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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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IAmABeliver
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I don't know if this is mind-blowing because I'm sure there were kids unlike me who read instruction manuals as a kid, but I finally learned the logical progression/story of Sonic 3/Sonic & Knuckles (which I learned from the Sonic Wikia).
At the end of Sonic 2, Sonic escapes the Death Egg with all the chaos emeralds and the Death Egg crashes into the Floating Island bringing it down to sea level prompting Sonic to explore the new island. We all know that Robotnik tricked Knuckles, yadda yadda yadda. After Sonic beats Robonik in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the Death Egg crashes again (which is retconned from being destroyed in Sonic 3) into a volcano (Lava Reef/Hidden Palace Zone) on the Floating Island. It's here where Robonik discovers the Master Emerald and re-builds the end boss from Sonic 2 / Death Egg to be powered with the Master Emerald.
After Sonic's ending in Sonic and Knuckles, Robonik's robot crashes AGAIN to the Floating Island (where the Master Emerald has been returned). Thinking Robotnik is gone, Sonic & Tails leave, and Robotnik sends out one last EggRobo to take care of Knuckles (which is why the EggRobo appears at the end of Sonic's story in S&K). Robotnik is off trying to get the Master Emerald again (and presumably weakened aside from some leftover toys from Sonic's story), which is why you don't face Robotnik as Knuckles except in glitches. Ultimately, Knuckles beats Mecha Sonic who had harnessed the power of the Master Emerald (causing it to sink during their battle) and the sky floats back up at the end of the story.
It's convoluted at best, but it solved a 20 year mystery for me that I never understood as a kid. It doesn't explain the super good ending for Sonic/Tails in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but at least it makes a bit of sense, and it's the best I've got for this topic. Better than a Pokemon penis hunt, right?
At the end of Sonic 2, Sonic escapes the Death Egg with all the chaos emeralds and the Death Egg crashes into the Floating Island bringing it down to sea level prompting Sonic to explore the new island. We all know that Robotnik tricked Knuckles, yadda yadda yadda. After Sonic beats Robonik in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the Death Egg crashes again (which is retconned from being destroyed in Sonic 3) into a volcano (Lava Reef/Hidden Palace Zone) on the Floating Island. It's here where Robonik discovers the Master Emerald and re-builds the end boss from Sonic 2 / Death Egg to be powered with the Master Emerald.
After Sonic's ending in Sonic and Knuckles, Robonik's robot crashes AGAIN to the Floating Island (where the Master Emerald has been returned). Thinking Robotnik is gone, Sonic & Tails leave, and Robotnik sends out one last EggRobo to take care of Knuckles (which is why the EggRobo appears at the end of Sonic's story in S&K). Robotnik is off trying to get the Master Emerald again (and presumably weakened aside from some leftover toys from Sonic's story), which is why you don't face Robotnik as Knuckles except in glitches. Ultimately, Knuckles beats Mecha Sonic who had harnessed the power of the Master Emerald (causing it to sink during their battle) and the sky floats back up at the end of the story.
It's convoluted at best, but it solved a 20 year mystery for me that I never understood as a kid. It doesn't explain the super good ending for Sonic/Tails in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but at least it makes a bit of sense, and it's the best I've got for this topic. Better than a Pokemon penis hunt, right?
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Kard8p3 said:
And, if the 3DS remake of OOT is anything to go by,
The same one Sheik has
Didn't see this unless I missed it if so sorry for being late.
Colossus and Moon Knight were apparently indeed in the in the PS2, Xbox and PSP versions of Ultimate Alliance and playable! How did people find these things out?
Link:http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-14-pop-fiction/718387
Colossus and Moon Knight were apparently indeed in the in the PS2, Xbox and PSP versions of Ultimate Alliance and playable! How did people find these things out?
Link:http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-14-pop-fiction/718387
catapult37
Member
Matts Legacy said:
The Samus / Link video is the most mind-blowing part of that.
Mama Robotnik
Member
Found this on a site and it made me chuckle. Yes its not an accurate space invader, but in a contest of generic alien blob looking things, Mario's overalls are definitely a front-runner.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Heh. That's pretty cool.Myriadis said:
Link wearing the red clothes uses the same colour pallette as Mario does in SMB1.
Guardian Bob
Member
Anyone can easily license the "Conan" music.
IAmABeliver said:
Edit: Removing most of my post lol. I didn't read properly so most of it was redundant
I'm only commenting because it is this exact reason I will always consider Sonic 3 & Knuckles (and it bugs me when people don't realise this as the full game) to be the best Sonic game ever. I too had this mind blowing epiphany when I was younger and it just set it on a scale beyond any other game at the time. Sonic CD can't hold a candle to it whatsoever in my honest opinion.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I thought most of this was pretty obvious as a kid. How else to explain that the island is already in the sky, Sonic and Robotnik are nowhere to be seen, and and most of the structural damage that occurs in Sonic's story has already happened when you come across those locations in Knuckles' story? Not to mention that Knuckles isn't in cahoots with Robotnik when you're playing as him and setting up traps for Sonic or any of that junk.IAmABeliver said:
IAmABeliver
Neo Member
Sixfortyfive said:
What structural damage, aside from shortened zones? I had always thought that Knuckles's story came first or ran concurrently to Sonic's. I thought EggRobo was sent out as a distraction for Knuckles to keep him from finding out the truth until Sonic's story.
lolez2matt
Member
dunno if its my mind or not, but does de music that plays every time you put the cursor on some apps (not all) in the 3ds menu is the same but at different pace??
I can´t fin any videos, but as I say maybe I´m wrong
I can´t fin any videos, but as I say maybe I´m wrong
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
MrCookiepants said:
Yeah, but that's only part of the image! Here's the whole mind-blowing thing:
Onion_Relish
Member
Nome said:
Transgendered?
Kiiji said:Ever wonder why there were so many random floating bricks in Super Mario Bros?
The bricks are actually citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom who were transformed.
Every time you break a brick in Super Mario Bros, you're committing murder.
If nearly the entire landscape up to and including field horsehair plants are actually transmogrified mushroom people, then what the hell did the Mushroom Kingdom look like before they all changed?
Azure Dream
Member
Aw, I thought this was a little more obscure, but I see it in a Star Fox wiki. At least it saves me trying to record and post videos to prove it:
http://starfox.wikia.com/wiki/Katina
In Star Fox 64 (3D too), there's the stage Katina, with Bill where you basically reenact the movie Independence Day. There's swarms of enemy and ally ships, and after 10 get destroyed (by you or allies), the core opens up, and you can shoot that down.
Anyway, if you can destroy the core without killing a single ally ship, Bill's speech changes. I'll quote the Wiki:
The tone of the ending is a bit different, but it's not easy to pull this off, since everybody's swarming all over the place, usually in front of your shots. One of the things I found easiest to do when messing with the N64 version was to fly around the borders of the map, picking off the occasional straggler if they got close enough, but otherwise just letting my allies pick them off. The problem is that occasionally, Peppy will say something like "Got one... wait, that's one of ours!" Which means you've lost your shot at getting the different level end speech, since you're an ally down. Peppy, and apparently only Peppy, can screw you out of a perfect run.
http://starfox.wikia.com/wiki/Katina
In Star Fox 64 (3D too), there's the stage Katina, with Bill where you basically reenact the movie Independence Day. There's swarms of enemy and ally ships, and after 10 get destroyed (by you or allies), the core opens up, and you can shoot that down.
Anyway, if you can destroy the core without killing a single ally ship, Bill's speech changes. I'll quote the Wiki:
The tone of the ending is a bit different, but it's not easy to pull this off, since everybody's swarming all over the place, usually in front of your shots. One of the things I found easiest to do when messing with the N64 version was to fly around the borders of the map, picking off the occasional straggler if they got close enough, but otherwise just letting my allies pick them off. The problem is that occasionally, Peppy will say something like "Got one... wait, that's one of ours!" Which means you've lost your shot at getting the different level end speech, since you're an ally down. Peppy, and apparently only Peppy, can screw you out of a perfect run.
Small Mailman
Member
We're still missing a vital piece of the puzzle.Dreavus said:
Philanthropist
Banned
So, whenever Mario breaks a brick, he's actually killing someone?
Mario mass murderer confirmed.
Mario mass murderer confirmed.
Alaskanbullworm
Member
So then, the mushroom powerups must be when Mario punches too hard and the Toad's head pops off.
Philanthropist
Banned
Jocchan said:
It makes sense. Stem cells make him grow.
The Awesomest
Member
In Kirby 64, there is an ice level, a planet called Shiver Star. Shiver star is Earth in nuclear winter after a nuclear holocaust wipes out humanity. Those of you that have the game, notice:
- You can see silhouettes of the continents on the planet, along with the lone moon orbiting it
- There's a stray 'No Trespassing' sign in the level selection screen
- One of the levels in this world is an enormous shopping mall, and right after that level you go behind the mall into a huge factory, complete with genetic experimentation on bad guys in the background
- The boss in this world is a giant robot, fought with skyscrapers and everything in the background
So apparently humans did lots of consuming and corporations got lots of power and built huge war machines and ended life on Earth and sent it into an ice age. And then Kirby came and got some crystals and so on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqpeQMw3V4
- You can see silhouettes of the continents on the planet, along with the lone moon orbiting it
- There's a stray 'No Trespassing' sign in the level selection screen
- One of the levels in this world is an enormous shopping mall, and right after that level you go behind the mall into a huge factory, complete with genetic experimentation on bad guys in the background
- The boss in this world is a giant robot, fought with skyscrapers and everything in the background
So apparently humans did lots of consuming and corporations got lots of power and built huge war machines and ended life on Earth and sent it into an ice age. And then Kirby came and got some crystals and so on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqpeQMw3V4
MrCookiepants
Member
Kenak said:
No, it looked like one in the first place. It's just that some of ya'll are apparently a bit slow/unimaginative, so I thought that picture might help. Geez, lighten up GAF.
Professor Beef
Banned
so not being able to see a dick on a pokemon means i lack imaginationMrCookiepants said:
ok
The Awesomest
Member
MrCookiepants said:
The problem I think some of us are having is that it didn't look like one in the first place.
MrCookiepants
Member
Professor Beef said:
Not being able to see a dick when there is a tube shape with a knob on the end and two roundish things on either side means you lack imagination, yeah.
To be fair, I'm an artist so I've learned to visualize things from basic shapes. I guess it's just more difficult for some people.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
pfffft bahahaMrCookiepants said:
GATHER ROUND YOU NON-ARTIST TYPES AND I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO INTERPRET EVEN THE MOST ORDINARY AND MUNDANE OF OBJECTS PHALLIC.
Zomba13
Member
But the thing is it doesn't really look like a dick and balls, it looks like a sea shell. I mean, it does kinda look like a weird set in the picture but then that is what someone has drawn onto it to make it look like it (like the pics with it looking like a glove and mushroom).MrCookiepants said:
Bomber Bob
Banned
Metal B said:Look! A Pinguin-like Pokemon that looks like Santa Claus and he even has an sack with him.
Its not a sack, its his ball's sack
fixed