Tag: Video Games

Timing is everything. Marvel Comics had previously had some success with their pop culture magazine Pizzazz (which I look back on fondly here), so after the video game craze hit the US by storm in the late 70s and early…

Why did Disney choose to create new characters in Wreck-It-Ralph instead of using existing video game characters?

November 6, 2012

The answer is simple, and to explain it I will quote Yogurt from Spaceballs: "Merchandising! Merchandising!" If Disney used existing characters from classic video games as the protagonists, they would have to share/pay substantial licensing fees to the companies that…

Tag: Video Games

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Geek Ephemera: A look back at Marvel’s BLiP Video Game Magazine

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Why did Disney choose to create new characters in Wreck-It-Ralph instead of using existing video game characters?

November 6, 2012