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What is the wierdest thing Nintendo has ever done?

Combichristoffersen said:
He posted some other #34 drawings in various threads, and supposedly posted some anti-semitic comments too, so he was on a troll roll earlier today. I think it's the first time I've seen a user not only get banned, but outright deleted (with all his posts gone).
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Crushed got wiped from GAF when his
first
account was banned a few years ago, but his posts seem to have been restored at some point.
 
It always seemed weird to me that you raise a flag with the Soviet Red Star after you finished a Level in Super Mario Bros
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(Nintendo changed the color to green in the Allstars remake though)
 
Ruud_Luiten said:
R.O.B. was super smart.
Made the consumers think they are buying high tech toys, not a gameconsole like the atari.
The market was dead and the R.O.B made it look like something new and fresh.
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I think I used ROB a total of 5 times before he broke. I made my little sister think she was ROB and we finished gyromite together.
 
revolverjgw said:
"Birdo thinks he is a girl and likes to be called Birdetta. He likes to wear a bow on his head and shoot eggs from his mouth."
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omg this
plus all the ultra-weird Pokemons(yeah i know they are not really from Nintendo but anyway) like
Psyduck (a duck which suffers from chronic migraine)
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or

Wobbuffet (a blue blob with four "legs" which lives in darkness to hide its black tail...wtf what?)
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Chittagong said:
You can't believe how many European Nintendo distributors protested against this, but NOE's idiot marketing department thought it was the best branding initiative ever. Brilliant, especially during an era when PAL games still had black borders on screen due to higher resolution.

FROM (NTSC / USA)

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TO (PAL/EU)

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Yikes. That is pretty stupid.
 
Gamecube. In the US it launched with a Sonic game. Take someone from the 90s and they would like...what happened?

Going back to the earlier point of region locking. Did any of you know that in Europe there were two NES regions with distinct packaging and games from one didn't work on the other. There was the mattel version (UK and some other places) and the European version (which had more square packaging like the Asian versions). I probably made some mistakes there; thats how bizarre inter-region locking is.
At the time Nintendo didn't distribute in all those countries and I guess they wanted their partners to be able to not have to worry about competition

On the other hand SEGA literally sold European Master System games in the US.

djtiesto said:
So much weird stuff, kind of a shame the horse bag never got released... would have been worth it just for all the laughs! Maybe we'll see it turn up on WiiU somehow...
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A lot of companies file patents years before their ideas become marketable so yes it could still turn up. Also R&D departments do make a lot of redundant ideas...
 
Berordn said:
Can't find the video anymore, but when you 100% the game and head to the finale, you can save this chick:
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Who will thank you, and bestow a great power on you. Screen shifts focus away from them, and you hear Tingle's excitement.
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I was meaning to finish this game 100 percent but I just stopped towards the end due to rupee "grinding" to afford body guards wasn't much fun. The controls weren't good but it had a lot of charm.
 
There was so much stuff that Nintendo did during the NES era that wasn't even really considered weird at the time. If they did this stuff now....

R.O.B. the robotic co-op buddy.

The Power Glove!

Sending out Nintendo Power to every child in North America.

Making a full length motion picture to launch Super Mario Bros. 3!

The Nintendo World Championship.
 
Love hotels aren't so weird when you consider Yamauchi was its biggest customer...

Also Wii isn't weird at all. Anyone with some sense could have seen that it was a good move.
 
Starwolf_UK said:
Going back to the earlier point of region locking. Did any of you know that in Europe there were two NES regions with distinct packaging and games from one didn't work on the other. There was the mattel version (UK and some other places) and the European version (which had more square packaging like the Asian versions).
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Yes. Basically, region A were UK and Italy, the states where Mattel was the first distributor, and region B was the rest of Europe. After some years distributors changed, but the division remained.

Starwolf_UK said:
On the other hand SEGA literally sold European Master System games in the US.
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Mattel was also the distributor for Australia (another PAL country) and basically UK/Italian cartridges are playable on Aussie NESes, and viceversa.
 
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Fuck just noticed it was posted like three times already, just that it was called 'horse bag' and not 'horsebag' so the search didn't touch it
 
giving capcom the right to make the gameboy zeldas which was weird but definitely awesome too because capcom made a great game, and i hope that they do one again just to see how they would tackle a 3ds zelda. :)
 
Easily the 3DS. Whoever was in charge of marketing that thing should be fired. Looks just like a DS which makes it virtually indistinguishable from the DS for the average consumer, shipped without a finished controller, and forbids developers from making games designed around the system's supposedly biggest selling point. The entire thing was/is a mind-boggling series of weird missteps. Luckily their software department kicks ass because there is zero reason to own the hardware.
 
As for games, Animal leader was based on quite a weird concept.

Also Doshin the giant was quite weird.

By the way, for a start the very idea of a plumber going down pipes eating magic mushrooms and fighting against flying turtles and piranha plants, well, it's something quite surreal at the very least...
 
Sothpaw said:
Team Ninja + Metroid was really weird because it completely missed the point of Metroid.
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The worst, the whole idea and concept behind the game was Sakamoto's, none other the father of Metroid (besides Yokoi I would say).

Nintendo is really insane, too bad a few experiments have been awful, but in general, their wackiness is what makes their games special.
 
Man, I wish the e-reader was handled better. There could've been some interesting uses for it but it seemed like 90% of the time was for NES games. Didn't most of those games come out as GBA carts anyway?

Soka said:
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Funny story: When I was a kid and Pokemon just came out in the US, my mom was driving me to school and we saw this car parked at the side of the road with some lights flashing. We were on a pretty out of the way road so we thought something might've been wrong with her car, so we stopped and asked.

Turned out they were doing this promotion where the Olympic torch runners was carrying a Pocket Pikachu with them as they ran and the runner was going that way. She also gave me a small stuffed Sandslash I think.
 
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