Thread of mind blowing game trivia.

[JubeiSaotome]

Note: Okay, first off, this is basically me trying to get THIS THREAD (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550) to happen here on Hyper.

In this thread we post pictures, articles, videos and so on about video games. However, the theme is of stuff that blows your mind. Things you never noticed when playing a game years ago or what you perceived something to be within a game as a kid. Cannot unsee, etc.

I'll get the ball rolling with the SMB cloud bush.

http://i38.tinypic.com/1o1shl.jpg
Notice that the cloud and the small bush uses the same sprite, but coloured differently.

[FX-GTZ]

http://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/18/17832/goldeneye_007_image19.jpg

"I'll be back"

[Lazlow]

Blade Runner
Before becoming prominent actresses on prime time TV, both Pauley Perrette (NCIS - Abby) and Lisa Edelstein (House M.D. - Cuddy) were voice actors for supporting characters in the video game adaption of Blade Runner.

Also of note is the fact Pauley Perrette is 40 years old, making her 10 years older than Cote de Pablo (Ziva) and 8 years older than Sean Murray (McGee).

Also on Blade Runner; the film was noted for the city scape featuring massive billboards of notable corporations such as Atari, Coca Cola, Pan AM, etc. After the films release these corporations suffered huge financial losses, with Pan Am eventually filing for bankruptcy. This was known as the Blade Runner Curse and would seem to carry over to the video game adaption as it was developed by Westwood Studios who would then be bought by EA, and eventually shut down.

Beneath a Steel Sky
Programmers for the Amiga version left the following note within the executable;

At the beginning the programmers were happy and did rejoice at their task, for the Amiga before them did shineth and was full of promise. But then they did look closer and did see'th the awful truth; it's floppies were tiny and sloweth (rareth was its hard drive). And so small was it's memory that did at first appear large; queereth also was its configuration(s). Then they did findeth another Amiga, and this was slightly different from the first. Then a third, and this was different again. All different, but not really better, for all were pseudo backward compatible. But, eventually, it did come to pass that Steel Sky was implemented on a 1meg os-legal CBM Amiga. And the programmers looked and saw that it was indeed a miracle. But they were not joyous and instead did weep for nobody knew just what had been done.

[JubeiSaotome]

Is it me or do these stages look very similar?
http://i33.tinypic.com/nxvzgn.gif

http://i33.tinypic.com/iftunr.jpg

I only noticed looking over that other thread.

[Sytadel]

Notice that the cloud and the small bush uses the same sprite, but coloured differently.

Awesome Jubei, your find?

My trivia is that the Faith No More song "RV" basically plagarises* the Mario Bros underwater music for its main guitar riff:

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* - as far as I'm concerned. The resemblance is uncanny.

[JubeiSaotome]

Didn't find, but it was the biggest :O of that other thread.

[AranchineD]

The background of Conan O'Brien's set is a Super Mario Bros. leve-oh, that's old news, isn't it?

[Lazlow]

Guilty Gear X2 has a song that is very very similar to an X Japan song.

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[big_b]

best one I know of is how donkey kongs name came about because they looked up jackass in an japanese to english dictionary.

[Azzaman]

I thought it was because King Kong is trademarked?

[AranchineD]

Actually they pressed 'D' instead of 'M'.

[Hellion_7]

I thought it was because King Kong is trademarked?

It's actually a bit of both. Miyamoto had originally called Donkey Kong (the character) King Kong, as he has stated that it was a term used to describe any large ape in Japan at the time (no doubt thanks to the movie). He has also said that Donkey Kong got his name because he thought "Donkey" was a slang term for "stupid" in America.

The similarities between King Kong and Donkey Kong actually resulted in Universal Studios suing Nintendo for infringement on their film's characters and scenario. Nintendo's counsel, John Kirby, countered in court that Universal had actually proven that King Kong was in the public domain in a previous court battle, and thus Nintendo won.

This is also one of the theories surrounding the origin of Kirby's name; that Nintendo named him in honor of the man that effectively made them a force to be reckoned with in the U.S.

Everything about the suit can be read here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v._Nintendo_Co.,_Ltd. ).

[Kotche]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg105/SCSone/marioclouds.jpg

[adam_91vn]

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1260/44949734.jpg

[adam_91vn]

Dick and Balls

http://www.themanandhischeese.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/nobrock.JPG

No explanation required

http://i31.tinypic.com/2a4pumr.png

http://www.game-ism.com/images/glados.jpg

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http://www.game-ism.com/images/glados2.jpg

[adam_91vn]

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/943/84772909.jpg

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6135/51119641.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6496/40180196.jpg

http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/public/97236/PokeKum.png

[Second]

This is the best thread ever.

[Fenrir]

Note: Okay, first off, this is basically me trying to get THIS THREAD (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550) to happen here on Hyper.
Dear ****ing christ I hope Hyper never turns out like that place.

[AranchineD]

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1260/44949734.jpg

Oh...NOOOOOOOOO

[StorminNorman]

Here's some prototype Super Famicom/SNES pictures:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu170/SerialExperimentsTim/s64mt2jpg.jpg

http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu170/SerialExperimentsTim/earlysfc20pajpg.jpg

This is a redesigned Famicom intended to go with the look of the SFC at the time:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu170/SerialExperimentsTim/IMG_1816smjpg.jpg

And the SFC that would have matched it:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu170/SerialExperimentsTim/IMG_1814smjpg.jpg

(All images pulled from a thread at ASSEMbler. (http://www.assemblergames.com))

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6496/40180196.jpg

oh my ****.

[Kotche]

lol @ goatse

[JubeiSaotome]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/168439693_bd0cd85123.jpg

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

oh my ****.

[JubeiSaotome]

The Pokemon "Mareep" is a yellow sheep, it's name backwards is Pee Ram and is also an anagram for "Rape me".

[Adios]

Sonic's infamous comrade is Miles Prower.

Miles Prower.
Miles Per Hour!

MIND BLOWN!

[TAT]

mother****er

[Cerebral]

In Dead Space,


Chapter 1: New Arrivals
Chapter 2: Intensive Care
Chapter 3: Course Correction
Chapter 4: Obliteration Imminent
Chapter 5: Lethal Devotion
Chapter 6: Environmental Hazard
Chapter 7: Into the Void
Chapter 8: Search and Rescue
Chapter 9: Dead on Arrival
Chapter 10: End of Days
Chapter 11: Alternate Solutions
Chapter 12: Dead Space

The first letter of each chapter spells out 'Nicole is dead'.


Mind blown.

[TAT]

Or

or

nico lies dead

!

[Lazlow]

erm... what? O_o

[AranchineD]

erm... what? O_o

Shhh, TAT can't read remember, you'll make him feel bad.

[Lazlow]

Oh so he's a Phys' Ed' teacher!

[JubeiSaotome]

Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged.
Andrew Ryan dictated Rapture.

[Lex]

It's like \v\ the thread. Cool.

[Kotche]

hohohoho that lovable lex

[JubeiSaotome]

http://i38.tinypic.com/oj48br.jpg

Watchmen anyone?

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

oh shit!

[9warbane]

So I've been looking up a lot of Pokemon stuff recently.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7251/1303710020081.jpg

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8163/1303710225740.jpg

http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/3784/1303710456675.jpg

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/725/1303730504248.jpg
Had a stroke.

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/3992/1303733395601.jpg

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7959/1303734210297.jpg
I like the one saying ditto is a failed attempt at cloning Mew but I couldn't find t.

[borgster101]

The one about the rival in the original Pokemon is pretty cool, basically you're the villian the whole time! MIND BLOWN! :p

[Spazzola]

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/253/d/a/the_origin_of_cubone_by_pokepsych-d2ygbs2.png