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I was going through some misc. stuff on my hard drive earlier when I stumbled upon some old screenshots I had taken way back in 1996, a couple of months after I had started working at Ziff.
The screens came from an old Sega Saturn game called Dark Savior, which was published by Sega. As it turns out, this was no ordinary version of the game; My friend Mark and I managed to score a copy of an early, unedited English version of DS that was never actually shown to anyone outside of Sega. We got it directly from the Japanese producer of the game, who at the time was obviously unaware that he was breaking all kinds of rules by giving us the disc without notifying or getting approval from anybody in Sega PR.
This version happened to be a direct translation of the Japanese one, which means that all of the colorful language that's generally accepted in Japanese games was left intact. As a result, playing through it proved to be one of the most entertaining experiences of my gaming career.
Below, have a look at a few of my favorite lines. (Click on an image to see the full-size, unedited version.) WARNING: Screenshots contain graphic language.
I can only imagine what the ESRB would've had to say about this one had it been released in its original form... :)
Posted by john tv at June 19, 2003 07:02 PMGreat! Sad that they didn't take those lines till the end.
Posted by: Jimy at June 19, 2003 07:25 PMrofl
it has to be said, you run across some evil zombie black wizard muthafucker who's trying to take over the world, you're probably not going to be mincing your words. and you get paid for taking all this goodness OUT of the games?!
Posted by: Cormac at June 19, 2003 10:59 PMYou could score some nice phat lewt off ebaying that. What the direct japanese translation of dickhead, btw? =)
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