Notice that they are 'spinning' in a different direction. They use it on maps in Japan to designate the location of a Buddhist templeOriginally Posted by ggnoobIGN
Nintendo is teh Nazi
Yeah I just realised that, but as mr.nothin said it's just missing one row of pixels so it's pretty obvious they used the same model.Originally Posted by Jon of the Wired
Eh, it's not really the same thing. Goombas and mushrooms may have similar appearances, but they're actually different sprites. The bushes are literally the same sprite as the clouds, just with a palette swap.
And apart from (or before) the Nazis, those meanings are pretty much all positive.Originally Posted by Great Rumbler
The swastika has been around for thousands of years and has a wide variety of meanings depending on which religion or ancient culture you're talking about.
To be fair, anyone without a basic knowledge of Japanese wouldn't catch that at all, so it's not quite the 'obvious' revelation the cloudbush thing is.Originally Posted by Oblivion
If you're impressed with that, Olimar is supposed to be Mario spelled backwards.
Could be a complete coincidence (probably is), but it's interesting to me that the overworld for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past kinda resembles the Imperial Palace of Kyoto when viewed from above.
what people didnt see the arrow in Fedex, may be these people dont see the 11 in the Big Ten logo either ...
Or the 2012 in the London Olym--Originally Posted by krzy123
what people didnt see the arrow in Fedex, may be these people dont see the 11 in the Big Ten logo either ...
Wait, nevermind...
I recently went to my friends house to check out his wii. I was generally impressed. It was larger than I expected though.
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Clouds re-colored to make bushes? Its this frugality that makes Nintendo what it is today. They took gamecubes and re-tooled them and created the Wii. Amazing.
No way, I refuse to belive that is real. *spent hours as a kid looking online for how to catch a mew*Originally Posted by SDZeta
Oh and I learned that yesterday, but it does have 700k views on youtube...
You can get Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue without a Gameshark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkF7Xjxn9jc
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Thats a horrible logo :\Originally Posted by jman2050
Or the 2012 in the London Olym--
Wait, nevermind...
Speaking of Goomba, they are actually supposed to be living chestnuts, as their Japanese name is Kuribo, with the Kuri being chestnut.Originally Posted by Jon of the Wired
Eh, it's not really the same thing. Goombas and mushrooms may have similar appearances, but they're actually different sprites. The bushes are literally the same sprite as the clouds, just with a palette swap.
Other facts of interest:
Kirby's sprite was originally meant to be a placeholder.
All the maps of the Pokemon handheld games(no spin offs) are based on parts of Japan (with Diamond and Pearl's Sinnoh region similarity to Hokkaido being the most obvious)
Pac-Man was originally going to be called Puck-Man, but there was worry that the arcade cabinets could be vandalized to have the title end up as something very vulgar.
Same here buddy.Originally Posted by ninj4junpei
No way, I refuse to belive that is real. *spent hours as a kid looking online for how to catcha a mew*
*drinks vodka alone*
"And apart from (or before) the Nazis, those meanings are pretty much all positive."
As far as I know all the positive meanings are pointing in a different direction than the swastika.
As far as I know all the positive meanings are pointing in a different direction than the swastika.
...You're from Arkansas too? Inconceivable!Originally Posted by sp0rsk
My state is the cock.
Edit: Never mind, you probably mean Tennessee, which is where I was born.
(neutral) Log4GirlzOriginally Posted by Log4Girlz
Clouds re-colored to make bushes? Its this frugality that makes Nintendo what it is today. They took gamecubes and re-tooled them and created the Wii. Amazing.
I recently went to my friends house to check out his wii. I was generally impressed. It was larger than I expected though.
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Well we definitely know London didn't win the right to host the 2012 Olympics with a logo-making contest...Originally Posted by jman2050
Or the 2012 in the London Olym--
Wait, nevermind...
So they call him "Ramilo" in Japan?Originally Posted by Oblivion
Seriously, though guys. Is the cloud/bush thing that big a deal? I mean it's not that surprising assets would be reused during those times.
If you're impressed with that, Olimar is supposed to be Mario spelled backwards.
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I recently went to my friends house to check out his wii. I was generally impressed. It was larger than I expected though.
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No, it's the katakana spelled backwards. Ma-ri-o becomes O-ri-ma. Rs and Ls are interchangeable in Japanese, as they pronounce them as a kind of combination between the two letters.Originally Posted by JzeroT1437
So they call him "Ramilo" in Japan?
That is true, when the Nazis took the symbol they rotated it differently.Originally Posted by Zaraki_Kenpachi
"And apart from (or before) the Nazis, those meanings are pretty much all positive."
As far as I know all the positive meanings are pointing in a different direction than the swastika.
This thread went from a slow fizzle to awesome, and now with the London 2012 logo it's turned back into a turd.
Something i read on a interview with one of the Deus Ex designers.
When you are in liberty city, you can see new york in the background, but you cant see the world trade center towers . People complained to the devs about it, and their response was :
MIND BLOWN.
When you are in liberty city, you can see new york in the background, but you cant see the world trade center towers . People complained to the devs about it, and their response was :
Deus Ex was released about 1 year before the real attacks.When people complained, we just explained that it had been destroyed by terrorist attacks. We start the game with the Liberty Island statue having been destroyed by terrorists a few years before. We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before 9-11. Years. That's kind of freaky.
MIND BLOWN.
WHAT THE FUCK?Originally Posted by SDZeta
Oh and I learned that yesterday, but it does have 700k views on youtube...
You can get Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue without a Gameshark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkF7Xjxn9jc
I'd give anything to have my old copy of Red...
Furthermore, the katakana also has an extra dash at the end to draw out the last 'a'. This is generally the equivalent of a vowel+r combination in English. Thus the final name 'Olimar'Originally Posted by ratcliffja
No, it's the katakana spelled backwards. Ma-ri-o becomes O-ri-ma. Rs and Ls are interchangeable in Japanese, as they pronounce them as a kind of combination between the two letters.
R/B/Y is glitched to hell, seriously. You think Missingno is bad? That's only scratching the surface.Originally Posted by ninj4junpei
No way, I refuse to belive that is real. *spent hours as a kid looking online for how to catcha a mew*
Take a look: http://tasvideos.org/1671S.html
[IMG]http://i29.************/167setu.jpg[/IMG]Originally Posted by Kandrick
Deus Ex was released about 1 year before the real attacks.
MIND BLOWN.
The brands were licensed for "realism", but I think that at the time certain companies wanted less to do with videogames than they do now. Still it's weird they couldn't figure out a way of not paying for the license, I guess it's a terms thing, if you work within the term license it's not advertising and therefore you have to pay for it. I don't think they were that stupid though.Originally Posted by Tisan
What. That's insane.
They were under Peter Moore btw.
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I didn't even believe it when I first learned it. I'm one of those people who did everything for Mew... Bill's Garden, Truck beside SS Anne... all for naught. Of course this happened after I lost interest.Originally Posted by Ezduo
WHAT THE FUCK?
I'd give anything to have my old copy of Red...
Anyway:
MIND FUCKING BLOWN @ Mario Bros cloud/bush and to a lesser extent, clefairy thingy and Wild logo
Wow I never noticed that. That's pretty cool.Originally Posted by Link
Keeping with the Zelda theme, Zelda II's overworld is just north of Zelda I's, and they actually overlap at Death Mountain/Spectacle Rock. Hand drawn example here:
http://www.questforcalatia.net/Zelda...hyrule-map.jpg
A friend and myself did barrel rolls with 747s in MS Flight Simulator (1995?) between the twin towers, often times running into them. =\ When we both heard about 9/11 we both just looked at each other like... "ohhh shit".Originally Posted by Kandrick
Something i read on a interview with one of the Deus Ex designers.
When you are in liberty city, you can see new york in the background, but you cant see the world trade center towers . People complained to the devs about it, and their response was :
Deus Ex was released about 1 year before the real attacks.
MIND BLOWN.
Eh, I know, but they didn't really get their "character" until SF64. Not to mention tons of other characters were introduced.Originally Posted by KevinCow
Series started on the SNES.
Oh yeah, that too. RE4 went through a crazy dev process, and the very original somehow morphed into DMC. Now DMC is a completely separate franchise from RE, and a well-established franchise too.Originally Posted by Link
You're forgetting the very first version, which became Devil May Cry. Also, the "gun juggling" in DMC was born from a glitch found in Onimusha during development.
Seriously awesome stuff in this thread guys, thanks for blowing my mind. :D
Ahhh and anyone else got shit scared when they noticed the 2 faces in Secret of Mana? I noticed one of them when I played for the first time 10 years ago and it freaked me out.
Why would they do that? Whyyyyy.
Why would they do that? Whyyyyy.
When I was young, I had this magazine that had the first screens of Chrono Trigger and one of them was a crystal like level/area that didn't make it into the final game. I remembered it well because it looked way cool back then. I had thrown the magazine away many years ago and surprisingly I can't find anything even remotely related to that on the Internet.
Google is failing me and it's sooooo frustrating. Ugh >:(
Google is failing me and it's sooooo frustrating. Ugh >:(
I will add that Akiman was the original character designer for Red Dead Revolver. I'm not sure if he still was working on the game when Rockstar took it over.Originally Posted by Chris Michael
Hey, I've got another one.
Rockstar and Capcom seem to have a pretty close relationship.
Red Dead Revolver was originally a game completely created by Capcom - a Japanese company. It was cancelled by Capcom, but Rockstar - an American company - got the rights to make the game. As far as I know they changed the original concept of what the original Capcom game was supposed to be. Nevertheless, they essentially developed the game that Capcom had cancelled.
Not to mention Capcom publishes Rockstar's GTA games in Japan.
For some reason, international relations interest me the most. :lol
Originally Posted by dionysus
Thank you, finally someone else on this forum that recognizes FFXII to be an abomination.
Not only does the story fall apart at 35%, but it was fundamentally flawed. The main character basically has nothing at all to do with anything happening in the world. There is nothing special about him and most of the characters don't even act like he is there in their interactions. The game would have been much better from Basch's POV.
He even says, "I'm just along for the ride."
what kind of blows my mind is the fact that people who have actual importance in the industry visit and converse at the same site as the people quoted above.Originally Posted by Metalmurphy
:lol
Common man, just look at the size of that mouth, it's like Manuela Moura Guedes :lol
She doesn't have a hot body, the mouth ruins her "almost" pretty face.
5/10 :p
Granted, I have a very tiny mind, so it's pretty easy to blow.
Anyway:
http://www.dosclassics.com/duke/1other.php
http://www.dosclassics.com/duke/2other.php
Eerie similarities between art in Turrican and Duke Nukem
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/a/bomber.htm
http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/nes/01/load.html
Meta-game continuity!
A miniature version of Zelda I's map is in Zelda II.
The untouchable hidden levels they showed off in Banjo Kazooie as a way to hype people for the sequel are actually easily obtainable by punching in a secret password.
The untouchable hidden levels they showed off in Banjo Kazooie as a way to hype people for the sequel are actually easily obtainable by punching in a secret password.
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my friend (just one) growing up said the one on the left is a fish. eh
my friend (just one) growing up said the one on the left is a fish. eh
I used to do the same thing... minus the barrel rolls and trying to go between the towers. I used to piss off my technology teacher by purposely flying right into them. This was in 1996.Originally Posted by Concept17
A friend and myself did barrel rolls with 747s in MS Flight Simulator (1995?) between the twin towers, often times running into them. =\ When we both heard about 9/11 we both just looked at each other like... "ohhh shit".
It's been posted to GAF before, but Tingle (Zelda series) looks a lot like Koji Kondo (music composer for Nintendo)
This version actually looks scary. The final version didn't feel scary at all.Originally Posted by RurouniZel
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head was that Capcom went thorough 3 nearly completed versions of Resident Evil 4 before landing on the final version.
Next one
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/u...ies/86112.html
I don't get it either.Originally Posted by YYZ
Help me out here. What am I supposed to be seeing?
Oh same here but I'd do this in a heartbeat if I had my old copy of Pokemon Red. Just to have Mew...an unfulfilled dream from my childhood. I'd be almost willing to buy a copy somewhere just to do this.Originally Posted by Firestorm
I didn't even believe it when I first learned it. I'm one of those people who did everything for Mew... Bill's Garden, Truck beside SS Anne... all for naught. Of course this happened after I lost interest.
Anyway:
MIND FUCKING BLOWN @ Mario Bros cloud/bush and to a lesser extent, clefairy thingy and Wild logo
The cloudbush and other stuff are destroying my perception of reality. MAKE IT STOP!
I remember being shocked by the SMB cloud/bush thing years ago when I figured it out. Why exactly isn't it obvious the first time you look at them?
Or that it was a bad game, period.Originally Posted by XHitoshuraX
That there are people who actually believe Killer 7 had a bad story.
Has anyone noticed that OoT's overworld map looks kinda like Link?Originally Posted by Odrion
A miniature version of Zelda I's map is in Zelda II.
Whoa.The untouchable hidden levels they showed off in Banjo Kazooie as a way to hype people for the sequel are actually easily obtainable by punching in a secret password.
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Those crazy Pokemon websites sucked the fun out of Pokemon.
Jesus Christ, they disassembled the gamecode and figured out how to manipulate it based on button presses. They can fuck with the game based on PRESSING THE BUTTONS.
Holy shit.
Mind Blown
Jesus Christ, they disassembled the gamecode and figured out how to manipulate it based on button presses. They can fuck with the game based on PRESSING THE BUTTONS.
Holy shit.
Mind Blown
Do you not remember when Pokemon was highly popular in the USA?Originally Posted by FlightOfHeaven
Those crazy Pokemon websites sucked the fun out of Pokemon.
Jesus Christ, they disassembled the gamecode and figured out how to manipulate it based on button presses. They can fuck with the game based on PRESSING THE BUTTONS.
Holy shit.
Mind Blown
Pokemon fans can be fucking rabid, seriously. Go look at the hardcore Pokemon game players.
This is what RE4 should have been.Originally Posted by RurouniZel
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head was that Capcom went thorough 3 nearly completed versions of Resident Evil 4 before landing on the final version.
Next one
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/u...ies/86112.html
The final product was excellent, but this would have been the Game of Last Gen easily.
Originally Posted by SDZeta
Ahhh and anyone else got shit scared when they noticed the 2 faces in Secret of Mana? I noticed one of them when I played for the first time 10 years ago and it freaked me out.
Why would they do that? Whyyyyy.
What? They are obviously fish and dragons.Originally Posted by xir
[IMG]http://i30.************/dg012r.jpg[/IMG]
my friend (just one) growing up said the one on the left is a fish. eh
So what did that logo look like before it was smashed with a sledge hammer? :DOriginally Posted by jman2050
Or the 2012 in the London Olym--
Wait, nevermind...
oh i get it alucard is dracula backwards this game makes so much more sense now
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