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Did you know the game known in the west as Zelda II: the Adventure of Link is simply a reskin of Famicom game Olympus no Tatakai?

Nintendo of America thought the original Zelda 2 (an expanded, harder Second quest based on the original) would look too similar to the original, and requested a more distinct game easier to market for the western audience

>> No.3993659

>>3993652

Nice try.

>> No.3993660
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3993660

This is now a fan-art thread.

>> No.3993782

>>3993660
Wow this looks really cool. Too bad it's a JRPG.

>> No.3994108
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>>3993652
How long before the stupid little kiddos start "unironically" believing this and parroting it to anyone who will listen?

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>>3993660
which nei would you nei

>> No.3994169

>>3993652
Woah I never knew that. Also, Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually Doki Doki Panic in Japan, they just changed the sprites.

>> No.3994172
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>>3994169
forgot picture

>> No.3994208

>>3994169
Someone watches video game historian on YouTube...

>> No.3994290

>>3994169
DID U KNOW?

>> No.3994413

>>3993652
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting. Yes that's been written before many times but so are >>3994169
>>3994172
and>>3994290
...

>> No.3994512

Hope the Gaming Historian steals this.

>> No.3994519

>>3993652
OP is correct here

>> No.3994658

>>3994512
>>3994208
Okay, I occasionaly watch Gaming Historian, did something happen? Did he say some lies or didn't do research, I don't get the meme.

>> No.3994696

>>3994658
He reads facts off wikipedia.

>> No.3994969

>>3994290
WERETH THOU AWARETH

>> No.3994974 [DELETED] 

>>3994969

Wert thou aware?

>> No.3994980

>>3993652
Didn't know this OP, but I can see the similarities in your pic. Pretty cool factoid.

>> No.3995081

The Playstation console is abbreviated PS1 or PS, there is a DVD player called PSX that has little in common with the console.

>> No.3995209

>>3994169

^^This.

Really cool factoid.

>> No.3995217

>>3993660
No it's not, faggot

>> No.3995285

>>3993652
Fact: Sega made a console BEFORE the Genesis!

>> No.3995445

>>3995285
Why would they name it the "Genesis" then?

>> No.3995467

>>3995445
Referencing Star Wars: Search for Spock which hit theaters that same year.

>> No.3995482

>>3993652
Why is this meme being pushed so hard? Was there some e-celeb in like the last two or three months who made a video about Mario 2 that triggered someone?

>> No.3995534

>>3994169

Can't really blame Japan, Doki Doki Panic was and still is a highly successful franchise there.

>> No.3995569

>>3995482

The factoid about SMB2 is so widely known, it's cliche at this point.

I remember telling people about it in high school 20 years ago.

>> No.3995574

>>3995285
Did you know? The Genesis is in fact a simple redressing of the Mega Drive , a japanese console sucessor to the Sega Mark III!

>> No.3995604

>>3995569
Yeah I know that but people didn't start ironically spamming it on this board until about a month or so ago and usually something like that is the result of something else.

>> No.3995721

>>3995604
Why, the NES classic of course! I tried to buy one for my wife but...no dice. Instead I bought the retron 5. In doing so, I started researching super mario bros (one of nintendos most popular franchises) and found out this bit of odd history.

Jeez. All these years later and we still make new discoveries. I love gaming.

>> No.3995820

>>3995604
Did you know? Harmless, easily ignorable occasional shitposts are not exactly this board's biggest problem.

>> No.3995821

What was the one about Kirby's Dream Land 3 and the Boss Butch mode again? Google is failing me.

>> No.3995824

>>3995574
In Japan it's called the MagaDriveru.

>> No.3995828

>>3995604
It's been around for a long time, but it's been overused lately.

>> No.3996325

well, it does look similar. but battle of olympus came out here in europe, I have it on gameboy as well. Could very well be.

>> No.3996343

Did you know that the D-pad is actually an Americanized version of the Japanese player input device known as the Donkey Donkey Paddock?

>> No.3996386
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>>3995574
Thanks Gaming Historian!

>> No.3996403

>>3996343
after doing some research I can confirm this is true

>> No.3996423

Did you know? Keiji Inafune didn't create Mega Man, he was just a producer, the real creator is Akira Toriyama.

>> No.3996783

>>3996386
I bought a book about video game during the 70s and 80s and within the first few pages the author thanked Wikipedia for giving him most of his info.

>> No.3996873

>>3996783
U wot

>> No.3996881

>>3996873
Fun fact!: Wikipedia began in 1876 as a series of definitions scrawled on the side of a barn that had been converted into a chalkboard. Edit-wars were settled by duels.

>> No.3996931

Did you know that Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally called Puck Man, but they were afraid feminists would complain so they made one of the main villains transsexual? And that's why Sonic & Knuckles has the lock-on feature.

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>>3996931
>And that's why Sonic & Knuckles has the lock-on feature.

>> No.3996950

>>3996873
What I'm saying is the standards are so low for any written material about video games that a book largely comprised of information taken off Wikipedia and even admitted so by the author like two pages into it can still get published and sold at a Barnes and Noble.

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>>3993652
Get a load of this idiot.
Rambo on NES predates the release of Zelda II by a whole year.
It's a Rambo reskin.

>> No.3997505

>>3995534
I loved Doki Doki 4, that's the one that's like Dragon Quest

>> No.3997513

>>3997142
Real talk, can we discuss why the fuck this happens in the game

>> No.3997527

>>3995569
>I remember telling people about it in high school 20 years ago.
Jesus... I'm barely 20 *years old*. Are most 4chan faggots this old?

>> No.3997547

>>3997527

You're on a board for old games. Most peopple who actually grew up playing older games will mostly be in their late 20s to 40s. While of course 4chan will skew a bit to the younger range, someone who went to high school 20 years ago would only be in their mid to late 30s.

>> No.3999615

>>3997527
Beat it kid, adults are talking.

>> No.4000149

>>3997527
You're barely two years older than the cutoff point for consoles and PC games here are you really that shocked there's people in their 30s-50s posting here?

>> No.4000254

>>4000149

i hope i'm not still shitposting here in 20 years

>> No.4000271

>>4000254
Don't worry, you'll certainly be

>> No.4000312

>>4000254
You know all those expectations about how you and your life will be when you are X years old? They are all naive thoughts about how people are in different age groups. I hate the cliché "You'll understand when you're older" but trust me, you will understand. Once you mature and have experience on life you will notice that each individual is as lost as they were younger. They just don't stress about it or over compensate.

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4001184

>>3993652
Did you know that the second super mario bros game wasn't actually mario 2? YEAH! It was actually a japanese game called Harry Potter And The Fucking Wizard! I know right! WHAT THE HELL?!

>> No.4001187 [DELETED] 

>>4000312

Oh goddamnit please don't say that shit. I'm nearly 30 and still wanna off myself as bad as when I was 18.

>> No.4001192 [DELETED] 

>>4001184

Not retro.

>> No.4001198 [DELETED] 

>>3996881

Underrated post in this bread.

>> No.4002225
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4002225

Did you know? Contrary to popular belief, it's possible to beat this without bitching the whole time!

>> No.4002269

>>4001184

come on, that's not a real game

the game you're talking about is The Incredible Machine, that image is just edited

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>>3996936
my nigga

>> No.4002529

Did you know? Megaman is blue because the japanese nes called the famicom, is also blue

>> No.4002681

>>3997527
Lurk forever and then leave, faggot.

>> No.4002685

>>3994169

Don't get this meme.

>> No.4002767

>>4002269
What the fuck are you talking about? There was only one harry potter game.

>> No.4003515

>>4002685
Huh?

>> No.4003526

Everyone knows Mario. He's famous for games like Super Mario Sluggers and Super Mario 3D Land.

But little known fact. Contrary to popular belief, he didn't make his first appearance in the hit Super Mario 64 trilogy.

Mario's origins in fact lie within the Donkey Kong Series, where he battled the mighty ape as the final boss of Donkey Kong Country. In those days, we fondly referred to him as King Jumper Man.

And that's the story of how Nintendo invented the run button.

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>>4003526

>> No.4003782

>>4003515

? What don't you understand

>> No.4003793
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4003793

Did you know Bowser is actually an ox in Japan, and his name is Koopa? They changed this for western audiences, but Japan has been getting a different character for years!

>> No.4003931

>>4003782
? What dont YOU understand

>> No.4004021

>>4003793
>Bowser is actually an ox
What do you mean by "actually"? What kind of animal did you think he was supposed to be this entire time? He's obviously some kind of ox or aurochs.

>> No.4004029

>>4000254
So then do like most of us do and actually come for discussion rather than shitposting.

>> No.4006714

>>4000254
I didnt see myself playing vidya everyday 20 years ago. Now i know that as long as my hands can hold a controller and my eyes can see the screen i will never leave this forsaken place. It doesnt matter if im senile because a lot of games are just reflex. Like dodonpachi

>> No.4006717

>>4002529
Im pretty sure it was that the color pallete had more shades of blue than any other color. What really activated my almonds is that the main character was going to be zero. Dont remember why they ditched tho

>> No.4008461

>>3994169
Babbys first retro vidya fact

>> No.4008674

>>4004021
He's a yak, obviously

>> No.4008756

>>3995445
meant to be a 'rebirth' of sega in america, since the master system didn't do jack shit there.

>> No.4011086

I actually liked Battle of Olympus.