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Offline matt oz

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Video game project
« on: May 17, 2003, 12:47:26 PM »
For a final project in my French class, we have to do a project that relates to Francophone culture somehow.  Last year I chose movies (which was surprisingly boring) and this year I chose to do video games.

At first, I was thinking of doing a report on either Infogrames (Atari) or Ubi Soft, two French developers/publishers.  We also have to do a multimedia presentation of some sort, and of course I'd bring in a video game system to play a game.  If I did Ubi Soft, I'd bring in Rayman for the Dreamcast, but I only have an RF cable for it, not the RCA ones.  If I did Infogrames (which would be more boring, since Rayman is somewhat popular in France), I could bring in Ikaruga for the GameCube to play, but that's not the most interesting game.

Then there's Canada, which is probably the only other francophone country with a game developer.  If I did Silicon Knights, I would be unable to bring in Eternal Darkness due to the game rating.

So my question (finally) is:  Are there any other prominent French or Canadian (or Belgian, Swiss, African, etc.) developers/publishers?  Or does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do for a multimedia presentation in lieu of a video game demonstration (which would further prove my dorkiness to my class)?
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Offline Grey Ninja

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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2003, 01:51:53 PM »
In Canada, the French speakers demanded that every video game in our country be packaged with french instruction manuals.  It's a royal pain in the ass for all concerned though, as the games are still in english, it's just the instructions that are in french.  I wouldn't have a problem with having instructions in french, if it didn't delay game releases.  It just seems pointless to me to have to wait a few extra days for a trivial addition to the game that doesn't really help french speakers out a lot.

Anyways, I'm sure you could find scans of some Canadian video game instruction manuals, as they will be delivered in both french and english, and often have subtle differences from the American versions.  A good example might actually be the cover art for the Zelda: OoT bonus disc for GameCube.  The covers of the American and Canadian discs were actually pretty different in appearance IIRC, because of the Canadian requirement of packaging products in French and English.  I am not aware of a single Canadian game that has a language selector for french/english though.  I think you would have to find the PAL version of a game to do that.  
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