MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Rod-Land disassembled, reassembled, flipped on its head, slapped, spanked and lept into

> > "For reasons unknown, they decided to stick with Rod Land as the title for the
> final
> > international version." Isn't it obvious? Someone must have told them what R&T
> means
> > in English after the location test version was sent out but before the
> international
> > release was finalised
>
> Road and (or) Track?
> Research & Technology?
> Research and Teaching?
> Roads & Trails?
> Registrar and Transfer Agent?
> Revenue & Taxation?
> Routing & Transit Number?
> Retraction and Tensioning?
> Rub & Tug?

yeah, it's quite an obscure reference, I doubt it would have been enough to get the game renamed.

I think they just realised R&T was a pretty crap / forgettable name, or maybe even Taito had words because of the use of the colour cycling rainbow? *cough* Rainbow Islands *cough*

Rodland is a better name anyway, even Rittam would have been, R&T is just uninspired.

As for the vertical text flag, I imagine it's because they used standard base code on the platform, and the platform has vertical games, so a flag to draw the text in the opposite direction would make sense in that case with a different font.