UncleSporky
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In that case, the last boss is never Dr. Wily, since you're always destroying a machine that he created and is controlling rather than the man himself.
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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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In that case, the last boss is never Dr. Wily, since you're always destroying a machine that he created and is controlling rather than the man himself.
ResidentDante
Member
I play a few of the simpler titles on PS3 with this, and WipEout HD actually, so awesome:
if you analyze the reflection of Metal Mario statue in Brawl, there's Yoshi's Island
this has to be darn old
Yeah.
But who can keep track?You mean my sick-ass MS Sidewinder from like 1999? Rad!
It needs to be Plug and Play .... the Xbox one needs a special driver .. so it sux.
A friend has a PSX/N64/Saturn to usb adapter and always uses the saturn controller to play Street Fighter 4
Agent Unknown
Member
if you analyze the reflection of Metal Mario statue in Brawl, there's Yoshi's Island
this has to be darn old
Where/what am I looking at? Are there trees in the reflection, is it part of one of the maps?
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
I see what you're saying, but the part where you lost me was when you said the fake Dr. Wily was "converted" into the alien. Both the alien and Dr. Wily were part of the same hologram, so it didn't really "convert" into anything--it just displayed what Dr. Wily programmed it to display.
Agent Unknown
Member
It's a reflection of this stage.
Beaten more then a wombo combo =/
Ah sweet, that is neato.
Not sure if this belongs here as it's just speculation, but:
Smoke Rings = Mario Bros 2 Overworld Theme
Maybe this has already been found before? I couldn't find anything about it. Perhaps it's coincidence. The similarity is uncanny...
Smoke Rings = Mario Bros 2 Overworld Theme
Maybe this has already been found before? I couldn't find anything about it. Perhaps it's coincidence. The similarity is uncanny...
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Here's one that blew my mind a little bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxpbUeN-eg
Today, Valve announced the "Mann vs. Machine" update for TF2. As it turns out, they've been teasing it for more than two years, even if you did not immediately realize it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxpbUeN-eg
Today, Valve announced the "Mann vs. Machine" update for TF2. As it turns out, they've been teasing it for more than two years, even if you did not immediately realize it.
I'm starting Vice City for the first time and in the first safehouse, inside Vercetti's hotel room, there's a magazine on a table -- Erse, obviously a play on the UK gaming magazine Edge and the word arse.
But what's on the cover of the magazine? OMG.
Phantasy Star. An actual screenshot of Phantasy Star. Maybe, albeit edited.
(Someone else's image.)
Phantasy Star actually came out in 1987 in Japan, and wasn't released in the US or Europe till 1988, but still.
IT WAS NICE TO SEE.
..Well it blew my mind, at least.
This post blew my mind more than any else in this thread.
Doom 2 was released the same year Kurt Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun
Doom 2's map "Nirvana" starts with you getting the same weapon
Wow.
Graphics Horse
Member
The SNES games rotated the map when flying too, north being up was only on foot...
As far as I remember the PS games just use a rectangular map which wraps on each axis just like the earlier games. The mini globe is just the map texture mapped on a hemisphere with your position in the middle. It's an illusion along with the faked curvature. The polygons on the mini globe don't even move, only the texture coordinates do.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Doom 2 was released the same year Kurt Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun
Doom 2's map "Nirvana" starts with you getting the same weapon
Kurt died before Doom 2 was released, though. Sounds like a tasteless joke on iD's part.
I thought that's the point.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Well, it's not really mindblowing then. It's just iD being iD.
However, it's a joke that several people didn't realize, and therefore mindblowing.
Melchiah
Member
Doom 2 was released the same year Kurt Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun
Doom 2's map "Nirvana" starts with you getting the same weapon
That's hilarious. I never realized that at the time.
Talladega Knight
Member
Link...speaks?!?!?! How did it never register with me when I originally played it??
Click to 21 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g5Tk0gK0_s
also, part of mario's overalls in super mario bros look like space invaders :
Click to 21 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g5Tk0gK0_s
also, part of mario's overalls in super mario bros look like space invaders :
Turnstyle
Member
This is literally the most mind blowing fact in this thread. =(
Link speaks quite a few times. There's the time he finds a mirror under a table in Zelda II which has been pointed out previously in this thread.
I'm pretty sure when he kills that jumping monster in A Link to the Past he is the one saying "Take that!" though one could argue that is the voice of the godly narrator.
However in the first game the phrase "Boy, this sure is expensive" is said by the shopkeeper. It's just a dodgy translation.
I'm pretty sure when he kills that jumping monster in A Link to the Past he is the one saying "Take that!" though one could argue that is the voice of the godly narrator.
However in the first game the phrase "Boy, this sure is expensive" is said by the shopkeeper. It's just a dodgy translation.
He also says "Come on" to the statue thing in Wind Waker. One of his few spoke phrases.
Oh, and while we are on the topic of Link talking, might as well repost the fact that the Voice Actor of Marth in the 1996 Fire Emblem Anime is the same as they use for link in a number of games.
Oh, and while we are on the topic of Link talking, might as well repost the fact that the Voice Actor of Marth in the 1996 Fire Emblem Anime is the same as they use for link in a number of games.
Choppasmith
Member
No, you've got that mixed up. The voice they use for the Anime, Hikaru Midorikawa, they end up using for Melee/Brawl.
And speaking of obscure Anime -> Video Games
The voice that Capcom gets to voice Ryuuhaku Todo in CVS2 actually voiced "Detective" Todoh in awful Art of Fighting Anime. The late Takeshi Aono who was also known for voicing Dr. Wily.
KittenMaster
Member
IIRC it was either Abel or Kain in the FE anime that went on to become Link, I can't remember which though (if at all).
You know what else is mindblowing?
A shotgun to the head.
I'm sorry.
Hmm, the voice actor for adult Link in OoT and Majora's Mask (Zora/Fiere Diety) is Nobuyuki Hiyama, who was Cain in the 96 Fire Emblem Anime. He also was Link in Soulcalibur II, Smash Bros 1 and 2. I recognized he was Link while playing King of Fighters where he voices Joe Higashi.
The voice actor for Marth in the 96 anime (Hikaru Midorikawa), as far as I can find, only portrayed Link in a Legend of Zelda "sound drama" (either CD or radio show). Though they did get him to voice Marth in Melee and Brawl as well.
EDIT: And Twilight Princess/Brawl/Skyward Sword Link actor hasn't done anything Fire Emblem related as far as I can tell.
BOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Link...speaks?!?!?! How did it never register with me when I originally played it??
Click to 21 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g5Tk0gK0_s
also, part of mario's overalls in super mario bros look like space invaders :
Oh god why?!
Now I cannot unsee that xD
i lol'd
AdmiralSnackbar
Member
So I was looking at my keys...
when I noticed....
when I noticed....
id have never been very concerned with being politically correct or "tasteful" about jokes, though. Especially in the early days when the company was about 10 guys fresh out of college.
The bushes in Super Mario Bros. were just recolored clouds.
this is old. like really old.
Quotes 4 year old post, complains its old.
Already old back then. But yeah, comes along the wrong way.
PhoenixSFT
Member
Really? REALLY?
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Isn't that a Keyblade-styled key?
Although, here's something that blew my mind I learned from Kingdom Hearts' wiki...the character of Louie from the Jungle Book is actually "banned" due to his VA's family upset with Jim Cummings impersonating him in Talespin so Louie can't be used, explaining his absence in the sequel and likely the reason the Jungle Book level was cut from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
Although, here's something that blew my mind I learned from Kingdom Hearts' wiki...the character of Louie from the Jungle Book is actually "banned" due to his VA's family upset with Jim Cummings impersonating him in Talespin so Louie can't be used, explaining his absence in the sequel and likely the reason the Jungle Book level was cut from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
Doom 2 was released the same year Kurt Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun
Doom 2's map "Nirvana" starts with you getting the same weapon
To be fair, though, *many* doom maps give you a shotgun early on. I'd be happy to consider it a coincidence.
AdmiralSnackbar
Member
Its not like you ever get a view of the thing up close in the game, and the kingdom key is gone an hour into the story. The way the negative space makes a crown is mind blowing mostly since Iv'e missed it for ten years.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I see what you did there.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Fffff-
same year, as stated
and yes indeed it's a tasteless joke
FFUUUUUU at Mario/SI thing!
one interesting tidbit about the Manta level in SMS:
At the end of "The Shining", when Dick Halloran, Danny and Wendy are running from the flaming hotel, Dick notices, 'a ghostly manta shape, floating away over the hotel. It was paper thin, like a shadow, and then broke into smaller forms before turning into smoke and drifting away'. This seems too close to be mere coincidence
(thanks to the one who found this, Steven LeBlanc)
How could you NOT notice?
http://images.wikia.com/kingdomhearts/images/d/d0/Kh2logo0.jpg
one interesting tidbit about the Manta level in SMS:
At the end of "The Shining", when Dick Halloran, Danny and Wendy are running from the flaming hotel, Dick notices, 'a ghostly manta shape, floating away over the hotel. It was paper thin, like a shadow, and then broke into smaller forms before turning into smoke and drifting away'. This seems too close to be mere coincidence
(thanks to the one who found this, Steven LeBlanc)
This is the best one in a while. Here's the actual paragraph:
Nothing about it being paper thin, but it is described as being like smoke or a giant swatch of wallpaper.