Morrowind is secretly full of Ninja Monkeys. This is how the game editor represents leveled creature spawn points (which picks an enemy from a list based on your level).
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I make it a point to contradict myself at least once per day.
Anyway, this conversation inspired me to make a thread about something I actually do know a lot about.
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Here’s one for the music fans.
Johnny Gioeli, best known in these circles as the vocalist of Crush 40, the band that does all the awesome butt-rock for any Sonic game post Sonic Adventure, was in a band called Hardline in the 90s with guitarist Neal Schon, who is best known as the lead guitarist for Journey for all of their tenure.
And it is some bona-fide hair metal. I think Neal Schon and Jun Senoue (guitarist of Crush 40) share a similar playing style of guitar and hearing Johnny’s voice anywhere just makes me think of this as some long lost Sonic music.
On a personal note, when I discovered this fun fact around 2005 or so, I was in the throes of a Journey obsession for whatever reason (I had seen them in concert once by this point in time, and would go on to see them and associated members a few more times) and the Sonic Adventure series had just wrapped up and Heroes had been out for a year. I kinda felt like this was a fun fact made just for me… Music from my favorite game series and my favorite band colliding… Cool!
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Also, the band is called Crush 40 because if you crush a 40 before playing, 3D Sonic games don’t seem as bad.
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Did you know there’s a not Tony hawk game on Tony Hawk’s Motion
Both games on the cart use this special GBA cart shaped motion detecting peripheral! Yes, it doesn’t work that well but I love the concept! And I’m always down for a GBA cart peripheral :D
The other game, Hue Pixel Painter, you control this funky dude to cover the world in paint
Here’s a video of it in action:
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Ooh! That’s neat. The only gba cart peripheral that I knew of was the guitar hero one. And that one is massive!
Apparently, there was also a Guitar Hero DS Lite variant.
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There’s the rumble cart for metroid pinball, the space invaders extreme rotary dial, lots of weird nonsense!
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Man, I wish the switch had an extra port like that.
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Nintendo could let folks connect weird peripherals to it via Bluetooth or similar but they don’t seem to be interested in that. Maybe next console??
There’s a few cool ones
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Would anyone believe me if I said I had a list of weirdo carts
This one is probably my messiest list so far, don’t let the fact that it starts off well fool you
Definitely one of my favourite lists though! I really really find something so appealing in seeing games reach for the stars, even if they miss badly
@hellomrkearns I love these guys! I can tell they have a lot of the same taste in interesting video game nonsense I do
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umm… this is journalism? congrats! I’m on page 9 of 132 and seeing things I haven’t heard of before. Is there a place I can see all of your lists?
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Something I didn’t know was a thing in video games for a long time was slowdown. As a kid I just thought games like Mega Man 2 and various shmups were slowing to a crawl because they were giving me some kind of Max Payne bullet time, because there was so much on-screen action happening.
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I mean the joy con rail could have been used for weird peripherals.
As much as I don’t like to give Nintendo any credit they did try a couple of weird things with the joy con like the Ring Fit thing and Labo.
My guess is that times are just different and that’s why stuff like Labo don’t seem to have make much of an impact.
Plus third parties have made some peripherals and used the joycons in weird ways. My favorite being “give me toilet paper!” where you stuff a joycon inside a toilet paper roll and play with that as the controller
On the peripherals side there’s a phishing rod
And of course a cabela’s hunting rifle.
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Ooooh yes those are all so fun!! Here’s my favourites off the top of my head:
Tabe o Ja hot sauce peripheral
Rose and Camellia brass knuckles
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Wait, what does that hot sauce peripheral do, and why do I want it so badly?
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I couldn’t remember so I looked into it
Google translated:
Makes your attacks more powerful in the game?
Also there’s alternate versions lmao I didn’t know that part
Here’s a video of someone playing it
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Oh, so it’s a fancy piece of plastic that doesn’t actually dispense hot sauce. What a disappointment.
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Wracking my brain to think of if I know any edible video game peripherals…
I cannot think of any, nor any games that come with food.
I suppose you could use the Game Boy Pocket Sonar to help you find food?
I’m also aware of this nonsense:
Which I could not tell you what they’re even trying to do here
Chibi-Robo Photo Finder asks you a few different times to go find food:
Have Sonic Jam Sonic Jam as a consolation prize
oh and this, for the tea lover
Wii no Ma tea gift set
sorry to disappoint bud! I do know there’s persona hot sauce
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