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<div align="right">[[User:CRV|CRV]] 07:50, 22 June 2009 (CDT)</div>

===The LJN Mysteries: X-Men Part 2 and Some Other News===
X-Men Part 2:

*According to [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ボーステック Japanese Wikipedia], software company Bothtec merged with Quest in 1990. It separated from Quest in 1997, "but it is merged in the B B M F that performed a capital tie-up on May 1, 2009, and the company will become extinct."
*In [http://ton.2ch.net/retro/kako/983/983720642.html this old 2ch thread], post 832 says Dungeon Kid (FC RPG from Quest and [[Company:Pixel|Pixel]]) shares a piece of music with the FDS version of Relics (published by Bothtec). Post 856 suggests Pixel and Bothtec may have been in the same building.
*We know Pixel did stuff for Quest, but what about Bothtec?
*I previously pointed out a cheat in FDS Topple Zip which involves entering "PIXEL" as a player name to become invincible.
*The shared music between Dungeon Kid and Relics is not a solid piece of evidence. Composer Masaharu Iwata, who went on to work on several Pixel games, would have been a Bothtec employee when he was working on Relics, going by [http://iwata.cocoebiz.com/index.shtml his profile]. He was probably still with Quest when he did Dungeon Kid. He worked for Quest (post-Bothtec merger) for a year before becoming a freelancer.
*Relics does have a X-Men vibe to it...maybe.
*It's possible I read [http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=18325#18325 this old post from ArnoldRimmer83] long before he contacted me a couple days ago.

Other news:

*The Hitoshi Akashi interview is slowly coming along. I keep procrastinating editing it, and I still have more questions.
*Thanks to PingvinBlueJeans for sharing his research of "pre-Crash" developers with us.
*[http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~sumwel_h/doc/juris/odsbcj-h2-3-29.htm Judgment handed down by Judge Hashimoto from the Osaka District Court regarding the Ikegami/Nintendo/Donkey Kong case]. Of course, it's all in Japanese.
*Read GDRI's past LJN exposé posts in their new permanent locations:
:[[Blog:6#The LJN Mysteries: X-Men|The LJN Mysteries: X-Men]]
:[[Blog:6#LJN and...Atlus? UPDATE!|LJN and...Atlus? UPDATE!]]
:[[Blog:6#LJN and...Atlus?|LJN and...Atlus?]]

<div align="right">[[User:CRV|CRV]], 17 May 2009</div>

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