Rubrica Cose che non sai sui Retro Giochi

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Colpire i totem può essere divertente:

Secret of Mana

Hitting the totem poles placed throughout the Upperland forest with the sword will cause them to stick their tongues out. Hitting them again will make them put their tongues away again.

 

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Quando si parla di Punch Out, qualunque versione essa sia, mi piace riproporvela

 

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Cameo

There are two Street Fighter characters that can be seen in some of the stage backgrounds. Guile appears during the boss fight with Freddie in France, and Chun-Li appears in the first stage, where she can be seen eating ramen.

 

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Troppo difficile:

Metroid Prime 2

The game's Senior Director of Development, Bryan Walker, claimed that he was never able to defeat the Boost Guardian without the use of the game's debug mode.

 

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Che sia per questo che si dimenticano sempre di lui?

 

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Adoro questi piccoli segreti e Silent Hill 3 ne è pieno

If you have the "Princess Heart" costume and a maul equipped, you can hear mysterious Japanese voices on the 1st floor of the alternate Hilltop Center building.

 

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L'importanza dei vermi:

Earthworm Jim

In the Special Edition version of the game, when completing the game set to the easy difficulty, the player is told a variety of made up facts about worms.

 

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Per chi non se ne era accorta

Many of the names in the game may be references to the film Ladyhawke, as the names Isabeau, Navarre, and Aquila are all featured names of the film.

 

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E' solo cinema:

Altered Beast (Arcade)

In the Arcade version's ending, it is implied that the whole game is an elaborate play, with the monsters and characters being actors in costume.

 

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BUG

The North American version (both for the Wii and the Wii U re-release) has a major Game-Breaking Bug involving the inability to go inside the 11th & 12th towers. This doesn't happen in any other version of the game. This manifests in two ways: the inability to go inside these towers after the 13th and final tower has been opened, and the inability to do so even before completing said towers.

 

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Genesi di un cambio titolo

The series was originally called "Dragon Warrior" when released outside of Japan. A pen-and-paper game called Dragon Quest already existed when the first Dragon Quest video game was released, so Nintendo of America changed the name during localization to avoid any potential legal issues. Square Enix eventually got the rights to use the intended name and made the switch starting with Dragon Quest VIII when it released in North America in 2005.

 

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Un giorno anche Breath of Fire, tornerà

Prior to the game's announcement, Capcom released a teaser website. It featured the shadow of a dragon, leading many to believe that it was a teaser for a new installment of the Breath of Fire series.

 

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Lo scrigno misterioso:

Chrono Trigger

The chest behind the counter in Truce Inn contains 57,342G. The chest can't be reached without cheating, and was likely only used for debugging purposes.

 

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Feels

 

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Niente Gatto o Volpe

It was originally planned for Pinocchio's world to be a location in the game, but it was later removed due to space limitations. Mugshots for Pinocchio as a human, Gepetto, and the villains Honest John and Gideon are left in the game, unused.

 

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La chiave misteriosa:

Medievil

There's an unused item in the game's data called "Lake Key", presumably intended to be used in The Lake level. It uses the same icon as the Skull Key, from The Hilltop Mausoleum level.

 

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Al solito i retro cover non sono propriamente affidabili

 

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Fonte di ispirazione:

Silent Hill 2

Masahiro Ito, who designed the monsters for the game, said that he was inspired to create the Lying Figure when he saw a coworker walking toward him from a distance. The coworker was wearing a sweatshirt with a hood and had his hands in his pockets. He was listening to his Walkman and was walking in a "cool way."

 

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Questa è abbastanza imbarazzante

 

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Concept

The original concept of Shantae was born in the year 1994, when Erin Bell created a female character while coming back from her camp counselor days. She named her Shantae after one of the campers. She also imagined she could use dances to summon animals to help her in her adventures.