Category: Trivia Tidbits
Dragon Warrior’s Forgotten Prophet
The manual of the original Dragon Quest / Warrior mentions a great prophet, called Mutsuheta (ムツヘタ) in Japanese and Mahetta …
The Anime Influence of Side Arms
Side Arms sits in the middle of Capcom’s loose “Flying Guy” trilogy. While not particularly obscure, it’s generally not as …
Video Game References in Manga
Manga, anime, and video games are intrinsically tried as Japanese pop culture, so it makes sense that they’d often cross …
The Last Place You’d Expect to Hear SNES Music
Retro game music isn’t too common in live action media. Usually it’s either diegetic or punctuating a joke, and even …
The Thousand Arms Dating Advice Columns of the 1999 Atlus Website
Thousand Arms is a 1998 JRPG from Atlus where you can date various female characters to improve your strength. While …
The Ridiculous Chronology of the River City/Kunio-kun Series
We’re finishing up HG101 Presents The Guide to Beat-Em-Ups Vol. 1, which focuses on the works of Technos, Capcom, and …
Nier Status Messages
One of the many things that makes Nier great are the PSN* status messages. The terrible thing is one actually playing …
The Hidden Husband of Black/Matrix
The world of Flight-Plan’s SRPG Black/Matrix is like an inverted version of Christianity – the seven deadly sins are considered …
Cross-Series Cameo: Adol in Lunar: The Silver Star
Video game publishers occasionally cross-reference competitors titles in cheeky ways, though sometimes have to be done subtly to avoid copyright …
The Three Great She-Devils of Square
Among the Japanese RPG fanbase, there’s a specific term for a set of female characters largely disliked by the audience: …
The Tale of Oeilvert – Final Fantasy’s Forgotten Heroine
One of the big appeals of Final Fantasy IX was the way it appealed to the nostalgia of longtime series …
Primordial Pauline: How Did Mario’s First Girlfriend Get Her Name?
The story of how Mario got his name is fairly well known – in the original Japanese arcade release of Donkey …
Capcpom Presents – Gamest’s Greatest Typos
Gamest was one of the many video game magazines that ran through the 80s up until 1999, primarily created for …
“Ii desu tomo” – Golbez’s Famous Line
In Retro Game Super Translation Selection, there’s a section explaining the famous “You spoony bard!” quote from Final Fantasy IV, …
