Fighting game fan here. Never seen the Darkstalkers cartoon and I'm sure it's hot garbage. The games were not very popular despite what
says. The games never made big money but it had cool looking characters and hot revealing women so it was perfect to market and make cartoons out of. Plus these were the days when Street Fighter ruled so I imagine lots of companies wanted to jump on board and adapt anything related to SF since both that and DS were made by Capcom. Fighting games in general had been getting quite a few adaptions which is why we ended up getting a SF cartoon as well as a Mortal Kombat cartoon. All sucked too.
>The Darkstalker games definitely were popular. Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, but they were definitely up there.
No they weren't. You're comparing franchises that sold millions to something that is objectively niche. I'm basing it's popularity on how well the games sell since we often describe something's significance based on how well the franchise does financially. Realistically, it would have been as known as shit like Primal Rage and maybe a little less popular than Killer Instinct. It was hardly up there in terms of being lumped in with actual popular fighters of the time.
Despite quoting it, you missed the part where I said >Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter
because you'd rather argue than just talk with people. Have fun getting into dumb arguments with other anons because I won't be participating in this any further with you.
I'm not even trying to argue. You seem to care about arguing given the fact you're upset by what is nothing more than basic conversation. You also want to complain how I missed some point you made being >Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter
as if I should also ignore the part where you clearly said >but they were definitely up there.
Which is simply not even remotely true. They are not part pf the same discussion. There's never been a single Darkstalkers game that sold even a fraction of the worst selling MK or SF games. I was simply correcting you because you have this weird revisionist mindset relating to the Darkstalkers franchise. That's not me arguing to get under your skin or anything but rather me explaining the fundamental differences between franchises like that and iconic franchises that transcend pop culture like the other mentioned. It's like comparing Mega Man to Bubsy.
I seen many arcades but only once I seen a Darkstalkers desicated cab and it was off who knows if it had the game in. Night Warriors was on SS and the first and third games on ps1 its pretty hard to believe it achieve tremendous popularity with very few games on the west at the time. The only thing I see it has plenty of is merchandise and today it still has some now and them.
>Jun Aida, Capcom's director of licensing, said: "With an enormous built-in audience of young arcade players across the nation and a colorful range of fun, but spooky characters who lend themselves so well to animated television, we're confident that Darkstalkers will be a big hit with kids everywhere. This show will make it hip to be scared. ... It's this decade's answer to the popular Ghostbusters sensation of the 80s."
It really wasn't. Most shows are used as vehicles to sell games and toys. Only some use popularity in other mediums to drive attention. This cartoon would've had a 15-month turnaround if it was made in response to the game's popularity in U.S. arcades. The end product looks like trash, so I guess that isn't entirely off the table, but still.
A shame thats the only one though. We never got Talbain's Wolfcycle (with firing wolf head missile!) or Sasquatch's Footcopter (with banana bunch grenades!)
Fighting games were during their golden age and Japan was the empire of cool. Back then it was grabbing whatever they could for milking it because kids like that jap shit
Capcom certainly wanted it to be big. The end credits of the cartoon are a song commissioned to be the franchise theme, they had big plans and it just didn't catch on like they wanted.
Knowing that this and that Street Fighter meme cartoon are a thing along with all the other videogame, celebrity, product mascots etc cartoons makes me realize how wild the 80s - 90s were for cartoons in terms of companies just shitting out cartoons of literally anything.
Darkstalkers died twice because nobody bought the games. Now that the games are part of a collection, everyone is begging people to buy as many copies as possible to help revive the franchise. But at the time it was popular enough to take a gamble on since Street Fighter was so big. The gamble didn't pay off.
That compilation is weird, people on the internet b***hed for fricking years about Red Earth never getting a console port, but when it finally does, nobody seems to care.
>JC: Does the inclusion of series like Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, and Red Earth increase the chance of a revival of any of these series in the future? >Matsumoto: I genuinely want these titles to be played once again on current gen consoles. I also want people who may have seen them but never had the chance to play them to get this opportunity. That said, we do not think that this will necessarily increase the possibility of these series being revived.
Fairly big. That was the age of arcade fighter games. DarkStalkers was one of the big ones.
The cartoon was syndicated garbage, though.
Fighting game fan here. Never seen the Darkstalkers cartoon and I'm sure it's hot garbage. The games were not very popular despite what
says. The games never made big money but it had cool looking characters and hot revealing women so it was perfect to market and make cartoons out of. Plus these were the days when Street Fighter ruled so I imagine lots of companies wanted to jump on board and adapt anything related to SF since both that and DS were made by Capcom. Fighting games in general had been getting quite a few adaptions which is why we ended up getting a SF cartoon as well as a Mortal Kombat cartoon. All sucked too.
The Darkstalker games definitely were popular. Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, but they were definitely up there.
Were they more popular than KOFs in the USA/C? Something tells me yes.
>The Darkstalker games definitely were popular. Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, but they were definitely up there.
No they weren't. You're comparing franchises that sold millions to something that is objectively niche. I'm basing it's popularity on how well the games sell since we often describe something's significance based on how well the franchise does financially. Realistically, it would have been as known as shit like Primal Rage and maybe a little less popular than Killer Instinct. It was hardly up there in terms of being lumped in with actual popular fighters of the time.
Despite quoting it, you missed the part where I said
>Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter
because you'd rather argue than just talk with people. Have fun getting into dumb arguments with other anons because I won't be participating in this any further with you.
I'm not even trying to argue. You seem to care about arguing given the fact you're upset by what is nothing more than basic conversation. You also want to complain how I missed some point you made being
>Not as popular as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter
as if I should also ignore the part where you clearly said
>but they were definitely up there.
Which is simply not even remotely true. They are not part pf the same discussion. There's never been a single Darkstalkers game that sold even a fraction of the worst selling MK or SF games. I was simply correcting you because you have this weird revisionist mindset relating to the Darkstalkers franchise. That's not me arguing to get under your skin or anything but rather me explaining the fundamental differences between franchises like that and iconic franchises that transcend pop culture like the other mentioned. It's like comparing Mega Man to Bubsy.
I seen many arcades but only once I seen a Darkstalkers desicated cab and it was off who knows if it had the game in. Night Warriors was on SS and the first and third games on ps1 its pretty hard to believe it achieve tremendous popularity with very few games on the west at the time. The only thing I see it has plenty of is merchandise and today it still has some now and them.
>and the first and third games on ps1
3 has a superior Saturn version.
I wish there was a reboot for Darkstalkers done by the Castlevania guys.They'd fit right in alongside dracula and carmilla.
Bigger in Japan, actually. They must have greenlit this before the Street Fighter movie and cartoon proved to be crap. Strike while the iron's hot.
>Jun Aida, Capcom's director of licensing, said: "With an enormous built-in audience of young arcade players across the nation and a colorful range of fun, but spooky characters who lend themselves so well to animated television, we're confident that Darkstalkers will be a big hit with kids everywhere. This show will make it hip to be scared. ... It's this decade's answer to the popular Ghostbusters sensation of the 80s."
The character designs is one of the best things this game has its hard to dislike any character and the merch is almost always decent.
>The character designs is one of the best things this game has
Too bad the cartoon botched it.
It really wasn't. Most shows are used as vehicles to sell games and toys. Only some use popularity in other mediums to drive attention. This cartoon would've had a 15-month turnaround if it was made in response to the game's popularity in U.S. arcades. The end product looks like trash, so I guess that isn't entirely off the table, but still.
>Most shows are used as vehicles to sell games and toys
Considering they gave Rikuo his own jet, maybe this was too.
he was oddly attractive, for a Fishman
A shame thats the only one though. We never got Talbain's Wolfcycle (with firing wolf head missile!) or Sasquatch's Footcopter (with banana bunch grenades!)
Fighting games were during their golden age and Japan was the empire of cool. Back then it was grabbing whatever they could for milking it because kids like that jap shit
For me, it's Kinu Nishimura.
Capcom certainly wanted it to be big. The end credits of the cartoon are a song commissioned to be the franchise theme, they had big plans and it just didn't catch on like they wanted.
Knowing that this and that Street Fighter meme cartoon are a thing along with all the other videogame, celebrity, product mascots etc cartoons makes me realize how wild the 80s - 90s were for cartoons in terms of companies just shitting out cartoons of literally anything.
Darkstalkers died twice because nobody bought the games. Now that the games are part of a collection, everyone is begging people to buy as many copies as possible to help revive the franchise. But at the time it was popular enough to take a gamble on since Street Fighter was so big. The gamble didn't pay off.
That compilation is weird, people on the internet b***hed for fricking years about Red Earth never getting a console port, but when it finally does, nobody seems to care.
>everyone is begging people to buy as many copies as possible to help revive the franchise
https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/05/26/capcom-fighting-collection-qa-with-producer-shuhei-matsumoto?s=09
>JC: Does the inclusion of series like Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, and Red Earth increase the chance of a revival of any of these series in the future?
>Matsumoto: I genuinely want these titles to be played once again on current gen consoles. I also want people who may have seen them but never had the chance to play them to get this opportunity. That said, we do not think that this will necessarily increase the possibility of these series being revived.
Bit surprising that the credit song from the games was used for the credits of the cartoon.