-
Welcome to Talking Time's third iteration! If you would like to register for an account, or have already registered but have not yet been confirmed, please read the following:
- The CAPTCHA key's answer is "Percy"
- Once you've completed the registration process please email us from the email you used for registration at percyreghelper@gmail.com and include the username you used for registration
Once you have completed these steps, Moderation Staff will be able to get your account approved.
Random video game trivia that shocked you
- Thread starter Second Duke Revier
- Start date
I did it in a video about SMB2 because I feel like it's the default thing obnoxious people who know very little about game history but feel like they know a lot bandy about as if it's some secret knowledge that only they, learned scholars who heard this trivia tidbit from someone else, could possibly know.
Yeah, Howard Philips basically said it was too hard, but it also looked too bad by 1988 standards. Like, it was a 1985 FDS game and the NES was much more capable by '88. (Even Doki Doki Panic is lacking in animation/effects that are in SMB2.)
R.R. Bigman
Coolest Guy
I was very surprised to learn on Retronauts that both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs worked at Atari for a bit, and that Wozniak developed Breakout, the extremely influential one player pong game.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
I was told to put this into the game trivia thread, so here goes: Tiny Toon Adventures on NES reverse-engineered Super Mario Bros. 3 for almost all of the values used for its physics. So if you ever wondered why it feels a ton like that game, there's your answer!
The relevant thread (in French):
/image%2F2902198%2F20211004%2Fob_82681b_miniature2.png)
upsilandre.over-blog.com
The relevant thread (in French):
DU CLONAGE CHEZ KONAMI? - Upsilandre Retrogaming
J'aime beaucoup dénicher les influences entre les jeux et bien entendu les exemples ne manquent pas puisque c’est un peu dans l’ADN du jeu vidéo de s’inspirer les uns les autres. Par exemple, j'ai déjà écrit un billet sur le Star Wars Famicom de Namco...
upsilandre.over-blog.com
FelixSH
(He/Him)
Didn't Chrono Cross also start out as a draft for FF8? I think I read/heard that at some point.
Hunh! That explains why Super Bros 6 feels so much like a Mario game despite being a romhack!I was told to put this into the game trivia thread, so here goes: Tiny Toon Adventures on NES reverse-engineered Super Mario Bros. 3 for almost all of the values used for its physics. So if you ever wondered why it feels a ton like that game, there's your answer!
The relevant thread (in French):
DU CLONAGE CHEZ KONAMI? - Upsilandre Retrogaming
J'aime beaucoup dénicher les influences entre les jeux et bien entendu les exemples ne manquent pas puisque c’est un peu dans l’ADN du jeu vidéo de s’inspirer les uns les autres. Par exemple, j'ai déjà écrit un billet sur le Star Wars Famicom de Namco...
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Anthony Head who was Giles in Buffy is brother to Murray Head, who did One Night in Bangkok. The song is about a game (Chess) and also had a music video. So this fits.
Indeed, it was from Chess: the Musical.
That is also why the character K' from the King of Fighters is pronounced "K Dash." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
C'est très intéressant!I was told to put this into the game trivia thread, so here goes: Tiny Toon Adventures on NES reverse-engineered Super Mario Bros. 3 for almost all of the values used for its physics. So if you ever wondered why it feels a ton like that game, there's your answer!
The relevant thread (in French):
DU CLONAGE CHEZ KONAMI? - Upsilandre Retrogaming
J'aime beaucoup dénicher les influences entre les jeux et bien entendu les exemples ne manquent pas puisque c’est un peu dans l’ADN du jeu vidéo de s’inspirer les uns les autres. Par exemple, j'ai déjà écrit un billet sur le Star Wars Famicom de Namco...
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I knew this one but it's wild to me that this never got the "Peach"/"Eggman" treatment where the original names are used.
Did they ever do an in-canon in joke on the confusion? The game is over 30 years old, that feels like it must have happened by now.
Yeah, likewise. It’s doubly weird to me because I feel like if they’d just called Boxer “Bison” and dropped the “M,” nobody would have made the Mike Tyson connection they were so worried about. Then again, I think “Vega” works better as a name for a Spanish character, so <shrug >
And as you highlighted there, neither name sets are used in tournament scenes to avoid confusion. So they're "Boxer," "Dictator," and "Claw."
I imagine in a world where trademarks rule, that has to have gotten under someone's skin at some point.
Also, funny that Vega/Balrog is "Claw" instead of, say, "Mask," since he can lose the claw during battle.
Can he? Huh, I don't remember that.
Okay, nitpick withdrawn.
Okay, nitpick withdrawn.
He can lose or throw the mask in 4, 5 and Alpha 3.
https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Vega#Claw_and_mask_mechanics
https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Vega#Claw_and_mask_mechanics
next you're going to tell me that Sheng Long isn't real
Wait, I don't know this one. What about the hands?
I believe "Hadouken" translates to "surge fist", and if you look carefully at hadouken sprites, you can see "the hands" portion of the characters' sprites replicated.
These images are slightly modified for clarity, but does linking to Twitter still work?
These images are slightly modified for clarity, but does linking to Twitter still work?
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
Last edited:
Oh, that explains it. After Alpha 2, my familiarity drops.
That's a pretty clever trick, thanks for pointing it out.
Last edited:
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
The SMB thing with the clouds is because the game had no mapper and as a result the maximum size it could be was 40kb. Cartridge space was at a huge premium. Games with mappers had much more space for unique graphics, but SMB was designed to be the ultimate (unaugmented) NES game.