しょうりゅうけん を やぶらぬかぎり おまえに かちめはない!! - “If you cannot overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!”
I just found this site by chance.
You will find 9 issues caused by little translation mistakes.Each story is really interesting, you will find both funny and serious stories.
However, one of them just cracked me up.
This is about a popular video game which is called Street Fighter II. It came from Japanese comapny named CAPCOM. You may know about them already?
Here is the quote of that part.
8. YOU MUST DEFEAT SHENG LONG
In the Japanese video game Street Fighter II a character says, “if you cannot overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!” When this was translated from Japanese into English, the characters for “rising dragon” were interpreted as “Sheng Long.” The same characters can have different readings in Japanese, and the translator, working on a list of phrases and unaware of the context, thought a new person was being
introduced to the game. Gamers went crazy trying to figure out who this Sheng Long was and how they could defeat him. In 1992, as an April Fools Day joke, Electronic Gaming Monthly published elaborate and difficult to execute instructions
for how to find Sheng Long. It wasn’t revealed as a hoax until that December, after countless hours had no doubt been wasted.
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Although I played this title a lot when I was a student, I haven't heard of this story.
That was because I live in Japan, maybe? Oh...I can imagine that the last part of this article.
A lot of players tried to find Shen Long. The bad thing was we didn't have a smart phone at that time, even internet... Thus, many gamers believed this non-existent character...
In my opinion, "Shen Long" came from Dragon Ball which is a popular Japanese cartoon.
I guess translates were a big fun of Dragon Ball, too. By the way, the sound of "Shen Long" and "Show Ryu(Ken)" are different anyway...
Then we know the answer for the question, "if you cannot overcome Shen Long, you cannot win!"
"Find 7 Dragon Balls to see Shen Long!!"
If you know about Dragon Ball, you already know that Shen Long grants any wish, only one wish. Now the mystery is solved!!
Unfortunately, CAPCOM doesn't have a title of Dragon Ball. I think that was why Shen Long didn't came up in the Street Fighter II
Well, shall we go looking someone who is stronger than us?
海外営業で英語使って使用しているので英語に関するTipsを書いてましたが、しばらくは自分のプログラム勉強用のLogに。 何か参考になりましたら幸いです。