(11-10-2016, 10:56 PM)JazzGW Wrote: there was a cute anime-looking platformer for the SFC (called Zettai something...don't remember), and they localized it to be a doofy jetsons game instead. and as much as i appreciate growing up with old american cartoons, that was kind of a dick move. lol
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/jetsons/jetsons.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetson...et_Pirates
tl;dr: it was actually a Jetsons game first. It became Yokai Buster after. The main character of Yokai Buster was a sort of mascot character in a Japanese Nintendo-oriented magazine that starred in recurring comics, not terribly unlike Howard and Nester in Nintendo Power. The magazine folks got the rights to the Jetsons game from Taito, and slapped the relevant imagery over it with a few extra doodads and new music because they wanted something promotional to tie in to the magazine sooner rather than later.
So in a shocking twist, any dick move in this game-development story is on the Japanese side.