(Cannot Clear)

Yeah.

Did you think I could read in Japanese?

Is this really a correct English sentence?

I still can’t read it.

I can’t read it and don’t understand its meaning.
I wasn’t thinking like that.
Yay! I cleared it!
I was only thinking about that much.

There were still manufacturers during the PS and SS era that included English in the endings, right?

I guess they’re celebrating something for me…

CLEAR CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU ARE CHOSEN!!

It’s like the ending credits of a Western movie.

Back when I couldn’t even read kanji, my Japanese was questionable.

I cleared various things, but I didn’t mind not being able to read.
B-WING is cool, isn’t it…

The main market has always been North America.

The mystery of the convoy for you!!

I don’t even have the spare capacity to input Japanese in the first place.

That’s no good!

I think OWATTE SHIMATTA is too defiant.

It was a time when simply achieving the satisfaction of winning a game was enough.

I feel like even Super Mario Brothers was in English.
I have a memory that King Kong was also difficult to read.

There are cases where the English text is wrong in the first place.

Until services like Excite Translation came out, translation was completely done manually on a sentence-by-sentence basis.
There were quite a few instances where the development staff lacked someone who could speak English, resulting in poorly written sentences that were below middle school English level.

Even if it’s not grammatically incorrect, it might be an awkwardly phrased sentence.

MAGNUS WON THE LAST BATTLE.
However, a new battle is looming ahead!
YUKE RODIMUS !
ATTACK RODIMUSCOMVOY!

There was a really crazy meme in English, wasn’t there?
It’s a scene from a speech, but the English is totally awful and pathetic.

In some games, there may only be graphic data for Latin characters.
Metroid uses katakana in the game as well.
It can be displayed in Japanese.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

I remember seeing games that occasionally have suspicious markings even in Japanese.
Written like a flame.

I asked Dad what it says, but I think he probably just said something random.

Handling two-byte characters seems to have some complications as well…

INSANE WORRIER

It’s a text with some flavor to it…

It’s a completely unrelated story, but I thought it was kind of cute how in Gwangye, the English subtitles for the Western characters are really fast-forwarded because they might have misspellings and they don’t want it to be discovered.

A herd of fucking ugly reds

Hearing that the original Dragon Quest FC version couldn’t use all the katakana, I guess there were some limitations even if they wanted to use it.

Wonderful penis things

Even adults can’t clear Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts.

You, in the Mario World, are a super player! I was happy to read something like that.

Riri

BOMB

Since it doesn’t have “fu,” it’s not “Tafudoraki,” but “Tahodoraki” or something like that.
I can’t believe there wasn’t enough capacity to even remove a single character.

AGILITY

Congratulations!
Your name is over.

FROM NOW ON, YOU
SHIMEI IS STUDY.

Do your best!
BULLYING IS NOT ALLOWED!

Please
try
again♡

This sentence comes from a poor English translation of the Japanese phrase “Your base has been taken by CATS.” The original source is a line spoken by an executive of the enemy organization “CATS” in the opening demo of the Japanese arcade game “Zero Wing” (operated in 1989), specifically the Mega Drive version released in 1991. This poor English translation appeared in the European Mega Drive version released in 1992. It should be noted that the original arcade version did not have an opening demo, and the opening demo for the PC Engine version has different content.Masatoshi Yuge, a game developer at Toa Plan, mentioned that at that time, there was a sales representative in charge of trade who had rather questionable English skills, and that it might have been a sentence conceived by that person.The English phrase “All your base are belong to us” is considered broken English by native speakers, and its contrast with a serious scene, the surprise that a company would sell such incorrect English without proofreading, and the impact of the phrase itself led to its rapid popularity. In some contexts, it is used with the implication of “that phrase is wrong.”Wow

In Mega Man 1 and 2, the weapon illustrations don’t appear, so I had trouble choosing because I couldn’t read them.

It’s still better if you let me read it, but the screen switches too quickly.

I thought it was just that kind of thing, so I didn’t really mind not being able to read it.

It’s over.

It was a long and painful battle.
My physical strength is at its limit.
Tasstitate.

OH DAISY!
THANK YOU MARIO. Mario Land is really easy to understand.

Sometimes, when you try to translate, there are cases where there are shitty things depicted.

MAITTA…
I am happy.
ANTA WA E R A I
OTTOTTO
It’s just an ending where people who sink the Earth into the sea turn humans into processed meat for food products.

It’s an age without the internet, and if there aren’t any natives nearby, it seems difficult to verify.

In-game, using Japanese or saying that there’s no capacity issue with FC cartridges after 2 megabytes, implies a lack of intent to engage.

THRILLING!

Even though I couldn’t read it, I was satisfied because it looked cool with some English written on it.

Elementary school students have had mandatory English education since the Reiwa era, so they should be able to read it.

Please wait for the loading, and then the ending will be in English in front of Dracula’s grave, flowing into the staff roll, and finally, a hand pops out of the grave—Dracula II’s good ending is the best.

I like the taste of B-WING.

The opening of Knight Gundam Story for Famicom.

Great job!

Not just in the ending, there are also RPG and SRPG status screens that use English…

Even after clearing the fortress in World 1, Mario still couldn’t understand what Toad was saying…

What is the cruelty allowance?!

I like it when AVGN corrects the English in ED.

PRODUCER IGA

Yoyo

To be honest, when I was a child, I wasn’t interested in the story at all and was just focused on clearing the game.

I used to look things up in the dictionary and read, but I hated how the English sentences would disappear on their own.

It’s fine if it’s just OPED, but even the status information and puzzles needed during the game.
Sometimes it’s just normal letters…

Lily

There’s no loss in being tough.

It seems that the ending of the Ghostbusters game is a mixture of grammatical and spelling mistakes.

Even if I want to write in Japanese, I can’t fit 46 characters of Japanese hiragana font because the capacity is just barely enough.

It’s a bit different, but in the English + subtitles game (100% made in Japan), the passcode with Murder as the only hint was 1564, and I still haven’t forgiven it, poo.

I think the STR and DEF status were accepted because of their stylishness.
At the resolution of around PS, it was difficult to properly display kanji characters.

When I was a child, my father watched the ending of Mario RPG after I cleared it completely.
“I can see you were working hard for this too…” they said with a somewhat emotional tone.
I was already satisfied after defeating the final boss, so when I answered “Well, that’s not it…” they looked confused.

You have completed this wonderful game!

A clear ending is nice, isn’t it?

Such a game
What are you going to do by taking it seriously?

I am Fred.

The romaji notation feels kind, but it was a childhood where I couldn’t even read romaji.

Lily

CAVE should explain the world view more through OP demos and such.
I want to fill it with text like in Silvergun.

First of all, since the 2000s, gamers have
The existence of a common font is something that has been around since the PS/SS era… so I need to explain that.

I didn’t really think anything of it; I was satisfied without fully understanding it, like a single piece of artwork.

Even though I finally cleared Darius, it didn’t make any sense.
I understood G because it has animation with pilots disappearing, and Burst is fine since there’s an explanation in Japanese, but I don’t understand anything about the side stories.
Actually, it was about a game at the arcade! Like how after defeating the boss, there was some communication and then the machine got crushed or something like that!

KANGEKI

If it weren’t for RPGs, I would have only understood the story or instructions, and I would have just thought they were saying something.

I heard somewhere that in Fantasy Zone, the understanding of the story is completely different between Japan and abroad.
Before each stage starts, there’s an explanation of the story in English, but there are few Japanese people who understand English, so they don’t realize the reason for Opa Opa’s tears.

AYBABTU is supposed to be a serious scene, but it’s hilarious how clumsy lines like “Dayoon” come out.
It’s already no good with what you say right after.

Cybarion writes everything in Japanese, but there are a lot of endings that make you go, “What the heck is this?”

Is all the ED in Daragai in English too?
I remember defeating the boss, but the Silver Hawk couldn’t withstand the water pressure and, while praising each other’s efforts, turned into sea debris.

It was shocking that Lily was just a bug.