@vydeesh: Ok, here is what you do:
1. Go to mugen-infantry.net
2. Find the character you are looking for
3. Visit the website listed in that entry
4. Find the download
5. Download it
6. Add it to MUGEN as I described above
7. ???
8. Profit
If that doesn’t work, please try this link.
]]>i am searching how to download mugen characters so please help me
]]>I’ve always wondered what an Inuyasha vs. DBZ game would look like. Hm… maybe you could try making Soul Calibur vs. Mortal Kombat? (j\k)
]]>@Patrick: Er… It’s a PC game. Link is in the post. :)
]]>Is this a web or platform game because I want to play it.
]]>I think the fascination with American culture of course waned as the market got saturated with it. By the time I was in High School it was no longer cool to be infatuated with the western culture. There was notion of going back to the core national, patriotic l values from before the communist era. Still, American TV, movies and Books were still dominant product on the market just because of the sheer volume of that is released here in US.
And of course production values are way much better. Only Hollywood can afford to spend millions of dollars on the over the top special effects. And that’s what people want to see.
Don’t feel bad about not seeing any Polish movies. Of the top of my head I can’t think of anything that would get any large scale international recognition. No Polish productions have ever hit the nationwide distribution chains here in US. At least not that I’m aware off.
I haven’t been in Poland in over 8 years so many things might have changed since then though. Popular culture is fickle, and I bet I would be very surprised by the subtle changes that happened over these years.
I think our minds were blown out of sheer awesomeness of these characters. They sure beat the hell out of stuff like Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek, Kajko i Kokosz (which was actually and Asterix clone), and Funky Koval which while awesome in his own way, did not posses retractable claws, or heat vision, and thus was inferior – at least form the point of a middle school kid. I mean you don’t get any more bad ass than Wolverine, or hotter than Psylocke or Rogue when drawn by Jim Lee. I think super heroes were to us what Pokemon is to the current generations.
I never was a big fan of the flag DC heroes. Superman was invulnerable, and Batman was a millionaire. Could not relate to them. I was more of a Marvel guy. Peter Parker was my kind of guy – stuck in a shitty job, all kinds of crap ruining his life, and yet he still managed to kick ass in style. Same goes for the motley crew of the mutants in X-men – struggling against the man trying to oppress them.
Speaking of intellectualizing comic books – it’s interesting how the notion of a super hero is unique to US. Superman was created and evolved in the 30’s when he was sort of American icon – an unstoppable hero who would save the world over and over again. This archetype seemed to parallel the American psyche at the time. America was champion of freedom who would save the world.
On the other hand, the protagonists in most of the Polish comics were usually regular guys – unlikely heroes who would either get in trouble of their own making, or face some overwhelming adversary, and then save the day by outwitting their adversaries. Which of course can be tied into Poland’s long history of occupation, and foreign rule (first we got partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria, then we got the German occupation, and then finally we landed behind the iron curtain as a “People’s Republic” under the Soviet control).
The only way you could get ahead was to outsmart the brain-dead occupant bureaucracy and beat them at their own game.
]]>we started absorbing in the American culture as a sponge.
I think they call that marketing Luke, lol. I’m now wondering if I ever saw a movie made in poland ? Not really a country or a culture I know much about, typical american i suppose. But yeah I damn sure know about Bollywood.
Some of American culture ain’t that bad I suppose. The mythological motifs one finds in our comics ( and many movies) have a Jungian universal appeal. No wonder your mind was blown. I get a kick outta mythology so see this for a interesting take on superman. Gotta love academia for intellectualizing everything. :D
]]>Oh yeah – American culture is everywhere. Especially in post-communist countries which were cut of from the western influence for years. Once we gained independence, we started absorbing in the American culture as a sponge.
It’s funny but if you go to Poland, and randomly choose a channel, 4 out of 5 times you will see dubbed American TV show or movie. But I guess that applies to almost any place in the world. The only place that churns out more movies each year than US is probably India.
]]>I grew up in an interesting time period.
I believe that would go a little beyond interesting, of course we all probably live in the best of times and the worst of times to abuse an overly used cliché. Myself I grew up in 60’s here in the Appalachian mountain range spent most of my time in the woods or reading when i wasn’t worked like a slave. Surrounded by hillbillies, my grandfather was a moonshiner and the Beverly hillbillies had nothing on my neighbors. Hippies of course invaded this area and I was waiting for the Revolution. Still waiting I guess. lol.
I suppose i never thought of American comics being spread across the globe. goes to show how ubiquitous American culture truly is. I was lucky I guess an uncle of mine gave me boxes and boxes of comics as old as maybe 1945 up thru the 60’s, including many classic Supermans and batmans and so on. Kinda wished I’d kept them but my younger brother sorta inherited them when I let … run away i guess at 17. The same uncle used to also loan me Sci-fi books and real books on physics and evolution … he had some pot smoking pet monkeys too :D In a way i suppose he was very influential in who i latter became, more so than the hillbillies that surrounded me. lmao
]]>I grew up in an interesting time period. The year I was born was essentially marked the fall of communist regime in Poland, and I was growing up in a country which was slowly rebuilding it’s economy and trying to re-establish friendly relationships with the west.
At one point in the 80’s bunch of publishers got licensing deals, and started translating and re-printing American comic books. Initially we got The Amazing Spider Man, X-Man, Superman, and Batman. They were not just reprinting the latest stuff though. Since this was the first time these titles got introduced in the country they were essentially the “best off”, starting with origin stories, and then the most critically acclaimed story arcs. We didn’t get any cruft, and monthly filler stuff – we got the pure gold, and our minds were blown. Soon there were like 15 more titles on the market, and I read and collected them all.
Then I somehow lost interest and stopped buying them. Still, I have fond memories of these good old times, and this is why most Super Hero movie adaptations piss me off to no end. :P
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