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Quel kiwi l'ho visto da altre parti.

Il protagonista del gioco, il kiwi Tiki, compare come ospite in diversi altri videogiochi Taito come ad esempio Bubble Bobble II, Cameltry, Pop'n Pop e Liquid Kids.

 

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Remix time

Some of the music tracks in this game are remixes of music pieces from previous installments.

Duff McWhalen's theme is a remix of Bubble Crab's theme from Mega Man X2, Shadow Devil is a remix of the Wily Boss theme from Mega Man, Rangda Bangda is a remix of the Fortress Boss theme from Mega Man X, and the intro theme is a remix of the Variable X/Get Weapon music from Mega Man X/Mega Man 3.

 

[Strider]

Scenari sconfinati

In Turrican 2: The Final Fight si controlla l'eroe in armatura futuristica attraverso scenari bidimensionali a piattaforme a scorrimento multidirezionale, in alcuni casi con effetto di parallasse sullo sfondo. I livelli sono molto grandi e spesso non lineari, permettendo di esplorare diversi percorsi per raggiungere l'uscita. L'intera area di gioco è grande come 1500 schermi.

 

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Trucchetto:

Resident Evil 0

The first boss in the game, the Stinger, has a simple way to be skipped entirely. To do this, the player must run up to the Stinger and drop an item in front of it, then turn around and wait for the boss to lunge at them. If the player picks up the item they just dropped at the right time, they’ll become invulnerable, and the scorpion’s attack will go straight through them. The player can then back out of the menu and simply run past the Stinger to safety.

 

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Not Maverik

If you look at the symbols on the bosses health bars, three of them have the normal Sigma symbol (Magma Dragoon, Cyber Peacock, and Split Mushroom), while the other five have the symbol of the Repliforce (Web Spider, Storm Owl, Frost Walrus, Jet Stingray, and Slash Beast). This means that most of the bosses you fight have not turned Maverick like the other games.

 

[Strider]

Monster Lynx

Tra le conversioni domestiche di Rampage si differenziò particolarmente quella per Atari Lynx, dotata di scorrimento e di quattro personaggi. È supportato anche il gioco con tutti e quattro in simultanea collegando più console con il cavo ComLynx.

 

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Quei barili mi ricordano qualcosa:

The Punisher (Arcade)

The barrel breaking bonus stage bares a strong resemblance to Street Fighter II's barrel breaking bonus stage. This is most likely an intentional reference since both games were made by Capcom.

 

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Cat's Eye reference

On the game's Japanese cover, illustrated by Yoshiaki Yoneshima. Blaze Fielding's pose strongly resembles the same pose made by Hitomi Kisugi in an illustration by mangaka Tsukasa Hojo for a 1994 10 aizōban re-release of Shonen Jump's Cat's Eye.

 

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Zitella! No, dai questa è esilarante

The German translation of Grandia 2 for the Grandia HD Collection mistranslated the "MISS" text for when you miss an attack as "FRÄULEIN" as in the form of address for an umarried woman.

 

[Strider]

Gratta e Annusa

The game also shipped with a "CyberSniff 2000", a sheet of numbered scratch-and-sniff paper, corresponding to a number displayed on the screen at a certain location, so that the player can get a scent of what the area the player character is in smells like.

 

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Il palloncino irraggiungibile:

Diddy Kong Racing

There is an unreachable golden balloon hidden underneath the Dragon Forest boss track

 

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Not Jason

To avoid comparisons between hero Rick Taylor and 'Friday The 13th' villain Jason Voorhees, the design of the Terror Mask in this game has been changed to appear less like a hockey mask and more like a skull.

 

[Strider]

Musica "ambient" + annunciatore

La musica per Metroid Fusion è stata composta da Minako Hamano e Akira Fujiwara. Secondo Hamano, Sakamoto voleva che lei creasse musica in accordo con i dialoghi di Adam. Hamano puntava alla "musica ambient e seria piuttosto che alla melodia" perché non voleva che i temi di esplorazione fossero "fastidiosi". Ha anche preso in prestito jingle che erano stati precedentemente utilizzati in Super Metroid e li ha arrangiati per Fusion. Poiché Nintendo of America voleva che gli sviluppatori cercassero doppiatori "hollywoodiani", Hamano aggiunse la voce di un annunciatore.

 

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Taglio obbligatorio

In an interview, Noboru Sugimura stated that Leon was originally supposed to start out in civilian attire. There would've been a scene between him and Marvin at the police station where he'd change into his police uniform.

"It’s true that with Racoon City destroyed, the police wouldn’t be actively on duty, so there’d be no real need for Leon to change into his uniform… but we wanted to show his determination to protect both the city and his principles by having him change into his uniform regardless. It was a scene with a lot of meaning. Unfortunately, due to a problem with the CG it got cut."

 

[Strider]

Autocitazionismo.

In Mystic Warriors sullo sfondo di uno stage si può vedere sullo schermo di un drive-in dei filmati di Sunset Riders, il precente gioco degli stessi programmatori. È automatico, è roba loro.

 

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Onimusha PS1:

Onimusha Warlords

The first Onimusha was originally planned to be released on the PlayStation in 1999 under the name Onimusha: Demon Warrior.

 

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Not Censored

Nintendo used to be the strictest company when it came to censoring their games for the Western market. It seems that RPGs were hit the hardest by this, as games like Final Fantasy II and Chrono Trigger had some of the most ridiculous censorships of all time inflicted upon them.

Secret of Mana was relatively untouched by the censorship policies of Nintendo, however. The game actually managed to sneak something dirty past the rating board. There are two enemies in the game which are sentient books that can flip through their pages and cast random spells on the party.

They are called the Mystic Book and the National Scar. There is a very slim chance that these books will flip to a page that depicts a naked centerfold with a heart beside her. It is likely that the rating board never encountered this enemy action, which is probably how it remained in the game.

 

[Strider]

Mio cognato Ken

Guile e Ken sono cognati
Guile e Ken sono entrambi americani. Ma in comune hanno anche qualcosa di più. Avendo sposato le due sorelle Eliza e Jane sono infatti parenti. Serpenti.

 

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Reference imprescindibile

If the player uses Rita's Thunder Blade spell against Time Traveler/Dhaos when his health is below half during the Coliseum 200 man battle, Rita will instead perform Indignation and finish him off instantly. This references the intro of Dhaos' home game Tales of Phantasia, where said spell forced Dhaos into retreat. Rita will also be able to use Indignation freely from that point onward. This only applies to the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

 

[Strider]

Il capostipite non si batte.

Lemmings diede inizio a una serie, ma l'originale fu così innovativo e ben riuscito che fu impossibile ripeterne il successo con i seguiti. Solo il 2: Tribes ci riuscì.