The Transformers (With Screenshots & Links)

Yeah, I hated Rodimus. Can't you tell??

 

I am looking forward to this game. A good Transformers game is something I have been looking forward to my whole life. The only other Transformers game I can think of is for the NES, and that one ranks down there with Pit Fighter as one of the worst games in history.

 

Yeah, that game was impossibly difficult and boring. The controls were awful, the bosses and levels were repetetive.

There was also a Headmasters game for the Famicom, but I've never played it.

 

There never really was a 4th season. Only about 4-5 episodes for the Headmasters/Powermasters/Targetmasters saga.

I really can't recall what was the deal involving the Transformers and the Nuklons (or whatever the hell their name was). I guess in theory the binary bonding between robot and humanoid makes for a more efficient robot warrior, but the whole thing was really just a gimmick to boost interest on the already sagging toy line.

 

I'm afraid my addled, full-of-useless-info brain doesn't need to see many of the shows to remember trivial Transformers stuff. I guess I could even name most if not all of the Autobots and Decepticos up til the movie/season 3. Scary stuff...

Meh. Start getting scared when you can name every G1 and G2 transformer on sight, and say what year they were released in, as well as knowing which comics they showed up in.

The US Headmasters episodes - called 'Rebirth' pts 1-3 - are a stand alone end to the US series, and introduced some thirty new characters and a similar number of Nebulons in only an hour.

The Japanese Headmasters was a full series of 35 episodes which leads on from the third season of the series. Well, the second in Japan, and the first two US series were edited down to just one.

 

Was the 35 episode Headmasters series ever aired in the US? Or did it basicly end with rebirth?

Nope, the series basically ended with Rebirth. I'm nearly 100% certain that there was no new Transformers stuff on TV 'til Beast Wars came along.

Meh. Start getting scared when you can name every G1 and G2 transformer on sight, and say what year they were released in, as well as knowing which comics they showed up in.

I wouldn't go that far, but I could probably name most Transformers from seasons 1-3 without breaking a sweat. The ones that I always forget are the minibots or gestalt-form teams (i.e. Aerialbots, Stunt/Preda/Combat/Constructicons and the like).

 

All the Jap series were dubbed into english, but I don't know where they may have been shown, if at all. For all intents and purposes, USTF ended with Rebirth. There was a season 5, kind of, which was an assortment of episodes 'presented' by Powermaster Prime and a small child. There was also US Generation 2, which had a terrible 'hypercube' thing instead of the normal rotating symbols for scene change.

 

I remember that. The kid's name was Tommy, and he wore a denim Autobot jacket.

Hopefully, one day someone will subtitle the Japanese series (Scramble City, Headmasters, Super God Masterforce, Victory, and Zone) and release them on DVD here.

[Wishful thinking]Maybe Rhino will do it after they're finished with G1.[/Wishful thinking]

 

The only other Transformers game I can think of is for the NES, and that one ranks down there with Pit Fighter as one of the worst games in history.

There was also one for the Commadore 64. You had to run around getting energon cubes on Cybertron (at least that is where I think it was). You could control Optimus, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Hound, and maybe a few others. It was fun at the time.

 

Ok, so the US Transformers G1 series we saw was an American version or a Japanese dubbed version? The animation on that series was so-so sometimes that I find it hard to believe that it's "pure Japanese animé". Or was it made by a substandard animation studio? Like Jem's and G.I. Joe?

 

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[i]"I think I'd rather them try to get back some of the original cast members and dub any Jap series that fits in with the US series, for continuity."[/i][hr][/blockquote]

Oh, I would too. But I'd say the chances of them getting people like Cullen and as many original VAs as possible wouldn't seem likely. That's [color=green]$$[/color]

I'm no fan of subs, but I'd rather have subs in that case than horrible VAs that rape the spirit of the original characters.

[blockquote][hr][i]There was also one for the Commadore 64. You had to run around getting energon cubes on Cybertron (at least that is where I think it was). You could control Optimus, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Hound, and maybe a few others. It was fun at the time. [hr][/i][/blockquote]

There were actually two different games for C64. One was a platformer, and the other one was made by Activision, entitle "The Battle for Cybertron". It was basically a shooting gallery game where you had to destroy Decepticon jets trying to steal energy sources. You had about 10 Autobots, and you had to deploy them over a map in different areas. It was pretty cool.

[blockquote][i][hr]Ok, so the US Transformers G1 series we saw was an American version or a Japanese dubbed version? The animation on that series was so-so sometimes that I find it hard to believe that it's "pure Japanese animé". Or was it made by a substandard animation studio? Like Jem's and G.I. Joe?[/i][hr][/blockquote]

The original G1 was an American-made series, and the Japanese later aired it with Japanese voice actors. The animation itself was done mostly by Toei animation (which I believe was Japan-based). The scripts and production were done by Sunbow in the States. But, for all intents and purposes, it was American made.

So America got the Transformers cartoon first, including the movie. When the series ended after season 2, Japan ignored Rebirth and did Headmasters. Oddly enough, I don't know who did the animation in Headmasters, but it closely matches Toei's animation.

 

let's also hope we get a gijoe game

Bone that would be awesome too.


And I heard that there are going to be 2 TF games.

 

Yeah, but the other one is probably the Armada game. I'm willing to bet that, being done by Infogrames, it will have better gameplay than the G1 game.

 

Another batch of screenshots:

HERE

I like this one:

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and this one:

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