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A Lamentation on the De-Evolution of Video Game Localization Jan 10th 2013, 22:09 Feature Share it: Tweet 1UP COVER STORY 1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JANUARY 7 | ODDS 'N ENDS A Lamentation on the De-Evolution of Video Game Localization Cover Story: Video game localization took years to crawl away from "prooving the justice of our culture," only to slide back to where we began. T hose of us who grew up with crummy game translations tend to look back on the 8-bit era with a warrior's pride. We look at lengthy in-game tutorials and snort, "In my day, we had to figure out for ourselves that 'GRUMBLE GRUMBLE' translated to 'Feed me bait, you lousy elf-kid.'" We didn't read the stories in 8- and 16-bit games so much as we decoded them--a process that sometimes shepherded us to cliff sides, where we spent hours trying to make Simon Belmont bash his head against the rock simply because a townsperson told us it'd be a cool idea. As a result, some of video games' more infamously botched translations have actually wormed their way into the vernacular of 20- and 30-somethings, including "A winner is you," "All your base are belong to us," and Final Fantasy IV's ever-beloved "You spoony bard!" Outside It's America: A BioShock Infinite Interview Jan 10th 2013, 20:07 Feature Share it: Tweet 1UP COVER STORY 1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JANUARY 7 | ODDS 'N ENDS Outside It's America: A BioShock Infinite Interview Cover Story: We speak to writer Drew Holmes about Infinite's fascinating alternate reality. I  spent an evening with BioShock Infinite last month, and after playing a few hours into the game I met with the game's writer, Drew Holmes, to talk about what I'd seen and played. 1UP: How long have you been with the project? Have you been with BioShock since the start?

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