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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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Starwolf_UK
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I'm borrowing these Advance Wars 2 ones from the cutting room floor.
Obscure loss dialogue for the first mission. You have to have all your units run out of fuel which given the nature of the mission is really hard to do:
If you keep placing a unit when you can't in the map editor enough times this text pops up:
Obscure loss dialogue for the first mission. You have to have all your units run out of fuel which given the nature of the mission is really hard to do:
If you keep placing a unit when you can't in the map editor enough times this text pops up:
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Not to mention that the Ocarina was in A Link to the Past, which came out only a month after that in Japan and was probably in development much longer.
To be fair, I remember thinking it was a made up instrument when I played OoT when I was 8.
EDIT: Speaking of Zelda, I just found out that in the JP version of Majora's Mask, the owl statues didn't allow you to quick-save. That sucks. :/
To be fair, I remember thinking it was a made up instrument when I played OoT when I was 8.
EDIT: Speaking of Zelda, I just found out that in the JP version of Majora's Mask, the owl statues didn't allow you to quick-save. That sucks. :/
Onion_Relish
Member
J10 said:
Uh... yeah, right. how about those plumbers eh? Those huge, succulent plumbers...
TheJollyCorner
Member
where's that FF neat facts/trivia thread???
Onion_Relish
Member
Did some sleuthing and...
his avatar is Desiree Elyda Villalobos
thank me later, im going to go buy stocks in kleenex
his avatar is Desiree Elyda Villalobos
thank me later, im going to go buy stocks in kleenex
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross:
electroplankton
Banned
jaxword said:
Thanks for those, they're really interesting!
I've got the FFVII Ultimania, but unfortunately I cannot speak or read Japanese so for me it's very difficult to understand a single word
anyway it's still a good book for all the pictures in it.Is there a video or a pic about this homosexual attitude?
electroplankton said:Thanks for those, they're really interesting!
I've got the FFVII Ultimania, but unfortunately I cannot speak or read Japanese so for me it's very difficult to understand a single word
Is there a video or a pic about this homosexual attitude?
Remember the slums and Honeybee Inn?
Well, you can cross-dress and (almost) make out with Don Corneo, and also get into a hot tub with lots of men feeling Cloud up and then camera panning away while Cloud can say it feels a little weird.
Cloud's just an experimental guy, but this all depends on the player, off course.
RadioHeadAche
Member
electroplankton said:
It's just the option to go on a very awkward date with Barret at the Golden Saucer.
toddhunter
Member
Remember fantasy zone? You fly around in your space ship shooting at things, collecting coins and buying upgrades. Great game, all action with no story to speak of. I played this for many years as a kid.
Only thing is....you are not in a spaceship at all. You are actually a living thing that just happens to look like a space ship...and has upgradeable parts and guns.
How do you know? Years later I played through fantasy zone 2 you face a duplicate copy of yourself with the same abilities as the final boss. If you win, you find out from your dad, also a spaceship type being (only giant) that he created that copy because you had been suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought that creating that challenge and the war and enemies you had been fighting against would help you deal with it.
Mind was blown
Only thing is....you are not in a spaceship at all. You are actually a living thing that just happens to look like a space ship...and has upgradeable parts and guns.
How do you know? Years later I played through fantasy zone 2 you face a duplicate copy of yourself with the same abilities as the final boss. If you win, you find out from your dad, also a spaceship type being (only giant) that he created that copy because you had been suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought that creating that challenge and the war and enemies you had been fighting against would help you deal with it.
Mind was blown
Well, I believe I just found a time waster to read about it this weekend. Thank you my good chum.TheOGB said:Just found a shit ton of Street Fighter trivia here. One of my favorites is Ken's Alpha 2 stage:
I had previously noticed Linn Kurosawa from the Aliens vs Predators arcade game as well as Felicia and Morrigan from Darkstalkers, but then I come to find out everyone in this stage is a cameo.
Tizoc
Member
Wow I knew there were cameos in Ken's stage but didn't know about some of the characters. Thanks for that.TheOGB said:Just found a shit ton of Street Fighter trivia here. One of my favorites is Ken's Alpha 2 stage:
I had previously noticed Linn Kurosawa from the Aliens vs Predators arcade game as well as Felicia and Morrigan from Darkstalkers, but then I come to find out everyone in this stage is a cameo.
...and the reason Strider is holding a teddy bear has to do with an employee who was working on a port of Strider for a console back in the late 80s/early 90s. The guy passed away sadly, but was a fan of teddy bears. So strider being in that background is a tribute to him.
Will check that site out too.
Oh and here's a little fun tidbit, though not necessarily mindblowing-
CvSNK 1- Dojo stage
SF Alpha 1 Japan stage-
Your av mate...just...your av.J10 said:
This was probably posted already but fuck it. My mind was just blown.
The Street Fighter Alpha stages are godlike!Tizoc said:Wow I knew there were cameos in Ken's stage but didn't know about some of the characters. Thanks for that.
...and the reason Strider is holding a teddy bear has to do with an employee who was working on a port of Strider for a console back in the late 80s/early 90s. The guy passed away sadly, but was a fan of teddy bears. So strider being in that background is a tribute to him.
Will check that site out too.
Oh and here's a little fun tidbit, though not necessarily mindblowing-
CvSNK 1- Dojo stage
SF Alpha 1 Japan stage-
Your av mate...just...your av.
electroplankton
Banned
jaxword said:Remember the slums and Honeybee Inn?
Well, you can cross-dress and (almost) make out with Don Corneo, and also get into a hot tub with lots of men feeling Cloud up and then camera panning away while Cloud can say it feels a little weird.
Cloud's just an experimental guy, but this all depends on the player, off course.
Thanks!
Concerning development stories, is there an english website that has collected them?
Tizoc
Member
OH SPEAKING OF WHICH.THE NO LIFE KING said:
Now THIS should blow your mind-
This stage from Alpha 1 is actually based on this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGiIg8kHbw
...and yes he is fighting HIM.
Sorry for the lack of a better quality image of that stage ^_^;
Maybe, or maybe it could be just a coincidence since it's Rose's stage and she's supposed to be Italian (and the most recognizable place for an Italian fighter would probably be the Coliseum).Tizoc said:OH SPEAKING OF WHICH.
Now THIS should blow your mind-
This stage from Alpha 1 is actually based on this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGiIg8kHbw
...and yes he is fighting HIM.
Sorry for the lack of a better quality image of that stage ^_^;
Her character, by the way, is based on Lisa Lisa, a character from the second part of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Noticed this the other day, as I've been playing through both recently;
We all remember the '23 is number 1' puzzle from Ocarina of Time right?
Well, a very similar puzzle was used in Links Awakening 5 years earlier (if you number them 1 to 3 from left to right like the Deku Scrubs were)
Not mindblowing, but easily glossed over.
We all remember the '23 is number 1' puzzle from Ocarina of Time right?
Well, a very similar puzzle was used in Links Awakening 5 years earlier (if you number them 1 to 3 from left to right like the Deku Scrubs were)
Not mindblowing, but easily glossed over.
Lionheart1827
Member
jaxword said:
Indeed, not to mention there isn't really anything linking the two in CC as well other than
the dragonians being an evolved form of the reptites
This would probably be better off in the game theories thread.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
It was just a interesting similarity. Obviously the Pangea of the Chrono planet didn't somehow become a small
island several million years later.
But here's something more concrete and easily overlooked, also from Chrono Cross:
The game takes place in 1020 A.D. What happened fifteen years before that? This:
http://i.imgur.com/pQJw2.jpg
(spoiler for Chrono Trigger PSX/DS)
and artificial
But here's something more concrete and easily overlooked, also from Chrono Cross:
The game takes place in 1020 A.D. What happened fifteen years before that? This:
http://i.imgur.com/pQJw2.jpg
(spoiler for Chrono Trigger PSX/DS)
Viper, Garai, Radius, and Zappa tore up the battlefield during the Porre-Guardia war. By the way, El Nido is a protectorate of Porre.
That puzzle took the friend, from whom I've borrowed it later, about a year to complete.Phoenixus said:Well, a very similar puzzle was used in Links Awakening 5 years earlier (if you number them 1 to 3 from left to right like the Deku Scrubs were)
Not mindblowing, but easily glossed over.
All because it was the German version of the game and he didn't know the language at all.
I just used a dictionary to read the hint. Ah, this screenshot surely brings back memories.
Jesus, that's amazing. I need to find these games again, I always gave up after playing not much of ittoddhunter said:Remember fantasy zone? You fly around in your space ship shooting at things, collecting coins and buying upgrades. Great game, all action with no story to speak of. I played this for many years as a kid.
Only thing is....you are not in a spaceship at all. You are actually a living thing that just happens to look like a space ship...and has upgradeable parts and guns.
How do you know? Years later I played through fantasy zone 2 you face a duplicate copy of yourself with the same abilities as the final boss. If you win, you find out from your dad, also a spaceship type being (only giant) that he created that copy because you had been suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought that creating that challenge and the war and enemies you had been fighting against would help you deal with it.
Mind was blown
It's not shown in the video but once you have the ocarina you're supposed to go back the village and a girl tells you which notes to play at the different doors using the A B and C buttons on the megadrive pad. It's eerily similar. Someone should ask Miyamoto if he knew about this game before making Zelda because there's a bunch of other similarities tooRockXLight said:
But the way you play that Ocarina was automatic in LttPWatch Da Birdie said:
Exactly, for the type of game that Monster World was, it was basically the 2D platformer version of Zelda (but with a bit more RPG elements). There's a fairly good chance Miyamoto knew about it beforehandFirebrand said:
toddhunter said:Remember fantasy zone? You fly around in your space ship shooting at things, collecting coins and buying upgrades. Great game, all action with no story to speak of. I played this for many years as a kid.
Only thing is....you are not in a spaceship at all. You are actually a living thing that just happens to look like a space ship...and has upgradeable parts and guns.
How do you know? Years later I played through fantasy zone 2 you face a duplicate copy of yourself with the same abilities as the final boss. If you win, you find out from your dad, also a spaceship type being (only giant) that he created that copy because you had been suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought that creating that challenge and the war and enemies you had been fighting against would help you deal with it.
Mind was blown
Great post, needs relevant pics.
TheOGB said:Isn't that this thing?
Don't mean to undermine your discovery, but I never played that game so my first experience with that was Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing.
Dude, play Fantasy Zone. Such a great SHMUP.
SkylineRKR
Member
Not sure if already posted and its very easy to notice, but DoA 1 for PSX had either Saturn or Arcade screenshots (which was a VERY different game):
Always found it odd.
Always found it odd.
Diablohead
Member
SkylineRKR said:
Professor Beef
Banned
hey man, ninjas don't lieTheOGB said:
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
SkylineRKR said:Not sure if already posted and its very easy to notice, but DoA 1 for PSX had either Saturn or Arcade screenshots (which was a VERY different game):
Always found it odd.
huh. Bayman was in DOA1? I always thought he was a new character to DOA3 since he wasn't in DOA2 (DC).
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Tizoc said:Oh and here's a little fun tidbit, though not necessarily mindblowing-
CvSNK 1- Dojo stage
SF Alpha 1 Japan stage-
And is actually a real life store opposite Capcom Japans office.
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Jocchan said:
toddhunter said:Remember fantasy zone? You fly around in your space ship shooting at things, collecting coins and buying upgrades. Great game, all action with no story to speak of. I played this for many years as a kid.
Only thing is....you are not in a spaceship at all. You are actually a living thing that just happens to look like a space ship...and has upgradeable parts and guns.
How do you know? Years later I played through fantasy zone 2 you face a duplicate copy of yourself with the same abilities as the final boss. If you win, you find out from your dad, also a spaceship type being (only giant) that he created that copy because you had been suffering from schizophrenia, and he thought that creating that challenge and the war and enemies you had been fighting against would help you deal with it.
Mind was blown
Space Harrier takes place in the same world. "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone". Also, there was an Opa Opa-like creature on the anime Zillion:
There was also two Zillion games on the Sega Master System, but I don't really remember any significant Opa Opa appearances in that.
Diablohead
Member
Never thought about that, awesome!drizzle said:
OpaOpa in sonic racing is awesome too, the way he moves and animates shows that he is more then just a spaceship.
Bayman is in the japanese 2nd release of DoA2 Dreamcast also.FreeMufasa said:
It's not just an Opa Opa-like creature, it's Opa Opa.drizzle said:Space Harrier takes place in the same world. "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone". Also, there was an Opa Opa-like creature on the anime Zillion:
There was also two Zillion games on the Sega Master System, but I don't really remember any Opa Opa appearances in that.
Zillion was co-produced by Sega.I know it was co-produced by Sega. But isn't the Opa Opa in Zillion a Machine created by the fat mechanic guy, which name escapes me?Roto13 said:It's not just an Opa Opa-like creature, it's Opa Opa.
God, It's been almost 20 years since I watched it...
R.E.M. vs. Cheap Trick vs. Mega Man vs. Journey
Edit: I would have to say I think only the Mega Man and Journey song sound a like.
Edit: I would have to say I think only the Mega Man and Journey song sound a like.
Alaskanbullworm
Member
This was posted over in the OT.
Never realized this, but it makes so much sense now.
Never realized this, but it makes so much sense now.