Bitter Nintendo tears

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:03 am

That box art takes away all my worries and troubles and replaces them with an entirely different and ultimately much more horrifying set.

So, a success then!

Post by **Segaholic2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:53 am

Ngangbius wrote:Also this box art is some kind of awesome:

Awesome, more like FABULOUS!

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:24 am

That box totally says "My name is Tingle and I will rape your bottom unless you give me rupees"

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:48 pm

I'm sure that is the message Nintendo was shooting for.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:38 pm

I'm just glad that image is in the end of the last page.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:34 pm

What was the logic behind giving the Zelda franchise's most disliked character his own game again?

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:05 pm

I LIKE HIM!

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:37 pm

Zeta wrote:What was the logic behind giving the Zelda franchise's most disliked character his own game again?

I don't know. Along the same vein, why would Hanna-Barbera continue to support the recurrance of the most annoying and redundant companion to ever grace the television screen?

CE · Post by CE » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:39 am

Hey, don't diss Scrappy Doo; he was exactly what the group needed. Everyone else in the Mystery Machine was always running scared from every little shadow and picture with moving eyes; they needed a character who would actually stand ground and fight back.

They should have just given him chances to KO the bad guy, instead of always being carried away by Unka Scooby.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:07 pm

Agreed. 5 healthy teenagers and two dogs should've been more than enough to consistently take down old men in monster costumes. They should've just layed the smackdown on those morons. Scrappy had the right idea, his voice was just annoying and he looked ugly.

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:57 pm

Zeta wrote:What was the logic behind giving the Zelda franchise's most disliked character his own game again?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's because the Japanese developers are bitter about all the hate he gets from the west, so thought "Heh, let's do something hilarious and give him his own game! We'll show them!"

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:18 pm

CE wrote:Hey, don't diss Scrappy Doo; he was exactly what the group needed. Everyone else in the Mystery Machine was always running scared from every little shadow and picture with moving eyes; they needed a character who would actually stand ground and fight back.

They should have just given him chances to KO the bad guy, instead of always being carried away by Unka Scooby.

He was what the group needed, but too bad they often stuck him in Scooby-Doo series that had nothing to do with monster-hunting. The first season of The Scooby-Doo / Scrappy-Doo shows (the only time he was with all 5 members of the Mystery Machine) was his finest moment, as was The New Scooby-Doo / Scrappy-Doo Show, but everything else he was in just seemed to stuck. It wasn't his fault; the other series he was in were just plain bad. Scooby-Doo just wasn't a show that could be turned into 6-minute segments of doing random stuff.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:58 pm

I heard he appeared in the first movie- something about he being one of the reasons the group split up in the first place. Frankly, I never cared much about the character.
Now, that other white dog was completely pointless.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:14 am

I heard he appeared in the first movie- something about he being one of the reasons the group split up in the first place. Frankly, I never cared much about the character.
Now, that other white dog was completely pointless.

Scooby Dumb, yes. Scooby Doo is already a moron. A dumber version is just sad.

And in the first movie, Scrappy wanted to sacrifice Scooby Doo to Satan to conquer the world with an army of demons and bloodthristy zombies.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:45 am

Ah, yes. The one redeeming portion of Scrappy Doo's existance.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:20 pm

Zeta wrote:What was the logic behind giving the Zelda franchise's most disliked character his own game again?

Because he is actually popular in Japan.

Also the hell with the ultra Scrappy-Doo. I chuckled when Avenger scooped that Gary Stu-Doo in his talons in that Scooby-Doo episode of Harvey Birdman:Attorney at Law.

jenkins · Post by **jenkins** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:46 am

Just jumping back to the "promotional artwork," did anyone else notice what looked like the blue duck in Dynamite Dux? I can't remember his name...

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:07 pm

Bin.

I had no idea either, truth be told.

Dash · Post by **Dash** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:07 pm

Ngangbius wrote:
Zeta wrote:What was the logic behind giving the Zelda franchise's most disliked character his own game again?
Because he is actually popular in Japan.

I'm pretty sure it's because he's a sataristic character they use to poke fun at Otaku. Once I figured that out I liked him a lot more too.

And hey, as annoying as Scrappy Doo was at least he didn't bore the crap out of me like everyone else in the show (besides Shaggy and Scooby) did. In fact, I liked those movies where Shaa-gee got turned into a werewolf and the trio of Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy helped run a Ghoul School. They cut all the fat and just focused on the entertaining characters.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:26 pm

Dash wrote:I'm pretty sure it's because he's a sataristic character they use to poke fun at Otaku. Once I figured that out I liked him a lot more too.

Whoa, is this true? If so, then I might actually like Tingle.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:07 am

Same here! I had no idea an awkward man in green tights could be a running social commentary.

And what was the name of the white dog in Scooby Doo that only showed up in that 13 Ghosts series?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:02 am

And what was the name of the white dog in Scooby Doo that only showed up in that 13 Ghosts series?

Scooby Dum.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:35 am

And he appeared on The Scooby-Doo Show, as well as Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics. Egad, why do I know this stuff??

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:26 am

A curse, a horrible, horrible curse!

Tingle being a piss-take of a Japanophile sounds pretty gravy with me. It's still no excuse for him looking camper-than-Christmas though.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:46 pm

It's still no excuse for him looking camper-than-Christmas though.

How else were they going to make a middle aged 35 year old guy obsessed with fairies look like? Big, fat, balding with nacho stained shirts and glasses was clearly overrated for the designers.

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