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Re: The Race Is On To Save A Valuable Resource Of Video Game History

KitsuneNight

Re: Transformers Meets Street Fighter In This Amazing Fan-Made Brawler

KitsuneNight

@Diogmites
Cy-kill and Leader1 are indeed the leader characters.
There were no Gobot comics, back in the day, but there were an awfull lot of books http://gbwiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/List_of_GoBots_books

So you may have read one of those.

Tonka is such a well known brand that Hasbro would have to be totally divorced from anything remotely connected to reality to scupper the brand.

Even with the name of the Gobots IP there is scrutiny.
The original toyline was named GoBots.
The Hasbrow owned version is named Go-Bots.
The hyphen is important.

Aren't these legal shenanigans "fun" ?

I'm more in to Transformers myself.

@calbeau
Oh don't give em ideas
Just Optimus Prime on his own is an entire army
https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/9/95/Convoy-final1024.jpg

And that's an outdated picture from 16 years ago
The amount has doubled since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=V2kNmWVChTg

Wallets die screaming after seeing that.

Re: Transformers Meets Street Fighter In This Amazing Fan-Made Brawler

KitsuneNight

@Diogmites
You're welcome.
Both the ps1 and N64 games are different and not just graphically
PS1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znGOwxlgQ5c&pp=ygUOYmVhc3Qgd2FycyBwczE%3D

N64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVU9HmBI4Sk&pp=ygUOYmVhc3Qgd2FycyBuNjQ%3D

Neither was released in Europe only the USA and Japan.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:Beast_Wars_Transmetals(N64)
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:Beast_Wars_Transmetals(PS)
For more detailed info about them.

It's possible that Hasbro needs to license designs from Bandai, though the designs we know are from the Gobots cartoon. ( which has an equally twisted ownership legacy. Current owners are WB cause they bought up Hanna-Barbera )

But there is a Go-Bots comic using some cartoon designs, but primarily toy designs which Hasbro presumably signed off on.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Go-Bots_(comic)
It's possible a deal was either made or Bandai let it slide , because of the 35th anniversary of the toys/Gobots brand.

And a 2002 toyline and cartoon series aimed at preschoolers
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:Go-Bots(franchise)

From what I gather Hasbro does very little with the GoBots IP, and when they do prefer to keep it as far away from Bandai and MachineRobo as possible if they can.
It's possible not even Hasbro know how much GoBots material they own

Long story short : The GoBots history and ownership are a bloody mess.

More links
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/GoBots_(disambiguation)
http://gbwiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

And finally Tonka purchased Kenner in 1987, 4 years later both were purchased by Hasbro in 1991.
Kenner got absorbed in to Hasbroby 2000, Tonka, or at least the Tonka brand is still in use.

Hope i didn't bore you too much with this info dump.

Re: Transformers Meets Street Fighter In This Amazing Fan-Made Brawler

KitsuneNight

@Diogmites

>>Moving past this undeniably important digression, it is weird we have never gotten a Transformers fighting game or a GoBots vs Transformers (Machine Robo vs. Diaclone?) mashup fighter.<<

We did .
Off sorts
Other then the Beast Wars beat em ups on the ps1 and N64, which are so so .
But the game I am referring to is ...ahem
Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle
On the Game Boy Color.
Its SD beat em up with a characters from Beast Wars Bw II and BW Neo
It predictably never left Japan.
You can find info about it here.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Duel_Fight_Transformers_Beast_Wars:_Beast_Warriors%27_Strongest_Decisive_Battle

Gobots vs Transformers is a bit of a issue, while Hasbro owns the Gobots name, they do not own the toy designs or moulds
Machine Robo is still 100% owned by Bandai.

Hasbro and Takara seem unable or unwilling to do much with the IP.
Hasbro got the Gobotsip at the very least because they purchased Tonka in the early 90's
It is honestly way too complicated to go in to here but you may find this tf wiki article interesting.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/GoBots

Re: Street Fighter 6 Director Has A Soft Spot For Naughty Dog's Maligned 3DO Fighter, Way Of The Warrior

KitsuneNight

@Sketcz
MattMcmuscles ( the youtube channel in questions) is on a "quest"of sorts to find the worst beat em up.
The king of crap was Criticom until its been dethroned by Expect No Mercy.

He tackles most of the titles you cited.

Kasumi Ninja is ..uhm..special in a goofy fun sort of way.
Shaq Fu is ...Shaq Fu, not terrible not great either.

And I kind of want A Rise Of The Robots Just to see how terrible it is.
Clearly I am a masochist.