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[Azure J]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[Big One]

Just a random funfact about Zelda -

It's a myth that Link started out left-handed. Link didn't become officially lefthanded till later on, as the official artwork in Legend of Zelda depicts him holding a sword in each hand:

In other words LoZ Link is ambidextrous.

 

[Tarin02543]

That artwork is so beautiful. The picture where Link is crouching and looking over Hyrule is the first Zelda image I've laid my eyes on. I remember seeing all the stuff he was carrying and thinking about all the stuff you could do in this game of which I did not even know the title of.

Really brings back memories.

 

[Osaka]

Ones from Bayonetta I know off the top of my head:
-Map that the Bayonetta doll moves around in uses Okami foot prints to show progression
-Bayonetta says"Henshin agogo baby!" (Viewtiful Joe)
-One of the characters near the end says "I'll fill your soul with LIIIGHHHTTT" (DMC)
-Her Panther form trails dead plants (Okami)
-Bayonetta uses Ebony and Ivory in the opening cutscene when she breaks out of the coffin (DMC)
-Bayonetta's spider demon is Ardor from DMC

There's also an Outrun level in Bayonetta. I didn't notice it until my roommate recognized the music.

 

[mrplaid]

In MK, Rain...

is purple.

Purple Rain. I'm embarassed that I never realized that until this recent Mortal Kombat.

 

[Augemitbutter]

There's also an Outrun level in Bayonetta. I didn't notice it until my roommate recognized the music.

there is much more. you can hear akira's winning speech from virtua fighter when finishing a fight using a particular VF move. i loved that one!

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

there is much more. you can hear akira's winning speech from virtua fighter when finishing a fight using a particular VF move. i loved that one!

:O

 

[qq more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxgzCqkx40&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBhubOvQso&feature=related


Not entirely sure if this is worthy of being in the thread but it blew my mind.

 

[crimzonflame]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

 

[IndieJones]

Uh, Manhandla? No one is gonna question that?

I was JUST thinking that. That's some Konami-ass boss naming right there.

 

[Chairhome]

there is much more. you can hear akira's winning speech from virtua fighter when finishing a fight using a particular VF move. i loved that one!

At the start of one particular stage, she says, "welcome to my Fantasy Zone!"

Man, I need to play this game again.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

So the Atari Jaguar. After the system died a medical equipment maker bought up the injection moulds. You can find just the casing around and with modification make yourself a lovely white Jaguar.

But what was it used for? The Hot Rod intraoral camera made by Imagin:

They appear to be down now but archive.org describes the product and google's cache shows the pdf

 

[Ferrio]

Ran Hibiki is probably Dan Hibiki's sister.

Or a homage, either way... never realized it before.

 

[Drkirby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxgzCqkx40&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBhubOvQso&feature=related


Not entirely sure if this is worthy of being in the thread but it blew my mind.

Yeah, both Songs were written by the same person, Masakazu Sugimori

 

[PetriP-TNT]

So the Atari Jaguar. After the system died a medical equipment maker bought up the injection moulds. You can find just the casing around and with modification make yourself a lovely white Jaguar.

But what was it used for? The Hot Rod intraoral camera made by Imagin:

They appear to be down now but archive.org describes the product and google's cache shows the pdf

Hahaha seriously?

 

[RurouniZel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxgzCqkx40&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBhubOvQso&feature=related


Not entirely sure if this is worthy of being in the thread but it blew my mind.

Mind blown.

 

[mrplaid]

Ha! Heard about that on Player One Podcast. It's pretty awesome.

The chassis of unsold Atari Jaguars were apparently painted and repurposed to house dental cameras:

*broken image links*
http://www.imaginsystems.com/Graphics/HotRod DS-final.pdf

Click the 'Hot Rod' image to be taken to a PDF brochure. Cybermorph = "Optional memory cartridge." Lol.

Thank you, Player One Podcast.

 

[Jasoco]

Hahaha seriously?

Yep. It's a lot cheaper to buy a mould that will no longer be used than to engineer a new one from scratch. I mean the cost of the machinery alone... Then the research and development of the moulds...

 

[SpartanDL]

That the Kinect sold so much.

 

[Teppic]

Everyone hated that guy, right?

Turns out you can kill him in a rather unorthodox way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQ5yVgcjIQ

This is not true. It just takes longer for him to appear the longer you're not holding the key.

 

[Version 3.0]

This is not true. It just takes longer for him to appear the longer you're not holding the key.

What's with the death sound, then? I'm going to have to try this myself.

 

[Teppic]

What's with the death sound, then? I'm going to have to try this myself.

Kills the key ?

I did try it first and he was still there after the death sound.

 

[ReyVGM]

Cammy was originally going to be using lycra pants in the SNES version of Super Street Fighter 2.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

ugh wrong topic sorry

 

[jmdajr]

In MK, Rain...

is purple.

Purple Rain. I'm embarassed that I never realized that until this recent Mortal Kombat.

mind blown indeed

 

[spindashing]

In MK, Rain...

is purple.

Purple Rain. I'm embarassed that I never realized that until this recent Mortal Kombat.

WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCK GET OUT OF HERE

 

[Professor Beef]

My mind was more blown by Reptile being Blue (Sub Zero) and Yellow (Scorpion) in MK1.

 

[Roto13]

There's also an Outrun level in Bayonetta. I didn't notice it until my roommate recognized the music.

There are a ton of those in Bayonetta. She does the Red Hot Kick from Viewtiful Joe and says "Flock off, feather face" ala Devil May Cry. There are a lot more, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxgzCqkx40&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBhubOvQso&feature=related


Not entirely sure if this is worthy of being in the thread but it blew my mind.

Hah, wow.

 

[Platy]

Gammy was originally going to be using lycra pants in the SNES version of Super Street Fighter 2.

fixed

 

[V_Ben]

In MK, Rain...

is purple.

Purple Rain. I'm embarassed that I never realized that until this recent Mortal Kombat.

Oh damn it.

 

[Platy]

I was researching the 1954 manga Princess Knight ... and suddenly i came across this picture from the 1967 anime adaptation

Just a coincidence or it looks A LOT like some green dude from a 1986 game ?

 

[ReyVGM]

I was researching the 1954 manga Princess Knight ... and suddenly i came across this picture from the 1967 anime adaptation

Just a coincidence or it looks A LOT like some green dude from a 1986 game ?

Well, it's an elf, so is Link. And don't they all look the same?

 

[Roto13]

Link isn't an elf. Go die.

 

[GameplayWhore]

Link isn't an elf. Go die.

Maybe that's a Hylian on that horse.

 

[TheOGB]

fixed

that blew my mind more than the pants

 

[abstract alien]

My mind was more blown by Reptile being Blue (Sub Zero) and Yellow (Scorpion) in MK1.

Now this is new. Never realized it

 

[Cheerilee]

Link isn't an elf. Go die.

http://au.ign64.ign.com/articles/061/061546p1.html

Q: Is Link human?

Miyamoto: No, he's an elf.

Q: Is Link's costume that of the Kokili?

Miyamoto: Yes it is. The Kokili all wear similar costumes.

Q: Is Link wearing a pair of culottes (a divided skirt)?

Miyamoto: This would be a cultural difference such that if you asked Link this question, he'd say "What's a skirt?" It's a regular jacket. He's wearing tights underneath (laughs).

 

[BocoDragon]

Link is an elf?

Mind blown.

 

[Granger Danger]

Well, it's an elf, so is Link. And don't they all look the same?

 

[paskowitz]

SPOILERS!

That when I climbed up this mountain:

Mount Washington NH

I drove by this hotel:

Mount Washington Hotel

Which was in this game:

And I did not even realize it until yesterday. Fact.

Spoiler

The subject 16 memory puzzle things. All the flags were Abstergo symbol. What happened there is pretty cool though. Such crazy amounts of research went into this game.

 

[Cheerilee]

I got another one.

You know how the first printings of Ocarina of Time (gold carts, some grey carts) had red blood in the Gannon fight, but the second printing "censored it" and made it green?

Here's another Miyamoto interview from before the game was finished.
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Interviews-1997-11-26-Famimaga-64-Shigeru-Miyamoto.php

Q: Will there be blood in the game?

Miyamoto: Blood? No, there won’t be blood. But there may be something else, like green body fluids. But that's pretty disgusting.

So maybe the red blood version was the censored one. Green blood is the Director's Cut.

Also

Q: Why are Link's ears long?

Miyamoto: Because he's an elf. This was decided from the beginning.

 

[Chao]

http://au.ign64.ign.com/articles/061/061546p1.html

Q: Is Link human?

Miyamoto: No, he's an elf.

Q: Is Link's costume that of the Kokili?

Miyamoto: Yes it is. The Kokili all wear similar costumes.

Q: Is Link wearing a pair of culottes (a divided skirt)?

Miyamoto: This would be a cultural difference such that if you asked Link this question, he'd say "What's a skirt?" It's a regular jacket. He's wearing tights underneath (laughs).

No he's not.

He was probably an elf until they came up with "hylians" as the human race in the zelda universe. From then on, he is a hylian.

Zelda is pretty inconsistent and they change stuff from game to game if they feel like it. In the next one we could learn that Link is actually a goblin in disguise because Aonuma thought that would be hilarious, and that would be canon.

 

[sonikokaruto]

Race: elf
Area: hylia

There. Problem fixed.

 

[Dystify]

He's a hylian Elf.

Actually, I'm pretty sure they referred to it as Hylian race. Oh well.

 

[CryptiK]

Race: elf
Area: hylia

There. Problem fixed.

exactly

I am

Race: Human
Area Australia

therefore Australian.

Link is an Elf

 

[Darklord]

No he's not.

Yeah, I'm sure you know more than the guy who created the game.

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

There is more than one Link, so he could be both an Elf or a Human depending on what LoZ you are playing.

 

[Big One]

No matter what Miyamoto says, Link isn't an elf. But Hylians are pretty much elves so whatever, but all of the human-like races in the series (Sheikah, Hylian, Gerudo) are called "humans" in the games. So yeah, if you want to generalize, Link is a human.

 

[SidVicious]

I think Miyamoto is using the term 'elf' in a broader sense, as it were.

 

[Nappuccino]

I think Miyamoto is using the word 'elf' in a broader sense, as it were.

There... there's a broad sense?