The Kung Fu - Printing on back of HuCard is upside down!

[SuperPlay]

I have just been flicking through my HuCard collection and I have noticed that the image on the back of "The Kung Fu" is printed upside down. Looking at the card the word HuCARD is by the edge of thumb grip. On the other Hudson cards I have checked the word "Made in Japan" sits on the point of the thumb grip the correct way up.

The Kung Fu:

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Typical Hudson Card:

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Just found it interesting that I have not noticed this before, perhaps I need to get out more ;-)

[Bernie]

lol.  Thats an interesting find.  I wonder if they are all like that, or just a select few on a certain run?

[_Paul]

Oh? Mine is the right way up.

[city41]

Wasn't The Kung Fu the very first hucard? Oh wait, no, Wonderboy was. I wonder if Wonderboy is upside down too?

[soop]

Mine is upside down too.

[blueraven]

TATSUJIN KNOWS

[herr-g]

The very first Hudson HuCards were sometimes backprinted that way.
I know it from Kung Fu, Bikkuriman World and Shanghai.
I'm unsure if it only affected the first production runs or it was a misprint.

[Joe Redifer]

Oh great.  Now we will have L00k SUPER R@R3 upside-down backside The Kung-Fu for only $10,000 plus $12.95 shipping!

[RegalSin]

It is a design decision. You hold the Hu-card up and read from the title, to the art, to the little writtings, and then continue reading. In East Asian cultures, they read from up to down.

They probrably noticed how people, was flipting the card, the wrong way. Like a VHS cassetter, or how a western reads. In Japan, and other places in the East, like Hong Kong, books and writtings for a while was printed the same way westerners printed, and wrote books. They saw people handle the cards, and realized what they were usted to. Reading the cards like VHS box. Maybe some cards that was released during this time, or common shaped items could also read this way.

The same reason for the original MarkIII plugs from right to left, once again linked to the east asian writing. However once again, they decided to go western, instead of sticking with their eastern values. The PCE, units all have one entry point because most people who brought the system was not going to be playing two players.

So all of three varibles point the, direction an East Asian person reads and write.
This could be applied to the sound phonics and tones as well.

[_Paul]

In East Asian cultures, they read from up to down.

up.
to
down
from
read
Westerners
stupid
us
While

[SuperPlay]

Oh great.  Now we will have L00k SUPER R@R3 upside-down backside The Kung-Fu for only $10,000 plus $12.95 shipping!

and I can confirm that it is 90% new ;-) LOL

[shubibiman]

The 4 first Hucard games had the same particularity. Some versions had the back upside down and some other didn't.

[Arkhan Asylum]

UPSIDE DOWNFU

[_Paul]

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[Nazi NecroPhile]

up.
to
down
from
read
Westerners
stupid
us
While

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Paul delivers the goods! 

[Tatsujin]

hahaha!!

and I yet have to check my few kung foos of how they are printed.

[RegalSin]

In East Asian cultures, they read from up to down.

up.
to
down
from
read
Westerners
stupid
us
While

People in the west reads from left to right. People in the Orient Arabic language reads right to left. Only east asain cultures, they read in
up to down, going right to left. I don't know about Russian type languages. I know somewhere, hamburgers eat people, and toilets flush counter clockwise.

[Arkhan Asylum]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WORDS READ YOU.

[fraggore]

lol just looked my Bikkuriman World and Shanghai and upside down as well good point it makes more sense for reading the warring.

[blueraven]

It's the rare "someone fucked up and put a stack backwards on the printer" edition.

[Digi.k]

I've just noticed it is also like this on my copy of BIKKURI MAN WORLD

[shubibiman]

Of course. I've already said that the first 3 PCE games had the same particularity. That includes :

The Kung Fu, Bikkuriman and Shangai.

[Amadeusama]

I seem to have a later Bikkuriman, because on my copy it's the right side up. My Kung Fu and Shanghai are "upside down" as well.
My Bikkuriman has a little hologramm sticker on the cover of the booklet; did all versions have that? Top of my head I don't remember seeing that on another game.

While on the topic of such "oddities":

I was somewhat baffled to notice the ArcadePRO Card saying "CD-ROM²" on the narrow side of the case, the inlay tab. I understand that it says that because it is for such systems, yet it seems odd to me as it is a HuCard.

I guess it says "Super CD-ROM²" with the ArcadeDUO Card ???

Kind of illogical then for it to say "HuCard" on the TenのKoe Card, isn't it?

[Nazi NecroPhile]

Kind of illogical then for it to say "HuCard" on the TenのKoe Card, isn't it?

Not really, seeing as the Tennokoe hueys work with the backup booster thingies too.

[esteban]

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Warrior China.