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Quoted from mrm_4:Its literally Top Gun but the license fell through, come on everyone how can I be the only guy that loves this game?
How is it that every Gottlieb game from this era had “the license fall through?”
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Quoted from mystman12:Considering what happened with Gladiators it's probably safe to assume Gottlieb wasn't very good at handling licenses.
They had the rights to make a Legend of Zelda pin, designed a Legend of Zelda pin, then got the opportunity to license an American Gladiators theme, so they decided to drop LoZ and slap the AG theme onto that game. Then the AG deal fell through and they weren't able to get LoZ back either. End result was the generic Gladiators game.
I have no idea how popular American Gladiators was at the time, so I don't know which would have been the better theme from a marketing standpoint, but since they had already designed the game around LoZ they should have stayed locked in on that. Switching the theme mid-production was never going to end well.
I honestly think Zelda would have held up well, especially now as more Millennials age and enter the real earning years of their careers.
American Gladiators was all hype for like, a month. Once the novelty wore off, ratings nosedived.
Really unfair to the designers to change the theme, especially considering Gottlieb developers had a fraction of the time their colleagues at Bally/WMS had to push a game out. Here, Gottlieb management did it TWICE!
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