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Dr. Chaos Originally a Tie-In or Inspired By the 1986 Film 'House'?[edit]
UPDATE: Further information has come to light regarding this game and the movie.
It seems there was another game on the Japanese MSX computer system called, 'Mashou no Yakata Goblin'. Here are links to this game:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/msx/941537-mashou-no-yakata-goblin http://www.gamefaqs.com/msx/941537-mashou-no-yakata-goblin/images/box-91674 http://www.gamefaqs.com/msx/941537-mashou-no-yakata-goblin/images/screen-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl73R5q3ATI
Obviously this is from the movie, 'House', because just from the game's cover art, you can see that the bad guy is Big Ben kidnapping the good guy's son. Even then, it is apparent from the title screen which shows this happening at the bottom of the screen, but also the infamous severed hand is featured as big as life on the screen.
Okay, you are then wondering, what does this have to do with Dr. Chaos for the NES? Well, both games are by Pony Canyon. I would say it seems the NES version, even though radically different from the MSX version, they are from the same movie.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.185.15.221 (talk) 19:08, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Any hope to discover documents or other reference material from developers that this NES game was in fact going to be a movie tie-in or inspired by the 1986 film, 'House' [1] starring William Katt from the Greatest American Hero, George Wendt from Cheers & Richard Moll from Night Court written by Steve Miner director of Friday the 13th part 2 & 3?
It seems clear it is, here are the many points of similarity to theorize: [2] [3]
1) Many characters in the game are similar to those in the movie. (Big Lady, Franken (the big skeleton man with exposed rib cage and what appears to be a helmet and the Flying Skeleton in the warp zone in the game vs. the main character's ex-wife demon, his dead war buddy Big Ben (with exposed rib cage and helmet) and the flying skeleton in the mirror in the movie.)
2) Discovering routes to an alternative world (i.e. warp zone) in closets and mirrors vs. routes to an alternative world (i.e. Nam) in closets and mirrors.)
3) Warp zones are mostly jungles vs. the jungles of Nam.
There may be more and I do know that there are many other things that are not related to the film, but maybe they ended up changing it in the end since they either didn't get the license or if it were inspired by, to take it into a new direction because of copyright, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.117.246.212 (talk) 02:02, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
