Gaming Facts

[Droewyn]

But WinTaipei does.

 

[Issun]

Yoshi's Island was originally meant to be a 1991 video game adaption of The Shining. It went through so many development changes that the only evidence of its origins in the final product was some snow levels.

 

[lincolnic]

Yoshi's Island was originally meant to be a 1991 video game adaption of The Shining. It went through so many development changes that the only evidence of its origins in the final product was some snow levels.

And Baby Mario's crying sound was performed by Shelly Duvall.

 

[RT-55J]

Mario's full name is Marion Martini Marlboro Marco Marson McMarly.

 

[Felicia]

Mario's full name is Marion Martini Marlboro Marco Marson McMarly.

Mama mia!

 

[MetManMas]

The production of many Sonic the Hedgehog games have been delayed by the difficulty of trying to convert Miles Prowers speed to metric

The original plan was to have Sonic's partner be a one-tailed fox by the name of Kimberly Prower. This fell through when the American side of STI complained about a girl being playable in their boy's game the Metric system.

This led to Miles Prower happening. He became Tails when Yamaguchi accidentally drew a second tail while designing him.

 

[ThornGhost]

The "Shining" series was originally conceived as a video game version of Stephen King's book of the same name. While most of the source material was scrubbed out before Shining in the Darkness's release, and entirely by the release of Shining Force, Sega still pays King for the use of the name for each game. This financial licensing burden has contributed to a slower release cadence for the series than might otherwise be expected.

 

[RT-55J]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1596355254060085248

 

[BEAT]

APE NOT KILL APE.

BUT

Donkey Kong isn't an ape.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Through design brilliance, Super Mario Bros teaches you how to play it through level design, though grades are non-transferrable.

 

[RT-55J]

At the end of Super Mario Bros. (1985) you fight Bowser. However, it turns out that that Bowser is fake, and is just a common Goomba in disguise. It isn't until 7 worlds into the post-game that you finally encounter the real Bowser and defeat him once and for all and see the true ending (which I'm not gonna spoil for ya ;-) ).

 

[RT-55J]

Debates over the technical power of the SNES vs the Sega Genesis continued until 2008, when an astute fan noticed that the number 68000 was greater than 65816.

 

[RT-55J]

Nintendo named the protagonist of the Metroid franchise after the legendary Brazilian womens soccer player Edsamantha Arantes do Nascimiento, better known by her nickname Maru Maria.

 

[RT-55J]

Nintendo was interested in licensing technology from Epic as far back as the early 1990s. However, due to cultural disagreements and a bizarrely mistranslated contract, the only things to come of these early efforts were a handful of games starring Yoshi developed by Kohler Productions.

 

[RT-55J]

Roko's Basilisk is named after a weapon in the Famicom action-platformer Rokko Man 3, where it could freeze enemies and (rumor has it) randomly damage your cartridge.

 

[RT-55J]

Sephiroth in Final Fantasy '97 was supposed to have two wings, but the limitations of the PlayStation meant that they could only render one. This is an example of how limitations can produce great art.

 

[RT-55J]

In about 2 years Zircon plans on shutting down the servers for the Channel F Video Entertainment System Online Service, which will mark 50 years of continuous usage. Note however that the anniversary is largely coincidental --- they're shutting the servers down because their last F8 assembly programmer is retiring soon. (Please apply! I'm begging you!)

 

[RT-55J]

The NES was was named after the Greek inventor and philosopher Nesticles, who once famously theorized that mankind would one day make a box even nuttier than Pandora's Box. (We do not talk about his student Snesticles.)