Category: Game Translation Comparisons
For Your Reference
Zero Wing (1991)
This spaceship-shooting arcade game was ported to home consoles in 1991. The English translation (released only in Europe) was so poorly done that Zero Wing is still cited as the very definition of bad video game translation decades later.
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