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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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eso76
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Probably not worthy of this thread but i just saw the old movie The Beach yesterday and this sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHINpgFO3I
reminded me of something. Fonts, colors, character design (animals)...
So i looked that up on imdb and this is what i found:
"The videogame recreation scene in the jungle was inspired upon the game 'Banjo-Kazooie (1998)', developed by Rare Ltd., according to Danny Boyle. "
Maybe it was a well known fact back then, no idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHINpgFO3I
reminded me of something. Fonts, colors, character design (animals)...
So i looked that up on imdb and this is what i found:
"The videogame recreation scene in the jungle was inspired upon the game 'Banjo-Kazooie (1998)', developed by Rare Ltd., according to Danny Boyle. "
Maybe it was a well known fact back then, no idea.
What the hell? I haven't seen The Beach myself before, but how the fuck does this scene tie into the movie? I thought it was a serious film or something.
randomlyrossy
Member
Are you implying video games aren't serious business? IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING HERE?
Duane Cunningham
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And he totally got screwed... he had this big adventure, overthrew the dictator, and became the hero of the land. Then, Zelda said "hey as a reward, I'll make you a kid again, before any of this happened". Then boom, nobody knows him, he's not a hero, just a kid. The thing he became a hero for isn't going to happen, because he can prevent it by simply not getting tricked into collecting the stones.
So now he's got nothing to do, except go screw around in Termina, and then... who knows. Marry Malon and become a rancher, I guess. Slowly growing old, always dwelling on a childhood memory that only he can remember. He's just some guy in Hyrule, lost to history. Was he really ever a hero, or were those just some strange childlike delusions of grandeur? No wonder by the time TP happens, he's just a restless old ghost.
That reminds me much more of Crash Bandicoot than Banjo to be honest.
Haven't seen the film, but he's on a drug trip.
eso76
Member
yeah, i'll be honest, i thought of crash bandicoot too.
and the main character in the movie is a videogame addict and...well yeah you could probably say he's on drugs.
That or Danny Boyle was, anyway.
jimjonjimmy
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sorry if a repost but since there was recent mention of mario 64 did you know that sometimes marios head faces the wrong way during a ground pound/butt stomp
Nose Master
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revolverjgw
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Riposte
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revolverjgw
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Coincidence ?
I think not =P
Who the hell punches like that?
My hero, it says so right on the box.
Weird though, I played that game for hours and I don't remember him doing anything other than jump kicking.
John Rabbit
Banned
not really. he's losing his mind from being isolated in the jungle for several days in a row. the movie doesn't really explain it nearly as well as the book does.
Wouldn't it be a shocking fact if that song was actually about the game?
I wish that were true
Vinegar Joe
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Related yet equally useless: the author of the original novel, Alex Garland, was a big Digitiser fan and apparently named one of the chapters after it. I only remember because he wrote a bit for the last edition.
XANDER CAGE
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Why does Danny Boyle have such dramatic swings from fantastic to shit?
Lionel Mandrake
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Saw this posted on Reddit today.
And I never knew this.
PWNgWIN said:
And I never knew this.
Side Arms flyer has more images
That red ball thing in the last one also appeared in some capcom games if i remember correctly
That red ball thing in the last one also appeared in some capcom games if i remember correctly
Side Arms flyer has more images
That red ball thing in the last one also appeared in some capcom games if i remember correctly
Yeah. It's in Mega Man 10 and Bionic Commando Rearmed, even. I forget what it's called, though. Something Japanese.
EDIT: Yashichi. That's it.
Saw this posted on Reddit today.
I always thought it was a guy looking up in a reverse baseball cap.
revolverjgw
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You've just rocked my world, it will never be the same
Conrad Link
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I've actually always wondered what that was myself lol, cool!
All these years, I always saw it as a badly drawn Chun-Li sprite.
DiipuSurotu
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But who is the "World Warrior"?
Well, Ryu does travel the world looking for strong opponents so that would be him I guess.
Lionel Mandrake
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I actually thought it was supposed to be Ryu doing some special that isn't in the game.
Chaz Ashley
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Well, I don't remember if it was revealed in the game or with official artwork, but Hironobu Sakaguchi confirmed that Steiner from "Final Fantasy IX" is actually bald under his helmet:
Blew at least my mind a little bit. Oh, and Sakaguchi's favorite Pokémon is Raichu, btw.
Blew at least my mind a little bit. Oh, and Sakaguchi's favorite Pokémon is Raichu, btw.
Im_So_Pringles
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My mind has been blown so many times in this thread...... Omg.....
How About No
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Well, I don't remember if it was revealed in the game or with official artwork, but Hironobu Sakaguchi confirmed that Steiner from "Final Fantasy IX" is actually bald under his helmet:
Blew at least my mind a little bit. Oh, and Sakaguchi's favorite Pokémon is Raichu, btw.
Steiner actually looks pretty badass there.
Harken Raiser
Banned
It always did look like a robot to me, but I always thought that wouldn't make any sense.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I swear I've read somewhere in a Hideo Minaba interview that Zidane's tail is actually supposed to be that of a cat rather than a monkey's, but I can't remember where Then again, it was a Japanese interview that I was machine-translating with Google...
EDIT: Anyway, another FFIX fact (not that mindblowing) is that Steiner's original name was Edward Steiner. His name was written as such on some early FFIX figurines. In the Japanese and US versions of the game it was changed to Adelbert Steiner, presumably because there are real people named Edward Steiner. For some reason the French version wanted to compromise and actually named him Edward Adelbert Steiner.
Then again, it was a Japanese interview that I was machine-translating with Google...EDIT: Anyway, another FFIX fact (not that mindblowing) is that Steiner's original name was Edward Steiner. His name was written as such on some early FFIX figurines. In the Japanese and US versions of the game it was changed to Adelbert Steiner, presumably because there are real people named Edward Steiner. For some reason the French version wanted to compromise and actually named him Edward Adelbert Steiner.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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I've wanted to contribute to this thread for a long time because I think its genuinely one of the best threads on an internet forum. Ever. So here goes:
Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast,
I knew you could unlock taxi's, but never played it enough to unlock everything (I had one of the early glitched copies that let you carry on through the game even if you didn't win, man it just killed the challenge of the game for me so I didn't play much further after finding that out..) so imagine my surprise when I found out that you could unlock lawn mowers. But not only that, but the streets get covered in fucking GRASS. I didn't know what to think until I saw it with my own eyes.
This could be old or commonly known... If it is I've obviously been living under a rock because I had no idea!
Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast,
I knew you could unlock taxi's, but never played it enough to unlock everything (I had one of the early glitched copies that let you carry on through the game even if you didn't win, man it just killed the challenge of the game for me so I didn't play much further after finding that out..) so imagine my surprise when I found out that you could unlock lawn mowers. But not only that, but the streets get covered in fucking GRASS. I didn't know what to think until I saw it with my own eyes.
This could be old or commonly known... If it is I've obviously been living under a rock because I had no idea!
I always wanted to know what the fuck was that when I was a little kid. Thanks dude!Saw this posted on Reddit today.
And I never knew this.
The music in that video is pretty awesome to boot!
apparently, if you screen-cap diablo's start up screen and use the bucket tool in paint on the area around diablo's head you reveal subliminal messages!
Natalie Portman rocks indeed.
but did you think so before you played diablo, hmm?
Don't answer the question unless you are around the same age as her. (She was 15 when Diablo came out.)
It's ok if she's OLDER than me, right?
eso76
Member
Saw this posted on Reddit today.
And I never knew this.
always known it was side arms mech, but that's because i loved sidearms as a kid.
Yeah, Capcom has lots of things like these in their older games, the Yashichi (from their first game vulgus) is usually the highest awarding bonus. Then there's the famous Capcom Cow, but i don't remember the meaning of that. Maybe from gunsmoke, not sure.
The Barrel comes from sonson or higemaru. Or maybe that's two names for the same game.
Saw this posted on Reddit today.
And I never knew this.
I thought it's an upper body of a swimming robot