- Returning once more to 1UP, there's a fun new feature called 'Total Makeover: Same Game, Different Name' which explores "...drastically changing a game and giving it a complete makeover" in the name of... well sales, persumably?

Author Kurt Kalata explains helpfully: "Perhaps a publisher thinks a title will sell more if it's associated with popular cartoon or movie characters. Sometimes, companies want to create a brand-name association by tying a game in with a well-known franchise. Maybe the game is too culturally alienating and needs to be made less "foreign."

Wow, the piece itself is a gigantic 11 pages long, and I definitely learnt some stuff - for example, that Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage is actually Elevator Action EX for the Game Boy Color: "The original Japanese version...featured three different playable characters. These were changed into three different versions of Dexter, each wearing different outfits. All of the bad guys were changed into robots, and the story scenes were altered to include Dexter's archnemesis, Mandark." Also, Dragon's Lair: The Legend was a conversion of Rollercoaster? Blimey!