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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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AbsoluteZero
Banned
Just read it on reddit, but :OOOOO
Somebody didn't read the manual.
I learned something. Thanks lol
randomlyrossy
Member
Seriously though, now I really want to know who was on the other end of that intercom.
Mario does, but Luigi in Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World version of the game, does indeed headbutt those blocks!
The REAL mindblowing thing here is that the Luigi sprite is different in All Stars + World. I have never seen that sprite before and SMW is my favorite game.
The game programmers.
There's no God in Mario. There is the princess and her word is the only sacred word possible.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Otacon.
Professor Beef
Banned
Bowser.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Just read it on reddit, but :OOOOO
In my defense, I've never seen a purple and brown intercom before, ever.
Also it seems they aren't really used much here anyways, the only time I think I've "seen" them is in American TV shows/movies that are set in schools.
The Awesomest
Member
You guys didn't even realize it was some sort of speaker when you heard Yoshi's pre-recorded away message message at his house? c'mon, people.
Oh shi--
Yep, same here.
Actually I think I saw the model of the speaker in my head but never actually identified it as such.
Version 3.0
Member
The manual says it's a "message block", not a speaker or intercom. I never questioned what it was - it's a hint box, duh - but it didn't and doesn't look like a speaker to me, not even the manual art. The sprite looks like a pine cone in a box, and the art doesn't look like anything.
Tizoc
Member
Though Sagat's victory pose has been pretty consistent for the past 25 years, what I've noticed are how his laughs in the Alpha and SF4 games are pretty much similar to the original's (first long wide "ahhh" followed by the descending "hahaha").
BOHAHAHAHA!
re SF1 Sagat: Just mirror the sprite and problem solved~
BOHAHAHAHA!
re SF1 Sagat: Just mirror the sprite and problem solved~
Huh it's SF4 that has the eye patch on the other eye...
Tizoc
Member
=o My bad...so either mirroring the 2D Sagat sprites puts the eyepatch on the right eye or...*brain explodes*
Sagat's patch is over his right eye in basically all of the artwork for him. In the 2D games, it constantly changes sides because of sprite mirroring, obviously. I'll bet they considered his left-facing sprite in II the "canon" one because he was originally a boss character you weren't supposed to be able to play as so he was on the right side of the screen by default. (But in SF1, it's over his right eye when facing left, even though he wasn't playable in that either.)
Same here, I just simply never gave it too much thought. I just knew it was a sort of Message Block, but didn't think it was like a speaker.
Yeah. Sometimes the way posters let some of those facts pass by blows my mind more than the facts themselves, haha.
iamaustrian
Member
I thought it was a basketball in a grey box.
why would an intercom float in the air?
also no wires
@ Sagat:
SF2 Sagat knees are very low. wtf?
why would an intercom float in the air?
also no wires
@ Sagat:
SF2 Sagat knees are very low. wtf?
ThaneKrios
Banned
Pffft, can't unsee...
The manual says it's a "message block", not a speaker or intercom. I never questioned what it was - it's a hint box, duh - but it didn't and doesn't look like a speaker to me, not even the manual art. The sprite looks like a pine cone in a box, and the art doesn't look like anything.
There are screws in the corners and a grill in the middle. If you've never seen a speaker that looks like that, you've not lived. Especially at most schools where it looks like a lot of their intercom speakers.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
oh goddammit--BOHAHAHAHA!
Name: Albert W.
Profession: scientist
Oh godDAMMIT...
A box where sound comes out of? You mean a speaker?
I've always seen it as a speaker that played a prerecorded message. But then again, I've seen speakers with screws and grill on it, because I guess I'm old?
A box where sound comes out of? You mean a speaker?
I've always seen it as a speaker that played a prerecorded message. But then again, I've seen speakers with screws and grill on it, because I guess I'm old?
Yeah I mean speaker but people are arguing silly stuff so I had to explain it like that.
Haunted
Member
Except theyre in the same order too. Square, triangle, circle.
Do you remember Mr. Fuji? He's the kind old man in Lavendar Town who cares for abandoned and orphaned Pokemon and gives you the Pokeflute.
SHOCKING SECRET: He's also the scientist who created Mewtwo through years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering experiments.
On Cinnabar Island in the Pokemon Mansion where Mewtwo was created, there is a photo which gives this description when you read it: "A photo of the LAB's founder, DR.FUJI!" The exclamation point is meant to show your character's surprise at the fact that Mr. Fuji was the Lab's founder.
If you want more proof, there are a lot more hints in the FireRed/LeafGreen remakes. One NPC in Lavendar Town says, "I hear Mr. Fuji's not from these parts originally, either." If you examine a photo in the Cinnabar Gym, it says "It's a photo of Blaine and Mr. Fuji. They're standing shoulder to shoulder with big grins." (Blaine is the gym leader on Cinnabar Island)
uh oh D:
There are exactly six ways three symbols can be arranged horizontally.
Besides which: They *aren't* in the same order. The image poster had to flip the USB logo to make it work.
Awaiting the announcement that EA's old logo also means that they're in some way intrinsically linked to the Playstation controller.