Introducing the "Lost" Yamato Laserdisc Game

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Introducing the "Lost" Yamato Laserdisc Game

I posted this on the Dragon's Lair Project but thought I would post it here also.
Ok,I just ran across this wile searching for info on the new live action Space Battleship Yamato movie scheduled for release December 2010. Most of you would know this as Star Blazers in the US.
Anyway this web page talks about the Forgotten Laserdisc game made by Taito in 1985. Anyone ever heard of this?
http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=363
Maybe something new to add to the DLP ?
If anyone is interested in the new movie, here's a link for a 30 sec Youtube SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO 2010 TEASER TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDlWzdqtjM

Sam
in Virginia
 
Thanks for posting this! I've got a huge laser collection icluding some very rare dedicated machines. In the laser I have never heard of this game spoken off or seen pics. Know the strange thing about Taito Laser games is ot one of the now 3 we know of Time Gal, Ninja Hayate and now Starblazer has ever landed on Amercian soil. Yes there have been some laser gems found like Cube Quest's, Road Blaster and Freedom Fighter, even Marquees for games like Capitan Zap and kits like Eshs Aurnimilla, but not one piece of any of the 3 Taito laser games has ever showed up in the US! I'm very Curious to know if any one of those 3 games ever was exported for a trade show or to be shown at a Taito USA office. Its very promising that game title footage was done in engish, so maybe someday we will see one appear. We see imports of many different laser games, I even have the japanese dedicated boardset for Thunderblade data east's US version of Cobra Command, but Taito laser stuff its a big fat Zero. Thanks again for sharing and posting on DLP.

Joe(acejedi)
 
This is the first thing I have heard regarding the new movie, and having been a long-time Star Blazers fan, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with how the movie looks. I only know of the Star Blazers series, so I apologize if my vision is skewed, but in Star Blazers, Captain Avatar was NOT Asian, nor was Derek Wildstar..

What is the need to change these characters from what they were originally? I was so psyched to read this thread, only to be disappointed by the trailer. Do the producers of these movies even WATCH the original stuff before they say "hey let's make a movie of this!"

Again, my apologies if things were americanized from the original Yamato storyline. But that is a huge change in my eyes. Maybe we should redo the Bruce Lee movies, and use Rick Schroeder or Will Farrell, or maybe even David Hasselhoff. Would that drop a hint as to why you don't make these kinds of changes?? And who's playing Nova? Lucy Liu?? :(

Edit: and how about Don Rickles or Red Skelton as Avatar! I'm on a roll!!

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This is the first thing I have heard regarding the new movie, and having been a long-time Star Blazers fan, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with how the movie looks. I only know of the Star Blazers series, so I apologize if my vision is skewed, but in Star Blazers, Captain Avatar was NOT Asian, nor was Derek Wildstar..

What is the need to change these characters from what they were originally? I was so psyched to read this thread, only to be disappointed by the trailer. Do the producers of these movies even WATCH the original stuff before they say "hey let's make a movie of this!"

OK, I am by no means an otaku, but I enjoy anime quite a lot.
The answer to this and similar questions is that to a Japanese audience, the anime/manga character look completely Japanese, no matter how "white"/"caucasian" they look to westerners. So these characters were NEVER white - they were always Japanese, to a Japanese audience.

This is a really common and easy to make mistake, unless you are well-versed in the otaku/anime/manga world.

Try reading this: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html

Or just google: "why do anime characters look white" for gobs of info.

So this is not a legitimate complaint.

RussM
 
OK, I am by no means an otaku, but I enjoy anime quite a lot.
The answer to this and similar questions is that to a Japanese audience, the anime/manga character look completely Japanese, no matter how "white"/"caucasian" they look to westerners. So these characters were NEVER white - they were always Japanese, to a Japanese audience.

This is a really common and easy to make mistake, unless you are well-versed in the otaku/anime/manga world.

Try reading this: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html

Or just google: "why do anime characters look white" for gobs of info.

So this is not a legitimate complaint.

RussM

I have to challenge this. My daughter watches a show called "Ni-hao Kai Lan", a show about a little Japanese girl, and it is the Japanese equivalent of Dora the Explorer. When you see and hear this girl AND her family, you know in about 4 seconds that they are............. Japanese. Now if I'm a caucasian american, and I can see plain as day that these characters in Star Blazers are caucasian, and I can see that Kai Lan is Japanese (using my caucasian american eyes), how in the hell can these people not see that the Star Blazers characters are caucasian?

I'm not arguing the point to be difficult by any means, I just simply don't get it.

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OK, I'm not trying to be difficult or a butthole about it but,

1. Kai-Lan is Chinese, not Japanese. Hence "Ni-Hao, Kai-Lan"

2. I understand that many characters in Japanese anime & manga look "obviously" Japanese, and many look "obviously" Western/Caucasian to our eyes, but NOT to the Japanese. It's just a cultural difference. It doesn't matter what they look like to us - it only matters what they look like to them, get it? Things like Star Blazers(Space Battleship Yamato), Speed Racer(Mach GO GO GO), Battle of the Planets, etc. etc., were made in Japan, by Japanese people, intended only for a Japanese audience.

As to why all of the characters look Japanese to a Japanese person, and were always intended to be Japanese and not white characters - ask a Japanese person. I grew up in Philly ;-)

It's just is the way it is, and can't really be argued with.

RM
 
Marquee

I have a marquee for the game YAMATO.

I have been wondering for years what the hell it is ... picked it up out of a warehouse a while back.

Steve
MM
 
OK, I'm not trying to be difficult or a butthole about it but,

1. Kai-Lan is Chinese, not Japanese. Hence "Ni-Hao, Kai-Lan"

Whoops, you are right on that one, my bad!!

As to why all of the characters look Japanese to a Japanese person, and were always intended to be Japanese and not white characters - ask a Japanese person. I grew up in Philly ;-)

LOL!!!!!

It's just is the way it is, and can't really be argued with.
RM

It's all good, no worries. I'm just thankful I have all of Star Blazers at home on video to watch whenever. And it's in order, which is something I rarely saw when I saw it as a kid!

VG (who grew up in DE)
 
I have a marquee for the game YAMATO.

I have been wondering for years what the hell it is ... picked it up out of a warehouse a while back.

Steve
MM

Got a picture of it? The laser fans in the thread might be able to pull some kind of details out of it to fill in info a bit more.
 
Got a picture of it? The laser fans in the thread might be able to pull some kind of details out of it to fill in info a bit more.

I just poked around my photobucket site and it appears I do not have a photo of it captured there, but if anyone feels like it is historically relevant I will dig it out.

Steve
MM
 
i just downloaded daphne last night and played my first game of mach 3 since i was a little kid. wow, what a flashback! that game seemed SO realistic when it first came out...
 
tell me this doesn't look like a white chick:

Dude, I grant your point.

1. Yes, she looks caucasian to me, too.

2. To the Japanese, apparently she looks Japanese, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE SHOW.

3. Who knows? Maybe they are all lying..maybe it's all one big joke to make the Gaijin's heads explode.

The Japanese pretty much have the world market cornered on Extremely Weird Crap.
What can I say?
They eat Squid-Ink Ice Cream:
http://bonvivantsu.blogspot.com/2008/03/craving-ice-cream-in-hokkaido.html

RM
 
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I just poked around my photobucket site and it appears I do not have a photo of it captured there, but if anyone feels like it is historically relevant I will dig it out.

Steve
MM

It was a 1983 Sega raster game based on the show, not the Marquee for the laser game STARBLAZER mentioned above, I'm serious that not one thing of the 3 Anime Taito laser games has ever been found in the US.

Joe(acejedi)
 
It was a 1983 Sega raster game based on the show, not the Marquee for the laser game STARBLAZER mentioned above, I'm serious that not one thing of the 3 Anime Taito laser games has ever been found in the US.

Joe(acejedi)

I don't think the 1983 Sega raster game was based on the show but rather on the Japanese WWII Battleship. Their are 3 board owners listed on VAPS but all are in Germany. Their were some games made for Japanese game systems like the Play Starion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWovS3Txut8
and PS2 and other systems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgk03HKkAU&feature=related
Shame we don't have a KLOVer in Japan that could do a little research for us or do we?.
 
Dude, I grant your point.

1. Yes, she looks caucasian to me, too.

2. To the Japanese, apparently she looks Japanese, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE SHOW.

3. Who knows? Maybe they are all lying..maybe it's all one big joke to make the Gaijin's heads explode.

The Japanese pretty much have the world market cornered on Extremely Weird Crap.
What can I say?
They eat Squid-Ink Ice Cream:
http://bonvivantsu.blogspot.com/2008/03/craving-ice-cream-in-hokkaido.html

RM

It's their version of suspension of disbelief, I suppose.

However, they are definitely a little screwed up in the head, and here's proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFW-hrGX7g

(Keep your eyes on the dude in the red...)
 
I don't think the 1983 Sega raster game was based on the show but rather on the Japanese WWII Battleship. Their are 3 board owners listed on VAPS but all are in Germany. Their were some games made for Japanese game systems like the Play Starion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWovS3Txut8
and PS2 and other systems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgk03HKkAU&feature=related
Shame we don't have a KLOVer in Japan that could do a little research for us or do we?.

Yeah either way its not the laser version:(
I don't know anybody in Japan but I'm sure there are no dedicated cabs left, maybe a marquee or a game laserdisc. I heard from a guy yrs ago that went to Japan on occasion that there is a district that's like a sidewalk sale during the day, at dusk the regular sellers close up and at night the underground sellers come out with old electronics, Laserdiscs, music cassetts, toys old Raido controlled models etc. I guess in Japan it is looked down upon to save old outdated things like we do over here because space is so limited, but there are people who do and they come out to this market place at night. If you were gonna find anything related to the old Anime laserdisc Taito games this is were they would be. Again I really don't believe not 1 of the 3 Taito anime laser games ever made it into the US.

Joe(acejedi)
 
Acejedi

You forgot Laser Grand Prix by Taito. There is definitely one of these here in the US because I shipped it here :)

In my 16 years of collecting nothing but laser games, I have only ever seen a flyer for Time Gal and Ninja Hayate.
 

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