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    Default Undead Line -or- Undeadline: name question

    Is it one word or two?

    http://gametz.com/?S=10161153&A=Foru...pic=142629#new

    My two favored guesses are that

    a.) The artist made a mistake, or
    b.) The words are close together to make the design (with the dagger handle separating the words) "work"

    Keep in mind that native English speakers (such as Nomeaz1, the fellow who sold me my copy) tend to change the title to two words out of habit, and other companies have been known to release English material with spaces dropped (see my SNK example in the link above).

    I'd like to get some feedback on this! All opinions are welcomed!

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    It's "Undead Line". The dagger is a space. It's a damned good game too.
    scooterb: "I once shot a man in Catan, just to watch him die."

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    That's what I've always figured, but the d00d over at GameTZ insists it's been called Undeadline (one word) in "MSX circles" since the early 1990s (game came out in '89).

    Jesus on a stick. I wish T&E Soft knew how to add proper spacing to words, or their artist did. Since that obviously isn't the case, I'd like to see a listing somewhere of theirs that has the game title written down in English. I've agreed that I shouldn't try to get the name changed to Undead Line (two words) because it might be intended to be read the way it looks (barring the dagger separating the words as I noted in that thread).


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    1. Why does it REALLY matter?

    2. Since when is Gametz EVER a good source of information of ANY kind?

    3. There are MSX circles? They must be VERY small ones.....

    4. lol @ Jesus on a stick. Good way to boil down all of christianity into 4 words!
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    Quote Originally Posted by maxlords
    1. Why does it REALLY matter? :)
    'cuz this batshitness is driving me crazy. It looks awful in my listing! That said, I agreed that if it was intended to be written as one word that I wouldn't press the issue...it's been quite an informative little battle, really.

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    Yeah, I don't really care about this so much, but I was hoping somebody had some words of wisdom on the matter

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    Okay, I finally have gotten this resolved. A fellow over at their Name Tribunal noted that there actually is a difference in the amount of spacing between the letters "D" and "L", thus...

    VICTOLY!

    Anyhow, seems this topic killed off the Import-Mania! forum for a day. What gives? In any case, I'm giving it back now :D

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