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The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« on: June 03, 2012, 04:10:53 AM »
I have just been flicking through my HuCard collection and I have noticed that the image on the back of "The Kung Fu" is printed upside down. Looking at the card the word HuCARD is by the edge of thumb grip. On the other Hudson cards I have checked the word "Made in Japan" sits on the point of the thumb grip the correct way up.

The Kung Fu:




Typical Hudson Card:




Just found it interesting that I have not noticed this before, perhaps I need to get out more ;-)

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2012, 04:17:48 AM »
lol.  Thats an interesting find.  I wonder if they are all like that, or just a select few on a certain run?

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 04:18:57 AM »
Oh? Mine is the right way up.
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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2012, 04:19:06 AM »
Wasn't The Kung Fu the very first hucard? Oh wait, no, Wonderboy was. I wonder if Wonderboy is upside down too?

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2012, 08:26:37 PM »
Mine is upside down too.

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2012, 08:47:10 PM »
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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2012, 09:52:26 PM »
The very first Hudson HuCards were sometimes backprinted that way.
I know it from Kung Fu, Bikkuriman World and Shanghai.
I'm unsure if it only affected the first production runs or it was a misprint.

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2012, 11:00:45 PM »
Oh great.  Now we will have L00k SUPER R@R3 upside-down backside The Kung-Fu for only $10,000 plus $12.95 shipping!

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2012, 11:18:26 PM »
It is a design decision. You hold the Hu-card up and read from the title, to the art, to the little writtings, and then continue reading. In East Asian cultures, they read from up to down.

They probrably noticed how people, was flipting the card, the wrong way. Like a VHS cassetter, or how a western reads. In Japan, and other places in the East, like Hong Kong, books and writtings for a while was printed the same way westerners printed, and wrote books. They saw people handle the cards, and realized what they were usted to. Reading the cards like VHS box. Maybe some cards that was released during this time, or common shaped items could also read this way.

The same reason for the original MarkIII plugs from right to left, once again linked to the east asian writing. However once again, they decided to go western, instead of sticking with their eastern values. The PCE, units all have one entry point because most people who brought the system was not going to be playing two players.

So all of three varibles point the, direction an East Asian person reads and write.
This could be applied to the sound phonics and tones as well.

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Re: The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2012, 01:34:18 AM »
In East Asian cultures, they read from up to down.

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« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2012, 01:59:22 AM »
Oh great.  Now we will have L00k SUPER R@R3 upside-down backside The Kung-Fu for only $10,000 plus $12.95 shipping!

and I can confirm that it is 90% new ;-) LOL

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« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2012, 02:01:51 AM »
The 4 first Hucard games had the same particularity. Some versions had the back upside down and some other didn't.
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« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2012, 02:46:19 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2012, 04:27:49 AM »
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