Night_Trekker
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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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Son of Godzilla
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Aww, c'mon. This started off as a terrible topic, it wasn't until the intervention of some others that it was redeemed.Slavik81 said:
Panajev2001a
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Metalmurphy said:
WHAT ?... ok... you know... you might have some insane standards... but not even being in the JRDF...
you mean to tell me the woman in the picture is not attractive ?????!!!!!!?????
... sigh...
Son of Godzilla said:
Famitsu is the same way. If they think a game will be a hit, they will give it a better score than they would if they thought the game wouldn't sell that many copies.
Also, Game Informer (2 words, just pointing that out). Also, they were so worng with that because the game was great. It should have been at least a 8. They were also in the minority since the game has a 87.9% average on Game Rankings and 87 on Metacritic.
A Black Falcon
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MikeB said:
Duke Nukem 1 and 2 are great games anyway, though. And they don't PLAY anything like Turrican, they just copied some of its graphics...
Here is something I was blown away by:
Apple god Steve Jobs used to work for Atari and was asked to design the chipset for the hit game Breakout. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak who made the game so efficient that Atari's engineers couldn't understand it well enough to use in the final build. However Bushnell (Atari's founder) was so impressed he gave Jobs a $5000 bonus which jobs kept secret from Woz. Millions of dollars later this information helped to create a rift between the two.
One can safely assume some of this atari money went into the young Apple computers...
Also the founder of Atari also created Chuk E. Cheese. He is currently broke BTW.
Steve Urkell did Sonic's voice in one cartoon series. Jaleel white that is.
Ummm.... I wish I knew some better ones...
Apple god Steve Jobs used to work for Atari and was asked to design the chipset for the hit game Breakout. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak who made the game so efficient that Atari's engineers couldn't understand it well enough to use in the final build. However Bushnell (Atari's founder) was so impressed he gave Jobs a $5000 bonus which jobs kept secret from Woz. Millions of dollars later this information helped to create a rift between the two.
One can safely assume some of this atari money went into the young Apple computers...
Also the founder of Atari also created Chuk E. Cheese. He is currently broke BTW.
Steve Urkell did Sonic's voice in one cartoon series. Jaleel white that is.
Ummm.... I wish I knew some better ones...
A Black Falcon said:
Duke Nukem 1 & 2 wasn't really anything special for me, so many older Amiga games including of course Turrican were IMO far more impressive (and creative). This quick ripp off may have been something new for MSDOS fans, as before this in comparison PCs were rather incompetent for games technically.
Zerodoppler
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xir said:
This is what I've always seen in this picture. I can kind of get a dragon out of the pixels to the right now that it has been pointed out, but all I can see on the left side is single-tooth mohawk guy.
KittenMaster
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I can't claim it's a perfect similarity, but I was reminded none of the less. I will probably offend a few GAFers with this post.
CreatureX3
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Staccat0 said:
Some corrections.
It's Chuck E. Cheese. The guys name is Nolan Bushnell, and he is NOT broke. Just in 2006 he started an interactive entertainment restaurant called uWink Media Bistro. Customers can order food and drinks via screens from their tables. They can also enjoy games, movie trailers and short videos from their tables. The first opened in Woodland Hills, California.
Your info on the Breakout situation is off too. The incident is desbribed in Steven Kent's book "The Ultimate History of Video Games", but I will summarize:
Atari wanted to release Breakout, and wanted to keep costs as cheap as possible. The company saved about $100K for every chip removed before production of the game began. They wanted their engineers to reduce the number of chips but nobody wanted to volunteer. Steve Jobs agreed to do it (this was also around the time that he and Wozniak were developing the Apple II) and got Woz to do it for him (Jobs never actually designed anything at Atari). The average arcade game from Atari at the time had 75 chips, and Woz was able to get it down to about 20 or 30. The problem was that nobody else could reproduce that design and eventually Al Alcorn (head of Atari's R&D) had to get another engineer to do the job. Bushnell and Alcorn disagree on the exact amount that they paid Jobs for it. Bushnell says he offered $100 per chip and gave Jobs a $5,000 bonus since Woz had removed 50 chips. Alcorn says that they offered $1,000 for every chip under 50 he got, and since Woz got it to 20 that meant Jobs got a $30,000 bonus.
Here is where your info is wrong though, Jobs DID tell Woz about the bonus; he just lied about how much it was. Jobs said it was $500, and he would give Woz half. Woz would later find out the truth while on a airplane years later while reading a biography on Jobs (and got confirmation when he talked to Bushnell). You are right in that it caused a rift when Wozniak found out since he didn't think Jobs would ever do something like that to his friend.
PetriP-TNT
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Two of the most widely known custom maps in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Supply Depot 2 and Braundorf_b4 include some nice pictures used as walltextures.
ShinOkazaki
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My mind!Ezduo said:The bushes in Super Mario Bros. were just recolored clouds.
Ekans backwards is snake.
Girafarig backwards is girafarig.
I can't stand it!
test_account
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Ezduo said:The bushes in Super Mario Bros. were just recolored clouds.
Thats pretty crazy hehe. After playing Super Mario Bros for almost 20 years (i actually played it alittle yesterday) i have never noticed or thought about that
AKingNamedPaul
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:lolPantherLotus said:
also oh snap @ mario bushclouds
KittenMaster
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Because the clouds have buttocks and the bushes don't.Parl said:
Nuclear Muffin
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The Banjo Tooie Penis rock (After using Mumbo's "Enlarge" magic :lol)
Pacman in Bioshock
Pacman on Jade's belt
Pacman in Bioshock
Pacman on Jade's belt
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
So, I just read this thread, and that Mario screen is bothering me.
Why does the coin counter have 3 digits?
Why does the coin counter have 3 digits?
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
This is not the case for any version of Super Mario Bros I've ever played.TJ Spyke said:
Well, i don't know if it was "normal", or if i dreamt it. Maybe some of you has seen it also :
In FFVI, in the last battle against Kefka, i had a "bug" after a magic of him, that made my console finally freezed. But the most troubling in it is that before that, sprite were randomly replaced, and Tina became the late general Leo, using his action set and all...
I wanted to exorcised the game at that time. But "pic or it didn't happen" i guess...
It was back in 96, in my grandma's house, in bretagne, right in front of a cemetery !!
In FFVI, in the last battle against Kefka, i had a "bug" after a magic of him, that made my console finally freezed. But the most troubling in it is that before that, sprite were randomly replaced, and Tina became the late general Leo, using his action set and all...
I wanted to exorcised the game at that time. But "pic or it didn't happen" i guess...
It was back in 96, in my grandma's house, in bretagne, right in front of a cemetery !!
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Ah, that would seem to be the case.Trakdown said:
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itsinmyveins
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Jag22 said:
I'm kind of sure that a lot of games containing real brand name products had to pay for it, actually.
Either way; WTF, green clouds :O
