Bonkinator and other Treasures

[DragonmasterDan]

Yes, because you should always pick the most dated and derivative names you can! They could have got a Wayne's World or House Of Pain joke in there too, if they tried.

I think Zonk is good because it rhymes with Bonk, and is rather evocative of the same vibe as the whole Genjin/Denjin thing. Its pretty much perfect. Bonkinator isn't bad either though.

The "Air" in Air Zonk was definitely borrowed from the 1992 popularity of Air Jordan. You have to remember, part of the idea was to create a "modern" for the time Sonic like mascot. So there's a very 90s feel to both names.

[turbogrfxfan]

Yes, because you should always pick the most dated and derivative names you can! They could have got a Wayne's World or House Of Pain joke in there too, if they tried.

I think Zonk is good because it rhymes with Bonk, and is rather evocative of the same vibe as the whole Genjin/Denjin thing. Its pretty much perfect. Bonkinator isn't bad either though.

The "Air" in Air Zonk was definitely borrowed from the 1992 popularity of Air Jordan. You have to remember, part of the idea was to create a "modern" for the time Sonic like mascot. So there's a very 90s feel to both names.

ahh good point i bet ur right!

[MotherGunner]

We need the rom of that eeprom!  =)

[SignOfZeta]

Yes, because you should always pick the most dated and derivative names you can! They could have got a Wayne's World or House Of Pain joke in there too, if they tried.

I think Zonk is good because it rhymes with Bonk, and is rather evocative of the same vibe as the whole Genjin/Denjin thing. Its pretty much perfect. Bonkinator isn't bad either though.

The "Air" in Air Zonk was definitely borrowed from the 1992 popularity of Air Jordan. You have to remember, part of the idea was to create a "modern" for the time Sonic like mascot. So there's a very 90s feel to both names.

Really? I suppose you could be right, but I had Air Jordans in 1986...and they were a year old even then.

[DragonmasterDan]

Really? I suppose you could be right, but I had Air Jordans in 1986...and they were a year old even then.

You're thinking of the shoes, remember the name Air Zonk was chosen in 1992, at what at that time was a peak of Air Jordan's popularity. The Jordan led Dream Team captured the worlds imagination that Summer Barcelona by absolutely annihilating all competition to such a degree that it could hardly have been called a sport, and Michael Jordan was perhaps the most famous person on the planet at the time.

[SignOfZeta]

Oh yeah...I kind of forgot that stuff. I think Jordan is a f*cking a$$hole, I just liked his shoes.

[henrycsc]

He's joined pcenginefx - just waiting for moderator approval now.

And yeah it sounds like he has quite a bit of other stuff in his collection as well. 

I'm sure he got to play a lot of the great stuff that we've only read about.  He said that once TTI came into the picture, he did not move to California to continue the job.  He can probably give us some great stories from those NEC days though.

[MotherGunner]

Would be really cool if he made a podcast recounting his days at NEC/TTI.  Perhaps you can ask him to?

[henrycsc]

Hopefully he'll be here soon enough and we can ask him.  Dream Job, indeed.

He said that he also has EPROMS of New Adventure Island, Dead Moon, Order of the Griffon, and one called "TV Sports Baseball" (maybe the early name for World Class...)

[Jared4781]

wow. this is just awesome. can't wait to hear this guys stories.

[shubibiman]

Nice find! Thanks for sharing!

You are totally right. The only guy who comes to my mind which may bring some more light in this is Thibaut.

Great proto stuff. Does he have more such things'n'stuff?

Thibaut is more into japanese protos and stuff, even though he owns the Off The Wall prototype.

[nat]

Hopefully he'll be here soon enough and we can ask him.  Dream Job, indeed.

He said that he also has EPROMS of New Adventure Island, Dead Moon, Order of the Griffon, and one called "TV Sports Baseball" (maybe the early name for World Class...)

No way. TV Sports Baseball was developed, but never released. It most certainly is not a working title for World Class.... If an actual copy of TV Sports Baseball were to come to light (ie, if what your friend says is accurate), that'd be just fantastic.

Just please, PLEASE make sure your buddy doesn't sell these things to Thibaut & friends. Those guys will make sure they never see the light of day again outside of their "trust circle."

[Mathius]

This is so very cool!

[MotherGunner]

Hopefully he'll be here soon enough and we can ask him.  Dream Job, indeed.

He said that he also has EPROMS of New Adventure Island, Dead Moon, Order of the Griffon, and one called "TV Sports Baseball" (maybe the early name for World Class...)

No way. TV Sports Baseball was developed, but never released. It most certainly is not a working title for World Class.... If an actual copy of TV Sports Baseball were to come to light (ie, if what your friend says is accurate), that'd be just fantastic.

Just please, PLEASE make sure your buddy doesn't sell these things to Thibaut & friends. Those guys will make sure they never see the light of day again outside of their "trust circle."

Totally agree.  I think sharing the rom would be a forum violation but perhaps we can ask him to at least let someone like Bucci review it?

[ParanoiaDragon]

Wow, I'm surprised I didn't know about this! Though, the connections I had back then were near the end of TTI's days, & you said he didn't move to California, so, he probably didn't know their secretary Eun Lopez, who I got info from.  Plus I talked to one of the Shirley boys(of WD) back then as well & got some info, so, since it's been so long, I'm fuzzy on what they really told me....& what I dreamt of them telling me   I tried to get Vic Ireland to speak up over in the Sunsoft forums, but, he never answered any specific questions  

As for Zonk, the original working name I knew about was Bonk's Thunder Shooting(I think I remember them even calling it Bonk 3 at one point, with Bonk's Quest/RPC Genjin being called Bonk 4).  Good grief, I'd like to know if this guy has an eprom of The Riftwar Saga!  That's a game I've been trying to track down more info on for years!  I did have a friend, whose friends dad was working on some hack n' slash that never got released(the dude lived somewhere around Calabasas California).  My friend said it was pretty good.  Always wondered if that was Riftwar Saga.

On TV Sports Baseball, Game Dude down here in Southern Cali had a listing for it for years, which always made me wonder if they somehow at one time got ahold of an eprom!  As far as I ever heard, the game was done!  Not to mention they were supposed to be doing a TV Sports Collection on cd(not to mention TV Sports Boxing).  I have no idea if there supposed to be any enhancements(probably not).

Also, my friends dad(Art Huff) did the gfx for Ghost Manor, though, there's really nothing exciting about that.  Though, note that Arthur in the game is modeled after Art Huff.  He seemed to hate the Turbo from what I recall.

Oh, I've probably mentioned this before, but it seems like I recall Eun telling me that Robotech/Macross 2036 was done, but, there were bugs near the end, & they just plain ran out of money.  Ofcoarse, if that's true, I wonder what the final title would've been.  Seems unlikely they would've paid to use the Robotech name, I could be wrong though.