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[Orbis Tabula]

Glover was such an awesome game.

 

[chertipros]

I always thought it was a little boy playing with his Nintendo trophies and in his imagination is where they came to life and duked it out. The final stage was just a personification of him playing with his toys.

Wow thats a good theory. Never thoight of it that way

 

[Danthrax]

I was about 14 when SSB was released, and I understood from its intro that all the characters are toys and Master Hand is the hand of the toys' owner. It's basically Andy's Hand, in Toy Story terms.

 

[FoneBone]

It's weird that you remembered the existence of Glover.

 

[Night_Trekker]

Wow thats a good theory. Never thoight of it that way

Really? I always assumed that was evident.

It's such a creative and well-executed concept for a fighting series. [insert argument over SSB classification here]

 

[Lijik]

My friend gave me his copy of Glover because I was the only person he knew who liked it.

This happened to me with Jersey Devil, except Jersey Devil is a fairly competent game.
Glover is just horrible

 

[WillyFive]

....

.....why didn't I think of that?

 

[The Technomancer]

It's weird that you remembered the existence of Glover.

It was one of the N64 games for rental at Blockbuster back in "the dark times" of my childhood, so it stuck in my memory pretty well.

 

[zroid]

I always thought it was a little boy playing with his Nintendo trophies and in his imagination is where they came to life and duked it out. The final stage was just a personification of him playing with his toys.

Even though I think this explanation is more or less true, it's kind of depressing when you introduce Crazy Hand to the picture.

 

[Danthrax]

I always thought it was a little boy playing with his Nintendo trophies and in his imagination is where they came to life and duked it out. The final stage was just a personification of him playing with his toys.

Yes, this is it exactly. I'm surprised there's so much confusion over this!

 

[Dereck]

I always thought it was a little boy playing with his Nintendo trophies and in his imagination is where they came to life and duked it out. The final stage was just a personification of him playing with his toys.

Why is the kid wearing a pair of white gloves?

 

[CrazyDude]

Why is the kid wearing a pair of white gloves?

He comes from a family of magicians.

 

[Takao]

It's weird that you remembered the existence of Glover.

A glove as a main character for a video game is kind of bizarre.

 

[VegaNine]

I love when a game's culture is so obvious that you can tell where it was made just by looking at the box.

Glover is one of those games that are unmistakably English, in the same way that Rayman is unmistakably French (and Earthworm Jim/American, Klonoa/Japanese, etc.)

 

[GK86]

Damn, I had forgotten about Glover. Brings back memories.

 

[Nibel]

I would love a Glover game in Conker's Bad Fur Day style

 

[Razek]

Why is the kid wearing a pair of white gloves?

He wants to be like his favorite, Mario?

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Even though I think this explanation is more or less true, it's kind of depressing when you introduce Crazy Hand to the picture.

Do you mean he has cerebral palsy or something? I just figured he was less coordinated with his left hand since he's right handed


Damn, that's kind of messed up

 

[Sneaky Gato]

I remember there being this theory going around that the Crazy Hand repersented the destructive nature of children and

Spoiler

Taboo enslaving Master Hand meant a destruction of imagination either by growing up or by some authority figure.

Let me see if I can find it.

 

[GreggTheGrimReaper]

Glover should stay in Back To The Future-games.

 

[TheOGB]

Master Hand is the hand of the kid playing with the dolls/trophies/stickers and shit from the SSB64 intro

Crazy Hand is his wild ass "high-energy" cousin who comes over and plays too aggressively with his toys

 

[ScrubJay]

Master hand was a Link to the Past NPC who gave you rupees. His ultimate betrayal still confounds me to this day. I thought we were cool!

 

[Blood Diamonds]

When I was a kid I thought Master Hand was really Glover because every other character in Super Smash Bros. was a video game character and he was a glove thing.

Was I alone in this thought?

I thought it was the hand of the Kid playing with the toys in the intro of N64.
I was crazy.
EDIT- ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Beaten.

 

[fauxtrot]

I remember there being this theory going around that the Crazy Hand repersented the destructive nature of children and

Spoiler

Taboo enslaving Master Hand meant a destruction of imagination either by growing up or by some authority figure.

Let me see if I can find it.

As with most of these types of "theories", I'm willing to bet they came up with the owner's hand/glove idea originally and didn't think about it much past that point. Every other aspect of it is more than likely fans connecting dots with lines that were never intended to be drawn...

 

[Videoneon]

I always thought it was a little boy playing with his Nintendo trophies and in his imagination is where they came to life and duked it out. The final stage was just a personification of him playing with his toys.

That about sums it up for me. It was missing the Glover eyes too.

This topic seems more like "Glover is awesome" but that's fine, because Glover was awesome.

 

[PokéKong]

Being a big fan of Kirby Super Star, I almost immediately recognized all its moves as being borrowed from the boss Wham Bam Rock. So that's the only association I had.

 

[TheOGB]

Master hand was a Link to the Past NPC who gave you rupees. His ultimate betrayal still confounds me to this day. I thought we were cool!

This post makes rupees sound like an STD lmao

 

[I Stalk Alone]

Being a big fan of Kirby Super Star, I almost immediately recognized all its moves as being borrowed from the boss Wham Bam Rock. So that's the only association I had.

woah that looks kind of wrong.

 

[Chet Rippo]

woah that looks kind of wrong.

Japan.

 

[Anth0ny]

I always thought it was the hand from the Mario 64 menu:

But it's just the "kid's" hand playing with his toys/trophies.

 

[TheOGB]

That looks more like Glover than Master Hand

 

[StayDead]

Master Hand was in the first Kirby's Dreamland game. Albeit very small role, he was the continue selector. Plus, if you choose no then he does an attack from SSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WhZiRqX4I

Shaboom!

Oh my god mind blown. O_O

 

[chickdigger802]

So... how does the SSE thing in Brawl tie into the lore?

 

[Boney]

woah that looks kind of wrong.

I think he got tweaked in the DS release

 

[Electivirus]

woah that looks kind of wrong.

Nintendo thought so too, apparently. He was completely redesigned in Super Star Ultra.

 

[Dereck]

Master Hand was in the first Kirby's Dreamland game. Albeit very small role, he was the continue selector. Plus, if you choose no then he does an attack from SSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WhZiRqX4I

Shaboom!

Whaaaaaat?

 

[ajim]

Thought the same thing. Always thought it was weird that Glover was there to kick everyone elses asses and the final boss. Never made much sense to me lol.

 

[Pociask]

Master Hand was in the first Kirby's Dreamland game. Albeit very small role, he was the continue selector. Plus, if you choose no then he does an attack from SSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WhZiRqX4I

Shaboom!

Hoooooly shiiiiiii /mind blown

 

[Currygan]

haha, he was also in Amazing Mirror

1:47
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CGcN6v_gg

 

[friskykillface]

Glover was amazing indeed, hard as hell though.

0_o never knew about a canceled sequel , damn lol.

If I ever find glover in a thrift store or yard sale I'm buying it

I was 12 or 13 when smash came out and I wished mega man was in it :3

 

[TheOGB]

haha, he was also in Amazing Mirror

1:47
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CGcN6v_gg

Smash Kirby was my one of my favorite abilities in that game, and the song from :49 onwards is one of my favorites in the series

Damn I wanna play that game again

 

[RobotHaus]

haha, he was also in Amazing Mirror

1:47
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CGcN6v_gg

But this is different, this game came out after Smash Brothers.

 

[MarkusRJR]

Master Hand also makes a cameo in the Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland game over screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0uA74wbdqE

 

[djtiesto]

Glover was a cute game, but I have no idea how it'd hold up today...

 

[hyduK]

Man I remember renting Glover when I was like 13-14. What a shitty 3 days that was.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Master Hand was in the first Kirby's Dreamland game. Albeit very small role, he was the continue selector. Plus, if you choose no then he does an attack from SSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WhZiRqX4I

Shaboom!

Now thats amazing.
Also love seeing it in other Kirby games.

 

[Red UFO]

BUT WHO WAS CRAZY HAND

 

[NeonZ]

I remember there being this theory going around that the Crazy Hand repersented the destructive nature of children and

Spoiler

Taboo enslaving Master Hand meant a destruction of imagination either by growing up or by some authority figure.

Let me see if I can find it.

The Melee Trophies said that Master Hand was creation while Crazy was destruction, IIRC. The Brawl trophies don't have any meta-subtext for Taboo though. Everyone is just a character there.

 

[elektrixx]

BUT WHO WAS CRAZY HAND

Glover's right hand man.

 

[BGBW]

Crazy hand is the pleasure hand if you get my drift. The time it takes for him to come out is based on Sakurai's own personal average.