>Capcom director Yoshiki Okamoto commented that the game

no, they thought they'd appeal to a wider audience by using established characters from other media.
They didn't release Disney games, Willow, the superior Willow arcade game, etc. instead of Mega Man.

>>4134068

They bet wrong with Willow then. The movie was a bomb, and so was the game. They had to give away copies to new employees to get rid of them.

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>>4134087
>mfw I had Willow as a kid and I liked it.

>>4134087
>The movie was a bomb
Nope

>>4134131

>Budget $35 million[2]
>Box office $57.3 million

The studio only gets like 50% of the receipts, so it probably lost money. Willow only gained status on VHS as a cult hit.

>>4134140
Bomb means it's box office was less than it's budget. You mean it wasn't successful in theaters, not that it bombed.

>>4134087
>op has no reading comprehension
>the movie didn't bomb
>doesn't have any source of the NES game sales
>takes a simple story about how a new employee at a games company was given a game as a gift, and twists it into a strawman that somehow reflects the sales of the game.
What a silly thread.

>>4134117

how did you beat that cryptic shit as a kid?

Willow was definitely a good game and a terrible movie.

>>4134693

>そのためか、漫画家の柴田亜美がファミ通上でクソゲーの代名詞としてこのタイトルを挙げた事がある。

>Because of that, manga artist Ami Shibata has cited this title as a synonym for Kusoge on Famitsu.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ウィロー_(ゲーム)

>>4134054
Mega Man doesn't appeal to parents who are going Christmas shopping for their kids because they don't follow video games, but they all know popular childrens movies.