Random video game trivia

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I recently found out Earthworm Jim was a secret character in Battle Arena Toshinden, but only the PC port. I thought that was really neat as an Earthworm Jim fan (BAT is cool too).



I figured we could just drop obscure tidbits we know or learn here, so here's a thread for that.

[Heroine of the Dragon]

The rarest item in Minecraft is the Dragon Egg (and I once lost it in one of the games in the ocean...arrrgh).

[Booyakasha]

I am given to understand that Miyamoto's initial idea for 'Donkey Kong' was going to be a Popeye game, but Nintendo wasn't able to secure the rights to the Popeye characters at that time, so they changed things a little whilst still retaining the basic conceit (love triangley deal between big guy, little guy and maiden fair; big guy kidnaps girl, little guy has to save her, little guy gains brief power-boost with single-use item, etc).

[Heroine of the Dragon]

In 1993, Tetris (GB) was the first-ever game played in space.

[Booyakasha]

So here's some weird 'Super Mario 64' trivia.

The Boo laugh is actually the same as the Bowser laugh, just sped up. They're both different iterations of a laugh taken from a sound effects disc, and, coincidentally, the person who did that particular laugh was none other than Charles Martinet, years before he landed the Mario gig.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I just found out Super Mario Land has an Expert Mode you unlock after beating the game once. I'm gonna give that a shot.

[Luther]

In Yakuza 6, Toru Hirose was modeled after and voice acted by Takeshi Kitano, the same guy behind the infamous Takeshi's Challenge.

[Booyakasha]

^That looks like Beat Takeshi, alright.