Different Pre-Release Names

[grolt]

"A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet..."

So over the course of the Master System lifespan, there have been several games that have either completely changed names when being ported from language to language (Family Games for the Mark III became Parlour Games for the SMS) or from announcement to release (the US 1987 catalog lists Missile Defense 3-D as World War 3-D). I thought this would be a good thread to document all the different names games have been labeled over the years:

Family Games (Mark III)/Party Games (US poster) > Parlour Games
World War 3-D (1987 Catalog) > Missile Defense 3-D
SDI (Mark III) > Global Defense
Combat & Rescue (US poster) > Rescue Mission
F-16 Fighter (Euro) > F-16 Fighting Falcon (US)
The Tri Formation (Mark III) > Zillion II: The Tri Formation

[rupert]

Rambo 2 (US) > Secret Command (Euro)
James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing (US) > Heavywaight Champ (Euro).

There are lot's more but I can't think off the top of my head right now, If you look at the SMSPower overseas games list it shows re-titled Euro and US etc. Cant get on it from work though.

[krooper13]

"World War 3-D" that's such a piece of cold war thinking!

[rupert]

so is Defense just the US spelling of Defence?

[Aypok]

Feb 22, 2009 12:33:55 GMT rupert said:

so is Defense just the US spelling of Defence?

Yes. They seem incapable of using words not spelt phonetically. :)

[krooper13]

Didn't Putt & Putter also have a different name.

[playgeneration]

George Foreman KO Boxing is just a reworking of Buster Douglas and Heavy Weight Champ too. Then theres all the Tectoy renaming too, not just the hacks like Sape Xule:

Dragon Maze - Bubble Bobble
Gangs Fighter - My Hero
Jogos de Verão - California Games
Minigolf - Putt and Putter
Nuclear Creature - Transbot/Astro Flash
The Secret of Shinobi - Shadow Dancer
Super Cross - Enduro Racer
Super Futebol - World Soccer/Great Soccer
Super Futebol II - World Cup Italia 90

[grolt]

I didn't want to include the games that were reprogrammed, like Rambo or Heavyweight Champ, since in essence they are different games. Thanks for posting all those Tectoy ones, the list is shaping up nicely!

[micki]

I don't know if it counts, but on one of the fold-out catalogs we used to get inside sms boxes (the blue/gray one with alex kidd, space harrier and out run on the cover) there was a little "coming soon!" list, which listed "Taisen" as one of the upcoming titles.

which I guess was a working title for Japanese "Chuka Taisen", which was later released here as "Cloud Master".