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Wrestlemania the Arcade game didn't have any secrets, but apparently there WAS another character coded into the game, however the person who admitted it wont admit how to get him. What an rear end in a top hat. Similarly I remember reading this article: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3668922 Apparently there really are NBA Jam machines with Michael Jordan as a playable character. Also the game was made so that in close games between the Bulls and Pistons, the Bulls shooting average would plummet. Marc Turmell even went on to perpetrate a rumor of his own: quote:We had already finished making NBA Jam when Drazen Petrovic died. The game had already shipped and he was on the Nets. So we had all of these coin-op machines around, and one night we were playing Mortal Kombat and there was a Jam machine next to it, and all of a sudden the game started calling out "Petrovic!" "Petrovic!" And this only happened after Petrovic had died. Everyone started freaking out. Something weird was going on with the software, and to this day, if you have an original NBA Jam machine every once in a while it will just yell out "Petrovic!" It's wild. It would be wild if the machines really do that... The Super Smash Bros Melee guide had a picture where Princess Peach is dressed up her outfit from the tennis/golf games. Not a hoax, but I remember people online talking about hidden outfits. I remember reading old Usenet posts about special early-run Pac-Man machines that had a secret level when instead of fruit you would eat tools. Supposedly one of these machines was at Coney Island. Something tells me though that probably came from that awful book Lucky Wander Boy though.
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Liku posted:I believe this is one of the Trophies. The photo shows her fighting in the game.
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| # ¿ Jan 27, 2012 09:01 |
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Liku posted:Do you have a scan of this? No, I am currently in a different country. If anyone wants to look in their Official Nintendo Players Guide I believe the photo was at the bottom of one of the character pages, where they showed a screen shot of each move. In one of them they show Peach mid smash move with either a tennis racquet or a golf club (two of the three items that appear for that smash move) and she's wearing a different outfit. Maybe it's a taunt instead? rivid fucked around with this message at Jan 27, 2012 around 16:14 |
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That particular game has sold millions of copies, and many people I know who play video games casually have played through Ocarina of Time several times. So I think it's likely that someone was playing with their controller at a frozen screen and got something they weren't expecting. It probably took them a while to figure out exactly what they hit though. Either that or someone's dad really does work at Nintendo.
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Here's one. back before the release of Mother 3 on the GBA the attached image got posted on the starmen.net forums. This is going back years ago but here's what I remembered: for whatever reason I think one of the admins at the time didn't want to disclose their existence right away (probably because they were skeptical and didn't want to cause a stir). I think they might have been interested in purchasing them as well. What the image shows is flash carts for the N64DD, the fact that they had M3 written on them had everyone hoping that they were Mother 3 demos. Anyways it took the guy who owned the flash carts hundreds of dollars in equipment to access what was on the disks. They all ended up being previously released Nintendo disk drive games... edit: More info on this is posted on page 32 Here's one of the articles: http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/0...a-is-very-over/ rivid fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2012 around 21:11 |
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Here's something I always thought about. Why was Sonic 1 the only game for the Genesis that had a not for resale warning printed on it? Every copy I have seen has this, including the boxes. It looks like some Sonic 2 came with a sticker like this as well? (I have never seen these in person.) I thought that maybe it was because the game was packaged with the system, but some Genesis systems came with Altered Beast, which had no warning. Was there a (perceived) large black market for Sonic games or something?
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TheJoker138 posted:Yup, it came with the console. I got the Genesis, which came with Sonic, Sonic 2, and Mortal Kombat 2 for Christmas that year. Here's a picture of it I found online: Some boxes had the warning too though.  edit- it's the version that came with the Genesis, go figure. edit 2 - Come to think of it, wasn't there a legal battle in the US around this time between one of the video game companies/the movie industry, and video rental stores over the legality of used and rented movies and games? Maybe this predates that. rivid fucked around with this message at Feb 13, 2012 around 02:15 |
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Mystic Quest also has a part of the game where the trees in the background spell out "goon kid". You can see it around nine minutes here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4wnQfgZs-dM I wonder if it's just the rom, but I don't want to bust out the SNES and play for 3+ hours just to check. :/ Also I saw this picture on almightybob's tumblr. I would have passed over it, except this is the rabbit design from Groening's Life in Hell series. Even if the story in the picture is false, that is really something cool to put in the game (assuming the images were not altered). edit - Wikipedia references the commentary for "Selma's Choice"on the Fourth Season DVD in terms of MArge being a rabbit. Also there's this page: http://rubbercat.net/simpsons/news/...abbit-ears.html rivid fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 09:31 |
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Yesterday someone on Reddit suggested that the first dungeon of the first Zelda game is a dead Deku Tree. Considering this game takes place in The Hero Fails time line, it could mean that it is still the dead first tree and the new one was removed, or the new tree was able to grow fully before dieing. This still doesn't explain why there's no sort of Deku Tree in ALttP though (which is supposed to come between OoT and The Legend of Zelda). Or why the dungeon is surrounded by water tiles.The White Dragon posted:Or possibly GO ON KID, I think GOON KID might just be bias. You remember right, though, and it's totally there. Good point. I figured that it was somebody who had dumped the rom and was leaving their mark. As a kid I never got that far in Mystic Quest though. Anyways considering this happens right after a major dungeon, and the tree you are in walks while you're in it, I guess it would make sense that the trees in the game could sort of cheer you on. rivid fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 18:17 |
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I was actually pretty skeptical of that until I took into consideration that the northern mountains in both those maps are Death Mountain. Also in The Adventure of Link that's the bottom left corner of the map, so you could say that the rest of the map in the game was expanded beyond the mountains and sea.
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I don't even care if you're bullshitting. You loving broke my brain. I mean considering all the other Zelda map fuckery...  I mean you can see the Columbia river, and that there's a graveyard in Spokane (I'm guessing because of the name).quote:Plus, basically all of Zelda 2. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the entire game gives me a feeling of "You don't belong here." I don't think I ever had a game quite capture that feeling again until Majora's Mask (even before BEN). As a child I used to watch my parents play Zelda 2. The intro and death screens terrified me, as well as seeing Link getting chased by monsters on the over-world map. I feel the same way with Majora's Mask too, I knew I never wanted to play it after watching some friends play it at their house: the impending doom, that loving moon, the freaky masks transitions... rivid fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 23:49 |
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I guess it goes back to the whole Silent Hill - Kindergarten Cop thing. The map maker needs some sort of reference material, and literally anything will work.
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I would argue that this whole hosed up time-line is evidence of no long term planning.
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2012 01:48 |
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Considering Dragon Warrior has had such a major influence on console RPGs, I wouldn't be surprised if Zelda 2's map within a map is a homage to Dragon Warrior 2.Light Gun Man posted:I still say the best ways to have a Zelda timeline are "oral history" or "it's a metaphorical representation of the Triforice's own balance of power". The whole series is a Sierpinski triangle, with each piece of the triforce in each time-line, which itself is in three pieces. 
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Yeah the whole evolution of the RPG goes: Tabletop games > Early computer dungeon crawlers > Dragon Quest > All Other Console RPGs. An actual tree would be more complex than that. For example, where do text adventures fit in? Of course none of the branches stopped after a new inception of the concept was formed. You can still buy new D&D books, and they still make Dragon Quest games. Each branch has it's own other influences as well (anime animation, fantasy novels, cave exploration, etc, etc). It's pretty funny to think about the long lasting impression those terribly drawn monster manuals have had as their images were copied, being slightly modified, every step down the line. rivid fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2012 around 14:21 |
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Do any good secrets or rumors come out of the uncharted islands in games. You know, the ones that sit at the point where the four corners of the map meet. I have lost count of Final Fantasy games I have played, but that's something I always had to look for in them.
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