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[Christoff Yurievich]

Really? Y'all never noticed that?

seriously. I was 12 when it came out and I noticed it on first boot. come on.

There are people who didn't notice Miles Per Hour?

Really? Really?

I noticed it when it was posted earlier in this thread, yeah.

One more

Miles Prower = Miles Per Hour

I am honestly still overwhelmed at how many people didn't catch this.

I find all the people not noticing the Miles Prower = Miles Per Hour thing even funnier due to the fact that it was already mentioned in this thread back in January -



http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9497942&postcount=468

and that's why I should read the entire thread before posting.

 

[Chris Remo]

Instead of bitching because you choose to go against the grain why not figure it out yourself? The default is 50 posts per page so page 70 would be post 3500+. This is all irrelevant though as the title is referencing post #70, not the page.

edit: beaten

God, I seriously thought that was mod abuse intended as a wild goose chase, playing on the idea early in the thread that there hadn't been actual "mind-blowing" stuff posted.

 

[yeoz]

Not strictly a video game fact (but, there are video games with him as the main character...) and I just learned this a few minutes ago: Waldo from Where's Waldo was originally named Wally! Oh my god! It's like my entire childhood was all a big lie!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_Wally%3F

 

[Pizza Luigi]

Not strictly a video game fact (but, there are video games with him as the main character...) and I just learned this a few minutes ago: Waldo from Where's Waldo was originally named Wally! Oh my god! It's like my entire childhood was all a big lie!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_Wally%3F

In the Netherlands, those albums were actually called "Waar is Wally?"

 

[Deleted member 21120]

It's "Prowler," you nubs, not "Prower." Which makes it a little easier to understand why people didn't get the "per hour" thing.

 

[Deleted member 20415]

It's "Prowler," you nubs, not "Prower." Which makes it a little easier to understand why people didn't get the "per hour" thing.

Since never...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_"Tails"_Prower

It's Prower man... where the hell is the pun in Miles Prowler?

Miles Prower is where the joke is.

 

[funkmastergeneral]

seriously. I was 12 when it came out and I noticed it on first boot. come on.
I noticed it when it was posted earlier in this thread, yeah.

and that's why I should read the entire thread before posting.

holy shit. how did I never notice this?

 

[Deleted member 21120]

Since never...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_"Tails"_Prower

It's Prower man... where the hell is the pun in Miles Prowler?

Miles Prower is where the joke is.

Wow, it really is Prower...

I've been living a lie for the past 16 years.

 

[Apharmd Battler]

If I had three wishes, I would wish for:

1. The inability to see the FedEx arrow thing
2. The inability to see the Mario cloudbushes thing
3. The inability to ever see something unseeable ever again or see anything that is currently unseeable.

Oh, and speaking of unseeable things, have you guys ever noticed Mr. Mimal? He's the chef in the United States map.

Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana

OH my goodness....I am LATE to this thread!!

 

[B-Genius]

The Japanese legendary shape-shifting Tanooki is said to put leaves on its heads and to chant prior to transformation. In some legends, the leaf is the sacred lotus plant of Buddhism. When Mario gets a leaf, he gains pointy ears and the tail of a Tanooki.

“Tanuki” is the Japanese word for ‘raccoon’ (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is a mischievous master of disguise and shapeshifting.

So it's kind of strange because in Mario 3 there is a normal raccoon suit, and also a tanuki suit. But tanuki means raccoon, so there are two different raccoon suits. Kind of interesting.

Why do tanuki always have such enormous testicles?

Also, I remember learning Tails' real name from my Sonic the Comic days. Good times

 

[Lé Blade Runner]

This one might be more obvious to some, but the 3 in the Super Mario Bros. 3 title screen has Tanooki Suit Mario as the shadow.

~Dac

My mind has been blown. Hard.

 

[KingDirk]

Why do tanuki always have such enormous testicles?

If it bothers you, never watch the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko. It's all about tanukis and it does not shy away from commenting on...those.

Seriously, at some point a group starts singing (I think these are right):
"My golden balls are swaying/
But there's no wind/
A child walks on by/
And swings his in reply."

Also, a great scene where an older tanuki lectures a group of younger boy tanuki. They're sitting on a straw mat, and at the end of the lecture, the old man says: "And what do you think you're sitting on? They're my testicles!"

It's actually an awesome movie, though, watch it.

 

[Mammothtank]

I don't know if this had been brought up already or not, but I just learned that the person behind the WoW based webcomic "Messycow" was also the person hired to do the concept art for the PSN game Fat Princess.

 

[Gwanatu T]

Early gameplay

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/7188.html

That's plain awesome. I've seen the other two before, but never this one. I really wish they would release that version in addition to the one they already have as sort of a side-story or something for the Wii. It would be mega awesome to see that on there. Also, does anyone else get a distinctly Eternal Darkness feel from that video?

Also, TheSonicRetard, you're the freakin man. Those are some seriously awesome things that I definitely didn't know about Sonic. It's funny to hear about the tricks that developers used to have to do to get things working like they wanted, and that includes basically every generation other than the one we're currently in really.

 

[permutated]

A lot of you know that Starfox Adventures started as Dinosaur Planet - a game concept completely made by Rare. There's even beta shots out there of the elusive Dinosaur Planet.

And it should have stayed as Dinosaur Planet because that game was trash and Star Fox has gone downhill ever since.

 

[Dr.Hadji]

In Pikmin2 when you switch between Olimar and the President, Olimar says his name "Olimar" and the President says "shachou". Shachou being the Japanese word for President.
The Shachou part being the thing people may not know, maybe.

 

[Haunted]

This one might be more obvious to some, but the 3 in the Super Mario Bros. 3 title screen has Tanooki Suit Mario as the shadow.

Holy shitfuck!

~Dac

Don't do that.

 

[Yoshichan]

Wow.

 

[Dali]

The Japanese legendary shape-shifting Tanooki is said to put leaves on its heads and to chant prior to transformation. In some legends, the leaf is the sacred lotus plant of Buddhism. When Mario gets a leaf, he gains pointy ears and the tail of a Tanooki.

“Tanuki” is the Japanese word for ‘raccoon’ (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is a mischievous master of disguise and shapeshifting.

So it's kind of strange because in Mario 3 there is a normal raccoon suit, and also a tanuki suit. But tanuki means raccoon, so there are two different raccoon suits. Kind of interesting.

Tanuki is the word for the raccoon dog. It isn't the same thing as a raccoon.

 

[Dacvak]

Don't do that.

Hah, noted.

 

[notsol337]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4

Micheal Jackson may have composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

 

[Hitokage]

“Tanuki” is the Japanese word for ‘raccoon’ (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is a mischievous master of disguise and shapeshifting.

So it's kind of strange because in Mario 3 there is a normal raccoon suit, and also a tanuki suit. But tanuki means raccoon, so there are two different raccoon suits. Kind of interesting.

Nyctereutes procyonoides is not a raccoon, and isn't even in the same taxonomical family. It is the "Raccoon Dog", named after its resemblance to the raccoon.

Edit: Doh, beaten.

 

[Jackson]

I think the most shocking thing I've ever found out is that Birdo is a cross dressing male... that kinda blew my mind when I found that out... I always thought it was a girl... and the craziest part was it's always been this way from the character's conception on SMB2... it says it IN the manual! nutty...

IT'S A TRAP!! BAIL OUT NOW YOSHI!

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

I think the most shocking thing I've ever found out is that Birdo is a cross dressing male... that kinda blew my mind when I found that out... I always thought it was a girl... and the craziest part was it's always been this way from the character's conception on SMB2... it says it IN the manual! nutty...



IT'S A TRAP!! BAIL OUT NOW YOSHI!

Well they have kinda gone back on that since then. It was supposedly more of a NoA decision for the translation for some strange reason. Birdo (aka Catherine) was always female in Japan anyway.

Well actually according to wikipedia, it was always a male in japan? now i'm more confused.

 

[Pancakes]

Wow.

Mind has been blown :lol

 

[Azure J]

I'm surprised so many people didn't notice the "3" symbol in Mario Bros. 3. Also, mind blown on the "Sonic 1 takes place in one day" comment.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Well they have kinda gone back on that since then. It was supposedly more of a NoA decision for the translation for some strange reason. Birdo (aka Catherine) was always female in Japan anyway.

Well actually according to wikipedia, it was always a male in japan? now i'm more confused.

Well in the Mario Strikers Charged manual, it refers to Birdo as 'he'.

 

[Totz]

I'm not sure this is right or if no one noticed it, but TOM NOOK is a raccoon, right? TOM NOOK AND TANUKI are somewhat, kinda similar, especially in Japanese (I hope).

... yeah, that's all I've got.

 

[Justin Bailey]

If I had three wishes, I would wish for:

1. The inability to see the FedEx arrow thing
2. The inability to see the Mario cloudbushes thing
3. The inability to ever see something unseeable ever again or see anything that is currently unseeable.

Oh, and speaking of unseeable things, have you guys ever noticed Mr. Mimal? He's the chef in the United States map.

Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana

Yeah I remember learning about Mimal in 5th grade geography. We also snickered quite a bit about adding Tennessee to the bunch.

 

[The Hermit]

paging TheSonicRetard...
paging TheSonicRetard...

 

[Sixfortyfive]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4

Micheal Jackson may have composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

That video is lame because it completely misses the most obvious evidence: Almost all of the non-Japanese composers in the credits have been confirmed to have worked with MJ at one point in time.

It also omits the most MJ-sounding song in Sonic 3 by far.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

I think the most shocking thing I've ever found out is that Birdo is a cross dressing male... that kinda blew my mind when I found that out... I always thought it was a girl... and the craziest part was it's always been this way from the character's conception on SMB2... it says it IN the manual! nutty...

IT'S A TRAP!! BAIL OUT NOW YOSHI!

Birdo is Nintendo's Poison?

 

[emilio]

The glowing dot on the Ugly Heads (from Mega Man 2 Airman's stage) is the small energy item, mirrored and with a different blinking.

 

[zoukka]

That I had already seen. But try this! Imagine the big purple dude as a monkey... the line at the bottom is the mouth and the round hole his nose. I can't unsee it anymore

 

[Kilrogg]

The glowing dot on the Ugly Heads (from Mega Man 2 Airman's stage) is the small energy item, mirrored and with a different blinking.

[pic]

...

O_O!

@zoukka: you blow my mind too. Do you think they're really supposed to look like that though? I wonder...

 

[Kunan]

That I had already seen. But try this! Imagine the big purple dude as a monkey... the line at the bottom is the mouth and the round hole his nose. I can't unsee it anymore

NOOOOOOooooooo

Wow.

Holy bajeezus, the mario ones keep on coming

 

[Laurentius]

aUHs4

 

[Zoe]

The Japanese legendary shape-shifting Tanooki is said to put leaves on its heads and to chant prior to transformation. In some legends, the leaf is the sacred lotus plant of Buddhism. When Mario gets a leaf, he gains pointy ears and the tail of a Tanooki.

“Tanuki” is the Japanese word for ‘raccoon’ (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They have been part of Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is a mischievous master of disguise and shapeshifting.

So it's kind of strange because in Mario 3 there is a normal raccoon suit, and also a tanuki suit. But tanuki means raccoon, so there are two different raccoon suits. Kind of interesting.

A "tanuki" is actually a raccoon dog, not a raccoon.

Edit: wtf, beaten. Twice! I swear I checked too!

 

[rohlfinator]

That I had already seen. But try this! Imagine the big purple dude as a monkey... the line at the bottom is the mouth and the round hole his nose. I can't unsee it anymore

That's the way I've always seen it... what's it supposed to be?

 

[djtiesto]

Could be old, but oh well:

An explanation on how "rooms" and levels work in the original Metroid... and how there are some rooms accessible in the ROMs that you can't get to from the original game.

 

[Struct09]

Not only can I not unsee it, I can't even see it how I used to see it...

Same here. Damnit!

 

[RiskyChris]

Birdo is Nintendo's Poison?

Birdo is like all of the characters in Wartech.

 

[BigAT]

Not only can I not unsee it, I can't even see it how I used to see it...

Ugh, I'm done for as well.

Knowledge is dangerous.

 

[Ledsen]

That I had already seen. But try this! Imagine the big purple dude as a monkey... the line at the bottom is the mouth and the round hole his nose. I can't unsee it anymore

vadernooooooooooooooo.gif

The round hole is the mouth The round hole is the mouth

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Here's one I noticed out of the blue while I was looking through my game collection today.

Look at the Starman's visor.

 

[Fireflu]

omg ness! his shrimpish little eyes are staring into my soul !

 

[Fuu]

Look at the Starman's visor.

...!

 

[Azure J]

Here's one I noticed out of the blue while I was looking through my game collection today.

Look at the Starman's visor.

Wait, people didn't see this? :lol

 

[miyuru]

It's not videogame related, but you can all probably try this out right now:

Did you know that you can use your headphones/earphones as a microphone, without any modification?

Simply plug in your headphones into the microphone port on your computer, and talk into the headphones. Only one of the headphones (left or right) will work.

I'm not sure if this works on all headphones but it seems to!

Even cooler, you can use a microphone as a small speaker in the same fashion.

 

[pgtl_10]

Ah i see it, was looking at the red panels.

The picture is probably referring to Dr. Robotnik.