Don't even joke, an Ammy trailer alone would give me a heart attack, I swear to God.That's why we need an E-rated character who pisses on her enemies.
I forgot about this...That's why we need an E-rated character who pisses on her enemies.
Dixie's "kneepads" or whatever they are, are pretty cool looking. Tons of people looked like that in 1995.
Rare being a category in that poll always read as odd to me considering the other categories were for series and not developers. Almost like even back then, Rare wasn't viewed as "Nintendo" by Nintendo, especially with Diddy being there. I honestly think if Diddy didn't get so popular so quickly, he would have been largely pushed aside kinda like K Rool.
I could see that for the time, but now that really seems silly considering how many 2D platforming franchises they run with and how 3D Mario basically has 2 distinct styles that Nintendo themselves have acknowledged. Imagine the timeline where Banjo anchored the sandbox collectathon style and Mario anchored the obstacle course style and they both went in bold new directions for the past 15+ years.
Yeah, they were second-party, they were making games for Nintendo exclusively during that period. They carried a lot of weight and then Nintendo just let them go.
They were let go because the stampers wanted to cash out on their success and high stock and sell the remainder of their 51 percent stock, and Nintendo didn't want to spend a half a billion dollars on it
To buy up the Stampers' stakes would not have been half a billion dollars and them selling off their share is a separate thing from Nintendo also selling off theirs.
Chrom being revealed earlier would've made things more balanced, with the earlier group, counting Inkling, having 2 newcomers and 2 echoes, and then the same for the 8/8 Smash direct. Doesn't tell us anything, but it could possibly mean the 5 characters we got would've been 4 instead.Since we're only missing one update at this point, I figure I'll mention my last ~blog numbers observation~
The video thumbnails do have proper filenames. Just for example, Ganondorf is
As I was going through them I noticed a few different ones and finally realized the number at the end is probably a date. So Ganondorf there is 0604 or June 4th.
This doesn't really say anything...you can't be cute and change it to future characters or try to predict who is coming when or anything. Can't call up a photo that's not uploaded, you know? But I think it's interesting from a behind the scenes, putting a website together perspective!
The overwhelming majority of them are 0604. Seems like they made all the thumbnails for the videos (or finalized them or w/e) on June 4th. Or, almost all of them:
Ridley & Duck Hunt are (so far) the only ones who have a date of 0607. Inkling was also 6/4, incidentally.
Interestingly it looks like the American branch lost a bunch of them or had some bad encoding mishaps or something. Everything from Mario to at least Pichu (excluding Dark Samus) is labeled with FIX instead. Japan had no issues, as usual. Even before the blog goes up the western side has issues.
Pokemon Trainer's is weird. It's just gibbrish. data/bs/en_US/img/bfa8f5d87bf39f944034fee7faaedd12.jpg even in japan it's entirely different gibbrish data/bs/ja_JP/img/d4025b2f2556d3957636362c49efe4ba.jpg
Only one like that. Someone just got frustrated and keysmashed?
The Smash Direct gang are all 0802.
Isabelle is 0823. I guess they had her's prepared for like two weeks prior instead of a few days before.
There is one maybe-kind-of interesting thing. Dark Samus, Simon, Richter & K Rool are all labeled 0802, like I mentioned above, but Chrom is labeled 0608. Maybe Chrom was intended to be shown much earlier and they changed their minds? Or could just be someone mislabeling the thumbnails. Like I said, only maybe kind of interesting.
Aww c'mon, Joanna would be really cool!
Banjo.
Yeah, I hate thinking about it. We lost out on a Perfect Dark for the Gamecube, Banjo-Threeie, a Donkey Kong Racing game, and who knows what else.
Here's some fun trivia for K. Rool fans. There was going to be a Diddy Kong Racing game for the GBA that had K. Rool as an integral part of the plot.
It also had playable Mario characters!
Yeah, I hate thinking about it. We lost out on a Perfect Dark for the Gamecube, Banjo-Threeie, a Donkey Kong Racing game, and who knows what else.
Here's some fun trivia for K. Rool fans. There was going to be a Diddy Kong Racing game for the GBA that had K. Rool as an integral part of the plot.
It also had playable Mario characters!
ALso possible they intended to show off Chrom separately.
Nintendo was extremely sensitive about its kiddie image before the Wii. If anything, they would have pushed him even harder:
I'd rather he vanish from existence than have Young Conker and the bowdlerized version of Conker for the Xbox TBH.
Oh yeah not to downplay doubling the size just crazy how now the selling point is over 70
I imagine Nintendo toning down the scatological and sex humour, but the violent stuff is not that dissimilar from what Rare was doing in Jet Force Gemini. They could have made it work.
Similar, except for the saving private ryan part where a squirrel is holding his arm.
