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 Post subject: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:36 am 
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Uh... weird, they changed the name of some games.

Whack-A-Kass is now Kass Basher
Whack-A-Ghost is now Ghost Bopper
Whack-A-Staff-Member is now TNT Staff Smasher

How dumb is that? I guess the powers that be decided that the word "whack" was to violent or something? :roll: Or are there some copyright issues with Whack-A-Mole? LOL
But the images and stuff in the game still say the old names. Wonder if they'll change those too?

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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:44 am 
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That is strange. I wonder why that came about... o_O

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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:42 am 
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I just noticed that too. Very odd. At first I was worried that they updated Whack-A-Kass like they did with UB -> UBII. Thankfully they did not.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:48 pm 
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Meer wrote:
I guess the powers that be decided that the word "whack" was to violent or something? :roll: Or are there some copyright issues with Whack-A-Mole? LOL


Probably one of those two.

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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:18 pm 
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There's a thread on this in General Chat.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35211

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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:12 pm 
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shapu wrote:
There's a thread on this in General Chat.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35211


This one was posted a day earlier (the one Meer made)

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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:19 pm 
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:59 pm 
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When will it stop? So many things are copyrighted! Sooner or later it's going to be every catchphrase from TV shows, any company names, items, etc. :|

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:37 pm 
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When will it stop? So many things are copyrighted! Sooner or later it's going to be every catchphrase from TV shows, any company names, items, etc. :|


All I can say is that there is really nothing to be done.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:02 am 
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From today's Editorial:

So, TNT -- I totally just noticed that you changed "Whack-a-Kass" to Kass Basher, but the icon beside the game still says "Whack-a-Kass"! Were you guys getting around to it, or trying to trick us? ~Mushroomsofdoom

Lawyerbot's programming was updated and he learned there might be some "whack-a" games that existed prior to our Neopian games, so we renamed them. (He tends to be touchy about those things.)


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 Post subject: Re: Game Name Changes
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:40 am 
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Oh my, I originally made that comment about copyright as a joke, I didn't really think whack-a-___ could be copyrighted! :roflol: Oh what is this world coming to?

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