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[bengraven]

I remember that. Didn't strike me as odd for some reason.

Ha, same here.

 

[Diablohead]

More of an origin story than a fact, but Mike Booth, lead designer of Left 4 Dead just finished a talk at my university and revealed that the basic idea of Left 4 Dead came from testing the Counter Strike bots they were creating and facing off against 30 or so of them only allowing the bots to use knives. Thought that was really interesting, though maybe not mind blowing.

I remember in the early days of CSS someone made a mod to do just that, it grew and slowly became the zombie mod which was popular for ages, get knifed and turn into a zombie which has a speed and hp bonus, but only a knife.

I played a ton of Zmod and loved it but left4dead just never pulled me in the same.

 

[1up]

More of an origin story than a fact, but Mike Booth, lead designer of Left 4 Dead just finished a talk at my university and revealed that the basic idea of Left 4 Dead came from testing the Counter Strike bots they were creating and facing off against 30 or so of them only allowing the bots to use knives. Thought that was really interesting, though maybe not mind blowing.

That's in the developer commentary for Left 4 Dead 1.

 

[notsol337]

More of an origin story than a fact, but Mike Booth, lead designer of Left 4 Dead just finished a talk at my university and revealed that the basic idea of Left 4 Dead came from testing the Counter Strike bots they were creating and facing off against 30 or so of them only allowing the bots to use knives. Thought that was really interesting, though maybe not mind blowing.

I used to do that!

 

[TUSR]

What, people didn't know this? Do you guys also not know that more than one yeti can be chasing you at the same time?

Wait, what?

I always though the levels just looped around on its self, but two can be after you at a time. And pressing F makes you go faster too... My childhood....

 

[Stabby89]

"Olimar" is an acronym for "L. Mario" or Luigi Mario, his full name. Either that or the makers tried to make an anagram for Mario and added an L because it didn't work out.

Also, this:

 

[Lakupo]

Actually, "Olimar" isn't quite an anagram, but actually "Mario" in reverse. Since Japanese is syllabic, MA-RI-O in reverse is O-RI-MA. This got localized to Olimar.

 

[randomlyrossy]

Also, this:

http://i46.tinypic.com/30lgbp3.jpg[img][/QUOTE]

Am I missing something beside the obvious? (that the hole is shaped like the mole dude) Cause if that's it my mind remainds in-tact.

 

[TheDoppelganger]

the hole looks like it has a penis instead of the tail

 

[MNC]

"Olimar" is an acronym for "L. Mario" or Luigi Mario, his full name. Either that or the makers tried to make an anagram for Mario and added an L because it didn't work out.

Also, this:

Close but no cigar, that's his tail :lol

 

[Stabby89]

Close but no cigar, that's his tail :lol

A tail isn't hard enough to leave a mark through the sand. An erected penis is.

 

[lordy88]

Actually, "Olimar" isn't quite an anagram, but actually "Mario" in reverse. Since Japanese is syllabic, MA-RI-O in reverse is O-RI-MA. This got localized to Olimar.

If this is true....

MIND BLOWN.

 

[Stabby89]

Mind Blo---

Oh wait. MA-RI-O is O-IR-AM backwards, not O-RI-MA...

Almost had me....

Japanese writing is syllabic.

[MA]-[RI]-[O]
[O]-[RI]-[MA]

 

[viewtiful_dru]

Question:
I'm listening to the music from the Clock Tower in Zelda: Majora's Mask.

The main part of the song reminds me of something from Metroid, but I'm not that familiar with that series' music, so I wonder if any one else has made the connection.

 

[DryvBy]

In the original Gamecube manual (for the system), at least in America, they had a picture of the save game feature and how that worked, along with a save state for "Super Mario 64".

Was Nintendo planning N64 remakes all along?

 

[[Nintex]]

In the original Gamecube manual (for the system), at least in America, they had a picture of the save game feature and how that worked, along with a save state for "Super Mario 64".

Was Nintendo planning N64 remakes all along?

The early GameCube/Dolphin devkits had an upgraded version of Peach's Castle as a tech demo. Might've been related to that.

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

Why they developed Super Mario Sunshine instead of a great looking Mario 64 sequel is anyones guess.

 

[oracrest]

A tail isn't hard enough to leave a mark through the sand. An erected penis is.

prove it.

 

[desertdroog]

^ Wow, that is a great way to tell someone to go pound sand.

>_>

<_<

^_^b

 

[batbeg]

A tail isn't hard enough to leave a mark through the sand. An erected penis is.

Your average erected penise also points straight, not down.

Go see a physician.

 

[Azure Dream]

Japanese writing is syllabic.

[MA]-[RI]-[O]
[O]-[RI]-[MA]

One of the Japanese Brawl trailers even makes a clear play on this, jumbling the characters as Olimar knocks Mario out of the way.

 

[RiskyChris]

One of the Japanese Brawl trailers even makes a clear play on this, jumbling the characters as Olimar knocks Mario out of the way.

[ig]http://www.mooglecavern.com/brawlcentral/SuperSmashBrosBrawl-CM86-Mario.jpg[/img][ig]http://www.mooglecavern.com/brawlcentral/SuperSmashBrosBrawl-CM86-Olima.jpg[/img]
[ig]http://www.mooglecavern.com/brawlcentral/SuperSmashBrosBrawl-CM86-PikuminAndOlimaa.jpg[/img]

Haha, wow! That's amazing!

 

[BowieZ]

A tail isn't hard enough to leave a mark through the sand. An erected penis is.

I like this use of "erected" implying a second party erected it. :lol

 

[Stabby89]

The gas Pokemon Koffing is just the word "coughing".

 

[Jaded Alyx]

The gas Pokemon Koffing is just the word "coughing".

Facts that blow your mind, not facts that are blatantly obvious

 

[sits]

Facts that blow your mind, not facts that are blatantly obvious

Leave Stabby alone -- I was one of the many who didn't notice the 'Biggoron' thing....

 

[Talladega Knight]

The gas Pokemon Koffing is just the word "coughing".

WHAT!!!! I always pronounced it as "kofing."

 

[FunkyPajamas]

I like this use of "erected" implying a second party erected it. :lol

Isn't that always the case? :lol

 

[Degen]

Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 5 have the same narrator: your boy Alucard from Castlevania SotN

 

[Starwolf_UK]

The gas Pokemon Koffing is just the word "coughing".

Come to think of it since Delibird is meant to be a play on the words delivery and bird shouldn't it be pronounced in the same way as delivered rather than "Deli bird" which I usually hear.

 

[Stabby89]

Facts that blow your mind, not facts that are blatantly obvious

This will blow your mind: the evolution of Koffing was probably meant to be Sneezing, but it doesn't sound right so they changed it to Weezing.

Come to think of it since Delibird is meant to be a play on the words delivery and bird shouldn't it be pronounced in the same way as delivered rather than "Deli bird" which I usually hear.

I remember this from learning Japanese for a while: Japanese doesn't have the v-sound, but it's replaced by and pronounced as b when writing an English word. So it could very well be "delivered".

 

[MNC]

This will blow your mind: the evolution of Koffing was probably meant to be Sneezing, but it doesn't sound right so they changed it to Weezing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeze

Sorry!

 

[Stabby89]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeze

Sorry!

Well, I'm not a native speaker so I didn't know the word. It's still mind blowing nontheless. Coughing -> wheezing.

 

[Ondore]

And Koffing/Weezing were originally going to be named "Ny" and "La".

 

[bernardobri]

Not a videogame fact, but "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram for "Old West Action".

 

[MNC]

Not a videogame fact, but "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram for "Old West Action".

O_O That certainly is cool.

 

[Dabookerman]

In Pokemon Blue, before you challenge Gary at the Pokemon Tower in Lavender town, he asks if you've ever known what its like to have a Pokemon die.

At this point in the game, he no longer has his Raticate.

 

[Diablohead]

Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 5 have the same narrator: your boy Alucard from Castlevania SotN

 

[mclem]

Not a videogame fact, but "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram for "Old West Action".

Not as cool as Virginia Bottomley (UK Tory MP) being an anagram of "I'm an evil Tory bigot"

 

[hoqhuuep]

In the spirit of stating the obvious....

Artic-uno
Zap-dos
Mol-tres

 

[Jaded Alyx]

In the spirit of stating the obvious....

Artic-uno
Zap-dos
Mol-tres

...and already posted to boot.

NEXT!

 

[tabsina]

In the spirit of stating the obvious....

Artic-uno
Zap-dos
Mol-tres

ok.. i didn't know that one

EDIT: clearly i skipped a few pages

 

[Gospel]

You guys know the 150th Pokemon known as Mewtwo? Well guess what, it's a clone of Mew!

Here's the mindblowing part, Mewtwo= Mew-Two, get it?
Mew and Two!

Spoiler

Real talk though, Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

 

[Trurl]

Ganondorf

Actually, I feel kind of dumb that the uno, dos, tres names are a revelation to me.

 

[ReyVGM]

Yes yes we get it. Pokemon had a lot of clever name-play.

Hitmon Lee and Hitmon Chan = Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

 

[Dacvak]

This thread keeps circling the drain.

 

[Gospel]

This thread sucks, but since I think this went overlooked in another thread, I'll just quote what I wrote here:

This isn't really a glitch since it was intentional, but the method to getting it was really weird.

This is for the Sega Genesis game, Rings of Power, by Naughty Dog, you know, the Uncharted people.

The "Glitch" in question was uncensored tits on the Naughty Dog logo screen.

Back then, I read somewhere that if you hit/smack your Genesis as you're turning the thing on, you get the alternate titty start-up logo.

Here's the pic. Maybe NSFW (lol) http://i36.tinypic.com/245enhj.gif

Maybe if you smack the PS3, you get to see titties in Uncharted 2. Maybe.

Try it out sometime.

 

[RiskyChris]

This thread keeps circling the drain.

Holy shit did you know your avatar from SMB3 has a tail and ears!

 

[Degen]

Also, Maria from SotN = Kamikirimusi (bonus char) from Soulcalibur IV = C. Viper from Street Fighter IV = Carl Clover from Blazblue RIGHT, SIS!?

 

[Keyser Soze]

Probably already done, but each princess in the Mario games represents a power-up.

=

=

=

 

[Dacvak]

Probably already done, but each princess in the Mario games represents a power-up.

What?