Data Graham posted:

PS. This works on men too

Facebook Aunt posted:

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

FreudianSlippers posted:

I´ve heard that the Disney platforming games were purposely made stupidly hard for the first three or so levels to try to stop people renting them from actually competing the game in the short time the rental lasted.

That sounds like something my uncle from Nintendo said.

Sagebrush posted:

it's 100% true. Here it is directly from one of the developers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csDgDuiu2yk

"If they rented it, and took it home and got too far in the game, Disney's analytics showed that they wouldn't buy the game. And so it was critically important to Disney that they not get more than a certain percentage of the game before one night's rental, which I think was they estimated at 6 hours, maybe 8 hours of play.

"so we had to make one of the early levels difficult, and the only way to do it was to expand the monkeys on the Can't Wait To Be King level, so much to the chagrin and absolute protest of [the lead designer] and basically everybody on the team, we added a big section of this monkey puzzle and just kept making it harder until it tested to the level that was necessary."

Sockser posted:

My mom bought me the Little Mermaid game and we plowed through it in like 4 hours, followed by a “huh, really should have just rented that one”
So this holds some water

flavor.flv posted:

You've got Colin Robinson's character all wrong. He's got encyclopedic knowledge of every cryptocurrency and a thousand prepared responses for every criticism of crypto, all of which he is ready to rattle off at the drop of a hat

He does not own any

John Lee posted:

Absolutely baffled by the Lion King game being legendarily hard

I played plenty of games, and the Lion King was absolutely one of the easier platformers, relatively breezy. Maybe I was just good at the monkeys part?

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

Doing that thing where I make memes about how annoying it is to play phone tag with a lawyer instead of processing emotions in a normal way

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

It's not my lawn mower! It's the council's! Don't try to pin this on me!!

bike tory posted:

The way you phrase that definitely makes me wonder not if, but how many times, you have run children over with your stolen lawn mower while talking on the phone.

Dungeon Ecology posted:

Dissabrie.

Diss a brie

Facebook Aunt posted:

Heath posted:

It wasn't released here not because it was too hard but because it was an unimpressive sequel, and by the time it would've hit American shores it would have looked super dated, especially compared to the game that became Mario 2 in the West. The idea that babby Americans couldn't handle the Raw Masculine Energy of the Lost Levels is one of those weird schoolyard myths that the Japanese (as a nation) kept all the really good and cool games for themselves for some reason.

*"Unimpressive" meaning that TLL hardly looks different from SMB1 and is more like an expansion pack than a real capital-S Sequel. At the time, the idea behind what a sequel to a game should be wasn't really fleshed out yet - the thinking was that a 2 game should be an order of magnitude a different experience than the first one. Consider how radically different Zelda 2 is compared to 1, for example. That was Nintendo's design philosophy in particular at the time.

Edit: basically imagine an 80s parent picking up TLL from the shelf and flipping it over, looking at the screenshots and going "I think my kid already has this game" or "Didn't I already buy this? I'm not giving them another $60 (something like $140 in today's money) for something little Timmy already has"

quote:

Howard Phillips would have a notable impact on the Mario franchise when he was assigned to test the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, and in contrast to his complete approval of the original Super Mario Bros., hated it, feeling the game relied too much on counter-intituive tricks and was simply too punishing to be fun[2]. On his recommendation, Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa would pass on releasing the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, and instead comissioned the Japanese headquarters to retool the unrelated platforming game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic into a Super Mario Bros. sequel to continue the momentum of the successful Mario franchise[3]. The reskinned Doki Doki Panic would get Howard Phillips' immediate approval in testing and get released as Super Mario Bros. 2.

flavor.flv posted:

You've got Colin Robinson's character all wrong. He's got encyclopedic knowledge of every cryptocurrency and a thousand prepared responses for every criticism of crypto, all of which he is ready to rattle off at the drop of a hat

He does not own any

rodbeard posted:

Nope you're wrong it was straight up not released in America because one random guy in the Nintendo of America warehouse tested it out and hated it. Because Nintendo had basically no presence in America at the time that was the entire quality control system they had.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Howard_Phillips

quote:

Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Who am I to dis a Brie
I cheddar the world and a Feta cheese
Everybody's looking for Stilton

Bags Fly at Noon posted:

Random nobody Nintendo employee

*checks notes*

Howard Philips

Olanphonia posted:

I figured he is an extremely active mod on every crypto subreddit.

Bags Fly at Noon posted:

Random nobody Nintendo employee

*checks notes*

Howard Philips

rodbeard posted:

Nope you're wrong it was straight up not released in America because one random guy in the Nintendo of America warehouse tested it out and hated it. Because Nintendo had basically no presence in America at the time that was the entire quality control system they had.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Howard_Phillips

Fister Roboto posted:

I always thought that games were brutally hard in order to sell strategy guides and get kids to call in to telephone hint lines. Turns out there's another totally concurrent reason!

Bug Squash posted:

Reskinned Doki Doki Panic is a much better game than The Lost Levels, that guy was right.

LifeSunDeath posted:

wow a loving boomer ruined videogames, surprise surprise.

Chloe Jessica posted:

Super Mario 2 is objectively a better game than The Lost Levels, though???