Presumably everyone knows the celebrity effect, and things endorsed or endorsed by famous people can get higher concentration, which is what everyone likes to say now comes with traffic. This approach applies to almost all brands. No matter what the industry, games are no exception.
Now many games in the public beta or events will invite some famous spokespersons, but in fact, as early as the FC game era, this method has begun to be used, and more thorough than the current endorsement, directly use the prototypes of those celebrities to make games, let's take a look at what games there are, a large part of which may have been played by you.
MapleStory
MapleStory believes that as long as it is a player who has played FC games, there is nothing that is unknown, as a familiar work, our name for him has always been the three words of MapleStory on the game start screen, but many people ignore the suffix "Takahashi Celebrity"
And this Takahashi celebrity does have a person in reality. His name is Toshiyuki Takahashi. Takahashi is an employee of MapleStory publishing company Hudson. At that time, Hudson was a big factory in the game industry, and there were hundreds of employees in it, if not a thousand. And the reason why Takahashi Toshiyuki was chosen as a prototype is, of course, because he has something special.
It is said that Takahashi Toshiyuki was a famous game master at that time, and the most famous was his 16 keys per second. This also made him a game idol in the minds of many people at that time, so MapleStory used Takahashi Toshiyuki as the protagonist prototype of the game. But later he also responded to this matter, it is said that the prototype of this character is not him, but the official name is for publicity, but overall the IP of MapleStory is still inseparable from Takahashi Toshiyuki.
Kung Fu Kid
Some younger players played this game, basically on pirated game discs of the time: Chinese game 300. At that time, because of the super high difficulty, many children were miserable, and it was also regarded as one of the "most unfun" games in everyone's mind, and the prototype of the protagonist of the game can be said to be a well-known celebrity in China.
In the game, we can see that a character of lee is written under the character's health bar. Speaking of kung fu, also surnamed Li, I believe that there is no need to say that everyone knows the prototype of this character. Although there is no official announcement, this is undoubtedly a game based on Bruce Lee. At that time, various kung fu films shot by Bruce Lee were not popular in Hollywood, so that the United States set off a kung fu boom. Game manufacturers see that this is profitable, and it is normal to make a protagonist based on Bruce Lee, which is a very good gimmick.
The same is true of the game "Jackie Chan Kicking Pavilion". After Bruce Lee, the most outstanding martial arts movie star is Jackie Chan. The original name of Chenglong Kicking Hall was called Kung Fu Master. The reason why it was changed to this name is completely to induce consumption, which is now called rubbing heat. And not only Jackie Chan appears in the propaganda poster, but also many characters in Jackie Chan movies, maybe they themselves don't know that they have inexplicably endorsed a game.
In addition to Jackie Chan Kicking Pavilion, there is also a game based on Jackie Chan, that is, Jackie Chan. The protagonist of this game is indeed Jackie Chan, and the image is also made according to Jackie Chan. But there is also no official announcement of Jackie Chan endorsement, which is also the product of game manufacturers, but the quality of the game is still very good.
Heroes of Cuba
This is a very classic FC vertical shooter, both gameplay and graphic expression are very strong, not only has a smooth combat experience. At the same time, the setting of unlimited life extension made this game also popular with many people at the time. And the protagonist of the game, and at the same time the existence of a big name. They were the leaders of the Cuban Marxist revolution, Phil Castro and Che Guevara.
Both were tasked with making significant contributions to the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban hero in the game's name is also on the surface. Since knowing the prototypes of both protagonists, I have some respect for this game.
Contra
It is also an FC game that everyone knows and is so famous that even people who have not played FC games have heard of its name. Although the two protagonists in the game could not see any characteristics because of the functional limitations of the FC platform at that time, they were generally distinguished by two colors: red and blue. But on the opening screen of the game and the promotional image of the game cartridge, we can still see the appearance of the two protagonists.
And these two are the perennial tough guys who appear in photography: Schwarzenegger and Stallone. And the monsters in the game, and the setting of the map behind. It should be a reference to the "alien", after all, the later generations of Contra basically have no humanoid opponents. I have to say that Contra knows how to rub the heat, and he is a famous actor and a famous movie, and he has not paid a penny of copyright fees.
Devil Terminator
In fact, seeing this name, everyone can guess which popularity this game rubs, yes, it is the terminator. At that time, Schwarzenegger became popular with the Terminator movie, and game manufacturers naturally did not miss this plan. The Devil Terminator series on the FC platform was born.
Compared with the obscure behavior of other games, the Devil Terminator series is basically based on the original movie, the protagonist in the game boot screen looks basically the same as Schwarzenegger, and the robot controlled is also the image in the Terminator. Even the picture of the Terminator movie was directly adopted in the domestic propaganda, and the name of Schwarzenegger was marked.
I don't know if this game has a genuine license from Terminator. If there is no authorization, in the current era, this kind of game loses less money, and there is a high probability that it will not be online at all.
epilogue
The above is some of the popular games of celebrities sorted out by the editor this time, at that time, everyone's copyright awareness was not as heavy as it is now, and the control in this area was much worse. So many games will have this way to attract heat for their games, but it may be different, such as MapleStory is with my consent, kung fu is regarded as playing edge balls, and terminators and Jackie Chan dragons belong to playing straight balls.
Now that the awareness of personal copyright has risen, the barriers to relevant departments in this regard have become much stricter. It's usually paid spokesperson. The above games may not be able to pass the review until now.