Burgers and cola

Rune_Walsh wrote:

Aeroprism wrote:

Never liked the idea. Silly, unwanted and pointless American translation that implied that North American gamers were too dumb to cope with imaginative terms.

It probably has to do with stereotypes. I guess if Sega were translating for Italians, spaghetti and wine would be used?

I doubt. The brazilian translation was also burgers and cola.

Otto wrote:

I doubt. The brazilian translation was also burgers and cola.

I was being facetious.

So they were named something else and just ended up being translated to burgers and cola? Interesting. Even though I was 5 at the time I thought the name was a bit strange.

The original names, as I recall, are cultural references to products sold in Japan in the late 1980s. The Japanese name of the burgers was a play on the name of some kind of power bar, I believe.

Ahh now I see. That'll explain the name changes then. Thanks Thoul.

Burger was perolimate, which is a kind of energetic bar.