Monster Rancher

Was that

called something else in Japan and Monster Rancher is just like an American guess at a name? I feel like it's a direct translation.

Otherwise, why would it be called that? I don't know.

I mean, I just found out that Street Fighter Alpha is called Street Fighter Zero in Japan.

And...

Then on GBA, got a really interesting collection of Kuririn Paradise, Metal Slug Advance, and Monster Rancher Advance.

So, all really, really interesting games.

What's funny to me is that the weirdest pick out of all of those is actually Monster Rancher.

Yeah.

That's just the most left-field choice.

too.

Same thing in Monster Rancher where you had to

watch them do

all the activities and stuff like that.

You could fast forward the activities you don't have to do.

Is Monster Rancher a Bandai game or Konami or something?

Maybe Bandai.

I think it's the one that starts with a T. I'll find

Or if you read the title of the episode, assuming I'm sticking with the one I thought of earlier.

Then for the Game Boy Advance, we have Monster Rancher Advance.

It's a Monster Rancher game on GBA.

The main difference is that Monster is generated with in-game codes instead of putting discs into your console due to the GBA being smaller than most discs and not supporting the ability to read them.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's Monster Rancher, but if the monsters were crazy girls...

All right.

Yeah.

No, I love Monster Rancher, so it's got a really definite appeal for me.

And the characters are all pretty much bonkers.

I'm here for bonkers characters.

Early anime capture shows.

You talk about, like, Monster Rancher.

I don't know, because I think Monster Rancher had a bit of motion to it.

And dare I say, like, there was a card one.

Oh, was it called? It wasn't called Duel Monsters.

Here's a weird subgenre.

Remember the Monster Rancher games? They were on PS1 and 2.

I loved the first two.

Shit, they even had an anime that went on for a couple of seasons.

Yes.

You should be writing for Gameran.

I just want to listen to that guy talk about Monster Rancher games.

Yeah.

A handful of new GBA games have hit the NSO expansion pack last week on Wednesday, October 14th.

The games are Metal Slug Advance, Kururin Paradise, and Monster Rancher Advance.

First update to the GBA library since July.

Yeah, so apparently this Kuririn game is a Japan-only sequel to the other one.

Right.

Yeah, you

know, Monster Farm Advance, it's like, or Monster, or whatever the hell the English one is, Monster Rancher Advance.

It's like, okay, that's a thing.

Worth a shot if you want just sort of a fun, mindless little thing.

I always wanted to try Monster Rancher, so I gave that a boot up, but I didn't put too much time into it.

I

don't understand that in advance.

Yeah, because you can't do the

disc.

Yeah, that's what I thought was the whole point of Monster Rancher is you pop in your music CDs.

Oh my God, I forgot about that.