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[kai3345]

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[Azure Dream]

This is very disappointing. Not the reference, but that people didn't know this already. It's a parody game of different varieties. Did you know the end boss

Spoiler

is from Aliens, along with the yellow mech thing you walk around in?

Did you know the bank scene in the lobby is from the Matrix? Did you know the beach scene is from Saving Private Ryan?

Did you know A Clockwork Orange is a little more obscure to Americans than Aliens or Saving Private Ryan?

 

[Professor Beef]

I knew the name "A Clockwork Orange," but I had no idea what the movie was even about, save for that one scene that Conker parodied. And even then, to me it was only "oh yeah, that's Clockwork Orange."

Some parodies are going to fly over people's heads. It's just how it is.

 

[Night_Trekker]

Sorry if this has already been posted (did a quick Google search and found nothing), but I found this last night and was shocked: Final Fight 2 box art rips off Streets of Rage 1 & 2 box art.

I guess Capcom decided they'd get Sega back in some small way for cloning FF!

 

[qualia]

Not really a fact, just a resemblance in chord progression and instrumentation:

Moby - Dead Sun (1996) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvfRZyEp8JI
Silent Hill 2 (Akira Yamaoka) - Forgotten Inferno (2001) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASm-HQmPyHs
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind The Bank (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwWEg1SU3aE

Possibly all unintentional, but cool either way, and all excellent songs in my opinion.

 

[Brazil]

Sorry if this has already been posted (did a quick Google search and found nothing), but I found this last night and was shocked: Final Fight 2 box art rips off Streets of Rage 1 & 2 box art.

I guess Capcom decided they'd get Sega back in some small way for cloning FF!

That's actually really awesome, haha.

 

[BocoDragon]

Sorry if this has already been posted (did a quick Google search and found nothing), but I found this last night and was shocked: Final Fight 2 box art rips off Streets of Rage 1 & 2 box art.

I guess Capcom decided they'd get Sega back in some small way for cloning FF!

That's a pretty undeniable "mind blown" finding that Capcom certainly intended.

 

[Version 3.0]

Sorry if this has already been posted (did a quick Google search and found nothing), but I found this last night and was shocked: Final Fight 2 box art rips off Streets of Rage 1 & 2 box art.

I guess Capcom decided they'd get Sega back in some small way for cloning FF!

That's hilarious...not so much a "rip-off", though. I'd say more like an in-joke or subtle insult.

 

[AtomicShroom]

David Wise apparently scored the XBLA port of mech game War World if his website's MP3 player is anything to go by, this is despite still being employed at Rare at that time.

So random, yet mind blown. I guess he was tired of all his projects at Rare getting cancelled and secretly worked on this?

 

[autobzooty]

I wonder why I didn't post that one earlier.

The teleporters in The Wind Waker use the first instrument in "The End of the World" from Majora's Mask as sound effect.

Something about that noise in Wind Waker has always been driving me crazy and I didn't even consciously realize it. Thank you, sir.

 

[Drkirby]

The Reason the Island Yo-Yo in Star Tropics was changed to the Island Star on the Virtual Console version is that Yo-Yo is still trademarked in Canada.

 

[Meohsix]

found this on reddit.

 

[BlueMagic]

Pretty cool.

 

[Thoraxes]

My old high-school AP English teacher worked on the art assets for the original Mortal Kombat. He had friends that worked for Midway and asked him for his help. He is now a school superintendent.

At least, this was shocking for me like 7 years ago. I thought he was lying till I beat the game to double-check.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

This is kinda old but a quick search found nothing on GAF:

Link's awakening DX has traces of “QBasic” along with other source code stuff

I found most fascinating was the source code implies that Nintendo lost the source code to Link's Awakening and so when making the DX version disassembled the game. Or they worked from Z80 machine code for some reason...given Iwata said in one of the Pokemon Iwata asks he programmed Pokemon Stadiums battle engine directly from reading the Game Boy assembly code for the game it that isn't so unlikely...

But such things in games isn't totally crazy, there are examples on that page (both in the main post and comments) and I recall some Playstation game had a copy of the South Park Christmas episode stuck in the root directory to fill up the disc.

 

[BarrenMind]

Just read a new mindblowing secret about Super Mario Bros on Twitter. Discovered by one Dan Ryckert from Game Informer:

@DanRyckert Dan Ryckert:
Ho-ly shit. I just learned that holding A and pressing start at the Super Mario Bros. menu starts you off where you last died. #mindblown

Yep, just tried it. Totally works. RT @scott_wi: @DanRyckert For real? Even on the original NES version?

Just tested it again. Lost all my lives at World 3-1, kicked back to the menu, held A and pressed start. Back at 3-1 with all lives.

Clarification - if you die on 3-2, 3-3, or 3-4, it starts you back at 3-1. It just takes you back to the X-1 of the world you were last on.

Did anyone know this? Did a quick search but didn't see this posted in this thread or elsewhere. Googled it and saw several instances where this was discovered before, but I've never heard about it. Such a simple thing, can't believe I never tried it as a kid.

 

[aaaaaa]

That was very well known in the 80s. Hudson Soft games had a similar system.

 

[OMG Aero]

Did anyone know this? Did a quick search but didn't see this posted in this thread or elsewhere. Googled it and saw several instances where this was discovered before, but I've never heard about it. Such a simple thing, can't believe I never tried it as a kid.

This isn't mind blowing at all. It's been known about and been on GameFAQs for years.
Next you'll be saying the level select code in Sonic 1 is mind blowing.

 

[BarrenMind]

Well now I won't

 

[stilgar]

Well now I won't

Didn't know either. Don't be sad, have a cookie

 

[Ferrio]

Believe it was in the manual too, might be mistaken on that.

 

[webrunner]

Minor thing, but the two PSP star ocean game's boxes line up:

Also, the box art on Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age Origins Awakening line up pretty well - pretty much exactly if it wasn't for that "expansion pack" thing on top.

Also, more obvious but not everyone has all four together on a shelf (sorry, these scans i found don't line up perfectly)

Also same with GU

There aren't enough games that actually look like they should go together on a shelf.

 

[LuFel]

found this on reddit.

my mind is blow!!

 

[goldenenergy]

Just read a new mindblowing secret about Super Mario Bros on Twitter. Discovered by one Dan Ryckert from Game Informer:

@DanRyckert Dan Ryckert:
Ho-ly shit. I just learned that holding A and pressing start at the Super Mario Bros. menu starts you off where you last died. #mindblown

I find it mind-blowing that someone didn't know about that code. It was even mentioned on an episode of MST3K!

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Also, more obvious but not everyone has all four together on a shelf (sorry, these scans i found don't line up perfectly)

Also same with GU

There aren't enough games that actually look like they should go together on a shelf.

Never played these game but now i have mad respect for them just because of this small detail. Games look so nice when lined up or covers have consistency as a series and match. Looks great from a distance too. Love the Onimusha games on my shelf.

 

[Solune]

Minor thing, but the two PSP star ocean game's boxes line up:

Wow that's really cool. The LE PSP Ys games also line up to form a picture too.

 

[Onion_Relish]

Never played these game but now i have mad respect for them just because of this small detail. Games look so nice when lined up or covers have consistency as a series and match. Looks great from a distance too. Love the Onimusha games on my shelf.

I actually have all 4. I would take a picture if i had a better camera, but the images all line up remarkably well. And yes, the waiter grunty is french for whatever. Mon ami!

 

[Trike]

I looked and didn't see this posted, but mock if it is old. Or if it is just too obvious.

It forms a head. The "y" even forms the back of the head/hairline. It is a pretty clever logo.

 

[TheOGB]

I looked and didn't see this posted, but mock if it is old. Or if it is just too obvious.

It forms a head. The "y" even forms the back of the head/hairline. It is a pretty clever logo.

I don't see anything more than a face

 

[Trike]

I guess the "Y" being the start of the hairline/back of head can be harder to see than the face.

 

[karobit]

I don't see anything more than a face

Yeah I'm not seeing the "y" being a part of the face, unless it's a cellphone that they're holding to their head, calling their friend to say "Yo dawg, Carnival Games is a piece of shit!"

 

[Ultima_5]

There aren't enough games that actually look like they should go together on a shelf.

The Ys games released recently on the psp line up. Can't find pics though
edit: beaten by quite a bit haha. Got to eager to share Ys knowledge!

 

[Poyunch]

Just saw this. Oh mah gawd. Apparently this is old but I just learned this.

 

[Drkirby]

Someone posted in this topic 2 days ago. It is 20 posts above you.

 

[KarmaCow]

Aren't there a bunch of pokemon with a flower theme? Not really that mind blowing.

 

[Poyunch]

Someone posted in this topic 2 days ago. It is 20 posts above you.

Boo-urns.

I was on my crappy computer a few seconds ago and it didn't see it.

 

[Professor Beef]

Aren't there a bunch of pokemon with a flower theme? Not really that mind blowing.

But they're not pink!

 

[Gravijah]

Aren't there a bunch of pokemon with a flower theme? Not really that mind blowing.

It's not really mindblowing, but I think that that Pokemon was actually an unused design from around RBY.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

found this on reddit.
http://i.imgur.com/eD2d1.png[IMG][/QUOTE]

They leave out tons of designs every game (I think they left out like 100 for B/W), this isn't completely unsurprising.

 

[Ignis]

(boxarts lining up)

There aren't enough games that actually look like they should go together on a shelf.

Strangely enough, US and jp versions of Katamari Damacy actually have connecting rainbows.

 

[Rufus]

Strangely enough, US and jp versions of Katamari Damacy actually have connecting rainbows.

http://gyoto.me/en-vrac/katamari.jpg

Oh, wow. Pan-regional match-up, really neat. Bet the European spine is just the boring standard spine, black text on a white background.

 

[Amir0x]

eh there's no way that was intentional considering nothing else on the spine matches up, whether it's the cloud, the city or the scape

 

[Moundir&Tony>you]

Oh, wow. Pan-regional match-up, really neat. Bet the European spine is just the boring standard spine, black text on a white background.

This game's never been released in Europe .

 

[Rufus]

Ah, right, only the second one came out here.

eh there's no way that was intentional considering nothing else on the spine matches up, whether it's the cloud, the city or the scape

Now I see it too, meh.

 

[Diomedeskun]

eh there's no way that was intentional considering nothing else on the spine matches up, whether it's the cloud, the city or the scape

It just lines up because the art on the Japanese version is a little higher up.

 

[Trike]

Here is another one:

Moon Bloodgood as Detective Maya Sunee in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Crimson Viper promo art for Street Fighter IV

Crimson Viper's real name is Maya.

Sorry if this was obvious for others, but I just found that out the other day >_>

 

[Guardian Bob]

I'll just leave this here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_(company)

Nintendo did not create that shape. It's been used by families in Japan for hundreds of years and a Sierpinski triangle. It's also a fractal. If you see a "triforce" somewhere, try not to be blown away.

 

[randomlyrossy]

Here is another one:

Moon Bloodgood as Detective Maya Sunee in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Crimson Viper promo art for Street Fighter IV

Crimson Viper's real name is Maya.

Sorry if this was obvious for others, but I just found that out the other day >_>

Yeah, I don't think it's mind blowing that a character in a Street Fighter movie was based on a character Street Fighter. In fact, I think that's kinda the point.

 

[iidesuyo]

Darkwing Duck on NES runs on the same game engine as Mega Man 5.

If you know it becomes obvious.

 

[ULTROS!]

This is pretty old (not sure if this was posted).

It's obviously a joke but it's pretty much spot-on.