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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Gaming - Dr. Robotnik -> Eggman |
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Yoshi Dude XKEEPER STOLE MY CAR KEYS Level: 79  Posts: 322/3271 EXP: 4572680 For next: 6787 Since: 03-15-04 From: give me a number folks. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Why, in the Sonic games, did they change Dr. Robotnik's name to Eggman? And when did this happen? I mean, he looks the same. This one guy said his name was Eggman in Japan, but that's still a stupid reason to change. This is a great concern for my mom, who does not know anything about videogames but has played Sonic Heroes for 20+ hours. |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101  Posts: 587/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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| Sonic Heroes is lame and boring. And they change tons of names in translations. Bowser->Koopa Or, the other explanation that his full name is King Bowser Koopa. |
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Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50  Posts: 189/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I think it was because of copyright reasons or something... I dunno. I was never really really big in the sonic games to wonder about stuff like that. All I know is that it was kinda like that for Megaman/Rockman. |
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Mel (USER WAS TOTALLY AWESOME FOR THIS POST) Level: 47  Posts: 244/991 EXP: 762490 For next: 3713 Since: 03-15-04 From: secure tripcodes are for jerks Since last post: 17 min. Last activity: 16 min. |
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| Mega Man totally destroys the entire pun cycle of Rock, Roll, Forte, Treble, and so on. | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 557/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Dr. Robotnik is Eggman Robotnik. They just screwed around with the name from the series to the Adventure games. | |||
Imajin Buster Beetle Level: 34  Posts: 256/452 EXP: 234863 For next: 18788 Since: 03-15-04 From: Kingdom of Zeal Since last post: 39 days Last activity: 53 days |
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When the adventure series came out, the translators used Eggman instead of Robotnik, and when they learned he had been called Robotnik before, they made up the "Eggman Robotnik" thing  |
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Cymoro PATRICK DUFFY WILL LASER YOUR SOUL   Level: 67  Posts: 340/2216 EXP: 2549743 For next: 43129 Since: 03-15-04 From: Cymoro Gaming Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Japan == Eggman (Obviously, because he looked like an egg in Sonic 1) USA == Robotnik (To apeal to gamers here, since no one wanted to fight a person call Dr. Eggman) His true full name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik. The Eggman part, I think, acts like this: Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik And there you have it. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 1212/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I go with Cymoro's explanation.  It's not a huge deal... they probably just wanted to have parity. (Wouldn't renaming Princess Toadstool to "Peach" be the same thing?) |
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Kefka Indefinitely Unbanned Level: 81 Posts: 1196/3392 EXP: 4826208 For next: 166641 Since: 03-15-04 From: Pomona, CALIFORNIA BABY! Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I dunno why they changed it, but they SHOULDN'T HAVE DAMMIT! Robotnik sounds SO MUCH FUCKIN COOLER than Eggman.  |
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cpubasic13 17 years old now. Time to buy some M rated games by myself! Level: 54  Posts: 269/1346 EXP: 1206934 For next: 26936 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blame my parents, Eddy Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| They shouldn't have. I think they changed it for the show on TV. Eggman is a stupid name if you ask me... Robotnik is a whole lot better. It shows that he uses robots. | |||
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 268/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Nope, his name was Robotnik in the old cartoon, too. And in the comics. | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 1349/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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I swear that he was called Eggman in Europe, back in the days.  |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 660/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Hmm...why did they change his name to Dr. Robotnik, then?  Oh well, i think Dr. Robotnik sounds better.  I wanna pucnh the fool who changed the name... |
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Skreename Koopa Level: 18 Posts: 11/107 EXP: 27049 For next: 2848 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Technically, they took both the American and Japanese names and gave them to the other side, leaving the US with Robotnik->Eggman, and Japan to Eggman->Robotnik. (Take note of the fact that the only of the old games to actually have text identifying Robotnik is Spinball. All of the others identify him as Eggman, or not at all.) Robotnik does sound cooler than Eggman, though. |
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| In the original European Sonic manual, it refers to Robotnik as "Eggman", I... think. However, the reason for the change was because in Japan, his name was Eggman, and that Robotnik was an American invention. When Sonic Adventure was written Sonic began calling him Eggman, to bring it in line with Japan (like the numbering of the FF games, Technically speaking FF7 shoudl be FF4). I tend to overlook it by assuming that "Eggman" is an insult of Sonic's. |
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| Even before bringing the "Eggman" name over, they acknowledged his similarity to an egg. There was an episode of "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" (note: The more kiddy of the Sonic cartoons) where Robotnik imprisoned a comic artist for making fun of Robotnik with a Humpty-Dumpty story thing. | |||
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Mel (USER WAS TOTALLY AWESOME FOR THIS POST) Level: 47 Posts: 246/991 EXP: 762490 For next: 3713 Since: 03-15-04 From: secure tripcodes are for jerks Since last post: 17 min. Last activity: 16 min. |
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| I always liked how Sonic called him "Robo-butt" or something like that in the comics. | |||
Drag Flurry  I don't post anymore! o_O Level: 26  Posts: 118/254 EXP: 98946 For next: 3329 Since: 03-15-04 From: Deogon Vally, Dragon Country Since last post: 316 days Last activity: 44 days |
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Originally posted by Cymoro Miles "Tails" Prower  Robo-butt? Heh, just call him Ro-butt-nic. ...what's Sonic's name? Sonic "Sonic" Sonic? |
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Imajin Buster Beetle Level: 34 Posts: 258/452 EXP: 234863 For next: 18788 Since: 03-15-04 From: Kingdom of Zeal Since last post: 39 days Last activity: 53 days |
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| Sonic "the" Hedgehog The UK Sonic Comic claimed the Robotnik was Kintobor once and got crossed with a rotten egg in a freak labe xperiment invoolving a chaos emerald... |
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Fyxe Lyn Level: 51 Posts: 123/1160 EXP: 954265 For next: 59673 Since: 03-29-04 Since last post: 117 days Last activity: 114 days |
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| That was actually the story behind him, at least in the West. It was repeated in this official Sonic guidebook thingie I still have. It also explains the creation of the rings that litter the levels (they were used in the machine holding the Chaos Emeralds), the idea behind the Chaos Emeralds (Kintobor was trying to force evil into the emeralds, or something similar...), the reason Robotnik is Eggman (the accident involving a rotten egg), and the reason there are computer monitors lying around Mobius (remote links to his hidden lab, or something). I am not nearly as well versed in Sonic history as Mario history though, so I could not comment on the name change. However, I do know that while Peach was never meant to be called Toadstool, they did keep Toadstool as her second name (so she's Princess Peach Toadstool). Which was nice of them. Bowser is Bowser and always has been Bowser in the West, although in the cartoons he was (King) Bowser Koopa. You can easily call him King Koopa and people would know what it meant, but it seems Miyamoto liked the US name Bowser and stuck with it. Glad he did, Bowser is just an awesome name for him. The Koopa Kids had 'Koopa' added onto their names for the Western release, suggesting that Bowser's second name is in fact, Koopa. Bowser Koopa. I'm guessing Cymoro has the name right. Hell, he may of been Ivo Kintobor in Japan too, somehow I don't think he was called Namgge. There's not enough Sonic information on the net. |
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