{"id":3799,"date":"2013-09-23T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:39:50","slug":"ranma-12-anything-goes-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/23\/ranma-12-anything-goes-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranma 1\/2: Anything Goes Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/61974300935\/ranma-1-2-anything-goes-martial-arts\">Ranma 1\/2: Anything Goes Martial Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/61974300935\/ranma-1-2-anything-goes-martial-arts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_moyh1lgfyj1s6nui9o1_12801.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ranma 1\/2 II: Anything Goes Martial arts was meant to be the sequel to Ranma 1\/2: Hard Battle in the U.S. but the company that owned the rights went out of business before releasing it. It was released in Japan as Ranma 1\/2: Super-Skill Wild Dance Chapter and since it is a fighting game it really isn&#8217;t difficult to play a non localized version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/file.army\/i\/v6x9zU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/404store.com\/2017\/09\/20\/maxresdefault4ab5e.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ranma 1\/2: Hard Battle was released in 1993. It&#8217;s a decent if fairly average 2D fighting game but its real appeal was probably the Ranma 1\/2 license. There weren&#8217;t a huge number of anime games at the time (at least in North America) and this was one of the few on the Super Nintendo. I&#8217;m not sure how good the sequel was but most North American players would never find out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that they were far enough along towards releasing the game that ads were produced and published. I would think that the game would have been available about the same time that the ads hit the street. I suppose it&#8217;s possible they had finished localizing it but just never produced the cartridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranma 1\/2: Anything Goes Martial Arts Ranma 1\/2 II: Anything Goes Martial arts was meant to be the sequel to Ranma 1\/2: Hard Battle in the U.S. but the company that owned the rights went out of business before releasing it. It was released in Japan as Ranma 1\/2: Super-Skill Wild Dance Chapter and since it is a fighting game it really isn&#8217;t difficult to play a non localized version. Ranma 1\/2: Hard Battle was released in 1993. It&#8217;s a decent if fairly average 2D fighting game but its real appeal was probably the Ranma 1\/2 license. There weren&#8217;t a huge number of anime games at the time (at least in North America) and this was one of the few on the Super Nintendo. I&#8217;m not sure how good the sequel was but most North American players would never find out. It&#8217;s interesting that they were far enough along towards releasing the game that ads were produced and published. I would think that the game would have been available about the same time that the ads hit the street. I suppose it&#8217;s possible they had finished localizing it but just never produced the cartridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1426,1568,1667],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-ranma-12","tag-snes","tag-super-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}