Rubrica Cose che non sai sui Retro Giochi

[Geddoe]

Anche Marcus vuole una pausa

Near the end of the game there is a toaster hidden in a block. Using it and waiting for the bread to toast will have Marcus yell "Who wants toast!?"

 

[Vincent 86]

Meglio Toad:

Hotel Mario

In the prototype of Hotel Mario, walking Toads are used as Super Mushrooms and 1-Up collectables. The final game changes these Toad sprites to bouncing mushrooms, but the manual still refers to them as Toads.

 

[Geddoe]

Real life

The game features a number of characters whose names are taken from real-life Old West figures

 

[Vincent 86]

Rubies:

Link: The Faces of Evil

In Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Link: The Faces of Evil, the Rupees are referred to as "Rubies." The value of the "Rubies" are also changed. Red rupees are worth 1, green are worth 5, and blue are worth 10.

 

[Geddoe]

Scrapped

Unused text in the GBA version's files suggest that all of the in-game spells (except for Expelliarmus) were planned to be upgradeable.

 

[Geddoe]

Luci che spariscono

Though the enemy weapons have tac-lights, once the player acquires one of these guns, the flashlight disappears. This is due to the fact that the lights are attached to the enemies themselves; not the guns.

 

[Nintendo Master]

Real life

Quando pensi a Jesse James così

Spoiler

Ma te lo ritrovi così

Spoiler

 

[Geddoe]

Only one time

In the scene where Snake talks with Granin, a slow guitar-only version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty's main theme will play. There's also figurines of Metal Gear Ray and Rex in the room.

 

[Vincent 86]

Rock It On:

Jet Set Radio

The song "Rock It On!" contains two main samples. The first "Rock that shit, homie!" comes from the song "Terminator X Speaks With His Hands" by Public Enemy.

The other, "Tune in. Turn on. Drop out." is from the Human Be-In Speech by Dr. Timothy Leary.

 

[Geddoe]

Titolo modificato

Peace Walker was originally named "Metal Gear Solid 5: Peace Walker". The number "5" was dropped later on, but Kojima personally directed the project, and considered it to be "an MGS5-class game".

 

[Nintendo Master]

Titolo modificato

Plotwist: è più MGS 5 questo che Peace Walker

 

[Geddoe]

Nomi adatti al presidente

Solidus Snake's swords are named "Minshuto" and "Kyowato". This translates to "Democrat" and "Republican", respectively.

 

[Vincent 86]

217 yen:

Yakuza 5

Unlike other characters in Yakuza 5 or in other games where they would start with a few thousand yen, the beginning of Tatsuo Shinada’s story has him start with exactly 217 yen in his in-game inventory. He cannot spend or earn any additional money during this portion of the game. This is referenced in a cutscene where Shinada empties his wallet into his hand, where exactly 217 yen in coins fall into it.

 

[Geddoe]

Tagliato ma recuperato

The Mongoose was originally intended to be put into Halo 2, but was cut and later reworked for Halo 3. The Mongoose prototype did not fulfil Bungie's quality expectations for Halo 2.

 

[Nintendo Master]

Esatto, è la stessa isola

 

[Vincent 86]

Bello skateboard:

Turtles II The Arcade Game

On the underside of the skateboard Michelangelo is riding on the box art is a Watchmen sticker, a homage to the comic series that came out around the same time.

 

[Geddoe]

First draft

In an earlier version of the game's plot, it was Jak's Light Eco transformation that would cause the Day Star to appear in the sky. In it, the Precursors would come to rebuild the planet and declare that only the fittest species would be allowed to remain. In this iteration, Spargus and Haven were warring factions.

 

[Vincent 86]

Un gioco per adulti:

The House of the Dead

According to a 1997 Sega Saturn magazine interview, the game's planner/director Takashi Oda mentioned that he wanted to target the game towards adults rather than children or teenagers, and did so by making the protagonists a decade older compared to other games at the time which commonly featured protagonists in their 20's, allowing the developers to avoid toning down the violent content in the game for a younger audience:

"I did that because our target audience was adults and up. From the start of the project we knew we didn’t want children playing this game. Had we wanted to target them, I think we would have made the game more about ghosts or something, not zombies. Those considerations were one of the tougher parts of this development."

 

[Geddoe]

Non una canzone casuale

Reiko Hinamoto's intro song, "Look To The Sky" by Sota Fujimori, is a remix of a song from Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix. This version of the song was also used for promotion on the games website.

 

[Nintendo Master]

First draft

Ma una remastered anche da due soldi per la nuova gen della serie no, eh?
Mi piaceva un botto la saga, maledetta Sony