Because a developer was unable to draw, Sega batally packed Batman and Godzilla in an action game

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Games at known licenses have already been available since video games exist. Some even use figures that don’t belong to them at all. Among them was the legendary developer studio Sega. In one of their classics there were, among others, Batman, Godzilla or Spider-Man.

Which game is it about? In 1989 the action game The Revenge of Shinobi appeared for the Sega Genesis. The game is a classic action platformer that is known primarily due to the tough level of difficulty.

Interestingly, the game had countless versions over time that had to change a lot in the game. This was mainly due to the fact that the original used many characters, for which Sega did not have the right.

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A large, unofficial crossover

What characters were that? As VidaExtra.com reports, the protagonist met several opponents and bosses in the course of the game who treaded him after his life. Anyone who knew something in pop culture could discover several figures while playing that had a suspiciously many similarities to famous characters:

  • Below was a character that looked like Rambo and Rocky called
  • Jackie Chan
  • A character that looked like the terminator
  • Spider-Man
  • Batman
  • A monster called Monster-G that looked like Godzilla

    • Although it was not these characters in the story of the game, the similarities were hardly accidental. The main character also resembled the figure Hattori Hanzō from the Japanese series Kage No Gundan. You can see an example of the similarities here:

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    The opponents’ sketches were taken over too precisely

    How could something like that happen? In an interview with retrogamer.net (via web.archive.org) from 2014, the director of the game, Noriyoshi Oba, spoke about the topic and gave an absurd answer that had to do with his drawing skills:

    I took some rough sketches of characters out of my head and photos because I can’t draw well […] You should serve as a rough example. Unfortunately, the designer of the sprite reproduced my drawings a little too faithfully, and you know the end result. I personally think if the designer had tried to show more of his own personality in these figures, they would have looked very different from the originals.

    Noriyoshi Oba about the similarity to license figures in the Revenge of Shinobi

    What happened in later versions of the game? The figures could not simply replace patches through the time at the time, you had to produce revisions.

    Spider-Man was able to stay in the first revisions and resembled the real one even more because Marvel got the rights. Batman disappeared and became a monster. The Rambo design has also been changed.

    It was only with a later revision that Monster-G was changed from a Godzilla-like monster to a skeletal creature.

    In 2009 a version of the game appeared again in the online stores that Spider-Man Pink colored because the rights had expired.

    So if you should play the Revenge of Shinobi on current collections these days, you will not discover Godzilla, Batman and Spider-Man, you will already need the original Japanese version. Sega has other large brands away from Sonic. One of the greatest is Yakuza, who will get a new game in February: New big game for PS5 and Steam has a beloved feature that fans of Assassin’s Creed misses

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