Think we can do it? Let's give it a shot! I'll start by getting some basics out of the way.
1) Japan gets cooler stuff than us. Always. :D
1000? Notta chance. 100? I bet we could do it. ::)
2) Cross the right screen boundary and you'll end up on the left side, and vice versa.
3. 1 acronym: SMB2J
4. Disks from the '80s can hold better games than "Oregon Trail."
5: on Multicarts, Labels lie.
7. Attached controllers are annoying.
9. There is something from the 80s that's actually cool. ;)
10. The NES is just a Famiclone with sound problems.
Quote from: MasterDisk on February 04, 2010, 03:15:51 am
8. EXT port are useless.
My Family Basic Keyboard and 3D Goggles disagree.
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1) Japan gets cooler stuff than us. Always. :D
Not true, Maniac Mansion anyone?
& there are lots of stuff from the '80s that are cool. >:(
12. It's OK to say "fuck." (http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=607.0)
13) Soldiers might forget to wear their pants.
14 -
...That if you complete a great game and can prooved the justice of your culture, you indeed deserve heroic conglaturation.
(http://attackedbygorillas.com/files/image/flashback/fb_ghostbusters-e.png)
15. Cartridges don't have to be grey.
16 - Can't save anything on a Brand New Sealed Famicom Disk >:(
17. Don't feed the crocodiles.
I wished i lived in japan, therefore i could actually play mine!!!!
18. You can kill a super drunk if you're a dinosaur that shocks him with lightning that traps him in a huge bubble that you pop.
19. Buy lots of fine gauge sandpaper.
20. Your jump height is determined by flawed physics.
21. You can jump off straight walls if your height at the time of contact with the wall happens to be divisible by 16.
22. Tetris was actually licensed to Tengen! :o
23. Dodongo dislikes smoke.
24. Pol's Voice really don't like loud noises.
25. Some hacks of original games are actually kewl (mario 8!!)
26. Babies can crawl fast, jump exceptionally high, and beat things to death with a single bell!
27. Player 2 doesn't need Start and Select buttons. Player 1 doesn't need a microphone.
28. The Ice Climbers really did club seals.
29. You can shoot red fireballs out of your right hand if you really try hard enough.
30: Taking carts out and blowing on them when they don't load only serves to make you more frustrated when they still don't load.
31) That Japanese televisions have different channel frequencies that make using an RF a royal pain.
I can't read japanese no matter how hard I try!
34) Wall outlets in Japanese are called コンセント (Konsento), the term comes from concentric plug, a very archaic term that was used back when electricity was the new thing to have.
35) You need to seat close to your tv.
36. There are always new things to discover about the Famicom. Always.
37. Some Disk System belts turn into sticky muck.
38.- Top Loading is so much better than Front Loading...
39. Trying out games without having any prior information about them, simply because they feel like brand new games and can often suprise you with how fun they truely end up being.
40. The biggest "What?" in video game history - "Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic" & "Super Mario Bros. 2"
41 - Japanese players take more care of their video game packaging than we do.
42. The Famicom is a living breathing animal. Treat it well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUp7LmfCiBw)
43:Noa is Evil for not releasing Mother 1 (Earthbound zero)
Sorry for the major bump
44. We probably will never get a Famicom port of Megaman 9 because of the extreme differences in coding and size.
45. Snake Rattle N Roll was ported to Famicom from NES.
46. Sometimes pirated games are better than official ones
(By the way, 1,000 is a lot - we're bound to forget stuff & begin repeating ourselves.)
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on March 06, 2010, 05:43:47 pm
(By the way, 1,000 is a lot - we're bound to forget stuff & begin repeating ourselves.)
I've already mentioned that, second post. :P
I think we can easily get to 100, though. :)
Quote from: 133MHz on March 06, 2010, 07:03:08 pm
I've already mentioned that, second post. :P
47. Boobs, in any form (even when pixelated), distract me a lot
48. A simple sprite editing of Mario/Luigi into almost all games can cause the game to be more fun.
(IE: Armadillo - Mario IV)
49. ROM Hacks have risen progressively in quality over the years and now many recent ROM hacks are as good as or even better than many officially made NES games at the time.
50. That turtles can fly and are capable of commanding armies in order to destroy kingdoms ruled by mushroom people. :mario:
51. 8-Bit consoles are capable of understandable speech samples
52 the NES power adapter does not work
nice 2-year bump
53. I don't need my sofa, except to put games on. Which confuses my guests.
54) Famicom and Mega Drive carts are about the same size as audio cassettes.
55. Great games will always be remembered fondly, regardless of graphics. Gimmicky games (no intentional reference to Gimmick) will be forgotten.
56) On the subject, the very worst games (I'm looking at you, Transformers) will always be more recognised than just plain bad ones. :bomb:
57. That Famicom Disk System games have the best packaging ever!
58. That there is nothing wrong with a company making a game to tie in with a product when it's done CORRECTLY(I.e. All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros, Gradius Archimedes Hen, Doki Doki Panic, etc) unlike Atari which had many games made just to cash in and sucked HORRIBLY(i.e Chase The Chuckwagon, Tooth Protectors, etc)
59. That we were lied to for many years about what sequel was the right one to Super Mario Bros.
60. That R.O.B. the Robot was a useless hunk of plastic that only served as a Trojan Horse to get Americans to buy an NES.
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Quote from: retroillucid on February 04, 2010, 02:53:01 pm
16 - Can't save anything on a Brand New Sealed Famicom Disk >:(
Not true as I bought a couple of new Famicom Disk System games and was able to save just fine.
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 18, 2012, 10:43:17 pm60. That R.O.B. the Robot was a useless hunk of plastic that only served as a Trojan Horse to get Americans to buy an NES.
Can't have been that useless if its purpose was so that toy stores would sell the NES. ;D
61. Superman games are nearly always awful. :-\
62. Batman games, on the other hand, are nearly always spectacular. Especially when made by SunSoft.
Quote from: Nightstar699 on September 19, 2012, 02:13:51 am62. Batman games, on the other hand, are nearly always spectacular. Especially when made by SunSoft.
Provided that neither Acclaim nor Tiger Electronics are involved. :P
62. Many of the best FDS games went to the NES but not the Famicom.
I've learned to generally stay away from both those companies, luckily. They ruin dreams, man.
64. The plethora of piracy on the Famicom allows me to get games I otherwise couldn't afford, such as Flintstones: Surprise At Dinosaur Peak and Gimmick. Thanks piracy!
Edit: By the way, we have two 62s, and no 63. But that's alright, just how we roll on FW.
65. The princess is always in another castle. (Execpt in the eighth castle but that's beside the point)
66) freshly melted rubber smells bad.
67 - Rubber disk drive belts don't last for 25 years
68. Slamming the eject button and popping a cart into the air like a toaster is fun, though not very productive.
69.(heh heh heh 69 huh huh huh) The Twin Famicom's eject is so powerful that you can use it as a weapon to eject cartridges like projectiles.
70. The FDS unit is interchangeable with the Twin Famicom disk drive.
71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.
72. No matter WHAT system I play it on, WWF Wrestlemania Challenge doesn't seem to want to work.
73. In WWF Wrestlemania Challenge, you can play with "Yourself", but just like real life, you won't get very far and it offers no reward at all.....
74. Listening to "Take My Breath Away" with the wife reminded me of something today: When trying to land the plane in either Top Gun game, up is down and down is up....
75. Super Pitfall is the WORST Pitfall game....ever...so much so that I call it "Super SHITfall"
76. When a game is about to kick your ass, it's perfectly acceptable to turn the game off and say that the game "reset itself". I've got the wife and my friends using that line ever since I learned that trick at my best friend's house while breaking out his NES.
77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....
78. Despite being hard wired into the system, the Famicom controllers CAN be replaced by even the most novice of user.
79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.
80. All Acclaim was good for in the early days was taking games from other Japanese publishers and marketing them as their own, starting what would later become known as the Acclaim standard of laziness and the LJN rainbow of shit.....
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 20, 2012, 08:31:42 pm77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....
That reminds me,
81. Whoever programmed the NES version of Dragon's Lair was a masochistic arsehole. >:(
82. Nintendo were very lenient (not as much as they are with the Wii, but still) when handing out the seal of approval on NES games, as evidenced by how awful a large number of games were in the NES' library.
83. There's about 50 baseball games on the Famicom/NES. Seriously, who wants to play that many games based off one sport? ???
Quote from: Cheetahmen on September 21, 2012, 03:21:44 am
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 20, 2012, 08:31:42 pm77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....
That reminds me,
81. Whoever programmed the NES version of Dragon's Lair was a masochistic arsehole. >:(
82. Nintendo were very lenient (not as much as they are with the Wii, but still) when handing out the seal of approval on NES games, as evidenced by how awful a large number of games were in the NES' library.
Oh YES! I used to own Dragon's Lair as a kid. We got the game because we loved the arcade game. But, when we got it home, we were REALLY disappointed. I'm still scarred playing that first stage over and over again....
As for the Nintendo Seal of Quality. I think we all learned early on ESPECIALLY with ANY LJN game, that it was good for shit. All it mean was that company paid a licensing fee to Nintendo and got their shit released.
Which reminds me:
84. The Nintendo Seal of Quality is anything but. It's supposed to be a Seal of Quality, yet so many shitty games were released that you begin to question who was in charge of making the decisions what games made the cut and what didn't...
85. Almost all games based on movies for the NES/Famicom suck major ass.....
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 21, 2012, 08:44:46 am85. Almost all games based on movies for the NES/Famicom suck major ass.....
I can think of a few good ones. ;) The Batman games, The Goonies and any Disney movie adaptations that Capcom did for the NES come to mind. Also,
86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.
87. If you find a NES game developed by Radical Entertainment, avoid it because it makes almost anything published by LJN look like a masterpiece in comparison.
Quote71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.
Does Tsuppari Oozumou count? ;D
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When trying to land the plane in either Top Gun game, up is down and down is up....
Well duh, it's inverted. But saying 'Up' when it means 'Speed Up' is unforgivable.
Quote78. Despite being hard wired into the system, the Famicom controllers CAN be replaced by even the most novice of user.
Tell that guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfYPCdTslqA&feature=g-all#t=2m34s).
Quote79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.
I liked it. :(
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 21, 2012, 08:44:46 am
86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.
One of the worst? Nah. Mediocre - yes. It's a shame nonetheless.
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on September 21, 2012, 11:07:30 am
Quote71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.
Does Tsuppari Oozumou count? ;D
Don't know what that is. All I've played are the WWF and WCW games, Pro Wrestling, Tag Team Wrestling, MUSCLE, and Tecmo World Wrestling.
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Quote79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.
I liked it. :(
This song says it all:
http://www.dorkly.com/video/25541/dorkly-bits-nes-ninja-turtles-theme-song (http://www.dorkly.com/video/25541/dorkly-bits-nes-ninja-turtles-theme-song)
QuoteQuote from: JohnnyBlaze on September 21, 2012, 08:44:46 am
86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.
One of the worst? Nah. Mediocre - yes. It's a shame nonetheless.
I don't think I said that lmao
88. Round concave plastic buttons are better than flat square, rubber buttons.
Spoiler
chiming in now because 88 is a lucky number in some parts - I was born on the luckiest day of the year in my area and my gf's name is lucky.
Speaking of 88: ;)
89. The Back to the Future video game isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. (Not in my opinion, at least) It's more like an average early NES game if anything. Hell, it's way better than Part II & III on the NES.
Quote from: Cheetahmen on September 22, 2012, 03:29:55 pm
Speaking of 88: ;)
89. The Back to the Future video game isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. (Not in my opinion, at least) It's more like an average early NES game if anything. Hell, it's way better than Part II & III on the NES.
Love hearing an opinion like this. Most people will just agree with whatever AVGN says without even playing the game first.
90. As much as people complain about great Famicom exclusives never coming to NES, that situation is also quite common vice versa.
91. Way too many people are too lazy to find out that LJN never developed games. Then again, given that most of the games they published were pretty bad they probably rushed the developers or something.
Most people think I'm trolling when I say I like Karate Kid on NES more than I like Super Mario Bros. 3.
92. Much of the time, the lower the number of games on a multicart, the better they will be.
93) That melted rubber belts are a bane to all famicom collectors. :fire:
Quote from: triforcedx2 on September 23, 2012, 11:24:56 pm
93) That melted rubber belts are a bane to all famicom collectors. :fire:
I guess I'm an ignoramus because I honestly don't get what this is referring to.
94. That video game cartridges can come in all colours: black, white, green, blue, orange, red, raw umber, purple, etc... and still coexist peacefully. In some ways, the Famicom cartridges are more humane than the human race which plays them. Or something like that.
Quote from: Nightstar699 on September 23, 2012, 11:36:00 pm
Quote from: triforcedx2 on September 23, 2012, 11:24:56 pm
93) That melted rubber belts are a bane to all famicom collectors. :fire:
I guess I'm an ignoramus because I honestly don't get what this is referring to.
He's talking about the belt for the Famicom Disk System
95. Nintendo of America must be made up of vampires because they are all afraid of crosses and crucifixes and will go to the ends of the Earth to remove all references to them from their games.
Quote95. Nintendo of America must be made up of vampires because they are all afraid of crosses and crucifixes and will go to the ends of the Earth to remove all references to them from their games.
That seriously just made my day. :cherry:
96. Mario + Sonic the Hedgehog = Somari the Adventurer
That's just basic Famicom Pirate knowledge :D
97. Love, even in pixel form, is great. :)
98. there are more pirate games than real ones
99. the famicom has the best sound of any 8 bit console
100. i got the 100th thing and the famicom's 15 pin adapter is too deep for dit
Have to disagree with 99, the C64 has the best chip audio of any console. :)
ok you got me there. The SID(?) Chip does do a great job
But the C64 doesn't have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqQofm3zTU I'd say the Famicom has the best music out of any console ever, but that's just my opinion.
101. Apparently Japanese gamers liked their Mahjong and baseball. A LOT.
Quote from: Nightstar699 on September 25, 2012, 04:59:55 am
But the C64 doesn't have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqQofm3zTU
Nah, but the C64 has this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGFV_xxR64
Heh, the C64 doesn't have anything on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU0GEcU63qw
Quote from: L___E___T on September 25, 2012, 10:59:30 am
Heh, the C64 doesn't have anything on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU0GEcU63qw
Ah dude, since my copy of Gimmick is a pirate, it doesn't have the extra sound channels. That's why I always have headphones on and listen to YT uploads of the OST as I play it. I didn't care much for it at first, but that game is kinda starting to grow on me.
102. Many of the best games happen to be the least well known ones.
103. Japanese kids are apparently supposed to know a lot of English to play their Famicoms. I couldn't believe my SMB cart had no Japanese in the game!
They probably play it without understanding what it says. When I played it for the first time I could hardly read my own language and absolutely not English. Not that you worried about such things back then.
Besides just adding katakana would mean around 50 extra sprites in the picture memory while Latin letters are less than 30. English is also seen as cool in non-English speaking countries especially for young kids.
Most of them have a pretty decent understanding of basic English words. Its the grammar and sentence structures that really tear them a new one. So most of them should be able to play those games with relative ease and think it's pretty cool that their game has that spiffy English language in it. And some of them just like to skip everything and get to the action. ;D
source: English teacher in Japan
But that must be at least high school students or so right? Kids can't understand English yet and that's the same for all non-English speaking countries not just Japan.
104. They must have played their games sitting right up next to the TV, as the controller cord length on the original FC system is absurd. Or perhaps they just moved their systems right up next to them.
105. Raccoons can fly and turn into statues. :redcart:
106. If you think cheap armor is going to help you rescue your girlfriend from the devil, you're gonna have a bad time. :pow:
107. It's dangerous to go alone. Take a sword with you. :link:
108. Capcom cannot predict the future. It's 2012. Where's Mega Man? :question:
Quote from: eCockpit on October 12, 2012, 06:28:30 pm108. Capcom cannot predict the future. It's 2012. Where's Mega Man? :question:
Speaking of which,
109. Ken from Street Fighter never fought some weird alien things in 2010. ::)
Quote from: Cheetahmen on October 13, 2012, 02:27:14 am
109. Ken from Street Fighter never fought some weird alien things in 2010. ::)
Right you are. 8) Oh, and before I forget...
110. If all else fails, use fire! :fire: :fire: :fire:
Quote from: eCockpit on October 13, 2012, 04:37:58 pm
110. If all else fails, use fire! :fire: :fire: :fire:
Fun fact: fire destroys fire. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG5YcaRm_10&list=UUdINSzXbxXHJCb-kHg2U0xw&index=13&feature=plcp#t=2m18s)
111. Contrary to popular belief, you cannot get sick from eating rotten meat. In fact, it will regain your health.
Quote from: JohnnyBlaze on October 14, 2012, 07:05:33 pm
111. Contrary to popular belief, you cannot get sick from eating rotten meat. In fact, it will regain your health.
And going off of that...
112. Killing evil monsters :octorok: :octorok: will sometimes give you money or Valentine's Day candy that will heal your wounds.