Talk:Super Black Bass Pocket

The HOT-B/Starfish scenario, just to clear things up
this is an informative post HOT-B went bankrupt in 1993. Its former employees quickly formed Starfish and bought back the rights to HOT-B's games from whoever owned them at the end, and continued making The Black Bass games (but now appear to do a little bit of everything). A number of unfinished HOT-B games (one arcade game, a few Genesis games listed on Hitoshi Sakimoto's works page (HOT-B hired him to do music for some later games like King Salmon on Genesis), etc.) were cancelled in the undertow. Starfish continued to use the HOT-B name for their American publishing until about 2003 (the last game appears to be the PS2 game Graffiti Kingdom; the US HOT-B site is still up and promotes that). This is also why The Steel Empire and Devilish got remakes on the GBA and DS, respectively — Starfish (or is it Starfish-SD now?) loves to revisit the old HOT-B games. - Andlabs 15:28, 28 November 2012 (EST)