Random video game trivia that shocked you

[Olli]

 

[John]

After you beat the game, you also can do this little trick (if you had bought the Nintendo published How to Win at Super Mario Bros.)

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

...that's not what it should look like.

 

[John]

It’s from them trying to upsell the minor enemy tweaks after beating it as a full second game.

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

It’s from them trying to upsell the minor enemy tweaks after beating it as a full second game.

I guess maybe it works better in that context? It just sounds to me like they're saying "look at it now," and there's a Goomba, which... well, is explained in the next bit.

 

[Purple]

In Japan, the game we know as Dragon Warrior was called Dragon Quest.

... and because battery-in-the-cart saves just kinda weren't a thing in Japan for a surprisingly long time, the first two games in the series originally had password based saves (formatted mostly as haiku).

 

[Torzelbaum]

In Japan, the game we know as Dragon Warrior was called Dragon Quest

The name was changed for the NES games because there was a tabletop RPG from that era that was named DragonQuest. After the Donkey Kong name kerfuffle I'm guessing Nintendo wanted to avoid any other issues like that.

 

[Poster]

Something that shocked me when I came across it a few years back is that the Black Omen from Chrono Trigger is not a levitating tower, but rather a spaceship/Star Destroyer.

 

[Olli]

 

[P-Tux7]

Okay, forget how the clouds and bushes are the same tile, get ready for:

 

[Second Duke Revier]

I....don't get it?

 

[RT-55J]

pipes and hills use the same green-colored filler tile

 

[lincolnic]

That one's not as surprising to me, since the NES can only display a maximum of 25 colors at any given time. Gotta squeeze as much value out of them as you can!