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SMS Golden Axe Ending - starring Arnold!
Post Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:05 pm
Hi guys.

It is no secret that Makoto Uchida, creator of the original Golden Axe game, was influenced by the movie Conan the Barbarian. A solid connection between the movie and the Master System port of Golden Axe is visible in the ending! Haha... :)

Death Adder is also in the movie. Almost..
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:40 pm
That is cool !
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:27 am
Plenty more Arnold-alike art here for your enjoyment -
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:40 am
Haha - that action movies vs. retro games collection is the best way to start the day :)
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:53 pm
The second and third image at the end of SMS's Golden Axe are, of course, inspired by the Arnold's Conan movie. But what about the first image? I remember reading that it was also taken or inspired by a movie scene. Does anyone know what the movie is?

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Post Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:22 am
I posted this on a previous topic about Golden Axe
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:23 am
Crazy they could get away with such blatant plaguirism.

On a related note, does anyone know the real story why Ax-Battler was renamed "Tarik" in the Master System version? Obviously rumors and guesswork is around but have any official sources/people ever commented?

Always struck me as odd. And also seemed strange that they completely redid the cover art for the Master System version, nice as it is. Why wouldn't they just reuse the existing Japanese Mega Drive art? Especially since they reused that art for the Western Mega Drive/Genesis versions.

That said, personally I much prefer the Master System cover art.
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:09 pm
Maybe they didn't use the Mega Drive cover because only one of the characters was selectable in the Master System version. Also, at that time, Master System covers used the regular font and a picture which wouldn't fully cover the front... maybe it was too much hassle to edit it.

Altered Beast also uses a different cover than the Mega Drive one.
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:53 am
It took a bit of finding but I found the source image for the second ending screen.

The first screen does look like it's someone different to Arnold. It looks like it could be from The Beastmaster (1982) or Deathstalker (1983). I'll have a look around for some publicity stills for those movies.
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:15 am
Found it! It was The Beastmaster.

Any ideas for the title screen and magic select screen?
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:14 pm
So it seems the magic select screen image is an illustration of Conan by Dan Adkins from 1978
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:07 pm
These are all pretty blatant, but not exactly unique to Golden Axe. Thunder Blade also famously nabs images from Blue Thunder.
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Post Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:53 am
Last edited by rgabriel15 on Sun Jan 01, 2023 2:13 am; edited 4 times in total
In the game Golden Axe Beast Riders (2008), when Tyris meets the barbarian, he introduces himself as

"I am Tarik Ax Battler, lord of the frozen north".

This confirms that the barbarian's name is Tarik. "Ax Battler" looks like to be a surname or a title. After 19 years (the SMS version is from 1989), the Master System version has been proven to be correct!

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Crazy they could get away with such blatant plaguirism.

On a related note, does anyone know the real story why Ax-Battler was renamed "Tarik" in the Master System version? Obviously rumors and guesswork is around but have any official sources/people ever commented?

Always struck me as odd. And also seemed strange that they completely redid the cover art for the Master System version, nice as it is. Why wouldn't they just reuse the existing Japanese Mega Drive art? Especially since they reused that art for the Western Mega Drive/Genesis versions.

That said, personally I much prefer the Master System cover art.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:31 pm
ian wrote
Found it! It was The Beastmaster.

Any ideas for the title screen and magic select screen?


Good find, I knew it was Beastmaster, but I couldn't find the pic.
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