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limaCAT: il pistone e male

If you press alt+tab while you play Depression Quest it opens an easter egg pac-man like maze game but with a kitten as pac man and four wool balls as ghosts.

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# ? Dec 13, 2017 18:29

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# ? May 4, 2024 00:34

alnilam

canyoneer posted:

there are tiny windmills inside NES cartridges that provide the energy to make the video game characters move. that is why you need to blow inside them every now and again.

# ? Dec 13, 2017 19:42

Macnult

They called it Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! because he was the first professional boxer to actually beat the game

# ? Dec 13, 2017 21:47

Twenty Four

*hits the select button on the NES controller*

*tries again*

hmm

# ? Dec 13, 2017 22:23

Starman Super DX: This title text is surprisingly sturdy.

canyoneer posted:

there are tiny windmills inside NES cartridges that provide the energy to make the video game characters move. that is why you need to blow inside them every now and again.

super mario brothers was created by accident because a scientist trying to synthesize rubber left the computer running overnight by mistake.

I kinda want a t-shirt like this that's a cross section of an NES cartridge

Tell me more!
btw ty Birdcon for the sweet spring sig

# ? Dec 13, 2017 22:26

limaCAT: il pistone e male

If you open byob inside the steam browser pictures will spin the other way round.

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# ? Dec 13, 2017 22:39

Jolo: ive been playing with magnuts tying to change the wold as we know it

The mushroom on top of Toad's head isn't a hat, it's actually a chemical weapon that Toad threatens to use on the Mushroom Kingdom anytime he is not on the screen.

There's an unused audio file hidden in the code for Super Mario 64 where Toad demands that Mario call Bowser gay. When Mario refuses, Toad points at the chem weapon and says, "Do it, pussy". In the final battle with Bowser if you turn the audio way up and listen closely you can hear Mario say "I'ma so sorry" under his breath after calling him "Gay Bowser"

In the VR game Lucky's Tale there are countless missing textures and the player character Lucky is just an orange box that cant move or interact with the environment at all. The developers left the game in this state when they realized that no living thing with free will would ever knowingly choose to play their game.

# ? Dec 13, 2017 23:59

FactsAreUseless

There is a species of bat in Australia that, during mating season, will puff their bodies up and deride the Assassin's Creed series as "normie poo poo."

# ? Dec 14, 2017 02:27

cda: by Hand Knit

FactsAreUseless posted:

There is a species of bat in Australia that, during mating season, will puff their bodies up and deride the Assassin's Creed series as "normie poo poo."

# ? Dec 14, 2017 02:44

SIDS Vicious

FactsAreUseless posted:

There is a species of bat in Australia that, during mating season, will puff their bodies up and deride the Assassin's Creed series as "normie poo poo."

lmao

# ? Dec 14, 2017 16:32

FutonForensic

FACT: Q*bert can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch

# ? Dec 14, 2017 23:50

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the age of empires series was originally called age of fiefdoms

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# ? Dec 14, 2017 23:54

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the rapid expansion of cpu power allowed for more than 20 units at once in-game tho

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# ? Dec 14, 2017 23:56

canyoneer: I only have canyoneyes for you

"crash bandicoot" is an anagram of "a crab's ballsack"

# ? Dec 15, 2017 00:22

Duckbox

Hedgehogs are naturally rotund, but Sonic isn't because he has exercise-based anorexia nervosa and is resisting his natural shape. His feelings of body dysphoria are worsened by his periodic chili dog binges which he then has to "work off." That's why his catch phrase is "gotta go fast."

# ? Dec 15, 2017 06:02

Gone Fashing: KEEP POSTIN
I'M STILL LAFFIN

cda posted:

Donkey Kong Country is actually technically a protectorate.

# ? Dec 15, 2017 06:05

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-R4uUelOfI

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# ? Dec 15, 2017 15:14

limaCAT: il pistone e male

Pyra from fire emblem will be the testimonial for the 2018's Goodyear campaign, and the Goodyear blimp will have her iconic colours grey, deep crimson and neon green for the whole year.

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# ? Dec 15, 2017 15:34

limaCAT: il pistone e male

If you input graghagoogo at the title screen of Revenge of the Mutant Camels for Atari ST nothing happens.

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# ? Dec 15, 2017 15:35

limaCAT: il pistone e male

VecLaserz was supposed to be the first vectrex emulator for laser projectors, but after beta testers leaked an unfinished version on IRC and the author just stopped working on it.

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# ? Dec 15, 2017 15:40

Koishi Komeiji

Max Payne's real name is Maximilian gaylord payneowski but he had his name shortened because all the mobsters he kills kept laughing at him.

# ? Dec 15, 2017 16:16

UWBW: Permanently banned from the Alamo

The V in Metal Gear Solid V stands for Virgin, because snake never got the gently caress

If you give a game's controller to your brother, he will be able to beat that part that you got stuck on but the trade-off is that you won't be playing the game for a few hours. Choose wisely, gamers.

Action 52's original name was "Gaming Garbage" but the developers had a change of heart at the last moment

If you draw a picture of Alexey Pajitnov's face out of tetrominoes in Tetris for the NES you unlock shapes that use 5 blocks.

Thanks to Manifisto for the sig, and Koishi for the last one. TVsVeryOwn made the CyberMike.

# ? Dec 15, 2017 16:26

limaCAT: il pistone e male

In the unpublished novel based on Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri Lady Deirdre and Santiago are lovers and they get nuked off by Sister Godwinson with a planetbuster she steals from Pravin Lal.

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# ? Dec 15, 2017 23:24

Jedrick: There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Smoke weed every day.

Duke Nukem is a single father of two.

# ? Dec 16, 2017 04:01

Duckbox

It's pronounced "vulf-un- SHTEEN."

# ? Dec 16, 2017 04:54

Duckbox

The triforce was modelled after Myamoto's genitalia.

Link's quest to unite the triforce is a metaphor for buying pants.

# ? Dec 16, 2017 05:02

Kthulhu5000: by R. Guyovich

Duckbox posted:

The triforce was modelled after Myamoto's genitalia.

Link's quest to unite the triforce is a metaphor for buying pants.

I think this might mesh with Miyamoto saying that Super Mario Bros. is an "apology to God, for making love to her."

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# ? Dec 16, 2017 06:15

Olive!: It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

# ? Dec 16, 2017 09:08

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# ? May 4, 2024 00:34

Twenty Four

One day they will make a "Final Sexual Fantasy" but of course they will make sequels and it will just turn into weirder and weirder porn.

# ? Dec 16, 2017 13:00

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