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[Tain]

Capcom 5 was more funny than shady.

I know that XS games was denied a liscence to publish ESPgaluda in America.

WE COULD HAVE HAD CAVE SHOOTERS IN AMERICA!

**** SCEA.

Actually, come to think of it, I do remember that.

**** that noise, SCEA.

my point, which I never really made, was that just because the shitty 2D never got green-light doesn't make it right to say SCEA hated 2D.

True, but it's pretty obvious that the process is stupid.

And Espgaluda ain't a collection of rehashed sprites from 1994.

 

[BigJonsson]

Good thread

 

[Arsenal]

Microsoft we all know from the computer industry, where they pretty much ****ed everybody over and over, but what about their doings when it comes to XB?

I think MS has a tough time doing anything too shady because of their reputation (not to mention the DOJ and EU breathing down their necks).

 

[McBacon]

NeoGAF

 

[2Dcube]

The only correct answer is:

Gizmondo.

 

[McBacon]

The only correct answer is:

Gizmondo.

Blame it on Deitrich.

 

[My Arms Your Hearse]

Nintendo undershipping GCN Zelda!

...after pointlessly delaying it a year so they could whore out their new system with ****ed up controls.

Nintendo really cares about the gamer first!

 

[VultureDude]

I'm going to assume this thread already has numerous references to the Gizmondo? :lol

 

[akihara]

maybe not shady, but the whole 'Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo for $25 billion and make the gamecube the Xbox' thing.

 

[rod]

...after pointlessly delaying it a year so they could whore out their new system with ****ed up controls.

Nintendo really cares about the gamer first!

****ed up controls? hmm.

 

[[Nintex]]

maybe not shady, but the whole 'Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo for $25 billion and make the gamecube the Xbox' thing.

The world today would not be the same.

 

[viralmarketeer]

Thread needs more wrecked Enzo's.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=23885183

 

[Brobzoid]

The world today would not be the same.

just for the record; it would be totally awesome. Suicide rates would be through the floor.

 

[linkboy]

Capcom and the Resident Evil 4 GC execlusively

The whole Nintendo/Sony/Playstation/SNES fiasco

The EA/NFL deal

 

[Campster]

just for the record; it would be totally awesome. Suicide rates would be through the floor.

Wait, I'm confused. Suicide rates would go down if Microsoft had bought Nintendo? I don't get the correlation.

 

[Furoba]

Shenmue

 

[professor_t]

Tengen trying to publish NES games without Nintendo's Seal of Approval. The bastards!!

 

[Brobzoid]

Wait, I'm confused. Suicide rates would go down if Microsoft had bought Nintendo? I don't get the correlation.

Everyone would get their happyface on. Baby boom, money would fall from the sky, socialism would work and video games would be free... etc.

 

[Alien Bob]

 

[vasuba]

Tengen trying to publish NES games without Nintendo's Seal of Approval. The bastards!!

i found out years later i have some of their unlicensed games heh. black cartridges ftw

 

[Captain Jebus]

http://www.infiniumlabs.com/home.html

Remember the Phantom?

 

[Luckett_X]

The mystery of how Ohshima, creator of Sonic the Hedgehog and SonicTeam creative force, was slowly pushed out of SEGA and fled to form Artoon, the mystery also linking to why Yasuhara, Director and genius level designer for the platformers Sonic 3 & Knuckles was also pushed out of the company, all linked directly to the ego of one man that also refused to share NiGHTS engine assets with the american sega branch making Sonic Extreme:

Yuji Naka.

 

[gamergirly]

Shenmue

Yeah, Shenmue 2 and how it became Australia and Europe only. That was SO stupid for them to never release the NTSC version for America

 

[mrklaw]

Nintendo - welcome our new overlords.

See what you've done. Too late now

 

[professor_t]

i found out years later i have some of their unlicensed games heh. black cartridges ftw

I definitely had Afterburner, and I thought it was quite good, despite the absence of an NOA seal. Of course, I didn't exactly have discerning tastes back then . . .

 

[KennyL]

Sega Sammy Holdings Inc.

 

[ShowDog]

...after pointlessly delaying it a year so they could whore out their new system with ****ed up controls.

Nintendo really cares about the gamer first!

Well hey, if it was Sega they wouldn't even have released it on GC, but just moved it as a Wii exclusive. I remember when those bastards moved Shenmue 2 to the Xbox after specifically promising it wouldn't be cancelled, and it came out a year late with no improvements except a shitty camera mode. And it bombed. Idiots.

 

[EphemeralDream]

Not sure if some of these qualify as shady but I'll try anyway


Sony
-Lack of rumble in Sixaxis?
-The phat PS2's "3-4 year lifecycle"

Nintendo
-Nintendo of America saying FU to GBA support
-No headphone jack on GBA SP
-Component cable bullshit for GC and Wii
-No DD5.1 support

Microsoft
-Backwards Compatibility

And most of all, GameStop having bare minimum values as a retailer.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Nintendo in the 80s was brutal. Screwing 3rd parties, handcuffing retailers...

Indeed. The shit Nintendo did back then was way worse than anything being done now (not only for the things you said, but also for heavy censorship and trying to outlaw game rental). Thankfully Sega's success with the Genesis force Nintendo to change their ways somewhat.

 

[White Man]

Well hey, if it was Sega they wouldn't even have released it on GC, but just moved it as a Wii exclusive. I remember when those bastards moved Shenmue 2 to the Xbox after specifically promising it wouldn't be cancelled, and it came out a year late with no improvements except a shitty camera mode. And it bombed. Idiots.

To be fair, I'm sure Sega was under the influence of MS moneyhats, and Sega being in the shape they were, it's difficult to blame them.

 

[Kevtones]

Sega has been inept and shady for about 5-6 years now. Really a shame...

 

[speculawyer]

TTWO was in dire straits several years ago and could have gone bankrupt so they started pulling some sleazy inventory and accounting tricks. And before everything blew up on them, Grand Theft Auto III became the mega-hit that saved them.

The get a slap on the wrist from the SEC and restated some quarters.

They also got into trouble with "Hot Coffee". FTC gave them a slap on the wrist.


All of the four big American publishers (ERTS, TTWO, THQI, and ATVI) got caught in the option backdating scandal.

 

[PoliceCop]

I once got a wrong number:

Caller (Deep, throaty voice)-"Perrrrin, it's Lovebear. I'm calling about my blowie."

 

[HyperZone<3]

I've maintained for years that Kemco was a money-laundering front for the Yakuza.





Okay, then you explain how there are still around.

 

[Atlagev]

You mean tetris?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4662636869909322164&q=Tetris+from+Russia&hl=en

Beaten <_< At least I got the link.

Wow. *Awesome* documentary. Thanks for the link.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

Microsoft adding an ethernet port to Xbox and Sony later following suit on the PS2.

You mean Sega adding network support to the DreamCast, and MS copying them for XBox?

 

[inpHilltr8r]

most of SNKP titles were denied because they wanted to charge full price for straight 2d arcade ports

fixed

 

[No.1]

The only correct answer is:

Gizmondo.

Yeah, surprised no one mentioned it earlier. They had the Mafia and everything.

 

[Zen]

The mystery of how Ohshima, creator of Sonic the Hedgehog and SonicTeam creative force, was slowly pushed out of SEGA and fled to form Artoon, the mystery also linking to why Yasuhara, Director and genius level designer for the platformers Sonic 3 & Knuckles was also pushed out of the company, all linked directly to the ego of one man that also refused to share NiGHTS engine assets with the american sega branch making Sonic Extreme:

Yuji Naka.

Pretty much. Didn't Yashura also do the level design of Sonic 1-2 and Sonic CD? Eitherway I seem to remember a bit of bad air when he left to join up with Naughty Dog and work on the Jak games (and you the level design in Jak, Jak II specifically, is awesome, Jak III was rushed and it hurt the game but even so).

I remember reading an interview with Yuji Naka during an E3 around the time of Sonic Heroes where he was suprisingly questioned directly about the circumstances of the 'defection'.

Amazingly he was apparently very dismissive and even put the guy down a bit. "After we completed Sonic and Knuckles we really had nothing for him to do, he stayed around the company for a bit but we had no project that his talents were needed for, so we eventually let him go"

(No projects that his talent could be used for = total bullshit)

Apparently there was a bit of an awkward silence that followed.

 

[Illuminati]

But come on, Kutaragi's gotta have som dirt under his nails too? That guy looks like an evil mastermind.

Actually the whole conspiracy behind Kutaragi not becoming Sony's president is sort of a shady tale of sorts. Also he sort of undermined Sony on at least two occasions.

 

[TONX]

 

[Adagio]

Kuatragi just says stupid things, he hasn't actually done anything "evil".

 

[Illuminati]

 

[vasuba]

Actually the whole conspiracy behind Kutaragi not becoming Sony's president is sort of a shady tale of sorts. Also he sort of undermined Sony on at least two occasions.

well didn't ken to an extent burn some bridges when he designed the SNES sound parts after the whole sony/nintendo breakup.

 

[Illuminati]

well didn't ken to an extent burn some bridges when he designed the SNES sound parts after the whole sony/nintendo breakup.

That and I think he badmouthed Sony's DRM decisions or so I remember reading awhile ago.

 

[adg1034]

+1 SALE GET!

 

[Hunter D]

Nintendo getting the fight aganist violent video games started.

 

[NintendosBooger]

Indeed. The shit Nintendo did back then was way worse than anything being done now (not only for the things you said, but also for heavy censorship and trying to outlaw game rental). Thankfully Sega's success with the Genesis force Nintendo to change their ways somewhat.

Give me a break with all this Nintendo mafioso BS. You all make it sound like they literally put a gun to the foreheads of every game company's CEO and threated to pull the trigger if things didn't work out their way. Fact of the matter is, they saved the industry back then when games like ****ing E.T. were allowed to be exposed to the public, and they're saving the Japanese market now. They instilled discipline to a chaotic industry. Almost all of everyone's favorite developers today owe a measure of gratitude to the Big N, back when they were all upstart nerds making games from their parent's garage or some office storage area, hoping that their titles would appear for free on a future issue of Nintendo Power. Nintendo created an industry template (e.g., licenses) that a lot of their rivals would follow and still do.

 

[Miroslav]

I didnt know that the phantom ended up being just a... keyboard???

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Give me a break with all this Nintendo mafioso BS. You all make it sound like they literally put a gun to the foreheads of every game company's CEO and threated to pull the trigger if things didn't work out their way. Fact of the matter is, they saved the industry back then when games like ****ing E.T. were allowed to be exposed to the public, and they're saving the Japanese market now. They instilled discipline to a chaotic industry. Almost all of everyone's favorite developers today owe a measure of gratitude to the Big N, back when they were all upstart nerds making games from their parent's garage or some office storage area, hoping that their titles would appear for free on a future issue of Nintendo Power. Nintendo created an industry template (e.g., licenses) that a lot of their rivals would follow and still do.

I had E.T. and I think I even enjoyed it, though I was young and didn't know what I was doing.