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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Bootleg

Posted by simoniker on from the no-wire-fu-darn-you dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Magic Box article showing screenshots from the bootleg arcade game Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2003. Although there are few details on this title, it seems to be a South American-sourced Neo-Geo cartridge that doesn't actually have the actual movie license, but is 'borrowing' its name, along with most of the gameplay of King of Fighters 2001 and a bunch of backgrounds from the Street Fighter series. So many years after the Street Fighter II bootlegs, it's amazing to see people are still 'enhancing' arcade games for cultures where the 2D arcade fighter is still popular.

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  1. How is this news? by Nathan+Ramella · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Someone pirated an idea.. Didn't do a terribly amazing job with it.. Released it and either made some money or gained a shard of publicity in the small circle of 2D fighter developers..

    uh.. Great.

    Don't we have some heavy science to deal with now?

    BY HEAVY SCIENCE, I MEAN, THIS STORY IS FLUFF

    AS IN, A WASTE OF TIME

    Yes. -n

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