*Within the Star Nexus hovering over Earth. Scene Transitions to the ship's master control room*
Tom Z: Hey guys did you miss me? Tom Z here and Today,I'm gonna be bringing you some awesome Retro Game Factoids. Well that's enough out of me,let's hear those cool factoids.
Resident Not-So-Evil: With the aid of Resident Evil 1,Capcom was able to save itself from failure during the PS1/N64/Sega Saturn era. Today,the RE franchise has turned into complete crap [for a number of reasons].
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Lefty Linky: Did you know that Nintendo made Link left handed.It's in honor of his designer Shigeru Miyamoto[aka mr.nintendo] who is Left-Handed as well.
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The Sony/Nintendo connection: Did you know that Nintendo themselves was in a way responsible for the creation of the PS1,the N64´s arch-rival? It's true!
Y'see During the early years of the SNES,Nintendo had plans for 2 different CD add-ons. One with Sony and one with Philips. After a while Nintendo abandoned both projects. Sony,however,decided to continue their CD-rom project and years later they released it as a stand-alone console. So,remember, if it wasn't for Nintendo,Playstation fandom wouldn't even exist.
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Super Game Boy = Game Boy Color Prototype: In '93-'94 it was rumored that Nintendo was developing a Color Game Boy, but it turned out to be a GB converter for the SNES, the Super Game Boy. I took a while longer but now the Game Boy Color is a reality!
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Centaur Mario?: In the beginning of the development of Super Mario Bros. 3 there were plans for a "Centaur Mario" ability for our favorite plumber!
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The Popularity of Pocket Monsters: Pokemon aka Pocket Monsters, was a super hit in Japan and sold 3x as much as the newest Final Fantasy game at ther time,Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation.
In fact,Because of Pokemon,the Game Boy outsold the N64,PS1,and Sega Saturn in Japan of 1997. Pocket Monsters was so popular that it spawned many game sequels..but that ain't all,there are also Pokemon posters,stickers,trading cards,toys,stuffed dolls,manga,and even an anime series.
Pikachu is the most popular pokemon of them all....even to this day.
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Star Fox,The Testing Program?: Star Fox was originaly just an testing program to test out the FX-chip's capabilities, but the designers continued working on it and finally Nintendo released it and it became a big success.
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Samus Aran's Popularity: All the Metroid games has been huge bestsellers in the US,Europe,and even Austrailia.But for some reason,it wasn't that popular in Japan.Oh well,their loss.
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Super Mario 64,an SNES Game?: Did you know that Nintendo planned to release the 3D Mario game for the SNES using their S-FX chip? However,it didn't work out,so the 3D Mario game had to wait until the creation of the N64.
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The Origin of Jumpman: In 1981 Shigeru Miyamoto guided by Gunpei Yokoi made the first mainstream game for Nintendo starring everyones favorite plumber,Mario. It was the arcade game Donkey Kong.
At the time Mario didn´t even had a proper name! He was just called "Jumpman" and was a carpenter. Y'see,when Donkey Kong came to the US and Europe,Jumpman was renamed Mario!
Yes its true, Mario was first a carpenter before he became a plumber! He also starred in the sequel to Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong Jr. In Dk jr.,Mario was officialy given the name Mario. When Mario Bros came out,Mario's brother Luigi was born.
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Mario's Name: As you now know Mario wasn't originaly named Mario. Here's how Mario got his name: Minoru Arakawa, the president of Nintendo of America in New York, first saw "Jumpman" he thought that it looked like the building's Landlord. The landlord´s name was an Italian man named,Mario Segali.
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Surname of the Bros.:Did you know that Mario and Luigi's surname is Mario. Therefore their full names are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
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Final Fantasy Fun Fact # 1: The two characters Biggs and Wedge, sometimes known as "Vicks and Wedge",have appeared in many Final Fantasy games (FF VI-VIII to be exact). What few people know is that their names were taken from two wingmen from Star Wars.
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Final Fantasy Fun Fact # 2: In all Final Fantasy games,except for Final Fantasy 1,the character Cid has appeared as an important character. The Producer of the Final Fantasy games, Hironobu Sakaguchi, once described this character as "the Yoda of the Final Fantasy series". One interesting fact to note is that the Cids are almost always either engineers or mechanics.
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Final Fantasy Fun Fact # 3: Have you noticed that in all the Final Fantasy games the best and the second best swords are named Excalibur and Masamune.
You may recognize the name Excalibur from the classical King Arthur story and the Masamune is named after an ancient Japanese wordsmith. Those of you that have played Chrono Trigger may also recognize the Masamune sword. The Excalibur is nowhere to be seen in that game, though.
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Final Fantasy 64?: After Final Fantasy VI for the SNES was complete Square began experimenting with 3D characters. and in 1995 they proudly introduced to the press, a CGI demo featuring: Locke, Terra and Shadow battling some kind of a stone enemy.
This little playable demo was assumed by everyone that Square's next Final Fantasy game would be for the Nintendo 64. Unfortunately,that wasn't the case.
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Nintendo Hates Genies: Nintendo deliberately programmed SNES games to crash when used with a Game Genie! When Nintendo lost their trial against Galoob and Galoob was free to sell their Game Genie freely,Nintendo started programming their games and SNES systems with a chip that made the games screw up if the Game Genie was used. That's why there is about 3 or 4 versions of Final Fantasy III[VI] and Chrono Trigger...
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Metroid Translation Mistake: On the box and the manual of the Original Metroid, it states that the game takes place on the planet Zebes. However, the text inside the game itself calls the planet *Zebeth*. This is because there is no basic 's' sound in Japanese--words that end in 'th' are sometimes translated as 's'. The 'Zebes' spelling that's used in every Metroid title..
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"Legend" of Zelda: Miyamomto has openly admitted that "The Legend of Zelda" game series was based on both fantasy books and the movie "Legend". The movie "Legend" was released just before "The Legend of Zelda" was made, back in 1986. "Legend" was directed by Ridley Scott,and starred Tom Cruise.
The story is similar to the Zelda games: Young scrawny elf like boy is sent out by various dwarves and pixies to delve into the dark dungeons and rescue the princess captured by the evil Gannon like demon. In his way are many smaller demons. It also has the exact same mythological and medival fantasy feel to it.
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Castlevania Begins:Did you know that there's an Arcade game called Haunted Castle,and it's the very First Castlevania game. Yup,Castlevania for the NES Wasn't the very first Castlevania Game. Though it was the first Mainstream one.
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Donkey Kong's Name: A rumor says that it was meant that Donkey Kong´s name would be Monkey Kong.but due to a bad phone connection, someone heard wrong and thought that it was Donkey Kong.
The more true theory is that Shigeru Miyamoto looked in various dictionaries for a word for "stubbern" because he wanted Donkey Kong to be that way and found the word "Donkey". The other part of the word,"Kong",came from the famous King Kong.
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Biggest. AC Adapter. Ever!: Did you know that Colecovision had[has] the biggest AC adapter of any existing game system. [domo arigatou,kyle for giving me this tip]
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2 Mario 2's: Did you know that there are 2 Super Mario 2's? The American one and the japanese one.The Japanese one was created using the SMB1 engine,but had much harder levels. The American Mario 2(the one we know best) was originally an obscure japanese game called Doki Doki Panic. Nintendo of America thought that the Japanese Mario 2 would be too tough for most players,so they asked Nintendo of Japan to create an Alternate Mario 2 for the US. NoJ turned Doki Doki Panic into a Mario game. And that game became our Mario 2.
The Japanese version of Mario 2 eventually came to the US as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. This game was introduced to the US via Super Mario All-stars for the SNES.BTW,our Mario 2 is known as Super Mario USA in Japan.
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Gender Confused: For some odd reason NoA changed Birdo,a female enemy,into a guy who thinks he's a girl. Though in some Japanese media,Birdo Is a guy.*shrugs*
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The Lost Zone of Sonic 2: Did you know that Sonic 2 was originally supposed to have 12 Zones instead of 11. Hidden Palace is the lost zone. This Level was mostly deleted from the final version of the game,though you can visit a crapped up version of it via cheat device. The true look of Hidden Palace can bee seen in Sonic 2 Beta.
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Sonic & Knuckles Zones in Sonic 3: Originally he first 3 levels of Sonic and Knuckles were supposed to be in Sonic 3.But due to limited cart space,those levels were removed from Sonic 3 and placed into Sonic and Knuckles.
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The White City: Did you know that Mega Man X's Intro Stage was originally supposed to be a White City instead of a highway. This city had a Mid-boss that's only seen in Sting Chameleon's stage,as well as an unused enemy. The White City isn't in the final game.
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Sonic 1 Beta Stuff: In Sonic 1 Beta,Spring Yard Zone was called Sparkling Zone and Scrap Brain Zone was called Clock Work Zone. Also in Sonic 1 Beta,there was an enemy that didn't make it into the final game. This enemy was a Rabbit badnic called Splats. Splats was a quick enemy who attacked Sonic by jumping at him.
There was also a goggles Item that allowed Sonic to breath Underwater and a 'S' Item,which gave Sonic Both Super speed and Invinsibility. These Items were scrapped for the final game,However,if you hit the Sign Post while screwing around with the debug mode,you can see the icons for these items in the sign post.
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Mario Twins??: Did you know that in early Super Mario games,Mario and Luigi had the same sprite.The only difference was the pallete. Thankfully,this was changed in later games.
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Final Fantasy 4 NES?: Did you know that Final Fantasy 4 was originally planned to be an NES game? However,Square decided to make it an SNES title instead. Thank God they did this.
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Aeris the Main Heroine: Did you know that Aeris was supposed to be the Only main Heroine of FF7.It's true. However,Square decided to add Tifa and Yuffie for the final game.
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Tougher Enemies in Zelda 2 Jp: Did you Know that in the Japanese Zelda 2,the bosses are much tougher. In The US version,these bosses have a weaker defense.
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Palutina and Princess Lana: Did you know that Captain N's Princess Lana is loosely based on Goddess Palutina from Kid Icarus.
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Punch-Out Debacle: Because Mike Tyson's contract with Nintendo expired,Nintendo decided to re-release Mike Tyson's Punch-Out as Punch-Out. In this Re-release,Mr. Dream replaced Mike Tyson as the final opponent.
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Popeye the Jumpman: Did you know that the first Donkey Kong game was originally supposed to be a Popeye game. But before the development of this game,Nintendo lost the rights to make a popeye game. Because of this,Nintendo changed the Popeye characters to the characters that we all know and love. This is why Paulina looked like Popeye's girlfriend,Olive in the early NES era.
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Castevania 3's 10-bit music: Did you know that the japanese version of Castlevania 3 has slightly superior music than it's US counterpart. That's because the Famicom has slightly better sound and graphics capabilities than the NES.
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Nintendo's Silent Hero: Did you know that Link never talks in any of the Zelda games. Don't ask me why,he just doesn't. He doesn't talk in the Super Smash Bros. Games either.
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Sega's First Mascot: Alex Kidd,star of the Alex Kidd series of Games,was Sega's first mascot. When they found out that he couldn't compete with Nintendo's Mascot Mario,Sega "fired" Alex and decided to come up with a new Mascot. Sega chose Sonic The Hedgehog[among a few others] to be their new mascot.
Why,because Yuji Naka wanted a speedy Mascot,and Hedgehogs were known to be fast. Sonic became blue,because the Sega Logo was Blue. Also the Buckles on his sneakers were inspired by the buckles on Michael Jackson's Boots.
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Sonic 3 and Michael Jackson: It was planned for Michael Jackson to do the music of Sonic 3. However this idea was scrapped,due to Jackson's "issues" at the time.
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Adventure Island and Wonderboy: Did you know that Wonderboy 1 and the first Adventure Island game are almost exactly alike? Play the 2 games to see what I mean.
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Goblin's Goblin's Everywhere: Did you know that almost every Final Fantasy game has the Goblin enemy. I think Final Fantasy 6 and Final Fantasy 8 are the only 2 games in the Retro Final Fantasy Series that lack the Goblin Enemy.
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Toadstool to Peach,Robotnic To Eggman: Did you know that Princess Peach was called Princess Toadstool throughout the NES and SNES eras. Super Mario 64 for the N64 was the first game that calls Princess Toadstool Princess Peach. BTW,Peach is the Princess' Japanese name.
On a similar note,Dr. Eggman was called Dr.Robotnic throughout the Genesis and Saturn era. They started calling him Dr. Eggman in Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast. Eggman is the Mad Scientist's Japanese name.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 2: According to Mortal Kombat creators Ed Boon and John Tobias,Mortal Kombat wouldn't have done that well if it lacked fatalities.
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Sonic 2 Lost Badniks: The Alpha and Beta versions of Sonic 2 had enemies that were absent in the final game. Those enemies are: A Bat that swooped down at Sonic,a T-Rex enemy,a Triceratops that rushed Sonic when it sees him,a Snail that had the same method of attack as the triceratops,a second Snail that climed up walls,a Fish that jumped up from the water to attack Sonic,a Gator that bites sonic if he came near,and finally a 3-Eyed Fish that dropped bubbles on Sonic.
A Frog enemy was planned,but it never made it past the drawing board
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Sonic 2 Beta Zones: Sonic 2 had 3 Zones that never made it into the final. The first one was Wood Zone,it was a treetop level that had converyer belts and tunnels.
The next one is Hidden Palace,a rocky cavern with jewels,tubes,and an underwater section. Hidden Palace can be found in the final via cheat device,but it's a glitched up mess.
The final one was Genocide City,It was nothing but a glitched up screen with no floors or anything else for that matter. To my knowlage,Genocide City was supposed to be a clone of Sonic 1's Scrap Brain Zone.
There was also supposed to be a Desert Level,but,like the Frog Badnik,it never made it past the drawing board.
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Dust Hill?: Did you know that Sonic 2's Mystic Cave Zone was originally called Dust Hill Zone?
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Boxer The Goblin: Did You Know that Square was planning to make a Goblin playable in Final Fantasy 7. This goblin would be a good Goblin called Boxer. However,this idea was scrapped early in the games development.
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Aeris' Original Death Place: Did You know that Square intended Aeris to be killed in the Northern Crater in Disk 2,instead of the Forgotten Capital in Disc 1.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 3: Did You know that the Sega Genesis' original Pack-in game was Altered Beast. But,for the sake of sales,they replaced Altered Beast with Sonic The Hedgehog for the Pack-In title.
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The Forgotten Consoles: The Atari Jaguar,Panasonic 3DO,and Philips CD-I are the Game Systems that very few people remember.
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Another Final Fantasy Fun Fact: The REAL Final Fantasy 2 was ment to come to America,but Square decided to abandon the translation in favor of translating Final Fantasy 4 instead.
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Fake Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is concidered to be the Fake Final Fantasy by Final Fantasy fans and RPG maniacs. However,the game itself is really good. Short,not very difficult,but Good.
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The Lost Ninja of Mortal Kombat 1: Ermac(the red ninja from ulimate mortal kombat 3) was planned to be in Mortal Kombat 1.
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The Only American Zelda Villian:Did you know that Zelda 2 Boss Gooma is an American creation. Nintendo of America replaced the Japanese version's second Helmethead with Gooma.
On a related note,the Helmethead boss that we know is actually Zelda 2 Jp's second helmethead.
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Roaring Bosses: The Bosses of Japan's Zelda 2 actually roar. This is because the Famicom has better sound capabilities than the NES.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 3: The NES was the very Game System that made Video Games popular. So thank Nintendo for the popularity of Video Games.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 4: Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition was The very first Fighting Game for the Sega Genesis.
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Final Fantasy Number Confusion: Final Fantasy 2 US is really Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy 3 US is really Final Fantasy 6.
On a related note,Final Fantasy 7 was gonna be called Final Fantasy 4 here in the U.S.,but Square decided to just leave the name alone.
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Street Fighter Name Madness: In Japan,Vega the Spanish Ninja is called Balrog,Balrog the American Boxer is called M.Bison,The Evil M.Bison is called Vega,and Akuma the Dark Shoto is called Gouki.
The reason For this is that in America Trademark was a big big deal. Balrog,in SFII,looked a lot like Mike Tyson. So to prevent a lawsuit by the Boxer for using his likeness,as well as using a name similar to his,Capcom USA decided to switch the names of the bosses Around. Vega's Japanese name,Balrog,was given to the Boxer.
They also figured that the name Vega sounded spanish,so they gave it to the clawed fighter. And M.Bison,the remaining name,was given to the Super Villain. It remains a Mystery as to Why Sagat got to keep his Name.
Also,since Capcom USA found the Dark Shoto to be Evil,they decided to change his name from Gouki to Akuma.
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Street Fighter's Japanese Popularity: In Japan,the popularity of the Street Fighter franchise is weak. In the U.S. however,the franchise's popularity is as strong as ever.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 5: Tails is based on a Kitsune,a mythical Japanese Fox that has multiple tails.
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Lost Materia of Final Fantasy 7: Final Fantasy 7 has some "disabled" materia that can only be accessed by hacking. These materias are: Housoku,Suichu Kokyu,Booster,MaBarrier,Reflek,and Refaub
The Housoku Materia gave you the ability to throw Gil at your enemy,kinda like the 'Coin' ability gained from the 'throw' materia.
The Suichu Kokyu Materia was disabled in the Japanese version of the game,but Re-enabled in the U.S. version. This materia was turned into the 'Underwater' Materia.
MaBarrier gave you the ability to cast 'M-Barrier'.
Reflek gave you the abillity to cast 'Reflect'.
Refaub gave you the ability to cast 'Wall'.
Booster increased the number of AP you got in battle. Since certain Weapons increase the Number of AP you get in battle,Square felt that this Materia wasn't needed.
A Materia called 'PFD' aka 'Prevent Floor Damage' was planned,but was scrapped because Square didn't want to put any "Damage" floors into Final Fantasy 7.
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Golem Summon in FF7: Did you know that the 'Golem' summon was planned to be in FF7,but Square scrapped the Idea because they thought that the 'Golem' would make the game to easy.The Golem appears in FF7 as an Enemy.
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Tifa the Sabin?: Did you know that Tifa was planned have Saban's 'Blitz' technique as her limit breaks. But Square scrapped that idea in favor of the 'Slot' Method.
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Cloud's 4x Materia Growth Weapon: Cloud was planned to have a sword that gave him 4x Materia growth. This sword never made it past the drawing board.
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3 Extra Endings of FF7: In Final Fantasy 7's ending Yuffie and Vincent are 100% absent..even if you had them in your party. Square planned 3 extra endings:one with Vincent,one with Yuffie,and one with both Characters. However,Square scrapped those ideas due to lack of time and money.
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FF7's American Weapons: Did you know that the Ruby and Emerald Weapons were American creations.
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Fast Classic Gaming Fact 6: Did you know that the Diamond Weapon was turned into a boss in the American version of Final Fantasy 7.
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Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario 2 Changes: As you know,the game Doki Doki Panic was turned into the American Super Mario Bros. 2. But what you don't know is that,besides the characters,some other things had to be changed. here's a small list:
- The Potion in SMB2 was a Magic Lamp in DDP.
- The Mushroom in SMB2 was a Heart in DDP.
- The Mushroom Blocks in SMB2 were weird looking masks in DDP.
- The Koopa Shell in SMB2 was a freaky Head in DDP.
- The 1-Up Mushroom in SMB2 was the face of your Current Character in DDP.
- SMB2's Hawkmouth was an African Mask in DDP.
- SMB2's Clawgrip replaced DDP's 3rd Mouser as the 5th level boss.
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Super Mario Sightings in Doki Doki Panic: Even before it was "Mariofied",Doki Doki Panic Panic had some Mario stuff in it. The Starman and POW Block from the Super Mario franchise are both present in DDP. Plus,the Character Papa looks a lot like Mario.
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Sonic Crackers: Sonic Crackers aka Sonic Stadium was the Alpha version of Knuckles Chaotix. This prototype game starred Sonic and Tails. Sonic Crackers was basically a crapped up version of Knuckles Chaotix.
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Zelda 2's Lost Item: According to a rumor I once heard,The Red Ring is a Hidden Item in Zelda 2.
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Castlevania 4 = Castlevania 1: In Japan,Super Castlevania 4 isn't a continuation of Simon Belmont's adventures,instead the story is actually a re-telling of Castlevania 1's story.
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The Truth about The Zelda Timeline: Did you know that in Japan,The Zelda Timeline is like Final Fantasy's. Meaning that every game in the series is unrelated. Each Zelda game has it's own Link,Princess Zelda,and even it's own Ganon.
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Placeholder Kirby: Kirby was originally an unnamed place holder for a game.But Nintendo liked him so much,they've decided to make him the main character of the game. Nintendo's decision proved to be an excellent one,as Kirby has become one of Nintendo's most popular characters.
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Sonic's World: The official name of Sonic the Hedgehog's Planet is still unknown,because Sega of Japan hasn't told us yet. Sega of America used to call Sonic's World,Mobius. But,unfortunately,that's inaccurate. Some say that Sonic's World is an alternate version of Earth,called Earth 2 or 2nd Earth. However,I find this questionable and SoJ has never confirmed this. So Sonic's World will remain nameless,until Sega of Japan reveals it.
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Universal vs Nintendo: Universal Studios sued Nintendo because they believed that Donkey Kong ripped off King Kong. Universal lost the case miserably for 2 reasons: 1,Nintendo didn't rip off the King Kong franchise. And 2, The King Kong franchise itself was Public Domain. So no copyrights were violated and Universal was forced to pay Nintendo millions of dollars in damages.
The day Nintendo one that case,was the day it became a recognizable company.
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Master System = Master Fail: Due to the bad fun factor of most of it's games,weak marketing,and having little to no 3rd party support,the Sega Master System failed in both America and Japan. You see,even with it's superior graphics and sound,the SMS failed to beat the NES.
However in Europe,it had a stronger following. In Brazil,the SMS was extremely popular. In fact,it's popularity among Brazilians is still alive today.
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When the Proto is the Final: The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man is actually the Prototype. Ya see,Atari wanted to get this game out early,so instead of finishing the production quickly,they mass produced and released the Prototype instead.
This is why the game seems very crappy,it's a Prototype.
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Quick Retro Game Fact: Did you know that D.K.,the Donkey Kong that we know of is the Son of Donkey Kong Jr. So that would make D.K.'s Grandpa,Cranky,the original Donkey Kong.
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Quick Retro Game Fact 2: Did you know that ET was the most hated Atari game ever. The gameplay was very crappy and the graphics(for an atari) were garbage.
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Not A Real Street Fighter: The NES Title,Street Figher 2010 isn't Even part of the Franchise. The Game isn't even called Street Fighter in it's Native Japan.
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The FF7 Petiotion of '96: Now,in 1996,Fans of Final Fantasy heard about plans to bring Final Fantasy 7 to America,They were exited..However,they didn't want a repeat of Final Fantasy 2 (4 in jp) and,to some minor extent,Final Fantasy 3 [6 in jp].
So a large group of fans created a single petition (i think it was an online one,though i could be wrong) asking Square USA to be fair with the translation. They wanted the following things:
1 - Keep the Original Name
2 - Keep The Death Scenes and References to Death
3 - Keep the Violence intact..including Blood.
4 - Keep the Disterbing Scenes intact
5 - Don't Sugercoate the Villains..or the Heroes.
6 - Keep All Abillities and Weapons Intact.
7 - Keep The Dialouge close to the Original.
8 - Keep the Difficulty as is.
The Petition was a success and the Fans got most of the stuff they wanted. Interesting huh?
Tom Z: Well i hope you all enjoyed this long list of interesting facts. More to Come in the Future. I gotta get going now,still alot of things to do before the holidays. check y'all later and Have A Happy Holiday.
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1 comments:
I really like all these trivia facts a lot...excellent post Stefan. ^_^
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