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Time for the "Extra _____" Thread

Extra Life
Extra Guy
Extra Mario
etc

What term did/do you use, /vr/?

>> No.681361

extra lives

>> No.681365
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>>681353

>> No.681378
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>>681365

>> No.681384

>>681353
One Up.

In other games, extra life.

>> No.681386
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>>681378

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>>681386

>> No.681395

Free guy

>> No.681418

Lives

Is this gonna be like the soda/coke/pop heat maps?

>> No.681416

life insurance

>> No.681447

1-Up to denote the things that give you extra lives, lives to denote the actual concept.

>> No.681450

>>681353
Extra life. It applied to almost everything, where "guy" precludes females and nongendered and "marios" precludes anyone not named mario. If I could've thought of one that included inanimate things like robots, I would have. But I've noticed a lot of older games calling lives "rest" so I'm not fucking sure what's going on anymore.

>> No.681469

>>681353
We used to say "a 1UP".

>> No.681470
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>>681365

Mario is only called Super Mario whens hes powerd up

>> No.681479

Extra Man

>> No.681485

Item acquired or score level attained that gains the player an extra chance: 1up most of the time, extra life much less often

Chances remaining: lives

>> No.681482

>>681386
Is it even possible to unintentionally run out of time in a mario game?

>>681450
I never really understood what "rest" meant Reset? Restart?

>> No.681570

>>681482
World 8-1

>> No.681617

>>681482
>I never really understood what "rest" meant Reset? Restart?

Rest, as in chances to rest and recover. You get your ass kicked, and you use up one rest. You run out of chances to rest, and you die.

I don't know if that's the original intent of the term, but it's what I came up with to explain it.

>> No.681653

>>681450
>>681482
>>681617
define:rest
2. "The remaining part of something."

(seems most probable)

>> No.681664

>>681365
Bullshit. Everyone knows that small mario jumps higher. It still seems that way today...

>> No.681670

>>681653
I guess.

"Your remaining lives" makes more sense than some half-assed description I came up with like 20 years ago.

>> No.681668

Backup head, I still call them that

I wish I was kidding

>> No.681674

>>681668
That's adorable.

>> No.681680

I called and still call them lives.

I remember my little brother used to call the continues you get in the Sonic 1 bonus stages "baby Sonics".

>> No.681696

What the fuck does "1up" mean anyway?

Where did it come from?

>> No.681716

>>681696
see >>681365

Most likely mangle somewhere meaning 1 and up meaning increase. Increase your lives by 1.

>> No.681724

>>681716
Wouldn't "+1" have made more sense and been less confusing?

>> No.681762

>>681479

This. And never men. If you get two 1ups then then gives you two extra mans.

>> No.681775

Lives.

My dad called them Marios.

Even if he wasn't playing Mario.

>> No.681782

>>681696
It is from pinball days. It used to mean "Player # up" or "Player #, step up", shortened to "#-Up", and would light up when it was that players turn. The number of extra balls would be in a readout below this indicator. This behavior can be seen in many Pac-Man variants (those that allow two player, anyways), and early player-alternating arcade or arcade-style games in general (centipede, break-out, etc).

>> No.681783

>>681353

Hopefully I don't derail this into people 'sperging out in their own languages, but me and my friends called it "lisäukko" which pretty much translates directly to "extra guy".

I'm genuinely interested, what was an extra life called in other anons' language? With direct english translation if possible, I'd like to see if they all follow the same pattern.

>> No.681798

>>681482
>>681617
see
>>681653

This pissed me off in some games

>Grow up with tons of games that say "Lives x 0" when you are on your last life
>Be playing Sparkster (RKA2) last week for first time
>Says "Lives x 1"
>Die
>"Fuck! Well at least I--"

And I haven't played since.

>> No.681801

>>681782
I doubt in mario sense it's related at all to that. Most likely it really is just odd english.

>> No.681818

>>681353
Extra lives.

>> No.681813

>>681783
I lived in Mexico for a bit as a kid, and we called them "vidas" (veedas). It literally translates to "lives".

But I'm sure the names for lives varies as widely in other languages as it does in English. I can easily picture someone calling an extra life a "Mario" in Spanish.

>> No.681824

Extra Lives, for sure.

Minus "Starfox" and other flying games. Then it's "Extra ships".

>> No.681827

I was always under the impression 1UP was Engrish.

For example, when you use a Luck Potion in CV: SoTN, it says LUCKY UP.

Captcha: Anlyjap sufficient

>> No.681835

>>681827
Japan refers to everything like that in games
Str up
Level up
Life up
Power up

>> No.681836

>>681696

I always just thought it's bad english, meaning "one up" as in your lives go up by one when you get that item. So getting three lives would be a 3UP and so on.

>> No.681837

>>681365
>?
>?
Gee, thanks.

>> No.681840

>>681835
Why not just use LUCK UP then? Or is the stat called LUCKY in the game?

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>>681840

>> No.681878

Mario x 0
THEN HOW AM I STILL PLAYING

>> No.681874

>>681840
Probably poor localization.

>> No.681884

>>681878

Well they are your RESERVE Marios after all.

>> No.681885

Extra Mans

>> No.681883

>>681840
Pretty sure it's luck. They probably meant luckiness up, but engrish.

>> No.681893

>>681874
Going off my exposure to Japanese media, they probably say "lucky/lucky up" in Japanese too

>> No.681938

INC $075A

I'm such a nerd.

>> No.681959

>>681353
>I still have 3 lives

>> No.681965

>>681938
>princess
>assembly
>good results

JSR $2302

>> No.681978

>>681959
But in Super Mario Bros. you're on your last life when it says you have 1 life.

>>681884
This. The whole concept of "lives" has its origins in pinball, where a display shows how many balls you have left. When you're on your last ball, it says you have 0 balls.

>> No.681989

>>681827
1UP actually came from pinball machines.

"The term "1-up" appeared in American pinball games in at least the 1970s, perhaps earlier. These games often gave players multiple chances. When a ball was lost in the gutter, the next ball was loaded and the game continued. If a player met certain conditions (such as a high score), they received an extra ball. Later, this concept was applied to arcade games. The inclusion of extra lives was very common in video games from the 1980s on, even in otherwise 'realistic' combat-themed games.

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>>681978
>grill having the audacity telling people they have no balls

>> No.682015

>>682005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3KdcTgrno

>> No.682020

>>682015
In Mario I use 1-Up to refer to the physical item, and lives for the concept.
In other games I just use lives.

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>>681938

>> No.682334

lives?

>> No.682370

I'm familiar with "lives". Although games like Mikie using 'lives" was a bit weird. Did they kill the brat?

>> No.683140

Extra Life

>> No.683170
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extra life.

i had a friend who called it a free man.

>> No.683176

north east america reporting in

no one ever said anything other than Lives

>> No.683187

>>683170

My grandmother still calls them free man/men.

I just used extra lives for the most part