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>>Rafael Fernandes: Golden Axe is an indisputable classic.

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The game produced by Sega for the arcades in 1988 made a huge success

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and was ported to a lot of consoles at the time.

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But the Mega Drive was the only video game console that decently reproduced the arcade version,

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and for this reason many people knew the game through it.

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Sega even made some sequels,

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but none of them was able to repeat the success of the original –

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that is, many of the games in the series that followed it were garbage.

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The company recently launched a remake for the PlayStation 2

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and soon after tried to do a reboot,

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in an entirely new game for the Xbox 360, but…

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Guess what, eh.

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[Spitting and fart sounds]

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But let's talk about good things:

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the first Golden Axe has a number of secrets and curiosities around the whole game,

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and it about is them that we'll speak now.

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Hold on then. Play the vignette!

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If you are a meticulous person,

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you'll realize that the whole game seems to occur in a village sponsored by Sega.

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Do you know why? Look here:

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the houses are from Sega, the bar is from Sega, even the map is from Sega, forgod'ssake.

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But beyond that, the development team also got a way to put their names in the game,

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or at least what we think is the nickname,

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because it is not possible that someone is called Doydoy, for example.

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In the ending, let's say, "epic" of the arcade version,

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where all the characters leave the arcade and invade the city,

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more names appear on the screen, including that of Uchida,

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Makoto Uchida, the director of the game.

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There's also a strange sign written Hokari Sweat, can you see?

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What's that there?

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It's actually a satire to a Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat,

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which is like a Gatorade from there, a sports drink.

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And it also seems to be very good, right?

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>>Girl: …dream. Always.

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Pocari Sweat. Go Ion!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Well, but before starting to develop this game,

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Uchida and his team known as Team Shinobi had worked

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in one of the greatest classics of the arcades and the Mega Drive: Altered Beast.

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This explains a great artistic similarity between the two games,

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both the drawings and in the sounds.

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There is also the presence in the two games of a very peculiar creature:

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known as Chicken Leg,

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this animal that was a pretty boring enemy in Altered Beast

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became one of the mount options in Golden Axe.

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And it was not even that good, eh.

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Another game developed by the same team is Alien Storm,

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that in addition to throw in the face of the people that is a title developed by the Team Shinobi,

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it also has the participation of the old Gilius Thunderhead.

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Other games of Uchida's career include Die Hard Arcade, Dynamite Cop,

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and the Altered Beast remake for the PlayStation 2, uh…

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not exactly the best moment of his career.

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A principal feature of all these games directed by Uchida

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is that they always seem to draw inspiration from some Hollywood production.

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Want to see?

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Alien Storm, for example, looks a lot like the Ghostbusters;

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Die Hard Arcade, is obviously inspired by Die Hard.

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And in the case of Altered Beast? Look!

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Amazingly, he took inspiration from Michael Jackson!

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That famous short film Thriller (I spat here),

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that video where the singer turns into a werewolf,

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made Uchida think about how to make a game

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that could portray these metamorphoses using graphic animation.

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The director also took inspiration from a film called The Howling,

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but it is much cooler to talk about Michael Jackson!

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>>Michael Jackson: OWW!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Golden Axe, obviously,

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took references from the film Conan the Barbarian, from 1982,

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starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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The similarities do not end there,

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Golden Axe still took a lot from Hollywood… Look!

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And the most interesting curiosity of Golden Axe

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is about a controversy that has drawn attention in the recent months:

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in one of those curiosities pages that kind of turned into a plague on Facebook,

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has the following information.

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I'll ask first to remove the children and sensitive people of the room,

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because the following text is very strong.

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"All the voices of Golden Axe were made by American prisoners on the death row."

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>>Carlos Massa: STOP! STOP! STOP! STOP!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Wait, is this true?

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Do the voices really are from innocent and poor prisoners

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about to go through the worst pain of their lives?

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Is Golden Axe a narrative metaphor

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protesting against the American prison system?

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>>Luiz Carlos Alborghetti: NO! NO!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Of course not!

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And go figure why someone would invent an absurd like that.

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Stop to think:

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imagine the guy about to be executed,

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and some Japanese with a microphone on the side

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ready to record the last gasp of the condemned?

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C'mon.

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The truth is that the voices of Golden Axe were not recorded on the death row and not in the studios of Sega:

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the screams were taken from the film Rambo.

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That's right, the first Rambo.

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Look at this scene in the film.

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And in the game…

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Don't you get it? Le-Let's see it again then.

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>>Heninger: Oh, God!

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>>Shingleton: Uh?

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>>Mitch: Oh, God!

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Oh…

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>>Rafael Fernandes: Before you think that is just a case of coincidence,

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or that the Sega sound engineer only

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used the same voices database of the sound technician of Rambo,

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pay close attention.

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There is a helicopter sound in the background of the guy scream, right?

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Now, listen carefully to the same scream in the game

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and notice that it's possible to hear the sound of the helicopter here too.

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[Amplified audio]

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And it not stopped there.

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The direct sequence of Golden Axe, released only in arcades in 1992,

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copied the sound effects from the film Conan itself, take a look.

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Now, after this story of prisoners, let's stop to think:

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why and for what they invented a nonsense like these, huh?

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Go figure.

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That's why it is not good to believe in everything we see on the Web.

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But one thing is certain:

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if the screams are from prisoners or not, it does not matter.

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Golden Axe is still a classic,

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impossible to get bored with it, and still arouses a lot of nostalgia.

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It's a shame that Sega spat, stepped and rolled over the series,

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and now it worth less than a piece of dung.

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The way then is to remember the old days.