/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>2258175
>inb4 he went bananas

>>2258194
>12:53:48
>>2258195
>12:54:33
are you fucking kidding me?

The spiral tower in World 5 of SMB3 is actually the fabled Tower of Babel, which was built to reach the heavens.

Kirby was the lawyer from nintendo defending the copyright-case between donkey kong and king kong ( universal studios), he won the case and they rewarded him with naming kirby kirby

>imaging his name were 'Dick'
>weird pink soft hero named dick
>likes to suck stuff
>oh my

One of the first ever NES games, Kung Fu, was loosely based on the 1984 martial-arts movie 快餐车. In the movie, the character of Thomas is played by Jackie Chan, meaning this was a Jackie Chan game all along.

>>2258175

ITT: dank ass may-mays

>>>/v/
>>>/b/
>>>/s4s/

>>2258268
I wish this board wasn't filled with this shit. Unfortunately we seem to be in the minority the older this board gets.

>>2258268
>fun facts about games
>dank memes

Alright

anyone has the "vg fact; open world games were originally called "all star"" picture?

>>2258312
If it actually was facts about games. These threads are just an excuse to post bullshit.

>>2258318

Same for any other thread on 4chan. Threads are judged by their starting concept, not by how they end, which is usually terribly.

Are there really any unearthed new facts about retro games we haven't heard a thousand times already, though?

>combos in SF2 were based off a programming error
>doki doki panic was a mario game first
>soda popinsky was called vodka drunkinsky
>ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER

The only remotely new fact I've seen lately was that the hero in Diablo was canonically the warrior, and was also King Leoric's older son, Aiden.

>>2258201

Apologies.

>>2258336
It has been a while, but doesn't the end cinematic of Diablo show the warrior using Diablo's soul stone? Kind of indicating that he's the "main character".

>>2258336
Not really facts but we do get new found betas, interesting tidbits about game and console development, or random easter eggs and undiscovered code.
>>2258331
The thread is basically post your meme here man...

>>2258268

>>2258339
The end cinematic shows the warrior jamming the soulstone into his skull. The other two heroes just have their faces pasted onto his body and redubbed with their respective screams.

Presumably because the cinematic team got lazy.

>>2258361
EA's old logo for reference

>>2258361
>>2258370
Too bad in the end only one of them remained, the bad one

>>2258361
>a diss track
WHOOMP THERE IT IS
WHOOMP THERE IT IS

>>2258175
>simpson's

>>2258442
>>2258442

That's not a swastika. Swastikas face to the right.

>>2258361
As others have said: EA ruined Ultima even before the takeover.

>>2258446
Swastika can face either way.

>>2258446
you don't know shit about swastikas

>>2258463
True but they are used differently in different cultures.

>>2258478
He's kind of right. A general swastika can face either way. But when people say "swastika" they usually mean the one the Nazis used, which always faced right.

>>2258481
they are often used in Jew cultures to be upset about

>>2258442
That reminds me of this.

>>2258489
Yes, this is the most common use.

>>2258361
I don't think I get it, can someone explain?

>>2258336
I got one that's really mind blowing for you.

The M on Mario's hat stands for Mario!.

>>2258728
EA harassed Richard Garriot and Origin so hard that they made EA the enemy in Ultima 7.
It didn't help and they were taken over soon afterwards.

>>2258741
Oh, I just saw the logo. That's great

>>2258728
EA ruins gaming ever since ever, someone got smart about it and mocked EA however they could on a game.

>>2258746
They even referenced it in Ultima 8 where you can attempt to use an object morphing between cube, pyramide and sphere and say
>I have not the strength, nor the wisdom to master such power... ...But one day I shall!

>>2258747
It's not that innocent. Trip Hawkins had put a lot of effort attempting to take over Origin, including law suits.
Origin ultimately agreed after Hawkins had left EA for the 3DO, thinking they'd turned face.

>>2258336

Until a few years ago we didn't know TLOZ was meant to be scifi and Link's name is not because he's a 'link' to the story but because he was supposed to be a 'link' between time periods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hcU8Yrqlqk
Wario never said "Doh, I missed!"
He was saying Dammit or Darn in German

HAL Labs is named after HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

>>2258175
>The final episode

>>2258175
That image isn't even true. There were never any plans for that reveal they are talking about, it was just a little gag in the game for fans of the comic to enjoy.

>>2258195
>>2259043
I don't get it.

>>2259112

what's to get. Simpsons is on season 20 something

>>2259118
Oh, I guess they were referring to an actual Simpsons episode. Haven't seen that in years.

>>2259041
Falcom's name is inspired by the millenium falcon

>>2259041
No it's named after IBM H-I,A-B,L-M

>>2259137
that's... oh nevermind

>>2259124
No, the gag is that Simpsons hasn't had their final episode because Fox keeps renewing it.

As for
>inb4 he went bananas
I was inb4 his inb4 and heaped great shame upon him and dishonoured his ancestors.

Mario's original name was JumpMan

>>2258775
>Until a few years ago we didn't know... link was a link between time periods
But there was a game A Link to the Past. Did you just think it was A Protagonist to the Past with no pun?

>>2258204

There's this really retarded Did You know gaming that claims the Warp Whistle song in the ocarina of time intro was from Mario 3.

Lost any credibility for those guys after that foul up.

alien v predator on cps2 was supposed to be a movie tie in based off an early avp script
the movie that ended up getting made in the late 2000s still used some elements from the original script such as the alien queen nest located inside an aztec style pyramid and the main female protag
also you can play as schwarzenegger from the first predator movie which is cool

>>2259239
the alien queen design looks similar to the movie although the one in the movie is much larger
there's a short scene in the movie where they show a cgi map of the place and it's clearly a mexican pyramid
in the movie they are trying to keep the aliens from escaping into civilization, and that's exactly what happens in the first moments of the game
they're small similarities, but it's there.

>>2259041
HAL got their start making knock-offs of popular arcade games for the Commodore VIC-20. Satoru Iwata learned how to program on the Commodore PET-2001.

>>2258204

pretty cool

Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally called Donkey Kong Panic.

>>2258194
that is hilarious

>>2258494
The music began playing automatically

The bloodcode for Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis(ABACABB) is the direct spelling of one of Genesis(the band) albums.

>>2259198
You know it was called Triforce of the Gods in Japan, right?

>>2259679
And one of their more popular songs off that album as well.

>>2259679
The song and album name is actually Abacab, not Abacabb.

Malon wears a bowser pendant in OoT.

>>2259738
Has it in MM, too.

>>2259706
Had to look it up to make sure but yeah your right. Good catch.

>>2259738
>>2259739

Mario and company can be seen at Zelda's castle when kid Link meets her for the first time.

Malon is like, "these breasts only belong to the true king of hyrule yo"

>>2259150
>I was inb4 his inb4 and heaped great shame upon him and dishonoured his ancestors.
it's true, my granddaddy is rolling in his grave

which is neat to think about because he was cremated.

I love telling the story of Rare's/UPtG's game console.

>The RAZZ board was Chris Stampers’ project. It was entirely home grown, but he and Tim had an arcade hardware background so it wasn’t completely out of the blue. I don’t remember whose idea it was to try and turn it into a handheld device running on a few small batteries, but we did it anyway, undaunted by the short running time or bulky form-factor produced.

>It was a loose collection of chips suspended in thin air, squashed together carefully so that it fit inside the casing without shorting out anything. Tim was responsible for the exterior styling and I did the software demo. It ran on some AA batteries and used a colour LCD screen ripped from a little portable TV that Tim had brought back from Japan. Then, just to ensure that we’d never be able to actually release it, we called it the Playboy.

>It was taken to a trade show to pitch as a possible product, only to find out that at the same show Nintendo was pragmatically - and wildly successfully - launching the Game Boy.

The hardware itself was comparable to a Saturn or Neo Geo. Sprite rotation and scaling, arbitrary sized tilemaps, and thousands of on screen colors.

Only two known games were made for it: a game by the developer of Head Over Heels that is otherwise unknown. and a predecessor to the SNES game Plok.

>>2259137
>>2259142

People thought the same thing about 2001, but that was just a coincidence. HAL was just HAL.

>>2259747
When my friends and I discovered this back when the game came out some of us were newly convinced that Luigi HAD to be in Mario 64.

There's a secret code in Rebel Assault 2 that let's you watch the cutscenes in MST3K-mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNEUU2Yeo2M

>>2258175
Hory sheet that's cool

>>2258221
Your analogy makes no sense. Dicks don't suck things, they get sucked.

>>2258336
There were those voice samples recently found buried in Donkey Kong that are up on TCRF now.

>>2259747
Shame they replaced it with a NSMB reference in the remake.

>>2259741
I own several Genesis albums.

That is a very old fashioned sentence.

>>2259165

No, it was Ojisan. Mario was originally designed as a 40 to 50 year old man, though now he's in his late 20s

Here's Japanese comedian/tarento Tamori in a cameo from Dragon Slayer on the PC-88. Guy was also involved with advertising the Fujitsu FM-7 computer.

>>2259198
You make no sense whatsoever.
A Link to the Past's title was an indication of the game being a prequel. Indeed, it took place before the original Legend of Zelda. There isn't even any time travel.
It was in no way meant to be a reference to the original meaning behind Link's name, as the title was created for the english version of the game, and likely by a localization team, rather than the original developers.
All this aside, it's the third game in the series. Do you really think the subtitle would have been the same, had Link's name changed after the sci-fi, time travelling shtick was scrapped from the original?

tl;dr: Don't be dumb.

>>2260889

I thought it was because 'Triforce of the Gods' would probably upset ultra-conservative religious folks in North America so they picked /something/ else to call it.

>>2260219
why is it called a 'blow job' then?

>>2259620
i want to punch you in the face

>>2258336
I've never heard the Simpson's one, Jesus Christ it's actually pretty freaky.

>>2259106
haven't seen it myself, but apparently Matt Groening himself confirms this in a DVD commentary track

Artic so
Zap much
Mol fail

>>2261680
Not even close to being retro.

>>2258175
Wasn't there another reveal that was meant to happen? Something to the effect of "Homer was Krusty all along, so it's funny that Bart loves Krusty but not Homer"

>>2262193

Nobody cares.

>>2262228
I definitely care. This is after all, a board only for retro gaming. If you can't abide by that, then leave.

>>2261680
Looker is based off of Zenigata from Lupin III anyway. Fucking Who fans ruin everything.

>>2262389
he's based off joe friday from dragnet anyway, and joe friday is based of persiphios from shakespeare and he's based off Sephoclius from the roman pantheon and he's based off george clooney. who gives a shit.

>>2262267

you first

>>2262389
>submitted by koichi zenigata

>>2262210
Yes.

>>2260901

Cranky Kong from Donkey Kong Country is actually the original Donkey Kong from the arcade and NES games. Meaning Donkey Kong Country is being played by DK Junior and his pal P-Diddy Kong. The P stands for Prower like the character from Sonic the Hedgehog Adventures on Sega Dreamcaster.

>>2261673
Correct.
Remember, The Simpsons was something he thought up while waiting to pitch "his idea" ... which originally was a TV series of Life in Hell. He quickly sketched out a parody family of his own (Homer, Margaret, Matt, Lisa and Maggie Groening) because he didn't want to lose copyright of his comic. He never could have known how some talented people would have turned his mediocre idea into something briefly incredible.

>>2263668
>>2258175

>>2263358
Doesnt everyone know that? i figured that out just from the intro where cranky kong is on his girders and DK comes swinging in

>>2263668
Everytime I see this I think all of you were dipshit kids.

>>2264049
and i think your some creepy old faggot with peter pan syndrome

>>2259562
>I don't know why but I do

Check it out for yourself. It looks like a lot more than coincidence to me.

>>2259795
>but that was just a coincidence.

It really wasn't a coincidence, check this out:

http://tune.pk/video/2331960/how-stanley-kubrick-used-hal-to-depict-ibm-in-2001-a-space-odyssey

>>2263668
Allegedly, Homer's sideburns and ear are meant to represent M G, Matt Groening's initials.

>>2258204
deepest lore

>>2259738
>>2259739

Malon and Talon were inspired by Marin and Tarin from Link's Awakening. Tarin and Talon were inspired by Mario. Tarin in Link's Awakening ended up turning into a raccoon as an homage to Mario in Super Mario Bros 3. Marin's harp playing may have been the inspiration for Zelda's harp playing, and Nayru from Oracle of Ages harp playing and abilities to be at one with animals, which may also be the reason why Malon is a farm girl since she also takes care of animals.

Marin turns into a seagull at the end of Link's Awakening if you don't die at all, and Link from Wind Waker has an item that lets him fly in the body of a seagull.

It's implied Malon and Link in OoT end up having a child because Twilight Princess link lives on a farm and know's Epona's song. It's also hinted that Malon has a crush on Link a lot in OoT.

Marin and Link develop an attraction to eachother apparently according to some rando wiki too that I'm too lazy to double check.

It's kind of amazing how Marin was so influential to Zelda lore. Link's Awakening doesn't seem to have many connections to other games at first until you realize this.

tl;dr Marin is best girl

>>2264313
>It's implied Malon and Link in OoT end up having a child because Twilight Princess link lives on a farm and know's Epona's song.
So Link came back from Termina?

In the English version of Mother 2 one of the localizers added his daughter into Magicant.

http://legendsoflocalization.com/earthbound/magicant/#nico

>>2264330
Yeah he leaves at the end of MM. He's in the Twilight Princess too; he's the Hero's Shade.

>>2264313
your looking too far into this

>>2264352
Would you care to explain why?

>>2264297

>Stanley Kubrick

The author of the books never intended it that way.

>>2264391
I didn't notice this but the guy who made that video actually uploaded a bunch more that look related. (I haven't watched them yet.) https://www.youtube.com/user/robag88/videos

He talks a lot about that in previous videos, maybe even the first one I linked.

Kubrick kept Arthur C Clark in the dark and made his own movie completely different from the book. It wasn't an adaptation of the book. They were writing it congruently.

>>2264391

He talks a lot about that in previous videos, maybe even the first one I linked. I'm not going to find it for you but from what I remember Kubrick kept Arthur C Clark in the dark and made his own movie completely different from the book. It wasn't an adaptation of the book. They were writing it about the same time.
It just doesn't make sense to use that as a counter argument when you learn the backstory on the movie.

I didn't notice this but the guy who made that video actually uploaded a bunch more that look related. (I haven't watched them yet.) https://www.youtube.com/user/robag88/videos

>>2264391
The beginning of this video explains it in depth. He seems to have taken down his video that does explain it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqsrW1aDAA

>>2258175

this is retarded

there is NO way marge is a furry... r-right guys?

>>2266043
there's NO way your this much of a dumbass

also stop trying to fit in on /v/ by hating on furries

>>2266049
dude everyone hates furries.

>>2266076
this guy is right, furries are retarded. They can't just be a fan of things they have to be a fan of those things where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals because they all have a superior sense of art direction compared to the original artists idea.

>>2259137
>>2259142

>>2266085
>They can't just be a fan of things they have to be a fan of those things where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals because they all have a superior sense of art direction compared to the original artists idea.

>>2266049

>also stop trying to fit in on /v/ by hating on furries

There are only two kinds of people that don't hate furries: other furries and otherkin.

There's a bit of overlap there.

who gives a shit
you only hate furries because /v/ told you to

>>2266156

>implying it has anything to do with /v/

>>2266043
It's just a gag with a bunny, no need to pull the furry card

>>2266192
your right, it started on /b/ of all places.

>>2266225
Which is funny since about a decade ago, /b had Furry Friday.

>>2262434
>and he's based off george clooney

Fuck I lol'd.