Topic: Things you didn't know about certain video games for years

Yep.

Reading another site, I find out about another shovelware game I was just find not knowing about.

So in the GBA version of Superman Returns, the man of steel uses his superpowers to CHEAT AT SUDOKU!
Wow, that sounds like an awful idea for someone's crappy parody Flash game, not some kind of alleged electronic "art" that would end up sold in stores.

If there was one character who deserved someone giving them just one GOOD game, just to show it can be done...

I didn't know there was a warp to World 8 in Super Mario Bros until I got it on Wii U. I still have my Duck Hunt/SMB cart in my NES at home and somehow never found it until I started trying high score runs during the Wii U game drought.

Already little known "High Seas Havoc" platformer for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive also had an even more obscure arcade version which is a modified Genesis/MD game running on an arcade board.

EDIT: Here's a picture

High Seas Havok looks like a game I really need to get my hands on...

That game might have one of the better obscure Genesis soundtracks.
(perhaps explaining why I've heard of more than one bootleg game ripping off its sound)

I didn't know you could change the pitch of the notes when you play the ocarina in OoT

Don't laugh...
I just recently noticed Ganondorf is a clone of Capt. Falcon...
And by recently I mean a few months ago, despite owning Brawl for over 7 years...

@VeeFlamesNL He was more of a/more obviously a clone in Melee than in anything else.

I actually remember reading somewhere that Sakurai said that Ganondorf almost didn't make it to Melee.

FEZ HAS A WORLD MAP!!!

I've owned this game for 3 years and it has never occurred to me to press select!

In Pac-Man World 2, I didn't know about the shortcuts at 3:37, or 18:00, or that you can time you can beat the Whale boss quickly by hitting all four propellers, right before the last then, then hit each of them all at once, or that you can completely skip most of Ghost Bayou, and that if you kill yourself after each checkpoint in the final boss, you get two free hits.

Also the clock bell on the hour and it plays really fast as a door chime when you enter certain buildings like your house and I think Harriett's Salon & Kicks.

I never knew you could continue in the original Super Mario Bros, if you got a game over. Can't believe all you do is hold START + A. Played the game ever since I was a kid and only learned about this recently on N Life.

I was convinced that the Longshot was in Metroid Zero Mission but not in the original game. I just found that out on YouTube and I am waaaaaay too far in the game to go back and obtain it.

(I hope bumping this old thread is not against the rules!)

@Pkmns

Don't worry, its only been a month since nobody posted! (Our general rule is 6 months)

Puyo Puyo uses characters from Madou Monogatari

While I wasn't the person that didn't know this it is bad enough that I need to post. My manager at gamestop just found out that Samus was a woman. He never beat any speed runs so he never saw her sans armor (or helmet) and he never played as her in smash...it wasn't until they split ZSS and even then it took him a few months to put two and two together. After I told him to stop kidding and he swore he wasn't I asked him for his badge...because yeah that's sad. I've never even beaten a metroid game and I know that. He did at least know her name was Samus and not Metroid.

Just more proof that Gamestop employees know nothing about video games.

I didn't know Klonao was playable in Moto GP until now!