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Friday, September 8, 2006

The Dream Factory

Because my mind was dwelling on the subject, for whatever reason, here are some more images from Doki Doki Panic, which I wrote about in a previous post.


This one shows art from the game's instruction booklet. I don't read Japanese, but what I can gather from the pictures is that the big frog thing kidnapped two kids in dorky hats through a book. Or something. And then the Arabian family chases them. Also, the kids have wings. Also, before the kids got kidnapped, they apparently had a neat impish friend in a beanie. Got, I love Japan.


This is some promotional image showing a strange partnership between Mario and Imajin, the latter being Mario's counterpart in the game he eventually stole. It's comforting, to me: Italy and Arabia, being friendly. Or, more accurately, Japan and Japan.


And finally: Mama, dying. She's the blue-hooded lady whose high-jumping skills translated to Luigi, who's been a high jumper ever since. Funny thing is that she dies just like Mario died in the first Super Mario Bros., which came out two years before this strange Japanese game did. Terrified look, jumping facing the screen, hands in the air — all as if to say "Damn you, you shitty video game player! May I haunt you forever for killing me!"

2 comments:

  1. I'd love to see some high quality scans of the guide book. It would be fun to draw some fan-art of these characters, but it's hard to tell exactly what their designs are since most of the images and scans I've seen have been fairly low res. Would you be willing to scan/post more from this game and it's guide book. Maybe some detailed images of the characters especially?

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  2. Actually, I'd love to get my hands on a copy of the instruction manual. I don't have one nor have I ever seen many hi-res images from it online. Of course, I haven't checked in a while. Seems like someone must have one, right?

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