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Earthpainting · Sep 11, 2015

Valjean Lafitte said:
According to Miyamoto they were called Kuribo because one of the programmers thought they looked like chestnuts. However, according to Takashi Tezuka they are mushrooms.

Sounds to me like Kuribo is a Mushroom kingdom slur to de-mushroomise certain citizens of the realm. No wonder they aligned themselves with the koopas. Those peeps seem to get along just fine, and don't partake in apartheid. Deepest lore.

Bumpers · Sep 13, 2015

It's not a fact unfortunatly, but I do not know of the best place to post this. Been playing Street Fighter EX3 recently, wouldn't recommend it to be honest. It seems to have been noticed by others on the internet (and probably in this thread), but bizzaly Mr T is in the background of the boss stage.

Playing it on an emulator for better quality, which for some reason doesn't render Nanase's skirt.

ResidentDante · Sep 14, 2015

Firehead said:
Dunno if this would belong here or not.

Am I crazy, or do these sound incredibly similar?
Super Mario Bros. 3 Water Land
and
Strange Things by Randy Newman.

They sound fairly alike at the beginning, yes.

Tizoc · Sep 14, 2015

Bumpers said:
It's not a fact unfortunatly, but I do not know of the best place to post this. Been playing Street Fighter EX3 recently, wouldn't recommend it to be honest. It seems to have been noticed by others on the internet (and probably in this thread), but bizzaly Mr T is in the background of the boss stage.

Playing it on an emulator for better quality, which for some reason doesn't render Nanase's skirt.

Holy shit I never noticed that!
I really like the EX series but that Mr. T portrait is something I never knew before, wow.

Kain · Sep 14, 2015

Bumpers said:
It's not a fact unfortunatly, but I do not know of the best place to post this. Been playing Street Fighter EX3 recently, wouldn't recommend it to be honest. It seems to have been noticed by others on the internet (and probably in this thread), but bizzaly Mr T is in the background of the boss stage.

Playing it on an emulator for better quality, which for some reason doesn't render Nanase's skirt.

What the fuck

BGBW · Sep 14, 2015

To be honest, it's more mind blowing that more games don't have Mr. T's portrait in the background.

Tizoc · Sep 14, 2015

^So true!
Can you believe that very few people even want Mr. T to voice Barret?

Kain said:
What the fuck

My guess is that it was data they forgot to remove, sorta like how Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing on Wii had a placeholder image in one of the stages which they forgot to remove.

Doofcake · Sep 14, 2015

Valhelm said:
Are there any other examples you know of fun gaming shortcuts like this?

Reload animations in first-person games are just pulling out the clip and putting the same clip back in again.
First-person animations look incredibly shit in third-person.

G-Fex · Sep 14, 2015

Tricky I Shadow said:

Wow that is stupid like Abed said.

9Gag? Really?

Kain · Sep 14, 2015

Tizoc said:
^So true!
Can you believe that very few people even want Mr. T to voice Barret?

My guess is that it was data they forgot to remove, sorta like how Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing on Wii had a placeholder image in one of the stages which they forgot to remove.

I'm more pissed off at myself because I played the shit out of the game back on its day and I hadn't find out ><

Man I hope SFV has some little things like that. I think in the London stage there was some ice powers kind of guy in a banner or something, right?

Tizoc · Sep 14, 2015

Kain said:
Man I hope SFV has some little things like that. I think in the London stage there was some ice powers kind of guy in a banner or something, right?

As is the character that can be seen in that particular banner may be a DLC character.
So far these are the remaining characters expected to be revealed
2 Newcomers- Laura (likely from Brazil) and Zen
3 returning characters- Alex, Urien and Karin

Cheerilee · Sep 14, 2015

Azure Dream said:
Or it could be where they got the English localization name from, since that is different from the original Japanese name. They could have as easily called them "Chestnots" or some awful pun to match.

"Goomba" is/was a derogatory slur for Italian-Americans, particularly ones connected to the Mafia.

That's probably what Nintendo of America was thinking, considering that Mario and Luigi are Italian-American stereotypes.

Nohar · Sep 14, 2015

DiipuSurotu said:
Auron is in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer:

Ooooh! Nice catch!

The Real Abed · Sep 14, 2015

G-Fex said:
Wow that is stupid like Abed said.

9Gag? Really?

Besides. Many Mario games have established that he and Mario live in a house. Usually the RPG series' of games but still, they have a home. I mean Mario has to have an address for Peach to send her letters to when she needs help. Which is every day.

dreamcastmaster · Sep 21, 2015

Did Sega not know about this hardcore 1970's porn movie when they made their logo?

or maybe

They did...

Emperor Bohe · Sep 21, 2015

Bumpers said:
It's not a fact unfortunatly, but I do not know of the best place to post this. Been playing Street Fighter EX3 recently, wouldn't recommend it to be honest. It seems to have been noticed by others on the internet (and probably in this thread), but bizzaly Mr T is in the background of the boss stage.

Playing it on an emulator for better quality, which for some reason doesn't render Nanase's skirt.

Wow... Did not know about this one

ugly · Sep 21, 2015

It's two ! marks put together.

Cheerilee · Sep 22, 2015

dreamcastmaster said:
Did Sega not know about this hardcore 1970's porn movie when they made their logo?

or maybe

They did...

Also Battlestar Galactica.

It's almost as if... that kind of stylized writing was a popular thing in the 1970's.

TheAngryInternet · Sep 22, 2015

What really blows my mind is that someone has a bootleg Chinese Blu-ray of Sex World.

Jaeger · Oct 3, 2015

Mike M · Oct 3, 2015

Panthers and wolves aren't bipedal, either.

Jaeger · Oct 3, 2015

Mike M said:
Panthers and wolves aren't bipedal, either.

Nor do they talk and fly spacecraft while dogfighting one another in Outer Space.

sn00zer · Oct 3, 2015

dreamcastmaster said:
Did Sega not know about this hardcore 1970's porn movie when they made their logo?

I think this is actually a popular Polish film and not a porn title....its European, not porn

Harro · Oct 10, 2015

Valjean Lafitte said:
According to Miyamoto they were called Kuribo because one of the programmers thought they looked like chestnuts. However, according to Takashi Tezuka they are mushrooms.

Yeah exact, the first idea was a mushroom.
From Miyamoto himself here:
https://youtu.be/zRGRJRUWafY?t=2m7s

7h1ag0 · Oct 10, 2015

In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

Azure Dream · Oct 10, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

I forgot about that!

Probably more like repressed it. Dealing with the Hammer Bros when you were young was already stressful as it was.

I don't think that particular quirk is in Mario Maker, is it?

DaBoss · Oct 10, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

Oh wow, did not know that at all.

Mike M · Oct 10, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

Thread delivers again. I never saw that before.

7h1ag0 · Oct 10, 2015

Azure Dream said:
I forgot about that!

Probably more like repressed it. Dealing with the Hammer Bros when you were young was already stressful as it was.

I don't think that particular quirk is in Mario Maker, is it?

Nope, they stay in place.

DiipuSurotu · Oct 10, 2015

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1122334

^ Mindblowing facts after mindblowing facts in this thread

Admiral Alliteration · Oct 11, 2015

Epyx showed it color handheld console to both Nintendo and Sega before selling it to Atari, who published it as the Atari Lynx.

From this awesome Wired article on Hiroshi Yamauch. It was written by Henk Rogers, who brought Nintendo the Tetris license, and published two years ago. Although linguistically kinda weak, it's an awesome read. Describes Rogers as the link between Yamauchi and outside parties during the the 1980s and 1990s. Somehow I feel like I had already read that first part about that Go game, but the rest was completely new to me. Like Epyx showing their handheld to Yamauchi and him rejecting it due to "price-point and battery life". Or how Rogers mediated between Nintendo and Sony during the Nintendo PlayStation chaos. And also personal tidbits about Yamauchi as a person and about his last years.

dreamcastmaster · Oct 11, 2015

sn00zer said:
I think this is actually a popular Polish film and not a porn title....its European, not porn

I own it, it's porn for sure.

LuFel · Oct 11, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

OMG!! mindblow! i didn´t know that! thx!

Version 3.0 · Oct 12, 2015

DiipuSurotu said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1122334

^ Mindblowing facts after mindblowing facts in this thread

Including a link to this thread, where the Streets of Rage / Final Fight stuff was mentioned years ago:

sixteen-bit said:
From 4 and a half years ago:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=26612101&postcount=7265

Tizoc · Oct 29, 2015

So this isn't exactly something that's mind blowing but I felt like bringing it up here
So in Super Mario 64, you damage Bowser during his boss fights by grabbing his tail and throwing him.
Could it be inspired by Goku vs. Giran from the DB manga?

MrCunningham · Oct 29, 2015

dreamcastmaster said:
Did Sega not know about this hardcore 1970's porn movie when they made their logo?

Sega logo from 1951 to 1965:

1965 - 1975:

1975 - 1982:

1982 to current:

Sega changed their font in 1975 and the movie Sex World was released in 1978. I think it may have been the other way around.

Rich! · Oct 31, 2015

The moon children have a face textured behind their masks in MM3D. This face.

Watch Da Birdie · Oct 31, 2015

Tizoc said:
So this isn't exactly something that's mind blowing but I felt like bringing it up here
So in Super Mario 64, you damage Bowser during his boss fights by grabbing his tail and throwing him.
Could it be inspired by Goku vs. Giran from the DB manga?

Goku later does it against Freeza too, although I think only in the anime...

Apparently it's based on a popular Japanese wrestling move?

Dimitri LH · Oct 31, 2015

Rich! said:
The moon children have a face textured behind their masks in MM3D. This face.

Holy shit wtf!?

bjork · Oct 31, 2015

65-75 Sega logo is the best. I love that thing.

Professor Beef · Oct 31, 2015

Dimitri LH said:
Holy shit wtf!?

Yeah, you can see it if you position the camera to clip past their masks. Way easier to do it with Majora sitting under the tree. Been that way since the 64 version too.

Rich! · Oct 31, 2015

Professor Beef said:
Yeah, you can see it if you position the camera to clip past their masks. Way easier to do it with Majora sitting under the tree. Been that way since the 64 version too.

The N64 models don't have faces though

abstract alien · Oct 31, 2015

A few weeks ago my dumb ass realized that Goomba was a play on the word "goombah". I have no idea how I went so long without catching this.

Goombah
an associate or accomplice, especially a senior member of a criminal gang.

Professor Beef · Oct 31, 2015

Rich! said:
The N64 models don't have faces though

I could've swore they did?

Rich! · Nov 1, 2015

Professor Beef said:
I could've swore they did?

According to tcrf, they don't. I haven't got the N64 ver to hand to check myself though, but I trust the site.

https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora's_Mask_3D

Moon Children's Faces

The Moon childrens' model has a very disturbing unseen feature: their faces are identical to the Happy Mask Salesman's! This is in contrast to the N64 version, in which their faces were not textured.

Emperor Bohe · Nov 1, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

oh wow

KingBroly · Nov 1, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

What!? I mean? What? How? I need to sit down

Valjean Lafitte · Nov 11, 2015

Professor Beef said:
I could've swore they did?

I could've sworn they did, too. At the very least, I'm sure the back of their heads were the same. I remember having the distinct impression that they were all child versions of the Happy Mask Salesman, so I'm not at all surprised that his face is behind the mask.

PSqueak · Nov 11, 2015

7h1ag0 said:
In SMB, the Hammer Bros will eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0woHezWBtVY

This is the game that keeps on going, reminds me of the Chomps going free in SMB3.

Harro · Nov 25, 2015

I heard that in a game, the voice actors team is named "the phantom menace" but I can't remember.
Or maybe it's only in the french version?

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