Rev Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Ever wonder where the idea for Spina the Bee came from? I think I have discovered it. Check out my investigation here: http://intellivisionrevolution.com/entries/intellivision-history/intellivision-s-spina-the-bee-origin-possibly-discovered 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Ever wonder where the idea for Spina the Bee came from? I think I have discovered it. Check out my investigation here: http://intellivisionrevolution.com/entries/intellivision-history/intellivision-s-spina-the-bee-origin-possibly-discovered Hey! I remember "La Abeja Maya" in Spanish, when I was a kid! Thanks for the memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutlawTorn71 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I had no idea... even though it seems it was a Nice Idea Awesome stuff Rev !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utopia Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Brilliant work Rev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) Ahhh, Childhood memories. "Die Biene Maja" in german. Actually a japanese anime ("Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken") made after the books of a german author Waldemar Bonsels. I see, you already have it all on your page rev. Edited December 24, 2012 by Intymike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalpel Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 It was "Maya l'abeille" in French Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 So, the only real mystery is where 'spina' came from. What do you guys think of the gMeplay video of the atari 8 bit game? You think that spina the bee is in fact maya? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 I think Spina the Bee is Maya, but why did they call it Spina? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 It´s just a bee. I can´t see anything related to Maja (Maya). Happy holidays anyone. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 It´s just a bee. I can´t see anything related to Maja (Maya). Happy holidays anyone. :-) Well, the Blue Sky Rangers description says that it is based on a popular European cartoon. Do you know any other popular European cartoon depicting a bee? -dZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 But there is no cartoon named Spina. Why should they rename Spina to ZZZZZZZZZ when it doesn´t exist? And it doesn´t looks like Maja. Maybe it was a misunderstanding by the Blue Sky Rangers Intellipedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Maybe it was the Buzz Bomber Bee. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 In my article i put 'possibly' because it really is cirmumstantial evidence. But remember mike, there is no other bee character i could find. Spina searches bring up NOTHING. There is no or ever was anything called spina except the intv game. Also what about the biene maja atari 8 bit computer game with almost identical gameplay and graphic style. Of course it looks a little better, but it looks to be basicly the same game. You can not easily dismiss it so easily can you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 But there is no cartoon named Spina. Why should they rename Spina to ZZZZZZZZZ when it doesn´t exist? And it doesn´t looks like Maja. Maybe it was a misunderstanding by the Blue Sky Rangers Intellipedia. Code names is video gamesvery normal. I think gamecube was codenamed dolphin. Maybe zzzzzzz and spina was a code name until they aquired the license. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 But there is no cartoon named Spina. Why should they rename Spina to ZZZZZZZZZ when it doesn´t exist? And it doesn´t looks like Maja. Maybe it was a misunderstanding by the Blue Sky Rangers Intellipedia. Maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vprette Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Maya the bee was extremely famous in Italy togheter with Ufo Robot Grendizer.... it is still sold in paper shop in dvd now (!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blidu Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Sorry to dig up such an old topic, but while doing my research on Spina the Bee, I came across this interview with French programmer Patrick Aubry, co-founder of Nice Ideas: http://www.gamotek.fr/collectionneurs/patrick-aubry/ He confirms that Spina the Bee, programmed by Monique Simonot, was inspired by Maya l'Abeille, very popular in France at the time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 4 hours ago, blidu said: Sorry to dig up such an old topic, but while doing my research on Spina the Bee, I came across this interview with French programmer Patrick Aubry, co-founder of Nice Ideas: http://www.gamotek.fr/collectionneurs/patrick-aubry/ He confirms that Spina the Bee, programmed by Monique Simonot, was inspired by Maya l'Abeille, very popular in France at the time. Well, that settles it. I'm not surprised, that was my assumption as well. Maya l'Abeille may not have been well known in the USA, but at least in Latin America, we knew her as "La Abeja Maya" ("Maya The Bee"). Thanks for posting it. -dZ. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenetixJ Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Just a quick read through the comments, but the genus name Apis and Spina have the same letters except the n... just an observation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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