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

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Watch Da Birdie

I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
crimzonflame said:
Mario more popular than Mickey Mouse, in 1990?
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Jaded Alyx said:
More recognizable. I remember hearing this back around that time too.
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Currygan said:
yes, I remember headlines about it. It would be interesting to see the results if they did the same survey today
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Oh shit, did you guys own this book too?

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Because I definately remember this book claiming the "Mario is more popular than Mickey Mouse" angle.



Mike M said:
Yeah, Kirby's Epic Yarn was really taxing. Wii Music is fucking impossible too.

Seriously though, they don't have a lot of direct competitors on the genres they're putting out these days.
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The thing is, you don't know how right you are with Kirby.

Trying to get all the Gold Medals is extremely difficult and frustrating with little room for error, if you're just playing the game to beat the levels it's easy, but going for 100% is a nightmare in later levels.
 
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Mike M

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Watch Da Birdie said:
The thing is, you don't know how right you are with Kirby.

Trying to get all the Gold Medals is extremely difficult and frustrating with little room for error, if you're just playing the game to beat the levels it's easy, but going for 100% is a nightmare in later levels.
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Whaaaaaa? They most certainly were not. They weren't completely free like the first few worlds, but even at it's peak of difficulty the game rarely registered above being anything but a total cakewalk.
 
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@.@

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Turbografx-16's pinball game Devil's Crush awards you with 68 balls and 497438600 pts if you enter "ASSHOLEFUK" in the password screen. "DEVILSATAN" is also a valid password if I recall correctly.
 
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iidesuyo

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LGom09 said:
This might be common knowledge but, 22 years after its release, I just now realized that the soundtrack to Super Mario Kart wasn't composed by Koji Kondo.
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I only realized this year that Mario Kart on SNES actually has credits, on the WiiU VC. Playing this game since 1994. I either never made it that far as a kid, or my brother had finished the game without telling me (we always had to share consoles and games).
 
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Azure Dream

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@.@ said:
Turbografx-16's pinball game Devil's Crush awards you with 68 balls and 497438600 pts if you enter "ASSHOLEFUK" in the password screen. "DEVILSATAN" is also a valid password if I recall correctly.
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I think that game (or was it another console pinball game?) was infamous for having a broken password system, to where it would accept all sorts of passwords as valid.
 
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Rich!

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This is purely a coincidence, but I've just been reminded of it.

Anyone in the UK remember Bananaman? Well, the theme song is basically Hyrule Field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHEFlD_VDM

seriously, listen to that shit. 10 seconds onwards. There's a reason why when I first stepped out into Hyrule Field in 1998 the first thoughts on my mind were "thats the bananaman theme"

everyone else thinks of Zelda when they hear Hyrule Field from OOT. I don't. I think of fucking bananaman.
 
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LGom09

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Another musical similarity. I just realized that a short melody from Alien Soldier is also used in Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. They're composed by the same guy, so it could be a bit of an homage, but it seems to me like he just re-used the melody. It's not like Alien Soldier was very popular.

Alien Soldier @ 0:24

Sin and Punishment @ 0:07
 
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Needham

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LGom09 said:
Another musical similarity. I just realized that a short melody from Alien Soldier is also used in Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. They're composed by the same guy, so it could be a bit of an homage, but it seems to me like he just re-used the melody. It's not like Alien Soldier was very popular.

Alien Soldier @ 0:24

Sin and Punishment @ 0:07
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It wouldn't be NON's first time. He straight up reused the ending theme from Gunstar Heroes in Astro Boy for the GBA. And, of course, it shows up again in Gunstar Super Hereoes, but that's not so strange.

Gunstar Heroes
Astro Boy
Gunstar Super Heroes
 
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Jaded Alyx

Member
richisawesome said:
This is purely a coincidence, but I've just been reminded of it.

Anyone in the UK remember Bananaman? Well, the theme song is basically Hyrule Field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHEFlD_VDM

seriously, listen to that shit. 10 seconds onwards. There's a reason why when I first stepped out into Hyrule Field in 1998 the first thoughts on my mind were "thats the bananaman theme"

everyone else thinks of Zelda when they hear Hyrule Field from OOT. I don't. I think of fucking bananaman.
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Read this post..imagined Bananaman theme in my head...failed to see the connection...clicked youtube link...heard the exact same theme I imagined...still failed to see the connection.
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
Not exactly mindblowing, but it's strikes me as odd.

Take a listen to this lovely theme from Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine

Now listen to this lovely track from Warcraft 3

Even more similar is the World of Warcraft version

Am I insane or are they really similar to one another?

(What's mindblowing is how I missed how amazing of a soundtrack the WoW games have, god damn)

richisawesome said:
This is purely a coincidence, but I've just been reminded of it.

Anyone in the UK remember Bananaman? Well, the theme song is basically Hyrule Field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHEFlD_VDM

seriously, listen to that shit. 10 seconds onwards. There's a reason why when I first stepped out into Hyrule Field in 1998 the first thoughts on my mind were "thats the bananaman theme"

everyone else thinks of Zelda when they hear Hyrule Field from OOT. I don't. I think of fucking bananaman.
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If anything it resembles Good Egg Galaxy. Thanks for reminding me of my childhood, anyway.
 
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Platy

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The mind blowing part is that it was NOT one of the things censored at the time .... they LOVED the censor a naked pixel art back in the day
 
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Peagles

Member
Easy_D said:
Man I want to see this shot filtered to look like it's straight from an actual SNES. The blurry picture actually looks more detailed than the pure pixels. Like that FF6 comparison shot of the towers of Figaro Castle.

Edit; Like so:
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I just booted up my SNES and it's still pretty hard to see, even on a CRT. That's probably why they didn't bother censoring it.

On another note, the candles flickering look magnificent!
 
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CLEEK

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@.@ said:
Turbografx-16's pinball game Devil's Crush awards you with 68 balls and 497438600 pts if you enter "ASSHOLEFUK" in the password screen. "DEVILSATAN" is also a valid password if I recall correctly.
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8-bit and 16-bit home computers had a fuck load of cheat codes, either from typing in a specific name in the high score, or just typing them in-game.

My favourite was in Menace, and I still remember it 25+ years later. To get infinite energy and ammo, you typed:

XR3ITURBONUTTERBASTARD
 
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ShinHayase

Member
I just realised Peach and Rosalina are perfect opposites, color-wise.

Like photo negatives



Quick! Someone post a negative pictures of both!
 
ReyVGM

ReyVGM

Member
Easy_D said:
Man I want to see this shot filtered to look like it's straight from an actual SNES. The blurry picture actually looks more detailed than the pure pixels. Like that FF6 comparison shot of the towers of Figaro Castle.
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You mean to look straight from a SNES playing on a CRT. Because those sharp images is how the SNES really looks.
 
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Mike M

Nick N
At one point someone tried to spin the music stuff off into its own thread. It didn't quite succeed.

The opening to Ken's SF2 theme is totally lifted off of Mighty Wings from the Top Gun soundtrack!
 
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Tom_Cody

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BGBW said:
Saw the 64DD mentioned in another thread that reminded me of this interesting titbit. Mario Artist Polygon Studio is actually where the idea for Wario Ware originated and the first set of Microgames in the latter are based on the games found in the former (even the tape deck harks back to it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY#t=55s

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but it's one of those cool things one should know.
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I just came to post this but I see that this was introduced to this thread a while ago.

This is new to me as of this morning and it is totally mind-blowing to me. Mario Artist Polygon Studio came out almost 3 years before the first WarioWare game.

Nintendo truly never gives up on ideas that they believe in.
 
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Enker

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After having played Super Spike V’Ball for some 20-odd years (I still have the NES cart), I randomly went to the GameFAQs message board today and discovered that they apparently put 4 female teams in the game but locked them out before release.

And they all have 80’s hairstyles.

Game Genie is a beautiful thing,
 
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MikeOShay

Neo Member
So, potential dumbass over here. Always thought "Kirby's Epic Yarn" was a bit of a weird title, like it's saying "Oh dude, yarn's so epic."

Then a couple nights ago I remembered that "Spinning a yarn" is an idiom for "telling a story". "Kirby's Epic Story." D'oh.
 
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sugarless

Member
MikeOShay said:
So, potential dumbass over here. Always thought "Kirby's Epic Yarn" was a bit of a weird title, like it's saying "Oh dude, yarn's so epic."

Then a couple nights ago I remembered that "Spinning a yarn" is an idiom for "telling a story". "Kirby's Epic Story." D'oh.
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I think there was a thread for this kind of realisation. Mine was the one a lot of people have, where Phoenix Down means down as in feathers, rather than some kind of "Phoenix down!" type cry.
 
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Mike M

Nick N
Not video game related, but in similar vein only last week did I realize that Chubby Checker's name was a joke about Fats Domino.
 
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Trakdown

Member
Enker said:
After having played Super Spike V’Ball for some 20-odd years (I still have the NES cart), I randomly went to the GameFAQs message board today and discovered that they apparently put 4 female teams in the game but locked them out before release.

And they all have 80’s hairstyles.

Game Genie is a beautiful thing,
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Wow...One of my fave NES games and I never knew this.

I also found out yesterday that Vs. Super Mario Bros. was almost called "Vs. Mario Adventure" and even had a flier made up for it with that name.

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=6009
 
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LGom09

Member
MikeOShay said:
So, potential dumbass over here. Always thought "Kirby's Epic Yarn" was a bit of a weird title, like it's saying "Oh dude, yarn's so epic."

Then a couple nights ago I remembered that "Spinning a yarn" is an idiom for "telling a story". "Kirby's Epic Story." D'oh.
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Similarly, "Diddy's Kong Quest" went completely over my head as a kid.
 
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