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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)

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In his original design, Dr. Eggman's collar is supposed to play with his bushy moustache to create the appearance of walrus tusks.

"I am the eggman... I am the walrus...."

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Shig said:
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In his original design, Dr. Eggman's collar is supposed to play with his bushy moustache to create the appearance of walrus tusks.

"I am the eggman... I am the walrus...."

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In Pokemon Black and White, there's a bike gang on Tubeline Bridge known as the Black Empoleon (or Black Emperte in Japan)...this always confused me, because it was a weird Pokemon to name a bike gang after considering Empoleon isn't even native to Unova, and a Napoleon Bonaparte Penguin doesn't lend itself that well to a biker gang, especially when there are Pokemon like Scrafty and Krookodile in Unova which fit far better.

The gang changes their name to one of your Pokemon after they defeat you, so I always had a theory for years that Darach of the Sinnoh Battle Frontier from Platinum, who uses Empoleon, had passed through before you and won, and they named their gang after his Empoleon, who is one of his signature Pokemon and his design is heavily modeled after. This theory fit because the young mistress Caitlynn he took care of in Platinum in Black and White was a member of the Elite Four, and thus Darach passed through the Tubeline Bridge in order to visit her.

However, I finally realized the reasoning is far more simple than that...it's a homage to the Black Emperors, a famous motorcycle club which was the subject of a popular Japanese documentary.
 
Chun Li is actually wearing a pantyhose in the Arcade Street Fighter 2. You can see the seams when she does her jump animation. Other animations that should show the seams, do not show them. My guess is that they planned to add them to all her animations, and either forgot or decided against it.

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This was removed from the later games.
 
ReyVGM said:
Chun Li is actually wearing a pantyhose in the Arcade Street Fighter 2. You can see the seams when she does her jump animation. Other animations that should show the seams, do not show them. My guess is that they planned to add them to all her animations, and either forgot or decided against it.

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This was removed from the later games.
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Can't say I ever noticed, and I played the arcade version a lot before the home versions arrived. Nice find.

Also, seams or no, of course she's wearing pantyhose. Either that or she only tans from the waist down. :)
 
Leondexter said:
Can't say I ever noticed, and I played the arcade version a lot before the home versions arrived. Nice find.

Also, seams or no, of course she's wearing pantyhose. Either that or she only tans from the waist down. :)
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Still interesting, can't say i ever noticed thos seams in all my years of playing that game.
 
Yeah, she's definitely wearing pantyhose (or more likely tights) in every version of Street Fighter. But that seam only appearing in one frame is a thing.
 
Nothing huge, but I didn't realize the "Killer Wail" in Splatoon is a play on "killer whale" until after a a good month or so. It blew my mind.
 
Mario is so rich he owns a castle and chooses not to live in it just because he can.

If anything the Mario series is about the aristocracy of the Mushroom Kingdom. You have princesses and the richest citizen getting together to join social activities (even DK is known as the ruler of his island). Think about all the places named after these individuals. Daisy Cruiser, Wario Goldmine, Waluigi has enough to commission a giant pinball machine in his honour just because he can. That also explains why he keeps popping up, he may look dispicable but he's rich and that's all you need to get into this social circle. You know why Luigi thought he won a mansion in a random giveaway? Because he's so rich that's the kind of thing he thinks they just giveaway.

If anything, considering four men wear overalls and a cap in this series, we can conclude for the Mushroom Kingdom this must be the highest form of gentlemen fashion.
 
huge fallout fan (started with 1 back in the day)... but i literally just learned this today... (or i forgot about it... ive done a lot of things to my brain....)

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Roto13 said:
Giant Bomb is wrong.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Galoomba
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Dude, the first sentence.
Galoombas (named "Goombas" in Super Mario World) are somewhat rare enemies from Super Mario World. They either walk across the ground, parachute from above or float down in bubbles (which burst upon coming into contact with any object), or can even appear with wings to hop around. They later reappear in Super Mario 3D World, where they are given the name "Galoomba" to distinguish them from actual Goombas.
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mclem said:
Since we're talking EA, do people know the Electronic Arts/Ultima stuff? Can't recall if this has been here before.

If you're not aware, a lot of the developers of Ultima have in-universe counterparts. Shamino and Lord British are both versions of Garriott himself, Iolo is the composer, David Watson, and Iolo's wife, Gwenno, is a version of Watson's wife, Kathleen. Chuckles the jester is one of the founders of Origin, Chuck Bueche... and so on.

It happens that Richard Garriott is not fond of Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts. It's been said that his attitude to craft and worldbuilding goes at odds with EA's all-business approach. In Ultima VI, there's a major plotline about the treasure map of one Captain Hawkins; as his gravestone says, "Here lies Captain Hawkins. He died a hard death and he deserved it". There's other pirates in the game also based on EA employees: Joe Ybarra, Stewart Bonn, Bing Gordon. At the end of Ultima VI, Britannia is somewhat stable and contented. Peace and prosperity are thriving.

Then, in Ultima VII. The Guardian comes, and dominates the storyline of the final Ultima trilogy; a godlike being, immensely powerful; described as "The Destroyer of Worlds"
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He ends up as the point of worship of a religion, the Fellowship. It ends up very popular, but corrupts the essence of the Virtues that underpin the entirety of the Ultima universe. And there's three figureheads of it; Batlin stands alone, but there's also a pair of twins; Elizabeth and Abraham. Devout followers of the religion
to the extent of actively murdering those who speak out against it

Finally, and most interestingly, the Guardian's influence in Britannia is controlled by three generators made of the strange anti-magical ore Blackrock.

There is the Cube, which controls the Guardian's voice in the world.
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There is the Sphere, which disrupts the moongate teleporters and keeps a benevolent being, the Time Lord, imprisoned.
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And there is the Tetrahedron, which disrupts magic.
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One of the finest, most acclaimed RPGs in history is basically a diss track.
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This is so good.
 
Some good ones lately in this thread. Here's another small one:

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I always wondered what the purpose of these blocks are. If you jump at it, normally you'll just get another coin. Now I know that, if you have collected more than 30 coins in that level, that block gives you an extra life.

Seems like there are quite some things I still don't know about Super Mario World. Surely doesn't help that I never had a manual for that game.
 
That's literally all they did.

Like how some ? blocks in Mario 3 would give you another star if you were still invincible from grabbing a star, but a coin otherwise.
 
FyreWulff said:
That's literally all they did.

Like how some ? blocks in Mario 3 would give you another star if you were still invincible from grabbing a star, but a coin otherwise.
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I doubt that it's easy to figure it out without any manual. Kinda like how to get these coin ships to appear in Mario 3.
 
Myriadis said:
Some good ones lately in this thread. Here's another small one:

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I always wondered what the purpose of these blocks are. If you jump at it, normally you'll just get another coin. Now I know that, if you have collected more than 30 coins in that level, that block gives you an extra life.

Seems like there are quite some things I still don't know about Super Mario World. Surely doesn't help that I never had a manual for that game.
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I knew it was tied to coins but never how many were required.

Is this trick to get all extra lives common knowledge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjsxJmLuXvU
 
Roto13 said:
Giant Bomb is wrong.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Galoomba
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Fun fact about Goomba's, they are known as Kuribo in Japan. Kuribo meaning chestnut.
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So while Jeff mentioned that the ones from world look like bastardized goomba's they in fact look more like what they are based on.

The new Super Mario Bros games even made some of them in the prickly shells the chestnuts come in. In the winter level no less (because they are associated with winter)

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FyreWulff said:
That's literally all they did.

Like how some ? blocks in Mario 3 would give you another star if you were still invincible from grabbing a star, but a coin otherwise.
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NSMBU has a fun one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhou_jp6j0k

Nottle said:
Fun fact about Goomba's, they are known as Kuribo in Japan. Kuribo meaning chestnut.

So while Jeff mentioned that the ones from world look like bastardized goomba's they in fact look more like what they are based on.

The new Super Mario Bros games even made some of them in the prickly shells the chestnuts come in. In the winter level no less (because they are associated with winter)

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Yes. But as was pointed out earlier, the SMW goombas always had a different name in Japanese: kuribon.

The prickly goombas also "hatch" when hit by fire, since you're roasting the chestnuts.
 
The Japanese word for chestnut is just "kuri." "Bo" and "bon" are both words but I don't think they are supposed to mean anything in this case.
 
Roto13 said:
The Japanese word for chestnut is just "kuri." "Bo" and "bon" are both words but I don't think they are supposed to mean anything in this case.
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I always remember hearing it basically translated to "Chesnut Person", but sort of in an informal way---and sort of implies the person isn't exactly respectful.
 
I always took it that they called them kuribon in SMW because bon is associated with round things. As in bon bon.

I was just looking through wikipedia for any kind of actual meaning and, this is a stretch, but I found a possible link to Obon. Obon is a shortening of Ullambana, which the Japanese call Urabanna, which is Sanskrit for "hanging upside down" and implies suffering. Kuribon flip upside down when you hit them. Urabanna and kuribon are pretty similar sounding and Nintendo loves puns.
 
Roto13 said:
Specifically designed after a shiitake mushroom, yeah.

The Hungarian thing might be a coincidence. :P
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Or it could be where they got the English localization name from, since that is different from the original Japanese name. They could have as easily called them "Chestnots" or some awful pun to match.
 
According to Miyamoto they were called Kuribo because one of the programmers thought they looked like chestnuts. However, according to Takashi Tezuka they are mushrooms.
 
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