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Here's another one of those mind-blowing Nintendo moments photo

Insane videogame trivia that someone won't discover until years after the fact and Nintendo sure do go hand in hand. The prime example (I'm so sorry if this is new to you) is surely the "bushes in Super Mario Bros. are simply green-colored clouds" thing. The attached SMB 3 pic is quite the revelation as well.

Continuing in this utterly awesome trend of genuinely neat game facts getting spread to the masses -- like all cool-but-ultimately-insignificant factoids -- through the Internet one blog post at a time is this discovery by ABoredGameDev on the NinDB Forums.

Through intuition and probably some wild luck, he found out that the GameCube's menu music shares an uncanny resemblance to the bleeps and bloops of the Famicom Disk System BIOS -- when sped up a good twenty-five times.

Stuff like this, especially knowing Nintendo's remarkable history, is just too ridiculous to be unintentional. Thank you, mysterious Internet person, for making life a tiny bit better with your magical finding.

Cameos on the Gamecube [NinDB Forums via Reddit -- Thanks, Julio!]

GameCube menu at normal speed:

Played 25x faster:

Famicom Disk System menu:

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Filt's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:05
Filt
That is amazing, I had no idea. What an epic discovery!
senorfatso's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:08
senorfatso
*head explodes*
Cowbox's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:11
Cowbox
My mind has been effectively shattered
Drack48's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:12
Drack48
Holy shit super mario three is a play...OMG!!!
VGFreak1225's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:12
VGFreak1225
IT CANNOT BE UNHEARD! INCOMING NERDGASM!
Kismet's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:17
Kismet
Nice find! Very similar to Princess Peach's Final Smash in Brawl in slo-mo.
Tron's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:27
Tron
so super mario bros. 3 is a play, the gamecube system music is the disk system bios music, and mario is an abusive brother because Luigi likes to conserve energy by turning the lights out.
Dmitry Tsozik's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:41
Dmitry Tsozik
Wow. Just started to play SMB3 yesterday on my GameBoy micro.
Kimochi Sama's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:44
Kimochi Sama
OMG, I can't detect any resemblance !
Django Reinhardt's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 12:57
Django Reinhardt
Also: the Ocarina of Time title screen music is a flowery version of the song that plays when you use the flute in Zelda or SMB3.
hellfire overlord's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:02
hellfire overlord
Ja ja ja, amazing
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:04
TheStripe
@Dimitri - surely you mean "started playing again?"
P-Dude's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:04
P-Dude
To quote someone I saw on digg,

"Mind = Not Really that Blown"
Hotline 128's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:05
Hotline 128
somebody set my mind up the bomb
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:05
fetusmilk
uhhh huh?
Mecha Six VII's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:08
Mecha Six VII
the 25x faster is a bit too fast, just slow it down a bit and it would be it.
Kvb's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:14
Kvb
Hell yeah!
I love easter eggs like this!
Tony Ponce's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:27
Tony Ponce
The Mario 3 thing was (to the best of my knowledge) my announcement from way back when. Someone picked up on it and made that little image macro after the fact.
D-503's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:29
D-503
What if the clouds are just white bushes?
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:30
Brian Szabelski
My mind's been blown, but here's a bigger question: How did this guy even figure this out?
ChickenNow's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 13:33
ChickenNow
How is the SMB3 pic a secret at all? It's blatantly obvious!
Chris Memolo's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 14:00
Chris Memolo
How does something like this even happen? When they're designing the system was someone like "make the menu music like the NES BIOS" and they came up with that? Who would even think to make that connection?
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 14:16
pedrovay2003
Holy shit, that GameCube and Mario 3 thing is amazing!
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 14:37
Xzyliac
God fuck that's awesome.
Script-br's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 14:43
Script-br
This is incredible!



How does someone have so much time on his hands to discover something like this? Wow! :o
SneakerElph's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 14:53
SneakerElph
Is there some kind of website that has (or tries to have) all of these types of things listed in one spot? I'd like to spend an afternoon giving my mind a thorough blowing.
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 15:10
Jordan Devore
@SneakerElph - enjoy this. It'll keep you occupied for more than an afternoon. It's about as comprehensive as you can get.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550
Tendonin's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 15:26
Tendonin
This post made my day.
thenooby1's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 15:48
thenooby1
LIKE
airbagtelex's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 16:03
airbagtelex
who....fucking....cares

really? this is newsworthy?
Script-br's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 16:28
Script-br
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDAtClGerfw Nintendo sure likes to "recycle" musics.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 16:33
Justice
That is amazing, just another reason why I love Nintendo and their constant revisiting the past.
ndschroede23's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 16:52
ndschroede23
re: SMB3

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Discarded Couch Sandwich's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 17:14
Discarded Couch Sandwich
I do indeed love Nintendo.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 17:16
DaedHead8
@airbagtelex

JOURNALISM
OmegaPlatinum's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 18:18
OmegaPlatinum
Note on the SMB3, all the levels are exit Stage LEFT, not right. Stage direction is indicated by the performer, not the audience.
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 18:26
Artemus
Wow. =)
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 18:34
ace of knaves
Heh, that's pretty cool.
isnowbored's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 18:49
isnowbored
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
InfinityBit's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 19:10
InfinityBit
I'm finding it very hard to imagine what a person's mental state must have been to realize this.
Robotube's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 20:59
Robotube
Mind effectively blown.
Airbr1dge's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/22/2010 22:52
Airbr1dge
Ohmygawdnintendothatblewmymind!!!!!!!
lewness's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/23/2010 08:11
lewness
So was the light successfully turned on or off?
sprldr's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/23/2010 08:27
sprldr
So... it looks like we can add 'theatre actor' to Mario's list of professions...
brod's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/23/2010 08:53
brod
@airbagtelex
"really? this is newsworthy?"

Damn right it is.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/24/2010 09:47
Excel-2011
But that's stage left.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/24/2010 09:54
Excel-2011
Watch people start going through every Nintendo song between 1986 and 2001 to see if this song shows up more.
Anna Hannah's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/21/2011 04:48
Anna Hannah
How does something like this even happen? When they're designing the system was someone like "make the menu music like the NES BIOS" and they came up with that? Who would even think to make that connection?
Best regards, Anna, CEO of iscsi initiator for windows xp
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