Rubrica Cose che non sai sui Retro Giochi

[Geddoe]

Certe cose non te le aspetti da un titolo cosi anziano, anche se si tratta di un mito.

The 4 ghosts in Pac-Man all have separate programming on how they chase Pac-Man through the maze. Blinky (red) is the chaser and will chase Pac-Man around the maze as well as speed up depending on how many dots are left on the maze, Pinky (pink) is the ambusher and tries to get ahead of Pac-Man, Inky (blue) is very unpredictable as his path is calculated using Blinky and Pac-Man's location, and Clyde (orange) is the coward and will charge Pac-Man if he's far away but runs when he's close by.

 

[nintendo78]

Teoricamente SEGA AM2 non aveva i diritti di Spider Man neanche quando fece Shinobi, mi risulta strano che lo abbiano tolto.
I diritti sull'Uomo Ragno (se non ricordo male) furono comprati in occasione di Carnage e dei primi giochi megadrive. Ma non lo ricordo più con esattezza.

non lo hanno tolto
gli hanno cambiato colori. infatti ora in quella versione è giallo e verde :D

 

[Geddoe]

Oggi tutto in tema

Persona 4 has a book called "Witch Detective" that will be described by the player as:
A ploddingly-written romantic comedy about a girl on her first day of school in a new town. Vampires are involved.
... The content of this book was almost physically painful for you to read.
The summary is a reference to Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" novel.

 

[Vincent 86]

Pronta in cinque minuti:

 

[Geddoe]

Pubblicità ingannevole

There was going to be a peripheral for the Atari 2600 called the "Mindlink" that made it possible to play games with your mind. Atari said the device would allow users to "think" the movement of objects on the screen. The product however simply read electronic impulses in the forehead whenever the user moved their eyebrows, rather than actual brain waves.

 

[Vincent 86]

Una curiosità su Wild Arms 2: in una delle stanze presenti nella prima città è presente un poster di Vash the Stampede, protagonista del manga e dell'anime Trigun (gran bella serie):

 

[Glassyman]

Sono riuscito a riprodurlo anche nello stage successivo e ad un diverso livello di difficoltà, sempre con la rivista in mano a pochi passi da Snake.
Vabbè sarà tipo un Easter egg.

 

[Geddoe]

In tema di easter egg e camei...

There is a hydralisk from the Starcraft series hidden in the mission "Daughters of the Moon".

 

[Aku]

non lo hanno tolto
gli hanno cambiato colori. infatti ora in quella versione è giallo e verde :D

Che roba! Non lo sapevo. Ora è diventato Electro in pratica :D

 

[Geddoe]

Concludiamo con una curiosità a tema

According to series character artist Soejima Shigenori, Aigis' "headphones" were designed to resemble the Antikythera mechanism, an analog computer made by the ancient Greeks to predict eclipses, as well as the locations of stars and zodiac constellations.

 

[Vincent 86]

Che si gioca di bello?

 

[Geddoe]

Questo lo si può intuire da alcuni extra in game

The game was originally created with the name "Distrust", and was originally designed to be far darker and sinister than that of the final release.

 

[Geddoe]

Forse era un pochino "troppo"...

The finisher for the 2nd boss, Jude the Dude, was originally going to be different. In the original, Jack would take Jude's revolvers and shove them into Jude's anus. Jack then shoves them deeper and pulls the trigger, sending Jude flying and exploding into a shower of blood.

 

[Vincent 86]

Una curiosità su Reznor di Super Mario World:

Many of the Koopalings from the Super Mario games are named after famous musicians. Most people can see the pattern in Ludwig, Iggy, and Lemmy’s names. What you may not know is Super Mario World’s fire-breathing triceratops is named Reznor, named after Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who also created the soundtrack for Quake.

 

[Geddoe]

Questa non la conosceva^^

In the fifth mission of the bonus mode Half-Life: Decay in the PlayStation 2 port of Half-Life, the corpse of a guard can be found floating in a pool. The corpse has over 3,000 health and if hit enough times, it will destroy and spawn Snarks which can be acquired for use.

 

[Vincent 86]

Mi scusi, signorina Cruz? No, Croft:

Core Design animator Toby Gard wanted to make an interactive movie starring a male character looking for treasure in Egyptian pyramids. The character was deemed too close to Indiana Jones, and was quickly switched to a South American woman named Laura Cruz. Core ended up wanting a U.K. friendly name, so Core employees dove into a phone book and settled on the name “Croft.”

 

[Geddoe]

Per la serie, differenza fra le versioni...

There are two versions of the 6th stage. In the Japanese and PAL versions of the game, the stage takes place in hell. In the American version, the stage instead takes place on a volcanic island. Both stages have different graphics for Lammy, a different intro cutscene, and a slight change in lyrics in the first stage to remove any references to hell or the devil.

 

[Vincent 86]

Nome d'arte:

Chinese video game creator Xinghan Chen’s name may not ring any bells, but you are likely familiar with his design work on the games Journey and Flower. Xinghan works under the name Jenova Chen. He was inspired by Final Fantasy VII, and took the name of the character Jenova when he started working in games.

 

[Geddoe]

Questa credo che la conoscano in tanti

After the final credits of the game, if the player waits on the "THE END" screen for more than 5 minutes, Hades will have a special speech where he threatens to delete the player's save file and encourages the player to replay the chapters.

 

[Geddoe]

Questa invece NON la conoscevo assolutamente.

In the Japanese version of the game, the Zora Queen's smooth gem is not a source of her power. The gem is actually her secret to beauty, and she turned fat when she lost her gem. Any reference was changed to power in the US version.

One of the Zora in Zora's Domain says he's fond of the Queen being fat, but in the US he just says that they have to get the gem back. After getting the gem back to Oren, that same Zora was disappointed that Oren became slim again. Another Zora mentions the queen's beauty returning, but it was changed to just "What a relief."

After completing the House of Gales, a Zora says that he was swimming with the queen but lost her, even saying that he lost her because she was so slim. In the US version, nothing about weight was mentioned. It seems likely that these changes were made as Nintendo of America didn't want people to think the game was fat shaming people.