The convention I’ve seen is that Roman numerals denote the English titles, and Arabic numerals denote the Japanese titles. So the game with Cecil is either FFII or FF4. And to get anywhere in FF2, you pretty much need to use an emulator and hack your save states.
I’ve always encountered the opposite system.
And, of course, the e/j appendage is a safety net. （Usually.)
(Zombifying, but I think the mods will agree that any other action would’ve been less ideal.)
How about ANSWERS here? Like what were those &$#^@% four words???
Wow, I posted this a month ago and no one knows the answer?
Well… no. If we knew we’d post the answer.
This is back? Cool.
That much desperation? Eek.
Guess it can’t be helped. Answers…
A4) “Heihachi Mishima [dramatic pause] is dead.” - Raven
Pretty hard to miss, too, as it was displayed very prominently on both the original Tekken 5’s attract sequence and the website.
The Tekken faithful were apoplectic about this. Apoplectic. Debates raged for months. How would this affect about 10 storylines? The whole purpose for the tournament? Who’d be the new main guy…did Jin Kazama really have the gumption for this? Then came the denials…no, he can’t be dead, Namco would never off a franchise player like Mishima, he’s not gone, he can’t be. Then the counterdenails. Outrage. Fury. Battle lines drawn. There wasn’t this much heat over Steve Fox’s origin.
Ultimately, the last time-release character was revealed to be…Heihachi Mishima.
And it started all over again. 
A6) It’s a powerful, sacred book which had imprisoned all the monsters you’ve been fighting the whole game. All you need to do is hit it with your wand, and all the monsters will be trapped in it again (which of course wins the game).
A7) Lethal Enforcers. The bystanders always shout a warning (“Help Me!” “Don’t shoot!” “Don’t shoot, they’re crazy!” “No!”); don’t shoot them. The criminals often, but not always, spew out some invective (“Eat lead, copper!” “You missed me, pig!” “You can’t kill me, copper!”); shoot them. The ones that throw grenades or knives never say anything; get them and the grenade/knife. The jerk who laughs and laughs, of course, is the gunner inside the helicopter at the end of stage 4, whom you cannot kill. Stop shooting him and shoot the helicopter!
A8) Zankuro Minazuki in Samurai Shodown 3. Every so often, when a round went the distance and he had less health, he’d say this, and this would give him the win. This was one of those super ultra-awesome cool neato radical ideas that, once it was actually used, turned out to be an absolute abomination (cf. groove point scoring), and not surprisingly was never entertained again.
A9) Run over by a motorcycle, the only one of these Crime Fighters calamities that does any damage. Everything else only disarms you.
A12) The answer I was looking for was “one”, inasmuch as it’s not a quantity of marbles you get in Marble Madness, but the same marble that respawns every time it falls into oblivion or gets eaten by a Marble Muncher or whatever. It’s unbelievable how often this came up during the game’s arcade run…like, was the clock THAT hard to see??
A14) Operation Wolf, the helicopter in question being a massive multiple guns- and missiles-firing juggernaut…a Blackbird or something similar, I believe. The NES version has this same helicopter but no alarm.
A15) Apple, the first food/object in Super Pac-Man.
A16) Pac-Mania. I only brought it up because I thought it weird that the message you got for when the game didn’t continue was the same as the message you got when it did.
A17) Ironman Ivan Stewart’s Super-Off Road, and the later companion game Trak Pak, with the numbers indiciating the order the courses show up. The only person who can truly dominate with nobody joining in, of course, is Ivan Stewart himself, because it’s guaranteed that either he or his in-game vehicle (the gray one) will win nearly every race. I say “nearly” because after a very long time one of the other trucks becomes the one to beat.
A18) Glass Joe. The only way any of them becomes champion is by beating you after you win it. Furthermore, after you win the championship, everyone you face is either “Top Ranked” (Punch-Out) or “Challenger” (Super Punch-Out)…and much, much harder to beat than before. For Punch-Out, Glass Joe is always the first defense, hence, he has the best crack at the title, and very often did win it. Bear Hugger had the same position in Super Punch-Out, but unfortunately Super Macho Man was MUCH harder than Mr. Sandman, so his chances weren’t as good. And the odd man out was Kid Quick, the only one of the nine who never got a crack at you as champ.
A19) Blubber Man and Blues Hablam (who look exactly the same except BH wears a mask). They’re rumored to be the same person, according to the instructions. Both deny it of course, but the fact remains that they’ve never been seen together (again, according to the insctructions). They are palette swaps, just like Big Bombarder and Gochack Bigbomb. However, it’s possible, and incredibly easy, in fact, to have them in the same place at the same time…just have them as opponents in the same match. But since it’s possible for both sides to pick the same person, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re different; they could be doing that, the same as if both players chose BM or BH. Of course, since 3 Count Bout never had a sequel or spinoff, who can tell.
Dang, these really are too hard. That Ghosts 'n Goblins one was the only one that anyone got even almost right so far. I’ll dial it down a bit in the future.
I’ll leave A1 open for now (hint: it’s a racing game). As for A13, I’ll simply give the answer…Cao Cao…and leave it to you to find out what game this is and what the heck I was talking about. (Hint: Three Kingdoms period video game butchery was around long before Dynasty Warriors.)