Things About Games You Didn't Find Out About Until Later V2

[Koh]

That thread where you talk about the things you learned about games you've played, that you didn't know before, makes a return.

My newest discovery was that Richard from the Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was actually from another game, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru. The music for his villa was even a slight remix of the main theme here.

[psychospacecow]

If you're crouching and use the action command in the first person Fallout games near a brahmin, you'll tip it.

[Jinzo-Advance]

Earthbound was called Mother 2 in Japan, the official name of the chiptune/heavy metal song translates to Cease to Exist, and Giygas was inspired by incident of childhood trauma caused by walking into the wrong theater.

[Omega]

Its One-tt like Won with a t sound at the end, not On-ett

[Mystie]

Its One-tt like Won with a t sound at the end, not On-ett

I always assumed it was "Oh-nett" as well.

You see, back when I was in elementary school, I had never heard of the MOTHER/Earthbound series, so when I got my Gamecube and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Ness was one of the only characters I didn't recognize. I would always pronounce his stage as "Oh-nett".

But years later, when I finally played Earthbound, and saw that all of the towns had numbers in their names, it then hit me. "Ohhh, it's One-ett, not Oh-nett. Haha!"

[[robo9]]

Its One-tt like Won with a t sound at the end, not On-ett

So like the word want?

[E-Man]

I neve knew this trick/glitch existed until I wated a TAS of Banjo-Kazooie. Anyway, what you have to do is do a Beak Buster on the ground and as Banjo is recoiling from it, he is invincible to practically anything. It's really useful when I want to jump off high platforms back down to the ground and avoid Gruntilda's homing spell since I'm a little stingy with my golden feathers.

[Devicho]

It hardly counts but partially because I played in Japanese and partially because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't realize you could block in the Super Training mode of Pokemon XY until I saw a video of someone doing it.

[Mystie]

Another one involving me and Melee: For years and years, I never knew what the announcer was saying at the end of a match. I always thought it was, "This games wins", but I still knew that couldn't be right. It wasn't until 2011 or so in which I finally realized that he's saying, "This game's winner is" really really fast.

It also doesn't help that there's always loud music playing over it, and that his voice sounds muffled.

[Koh]

It's like how I thought Ryu/Ken on Street Fighter II for Sega Genesis were saying "Awooget!" when I was a kid, or something to that effect, instead of "Hadouken," because of the lower voice quality and the overlapping music.

[E-Man]

Here's a good one!

In Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, one of the Challenge Points you find has a very interesting shape to it. Usually, they look like the icon used for the Rebel Alliance, but on the level where you ride a hoverbike through the desert, take a look in the small nook to the right at the gates to the city. I always assumed that the shape it was in is the shape of the front of the desert bike, but I found out a few years ago that it was the shape of a certain psychotic rabbit detective's head.

[Helmo]

did you guys know you can tongue up in yoshi's island

[NICKtendo DS]

did you guys know you can tongue up in yoshi's island

You can lick through solid ground by extending your tongue and forcing it trough , for example by jumping if licking up. That's how the present day Yoshi learned to not give a shit about solid objects when whipping out his tongue in Super Mario World. He forgot how to lick up though. Maybe it's a Pokemon thing.

It was years ago, but that was even more years after I initially played the games, but I never knew Black Hole could be entered in Starfox (SNES), let alone that Out of this Dimension existed. It was a mindblowing experience visiting both for the first time.
Also, the Desert Land map from SMB3 is longer than I thought. Never knew there was more desert beyond that rock. Yay, another flute! Now I can warp to World 8 from World 8 3 times or something!

[AuraLancer]

I just recently learned that the dwarven swordmiths in A Link to the Past will yell at you if you attempt to "help" them using the Magic Hammer.

[E-Man]

Something similar happens if you use the Hammer in the presence of the dwarf smith of Hyrule in a Link Between Worlds. The one in Lorule, on the other had, couldn't care less.