From: thmartin@romulus.rutgers.edu (Miss Animerica)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Ranma 1/2 Super CD impressions
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:07:56 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Anime

shimkevi@buchmf.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich) writes:
> Why on earth did NCS decide to make this game CD-ROM2 (regular CD)
> compatible?  There is no way one can make a decent fighting game with
> a regular CD-ROM (remember Fighting Street?).
In the second TV series, Ranma 1/2 often sank to the lowest common
denominator.  A shame that that may hold for the games, too.

> - How can Moose turn into a goose? A goose can't drown (or so I thought).
By getting wet.  :)  He's so nearsighted, when he went to Jusenkyou
(the land of cursed springs) to train, he walked into Yaazuniichuan,
where a duckling (not a goose) drowned 1300 years ago.  How did a
duckling manage to drown?  Maybe it was a very stupid duck.

> Also, you can play a game of cards with some guy (does anybody know his
> name?), the object of the game is to get rid of the joker card.
That's Bakuchi Ou (Gambling King) King, whose favorite line is "Sochi no
make ja" ("You lose").  The game is Old Maid, and the joker is "baba" (old
woman = old maid).

> - After you finish the game and watch the credits, the "card king" appears
> and challenges Ranma to play a game of cards (betting on different rooms in 
> Ranma's house, I think). If you lose, the "game over" screen shows a picture
> of Ranma helping a girl to push a food trolley through the snow, what's the
> significance of this?
It's Akane's house, where Ranma and his father are lodgers, since Ranma's
father arranged with Akane's father that they would marry and take over the
dojo long ago.  However, 10 years ago, when Ukyo's father told Ranma's
father she wanted to be Ranma's wife, he engaged Ranma to Ukyo, then ran off
with the dowry (a food cart).  The story appears in Ranma 1/2 Nettohen
episode 57 on TV, or volume 15 part 4-7 in the manga.

Back then, King preyed on some kids, and young Ukyo gambled away everything
she had.  She went to young Ranma for help, but Ranma lost his shirt
(literally).  Finally, in a last gamble to win it all back, Ranma bet the
Tendo dojo he said he would inherit, and he lost.  Ukyo and Ranma beat up King
and threw him off a bridge, then discover all King's cards were jokers.  10
years later, King returns with Ranma's written promise to claim the dojo
and turn it into a casino.

Ranma, who has no poker face and smiles when someone is about to take the
joker, trains in Old Maid with Ukyo.  Meanwhile, Akane's father tries to win
back the dojo by betting the house, room by room.  He loses.  His daughters,
taking advantage of King's similar lack of a poker face, win it back.  The
Tendo girls refuse to allow anyone to bet the house again.  Ranma shows up
wearing a mask, and Ukyo puts up her okonomiyaki restaurant, on Ranma's
promise that if he loses her restaurant, she gets -him-.  Ukyo imagines a
touching scene of the two of them, dirt poor, hand-pulling an okonomiyaki cart
through heavy snow, but having each other.

King uses various methods to cheat, with Ranma or Akane neutralizing each
one.  Finally, King challenges Ranma by putting down two cards, an ace and a
joker.  Both are really jokers, but Ranma snatches one up and switches
it with an ace concealed under his mask.