[Stick]

Nintendo Facts and funnies

The funniest facts are printed below in Green.
The more facticious ones are printed below in Blue.
The ones good to read about are printed below in Black.

Have you ever wanted to know some of the funniest Nintendo facts? I have, and I did. Now you'll get a chance to see some. Believe me they are funny.


• Quotes
"Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!"

-Shigeru Miyamoto, c1991
(and, as we all know, in SM64 he did!)

• Mario was originally going to be a carpenter not a plumber.

• Mario wasn’t named Mario from the beginning, but "Jumpman". How did Mario get his real name then? Well, when Minoru Arakawa, the president of Nintendo of America in New York, first saw "Jumpman" he thought "Hey! He looks just like the landlord of our office!" and the landlord´s name was Mario Segali and he came from Italy, so that´s it!!!

• Have you ever wondered what Mario's surname is?
Both Mario and Luigi have the surname Mario.
Therefore their full names are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.

• The person who did the voice acting for adult link was a Japanese guy named Nobuyuki Hiyama who also did the voice acting for Link in Super Smash Bros. What few people know is that Fujiko Takimoto who did the voice acting for Link as child is a woman! That explains Link's extremely light voice.

• On the box and the manual of the original Metroid, it states that the game takes place on the planet Zebes. However, the text inside the game itself calls the planet *Zebeth*. This is because there is no basic 's' sound in Japanese--words that end in 'th' are sometimes translated as 's'. The 'Zebes' spelling is the one that caught on, and is used in every subsequent title.

• A bunch of "concerned parents" complained to Nintendo and tried to form a lawsuit against them for "painful blisters" on the children's thumbs who play the system... to me that's just a wee bit stupid! Considering anyone who plays any Nintendo game for too long is bound to get the beloved "Nintendo Blisters" It's just part of the fun of Nintendo... I'm sure any fellow Nintendo Enthusiast will agree with me that the parents have something a little loose upstairs.

• In Mario Kart 64 in the Japanese version lots of the signs are take offs of brands, the only one apparent in the western version is the Koopa Air (Nike Air), but one interesting one is a sign that says MarioBro which was changed to Mario Bros. This of course was originally a takeoff of Marlboro cigarettes.

• Birdo is a boy.

• Samus was originally going to be a boy but said it would be funny if she was a girl.

• Link was originally going to be a girl but then was changed to a boy.

• Ness is at the age of 28 in his game and Lucas is around the same age.

• Nintendo means “Heaven bless hard work" or "Heaven Blessed."

• Nintendo company was started in 1899 as a playing card company.

• In Super Mario 64 if you after having collected all the game's 120 stars go to the roof of the castle and talk to Yoshi he says:
Mario!!! It that really you??? It has been so long since our last adventure.
Shouldn´t it be "Mario!!! Is that really you???"

• Legend Of Zelda DX4
In Legend Of Zelda DX, if you talk to "Crazy Tracie" she says "My secret will activate when you lose all heart." doesn't she mean "When you lose all hearts"?

• Zelda 64 box misprint
The first shipment of Zelda 64 game boxes misspelled environments. According to Nintendo the word is "enivironments".






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• Mario's voice
The guy who did the voice for Mario in Mario 64 is Charles Martinet (if you wanted to know it).

• Centaur Mario
In the beginning of the development of Super Mario Bros 3 there were plans for a "Centaur Mario" ability for Mario!

•The "Mario award"
On this year's E3 (1999) Nintendo handed out a special "Mario award" to companies that has sold most Nintendo products or helped Nintendo in any other way.

• Toad
The name Toad is simply short for 'toadstool'.

• Pikachu
"Pika" is Japanese for "to electrify".
'Chuu' is how Japanese describe the sound a mouse makes.
(Pika, in the English dictionary, actually means "A small rodent found in the northern parts of North America.")

• Kirby
Miyamoto named him from the Kirby brand vacuum cleaner.• Shyguy
Remember the guys draped in big sheets wearing big masks to hide their faces?
Obviously they have masks to hide their faces because they are shy guys.• Donkey Kong
A rumour says that it was meant that Donkey Kong´s name would be Monkey Kong but due to a bad phone connection someone heard wrong and thought that it was Donkey Kong.
A not so fun (but much more true) theory is that Shigeru Miyamoto looked in various dictionaries for a word for dumb because he wanted Donkey Kong to be a rather stubborn/wily figure and found the word "Donkey". The other part of the word, Kong came from the famous King Kong.

• Wario
The name Wario derives from the Japanese word 'warui' which means 'bad'.


• Super Mario Kart R
While in development, Mario Kart 64 was named Super Mario Kart R and Koopa Troopa and Magi Koopa were there instead of Wario and Donkey Kong.

• Super Mario Bros is the most sold videogame of all time. It has sold in 40 million copies! That record has only been beaten by one CD: Santana who sold in 44 million copies.

• In 1994 Nintendo celebrate their 1 billionth gamepak sold!

• Did you know that Miyamoto likes playing the Banjo sometimes.

• In 1959 Nintendo signed an agreement with Disney to make playing cards featuring Disney´s characters. Nintendo is however still producing playing-cards but only in a small scale to private customers.

• 3 or 4 years late
Seta´s SNES game Nosferatu must be the most delayed Nintendo game ever. It was originally announced to be released in 91 - 92, but the game didn´t come out until 95!!

• The Burglar videogame-freak
In USA a burglar broke into a house and started to steal things like VCR:s, TV:s and stuff. A neighbour saw him and called the police and when the police came there the burglar was still there, sitting and playing Street Fighter II! He said that he was getting a new record!!! I knew that Street Fighter II is pretty addictive but this is just too much!

• Weren't they archenemies?
Believe it or not, Bowser has joined up with Mario in one game and battled on the same side as him. Do you know in which game it was? Yes, Super Mario RPG!

• The Nintendo 64, preferred by many
Some burglars broke into a Radio and TV store and stole all their Nintendo 64s, but they didn´t even touch the PlayStations! At least the burglars had good taste!!



Post and tell me how funny they are. No bad comments please.

[Pike]

Didn't know about Ness being that old...Actually, that's kinda creepy o.o

*Karma

[Stick]

Why thank-you... I found that out with alot of Nintendo research. Dude I love Nintendo! Friendcodes.com has been so nice and fun to me for he amount of time I've been here.

[Ling]

Nice find. Very interesting.

[Stick]

Thank-You Ling. It's some cool stuff to know. The funniest thing that I like best is Ness is 28.

[chefman470]

• Birdo is a boy.

OH may god lol, poor Yoshi, He love her, well now him, SO wait dose that mean Yoshi is a girl then??? I hope so <_<

[Wario]

Originally Posted by stickmick

• Birdo is a boy.

• Samus was originally going to be a boy but said it would be funny if she was a girl.

• Link was originally going to be a girl but then was changed to a boy.

• Ness is at the age of 28 in his game and Lucas is around the same age.

Those are pretty funny lol

[Pike]

THIS JUST IN

Yoshi is gay for Birdo.

[Zethira]

Originally Posted by Ling

Nice find. Very interesting.

Agreed.
• Samus was originally going to be a boy but said it would be funny if she was a girl.

• Link was originally going to be a girl but then was changed to a boy.

They look like the opposites anyway. Samus (In her suit) is always mistaken for a guy, and Link, well he does generally look like a girl in some cases xD

~~ Karma

[Ling]

Originally Posted by DragonPike

THIS JUST IN

Yoshi is gay for Birdo.

lol That is funny.