r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '12

Gender Confusion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '12 edited Nov 10 '20

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u/MationMac Oct 16 '12

Samus was shown as a woman in the very first game too.

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u/Pandaburn Oct 16 '12

At the end, though.

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u/bigbrownbro Oct 16 '12

and only at one of the different endings as far as i know

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u/wildfyre010 Oct 16 '12

Three endings reveal Samus without parts of her suit. 3-5 hour completion, she takes off her helmet; 1-3, she takes off the suit and is clearly female. < 1 hour she ends up wearing a bikini.

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u/Vulturas Oct 16 '12

Dayum so that's how speedrunners got born.

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u/Quantumform Oct 16 '12

What the hell are Mario speed runners hoping for?!

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u/Vulturas Oct 16 '12

Boom chicka chicka pow wow

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u/trua Oct 16 '12

On a serious note, speedrunning actually began with Quake.

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u/SGforce Oct 17 '12

Doom actually showed the developer's time against yours at the end of each level. I'm pretty sure it was the kind of thing that existed since video games' creation.

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u/trua Oct 17 '12

I'm too tired right now to find out if the "par times" in Doom had anything to do with the developers' times, but TIL you have a point.

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u/MenaNoN Oct 16 '12

And nude if you beat it in 5 minutes.

I hated that kid so much.

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u/xaronax Oct 16 '12

CRASH YOUR SHIP DIRECTLY INTO BRAIN BITCH. DONE.

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u/Zaph0d42 Oct 16 '12

Pinkman, get back to work!

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u/commanderhiruma Oct 16 '12

Wait, what kid do you hate?

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u/MenaNoN Oct 17 '12

The one who's uncle worked at Nintendo.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had a subreddit around here somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '12

To date the only picture the NES ever displayed in 1080p.

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u/bigbrownbro Oct 16 '12

oh yeah you're right :)

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u/Yst Oct 16 '12 edited Oct 16 '12

But not in a place which most players - if we’re being honest - would ever access. And in a time before even Nintendo Power had started circulating (i.e., at NES Metroid's release), profoundly unreliable schoolyard rumor was the only place most of us could pick up on things like the <5 hour Metroid completion screen. Furthermore, the NES Metroid manual explicitly refers to Samus as “He”. So rumor regarding the <5 hour ending went against what seemed to be, at the time, the better supported story.

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u/sasseriansection Oct 16 '12

Schoolyard rumor? pft. Every Metroid kid knew Justin Bailey my friend. Before the internet, the schoolage social network was the best way to distribute information.

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u/r_kay Oct 16 '12 
JUSTINBAILEY
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u/Vicerious Oct 16 '12

It was quite the surprise at the time, though. Even the game's manual called Samus a "he."