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Giochi d'altri tempi:

 

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Una curiosità a tema DK64 vistoche ne ho parlato anche nel topic sui boss

During the battle, a high-pitched, menacing laugh will appear, but it is not made by Mad Jack himself, but rather is part of the music track. Mad Jack's real voice, as well as the aforementioned laugh, were taken from stock tracks recorded by the late Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck.

 

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Restando in tema Castlevania, questa la conoscono un po' tutti

Often, Death's HP/EXP values contain only fours, or they are multiples of four in some obvious way. This is a Japanese-language-specific pun, as the pronunciation of the number "four" and the word for "death" are phonetically identical ("shi").

 

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Il triangolo no...

 

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Questa è molto carina

In an 'Shining Force Encyclopedia' interview with game's Producer/Designer Hiroyuki Takahashi, he was asked how his team came up with the Japanese title "Shining Force: The Legacy of the Gods". Takahashi stated: "We had a few different candidates for titles. The one we chose was suggested by the scenario writer. Originally, the title was simply 'Kamigami no Isan' ('Legacy of the Gods'). I’m something of a sci-fi diehard, and I read a bunch of sci-fi novels that had similar-sounding titles, like “the _ of the _”, so that’s why we settled on this one."

 

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Un po' di autoreferenzialità non guasta

Near the end of the first level the name Kupek is spray painted on a wall. The author of the Scott Pilgrim comics, Bryan Lee O'Malley, records music under the name Kupek.

 

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Oggi una cosa un po' diversa, una bella classifica made in USA, in occasione dei trent'anni dello SNES.
I cento titoli più polari

 

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Sono io il migliore.

 

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Lo abbiamo sempre saputo che non era un tipo molto sveglio

二打六 (literally 2 vs 6) on his left arm means "background actor" or "not an important role" in Hong Kong film production slang.

 

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Certe cose è meglio non saperle

Although not referenced in game, Pecker is a Monkaw (half monkey and half macaw).

 

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Troppi nomi:

 

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Credo che se ne siano accorti, tipo, tutti

The Koopa Bros. are an obvious reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Both the Koopa Bros. and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are turtles and wear bandannas around their heads. The Koopa Bros. also speak in skater slang similar to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

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Certe cose si scoprono solo scavando

There is an entire animation and character rigging file for the character Aiai from Super Monkey Ball 2 in the game's data. This may simply be a remnant left over from development for testing purposes, as the game runs on the same engine as Super Monkey Ball.

 

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Il significato dei simboli Playstation:

 

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Restando in tema

Despite the name being Blinky's Killer Frog, this is the machine that Clyde uses in the level of Pac-Man World 2, Blinky's Killer Frog.

 

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Una somiglianza in effetti c'è.

 

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Come ti testo la fisica

A Soccer Ball is found in the Halo 2 Campaign level Metropolis, hidden in the rooftops. There is speculation that it was used by Bungie to test the physics engine of the game, and that they left it in the level instead of deleting it. It also appears as a Forge item available to place on certain maps in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4.

 

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Da certe interviste si scopre sempre qualcosa di nuovo

In The PlayStation (JP) Magazine interview, the game's director Lorne Lanning was asked where the idea for the GameSpeak action system came from. He responded: "The GameSpeak interactions came from us trying to figure out what kind of actions or movements Abe could have that would be funny, humorous, or kind of suggest to players that he was this weird guy, in a light-hearted way. How could we make players feel more intimately connected with the world and characters? GameSpeak was our answer to that. When players see other characters talking with Abe and interacting with him, it provokes a feeling of cuteness and affection for those characters, and the player then empathizes more closely with what’s happening on-screen. It helps bring them to life as characters, you could say."

 

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