Japanese X68000 Game Disc Warnings Amuse

Thanks to NFG.2y.net for its new feature cataloging the amusing-looking floppy disc warnings featured on classic game sleeves from the Sharp X68000 Japanese computer. Highlights include the Capcom sleeve illustrations, where "the Street Fighter 2 characters exhorted you to take good care of your floppies", as well as some strange warnings from Japanese developer Zoom, including the suggestions that users "don't bathe with your floppy", and a cautionary tale about dropping your hardware.

Comments

Wow, nice information about the X6800.

[schoolsucks]

It runs under Human 68K, an operating system which looks like CP/M 68 or MSDOS and uses a graphic user interface called VS. Notice that the development is still active on that computer, several OSes have been ported on the X68000, the most famous are Minix and Unix NetBSD and all the GNU tools and there are some projects under development : XNeptune (a Ethernet card) or Ko-Windows (a 'NextStep-like' graphic environment). Sweet design too.

Re:Balrog is the boxer

[dancingmad]

In Japan, the names were different; M.Bison was the boxer (rhymes with Mike Tyson), Vega was the U.S. M.Bison, and Balrog was the guy with the claws/mask. The Japanese names make much more sense than the changed around English ones.

Re:Balrog?

[Dehumanizer]

In the Japanese version, the boxer was M. Bison (a parody of Mike Tyson, obviously), the spanish ninja was Balrog, and the evil overlord was Vega.

In the rest of the world, because of the Tyson reference, they chose to switch the names around.

Dreamcast Warnings, Too

[shadowcabbit]

Haven't read the article yet myself, but the "safety" warnings on products-- regardless of where you actually get them-- are usually pretty funny to me, particularly because in order to actually become a warning, ostensibly someone must have tried the offending act at least once.

Anyway, I just wanted to chip in that on Sega Saturn and Dreamcast discs, there was usually a CD-audio track that had some warning to the effect of "take me out of the CD player, dumbass, and put me in the game machine". Sega's warnings were pretty standard, but a few third-party warnings were hilarious (Working Designs did a really good one for Magic Knight Rayearth) or downright creepy. Those kinds of warnings deserve mention, too.