While filming The Toxic Avenger Part II in Japan, where the original Toxic had been a major hit, Kaufman and Herz were approached by Tetsu Fujimura and Masaya Nakamura of Namco to create a Kabuki-themed superhero film, supposedly based on an idea by Kaufman. Namco became a producer, giving Troma a one and a half million dollar budget to begin preproduction [on Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.].
Creative differences troubled production from the start; both Namco and Herz wanted a mainstream-accessible film geared towards children, whereas Kaufman wanted the usual Troma-esque sex and violence style.
i think around the same time there were these games called, like, Sims Life Stories or something in which you just played as particular characters I think. Those may have been an application of the narratives that Sims games on the console used in lieu of being actual simulations, so you had progression like moving out of mom’s basement to a life style of the rich and the famous. I actually liked those console and portable games so I get the appeal, though standard Sims is just way better obvioously.
the thing is that I’m well aware of most of the Sims spinoffs. I played Urbz AND Bustin’ Out on my GBA , I had Sims on the Gamecube and played it co-op with my sister, she played a lot of The Sims Online, there was that Facebook Sims game that tim wrote about years ago, I watched a let’s play of the Wii Sims game that was like a terrible Animal Crossing (and there were like 2 or 3 of those as well), I got excited for the upcoming-then-cancelled SimsVille…like this shit is background radiation in my life. I even remember that Sims Life Stories thing.
But I’d never heard of The Sims Medieval until last night. It popped entirely out of nowhere.
I just dug around on The Sims Wiki and there are actually quite a few Sims games I’d never heard of, but most of them are weird mobile games. This is the only major PC released Sims game that I have never crossed paths with. absolutely fucken bizarre.
the period of the late 90s and early 2000s where wrestling fans must like GAMING right is so funny because youll get like Eric Bischoff introducing the elimination chamber in front of a giant atomic bomb that says XBOX or the confused commentators trying to pretend like anyone in attendance gives a shit about jrpgs every other PPV. the first time i ever heard of drakengard was backlash 2004!!!
