This is the game that made me want a Wii my wife ended up buying me a Wii and the game with the official fight stick for our anniversary in 2010 God I love that woman
Tatsunoko international rights are such a legal quagmire that it is baffling that an international version was even released AT ALL although that's not exclusive to Tatsunoko sadly. Japanese manga and anime studios are notoriously difficult to work with when it comes to licensing their creations and thus I am not surprised that the license granted to Capcom had several strings attached and that Tatsunoko would pull the plug eventually. Noticed how the Capcom representative mentioned that when Tatsunoko refused to let a certain character get into the roster, they simply offered no explanation whatsoever? It is just how this business is handled over there... Similar story with Marvel versus Capcom Infinite where Disney made their darnest to NOT let Capcom use certain characters while promoting the MCU on the side resulting on a fantastic fighting game with innovative tag mechanics that no one wants to play! I don't even know why Capcom bother with these different franchises crossovers anymore... I'd pay an arm and a leg for a modern "Capcom All Stars" of sorts with the tag mechanics of MVCI!!!
You forget to mention that the Japanese versions of the game have full animated cutscenes for the arcade endings. The Ultimate All-Stars version loss those and the Genie character. But in exchange gained, Zero; Frank; Blade; Yatterman 2; Joe the Conner.
@@Rivers1129 Would be a larger fanbase to be on Xbox, PS4, Switch, and PC. If they only went with Nintendo again, is what we could assume, which would still reach a lot of people
@@picolete That's not exclusive to Tatsunoko. Japanese manga and anime studios are notoriously difficult to work with when it comes to licensing their creations and I am not surprised that the license granted to Capcom had several strings attached and that Tatsunoko would pull the plug eventually. Noticed how the Capcom representative mentioned that when Tatsunoko refused to let a certain character get into the roster, they simply offered no explanation whatsoever? It is just how this business is handled over there... Similar story with Marvel versus Capcom Infinite where Disney made their darnest to NOT let Capcom use certain characters while promoting the MCU on the side resulting on a fantastic fighting game with innovative tag mechanics that no one wants to play! I don't even know why Capcom bother with these different franchises crossovers anymore... I'd pay an arm and a leg for a modern "Capcom All Stars" of sorts with the tag mechanics of MVCI!!!
I think when Capcom ditched their 2D sprite based games in favor of 3D games, that's when my enthusiasm for Capcom fighters diminished. Not that their 3D games were bad, or anything. I liked 'Power Stone', and 'Street Fighter 4' well enough, but I have a bias affection for their CPS2/CPS3 sprite based animation.
Agreed! PREACH!!! Unfortunately the last of the "sprite" based games that was absolutely BEAUTIFUL was The King of Fighters XIII, and that was made by SNK.
@@Rivers1129 Don't get me started on KOF Xlll. Their usage of parallax scrolling is out of this world! Few things excite me more than layers and layers of parallax.
I dunno, I was fine with Capcom's move to 3D. Particularly since they had laid off their sprite teams entirely by 2004 and I figure I'd rather have more fighting games than not.
@@MrSafior I mean SURE they still do 2D sprites (somehow), but I just can't get behind the heavy metal music, it kinda turns me off from most of their games.
Same! I used to watch it at 6am every morning while getting ready for school. I had a few of comics they also released. I wish this game hadn't taken 30 years to come out in the arcades... I would have loved it as a kid.
I still think the way they translated the Tatsunoko characters into this game is, frankly beautiful. Their character models and designs and animations are still some of my favorites in fighting games even being substantially less knowledgable about them as characters (I knew about Casshern in theory since I saw the reboot, and I was aware of what the Gachamen were on a surface level since I enjoyed things like the power rangers and Voltron and their fingerprints are all over those franchises and more). I'm in love with Ken the Eagle's design in this game, and the Yattermen look so much fun as characters. They really did sell the Tatsunoko side to me personally anyways. Sad I'm in a minority there it seems! It's a shame legal red tape will pretty much forever keep this franchise from being anything beyond what it is because I have such fondness for it even from a limited Western perspective.
This game was such a hidden gem that it was not even fair it didn't get a chance to shine as bright as other fighting games or other rather fighting games that capcom had crossed over with. For the fact that there were other characters from games that were probably went under the radar for many years it wasn't fair how we haven't seen or played some of these characters in a long time or would you know went docile for a long time.
One strange legacy of this game is that supposedly it taught Tatsunoko how to balance characters for their internal crossovers. Tekkaman Blade can destroy space battleships, Polymar can transform into a supersonic jet, while Ken the Eagle is... a ninja. Capcom's implementation allowed all these characters to maintain their cool factor while balancing their abilities to match each others' circumstances.
Yeah, I'm sure even most anime fans need explanation for the characters in this game. Most of them didn't even get released in the West, and they're all from the 1970's, an era so called anime fans refuse to revisit anyway. And the two most well known in the west Tatsunoko properties, Samurai Pizza Cats and Speed Racer, were vetoed by Tatsunoko themselves. I only found out about Time Bokan/Yatterman through the one DVD they released that was an anniversary project where they jokes were lost on everyone anyway. This game was clearly intended for a Japanese audience, but if it wasn't released in the west, Western gamers would have complained about not getting it. Even when I watched it played at a convention, everyone just stuck to Capcom's characters.
Honestly any fan that doesn’t revisit those golden oldies are really missing out I’d say then again majority of the fans would be turned off from the way they look since the majority is hooked on the new look of anime.
I think the biggest problem with ignoring older anime is that you don't get the feel of the origins of themes and tropes in anime that are used to this day. Of course I also blame the licensers and licensees for not trying to find a license for anything prior to the 90's, unless it's a big franchise name. Then if you really want to seek it out, you have to watch them raw. The only place that even offered the 2008 Yatterman legally was that crowd funding anime site that went under.
Unfortunately, people tend to forget where the tropes come from... Tatsunoko was one of the biggest anime producers in Japan where they divided their animes into kids/family friendly and shonens. Being french, I remember seeing Gatchaman when I was a kid, then in Portugal Tekkaman Blade as a teen and later on the other Tatsunoko prods on satellite (Eastern European channels - which even nowadays I find Calendarman hilarious... specially the giant robot finish and the villains antics in order to not get "zapped") as a late teen. Sure, seeing it today, they may look silly BUT these animes are the foundation to what anime fans are seeing today. Not seeing at least one Tatsunoko anime is like not listening to at least one Beatles song.
Guess I'm insane because I loved the Legends games. That said, I really wish this game had gotten more of a chance to shine. Shame we'll likely never a remaster.
Give me more episodes of those of the following in the future: - Street Fighter IV - Killer Instinct Gold - Virtua Fighter - Tekken - Mortal Kombat - Fatal Fury - Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Street Fighter X Tekken - Super Smash Brothers 64 - Guilty Gear
I remember getting giddy with excitement when they announced a G-Force movie back in the day and the crushing disappointment when, instead of Guardians of Space, I got secret agent hamsters.
The funny story about Capcom vs Tatsunoko was a lot of people were not familiar with the Tatsunoko franchise and opted not to play it which I felt was a sad shame because the game was incredible! To me, Tatsunoko was the equivalent to Hanna Barberra, and I'm STILL a big fan of G-Force, The Doranjo gang, Macross, Tekkaman blade and absolutely loved it!
Not stated in this video, Tekkaman Blade was released in English in America on the now defunct TV station UPN in the mid to late 90's under the name Teknoman. The human operator of the Teknoman suit was named Slade, though obviously a localization mistranslation of "Blade". EDIT: Also, even those who don't know what Tatsunoko is have most likely heard of one of their anime franchises without realizing Tatsunoko made it: Speed Racer, who was likely one of the characters Tatsunoko refused permission to include, the likely reason being Warner Bros. held the license for the Speed Racer series (making a 2008 live action movie) that blocked his appearance in this game.
I loved the inclusion of the large characters. I hoped for more examples of such characters in future games. Such as ape and dragon characters in dragon ball fighterz, sentinels and ant man from marvel, etc. unfortunately these large characters haven’t been featured much in recent fighting games. Super smash brothers has a bunch, but they’re mostly non playable bosses.😢
Otoo Andoh they were unbalanced. Gold lighter was better than the other one and they were both at a disadvantage to a 2 character team IMO. But they could be balanced. I think they would be better if they were balanced the same as the normal sized characters and and counted for a single team member in a 2v2 or 3v3 scenario. If this large characters were popularized we could see guest characters in capcom games like optimus prime.
*Spoilers for okami* When i reached the end of okami , i had already played TVC and thought the final boss was just some oc made for this game, SPECIALLY sicne amaterasu isn't even in the game. Imagine my surprise when i saw this globe looking dude at the end of the game and was scared shitless because in TVC i found it kinda hard
one of the games that capcom could just remaster, re-release it on switch or anything, ask $60 for it and no one would ever mind, hell, would pay money right now if they ask to, i really am a huge fan of the material, all the way back since the days of MUTEKING....
As Richard says at the end of the video, capcom doesn't own the rights to the characters. So unfortunately no remaster. I am going to look out for the original release though.
@@TheRatlord74 goodluck with that, its kinda hard to find.. would be awesome if you can find it. I tried phone emulating the game on a android emulator, but no luck on that front ether. Cheers!
Once I saw G-Force on the cover of the fighting game, I was hooked instantly. Still have it but I got to keep it from my kids so they wouldn't destroy the Wii disc.
The thing about Karas is story is mixed up, the horror aspect of getting his lovers body parts back is the concept story they had for the movie but that’s not actually what they went with and it’s a dark/tragic superhero story.
Was this game the skeleton for Marvel vs Capcom 3? The cell shading look almost identical. Sane for the easier control scheme. Ryu's 'Shinku Hadouken' animations are identical, among many other examples.
in italy and other roman languages countries, tatsunoko animes were widely broadcasted. i have fond memories of my youth watching all these titles. the vs game is extremely dope
Little tid bit that was left out, Casshan was rebooted as Casshern Sins in 2008 and was dubbed by FUNimation and aired on Toonami's reboot on Adult Swim. Personally, after becoming a fan of Casshern Sins and seing him in this game I just had to buy it lol
I played this in the arcade initially. I wish I had been able to afford this and the arcade stick when they came out. I slept on it for too long because of the high price. I got it six months ago at Gamestop for $18. I play it on my Wii U and I am going to try it out on my Wii now that I have an HDMI adapter and the MClassic.
I remember actually playing this in an arcade. I remember the game having a mech from Lost Planet but I couldn't remember if that's what it was or not and just thought I was remembering things incorrectly.
The downfall of this game is that they made it specifically for Wii. Granted, I own it and had it since release, but I would've rather had it for PS3 or XBox 360.
I remember seeing a commercial for this game and not knowing what exactly Tatsunoko was, but I did recognize the bird heroes because of the Robot Chicken skit of it that is burned into my memory. Which now knowing that Tatsunoko was a major part of the foundation of anime history makes me a bit sad.
I actually watched the gochtamon show from the 70s on cartoon network here in America in the 90s and I loved the samurai pizza cats as a kid. I would've played them all day
Real talk, Speed Racer would’ve been cool for a game like this. Perhaps the Mach 5’s tools being on his body rather than the car, so he could have some jump-jack powered kick or a saw blade strike
I remember I wanted this game so much that I bought a wii, intalled hombrew and downloaded the japanese version lol. I was so mad that this game did not release for playstation or xbox. This was one of my fav vs games besides mvc2. Would love to see a part 2 for current gen consoles
I'm not an anime fan, so most of the characters I either had no knowledge of, or had seen images of them before but knew nothing about them. That said, I had heard about this game well before it ever got released in the US. And with the gameplay being the closest thing to a new Marvel/Capcom game that had been made in several years, I was very interested in playing it. As stated in the video, there was originally no intention to release it outside of Japan, and I had heard about that as well. Being that I really, REALLY wanted to play it, I imported the initial version released for the Wii in Japan. I installed the Homebrew Channel on my Wii specifically to play this. Up to that point I didn't have much of a reason to do so, and I was always hesitant with that sort of thing in general as I didn't want to mess up my system. But I had to take the gamble since I wanted to play this game. I was surprised when I got it to find that pretty much ALL text in the game, including the menus, was all in Japanese. I realize that this is a game released in Japan, but as I had previously bought and played the Sega Saturn imports of X-Men vs Street Fighter and Marvel SH vs. Street Fighter (in that case just needing a 3rd party cart that handled both the RAM expansion and got around the region locking without having to mod the system in any way), much of the text in those games was in English aside from things like the character endings. So navigating the menu was easier. I had to look up a translation of the menu options to cross reference to navigate it. But it was worth it, and I enjoyed the hell out of the game. Of course later on it was announced that a version would be released in the US. I didn't regret buying the import since I had it for at least a year or more before the US release even came out, though I likely wouldn't have bothered importing it if a US release had seemed likely at the time. Still, I also got the US version, and I don't consider having the earlier version from Japan to be a loss or a waste since not only did I enjoy it for quite a while, but as there were slight differences on both ends in the roster, both had characters that weren't available on the other version. I still have both versions in my collection and have no intention of parting with them.
I remember spending the full amount of cash from my miserable salary just to buy this game. Why? Because it's one of the best fighters for the Wii and Tatsunoko rocks! That's why. It's easy and fun to play and the addition of giant characters was actually one of the fun things of this game.
One of my top favorite Wii games ever released. Glad I was able to get one of the fighter sticks too. Definitely a game I always point to whenever someone says the Wii doesn’t have any games for “hardcore” gamers.
Fun fact, the Capcom side had a total of 5 planned but scrapped characters. They were Ibuki and M.Bison from Street Fighter, Nero from Devil May Cry and surprisingly Phoenix Wright and Franziska Von Karma from the Ace Attorney series. I'm not sure why Ibuki, Nero and Bison were scrapped but Von Karma was most likely scrapped because Wright was scrapped. Wright was scrapped because the team had trouble designing a move set for him, but was we all know he was later added to Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
I had watched Gatchaman and Tekkaman Blade as a kid. I was familiar with some of the characters. When I saw this at an arcade it blew my mind. When the Wii version came out I played it a lot, it took the place of Capcom vs SNK in my house. I was so curious about the other Tatsunoko characters that I rented out from Netflix what Tatsunoko DVDs they had. I really liked Karas a character. I replayed this a little bit on Sunday, as it was the 10 year anniversary, and looks and plays wonderfully. The Wii had some really amazing games!
I have it for the Wii. When I heard that it was exclusive to that I was bemused. Seems like the PS3 would be a natural home for it, and by the time it was released, the Wii fad had kind of died down and there werent a lot of non shovelware Wii exclusives
I love that it’s on the Wii but hate that it’s on the Wii because it never went anywhere else. The Wii is a great system this game could and should have opened the door for some superb fighters. Could’ve had a awesome version of KOF but nothing really worthy. It’s a shame
Great video! Battle of the Planets was the first anime series I saw as a child, lots of great memories around the show. It was great to learn years later it was originally called Gatchaman, so I bought the series on blu ray, and found it to be even more enjoyable since it was not watered down as BotP was (especially making Jinpei so different).
Just imagine how trying to preorder this game in the US went! It took forever for me to find a store with employees who knew what I was talking about! LOL
The International version actually has different soundtracks for the Tatsunoko characters than the original Japanese version. As someone who grew up with Tatsunoko anime, I much prefer the Japanese version. When my favorite hero is on, that hero's theme song comes up as background music. Much cooler! Also, I don't think Condor Joe from Gatchman is in the original Japanese version, but I could be wrong.
I thought this game was a strange fever dream i had when i was little because before it, I had never even played a Capcon game or know what Tatsunoko was before it.
I loved the game. It had such a unique roster of characters, and apart from the cliches Ryu, Chun Li and Morrigan, even many odd Capcom characters. And most kudos for letting me play as my favorite Anime character of all time: Tekkaman Blade!
I don’t know how you find this stuff but SWEET! Richard you are the man. You know we love here across the pond in Boston are! These fighting videos have been great. Keep ‘em coming my friend. R
The one thing I absolutely loved about the original release on the Arcade/Wii was how the each character theme music was the background and the music can change back and forth depending on who was swapped out at that moment. I was so bummed when they went with just generic techno music for TvC: Ultimate All-Stars.
Gatchaman is arguably the series that opened the latin american market to shonen and we know how that ended up roughly 10 years later with Saint Seiya becoming a cult and Dragon Ball a religion.
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This is the game that made me want a Wii my wife ended up buying me a Wii and the game with the official fight stick for our anniversary in 2010 God I love that woman
Beautiful
Nice!
That's a keeper
Youre a blessed man.
Me too.
i was liking the video until you offended me personally saying that im no sane person for liking megaman legends :(
I still own Megaman Legends 1 and 2 on my PS1 ❤.
Love mega man legends series
I still own Megaman Legend for ps1 lol
Lol you know he’s trolling
RIP megaman legends 3.
Tatsunoko animes are also becoming underrated
Id love a reboot of Hurricane polymar and tekkaman, tatsunoko could use Netflix as a platform for reaching western audiences with their franchises.
Tatsunokos most popular anime cannot be released in america...
@@bryfunkenstein why?
@@ZER0O9 look up harmony gold and macross
Probably because normies don't like old anime.
I'm 20 or so and Casshern 1973 is one of my all time favorites
Kellog's vs capcom.
A new generation of breakfast
Would play it
@@picolete you can have some fun just by googling it.
TONY THE TIGER TAIL TACKLE!!🤛🤜🐯
They'rrrrre Beat!!!!!
I eat demons like Mundus for breakfast.
Capcom vs Fraiser
Capcom vs The Wiggles
Capcom vs your mom
Bruh my uncle had this game on wii everytime I saw the case I was like "who vs capcom?"
I had this game on Wii and every time I saw it I asked the same thing
the only ones I recognize are the ones from g force
More like tatsunoko vs who
Tatsunoko is the “Dad Rock” of anime
@@EDifyer881 Only ones I recognized were the Yattermen and Doronjo
One of the best games for the Wii, I just wish the Samurai Pizza Cats could be playable in it like they were supposed to
Joey JoJo uhhh... what?
one of the best games of all time imo
@@sxvthzxe8255 Samurai Pizza Cats in an anime made by Tatsunoko.
not just them but Speed Racer and Leon S. Kennedu
It’s a shame that the Samurai Pizza Cats weren’t included. I would’ve been willing to purchase a Wii just to play it.
Tatsunoko international rights are such a legal quagmire that it is baffling that an international version was even released AT ALL although that's not exclusive to Tatsunoko sadly. Japanese manga and anime studios are notoriously difficult to work with when it comes to licensing their creations and thus I am not surprised that the license granted to Capcom had several strings attached and that Tatsunoko would pull the plug eventually. Noticed how the Capcom representative mentioned that when Tatsunoko refused to let a certain character get into the roster, they simply offered no explanation whatsoever? It is just how this business is handled over there...
Similar story with Marvel versus Capcom Infinite where Disney made their darnest to NOT let Capcom use certain characters while promoting the MCU on the side resulting on a fantastic fighting game with innovative tag mechanics that no one wants to play!
I don't even know why Capcom bother with these different franchises crossovers anymore... I'd pay an arm and a leg for a modern "Capcom All Stars" of sorts with the tag mechanics of MVCI!!!
Robotech/Macros has entered the conversation.
You forget to mention that the Japanese versions of the game have full animated cutscenes for the arcade endings.
The Ultimate All-Stars version loss those and the Genie character. But in exchange gained, Zero; Frank; Blade; Yatterman 2; Joe the Conner.
That's really a shame, those animated endings were great.
I'm very surprised Isao Sasaki came back to play Joe the Condor
I think capcom needs to get the rights back for the game and put it on the Switch
Tatsunoko international rights are a nightmare, it was a miracle that there was an international version
Nah... PS4/5, XBOne/Series X would be a better fit and would have a much larger install base.
@@Rivers1129 Would be a larger fanbase to be on Xbox, PS4, Switch, and PC. If they only went with Nintendo again, is what we could assume, which would still reach a lot of people
@@picolete That's not exclusive to Tatsunoko. Japanese manga and anime studios are notoriously difficult to work with when it comes to licensing their creations and I am not surprised that the license granted to Capcom had several strings attached and that Tatsunoko would pull the plug eventually. Noticed how the Capcom representative mentioned that when Tatsunoko refused to let a certain character get into the roster, they simply offered no explanation whatsoever? It is just how this business is handled over there...
Similar story with Marvel versus Capcom Infinite where Disney made their darnest to NOT let Capcom use certain characters while promoting the MCU on the side resulting on a fantastic fighting game with innovative tag mechanics that no one wants to play!
I don't even know why Capcom bother with these different franchises crossovers anymore... I'd pay an arm and a leg for a modern "Capcom All Stars" of sorts with the tag mechanics of MVCI!!!
I be playing this on the switch. I love it tbh
I still have this game. It's the only reason my wii is still connected.
I think when Capcom ditched their 2D sprite based games in favor of 3D games, that's when my enthusiasm for Capcom fighters diminished. Not that their 3D games were bad, or anything. I liked 'Power Stone', and 'Street Fighter 4' well enough, but I have a bias affection for their CPS2/CPS3 sprite based animation.
Agreed! PREACH!!! Unfortunately the last of the "sprite" based games that was absolutely BEAUTIFUL was The King of Fighters XIII, and that was made by SNK.
@@Rivers1129 Don't get me started on KOF Xlll. Their usage of parallax scrolling is out of this world! Few things excite me more than layers and layers of parallax.
@@Rivers1129 Arcsystem work still do 2D Sprite fighting game.
I dunno, I was fine with Capcom's move to 3D. Particularly since they had laid off their sprite teams entirely by 2004 and I figure I'd rather have more fighting games than not.
@@MrSafior I mean SURE they still do 2D sprites (somehow), but I just can't get behind the heavy metal music, it kinda turns me off from most of their games.
Battle of the planets, that is a series I remember fondly.
Maybe its Just me and even more briefly as eagle riders, but originally Gatchaman
Oh yes I remember G Force
Same! I used to watch it at 6am every morning while getting ready for school. I had a few of comics they also released. I wish this game hadn't taken 30 years to come out in the arcades... I would have loved it as a kid.
Me too, in fact I have the complete series DVD boxset at home.
The credits minigame is the most rage-inducing thing I've ever played, and I've played I Wanna Be The Guy, so that's saying something.
I still think the way they translated the Tatsunoko characters into this game is, frankly beautiful. Their character models and designs and animations are still some of my favorites in fighting games even being substantially less knowledgable about them as characters (I knew about Casshern in theory since I saw the reboot, and I was aware of what the Gachamen were on a surface level since I enjoyed things like the power rangers and Voltron and their fingerprints are all over those franchises and more). I'm in love with Ken the Eagle's design in this game, and the Yattermen look so much fun as characters. They really did sell the Tatsunoko side to me personally anyways. Sad I'm in a minority there it seems!
It's a shame legal red tape will pretty much forever keep this franchise from being anything beyond what it is because I have such fondness for it even from a limited Western perspective.
Eighting are also known for the Bloody Roar series of fighting games. Man, I severely miss that series.
such an underrated fighting series
@@newageBoundhippie it really is! I kid you not, to this day it is my second favorite after Tekken! It tops all others for me!
I know that pain, I really virtua fighter.
This game was such a hidden gem that it was not even fair it didn't get a chance to shine as bright as other fighting games or other rather fighting games that capcom had crossed over with. For the fact that there were other characters from games that were probably went under the radar for many years it wasn't fair how we haven't seen or played some of these characters in a long time or would you know went docile for a long time.
Such a criminally underrated game
My dream game is a remake, with the addition of Speed Racer and Samurai Pizza Cats. But the Wii version alone is amazing. Go find a way to pay it.
And maybe Gatchaman Crowds
and perhaps Gowappa 5 Godam as a second giant for Tatsunoko with Blodia being Capcom's other giant.
What about the capcom game
One strange legacy of this game is that supposedly it taught Tatsunoko how to balance characters for their internal crossovers. Tekkaman Blade can destroy space battleships, Polymar can transform into a supersonic jet, while Ken the Eagle is... a ninja. Capcom's implementation allowed all these characters to maintain their cool factor while balancing their abilities to match each others' circumstances.
I actually rather enjoyed Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Too bad it seems like a sequel is unlikely... 😔
U never know
....
Yeah, I'm sure even most anime fans need explanation for the characters in this game. Most of them didn't even get released in the West, and they're all from the 1970's, an era so called anime fans refuse to revisit anyway. And the two most well known in the west Tatsunoko properties, Samurai Pizza Cats and Speed Racer, were vetoed by Tatsunoko themselves. I only found out about Time Bokan/Yatterman through the one DVD they released that was an anniversary project where they jokes were lost on everyone anyway. This game was clearly intended for a Japanese audience, but if it wasn't released in the west, Western gamers would have complained about not getting it. Even when I watched it played at a convention, everyone just stuck to Capcom's characters.
Honestly any fan that doesn’t revisit those golden oldies are really missing out I’d say then again majority of the fans would be turned off from the way they look since the majority is hooked on the new look of anime.
I think the biggest problem with ignoring older anime is that you don't get the feel of the origins of themes and tropes in anime that are used to this day. Of course I also blame the licensers and licensees for not trying to find a license for anything prior to the 90's, unless it's a big franchise name. Then if you really want to seek it out, you have to watch them raw. The only place that even offered the 2008 Yatterman legally was that crowd funding anime site that went under.
Unfortunately, people tend to forget where the tropes come from... Tatsunoko was one of the biggest anime producers in Japan where they divided their animes into kids/family friendly and shonens. Being french, I remember seeing Gatchaman when I was a kid, then in Portugal Tekkaman Blade as a teen and later on the other Tatsunoko prods on satellite (Eastern European channels - which even nowadays I find Calendarman hilarious... specially the giant robot finish and the villains antics in order to not get "zapped") as a late teen. Sure, seeing it today, they may look silly BUT these animes are the foundation to what anime fans are seeing today.
Not seeing at least one Tatsunoko anime is like not listening to at least one Beatles song.
@referral madness best thing about the two is that they both had handdrawn scenes
So are you saying it shouldn't have been released in the West?
Guess I'm insane because I loved the Legends games. That said, I really wish this game had gotten more of a chance to shine. Shame we'll likely never a remaster.
Give me more episodes of those of the following in the future:
- Street Fighter IV
- Killer Instinct Gold
- Virtua Fighter
- Tekken
- Mortal Kombat
- Fatal Fury
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Street Fighter X Tekken
- Super Smash Brothers 64
- Guilty Gear
Alvin Bautista Fuking Agree!
Oh and add veiwtiful joe
The magic word is "please".
Please and thank you, sorry
King of fighters:(
I remember getting giddy with excitement when they announced a G-Force movie back in the day and the crushing disappointment when, instead of Guardians of Space, I got secret agent hamsters.
😭😢
The funny story about Capcom vs Tatsunoko was a lot of people were not familiar with the Tatsunoko franchise and opted not to play it which I felt was a sad shame because the game was incredible! To me, Tatsunoko was the equivalent to Hanna Barberra, and I'm STILL a big fan of G-Force, The Doranjo gang, Macross, Tekkaman blade and absolutely loved it!
I remember buying this for wii it was dope the art style is my favorite of all The crossovers
Same here my favorite was MSHvsSF b4 this installation
Nothing like a kids show that encourages playing with lighters!🤣
difference being japanese kids have common sense.
Right it couldn't have been like....a ball or something lol
I have the game but never played it because I didn't know anything about Tatsunoko. Now that I've seen this I'll go back and give this another try.
Not stated in this video, Tekkaman Blade was released in English in America on the now defunct TV station UPN in the mid to late 90's under the name Teknoman. The human operator of the Teknoman suit was named Slade, though obviously a localization mistranslation of "Blade".
EDIT: Also, even those who don't know what Tatsunoko is have most likely heard of one of their anime franchises without realizing Tatsunoko made it: Speed Racer, who was likely one of the characters Tatsunoko refused permission to include, the likely reason being Warner Bros. held the license for the Speed Racer series (making a 2008 live action movie) that blocked his appearance in this game.
I loved the inclusion of the large characters. I hoped for more examples of such characters in future games. Such as ape and dragon characters in dragon ball fighterz, sentinels and ant man from marvel, etc. unfortunately these large characters haven’t been featured much in recent fighting games. Super smash brothers has a bunch, but they’re mostly non playable bosses.😢
Personally I didn’t like giant characters at all. They were very unbalanced imo
Otoo Andoh they were unbalanced. Gold lighter was better than the other one and they were both at a disadvantage to a 2 character team IMO. But they could be balanced.
I think they would be better if they were balanced the same as the normal sized characters and and counted for a single team member in a 2v2 or 3v3 scenario.
If this large characters were popularized we could see guest characters in capcom games like optimus prime.
*Spoilers for okami*
When i reached the end of okami , i had already played TVC and thought the final boss was just some oc made for this game, SPECIALLY sicne amaterasu isn't even in the game. Imagine my surprise when i saw this globe looking dude at the end of the game and was scared shitless because in TVC i found it kinda hard
one of the games that capcom could just remaster, re-release it on switch or anything, ask $60 for it and no one would ever mind, hell, would pay money right now if they ask to, i really am a huge fan of the material, all the way back since the days of MUTEKING....
I agree with you 100%! but please for the love of gaming, throw the pizza cats in there too! I never owner a wii, so never played this game.
As Richard says at the end of the video, capcom doesn't own the rights to the characters. So unfortunately no remaster. I am going to look out for the original release though.
@@TheRatlord74 goodluck with that, its kinda hard to find.. would be awesome if you can find it. I tried phone emulating the game on a android emulator, but no luck on that front ether. Cheers!
@@jaxcellentvideogames689 I have the game bought ralease date at gamestop and have both Japanese versions on an HDD on my modded wii
@@Stylez-13 thats great, u might wanna hold on to those discs, some games you just know will only rise in value over time.
Once I saw G-Force on the cover of the fighting game, I was hooked instantly. Still have it but I got to keep it from my kids so they wouldn't destroy the Wii disc.
i really needed this video, now i want to play this game more often.
Great Video!!!
The thing about Karas is story is mixed up, the horror aspect of getting his lovers body parts back is the concept story they had for the movie but that’s not actually what they went with and it’s a dark/tragic superhero story.
I loved this game on the Wii. I played it to death. Wish I would get a release.
Was this game the skeleton for Marvel vs Capcom 3?
The cell shading look almost identical. Sane for the easier control scheme. Ryu's 'Shinku Hadouken' animations are identical, among many other examples.
in italy and other roman languages countries, tatsunoko animes were widely broadcasted. i have fond memories of my youth watching all these titles. the vs game is extremely dope
I remember getting this game on a whim one day when I was younger, it's one of my favorite fighting games, especially since I love Tatsunoko anime.
This had some pretty good music. I had a burned copy of the Japanese version which I used to play on my modded Wii back in the day.
I always loved the design of Doronjo
Shame it was never dubbed for the US audience.
Little tid bit that was left out, Casshan was rebooted as Casshern Sins in 2008 and was dubbed by FUNimation and aired on Toonami's reboot on Adult Swim. Personally, after becoming a fan of Casshern Sins and seing him in this game I just had to buy it lol
I played this in the arcade initially. I wish I had been able to afford this and the arcade stick when they came out. I slept on it for too long because of the high price. I got it six months ago at Gamestop for $18. I play it on my Wii U and I am going to try it out on my Wii now that I have an HDMI adapter and the MClassic.
I remember actually playing this in an arcade. I remember the game having a mech from Lost Planet but I couldn't remember if that's what it was or not and just thought I was remembering things incorrectly.
it did have a mech from Lost Planet
Wow I can’t believe there was an arcade cabinet especially if it was in US you played
The downfall of this game is that they made it specifically for Wii. Granted, I own it and had it since release, but I would've rather had it for PS3 or XBox 360.
I remember seeing a commercial for this game and not knowing what exactly Tatsunoko was, but I did recognize the bird heroes because of the Robot Chicken skit of it that is burned into my memory.
Which now knowing that Tatsunoko was a major part of the foundation of anime history makes me a bit sad.
Where is this sass for the Legends series coming from? Which boss stepped on your ice cream to make you so salty?
I honestly clicked this one just for the Teddy Long reference
I actually watched the gochtamon show from the 70s on cartoon network here in America in the 90s and I loved the samurai pizza cats as a kid. I would've played them all day
Teddy Long sure loves his Tag Team matches, playa.
What I thought?
Roll’s theme. Done.
Real talk, Speed Racer would’ve been cool for a game like this. Perhaps the Mach 5’s tools being on his body rather than the car, so he could have some jump-jack powered kick or a saw blade strike
Most underrated Cross over game imho.
I only knew about Tatsunoko because my Dad was a huge fan of Gachaman when TVC came out.
Ken the Eagle looks like Jim Carrey on this game's cover.
I remember I wanted this game so much that I bought a wii, intalled hombrew and downloaded the japanese version lol. I was so mad that this game did not release for playstation or xbox. This was one of my fav vs games besides mvc2. Would love to see a part 2 for current gen consoles
I'm not an anime fan, so most of the characters I either had no knowledge of, or had seen images of them before but knew nothing about them.
That said, I had heard about this game well before it ever got released in the US. And with the gameplay being the closest thing to a new Marvel/Capcom game that had been made in several years, I was very interested in playing it. As stated in the video, there was originally no intention to release it outside of Japan, and I had heard about that as well. Being that I really, REALLY wanted to play it, I imported the initial version released for the Wii in Japan. I installed the Homebrew Channel on my Wii specifically to play this. Up to that point I didn't have much of a reason to do so, and I was always hesitant with that sort of thing in general as I didn't want to mess up my system. But I had to take the gamble since I wanted to play this game.
I was surprised when I got it to find that pretty much ALL text in the game, including the menus, was all in Japanese. I realize that this is a game released in Japan, but as I had previously bought and played the Sega Saturn imports of X-Men vs Street Fighter and Marvel SH vs. Street Fighter (in that case just needing a 3rd party cart that handled both the RAM expansion and got around the region locking without having to mod the system in any way), much of the text in those games was in English aside from things like the character endings. So navigating the menu was easier. I had to look up a translation of the menu options to cross reference to navigate it.
But it was worth it, and I enjoyed the hell out of the game. Of course later on it was announced that a version would be released in the US. I didn't regret buying the import since I had it for at least a year or more before the US release even came out, though I likely wouldn't have bothered importing it if a US release had seemed likely at the time. Still, I also got the US version, and I don't consider having the earlier version from Japan to be a loss or a waste since not only did I enjoy it for quite a while, but as there were slight differences on both ends in the roster, both had characters that weren't available on the other version.
I still have both versions in my collection and have no intention of parting with them.
Oddly enough, mostl of Tatsunoko's properties were aired and localised in Italy back in the 80s, making this game a wild nostalgia trip for me!
I remember spending the full amount of cash from my miserable salary just to buy this game. Why? Because it's one of the best fighters for the Wii and Tatsunoko rocks! That's why.
It's easy and fun to play and the addition of giant characters was actually one of the fun things of this game.
I'm guessing copyright disputes are why we don't have Speed Racer?
I still have the Arcade stick for this, extremely beautiful
One of my top favorite Wii games ever released. Glad I was able to get one of the fighter sticks too. Definitely a game I always point to whenever someone says the Wii doesn’t have any games for “hardcore” gamers.
I’ve always been curious about this game as I loved watching G-Force as a kid.
TvC had the best art style of all the 3D capcom fighters. I have it running in emulation on my arcade cabinet.
The Battle of the planets characters were very much a part of my childhood
Yes of course 👍
Fun fact, the Capcom side had a total of 5 planned but scrapped characters. They were Ibuki and M.Bison from Street Fighter, Nero from Devil May Cry and surprisingly Phoenix Wright and Franziska Von Karma from the Ace Attorney series. I'm not sure why Ibuki, Nero and Bison were scrapped but Von Karma was most likely scrapped because Wright was scrapped. Wright was scrapped because the team had trouble designing a move set for him, but was we all know he was later added to Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
Oh! I would've mained Nero if he wasn't scrapped!
I remember watching "Battle of the Planets" on UK TV in the early 80s, really liked that.
I hope they eventually make a Tezuka vs. Capcom game.
I had watched Gatchaman and Tekkaman Blade as a kid. I was familiar with some of the characters. When I saw this at an arcade it blew my mind. When the Wii version came out I played it a lot, it took the place of Capcom vs SNK in my house.
I was so curious about the other Tatsunoko characters that I rented out from Netflix what Tatsunoko DVDs they had. I really liked Karas a character.
I replayed this a little bit on Sunday, as it was the 10 year anniversary, and looks and plays wonderfully. The Wii had some really amazing games!
I have it for the Wii. When I heard that it was exclusive to that I was bemused. Seems like the PS3 would be a natural home for it, and by the time it was released, the Wii fad had kind of died down and there werent a lot of non shovelware Wii exclusives
I love that it’s on the Wii but hate that it’s on the Wii because it never went anywhere else. The Wii is a great system this game could and should have opened the door for some superb fighters. Could’ve had a awesome version of KOF but nothing really worthy. It’s a shame
I still need to find a copy of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom....loved it when I was able to rent it. Totally forgot the final boss was Yami from Okami though :P
Legit one of the best fighters of last generation. I owned it on wii and actually got online matches for it on wii back in the day.
Great video! Battle of the Planets was the first anime series I saw as a child, lots of great memories around the show. It was great to learn years later it was originally called Gatchaman, so I bought the series on blu ray, and found it to be even more enjoyable since it was not watered down as BotP was (especially making Jinpei so different).
I want TvC to be remade or a sequel on current gen consoles, SO BADLY. It's probably the most balanced of all the Vs. games.
Zero and Karas say hi
They are both miles above the rest of the cast. Karas even has a meterless infinite
I actually still have this game 😊 .
Surprisingly everyone I know has never heard of the game other than me 😔.
I consider Tatsunoko vs Capcom to be a lost treasure since there is no chance of that game appearing on any other format due to licensing issues.
This one of the very few games I bought on release date lol
Same, still play it every now and then. We need a re release
I got the last copy in my local GAME store.
Another customer was asking about it while I was at the till. He looked pretty annoyed.
Just imagine how trying to preorder this game in the US went! It took forever for me to find a store with employees who knew what I was talking about! LOL
I’m so glad I was able to pick this up - randomly found it at CEX, a second hand games store in the UK. It’s so good!
The International version actually has different soundtracks for the Tatsunoko characters than the original Japanese version. As someone who grew up with Tatsunoko anime, I much prefer the Japanese version. When my favorite hero is on, that hero's theme song comes up as background music. Much cooler! Also, I don't think Condor Joe from Gatchman is in the original Japanese version, but I could be wrong.
Yatterman is my childhood
Still have this game. It's a gem.
12:14 but I love MegaMan Legends 😓
Bought it back in the day. Only played it about 10 times.
I played this game on wii even though no one was playing it. I still have it on the wii
I thought this game was a strange fever dream i had when i was little because before it, I had never even played a Capcon game or know what Tatsunoko was before it.
I was a game reviewer back then, and I was lucky enough to cover this. Such a wonderful, underrated game!
Care to share your review?
Still play this beautiful game. same w Marvel vs capcom for the Dc
1:01 For the Philistines, it's a Japanese seahorse!
"Any sane person hates Megaman Legends! Yuck!"
Thems fightin words!
This was my favorite crossover game glad it's getting representation
I loved the game. It had such a unique roster of characters, and apart from the cliches Ryu, Chun Li and Morrigan, even many odd Capcom characters. And most kudos for letting me play as my favorite Anime character of all time: Tekkaman Blade!
I loved this game. I'm glad to see I didn't just imagine it
Strange.
Teddy Long just made an appearance on today smackdown throwback
Fri May 7 2021
This needs to be remade!
I don’t know how you find this stuff but SWEET! Richard you are the man. You know we love here across the pond in Boston are! These fighting videos have been great. Keep ‘em coming my friend. R
So, can we agree that Alex, batsu and roll have the best themes, right?
I remember reading about this at the time. Still seems just as crazy as it did then.
The one thing I absolutely loved about the original release on the Arcade/Wii was how the each character theme music was the background and the music can change back and forth depending on who was swapped out at that moment. I was so bummed when they went with just generic techno music for TvC: Ultimate All-Stars.
I remember Battle of the Planets. That was my first exposure to Anime.
Yes sir
Gatchaman is arguably the series that opened the latin american market to shonen and we know how that ended up roughly 10 years later with Saint Seiya becoming a cult and Dragon Ball a religion.