Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70) - Page 40

Segata Sanshiro · (02-06-2009, 05:17 PM)

Originally Posted by Ermc_G6:

My roommate swears that the little logo on the skateboard of TMNT for NES is a watchmen reference. I guess he could be right because both came out around the same time.

Think he might be right?

Given that the Turtles were loaded with homages to comics Eastman and Laird liked (in particular Frank Miller's Daredevil), this one seems pretty likely. Good catch on your roommate's part.

PantherLotus · (02-06-2009, 05:17 PM)

Mario donkey-punching Yoshi made me giggle.

Totobeni · (02-06-2009, 05:50 PM)

every member of Matsuda family involved with video games ( that have swords in it)

Father : Yusaku Matsuda was Yagyu Jubei in Onimusha 2

Son# 1 : Ryuhei Matsuda did a PR ad for Red Steel

Son# 2 : Shouta Matsuda played the role of Sasaki Kojiro in RGG Kenzan

DavidDayton · (02-06-2009, 11:56 PM)

Originally Posted by KevinCow:

It's not really that interesting. It's just the easiest way to do it in either way. Creating one set of sprites and flipping it when he's facing the other way is easier than creating two sets of sprites, and creating one animation to play regardless of which way he's facing is easier than creating multiple animations depending on how the camera's looking at him.

Sigh.

I am fully aware of that.

It is interesting because the default appearance of Mario (as he starts the game running left to right and spends MOST of the game from that perspective) in the 2D Mario games is opposite the "official" version of what Mario does.

Unlike Link, who has a default left handed sprite. Different angles, I know.

Regulus Tera · (02-07-2009, 12:03 AM)

Originally Posted by joetachi:

I dont think this ones here but i found out just a few days ago.Butterfree looks more like the evolution of Venonat than Venomoth. Look at the eyes,nose,teeth,hands and antenna.

This blew my mind for once.

Guybrush Threepwood · (02-07-2009, 06:17 AM)

Originally Posted by McBacon:

Yeah, sorry, its blue

No.

You guys can't claim that the real name of Sega's 16-bit console is the Mega Drive AND that the Dreamcast logo is blue.

It's one or the other.

Hwang Seong-Gyeong · (02-07-2009, 06:31 AM)

I noticed this myself, but the 8 bit rickroll is extremely similiar to Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger

8 bit Rickroll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oooeJlZjVJ4

Robo theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWf_T0jdgQ

Not sure if your minds are blown

TheCardPlayer · (02-07-2009, 06:32 AM)

Just the rickroll is a exactly like Robo's theme. Someone even mixed them together and it fits.

Lateraleye · (02-07-2009, 06:36 AM)

I really wish there was a "search within thread" function, but in case it wasn't mentioned earlier, I saw some awesome stuff in the credits of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations tonight.

Noriyuki Iwadare (LUNAR, Grandia, Growlanser) as composer, Shinji Mikami (needs no introduction) as executive producer, and Ben Judd (Bionic Commando rejuvenator) as the voice of Phoenix. That was three separate out loud "holy shit" moments.

B.K. · (02-07-2009, 06:37 AM)

Originally Posted by Lateraleye:

I really wish there was a "search within thread" function

What do you think the "Search this Thread" button beside Thread Tools is for?

Cohsae · (02-07-2009, 06:39 AM)

Originally Posted by B.K.:

What do you think the "Search this Thread" button beside Thread Tools is for?

That fact just blew my mind.
Not really

Lateraleye · (02-07-2009, 06:40 AM)

Originally Posted by B.K.:

What do you think the "Search this Thread" button beside Thread Tools is for?

Mind = blown. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Darkpen · (02-07-2009, 07:08 AM)

Originally Posted by Chao:

Well, something that I learned yesterday on GAF:

Dreamcast logo wasn't RED, it was ORANGE.

I've been living in a lie all these years.

...you thought it was red? I always had the impression it was orange D:

fisheyes · (02-08-2009, 04:23 AM)

Originally Posted by joetachi:

I dont think this ones here but i found out just a few days ago.Butterfree looks more like the evolution of Venonat than Venomoth. Look at the eyes,nose,teeth,hands and antenna.

The Pokemon evolution lines are pretty fucked up. Wouldn't Venomoth, who is a moth, be a better counterpart for Butterfree, who is a butterfly, than Beedrill, who is a bee, anyway? Plus then it having a cocoon stage would actually make a little sense.

webrunner · (02-08-2009, 04:32 AM)

Originally Posted by joetachi:

I dont think this ones here but i found out just a few days ago.Butterfree looks more like the evolution of Venonat than Venomoth. Look at the eyes,nose,teeth,hands and antenna.

There's another picture I saw, which also compares the opposite.. compare Metapod and Venomoth, and they also have similarities, like someone switched Venomoth and Butterfree after the designs were made. Both have a three-pointed head and big round eyes:

Drkirby · (02-11-2009, 04:14 AM)

Sqorgar · (02-11-2009, 04:33 AM)

Originally Posted by Totobeni:

Conker bad Fur Day was the first game that put the character on the side of the screen when you use the gun , this copied by Resident Evil 4 , Gears , Uncharted and tons of other 3rd person games , the game invented that position and it was a Platform game ...irony ?

Are you sure? I could've sworn that WinBack and Jet Force Gemini had that sort of camera well before Conker ever came out... I'm not positive about WinBack N64, but I did play the Japanese PS2 remake before Conker came out. Not only did it have over the shoulder aiming, it also had laser sighting for aiming and a heavy reliance on cover. So similar are their mechanics that RE4 is practically a sequel. Too bad WinBack 2 was total crap.

zombieshavebrains · (02-11-2009, 04:37 AM)

Originally Posted by Drkirby:

Wow those almost look like Sqenix did that on purp....oh wait.

radiantdreamer · (02-11-2009, 05:49 AM)

Damn! Now I must buy BOTH games so the picture is complete!!!

pakkit · (02-11-2009, 05:54 AM)

The Dreamcast logo was RED in Japan, ORANGE in the US, and BLUE in UK/Europe.

SkySonata · (02-11-2009, 05:59 AM)

Now I can never listen to Robo's theme the same ever again.

jamesinclair · (02-11-2009, 06:02 AM)

Originally Posted by B.K.:

What do you think the "Search this Thread" button beside Thread Tools is for?

Mind blown

B.K. · (02-11-2009, 06:05 AM)

Originally Posted by Drkirby:

I noticed that at Gamestop a few weeks ago when they had the games sitting side by side. I thought it was pretty clever of Square Enix. I thought having one rune thing for Star Ocean 1 and two for Star Ocean 2 was a nice touch.

Fuzyfrog · (02-13-2009, 02:33 AM)

If you load the Saturn version of Quake and then replace the CD with Korn Issues the music and game sync up very well.

Firestorm · (02-22-2009, 11:14 PM)

Originally Posted by radiantdreamer:

Damn! Now I must buy BOTH games so the picture is complete!!!

dammit me too. already have FD now need SE.

Sixfortyfive · (02-22-2009, 11:29 PM)

A bored AM2 programmer put Sonic & Tails into Fighting Vipers (arcade only), but locked away and not selectable via normal means. This led to the creation of Sonic the Fighters. Then, he turned Honey into a cat and put her in Sonic the Fighters (arcade only).

Said programmer is also a secret character in Fighting Vipers himself, but his data appears to be incomplete and selecting him crashes the game. His alternate 2P model is (supposedly) Yuji Naka.

dreamcastmaster · (02-23-2009, 04:53 AM)

Wow if true that's amazing.

AzureJericho · (02-23-2009, 05:02 AM)

My apologies if this has been posted earlier, but on the front cover of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of The New World, the blade on the sword that the character Emil uses is inverted from the actual in game model. This also holds true when you watch the animated intro and note the way that Emil holds and uses it. I gotta admit, that really caught me off guard once I "saw" it.

ronito · (02-26-2009, 06:22 AM)

two things I just noticed about Persona 4 that I felt really dumb that I've missed for the first few hours.

When you do the attack when the enemies are knocked down if you kill them the clouds form a skull for a few seconds.

second the item you use to transport out of dungeons, Goho-M it took me a few minutes before I saw it, "Go home"

mr_square · (03-06-2009, 01:19 PM)

Tails

real name: Miles Prower

Miles Prower
Miles Per Hour

a friend pointed this out yesterday. Mind: blown.

Syringe · (03-06-2009, 01:37 PM)

Originally Posted by Chao:

Well, something that I learned yesterday on GAF:

Dreamcast logo wasn't RED, it was ORANGE.

I've been living in a lie all these years.

Sweet lord, that's the best looking t-shirt I've ever seen. Do you by any chance know where I can get one? I'm gonna order 100 and never wear anything else again!

atomico · 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by mr_square:

Tails

real name: Miles Prower

Miles Prower
Miles Per Hour

holy shit

Originally Posted by McBacon:

Yeah, sorry, its blue

wat?

Diablohead · (03-06-2009, 01:52 PM)

It's great to see people still learning about Tails' name

eXistor · (03-06-2009, 01:52 PM)

Originally Posted by ronito:

two things I just noticed about Persona 4 that I felt really dumb that I've missed for the first few hours.

When you do the attack when the enemies are knocked down if you kill them the clouds form a skull for a few seconds.

second the item you use to transport out of dungeons, Goho-M it took me a few minutes before I saw it, "Go home"

I noticed the skull the first time I did it, but I never got the "go home" one. Thank you for filling this void in my life.

Haunted · 02:12 PM

I didn't know about those Star Ocean PSP covers, neat.

Originally Posted by mr_square:

Tails

real name: Miles Prower

Miles Prower
Miles Per Hour

a friend pointed this out yesterday. Mind: blown.

So now this thread has come full circle. Was already posted, complete with 10 people freaking out and everything. :p

Blue DC logo represent!

Originally Posted by atomico:

wat?

DC logo colour was changed from orange to blue for Europe because there was a DVD/game publishing company that had a similar swirly logo already:

XxSlasherMcGirkxX · (03-06-2009, 08:32 PM)

Originally Posted by Lateraleye:

I really wish there was a "search within thread" function, but in case it wasn't mentioned earlier, I saw some awesome stuff in the credits of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations tonight.

Noriyuki Iwadare (LUNAR, Grandia, Growlanser) as composer, Shinji Mikami (needs no introduction) as executive producer, and Ben Judd (Bionic Commando rejuvenator) as the voice of Phoenix. That was three separate out loud "holy shit" moments.

You know whats even cooler than Ben Judd as phoenix. In the JPN version of Trials and Tribulations Gaming God H.Kamiya (RE2, DMC, Okami) is the voice of Godot.

TheFatOne · (03-06-2009, 09:09 PM)

I'm surprised no one noticed this. First look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

"Terrible" Terry Tate's voice sounded awfully familiar to me then I figured out from where I heard it from. He is the voice Cole Train from Gears of War.

anachronous_one · (03-06-2009, 09:22 PM)

Originally Posted by TheFatOne:

I'm surprised no one noticed this. First look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

"Terrible" Terry Tate's voice sounded awfully familiar to me then I figured out from where I heard it from. He is the voice Cole Train from Gears of War.

Wait, next you'll tell me that Futurama's Bender is the same voice actor as Marcus Fenix.

Haunted · (03-06-2009, 09:32 PM)

Originally Posted by anachronous_one:

Wait, next you'll tell me that Futurama's Bender is the same voice actor as Marcus Fenix.

srsly

Red Scarlet · 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by eXistor:

I noticed the skull the first time I did it, but I never got the "go home" one. Thank you for filling this void in my life.

Yeah I noticed the skull right away, but never looked at it as a long 'o' for go home. The Tails thing I knew about before the game even came out, I remember a Sonic 2 preview in EGM that called the guy Miles Prower and I think it flat out said it was a reference to 'miles per hour'.

Going by the P4 thread, it seems a lot of people (including me till a couple days ago) didn't know about hitting square while in the TV world to just go into the Velvet Room without walking up to it. Certainly not as nifty or useful as most of the things in here though.

I don't think it was mentioned in the L4D thread or while I've played, but I did notice the L4D hand logo showing up on an x-ray on No Mercy 4, if that counts as anything to contribute. I thought it was kind of cool.

Gagaman · (03-06-2009, 11:16 PM)

Originally Posted by pakkit:

The Dreamcast logo was RED in Japan, ORANGE in the US, and BLUE in UK/Europe.

Nope, orange in Japan too.

APZonerunner · (03-07-2009, 12:10 AM)

Originally Posted by Gagaman:

Nope, orange in Japan too.

Yep. I believe it was so because orange is a lucky color in Japan.

robotnjik · (03-10-2009, 05:40 PM)

BSAA agents can read backward!

M3wThr33 · (03-10-2009, 06:02 PM)

Originally Posted by webrunner:

There's another picture I saw, which also compares the opposite.. compare Metapod and Venomoth, and they also have similarities, like someone switched Venomoth and Butterfree after the designs were made. Both have a three-pointed head and big round eyes:

See, I could dismiss the Venonat/Butterfree similarities as character design, but yeah, they definitely got flipped somewhere down the line. The kicker for me was that little 6-pack that Metapod and Venomoth share. Look at the bottom of Metapod and the middle of Venomoth.

Synless · (03-10-2009, 06:16 PM)

One of my all time favorite videogames ever has been Rick rolling me this entire time!?!?!? Those motherfuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KeeSomething · 07:26 PM

In Majora's Mask, in the grass near the Observatory on the lower level of Termina field, you can see an image of Skull Kid. I tried snapping a picture, but it's hard to see. You could check it out for yourselves! Hylian Dan from Zelda Universe showed me this. Here's an image:

Speaking of Hylian Dan, he has a pretty mind-blowing theory about the meaning behind Majora's Mask. Not all of it is meant to be taken in as fact (it was meant to start conversation between MM fans), but a lot of it really does make sense.

Banjo-Tooie:

Sage00 · (03-10-2009, 07:20 PM)

Originally Posted by KeeSomething:

Phallic-looking pillars.
Finger pointing up to the heavens. It's like a "Fuck you!" to the Gods.

...

KeeSomething · (03-10-2009, 07:26 PM)

Originally Posted by Sage00:

...

:-(

Apharmd Battler · (03-10-2009, 07:32 PM)

Originally Posted by drizzle:

I think i remember the "Snake from the first Metal Gear Cover is based off Kyle Reese" from this thread...

But i've been searching for the Contra Cover Stalonne/Schwarzenegger animated gif and I couldn't find it on this thread (But i remember seeing it on gaf).

So here it is:

And there's a bonus from the european version of Super Contra, which i didn't know of:

Sorry if this has been posted, but i swear to god i looked for it. Like, four times the past months.

MIND BLOWN!! <passes out>

stilgar · 07:32 PM

Ok, it's now the time for me to reeal the shocking truth about this game and its title:

Sega is making Sonic Unleashed since 2001.

Well, not really, but they associated their mascot and its friends for the 1st time during this year's E3 :

I thought it was pretty cool to buy this ad, given it was just a few months after they decided to stop their activities in the hardware market.