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« on: June 14, 2000, 09:12:19 PM »
Bowser (King Koopa) looks differnt and is never called Bowser because that was how it was in 1989. No one thought his name was Bowser. Just check your SMB-NES manual. He had no hair at that time either. He looks almost dead on to the SMB sprite with a few alterations. In The Adventures of SMB3, he was called Bowser, but not all the time, but by SMW this had stopped. The Koopa Kids Rights thing is a good theory but not a smart one (why would they buy rights to Koopa Troopa, Goomba, Buzzy beetle, Sleadge Brother)? My new theory is that when production or SMB3 started (late '89), the game had not yet been released in America. The names for the Koopa Kids had not been engraved in stone for the American version (to be released February '90) so they took creative rights and made them what they pleased. (This is the probably the case with the name of the lands in SMW.) Or didn't like what they were (Larry, Wendy O.) and changed them to better go along with their written personalities (Cheatsy, Kootie Pie). They're looks are not dead on because the artists at DIC are not the game designers at NoJ, and they took freedoms for a design they could animate with. None of the characters look like they do in manuals, etc. And Princess' hair is red in SMB the original, so they kept it that way for the toons till their demise, so as not to break continuity. Whew...
--Adam
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