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You know the meme where it's, like, society if XYZ thing happened?
I feel like society if Anthem was good, yeah, we'd have flying cars.
Like, you know, everybody would have water, clean water.
Story number five.
Nintendo was unhappy at Sega's mascot's foot.
during mario and sonic at the olympic games development this is tom phillips at ign this honestly doesn't even need to be in the rope report but i couldn't i we had to talk about this i'm on the show nintendo allegedly expressed dissatisfaction at sega during the development of mario and sonic at the olympic games after seeing sonic's foot placed ahead of mario's
The incident has come to light in an Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network interview with Sega veteran Ryoichi Asagawa, who worked on the Wii and Nintendo DS Sports minigame classic ahead of its release back in 2007.
According to Asagawa, Nintendo insisted that Sega change artwork set to be used for the game's cover that depicted Mario's foot placed behind that of Sonic's.
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There was one funny story, as a guy would have recalled, of the game's development.
There was artwork of Mario and Sonic, and you know, other characters standing on the field.
And those artworks were used for the package, the instruction manual cover, and the cartridge label, and things like that.
There was one small error, and Sonic's foot was in front of Mario's foot, he continued.
And Nintendo demanded us to change the priority.
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Asked if Sega agreed to the change, Asagawa said the game's developers, of course, made the change for Nintendo.
We were like, oh my god, we have to change it, he concluded, or there will be no deal.
We had to do something.
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