More useless video game trivia.

[Valigarmander]

In the Japanese version of Ristar, the titular character sports a carefree smile for most of the game. In the international version, Ristar's sprites were altered to give him a constant angry scowl, presumably for the same reason Kirby always looks angry on American box art.

[Valigarmander]

Shigeru Miyamoto's favorite video game character is Pac-Man.

Miyamoto personally requested that Pac-Man be included as a character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but Sakurai couldn't think of a good moveset for him at the time.

[Valigarmander]

In Super Mario RPG, some enemy attacks can be defended against by performing a timed button press. Attacks that are possible to defend against are indicated by a shower of stars preceding the damage number, as seen above.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I've beaten that game several times and I still keep learning new things about it.

[mushroom]

i knew about the defending but i didnt know about the stars, neat

[Valigarmander]

Taito was founded in 1953 by Michael Kogan, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant. Prior to developing arcade games, the company distributed vending machines and jukeboxes, and was also the first to distill and sell vodka in Japan.

[Valigarmander]

"Fist Bump", the theme of Sonic Forces, was written and performed by Hoobastank frontman Doug Robb.

[Calamity Panfan]

i knew there was a.... reason... that the song f***ing slaps

[Marilink]

that three-note progression that repeats at 0:08 to 0:13 is basically that one part from Yub Nub (1:07 to 1:14)

[Valigarmander]

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil was localized in Japan as "Violence Killer: Turok New Generation".

[I am nobody]

I'd imagine that has to do with "Rambo" coincidentally meaning "violence"?

[Valigarmander]

Fake Crash was inspired by a shoddy, bootleg Crash toy that originated in Japan. Originally, the character was going to be named "Trash Bandicoot".

[Marilink]

whyyyyy did they leave Trash Bandicoot on the cutting room floor, that's incredible

[Calamity Panfan]

trash bandicoot is what i call all the games in the franchise after warped am i right fellas

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

That's what I call all of the Crash games.

[Valigarmander]

Super 3D Noah's Ark was originally going to be a licensed Hellraiser game. Wisdom Tree, Inc. even paid $50,000 for the rights, but then decided such a game wouldn't be fitting for a Christian edutainment game developer and let the license expire.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Wow, that's pretty dumb business right there. Not very wise.

[VG_Addict]

The famous Super Mario Bros Underground theme was inspired by the song, "Let's Not Talk About It" by Friendship.

[Valigarmander]

In the German localization of Ocarina of Time, the four carpenters are named John, Paul, George and Ringo.

[Apollo the Just]

The English localization of Panel de Pon (Tetris Attack, where all the anime fairies were replaced with Yoshi's Island characters) was re-localized back to Japan as a Satellaview exclusive called "Yoshi no Panepon" (Yoshi's Panel de Pon/Panepon).

This may be common knowledge but I still find it super interesting.