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Another 'Phoenix Down moment'. Did you realise that F-Zero was a play on F1?
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Down feathers are soft feathers found especially on baby birds, who have yet to develop adult feathers at all.
Phoenixes are birds. Ergo, phoenix downs are down feathers from a phoenix.
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A lot of people just saw it as some nonsense terminology made up as a healing item. Because you're 'downed' or whatever.
It's the down of a phoenix (the feathers, like goose down you get in pillows).
It just often surprises people when they realise that after 20 years of playing Final Fantasy games are considering Phoenix Down to be just some made up term like Materia or Moogle.
This right here.
There were people who did not make the connection..?
You know what? You got me on that one. But you just made me realize something…. is that where Downy fabric softener got its name from?
I always knew that. Most of those sci-fi racing games actually have a fictional connection to F1. For instance Wipeout is also an evolution of F1, and then there's Formula Fusion which perhaps has the most explicit connection in its name. F-Zero is pretty clever though, as racing cars get faster with each grouping (e.g. F1 is faster than F2) so F0 is theoretically faster than F1, a class above.
In the lore, the manufacturers in Wipeout actually used to make F1 cars for competition also. Here's a F1 car made by Feisar.
In fact they're so closely aligned that Psygnosis used to make both the Wipeout games, and the F1 games for a time.
In the lore, the manufacturers in Wipeout actually used to make F1 cars for competition also. Here's a F1 car made by Feisar.
In fact they're so closely aligned that Psygnosis used to make both the Wipeout games, and the F1 games for a time.
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To people saying "how did you not realize this", many of us first encountered this when we were like ten. I had no knowledge or interest in formula 1, and it's rarely referred/pronounced as F1 to laymen, right?
Same thing with phoenix down, I heard the term around the same age and just associated it as a made up term or mistranslated.
Same thing with phoenix down, I heard the term around the same age and just associated it as a made up term or mistranslated.
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Yes, I think if your first started playing F-Zero as a child, you're far less likely to connect it to Formula 1.
I was aware of Formula 1 but it was 100% something boring that my dad watched on a Sunday. It wasn't a cool futuristic sci-fi thing that I played alongside Mario and Zelda. And it wasn't stylised as F-One. I didn't take it as a play on something else, it was just a made up original name like Turok and Kirby.
I made the F-Zero connection as a kid..but sort of forgot about it. I've always known the Phoenix Down thing, thought that was super obvious lol.
One that just hit me (likely due to current events) are the 'Kremlings' in DKC being a direct and obvious reference to Russia's Kremlin. Like how did I never notice that..
One that just hit me (likely due to current events) are the 'Kremlings' in DKC being a direct and obvious reference to Russia's Kremlin. Like how did I never notice that..
But it's not zero gravity. You have jump pads and cars fall down.
Right? Not even some sort of "pun". Just spelled it straightly in the name itself.
Yeah I remember my dad making the connection back then. I was playing F-Zero on SNES with my brother and dad picked up the game box and chuckled something along the lines of "F zero huh...like a one class higher than Formula one? Those must be some fast machines haha". It sure was a holy shit moment for me and my brother.
I thought it had something to do with the fundamental frequency f0
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Just cause I associate the game so much with its sounds and constant waves in the graphics
Fundamental frequency - Wikipedia
In Spanish it was always a more literal "Phoenix Feather" so the reference was always obvious. The golden needle as a way to cure stone was odd, but I always just assumed it came from a folk tale or something.
Anyways, no, I didn't make the F-1 connection.
Anyways, no, I didn't make the F-1 connection.
I was always curious about this one as it used the motion plus. I'm happy we got Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora's Tower and (eventually) Rodea, but I'd have loved to get this and Earth Seeker as well.That's Zangeki no Reginleiv.
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I've been playing videogames for over 40 years and watching F1 for over 30 and that's never occurred to me!
I've known that for quite a while, but I figured it out much later than I would like to admit.
I don't think it is too common knowledge that there are "minor leagues" in racing like F3 and F2, and if you weren't aware then you might miss the connection.
I don't think it is too common knowledge that there are "minor leagues" in racing like F3 and F2, and if you weren't aware then you might miss the connection.
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These realizations are funny because I find that they come from the sorta old assumption that anything from Japan is gonna have some sorta weirdly used English. When you're so used to stuff like...
Firaga
Thundaga
Materia
X-Potion
Demi
Osmose
Black Shock
Climhazzard
Dry Ether
Echo Screen
...it's easy to see Phoenix Down as "just another one of those" where it's some loosely English phrase that kinda maybe alludes to something. Basically like Jeff says in Giant Bomb video, sometimes we don't give em enough credit.
Firaga
Thundaga
Materia
X-Potion
Demi
Osmose
Black Shock
Climhazzard
Dry Ether
Echo Screen
...it's easy to see Phoenix Down as "just another one of those" where it's some loosely English phrase that kinda maybe alludes to something. Basically like Jeff says in Giant Bomb video, sometimes we don't give em enough credit.
the first f-zero with online multiplayer is launching this week for $49.99.
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