The final statement "its a special edition. That's our new strategy." Was amazing because it goes to show that not everything needs to be taken seriously, it's a video game and one typo on the box is funny
@@mistertagomago7974 some collectors throw fits when something is just slightly off. which is funny because then theyre the same ones in 5-10 years who change their minds and say its a "collectors item"
@@mistertagomago7974 Most likely vendors and resellers were upset because typos are usually a sign of a pirated product, and so could impact their sales by scaring away customers.
I wrote the music for a game called "Only If" about ten years ago. English wasn't the developer's first language, and I only realized after it was released that he'd meant to call the game "If Only".
Oh wow, that's something you only notice if you know the devs intent. If Only and Only if do have some different meaning which you realise, only if you really think about it. If only the devs were able to understand it too.
Holy smokes this is incredible, I just so happen to own a copy of revelations for 3DS and to my absolute surprise, it’s spelled the same way! But it doesn’t stop there, I also have a copy of Okami and there it is, IGN plain as day on the cover! Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention Thomas I feel like I have a rare gem in my collection.
I love that the message of this video is “people make mistakes and they deserve understanding” and not “hahaha man fuck capcom what idiots amirite?!” like it would be on most channels
At some point, it becomes easier and cheaper to just give everyone everything and not make them choose. Then you don't have to worry about who gets what.
I remember working for a food processing plant years ago. On my team we had one guy who had "Mental difficulties". He was a good kid, but he wasn't quick at reading and could barely write. He'd been moved out of all the other departments one by one, and now he was in my team. I could see that he was getting a bit upset by how all the other managers had pretty much told him that he's not bright enough to do any roles in their department's, and how he was useless to them, so I worked out systems that worked for him and he could eventually do most of the jobs that the rest of my team did. One day, we're working at the end of a conveyer belt, packing bags of vegetables into transport trays. He wasn't very good at this, because there needed to be 16 bags in each tray, and he couldn't count up to 16 at the same time as placing these bags in the trays. For smaller numbers we placed the bags in the trays to form a pattern, so when the pattern was compeat he knew to start another tray. It was hard to make a patern out of 16 bags though. He could usually just about keep up, but if he got distracted it all turned to sh*t. This day he kept stopping and looking at whichever bag he had in his hands. this wasn't a particularly unusual thing. He had this funny little habit of zoning out for 10 to 15 seconds every couple of hours, so I didn't think anything of it, but this day he was doing it several times a minute. after a while I stopped the production line so we could catch up, and to check everything was OK with him. He explained that some things never make sense to him, and he has to think about them to try and work them out. Wanting to help, I asked if I could help, and he said "How many days are there in October?". That threw me as I couldn't remember myself. After a little more chatting he asked if there were 32 days in October. I said "No, The longest months are only 31 days long....... Why?". He replied by holding a bag of veg up to me and showing the "32/10/xx" use by date on the label !!!!!! The printer that put this info on the labels used a metal block with slide in letters and numbers. This was kept hot, and would contact each label to mark the thermal paper labels just before it was rolled onto the bags. The people who set this machine up at the start of shift each day would change these slide in numbers to set the use by dates for the day. Someone had been half asleep when they saw "31", assumed it was "21", and just swapped the last digit. He'd then printed out a few, to check print positioning and quality before give the rest to his boss to check, and they'd bother said it was "A-OK !". his boss then gave some to the shift manager to stick in the daily log book. HE also said "A-OK". .............. And NO ONE ELSE (Including me) noticed except for this kid who couldn't count !!! :D
@@gaeshows1938 a guy who works at a food plant has "skill issue" and couldn't count to 16. He was moved down the ranks because of his skill issue and was the only one who noticed the date on one of the bags was wrong
@@martinquetzal5346 No. He won't still be there. I left the company about 25 years ago, and they liquidated about 2 or 3 years later. The assets got bought up by a global fruit importing company, and eventually everything got broken up and sold off. When I heard about them going bust, it was a bit concerning really, because it was the biggest employer in the area by a considerable amount. It was originally a huge farm that ended up becoming a pretty significant sized food processing company. Back in it's farming days, the company had a fair few houses built around the area that were originally leased out (For a nominal fee) to the staff who worked on the farm, then as the original staff died out, the leases were transferred to the widows or children of the original staff members. I often wonder what happened to them, as most of the ones below retirement age also worked for the company, so they would have unexpectedly lost their job, and probably their home at the same time. I shudder to think of what happened to the widows.
Okay i'm going to admit that for the absolute longest time I thought my copy of Sonic Colors had a typo on it since I'm Canadian and thought it would have been spelled "Colours" instead of how it's spelled on the box as "Colors". It took me way too long to realize it was just the American spelling.
This one especially makes sense because the PAL version of the game did actually bother to include the 'u' in the name, which they don't always bother to do when the US is the dominant English market.
@@Calman102 It's like a 60/40 chance whether Canada gets the USA or EU content. Sometimes we get British spelling, other times we get the American spelling but rarely do we get accurate Canadian spelling. Racing games usually have the US box art but EU version of the game since that's the version with km/h... which means that the back of the box sometimes mentions the squeal of tires but the game let's you change your tyres.
Capcom never asked for any proof of ownership, so I sent in for the new Okami artwork even though I didn't own the Wii version of the game. Looks great on the wall!
I have a game with a odd Typo in my collection. It´s a Promotional Copy of "Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30" on the Original XBox. If you don´t know, Promo-Copies for XBox games have a yellow, diagonal banner on the front that says "Promotional Copy - Not for Resale" on it. But somehow, someone got a Typo on that banner when they made the Cover for this particular game. Instead of "Resale" it says "Rescale" on this one. I always assumed that this yellow banner with the Text was a pre-made asset that they can just slap on the cover in Photoshop, but for that Typo to happen it must have been made individually.
@@DonutBurger No, it´s pretty much worthless really. The entire Print Run for the Promo Copy has the Typo and Not for Resale / Promo copies are worth less than regular copies most of time. Really only the Promos for cult games (i.e. Zelda, Mario, Halo etc.) and games that managed to have Promos send out, but where cancelled last minute (i.e. the Acclaim Version of Juiced or a N64 Cart of 40 Winks from back in the day) have a chance of being worth something.
@@TheBester7 Ah, apparently misremembered, it was at the end of the trailer for Steel Batallion, their copyright was for CAPCPOM i.imgur. com / QhXtLdT.png
Think they were moreso trying to be humorous (especially with the bit about "millions" and not just a couple hundred bucks) but also that it's well known enough that there are likely people actively looking for it and if not, people in the know who'd be interested if they saw a copy
Fun Fact: the Switch version of the recently released Sonic Origins has a typo in its name if played on a Japanese-language console. If you take a video or picture in-game and then attempt to share it on social media from the console, it'll hashtag the game as #SONICORIGNS
Hey, I'm 46. Even the music I listen to to sound cool around younger people is twenty years old-- which is impossible because 2001 was only a couple of years ago. Right?
Just wanted to say as a librarian, I love the research and resources you list! You can find some really interesting game information searching through archives, as you've shown with all these cool videos!
see wikipedia for "Swiss cheese model", it's a risk management theory more or less saying it doesn't matter how many layers of safety there is when each of them have holes eventually some of the holes will line up. one way of reducing the holes is having a checklist. instead of assuming someone in the chain looks through everything critically their pre-release QA should have a checkbox instructing the person going through the checklist to verify correct spelling each relevant item. then again, nobody's life is at stake so as long as they handle it as well as Capcom did I'd guess having this happen probably just increased sales of the items if anything.
I actually remember UA-camr Nintendrew taking about this in his video on box art mistakes. (Alongside the L on Luigi’s Hat Mirrored on MKDD box, the word Aventures being misspelt on Superman 64’s box, and the 32x being upside down on Doom’s Box for the 32x)
Capcom was notorious for typos around this time. Asura's Wrath had Chanllenges and I think they even misspelled their name Capcpom in some trailers too.
There's a game for the Neo Geo called Ninja Master's. That apostrophe is proudly in all content related to the game, whether it be promotional material, in-game assets, and rereleases. It bothers me every single time.
From Dusk Till Dawn was released in 1996. Not "From Dusk 'til Dawn"... Till Dawn... It got 2 sequels in 1999 and 2000, and a video game in 2001. It also got a tv series in 2014. The entire franchise maintains the typo.
@@stevenglowacki8576 That is objectively untrue. A till is a device used to store and calculate cash for transactions... 'til is a contraction of "until".
I remember the "Revelaitons" mistake, it was all over the internet when it happened, but nobody took it too seriously so it's kinda odd seeing a video talking about it as if it was a significant thing.
@@spjr99 well, sorry for not writing a comment up to your expectations, I wasn't aware that we were only allowed to share our thoughts in here if they were up to an unspoken standard. So much for a sense of online community.
I watched this video, and went to my local gamestore. Turns out they had Okami for the wii, and it happened to be an IGN one. Thanks TGD! I now own a semi rare game XD
Yeah, I have to say -- who the hell cares? "My worst day at Capcom" because of a barely noticeable watermark? You must have a nice job if that's your "worst day." Come on. When we collected baseball cards in the 80s and 90s, "error" cards are what we lived for! See: Billy Ripkin 1989, Fleer.
I have a copy of BotW for Wii U that has all the controllers listed on the back instead of just GamePad and Pro Controller, it's pretty amusing (the whole first print run of that game had this error, and copies with it are likely more common than copies that don't have it)
The way Capcom handled these should be in every public relations textbook. They admitted their mistakes, corrected them the best they could, then added a little self-depricating humor and related to the customer and a human way. You can't help but smile and forgive them.
Svensson's apology is actually pretty accurate: the power of the "transposed letter effect", or typoglycemia as it's known in psychology, is deeply embedded in the human cognitive processes and is strong enuogh to even byapss human quality assuracne, to the extend that you sometimes simply "don't have an excuse for it". Great video!
@@duane6386 How did you miss "assuracne?" It's the only one I noticed at first. My second pass didn't even catch "extend" because I was looking for swapped letters, not misused words (and so that's likely just a mistake on the OP's part).
Actually altrogeruvah here just pastes this fun-fact at the top of all their posts, as it's quicker than spell-checking, and turns all their comments into fun games. ;)
One of my favorites is when Sega decided that they would rename the latest sequel to a fan favorite shooter series, Thunder Force. This is stupid for two reasons: First, it potentially interfered with brand recognition. Second, they misspelled the new title. Thus, the American version of Thunder Force IV is called "Lightening Force."
Haha, I guess they relied on spell check. I'm just imaging a force that goes around lightening everything they see. That t-shirt sir! Who told you you could wear a black t-shirt?! The Lightening Force strikes again!
Yes there is an Alaska you can see the islands of Alaska the shape of Alaska your familiar with shouldn’t be visible from that view of the continental U.S take it from someone who one has been to Alaska and actually looks at globes and maps
Something similar with the watermark. When destroy all humans path of the furon was being worked on the main menu accidentally had a watermark on the background video playing. They fixed it before launch, but they needed to fix alot more before it was out. Buggy mess
the misspelling error is so easy to occur for one very good reason: it’s psychological! it’s a direct effect of the brain seeing the first and last letters being right and the word having the right number of letters so you automatically think it’s the right spelling even if there’s letters transposed in the middle
Thomas Game Docs: Look! there's a typo in this game's title! South Park, The Fractured But Whole: 👀 Fun fact, Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Vancouver 2010) should have been called M&S at the Olympic Winter Games, so there's a whole word in the wrong place
"There's nothing more human than making mistakes." I always find this statement and other versions of it disagreeable. "To err is human," etc. Animals make mistakes all the time. It's not an inherently human thing. All humans are animals, and all animals make mistakes. Not just humans. I've always thought of it more as: all animals make mistakes, but humans are the only ones that feel shame for them.
Working at a game store, I love showing people the Okami thing any time it comes in. It's so hard to believe that it happened to such a massive studio.
I thinks it’s IGN’s fault. It’s extremely difficult to spot, so it also doesn’t work as a watermark because they’re supposed to be easy to spot, so people will quickly be able to tell where it’s from and deter people that try to plagiarize things.
there's definitely some time travelling paradox shenanigans behind that watermark, sneaking that logo in the perfect spot, true clairvoyance, if you will, the best example of minor tomfoolery
No, it's not IGN's fault. Their implementation of said watermark contributed to this happening but it's not their fault, whoever recycled the image without a proper check is at fault. The hell?
@@Periwinkleaccountyes, why would that change the stance? :o What I mean is, how is the incident happening IGN's fault? Their odd use of the watermark or whatever it is just a contributing factor to the mishap, but it's not *their fault,* right?
The moment you went to 2006, I _knew_ it was Okami. That said, I'd never heard Capcom distributed alternate covers following the release. That's pretty neat, to be honest.
I have both of these games. I also have a game called "Eliminator Boat Duel" and it's spelled right on the front label but the top label says "ELIMONATOR" I also have a NES Metroid that says "Mad in Japan" another Capcom Wii mistake is on Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, the spine side of the case is missing the "Wii" logo. I've seen it with and wihout
The DS Version of Populous in Europe got a funny error. They forgot to add the Nintendo DS Logo. It sticks out quite a lot in a Collection when every single Game has it and then there is just one that is blank.
I love how Capcom's statements on this took the situation light hearted and didn't just give a corporate response to the situation and called it a day. Shows a bit about the humans behind the dev studio
Just found out my brother’s copy of Okami has the ign watermark. I’ve had this game in my possession for over 10 years and never noticed. My life is a lie
Many printing errors happen in the games industry. I remember a game had a printing mistake regarding the ESRB rating, the game was printed with an E rating when in reality I think the game was oficially rated M. I think it was an anime game with lots of girls, you can probably figure out why it was rated M
That was Gal-Gun Double Peace. Unlike Resident Evil Relations (and Naruto Powerful Shippuden since it also suffered from a boxart typo), Gal-Gun Double Peace's E rating mistake on the back of it's box art was never fixed due to the physical release being on online only exclusive.
As a graphic designer who also checks, approves and sends out the files to print, hearing about 90 000 printed fuckups just kills me from the inside. I can only imagine what the person typing that in felt when he first heard the news. RIP
there was that naruto game with a case typo too! and i'm sure i once saw a trauma centre game with a case typo too, i just for the life of me can't remember it.
The first batch of the Switch port of the Megaman Zero/ZX legacy Collection came with a typo on the side of the case "Megan Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection"
Nintendo: "Oh no, how embarrassing my friend Capcom! This is worse than the typos of in-game English text in my former games." Capcom: "yeah, can't stop it Nintendo. But what can we say? What is done is done."
Let’s not forget probably the most amazing blunder of all time “Donkey Kong” which was originally called “Monkey Kong” but during translation it was misunderstood & by the time it was realised, all the donkey kong arcade machines had been branded
I would find it interesting to cover something I found when I was on Tik Tok and there was a game called habibi run that was probably on an app store that some people in the comments section and I thought contained voice clips from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that we thought were Link's. I feel like it'd be interesting for someone to make a video on it.
It is often kinda sad to see just how little big companies care about their own products and assets, but if then anybody makes fan-content they are all over it with their lawyers. I have even seen a production-server that is used to manage the state of all projects as well as containing all bugfixs&patches together with their install-instructions aaaaaand that had no backup what so ever.
The final statement "its a special edition. That's our new strategy." Was amazing because it goes to show that not everything needs to be taken seriously, it's a video game and one typo on the box is funny
Yeah I was surprised anyone was mad like I'd love to have something weird like that in my possession.
@@mistertagomago7974 yeah its fun and I DONT HAVE IT
@@mistertagomago7974 some collectors throw fits when something is just slightly off. which is funny because then theyre the same ones in 5-10 years who change their minds and say its a "collectors item"
@@mistertagomago7974 Most likely vendors and resellers were upset because typos are usually a sign of a pirated product, and so could impact their sales by scaring away customers.
Throughout this video I was just thinking, "what's the big deal?"
I wrote the music for a game called "Only If" about ten years ago. English wasn't the developer's first language, and I only realized after it was released that he'd meant to call the game "If Only".
were they Russian by chance?
because in Russian "if only" is "Если только" and if you translate each word literally it would be "only if"
@@arbuznazarov9326 No, they spoke Arabic.
Possibly nobody noticed because "only if" also has its own meaning. Like the phrase if and only if!
Oh wow, that's something you only notice if you know the devs intent. If Only and Only if do have some different meaning which you realise, only if you really think about it. If only the devs were able to understand it too.
@@erdmannelchen8829 nice
Holy smokes this is incredible, I just so happen to own a copy of revelations for 3DS and to my absolute surprise, it’s spelled the same way!
But it doesn’t stop there, I also have a copy of Okami and there it is, IGN plain as day on the cover!
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention Thomas I feel like I have a rare gem in my collection.
Wow, you're pretty lucky to have both those games in your collection! Glad my video helped you spot the typo + watermark!!
@@ThomasGameDocs You gotta make a part two , there’s no way those two are the only examples.
@@ThomasGameDocs I've also got Okami, and yep, the IGN logo is very clearly there! Kinda fun to own something silly like that!
revelaitons*
Same dude, I also have the corrected sleeves for Okami but not Revelaitons.
I love that the message of this video is “people make mistakes and they deserve understanding” and not “hahaha man fuck capcom what idiots amirite?!” like it would be on most channels
there are 2 types of people
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I feel like that's largely down to Capcom's response of being open about the mistake and genuinely trying to make things right with their fans.
That’s actually pretty cool of Capcom to just send everyone replacement art and all of the options as well.
At some point, it becomes easier and cheaper to just give everyone everything and not make them choose. Then you don't have to worry about who gets what.
"everyone" prolly means just america
I remember working for a food processing plant years ago. On my team we had one guy who had "Mental difficulties". He was a good kid, but he wasn't quick at reading and could barely write. He'd been moved out of all the other departments one by one, and now he was in my team. I could see that he was getting a bit upset by how all the other managers had pretty much told him that he's not bright enough to do any roles in their department's, and how he was useless to them, so I worked out systems that worked for him and he could eventually do most of the jobs that the rest of my team did.
One day, we're working at the end of a conveyer belt, packing bags of vegetables into transport trays. He wasn't very good at this, because there needed to be 16 bags in each tray, and he couldn't count up to 16 at the same time as placing these bags in the trays. For smaller numbers we placed the bags in the trays to form a pattern, so when the pattern was compeat he knew to start another tray. It was hard to make a patern out of 16 bags though. He could usually just about keep up, but if he got distracted it all turned to sh*t. This day he kept stopping and looking at whichever bag he had in his hands. this wasn't a particularly unusual thing. He had this funny little habit of zoning out for 10 to 15 seconds every couple of hours, so I didn't think anything of it, but this day he was doing it several times a minute. after a while I stopped the production line so we could catch up, and to check everything was OK with him.
He explained that some things never make sense to him, and he has to think about them to try and work them out. Wanting to help, I asked if I could help, and he said "How many days are there in October?". That threw me as I couldn't remember myself. After a little more chatting he asked if there were 32 days in October. I said "No, The longest months are only 31 days long....... Why?". He replied by holding a bag of veg up to me and showing the "32/10/xx" use by date on the label !!!!!!
The printer that put this info on the labels used a metal block with slide in letters and numbers. This was kept hot, and would contact each label to mark the thermal paper labels just before it was rolled onto the bags. The people who set this machine up at the start of shift each day would change these slide in numbers to set the use by dates for the day. Someone had been half asleep when they saw "31", assumed it was "21", and just swapped the last digit. He'd then printed out a few, to check print positioning and quality before give the rest to his boss to check, and they'd bother said it was "A-OK !". his boss then gave some to the shift manager to stick in the daily log book. HE also said "A-OK". .............. And NO ONE ELSE (Including me) noticed except for this kid who couldn't count !!! :D
Man, this is so awesome. Is the boy still working there?
TLDR please
this has got to be a copy pasta
@@gaeshows1938 a guy who works at a food plant has "skill issue" and couldn't count to 16. He was moved down the ranks because of his skill issue and was the only one who noticed the date on one of the bags was wrong
@@martinquetzal5346 No. He won't still be there. I left the company about 25 years ago, and they liquidated about 2 or 3 years later. The assets got bought up by a global fruit importing company, and eventually everything got broken up and sold off.
When I heard about them going bust, it was a bit concerning really, because it was the biggest employer in the area by a considerable amount. It was originally a huge farm that ended up becoming a pretty significant sized food processing company.
Back in it's farming days, the company had a fair few houses built around the area that were originally leased out (For a nominal fee) to the staff who worked on the farm, then as the original staff died out, the leases were transferred to the widows or children of the original staff members. I often wonder what happened to them, as most of the ones below retirement age also worked for the company, so they would have unexpectedly lost their job, and probably their home at the same time. I shudder to think of what happened to the widows.
Omg your right!! You made me get my copy of Okami on wii off the shelf and yup right there water mark. How have I never noticed that!
It's not easy to spot if you're not looking for it! Once you see it though, it's hard NOT to see it haha
@@ThomasGameDocs Absolutely! It's all I can see now. 😂
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@@birdfish86 they're correct you fucking dumbass.
Okay i'm going to admit that for the absolute longest time I thought my copy of Sonic Colors had a typo on it since I'm Canadian and thought it would have been spelled "Colours" instead of how it's spelled on the box as "Colors".
It took me way too long to realize it was just the American spelling.
dude, the exact same thing happened to me!
This one especially makes sense because the PAL version of the game did actually bother to include the 'u' in the name, which they don't always bother to do when the US is the dominant English market.
@@Calman102 It's like a 60/40 chance whether Canada gets the USA or EU content. Sometimes we get British spelling, other times we get the American spelling but rarely do we get accurate Canadian spelling.
Racing games usually have the US box art but EU version of the game since that's the version with km/h... which means that the back of the box sometimes mentions the squeal of tires but the game let's you change your tyres.
That's funny because in Europe and Australia etc I'm pretty sure it's spelt "Colours". They did you dirty Canada!
@@PiousMoltar we're used to it, the US never appreciates us
Capcom never asked for any proof of ownership, so I sent in for the new Okami artwork even though I didn't own the Wii version of the game. Looks great on the wall!
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I have a game with a odd Typo in my collection. It´s a Promotional Copy of "Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30" on the Original XBox. If you don´t know, Promo-Copies for XBox games have a yellow, diagonal banner on the front that says "Promotional Copy - Not for Resale" on it. But somehow, someone got a Typo on that banner when they made the Cover for this particular game. Instead of "Resale" it says "Rescale" on this one. I always assumed that this yellow banner with the Text was a pre-made asset that they can just slap on the cover in Photoshop, but for that Typo to happen it must have been made individually.
put it on a scale lol
@@DXNE_XIII no that’s illegal, everyone knows you can’t put promotional copies of games on the scales!
If thats true, that game could be worth a lot to collectors
So not only is it a not for resale copy, it has a typo.
Wow, must be super valuable.
@@DonutBurger No, it´s pretty much worthless really. The entire Print Run for the Promo Copy has the Typo and Not for Resale / Promo copies are worth less than regular copies most of time.
Really only the Promos for cult games (i.e. Zelda, Mario, Halo etc.) and games that managed to have Promos send out, but where cancelled last minute (i.e. the Acclaim Version of Juiced or a N64 Cart of 40 Winks from back in the day) have a chance of being worth something.
When he said that game came out when he was four years old, that hit to my soul broke my hip.
Same 😭
Yeah, me too. It's weird that there are adults now who are too young to remember 9/11(/2001).
@@KasumiKenshirou It's similar to the feeling WW2 vets got when people were too young to have experienced Pearl Harbor!
I'm just shocked Thomas is younger than me tbh
Same, I was like "damn I was 13 back when that came out"
Can you imagine getting your Okami replacement sleeves shipped, and it *STILL* has the bloody watermark on it??? That would've been incredible
*british person detected*
@@lilianulloa923 maybe i just like blood. how dare u. /j
@@OhNoBohNoblood tastes yummy (said by a fellow brit) /j
What about the time when Capcom misspelled their own company name as "Capcpom" in one of their games?
what ?
@@TheBester7 Ah, apparently misremembered, it was at the end of the trailer for Steel Batallion, their copyright was for CAPCPOM i.imgur. com / QhXtLdT.png
@@Katzii oh ok
@@Katzii No no no no no, that was not a mistake, is called outsourcing. What? You don't know Capcpom?.
Read that as Capcpor.... nevermind
Reminds me of the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection, in which display copies given to stores were called "Megan Man"
Megan thee Stallion Man
@@vacuumblink2300 eahhh 👅💅
missed a chance to capitalize on this with Roll and Megan: The Power of Sisters
@@vacuumblink2300 oh my god, it's Megan thee Stallion Man!!!!
i love this, honestly was expecting it to be misspelled as "Megaman" or something, but Megan? absolutely comical
Glad the IGN watermark was brought up almost immediately.
I think most people would just call it a bootleg and according to Capcom *"Lose millions of dollars"*
Think they were moreso trying to be humorous (especially with the bit about "millions" and not just a couple hundred bucks) but also that it's well known enough that there are likely people actively looking for it and if not, people in the know who'd be interested if they saw a copy
@@nicolasgralewicz4727 yeah ik that they were just joking.
Fun Fact: the Switch version of the recently released Sonic Origins has a typo in its name if played on a Japanese-language console. If you take a video or picture in-game and then attempt to share it on social media from the console, it'll hashtag the game as #SONICORIGNS
Sonic Organs
The entirely of Origins is held to gether by duct tape and duct tape alone
@@Josuh this needs more likes
sonic organs?
rela?
Capcom handles the situations quite nicely and fun tbh
I wonder how Nintendo fix their mistake if this ever happened to them
Im pretty sure nintendo wouldn't even care about that, they only care about money
The revelations mistake was a simple typo, but our brains fixed the mistake which is why it passed so many hands without notice
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It feels weird when my personal experiences with capcom is considered "video game history". I feel so old.
Same.
Also feels weird when a UA-camr I follow talks about how he was two when I graduated high school...
Hey, I'm 46. Even the music I listen to to sound cool around younger people is twenty years old-- which is impossible because 2001 was only a couple of years ago. Right?
Everything that's already happened is history
@@aiaikawa4012 Hashtag deep
Even weirder when you remember before those games
Just wanted to say as a librarian, I love the research and resources you list! You can find some really interesting game information searching through archives, as you've shown with all these cool videos!
Ive heard the okami story before, but that typo is absolutely ridiculous!!
Honestly it’s only ridiculous because so many people and higher up’s looked at it, approved it, and didn’t notice the typo
see wikipedia for "Swiss cheese model", it's a risk management theory more or less saying it doesn't matter how many layers of safety there is when each of them have holes eventually some of the holes will line up. one way of reducing the holes is having a checklist. instead of assuming someone in the chain looks through everything critically their pre-release QA should have a checkbox instructing the person going through the checklist to verify correct spelling each relevant item. then again, nobody's life is at stake so as long as they handle it as well as Capcom did I'd guess having this happen probably just increased sales of the items if anything.
I actually remember UA-camr Nintendrew taking about this in his video on box art mistakes. (Alongside the L on Luigi’s Hat Mirrored on MKDD box, the word Aventures being misspelt on Superman 64’s box, and the 32x being upside down on Doom’s Box for the 32x)
8:13 Well it's that thing, when you shuffle letters in word, but brain still understand them as usual.
Capcom was notorious for typos around this time. Asura's Wrath had Chanllenges and I think they even misspelled their name Capcpom in some trailers too.
My childhood Club Penguin username was “Artic Mist1” so the opening story really hit close to home.
2:32 this is just a character played by Adam Sandler
It's not as bad as being on the box but I remember one of the loading screen tips on battlefield 3 mentioning something about enemy "soliders".
There's a game for the Neo Geo called Ninja Master's. That apostrophe is proudly in all content related to the game, whether it be promotional material, in-game assets, and rereleases. It bothers me every single time.
Reminds me of Cruis'n
From Dusk Till Dawn was released in 1996. Not "From Dusk 'til Dawn"... Till Dawn...
It got 2 sequels in 1999 and 2000, and a video game in 2001. It also got a tv series in 2014. The entire franchise maintains the typo.
@@SeekerGoldstone "Till" is a legitimate alternative word that means the same as "until" in that context. (It can also mean a cash register)
@@stevenglowacki8576 That is objectively untrue.
A till is a device used to store and calculate cash for transactions... 'til is a contraction of "until".
@@stevenglowacki8576 I guess I hadn't considered that we also till the earth for planting but that's irrelevant.
I remember the "Revelaitons" mistake, it was all over the internet when it happened, but nobody took it too seriously so it's kinda odd seeing a video talking about it as if it was a significant thing.
Nothingburger of a comment
@@spjr99 well, sorry for not writing a comment up to your expectations, I wasn't aware that we were only allowed to share our thoughts in here if they were up to an unspoken standard. So much for a sense of online community.
7:47 they sure werent wrong about this
I like how Capcom and I were on the same thought process on keeping the "Revelaitons" cover to keep as a collectors item.
"Revelaitons" has the French word for "milk", "lait" in it so it improves the title.
Ah yes, that makes it age like fine milk!
I remember watching that ‘artic saviour’ game on tv, they also said penguins were in the arctic
I just checked my Okami box that I had bought back in 2011. I had never noticed that IGN logo for 11 years!
I watched this video, and went to my local gamestore. Turns out they had Okami for the wii, and it happened to be an IGN one. Thanks TGD! I now own a semi rare game XD
Honestly, if a got a game with a watermark or typo in the box art, I'd be more amused than anything else 😁
I’d buy a few copies. To keep sealed for my collection and one to open and play
Yeah, I have to say -- who the hell cares? "My worst day at Capcom" because of a barely noticeable watermark? You must have a nice job if that's your "worst day." Come on. When we collected baseball cards in the 80s and 90s, "error" cards are what we lived for! See: Billy Ripkin 1989, Fleer.
I have a copy of BotW for Wii U that has all the controllers listed on the back instead of just GamePad and Pro Controller, it's pretty amusing (the whole first print run of that game had this error, and copies with it are likely more common than copies that don't have it)
Nintendo made a mistake with Mario and Luigi partners in time
And put Mario and Luigi partners in crime
this happens a TON lmao, i have *two* splinter cell games with misspelt spines
1:19 "Let's go back to 2006, when I was a mere four years old."
Please stop making me feel old.
What do people think when they see this!? Well, they will think “OH, that wasn’t meant to be there!”
You didn’t need to say that. It’s obvious.
@@Periwinkleaccount _I just wanted to be funny_ ;-;
@@MarshiDaCutie hol up I am subbed to you lol
@@MarshiDaCutie how, in any context, is this funny?
@@Periwinkleaccount yea
The way Capcom handled these should be in every public relations textbook. They admitted their mistakes, corrected them the best they could, then added a little self-depricating humor and related to the customer and a human way. You can't help but smile and forgive them.
"There is nothing more human..than making mistakes."
Sonic Team be like: Are we superhumans?
Sonic Team and Nintendo at that
Sonic 06 team
so true, so very true
4:50 'What your looking for...' my man made a typo in a video about just that.
Nobody cares
@@hermansfood9672 I care
@mrbist9404somebody =/= nobody
It can be funny when people make mistakes like this sometimes.
Svensson's apology is actually pretty accurate: the power of the "transposed letter effect", or typoglycemia as it's known in psychology, is deeply embedded in the human cognitive processes and is strong enuogh to even byapss human quality assuracne, to the extend that you sometimes simply "don't have an excuse for it". Great video!
SPOILERS FOR TYPOS
enuogh
byapass
extend
I thought there would be more. Two of those were probably accidental
@@duane6386 How did you miss "assuracne?" It's the only one I noticed at first. My second pass didn't even catch "extend" because I was looking for swapped letters, not misused words (and so that's likely just a mistake on the OP's part).
Actually altrogeruvah here just pastes this fun-fact at the top of all their posts, as it's quicker than spell-checking, and turns all their comments into fun games. ;)
One of my favorites is when Sega decided that they would rename the latest sequel to a fan favorite shooter series, Thunder Force. This is stupid for two reasons: First, it potentially interfered with brand recognition. Second, they misspelled the new title. Thus, the American version of Thunder Force IV is called "Lightening Force."
Haha, I guess they relied on spell check. I'm just imaging a force that goes around lightening everything they see. That t-shirt sir! Who told you you could wear a black t-shirt?! The Lightening Force strikes again!
That sounds like a very uplifting game.
I actually knew about the Ōkami error, but I had no idea about the Resident Evil: Revelations typo!
*Revalaitons
Oh god, my older brother had a copy of Okami with the watermark, I looked for it and quite a laugh to look at.
6:33 There's no Alaska lol, I guess it's fitting for a video on things that may not be readily apparent, but once you notice you can't unsee.
Yes there is an Alaska you can see the islands of Alaska the shape of Alaska your familiar with shouldn’t be visible from that view of the continental U.S take it from someone who one has been to Alaska and actually looks at globes and maps
Something similar with the watermark.
When destroy all humans path of the furon was being worked on the main menu accidentally had a watermark on the background video playing.
They fixed it before launch, but they needed to fix alot more before it was out. Buggy mess
Look up volition plays dah path of the furon. That's where I heard it from
At 4:44 you’re is misspelled as your. In a video about typos 😂.
Fascinating video, can’t wait to see more from you! Keep up the good work!
Nobody cares
@@hermansfood9672 Thanks for your opinion on the matter!
Your videos are some of the most thorough and entertaining on UA-cam. Keep it up!
When is the Mario Games ranked by fans video coming out
Hey, you forgot to put this at the end of your sentence: "I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically".
@@burgerkingfries4941 I am not
@@Michael-Gaming-6009 I would have @ you if I was talking to you, that was meant for @list
@@burgerkingfries4941 oh
Now you can make a new *tipo* collection
Upload: Game with a TYPO in it's name
Me: Ooo this is interesting!
you could say this about anything on the planet
the misspelling error is so easy to occur for one very good reason: it’s psychological!
it’s a direct effect of the brain seeing the first and last letters being right and the word having the right number of letters so you automatically think it’s the right spelling even if there’s letters transposed in the middle
Thomas Game Docs: Look! there's a typo in this game's title!
South Park, The Fractured But Whole: 👀
Fun fact, Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Vancouver 2010) should have been called M&S at the Olympic Winter Games, so there's a whole word in the wrong place
Meanwhile my Okami Wii game has no watermark in sight, did they fix it before the game hit Europe?
Lol he mentioned Capcom and I immediately knew he was gonna pull "Revelaitons". I still own the wii version of Okami too
I do too actually. Haha
Oh, so THAT'S why they released those alternate covers for Okami!
I thought they just released them as loving homage to the game...
What you're here for: 6:41
Jesus what a waste of time.
Agreed
It’s so weird to hear about game companies handling mistakes well that’s so rare now
SCREAMING i love this game i had no idea the box had a watermark on it.lmaooo
i owned the game digitally so thats probably why lol
"There's nothing more human than making mistakes."
I always find this statement and other versions of it disagreeable. "To err is human," etc. Animals make mistakes all the time. It's not an inherently human thing. All humans are animals, and all animals make mistakes. Not just humans.
I've always thought of it more as: all animals make mistakes, but humans are the only ones that feel shame for them.
Basically we are animals and and being human is an excuse? What?
Pronunciation for Part 2's typo: Re-ve-LAI-tons. "Lai" sounds like the Chinese word ”来“, which means "Come".
I pronounced it like a French word
reve come tons
The opening makes me wish the short lived 90s beer Artic Ice was still around.
Just imagine some french translation of Capcom games are full of typo. Ace attorney is probably the best example.
2:10 Ready at Dawn is the creator of the VR games “Echo VR” and “Lone Echo”
Thomas, you aren’t talking about a misspelling you’re talking about re revaluations special edition according to Capcom.
Working at a game store, I love showing people the Okami thing any time it comes in. It's so hard to believe that it happened to such a massive studio.
I thinks it’s IGN’s fault. It’s extremely difficult to spot, so it also doesn’t work as a watermark because they’re supposed to be easy to spot, so people will quickly be able to tell where it’s from and deter people that try to plagiarize things.
there's definitely some time travelling paradox shenanigans behind that watermark, sneaking that logo in the perfect spot, true clairvoyance, if you will, the best example of minor tomfoolery
No, it's not IGN's fault. Their implementation of said watermark contributed to this happening but it's not their fault, whoever recycled the image without a proper check is at fault. The hell?
@@nekozombie did you read past the fifth word?
@@Periwinkleaccountyes, why would that change the stance? :o
What I mean is, how is the incident happening IGN's fault? Their odd use of the watermark or whatever it is just a contributing factor to the mishap, but it's not *their fault,* right?
@@nekozombie it is, because it’s barely visible. Any good watermark should be easily visible.
I read the title, hovered over and saw 'the apprentice' and just knew what it was referring to- 'artic ' that episode PAINED me
That's how it should've been spelled. English sucks.
The moment you went to 2006, I _knew_ it was Okami. That said, I'd never heard Capcom distributed alternate covers following the release. That's pretty neat, to be honest.
8:20 I think that very few guys on the Japanese branch would've noticed that mistake xd.
2:19 Johnny Sins???
I actually saw the Apprentice episode you mentioned. Never knew this happened anywhere else, too! Awesome video!
I have both of these games. I also have a game called "Eliminator Boat Duel" and it's spelled right on the front label but the top label says "ELIMONATOR" I also have a NES Metroid that says "Mad in Japan" another Capcom Wii mistake is on Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, the spine side of the case is missing the "Wii" logo. I've seen it with and wihout
The DS Version of Populous in Europe got a funny error. They forgot to add the Nintendo DS Logo. It sticks out quite a lot in a Collection when every single Game has it and then there is just one that is blank.
Keep up the great content
I love how Capcom's statements on this took the situation light hearted and didn't just give a corporate response to the situation and called it a day. Shows a bit about the humans behind the dev studio
3:30 i barly see it
Edit:now i see it
People: Notice mistake on cover and have full rant about it
Capcom: Knew I should have used the spellchecker.
Dude you deserve a TV show
Apparently later copies of Okami had the watermark removed, and the one with the watermark is apparently worth a pretty penny these days.
Why is Revlaitions making me laugh so hard this morning
Just found out my brother’s copy of Okami has the ign watermark. I’ve had this game in my possession for over 10 years and never noticed. My life is a lie
Many printing errors happen in the games industry. I remember a game had a printing mistake regarding the ESRB rating, the game was printed with an E rating when in reality I think the game was oficially rated M. I think it was an anime game with lots of girls, you can probably figure out why it was rated M
That was Gal-Gun Double Peace. Unlike Resident Evil Relations (and Naruto Powerful Shippuden since it also suffered from a boxart typo), Gal-Gun Double Peace's E rating mistake on the back of it's box art was never fixed due to the physical release being on online only exclusive.
As a graphic designer who also checks, approves and sends out the files to print, hearing about 90 000 printed fuckups just kills me from the inside. I can only imagine what the person typing that in felt when he first heard the news. RIP
there was that naruto game with a case typo too! and i'm sure i once saw a trauma centre game with a case typo too, i just for the life of me can't remember it.
Naruto Powerful Shippuden. I had that game.
The first batch of the Switch port of the Megaman Zero/ZX legacy Collection came with a typo on the side of the case "Megan Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection"
Nintendo: "Oh no, how embarrassing my friend Capcom! This is worse than the typos of in-game English text in my former games."
Capcom: "yeah, can't stop it Nintendo. But what can we say? What is done is done."
These sound like plausible titles of a Seinfeld episode.
“The Watermark”
“The Typo”
If you’re American, then you might also think they spelled “Saviour” wrong. We spell it “savior”.
Let’s not forget probably the most amazing blunder of all time “Donkey Kong” which was originally called “Monkey Kong” but during translation it was misunderstood & by the time it was realised, all the donkey kong arcade machines had been branded
I would find it interesting to cover something I found when I was on Tik Tok and there was a game called habibi run that was probably on an app store that some people in the comments section and I thought contained voice clips from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that we thought were Link's. I feel like it'd be interesting for someone to make a video on it.
I expected the typo would be "reLEVations" but "revelaitons" is SO much more glaring to me
I lost my mind when someone pointed out the typo on resident evil. Still laugh every time I see it lmao
Fun fact, Capcom have also misspelled _their own name_ at some point, spelling it "Capcpom".
wasn't expecting to see ready at dawn here. I'm a huge fan of their lone echo series.
It is often kinda sad to see just how little big companies care about their own products and assets, but if then anybody makes fan-content they are all over it with their lawyers.
I have even seen a production-server that is used to manage the state of all projects as well as containing all bugfixs&patches together with their install-instructions aaaaaand that had no backup what so ever.