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Post by Tom on Apr 14, 2012 23:24:54 GMT
I did consider writing a Sonic & Mario London Olympics story last year - using the Bob Hoskins film continuity (which is the only official British take on Mario), until I tried watching a bit and couldn't make head nor tail of it. Actually looking through my notes it would (perhaps) have involved an unholy alliance of Colonel Koopa and Colonel Granite (suffering from a serious case of moustache envy), Sonic agonisingly slowing down in order to throw a race against Mario (holding back on speed would be a deeply unpleasant experience for Sonic), Mario donning a blue hedgehog hat in order to run really fast (like the raccoon thing), and Mario on a quest to save Princess Beatrice - and then going down through her stupid hat like one of his warp pipe things. (So glad I didn't get any further with it because everyone's forgotten that stupid hat by now.)
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Post by ShayMay on Apr 15, 2012 0:02:38 GMT
Actually looking through my notes it would (perhaps) have involved an unholy alliance of Colonel Koopa and Colonel Granite (suffering from a serious case of moustache envy) Hah! Genius. Amazing. That sounds sarcastic, but I genuinely got a laugh out of that. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games would be something I'd be alright with seeing in STC-O - it's developed by Sega and has Sonic in it. I'm still not keen on seeing other non-Sega material, though. There would be a lack of theming; it'd cease being a Sonic-and-Sega-related comic and start being a bit more of a mêlée. I mean, that's probably not as much of a problem to others as it is to me, but there you go.
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Post by Tom J on Apr 15, 2012 14:13:28 GMT
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Post by Charles on Apr 15, 2012 22:08:19 GMT
Can I do a Sonic/Mario crossover then? If you've got an idea for one, send it to Stiv.
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Post by Grimer on Apr 19, 2012 12:32:38 GMT
You guys and gals really have a lot of ideas there. I must admit, thinking more about it now, a Mario & Sonic adaptation could be real fun if played off on a comical way. Perhaps we could find out Marxio World is in fact Mario World and they considered it so 'evil' because in a world where Mario and Luigi are worshiped and every other human is kind of third best they really wouldn't be anything but resentful. Could work lol. Hmmm, maybe I'll make a pitch out of that.
All the other ideas are great. I'd love to see Nights, and What Did Happen to Ristar and House of the Dead. They seemed to be pretty damn good and going somewhere?
The next logical question for me is this: What would you like to see happen next in the strips StC has had ie: Kid Chameleon, Ecco, Shinobi (Did anyone mention that?!?), Panzer even HotD? For example in Chameleon for me would have to be the inevitable showdown in the final level. A nice twist in the story would be cool, and maybe all new Chameleon Powered alter ego?
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Post by Arch on Apr 19, 2012 16:30:49 GMT
House of the Dead. They seemed to be pretty damn good and going somewhere? The last HotD story only ended (technically) last issue and was subjected to almost universal dislike (or confusion). It's a shame as the first one was great. Even so, it ended on a cliffhanger so there's every chance it'll return sometime soon. The Panzer and Shenmue one-shots really didn't appeal to me. The only way I'd be happy to see a Mario & Sonic crossover is with the Marxios but, to be honest, I think they had a decent ending in Crisis in the Chemical Plant Zone (ignoring their #250 cameo) and don't need to be brought back.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 21, 2012 13:33:28 GMT
Well, Rob, if you come on the staff forum, you'll see that I've made some sketches for a Sparkster strip I did put in my application to rejoin the staff forum over a week ago, but Stiv hasn't confirmed it yet. With regards to non-Sega comics... beyond special crossovers for quirkiness's sake, I personally would be extremely reluctant to involve anything not developed or published by Sega - the lack of a theme might attract others from outside, but it could equally cause others to drift away and make the place wither - most of us are here due to a prior interest in Sega in general and STC in particular and if that bond is dissolved then there are weaker ties keeping us here and stopping us from slipping out into the rest of the internet. Besides, Sega has lots of properties that it's either made or licensed over the years - we still have lots of matierial to mine for new storylines!
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Post by Arch on Apr 21, 2012 15:21:29 GMT
For what it's worth, I'm definitely of this opinion, as well. Have a non-Sega spin-off, sure, but STC has already flirted with being un-STC-like and it's not a brilliant idea. There's untouched franchises that could be great stories (plenty from the Dreamcast era; Billy Hatcher, Amigo, Super Monkey Ball, etc) as well as the old group of series. I'd be very happy to sacrifice one of the four strips every issue for a non-Sonic one, provided it was good.
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Post by Tom on Apr 21, 2012 19:29:01 GMT
But... Sparkster isn't Sega...
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 21, 2012 19:42:29 GMT
It was licensed and published by Sega, though, and released on a Sega console, which is where I draw my line.
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Post by ShayMay on Apr 21, 2012 20:02:05 GMT
Back in the day it was, but the series was then taken to the SNES (published by Konami) and then to XBLA and PSN (also published by Konami). Sega literally have nothing to do with the franchise anymore.
It occurs to me that you probably already know this, and are referring to the original RKA. :I
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Post by RS on Apr 21, 2012 22:20:36 GMT
Dynamite Headdy.
You know it makes sense.
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2012 8:04:51 GMT
I don't think STC could ever stay 'current' if it adhered to a "published on a Sega console" rule..! And the "produced by Sega" connection is a really obscure one to maintain as a 'theme'. I doubt many people really notice who published a game they're playing.
Other non-Sega strips that nearly appeared in STC until the licensing fell through include Chuck Rock (which was replaced by Decap Attack, albeit too late for issue 1) and Toejam and Earl (which was replaced by Pirate STC).
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Post by Nigel Kitching on Apr 22, 2012 14:54:38 GMT
But... Sparkster isn't Sega...Sparkster Facts: I wanted Nigel Dobbyn to draw the first series but the editor was having none of it. I'd written 4 or 5 episodes of the second series before Fleetway suddenly told me the series couldn't run due to lack of permission by the owners. It's possible the whole first series ran without permission being sought actually (and the owner not knowing about it) - but I don't know this, it's just a guess. The artist on the first series drew up an entire second series in pencil with word balloons written in. Seems he wanted to write and draw the second series all on his lonesome.
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2012 16:08:46 GMT
There was a note in the indicia about Sparkster licencing in the issues the strip featured in, and parts 3 through 6 feature a Konami logo next to the title - so it seems unlikely that they didn't know about it (although perhaps there were some internal wranglings at Konami; there must be a reason the logo suddenly appeared out of nowhere).
More likely I suspect, given there was a noticeable budget cut on STC every successive year after the additional licences stopped appearing, is that it was the first victim of STC's annual budget cuts.
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Post by madhair60 on Apr 22, 2012 18:17:39 GMT
Other non-Sega strips that nearly appeared in STC until the licensing fell through include Chuck Rock (which was replaced by Decap Attack, albeit too late for issue 1) and Toejam and Earl (which was replaced by Pirate STC). Did these two run in Max Overload, I think it was called?
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2012 18:54:14 GMT
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Post by Nigel Kitching on Apr 22, 2012 20:01:49 GMT
There was a note in the indicia about Sparkster licencing in the issues the strip featured in, and parts 3 through 6 feature a Konami logo next to the title - so it seems unlikely that they didn't know about it (although perhaps there were some internal wranglings at Konami; there must be a reason the logo suddenly appeared out of nowhere). More likely I suspect, given there was a noticeable budget cut on STC every successive year after the additional licences stopped appearing, is that it was the first victim of STC's annual budget cuts. It could have been a budget cut - I never asked
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2012 20:31:33 GMT
That shows a disappointing lack of foresight on your part, Nigel. Did it never occur to you that your knowledge of these vitally important matters might be relied upon seventeen years down the line on a message board most people have never heard of?
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Post by Fools in Miru on Jun 29, 2013 0:36:21 GMT
I would like:
NiGHTS Wild Woody Vectorman Bayonetta Billy Hatcher Jet Set Radio ToeJam and Earl
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