Ed Oscuro wrote:Anyway, I wrote it that way since English and European distribution for many games was slightly different back in the day
Yeah, I realize what you meant, and country-specific distribution still isn't unheard of, was just amused at the implicit England != Europe. PAL distribution's historically been kind of a mess, altogether, with no real standardization of what languages get supported; and Australian console users, who'd want the English language version, tend to have at least one war story about being let down by small Euro region distributors with no presence in their hemisphere. It's not so grim as it used to be, but I still sometimes question whether it's really worth trying financially to support PAL distributors rather than just give up on the format and import everything.
eretsua wrote:i don't mean to say that the residents of england (or brittish shmup members) are parasites
British (/waves to any Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish readers) governments have a long history of weaselly vacillation over Europe, yes, but I think the public is about as accountable as the politicians, for once. Governments that don't want a fast ticket to the opposition benches have to allow for the sizeable chunk of their electorate that views integration of any kind as unwelcome interference from foreign parts, sometimes quite irrationally so. Anyway, sorry for the further derailment - this should go to Off-Topic if it's going to turn into its own discussion. ON topic, I think it's safe to say any parasitic tendencies don't extend noticeably to shmuppage. 505 GameStreet's Italian, isn't it?
I just dont want to be one of these "sign up and forget" members.
