Talk:No One Can Stop the Matiz (series)/@comment-37616906-20190319203353/@comment-26158330-20190903210133

I didn't know that the Matiz wasn't sold in Japan, but I know that the fact that a 1998 car is in a 1989 game doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I believe a VW would be pretty cool. But I actually had a personal reason for choosing the Matiz: I've grown attached to it.

That sounds really weird, but my mom owned a Matiz for about 18 years before replacing it. Thus, I somehow felt sad when she had to sell it. But I think it has to do with its front profile. When you see it from the front, it almost looks like it's a happy car, so much so that you could probably replace the head lights with some cartoony eyes and it wouldn't look that weird. Other cars could look kind of dead as characters, and seem more like cars that are just being driven by people instead of an actual character, since the Matiz kind of looks like a cartoony face when viewed from the front. With the Matiz, I could also modify its headlights to make whatever emotion I wanted out of it... well, more like 4 emotions (happy, sad, angry, dissapointed, I think you can imagine how those would look like) since I wanted I didn't want to change the bumper for more emotions because it just looked weird. And I thought it was actually a pretty cute car, and its quirks, like its huge trunk but tiny passenger space actually made it more charming. Ok, that does sound really weird. But basically, I grew attached to the Matiz and because I thought it was a cute car, I decided that is should be the main character, and not take into consideration the date (1989) and place (Japan) of the game. But I agree that finding another car is a better solution. As for the NES... I thought it was discontinued in August of 1995 in North America? It says so on Wikipedia, correct me If I'm wrong. I don't know about PAL regions, they might have discontinued the NES in 1994 there. And in Japan, it actually says it's been discontinued in 2003!