Ys Book 1 & 2 - GamePro review (and other stuff from old magazines)

[Cleria]

Uhm no?

When did the Master System come out?

*Wikipedia's it*

Damn the press...it looks better w/o the apostrophe though doesn't it?

[Black Tiger]

Uhm no?

When did the Master System come out?

*Wikipedia's it*

Damn the press...it looks better w/o the apostrophe though doesn't it?

The Sega Master System came out in 1986, but Y's SMS was released in 1988 and had the word Y's all over it. I have the IBM/Apple version, which is the only other Ys game released in the mighty Northern America before the Turbo-CD version.

It came out a year after the SMS game, but they did manage to spell the title (in/)correctly as "Ys".

Check out the game disc of Ys IV PCE to see a very large "Y's".

[Joe Redifer]

I definitely prefer it without the apostrophe.  I wonder what missing letters its inclusion could possibly represent.

[Black Tiger]

I definitely prefer it without the apostrophe.  I wonder what missing letters its inclusion could possibly represent.

I always thought of Y as being a name and the title was refer to Y's vanished omens. Plus everyone in my hometowm called it "Why's" until I got the Turbo CD version.

[Joe Redifer]

Ah, a possessive apostrophe!  That Y is just so greedy!

[Keranu]

I definitely prefer it without the apostrophe.  I wonder what missing letters its inclusion could possibly represent.

I always thought of Y as being a name and the title was refer to Y's vanished omens.

HAHAHA, such an awesome deep thought! Wow, I've never even thought about that before, but that could be right.

I think another thing that should be taken into consideration is the old legend of the mythical city of Ys. Now I have always heard, from on Ys fan, is that the video game is actually loosely based off the King of Ys book, but I'm not sold on that idea these days. Granted I don't really know anything about the legend, but I don't really see much of a connection. Perhaps the name itself inspired the video game.

[Cleria]

I definitely prefer it without the apostrophe.  I wonder what missing letters its inclusion could possibly represent.

I always thought of Y as being a name and the title was refer to Y's vanished omens.

HAHAHA, such an awesome deep thought! Wow, I've never even thought about that before, but that could be right.

I think another thing that should be taken into consideration is the old legend of the mythical city of Ys. Now I have always heard, from on Ys fan, is that the video game is actually loosely based off the King of Ys book, but I'm not sold on that idea these days. Granted I don't really know anything about the legend, but I don't really see much of a connection. Perhaps the name itself inspired the video game.

I just checked out some links on the books of Ys and it doesn't look like they'd have a connection at all. There's a mythical article about something named Ys here.

[Keranu]

Yeah I linked to that article in my post. Still doesn't sound like the game, so if anyone has any proof regarding this, please post! I seem to recall reading a link somewhere gave info about the King of Ys books and I recalled some slight similarities, I think either a "red head" or possibly even a "floating island", but my memory is very hazy!

[Cleria]

Lol the way you described that was funny..."Hiya I'ma red head on a floatin' island and ma king is like this dude. Wassup y'all?"

[Turbo D]

I think that the apostrophe sucks and should go away 

[Cleria]

I just received my GST paycheck - I'm going to go see if I can find one of those novels and see what they're like.

[ceti alpha]

I just received my GST paycheck

Cool, another Canadian. 

[Cleria]

Yeah...thas me...eh?

[Joe Redifer]

Do all Canadians get a special paycheck from this so-called "GST"?

[Cleria]

No idea. Why?