Rubrica Cose che non sai sui Retro Giochi

[Geddoe]

Little extra

In the PlayStation version of Innocent Sin, if you wait on the Load screen for 4 minutes and 15 seconds, a short acoustic version of the game's ending theme "Next to You" will play.

 

[Geddoe]

Unused Island

There is an unused dungeon, internally labeled "player_dngn", in the code for Phantom Hourglass. Accessible only in the PAL version and only via devices like Action Replay, the dungeon contains four rooms likely used during development to test interactive objects.

 

[Nintendo Master]

Unused Island

Forse è meglio così, quel gioco è tutto sbagliato, purtroppo

 

[Vincent 86]

L'importanza di Top Man:

Mega Man 3

After a week of work on Top Man, his data was lost due to a computer crash. Keiji Inafune spent another three days rebuilding it from scratch, making Top Man one of his most memorable creations.

 

[Geddoe]

Non una unwinnable fight se si grinda TANTO o quantomeno lo era in originale. Da quanto ho letto è stata "modificata" nella versione Switch

 

[Geddoe]

Mario non poteva mancare

In the GameCube version, taking out a bomb but not kicking it away will result in Joe whistling the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. theme. Jumping and performing the same action results in Joe whistling another part of the song. For copyright reasons, this does not happen in any other version of the game.

 

[Strider]

Gemelli diversi

Entrambi i titoli, Switchblade e Rick Dangerous, sono stati disegnati dallo stesso grafico: Simon Phipps. Programmatore della CORE Design anni 80/90.

 

[Vincent 86]

Differenze regionali:

Robocop 2 Arcade

In the U.S and European arcade version, the game starts off in the street, stopping a crime at a gun shop. However, the Japanese arcade version has an extra cutscene at the beginning that summarizes the events of the first film and lets you play its final moments.

 

[Geddoe]

...e non solo lei aggiungerei io. Tanti pg. sono controparti di persone reale nella serie Shadow Hearts/Koudelka

Margarete Gertrude Zelle was designed after the real life World War I German spy "Mata Hari".

 

[Geddoe]

Nyarla sa come prendersi gioco dei suoi nemici

It's implied that the entire legend of Kiyotada Gozen death was fabricated and spread as both a weapon and another of Nyarlathotep's taunts to Tatsuya Suou about the events of the Other Side.

 

[Vincent 86]

Censure:

Super Castlevania IV

In the Japanese version, at the graveyard scene in the opening, there are crosses in the background, including one on the top of Dracula's tombstone. However, the name on the tombstone is "Dracura". But in the International version, they removed and replaced the crosses, along with the "Dracura" name.

 

[Geddoe]

Io ne ho fatto un largo uso

The Special Edition of Devil May Cry 3 is the only game in the series that has "multiplayer" mode. To do this, the second player must get a second controller and press start while the first player uses the Doppelganger Style's "After-image", or when Vergil joins the fight with Arkham. The second player will control a downgraded Vergil with lesser combos than normal, but with infinite health.

 

[Strider]

Io ne ho fatto un largo uso

Che sotterfugi per giocare in multy.

 

[Geddoe]

Animal nerd

"The name of the ibis bird in Japanese is “toki” (a homonym for time), and we liked how that word resonated with the game’s themes of “extinction” and “time”… we could probably come up with a number of different explanations for the name, but basically we liked those associations. Also, considering the name of “Raccoon City” from Resident Evil, maybe there’s a lot of animal lovers on the team too."

 

[Vincent 86]

Controlli problematici:

Alien Resurrection was the first First-Person Shooter to use the now common two analog stick control scheme, where the left stick moves you up and down and strafes you left and right, while the right stick turns you left and right and aims your gun up and down. However, it wasn't well received by some critics. Steven Garrett from GameSpot gave the game a 4.71/10 calling the control scheme "It's most terrifying element." He went on to say; "Too often, you'll turn to face a foe and find that your weapon is aimed at the floor or ceiling while the alien gleefully hacks away at your midsection."

 

[Geddoe]

Una parlata "diversa"

 

[Geddoe]

Censure perbeniste

Later revisions of the NTSC version of the game had a specific monkey's name and description changed, possibly out of fear of copyright infringement. An ape named Freeto with the description, "Needs clean underwear" is changed to Quiff, with the description, "Bad fur day."

 

[Strider]

Censure perbeniste

Che du palle le censure perbeniste!

 

[Vincent 86]

Dialoghi differenti:

Battletoads

There are 4 different sets of dialogue that the Black Queen and Professor T. Bird will speak in the ending cutscene. These sets of dialogue are selected at random.

 

[Geddoe]

Audizione per caso

Guy Cihi, who played James Sunderland, was only present at the auditions because he was escorting his daughter there. After reading a script in the break room, he asked if he could read for the part of James.