Eating a bunch of weed and eating a whole bag of snacks while watching old Youtube is peak transbianism.
A Bowser course select screen, long thought unused in Super Mario 64 DS, can actually be seen by performing an absurdly specific action: Yoshi must drown underneath the Hazy Maze Cave entrance. If his lifeless body floats up through the pool, the screen will be displayed.
Great footage of the E3 1998 E3 demo of Zelda Ocarina of Time in here, starting at 1:33:25! Demo title screen and file select menus (featuring "Valvagia"), King Dodongo and Gohma boss battles, Kokiri Forest (aka "Kokiri Village"), Market (aka "Town of Hyrule" and "Downtown") & glimpses of more:
Electronic Entertainment Expo 1998 event footage [Hi8]
View Electronic Entertainment Expo 1998 event footage [Hi8] in the Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive.
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Previously, I posted about how Yoshi's Island bosses are shaped dynamically from cones. It turns out there is a way to see this in-game. If the cartridge is pulled out during a boss battle (PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS), the boss will revert back into its true cone form.
Some older OOT art. I always did love the 64-era illustration's use of deep shadows. Should make some new Zelda art soon, I'm feeling in the mood.
In 1996, Nintendo was seemingly very fond of a single particular stock photo of the sky, so that it ended up on the cartridge artwork of three different games released in that year: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Pilotwings 64.
Small details like this are one of the things I miss most about most newer games. What happened to Easter Eggs?? One day I’ll quote repost w/o a typo >.<
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn Paper Mario, Parakarry is a clumsy postman who joins Mario to find letters he lost. However, at the end of the game, Parakarry leaves, while the letters never actually get removed from Mario's inventory. This creates the humorous effect of Parakarry forgetting them once again.
This is it for today's backlog. These 2, now pretty infamous, guides were actually the first full books I scanned in 2001ish. Because no one knew what the bad guys in LttP were actually called I started importing Zelda guides to get the answers archive.org/details/zeld... archive.org/details/zeld...
I’m so happy for Akira Himekawa and their influence on The Legend of Zelda community. Please let them know how their work has impacted you! 🥹💚 Check out the full article here: www.zeldadungeon.net/zelda-manga-...
In a 2010 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the reason so many Mario enemies have repetitive names in Japanese (and by extension in English, e.g. Koopa Troopa, Cheep Cheep) is in honor of Takashi Tezuka, who calls himself "Ten Ten".
Insane lore. Still finding stuff in a 30 year old game.
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Super Mario 64 Whomp's Fortress Fish Fountain saga has once again reached a new development! Every few years, new information surfaces about a mysterious object that has no code in the finished game but has slowly been discovered to have been a bountiful fountain of fish.
The Mosh-Pit Playroom minigame in Mario Party 8 contains generic books in the background. Unused textures for these books show they were originally meant to be a treasure trove of Easter egg references to other video games, including even some non-Mario ones like Mother.
RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down May 1. When websites close, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory
Awesome news! @ozidual.bsky.social edited the full run of the 1987 Famimaga (Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine) magazines that I scanned a while back which means they're so much easier to flip through and read now! Check them out: archive.org/details/@ozi...
Passed on buying a Mustang now Ive got an opportunity to buy a motorcycle from a coworker and I really want to.