaven and Earth 1" also got a cover, and the portrait illustration in the lower left corner of the cover was actually cut out of "Cuban Warrior", is this Che Guevara's soul worn into the world of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
I wonder what other classic games have survived in the name of other games? Feel free to communicate in the comments section.