http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-14T00:22:09 -05.00 Bronty 21 Originally posted by: shawnphase

weeeeeeeeird, im a pretty big natsume fan too and ive never even heard of a potential dkd2 localization. that artwork is really somethin else, awesome to see. guess maybe they didnt localize it here beyond being late era possibly because its got a similar look to snow bros? that came out in 1990, so i guess they didnt want it to flop here based on similarity maybe?

i guess snow bros was a bit different all told, but snow bros was in the arcade as well right? maybe theres something to it being somewhat similar ip where they didnt wanna possibly wind up in court with capcom/toaplan over an 8bit title.. i guess there could be a lot there as to why but i'd think frank's fully on the money, by 92 they were probably so sick of the ports and localizing stuff here. thanks for sharin this with us bronty, really cool stuff!


don doko don 2 is a Platformer, the first one is an arcade game ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-13T23:45:14 -05.00 Bronty 21
i guess snow bros was a bit different all told, but snow bros was in the arcade as well right? maybe theres something to it being somewhat similar ip where they didnt wanna possibly wind up in court with capcom/toaplan over an 8bit title.. i guess there could be a lot there as to why but i'd think frank's fully on the money, by 92 they were probably so sick of the ports and localizing stuff here. thanks for sharin this with us bronty, really cool stuff! ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-10T20:21:48 -05.00 Bronty 21 Originally posted by: Bronty

Check back on the thread in a couple days Frank and hopefully I'll have posted the photo of the box.

I look forward to seeing the box. Thank for posting the art. It is neat to see it. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T18:01:28 -05.00 Bronty 21 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T18:00:46 -05.00 Bronty 21 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T17:13:20 -05.00 Bronty 21
No proto found yet that I'm aware of. I can also tell you with near-absolute certainty that this was never formally announced or advertised to store buyers: I've been through every U.S. video game magazine published during the NES' lifetime, and have looked at all the available dealer material/sales sheets at the National Videogame Museum and the Strong Museum. I've also been through every Nintendo third party directory from Don Doko Don 2's era (these are booklets they'd have at CES that outlined all of the current and upcoming products, by publisher). It's *possible* that they were soliciting it to buyers without formally working with Nintendo to announce it, but I really really doubt it.

My guess for the "why" is pretty simple: Don Doko Don 2 came out in 1992 on the Famicom. Natsume U.S. had completely abandoned 8-bit by this point and was only pushing 16-bit games. It seems to me like this was a project they were working on internally that they pulled the plug on before they got around to announcing it. It's actually kind of remarkable that they got as far as laying out the packaging before they'd even announced it, but it's not completely unheard of. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T15:55:39 -05.00 Bronty 21 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T14:57:57 -05.00 Bronty 21 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T09:34:38 -05.00 Bronty 21 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=176804 2017-09-06T09:33:44 -05.00 Bronty 21