{"id":65728,"date":"2020-09-01T01:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/baseball-stars-2-taiwan-censored\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T01:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:50:23","slug":"classic-neo-geo-game-port-removes-references-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/classic-neo-geo-game-port-removes-references-to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Neo Geo Game Port Removes References to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video game localizations and updates usually come with a few quirks, but a recent\u00a0change to the port of\u00a0Baseball Stars 2,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>a classic Neo Geo<\/a> game released 28 years ago, has fans concerned about possible Chinese censorship making its way to SNK’s games after SNK was purchased by the Hong Kong-based company Leyou in 2015.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Baseball Stars 2\u00a0<\/em>port, created by Hamster Corporation, originally launched in March 2019, but scrubbed all references to Taiwan and Taipei in a recent update, as noticed by fans of the game on Reddit. Specifically, the update has removed “Taiwan” from the name of the “Taiwan Dragons,” and “Taipei” from the “Taipei Hawks,” both being teams found in the game. Apparently, Baseball Stars 2<\/em> isn’t alone in its censorship either.<\/p>\n

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On Twitter, players have discovered other SNK games<\/a> apparently being censored, including\u00a0Art of Fighting 2\u00a0<\/em>which appears to have had the Rising Sun flag removed from it. The Rising Sun flag represents Imperialist Japan, which is considered offensive in many parts of Asia. However, the scrubbing of Taiwan and Taipei directly ties into the political drama between the island nation and China.<\/p>\n