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| Oct 2, 2026 3:18 PM | MightyKombat | Game: Castlevania II: Simon's Quest | To be more specific, in Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star, a person who sees the Star of Death on their own is fated to die within the year (except Mamiya, who ends up no longer able to see it and no longer doomed when Rei dies for her sake). When two great warriors engage in battle, both see the Star, but its unclear who will die in that circumstance. |
| Sep 29, 2026 1:43 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Mario Kart 64 | I think the sound effect was actually introduced before 1995, especially as one might've heard it in TV shows and movies from before 1995. |
| Sep 29, 2026 1:41 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Mario Kart 64 | To think that there was a time people thought that was Charles Martinet. It's actually been used in a handful of media involving primates over the years with those sounds, even Banjo-Kazooie with Conga, you can tell right away the similarities to how things used to be with DK up until they in Mario Spinoffs decided to keep his voice consistent with his sub series. |
| Sep 29, 2026 1:38 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Mario World | Technically only 2 games from after the N64 era had that classic sound, being New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U. |
| Sep 28, 2026 7:11 AM | FOX MCLOUD | Game: Star Fox Adventures | No :(. That can't be the end to Fox McCloud's adventures. Kinda sad to imagine this as reality. |
| Sep 28, 2026 7:05 AM | FOX MCLOUD | Game: Star Fox | I have no idea where I'd be if Star Fox wasn't Star Fox! So glad they went with anthropomorphic characters. |
| Sep 28, 2026 6:57 AM | FOX MCLOUD | Franchise: Star Fox | Huh. Papetoon. I've always wondered if that was just a concept that was thrown around with SF64, since it never appeared as a planet anywhere else but the holoviewer lore. |
| Sep 22, 2026 9:59 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Pity Wario's franchise got put at the wrong point in Brawl's All Star Mode, since he actually debuted before Fox and Falco. |
| Sep 19, 2026 5:46 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc | Douglas Rand is mentioned in the credits, though merely in the additional voices alongside the those that voiced Refflux and the Grand Minimus and the many minor characters in the game. |
| Sep 13, 2026 3:52 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Mario Bros. | There are sky based levels in Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, although cloud riding would not be a thing until Super Mario World. |
| Sep 12, 2026 1:21 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Platform: Xbox | Could've sworn there were some new Xbox games released in 2006, most notably video game adaptions of particular films from that year. |
| Aug 17, 2026 12:09 PM * | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Halo: Combat Evolved | Sounds like the first Halo game almost got rated T for Teen, exactly what all the games in the series should've been rated based on what sort of game they're not, you can see Gears Of War and DOOM for examples. Plus the Halo games don't feature anything you would see in an R rated movie and look more like something you would see in a PG-13 rated movie. And before owning Nintendo consoles for the first time, Halo was one of the stuff not suited for under 13s that I myself still played before I was 13. |
| Aug 17, 2026 7:36 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Halo 2 | Took till Halo 3 for a human equivalent of the Ghost, and a human equivalent of the Banshee, but there was no human equivalent of the Chopper. Halo 2 as we know already introduced a Covenant equivalent of the Warthog, and a Covenant equivalent of the Scorpion Tank. |
| Jul 31, 2026 6:39 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Mario Bros. 3 | Often wondered to this day on why what looks like Chain Chomps would be in Link's Awakening, but what this submission explains might be the answer to that. |
| Jul 30, 2026 12:51 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Rhythm Heaven Megamix | Then again someone else tells me elsewhere that MegaMix was actually made to intentionally be the last Rhythm Heaven game ever, but it's thanks to what the fans can be like that the series continued, though it surprises me that what got there being more Rhythm Heaven games still hasn't worked with Golden Sun, of which said something similar when asked about the series' future. |
| Jul 30, 2026 12:48 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Rhythm Heaven Megamix | So it's not because of sales with Rhythm Heaven MegaMix that it took over a decade for the next Rhythm Heaven game to come around. Although it's hard to imagine any Nintendo franchise that can't have any new games without the starter upper. |
| Jul 30, 2026 12:46 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Sonic Heroes | Almost sounds like there's another mainstream Sonic game that had been greatly rushed. But with Sonic Heroes they certainly managed to get through the same levels and bosses for all 4 teams no problem. |
| Jul 25, 2026 5:49 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Princess Peach: Showtime! | Could be wrong though about Star Fox, but I still don't it was a good idea for the series to have nothing on the Switch 1, I do know however that there would've been some games originally intended for the Switch 1 that got moved to the Switch 2. It's good to finally know either way about how Princess Peach: Showtime came to be, basically being to Peach what Luigi's Mansion is to Luigi, though it's still unknown of how her own game that could possibly spawn sequels was chosen to be about theatre of all things. |
| Jul 24, 2026 1:05 PM * | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Princess Peach: Showtime! | This can't be right in terms of why Yoshi & The Mysterious Book and the recent Star Fox game exists, since I don't think Yoshi's Crafted World would've been completed without deciding on what would be next for Yoshi, nor do I think they'd have done more then one game from Yoshi's sub series on the same system. And of course Miyamoto was always intent on there being a new Star Fox game somewhere down the line and wouldn't let the series stay dead forever, this most recent game in fact probably started off as a Switch 1 game in fact before being moved to the Switch 2. Pity though they left the Switch 1 without anything at all from Star Fox, not even a port of Star Fox Zero, least they could've done was a re-release of something to fill the gap. I can understand though that it was best to avoid having similar sales to Star Fox Zero probably based on when it released, but I do know for certain that Fox's inclusion though from another franchise in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie would've been to promote the new Star Fox game. |
| Jun 26, 2026 8:12 AM * | CuriousUserX90 | Franchise: Earthbound | I do believe that 2003 was the year Mother 3 was first announced and that it would be coming to the GBA over the GameCube. So I don't see how 2003 could be a year where Monolyth Soft tried to greenlight their own yarn based Earthbound game. |
| Jun 20, 2026 6:13 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Harmony | Another thing I should point out is that HD Remasters of the Metroid Prime trilogies weren't even being worked on in 2017 and 2018, as evidence by the first game's remaster not releasing till 2023, and the other two remasters still having not yet released yet. |
| Jun 18, 2026 1:03 AM * | ZpaceJ0ck0 | Game: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans | And on a semi related note: no, StarCraft did not start out as a Warhammer 40k game and was never intended to be one. That's just a rumor, a rumor likely inspired by this trivia. |
| Jun 16, 2026 6:08 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Harmony | Re-Releases of Donkey Kong games by Retro Studios I'm pretty sure have different developers, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D for instance was handled by Monster Games. |
| Jun 16, 2026 6:05 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Harmony | So that's why Retro Studios' Donkey Kong games didn't become a trilogy, although now that they have finally completed work on Metroid Prime 4 since it probably won't be starting a new trilogy, they could probably get back to work on this Harmony game. |
| Jun 13, 2026 1:41 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Astral Chain | So with this being said, I guess that a re-release of Astral Chain won't be removing Nintendo references and credits like the re-release of The Wonderful 101 had done nor be multi-platformed. |
| Jun 10, 2026 3:06 PM | chocolatejr9 | Game: Yo-kai Watch 4 | Based on what the wiki says, the original Yo-kai Watch anime ended in March 2018 (in Japan) and was followed by the Yo-kai Watch Shadowside anime that aired from April 2018 to March 2019. The Shadowside anime was then followed up by a direct continuation of the original anime called "Yo-kai Watch!", which aired from April 2019 to December 2019, and it was during THAT series when Yo-kai Watch 4 released. It's also worth noting that the game was supposed to release in Winter 2018 to tie into Shadowside, but got delayed into 2019, by which point Shadowside had ended. |
| Jun 9, 2026 12:09 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games | Technically they always reuse music for Sonic games instead of using arrangements with Sonic music in these crossovers, especially when it comes to dream events. |
| Jun 9, 2026 11:59 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Rayman Legends Retold | I do hope there's still plans for Rayman 2 and 3 to be seen in glorious HD at some point and form whilst HD platforms are still a thing. Like say a compilation game of Rayman 1-3. |
| Jun 9, 2026 11:58 AM * | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Yo-kai Watch 4 | Remind me if the Yokai Watch TV series is still running, but not localising a Yokai Watch game at all based on sales of a previous game? This was to have been the first game in the series to come to play on TV screens, and the series is quite popular in the West. |
| May 28, 2026 8:53 PM | Salnax | Game: Drill Dozer | Nothing official, but the fact that the game didn't sell very well is probably what did it. Only about 6100 copies were sold in Japan its first week, and under 25000 lifetime, whereas the big GBA launches of 2005 and 2006 could easily pass 100000 copies in one week (Mother 3, Final Fantasy ports, Super Robot Wars, Mega Man Battle Network, etc) |
| May 28, 2026 8:26 PM | Salnax | Game: Sonic Mania | There are a couple other potential Daytona references in Sonic Mania: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi returns as an announcer in Mania and the achievementy "King of Speed" is a reference to the Daytona OST. I have also seen people claim that Mania's HUD in Special stages resembles that of Daytona 2, but I don't know if I buy it. |
| May 21, 2026 3:18 AM * | ZpaceJ0ck0 | Game: Crash Tag Team Racing | Interesting. I remember hearing the word "schmuck" here and there but I had no idea of its Jewish origin. For some reason I assumed it was an Italian-American thing. I also had no idea Seinfield was rooted in NYC's Jewish-American subculture. Then again I only watched like a handful of episodes. |
| May 17, 2026 12:55 AM | Salnax | Game: Gex | There don't seem to be any definitive answers to how well the 3DO sold worldwide. Also, I've seen the claim that the series sold a total of 15 million, but nobody actually seems to have a source. |
| May 12, 2026 6:10 PM | Ultimate Piggley Winks | Game: World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck | If Goofy's Hysterical History Tour was ever released in Japan, it would have been titled "I Love Goofy"? |
| Apr 30, 2026 7:16 PM | Salnax | Game: World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck | This would have been easier to research if I could read Japanese. |
| Apr 24, 2026 6:05 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Diddy Kong Racing | To think that Pipsy was based off a character from an unreleased Rare game. |
| Apr 17, 2026 4:14 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | Technically Experiment 221 Sparky originated from a direct-to-video/DVD film and tv series, and the Agrabah world in Kingdom Hearts II takes basis from The Return Of Jafar. |
| Apr 16, 2026 6:53 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Tomodachi Collection | Now that there finally is a new Tomodachi game, I would like to say that I wonder if what's said in this submission also applies to Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream in terms of exiting without saving. |
| Apr 13, 2026 3:44 AM | tsunderecat413 | Game: Sonic Origins | Also worth noting is that there's a "theory" (pretty much just a fact that hasn't been officially confirmed) that the arranged PC port tracks were not created for this port, but rather are ripped from an early prototype, earlier than the one archived by Hidden Palace. The main piece of evidence to support this is the fact that Ice Cap Zone Act 2 (as well as Act 1, though it uses Act 2's lead in Origins), Credits, Competition Mode, and the unused theme (which finally gets used in the Blue Spheres mode nearly 30 years later) are virtually identical to the versions from the November 3, 1993 prototype. They also sound much more like they were made on real hardware than the new Super Sonic theme, which sounds more like Jun Senoue's typical pseudo-retro style from games like Sonic 4 and Sonic Superstars. |
| Apr 12, 2026 1:07 PM * | MehDeletingLater | Game: Sonic Origins | The last release of Sonic 3 & Knuckles before Sonic Origins was part of Volume 4 of the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive Classics collection on Steam in January 2011: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/4925 https://steamdb.info/app/71162/info/ |