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I remember seeing the add on mocked up in a nintendo magazine years ago and thinking "that'll never catch on!!" guess nintendo thought the same thing!!!

Sonic hedgehog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHH ("sonic hedgehog") gene.[1] Both the gene and the protein may also be found notated alternatively as "Shh".

Sonic shares its name with a chromosome 7
 
the 3DO was the first cd based console

final fantasy vii was supposed to be a n64 game but the finished game was too big (would have needed 13 n64 carts)

the atari jaguar wasn't actually 64bit, it was 2 32bit chip stuck together
 
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Surely thats no true???????
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If Mario traveled directly to Princess Peach without veering off into warps or bonus areas, the total distance he'd run would be 3.4 miles. Factor in all the bonus levels, and Mario only tacks on another 0.3 miles, bringing his total run distance to 3.7 miles. Then there are the water levels, which total 1,218.5 feet, or as Greene calculated, about 7.5 laps in an Olympic-size swimming pool. With the bonus water levels included, another 344 feet are added on, bringing the total distance Mario travels in water to 1,562.5 feet, a little over a quarter mile.

Mario's epic journey through a magical land filled with villainous mushrooms, man-eating plants, and evil turtle overlords was a grand total of about 3.7 miles long. Now, let's consider that the current speed-run world record for Super Mario Bros. without mods or tricks is 4:53:69. The real-life world record for a mile run is 3:43:13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999. Mario would absolutely destroy that record back on Earth, but instead he chooses to keep rescuing a princess who by this point clearly wants to be in the cold, scaly, yet loving hands of a giant evil turtle. Mario's priorities are all fucked up.

Another group of people trying to apply math to fictional characters figured out that Mario runs about 20 meters per second, and they discovered that as they attempted to answer a different question surrounding another classic video game character ...

For years we've been told that Sonic runs at the speed of sound. Bullshit. If you compare their speeds in their first games, Mario actually runs faster than Sonic. And Sonic's top speed doesn't even approach the speed of sound. It's all a goddamn lie!

Just as Nick Greene measured Mario levels with Mario himself, the folks at the Game Theory video series measured Sonic's height in the 2006 gameSonic the Hedgehog (3 feet 7 inches) and used it to measure how many Sonics would stretch across Act 1 of Green Hill Zone (the very first Sonic level in the series): 236 Sonics, which is 259.6 meters. According to their research, the world record for completing Act 1 of Green Hill Zone is 25 seconds. At his fastest, Sonic runs 10 meters per second. At sea level, the speed of sound clocks in at 340.29 m/s. Not only does Sonic fail to even approach the sound barrier, but even with his stubby little legs, Mario's pudgy ass is twice as fast as Sonic.

They also discovered that Sonic isn't even as fast as Doctor Robotnik. Whenever he flees from Sonic on foot, Sonic can never keep up. At one point in the first game, Robotnik goes from 0 to 60 in a quarter of a second fleeing from Sonic. Sonic can't even run at the speed of two fat guys. Sonic the Hedgehog is a crock of shit.
 

Interesting video on the 1982 Swordquest series which attempted to give away real prizes worth up to $150,000.
 
LA Noire is banned in most Arab countries because of the non-fully clothed corpses you have to inspect.

Mortal Kombat 1 and 64 is banned in Australia but Mortal Kombat 9 isn't.
 
The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius, a scrolling shooter released on the NES in 1986. Finding the game too difficult to play through during testing, he created a cheat code to give the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). The code was still present in the released Gradius after Hashimoto forgot to remove it.
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Resident Evil 2: Getting to the Raccoon City Police Department on Normal Mode without picking up any items will spawn a special zombie wearing a yellow vest and camouflage pants in the department's back alley. This zombie is Brad Vickers, the helicopter pilot from the first Resident Evil.


If you search Wesker's desk 50 times you will find Film D, which when developed in the darkroom will show a picture of Rebecca holding a basketball.

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the 3DO was the first cd based console

final fantasy vii was supposed to be a n64 game but the finished game was too big (would have needed 13 n64 carts)

the atari jaguar wasn't actually 64bit, it was 2 32bit chip stuck together
Neo Geo?
 
I remember seeing the add on mocked up in a nintendo magazine years ago and thinking "that'll never catch on!!" guess nintendo thought the same thing!!!
Nintendo were due to unveil the whole partnership with sony at an event. Nintendo president realised that the contract signed gave Sony far too much power of nintendos games and quickly struck a deal with Phillips instead.
They announced the deal whilst Sony execs were sitting waiting for the original deal to be announced. I bet there was hell on!

Naturally sony were livid and created the PS1, ironically ending nintendos dominance.
 
the original neo geo was cart based - the cd version din't appear until 1994

the 3d0 was about in 1993 - i'm sure i played on one when it first came out, pebble beach golf iirc, was amazing at the time :p
Ah, fair enough! I actually own a 3DO, picked it up in Japan for about £8. Never been played. Also got a CD NeoGeo (hence the earlier disc confusion) at the same time and at the same price which I sold for £70. They have a shitload of them in their second hand stores over there.
 
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