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And welcome to Play comics, where once again, we are looking at a video game based on a comic property and how well it represents that source material. This time, we are reaching all the way across the ocean, or in my case, over lots of pieces of land and the ocean and some more land and some more ocean, because we have to go all the way over to Japan to look at a game that did not come out over here in North America. But we're looking at it anyway because I have people who wanted to look at it, and I kind of wanted to look at it too, but I didn't want to ask everybody because, yeah, we have two returning guests today. One of them is Billy. You've heard him before. Looking at Batman and Robin, Ghost in the shell, mutant Academy, a few different versions to rock, two seeds of evil, and most importantly for this episode, Gundam battle assault two. The other guest is Erin. You have heard her looking at Gundam side story, double O 79, rise from the ashes. I'm still not sure if I'm saying that you're right, but it sounds good to me.
It works.
It does. And what else works is I have two great people here who I'm legitimately friends with, and they get to make fun of me for still not knowing about Gundam.
And the best part about having friends is telling them about things you enjoy.
That's why I have both of you here, because Gundam is starting to click. But I feel like we need to take a step back in time a little bit and go a little bit earlier into the game iteration of things. Which is why we're looking at Gundam wing endless duel, whose japanese name I am not going to try to pronounce because it has strange accent marks on it, and I don't know what those mean.
I could give it a try, but I haven't heard it pronounced in a long time.
Kido senkai.
That's what I would guess without the accent marks.
Shinkidosenki.
Oh, that would be more Gundam, probably, yes.
Gundam. Gundam wing endless duel.
All I know is Shin means new.
Yeah, that's fitting because I still consider myself a Gundam noob.
Hey, you still haven't watched witch for mercury then?
I still have not. We are in the middle of watching one piece lately a lot. Because it has been the kind of days where you just have to go home and watch one piece.
To be fair, I haven't watched it.
Either, so I'm not finished with it, but I've started it.
Gundam Wing endless duel was based, very surprisingly, on the Gundam wing anime, which I have actually retained the knowledge that that is the series that came over here to America. Basically. First it was the one that was on Toonami and, you know, bootleg tapes, whatever. They. They were there whenever they were there. They don't count in the timeline. But please tell me I'm at least right about that.
Yes.
It was the first one that was released in the US on tv. Earlier ones being videos with that very.
Iconic commercial on Toonami. Do you remember Toonami? I miss those days.
What was it about Gundam Wing that just caught everyone's attention when it came out over here?
One. I think people, Billy is right. Giant robots. I definitely think it. Giant robots is number one. Personally, I got into it through the fandom side because a lot of nerds in the late 1990s, early two thousands saw these very pretty, tortured young men and decided that they should write fanfic about them.
That tracks.
There were giant robots, bright colors, and a more serious plotline than basically any other cartoon going on at the time.
Are you telling me that having five episodes being spent to charge up a punch from Goku is not serious plotlines?
I think it's more punchline than plotline.
Oh.
Oh, well, that's the show.
I heard the drum roll after the drum hit after it. It's all good.
Oh, hey, I found a translation for the title.
Okay.
Gundam wing, endless duel. I think if I turned this in for a book report, I'd have gotten in trouble.
You know, I don't actually know how those words fit into the Gundam series.
Mostly a word salad.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's what I thought.
You have to remember a lot of times too, when mobile suit Gundam wing came out. Over here, we're talking mid to late nineties because I refuse to look it up at the moment.
So it was released in 1995 in Japan and then released in the US in the two thousands.
And there was absolutely nothing going on in the two thousands for us kids to be worrying and us parents to be worrying about having a cartoon focused on war and different cultures clashing over territory and colonialism type things and all of that other stuff, right?
Oh, yeah. Nothing.
Yeah. When I started out originally, I. I hadn't seen the full series because I didn't have cable. I was only able to watch episodes every so often, or when a friend had taped it on a vhs and let me borrow it. But I remember going back and rewatching the full series from start to finish, so, including all 49 episodes of the original series and then the. The final movie, endless waltz. And I was surprised at how political it was. And then I started watching other Gundam series, and I realized that the entire franchise is super political. I know that was also something that was pretty new for american audiences at the time, seeing kind of such depth within, or. Yeah, such depth within their animation, at least mainstream audiences.
Other us action cartoons were, I was gonna say toy ads, but so's Gundam. It's just better written looks at shelf of gundams.
Gi Joe, obviously also a toy ad. But you know that politicalness was all, yay, usually government.
Yeah, there's more depth in this. Not a lot more depth, as wing is often considered one of the more shallow ones. But there's still a lot more depth than we were getting in anything else at the time.
And let's also keep in mind that this is not a subject matter that is exactly foreign to a japanese audience. Just as one super prime example, Grave of the Fireflies, had come out in 1988. And if you can watch that movie without crying or wanting to curl up into a ball, then you're probably not a human.
The first time, I will always tell the story, but the first time I watched that movie, I was in a public movie theater that was completely packed, and literally no one left the theater that day with a dry eye.
I remember hearing that it was originally released as a double feature with, I want to say, my neighbor totoro.
Yep.
And I just remember thinking, like, which one did they show first? Which one should you show first? How do you do that?
I think I remember reading about that, and I think fireflies came first, and then they had to. They had to make the happier one. They had to make totoro to make it happen.
Yeah, I would not be surprised. You got to balance out the universe and you're, you know, putting the vibes out.
Yep. Anyway, so Gundam. Gundam wing, Gundam wing. Endless waltz. Gundam wing. Endless duel.
Important thing is, it's endless.
Where does the waltz part come in? Though?
History is much like an endless waltz, the three beats of war, peace, and revolution continue on forever. However, history will change upon the day of my coronation. Unfortunately, there is no coronation fully, and there is no unfortunately. I mean, from Marimeya's point of view.
Yes, well, sure, but, you know, you probably shouldn't have ten year old puppet rulers taking over earth through war crimes.
Yeah, I mean, I guess you're right.
I can see where rulers getting to rule through war crimes and then performing war crimes would be a bad move.
And I think that's kind of a. That's kind of a big part of the Gundam franchise overall, doing war crimes. Lots of war crimes, lots of puppet rulers.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how much we want to talk about Gundam wing plot, but. Oh, boy. I even went deep on the extended universe stuff for this particular Gundam because there's a bunch of mangas, and I've read most of them.
Have you read frozen teardrop?
I have not read frozen teardrop. I missed frozen teardrop, and I haven't read glory of the losers.
I refuse on principle to read Frozen Teardrop because it sounds absolutely bug nuts.
In what way?
Okay.
There's something to do with cloning. It's like 20 years in the future, except the two main characters from Gundam from the Wing series are still teenagers. It's weird. And there's, like, xbs of all the original pilot characters. It's weird. Yeah. How much of wing do you want to go into?
I want to go into it because this one is specifically based on that series and came out timed well with that series, and so it's just a perfect timeline lineup there.
Oh, boy. Okay, Billy, do you want to start us off?
So we got space colonies. They want to secede from Earth because they feel like they're getting treated poorly by the Earth government, as, like, 90% of gundams start. In this case, we're getting the perspective from the colonies, as opposed to the universal century, where the perspective is much more from the earth side of the war. The main characters are five just terribly traumatized child soldiers who get sent down in their giant robots to sabotage assorted earth stuff. And then by the end of it, they end up kind of saving everyone, sort of.
Yeah. That's a brilliant way to summarize 49 episodes of dense, dense fighting and shouting and ideology and. And angst. And angst.
And then for a while in there, it goes really deep on the morality of drone warfare.
Yeah, that's not relevant today at all, reader. It is very relevant today.
So you're saying I should definitely watch it now, then?
Yeah.
Yeah. It's a good show.
It's fun, and it has fewer episodes than one piece.
Most things do.
I think you murdered Chris.
Well, I hope he'll get better. He's gotta edit this.
Not if I'm dead.
The endless in the title of the game refers to endless Waltz, which is the kind of finale movie of the Wing series. It basically just kind of ties up all the loose ends from the series itself. And it's probably my favorite part of the whole wing.
And I believe it's technically a Christmas movie.
It is.
Yeah, it's Christmas. When he confirms the blast shields are closed.
There's some good scenes with Christmas trees.
And what about the duel part? Is that referring to anything specific or anything like that?
No, I think that's because it's a fighting game.
Yeah, I was gonna say it's very much endless duel. Very much is like an arcade fighter. And really, the only part of that that's reflected in the Gundam Wings series itself is the fact that that literally spoilers for a series that is over 25 years old, literally all five main characters are fighting basically against each other. But on the same side. For 48 of the 49 episodes, pretty.
Much there's a lot of conflict. The five main characters are not a united front. Yeah, there's a handful of them that get along, smaller groups. And then there's Wufei, who nobody likes.
Oh, I liked Wufei, but I think that's because nobody else liked him. And I. I had read the, like, backstory manga that they put out, and his. His backstory is just so tragic. How could you not like him? He's just so angry because his. His entire, like, colony was destroyed and his, like, betrothed wife was killed, and he wasn't even gonna be a pilot anyway.
It was a political marriage.
Yeah, and then his political wife was murdered, and she was gonna be the pilot, not him. So I feel like he is. He. He's the one that's, like, outwardly working through his trauma the most.
He's definitely working through a lot of trauma and a lot of misogyny.
Well, we're gonna just go and cry over the fact that there have never been any other shows made that go this deep into the human experience. Well, I dropped some promos for a few other shows that are hopefully happier than this.
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Those are some great shows to check out, but first, let's finish up with this one. So, as we said before, Gundam Wing was a game that was released only in Japan. It came out in 1996. Looking at the usual Japan to North America timeline that probably would have had it out in 97 or 98 or right at the end of the Super Nintendo lifetime because it was either a year or two or like 20 years later, we eventually get it. This game was put together by Bandai and Natsume Bandai for the purposes of this show. We've seen them do a Dick Tracy game, some Digimon games, obviously other Gundam games, Muscle, the Rocketeer, and something about balls and dragons. Sure, it'll never catch on over here. Natsume has only worked on Gundam battle assault one and two. Again, just as far as things that we've looked at on the show, those are the only places you know of them from. And this was released on only the Super Famicom, which I have to say, because technically, that is correct. It never came out on the Super Nintendo. They are different because the Famicom controllers have better colors on the buttons, and.
It has those little. It doesn't have the little prongs that keep you from using international games on your Super Nintendo.
Yeah.
Is that bit about the colors a hot take, or is that kind of universally agreed on?
Oh, I have no idea. That's just my opinion. And my opinion is right on this case.
Cool.
I mean, the super Nintendo purple buttons are fine.
I'm not going to fight them on it.
Red and blue and yellow and green buttons. Like, obviously that over one shade of purple and then a different shade of purple.
My color blindness is really kicking me.
Yeah, the american ones are purple. They're not bad until you see the japanese ones. Also, like we said, before. This is a one v one fighter. So think, you know, your street fighters, your mortal kombats. You're going to battle assaults, if you will.
I will.
It's a fighting game. I mean, the plot is that there are robots and people who live inside the robots who want to fight, and so they do. We're not even going to worry about plot. It's a Super Nintendo one V one fighter. I'm just happy that they attempted to put a plot in there.
Was there even a plot?
I mean, it was all in japanese, so I couldn't follow it. But there was basically like a text box between fights.
From my understanding, looking at things online, it was like the short little things that the fighters say in Street Fighter between fights. So not really anything important plot wise, but potentially kind of cool if you could actually read Japanese. I cannot. But I'm also not going to hold that against the game because one, it's still a fighting game and a fun one at that. And two, it wasn't made for me at all because I don't speak Japanese or live in Japan. So they never really made it with the intent to let me hear it or seat womp womp.
Well, and by the time Gundam wing hit the US, the Super Nintendo was already old news and they didn't want to release it. That's why we got Gundam battle assault us first.
We have some pretty sick characters in this game, though, from my understanding.
Absolutely wonderful mecha designs and also some people in them, too.
Fun fact. So the four endless waltz. The Gundam team basically redesigned the main characters suits, and at first they tried to play it off like they had upgraded their suits between the end of the series itself and endless waltz. And then later on, they just, in, like, some of the manga releases after that have happened more recently. They've definitely just been like, these suits were always this cool. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Curtain.
And interestingly enough, this does not use the endless waltz designs.
I mean, I guess that's kind of, that's kind of understandable because the endless waltz designs are very.
They're a lot busier, a lot more deeper.
They're a lot busier.
They probably would not simplify quite as easily to super Nintendo pixels, especially since they already adjusted the proportions on the suits to make them fit on the screen.
That said, the. The artwork in the game in general is pretty, pretty good.
Oh, yeah.
I can tell you that. It's absolutely gorgeous. I can't really tell you how accurate it is, though, which again, is why I have you two here.
Everybody's a little bit squatter and rounder than they are in the show, but not by a lot.
They're very. They're still recognizable as themselves, and that's.
A pretty common change as you put people into video games and stuff anyway.
Yeah.
Also, they use one of my favorite opening songs of all time in any anime as the title music, which I can fully admit that I, at one point in my life, had listened to all five of the Gundam Wing soundtracks from start to finish because I enjoyed the music that much.
I should track those down.
Anime just has good music, though. That is also a scientific fact.
The claim to fame that I would know is that the music was done by Kao Ohtani, who also did the music for Outlaw Star, which I also was a huge fan of, although probably not as Big A, not as big a draw for other people.
Outlaw star was pretty big at the time, but it definitely doesn't seem to have the holding power that, uh oh.
I could, I would, I would. I could totally get started on that, so don't let me get started on that.
This game had eight characters in it, which is pretty standard for a super Nintendo kind of fighter. It's what you can fit. I'm going to butcher some names here, but you had hero ue duo Maxwell Trowa Burton, Quatre Ribera winner Cheng Wufei x Marquis, Lady Eun, and Lucerozia Noen. Also, those are the humans and not the robots.
I would give that a solid 75% to 80%.
I'll take that. That seems to be in the range of. They know what I'm trying to say and they're gonna make fun of me later for being so bad.
Well, I can provide some corrections. That would be Catra Ribarba winner Wufei Chang. I think they actually pronounced the s at the end.
They do.
And Lucrezia Noin, in my defense, Kayleigh.
Makes fun of me for mispronouncing French. We had seen six of these characters. Lucizera Noen and Lady Eunice were the newbies here for this one.
Were they?
They're not in battle. Assault. Assault two. They also are not driving their mechs.
I am kind of surprised that they did manage to fit in some of the female characters, though.
I'm still annoyed that they didn't give Noyne her, either of her mechs, which can you.
I have a memory like a sieve which. What were her mechs again?
Shes first piloting an Aries, the land air mechs, and then shes got a Taurus that is just all white by the end. And that white Taurus is sweet and would have looked real cool in the game. I wonder if it wonders if Mercurius and V eight are probably more marketable. But, like, I like the white Taurus.
It's probably also harder to animate an all white suit.
Probably. Probably doesn't read as well, alas. And then Lady Eun only drives a mech once in the series, and it's a Leo for, like, 10 seconds.
She does it to save to try to convince Trez to stop being a dick. Right.
I think she's, like, tackling Wu Fei's mech out of the way. Cause trace is, like, in a dumbass and trying to fight a mech unarmed or something.
Yeah, it's something to do with trace because that was always her blind spot. Yeah, and Chris has no idea what we're talking about.
I mean, I'm kind of still stuck on the fact that she drove a Leo, because I thought that was Voltron territory.
No, all the mechs of one of the factions are named after different star signs. All their stuff is named after different constellations. So that you've got the Leo is like the basic cannon fodder mech of this series. And then you've got the Aries, which is like a cannon fodder mech that flies, and the Taurus, which is designed for space stuff, ergo, which is a drone. None of those show up in this game.
What kind of mechs do get to show up in this game?
Well, we get the five main hero mechs and then the upgraded version of one of the hero mechs, and then we have Mercurius and Vay Eight, who are the weird universe. They're the prototype that. Prototypes that kind of become the Virgo. It's a thing. They're like, kind of cool looking.
They're like proto. They're like, in between the cannon fodder and the gundams. Right? They're like a. Am I remembering that correctly?
Yeah, yeah. They're like, by Oz to try to make gundams.
Yeah.
And then the tallgies. I didn't actually list any of the main character names. Aaron, this is yours.
Oh, wait. What? For the. For the. The Gundam titles?
Yeah, I didn't actually list any of their names.
Oh, well, they all have some pretty bangin names. There's. Okay, so hero pilots, wing zero duo pilot Stethscythe Troa pilots. Heavy arms. Bonus points if you can guess correctly what weapon his Gundam uses. Ketra pilots Sandrock and wafe. Pilots.
I know which one it is for this one because he's the one that has, like, three different names.
I keep thinking Shenlong, but that's not the name that's used.
No, it's Shenlong.
Is it?
It's Shenlong. Yeah. It's. If they don't use that name, it's definitely the Shenlong sprite. Like, it's not Ultron or Nittaku.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You said Ultron, though. Is that the same Ultron that I'm thinking of, or is that a different.
Ultron but Ultron with an a, not a u?
Oh, okay.
Of those, my favorite is the death scythe because it has a scythe.
Can I be basic and say that my favorite is wing zero because it has wings?
Yeah.
At least the endless waltz version.
Yeah. And this is not the endless waltz wing zero.
This is the retcon. We're going to retcon all of this game to have the endless waltz versions of all of the suits, of all.
The characters in Gundam who did not get to be in this game. Is there anybody that you wish you actually could go back and retcon to have them be in the game? Whether it be driving a mech or just there in a cutscene between fights, there's your chance to bring up the person you missed.
But catcher's the pilot.
I said it could be either one.
Catch was literally one of the pilots.
Oh, well, then I'm not gonna.
I'm. Now that you. Now that you want me to. I'm not gonna do it.
Okay, fine. Well, yeah, you can't, because I'm dumb, and I've heard the name wrong.
That's all right. You're forgiven.
But still, who would you bring in?
Oh, you know, I don't know if he's. I don't know if he's in the cutscenes, but Trey's isn't in. He doesn't appear in the game, so.
I actually figured that he does. I think he's the end boss, because Epion is in the game, and I saw the COVID and was like, why is epion on the COVID Epion's not in this game. So I started digging, and I discovered that Epion is a secret character that you can unlock by typing in a code. He's the akuma.
Is it the. What's the code?
Left? No. Ll l r r r. L r. L r. L r. Until it's, like, enough.
Huh. Cool.
That's easy enough to remember.
Yeah. Then I can't pick Treys.
God, the mech pilots in there.
Obviously, there should have been a sequel that included characters from endless Waltz, and they should have included Marimea. And she should have piloted a gundam, even though in this, in the movie, she definitely did not pilot a gundam.
She could have a serpent.
See, there we go.
That would be cool.
Billy. Sold.
Like, we don't have any of the grunt suits in this.
Approved. Make it happen. Let's travel back in time and make a sequel.
Or we could just make it now. People are still making Super Nintendo games.
But the vibes are gonna be off. You have to do it in the zeitgeist.
Okay. Can't argue with that.
One out for mobile suit Gundam battle assault three. I want battle assault three to happen. Dang it.
What are the current chances of that happening?
Oh, I think they're basically zero. It's been, like 20 years since the second one came out.
As we start to wind things up, I have to know, because this is really the whole point of the show. What does this game, can we even really tell what this game gets wrong about the comic since none of us speak japanese?
I mean, it's a fighter. There's not really much plot, just the robots punching each other, tying back into.
Something that I said earlier. I feel like it ties specifically into the feeling of Gundam wing itself, because all of the pilots are kind of fighting amongst each other and fighting people outside of the core five pilot group until the very end of the series, which is captured in these kind of games in which you're just going up against other suits and other just willy nilly.
That's true. This is actually one of those places where the fighting game format of everybody fight really, really does pay off.
Yeah.
If you knew somebody who was not me, because obviously you're gonna give me this game. But if you knew somebody who wanted to maybe get into Gundam, ignoring every other Gundam game that exists, would you give them this game as a bit of a primer? Course. Also, you can cheat and have it be translated if you need it to be.
Oh, goodness, no.
Yeah, I wouldn't say as much as it does fit the Gundam wing specific vibe. It's not a good representation of the Gundam franchise overall.
And it's. You've all seen the wow, cool robot meme, right, with the Gundam. Shooting the bullets with the label of war is bad. Going over the head of the guy saying, wow, cool robot. For the missing the point, this is kind of purely cool robot, which is fun. Everybody likes bashing their action figures together. God knows that I did a lot of that with my friends and the model kits back when Gundam Wing was new in the US. But it's. You definitely need to already have some investment in these characters if you're going to get something out of this.
I'm going to kind of cheat a little bit on this and say, I definitely wouldn't give this to somebody who wanted to get into Gundam for all the reasons y'all have said, but I would possibly give them this one, as here is a game from Gundam. Also play a game from other similar giant robot fighting series. Which of the robots now do you think is the coolest? And that's what we're gonna get you into. If you have somebody who wants to get into the giant fighting robots genre, end of things. But they don't know which exact flavor to go with.
Yeah, kind of. Kind of like what I said with battle assault two of the. It's actually kind of a great intro because you can just toss it at somebody and be like, hey, which of these robots do you like the best? Started on that Gundam series?
And it does seem like a lot of the specs of the Gundams and suits themselves do match their kind of on screen versions of themselves.
Oh, yeah. I mean, I legit put quite a few hours into this game, getting my death scythe teleporting everywhere. It definitely nails the feel of them very much. They feel they play, right? They play like they look in the show, you know, they do all the right moves.
Yeah, yeah, totally. Chris, did you want to put in your guess as to what weapon heavyarms uses?
A ball and chain attached to the ankle of the robot.
Yes. Correct.
Wait, are you serious?
No.
Side note, audience. A lot of bullets. A lot of guns.
A lot of bullets. It has guns in its shoulders and in its chest and in its legs and carries guns. It has guns.
Does its guns have guns?
Yeah. Well, in the endless waltz version, the chest plate flips open and it reveals both Gatling guns built into the chest and guns built into the flaps that opened up, because that makes sense.
Well, yeah, that's just room for guns. Are you sure this isn't an american thing?
This is the only. That's the only one that has a lot of guns. The rest of them have more normal weapons, like a scythe and.
Shotel.
The two, like is what they call.
I have never heard that term anywhere else, so I think it's some. And Shenlong has the glaive. He's got a big lightsaber spear and flamethrowers, and one of his stretchy arms because he's got an extendo arm. The wing Gundam has the classic lightsaber and also just big gun. One big gun zero has two of that. Big gun. It has two big guns, which leads.
To that very iconic scene at the end of endless waltz.
Yep.
Where Marumeo's like, you can try to shoot us in our underground bunker. And then hiros like, okay. And then he does.
The blast doors are closed, right?
Doesn't matter.
Mostly for my own curiosity. If I want to watch something that's giant robots but slightly less war crimes, do I even have any options?
I think Billy's gonna have to answer that one.
Even if you have to go outside of the Gundam universe.
Power Rangers. Look, when the robots get big enough, collateral damage happens.
Yeah. When a robot gets as big as a country.
So, Billy, what you're saying is that Papa Roach was right. It's in our nature to destroy ourselves. It's in our nature to kill ourselves. It's in our nature to kill each other. It's in her nature to kill, kill, kill.
And I would say that this is my last resort dentist, my papa roach knowledge.
Did he write for the translation of Gundam Wing? Because I feel like that could have fit into some of the dialogue.
Yeah, that sounds like something that, like, maybe not, but like, somebody else. Oz was some other Oz dude that tres would be chewing out.
On that note, it has been great getting you guys both back on here. If people want to hear more from you, though, where else can they find you? Around the Internet?
I'm a ghost. I'm a mystery.
I mean, I have some writing on Commandercast.com. They're great guys. Go listen to their podcast if you like. Magic. I kind of burned out on magic with some of my frustrations with how I haven't touched the game in years. But I stand by my writing over there and they're good dudes.
Also, both of you have previous episodes on this show and tags down in the tag, which are links to those.
Yeah. However, keep an eye out. There might be more to come from me.
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Whoo.
Billy, what does Mario say?
Wahoo.
Okay, good. All of our levels look like they're at good spots.
I was almost gonna say, yahaha. I was like, wait a minute. Mario definitely does not say that.
As we said before, gundam endless duel was a game that was released only in Japan. I forgot to scroll up. So you're saying I should definitely watch it now then?
Yeah.
Yeah. It's a good show.
It's fun, and it has fewer episodes than one piece.
Most things do.
I think you murdered Chris.
Well, I hope he'll get better. He's gotta edit this.
Not if I'm dead. Looking at the usual Japan to North America timeline that probably would have had it out in 97 or 98 or right at the end of the super Nintendo lifetime because it was either a year or two or, like, 20 years later, we eventually get it. This one was made. This one was made by the car down on the street that somebody tried to break into.
Somebody sat on their keys.
Oh, can you hear the honking outside?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow. Cool.
Honk, honk.
Sorry about that.
I thought it was gone for a second.