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[SHA]

The GameCube flopped in numbers and content delivery.

 

[SScorpio]

I could've sworn growing up, that there was a game called Jet Set Tricky. I went looking for it years later, thinking it was very obviously a sequel to Jet Set Radio. Nope. Only Jet Set Radio exists.

Jet Set Radio Future and SSX Tricky did release within a few months of each other.

 

[SportsFan581]

Interesting video. I'd heard of the "Mandela Effect" and sort of knew what it referenced as a general idea, but had absolutely no idea the phenomenon was given that title because of the Mandela dying in the 80s thing.

 

[deriks]

Xbox being successful during the x360 era.

They were just less bad.

So is Sony right now, and back then there's the excuse of a lot of great games every month that run easy just on disk. Now there's no excuse and only Nintendo is the closest to a original videogame console

 

[RoadHazard]

Summary? Examples? Can't watch such a long video right now.

Just going to drop a movie recommendation here:

Starring Ivanka Trump in the lead role.

That movie rocks.

 

[Games Bookstore]

I'm part way through the video until it came to Pokemon. Wasn't the original releases Red and Blue not Red and Green or am I tripping balls?

 

[chromatic9]

What if I told you Morpheus never said "what if I told you"

Hannibal Lecter never says "Hello Clarice" when they first meet. It's just "good morning"

 

[Fafalada]

You can look at the specs and see which console has more power. The fact that people still argue over whether the Xbox or PS2 is more powerful is ridiculous.

The ridiculous one is GC vs Xbox or DC vs PS2. But it is fair to say the hw differences clouded a lot of debate in that era. There's no single number you can compress the comparison between any two consoles that gen.
Since ps4, it's just been how many tflops question (and ppl. cling to it even when it doesn't work, because it's... simple... since apparently no-one online likes nuance or actual debates).

 

[Killjoy-NL]

So is Sony right now, and back then there's the excuse of a lot of great games every month that run easy just on disk. Now there's no excuse and only Nintendo is the closest to a original videogame console

Are you talking about game output or success?

As far as Sony 1st party output goes, so far I've bought about the same amount of Sony published games as I've bought each gen since PS1.

 

[MudoSkills]

I'm part way through the video until it came to Pokemon. Wasn't the original releases Red and Blue not Red and Green or am I tripping balls?

It was initially red and green in Japan, rest of the world got red and blue.

Haven't watched the vid in the OP yet, but one thing that always bothered me about naming this the Mandela effect is that I've never met anybody fucking stupid enough to have thought he died back in the 80s.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

In Gone With the Wind, the main guy never says "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"

I just checked and he does indeed say it. In the movie, at least.

 

[solidus12]

Is this considered Mandela effect?

 

[Fafalada]

Is this considered Mandela effect?

No, but 10 years from now people will remember Phil Spencer going on stage talking about Halo on Playstation during the X1X reveal and will be confused why anyone was in denial about it 7 years later.

 

[winjer]

Is this considered Mandela effect?

No, that is complete delusion.

 

[kevboard]

Summary? Examples? Can't watch such a long video right now.

the gaming related examples in the video only work if you are a casual gamer I think.

not knowing that N64 Rainbow Road had railings and not knowing that SMB1's first stage has no Piranha Plants is something you only misremember if you haven't played either for 15+ years I think...

and the last example was Pikachu's tail not having a black tip like, if you are invested into Pokémon you'll never misremember that as he is constantly depicted on everything Pokémon related, and if you aren't invested in Pokémon, how are you supposed to remember every design detail about one of now 900+ creatures.

so the gaming ones were very weak examples imo

 

[RoadHazard]

the gaming related examples in the video only work if you are a casual gamer I think.

not knowing that N64 Rainbow Road had railings and not knowing that SMB1's first stage has no Piranha Plants is something you only misremember if you haven't played either for 15+ years I think...

and the last example was Pikachu's tail not having a black tip like, if you are invested into Pokémon you'll never misremember that as he is constantly depicted on everything Pokémon related, and if you aren't invested in Pokémon, how are you supposed to remember every design detail about one of now 900+ creatures.

so the gaming ones were very weak examples imo

Yeah, I've watched it now. Most of this stuff just seems to be how people who don't quite know how something looks expect that thing to look. Like with Pikachu, his ears have black tips, so if you're not complete sure how he actually looks it's easy to assume that the tail follows the same pattern (which he also talks about in the video). The alternate universe/timeline explanations, yeah, a bit less likely...

 

[awwr999999]

Interesting video. I'd heard of the "Mandela Effect" and sort of knew what it referenced as a general idea, but had absolutely no idea the phenomenon was given that title because of the Mandela dying in the 80s thing.

It's bigger than that as the 'phenomenon' itself is BS based on the false premise that 'lots of people think Mandela died in the 80s'.
Mandela negotiating an end to Apartheid in 1990 is something taught in world history classes.
The 'Mandela effect' being observed in the US 20 years later points to a larger problem with America's failing public school system.
Trying to make sense of data based on a small group of ignorant people's false ideas about the world around them is pointless.

 

[Games Bookstore]

It was initially red and green in Japan, rest of the world got red and blue.

Haven't watched the vid in the OP yet, but one thing that always bothered me about naming this the Mandela effect is that I've never met anybody fucking stupid enough to have thought he died back in the 80s.

Okay that makes a lot more sense. I thought I was having my own Mandella moment.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Garnox]

Ok, haven't watched it yet and will be curious to see what's there, BUT I have a personal one that I'm curious if y'all have the same experience or maybe an explanation.

Mega Man 2.

Two enemies. The underwater snail enemies and the stackable can like enemies.

When I played the OG NES cartridge, I remember being able to kill those enemies in one (or more for the snails) hit without them losing their shell and moving faster or flinging themselves at you, disassembling respectively.

Does the later releases use a different emulation where they no longer die in one hit? Maybe the old NES cart was a American easy mode? Maybe it was the different Normal mode difference?

Maybe one of y'all can explain that or maybe it's a Mandela Effect?!

 

[Grildon Tundy]

The naked Lara Croft cheat in the OG Tomb Raider was unlocked by dancing in sync to the Spice Girls' "If You Wannabe My Lover"--NOT Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping".

"Tubthumping" wasn't even released until 1997.

 

[nush]

I could've sworn growing up, that there was a game called Jet Set Tricky. I went looking for it years later, thinking it was very obviously a sequel to Jet Set Radio. Nope. Only Jet Set Radio exists.

SSX Tricky was the snowboarding game. You,ve mixed two similar games.

 

[nush]

The naked Lara Croft cheat in the OG Tomb Raider was unlocked by dancing in sync to the Spice Girls' "If You Wannabe My Lover"--NOT Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping".

"Tubthumping" wasn't even released until 1997.

There was no nude mode, it was an April fools posted in C&VG.

 

[kevboard]

Yeah, I've watched it now. Most of this stuff just seems to be how people who don't quite know how something looks expect that thing to look. Like with Pikachu, his ears have black tips, so if you're not complete sure how he actually looks it's easy to assume that the tail follows the same pattern (which he also talks about in the video). The alternate universe/timeline explanations, yeah, a bit less likely...

yeah. it works with stuff that you know about, but do not actively follow. like something you only give attention to very irregularly or haven't been paying attention to anymore for multiple years.

I play the first few levels of SMB1 basically yearly at least.... so I know Piranha plants aren't in the first level.
I play Mario Kart 64 every couple of years ever since it released, so I know Rainbow Road has railings that keep you from falling off.
and I am somewhat familiar with Pokemon and have played most of the mainline games at least a little, and I am playing the new mobile card game, so I know how his tail looks like in both Male and Female form.

meanwhile, I play Monopoly only occasionally and don't really give a shit about the design of its mascot, and often play some special version where he isn't prominently featured anyways, so I indeed was kinda surprised he doesn't have a monocle

 

[RoadHazard]

It's bigger than that as the 'phenomenon' itself is BS based on the false premise that 'lots of people think Mandela died in the 80s'.
Mandela negotiating an end to Apartheid in 1990 is something taught in world history classes.
The 'Mandela effect' being observed in the US 20 years later points to a larger problem with America's failing public school system.
Trying to make sense of data based on a small group of ignorant people's false ideas about the world around them is pointless.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of that belief here in Sweden, I've only heard it from Americans on the internet...

 

[ChoosableOne]

Gandhi launched a nuke, right?

 

[Toots]

There was no nude mode, it was an April fools posted in C&VG.

There were plenty of nude MODs tho
I remember to this day spending an entire afternoon having Lara do her handstand move to get up platforms after my friend's dad installed the mod for us

 

[SimTourist]

 

[Toots]

 

[Itchy Tickles]

I just checked and he does indeed say it. In the movie, at least.

Just checked doing a quick Google. I think the "Mandela Effect" was that the line wasn't the final line of the movie. My apologies, will edit.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

There were plenty of nude MODs tho
I remember to this day spending an entire afternoon having Lara do her handstand move to get up platforms after my friend's dad installed the mod for us

I remember having a nude code for The Action Replay, for I think Tomb Raider 2, the one that has you sliding down in a forest area or something near the start.

Memory is a bit jumbled, but I remember sliding down and there was a tree you could jump on that had the camera a lot closer.

 

[KungFucius]

I always found fascinating on how incapable many are in admitting their mistakes.

I wonder if it's a type brain defect that doesn't allow them to accept that they just misremembered or misunderstood something and there's no need to create dumb shit like this Mandella Effect to feel better.

I don't think it is a defect, I think it is common for people with lower intelligence to act like this, often belligerently.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Ok, haven't watched it yet and will be curious to see what's there, BUT I have a personal one that I'm curious if y'all have the same experience or maybe an explanation.

Mega Man 2.

Two enemies. The underwater snail enemies and the stackable can like enemies.

When I played the OG NES cartridge, I remember being able to kill those enemies in one (or more for the snails) hit without them losing their shell and moving faster or flinging themselves at you, disassembling respectively.

Does the later releases use a different emulation where they no longer die in one hit? Maybe the old NES cart was a American easy mode? Maybe it was the different Normal mode difference?

Maybe one of y'all can explain that or maybe it's a Mandela Effect?!

If you played on “Normal” difficulty, it’s as you remember.
In the “Difficult” setting those enemies act as you found out more recently.
The “Normal” setting was added to the US version because the game was deemed too hard for western kids. It doesn’t exist in the JP version.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

There was no nude mode, it was an April fools posted in C&VG.

Spoiler

I know.

 

[MasterDerico]

Thrill Kill for ps1 was actually released and removed from stores one week after.

I swear i remember magazines saying that...

 

[Kokoloko85]

That N64 Rainbow Road mention having no rails is ridiculous. Anyone who would try that jump skip right at the beginning of the track would know this.

This was the way of the brave

 

[CamHostage]

How many of you were aware that the iconic line in Matrix about a "deja vu" being a sign that someone "tweaked the simulation and adjusted reality" was not a Wachowski brothers' invention, but something that Philips K. Dick affirmed to believe as a fact in a now-notorious press conference?



The man wrote some great stories, but chances are he was a bit of a cuckoolander.

He wrote great stories because he was off his rocker in part due to his massive experimentation with drugs. And I don't mean modern day 'experimenting with drugs' but old school trying shit out to see what it did.

 

[gtabro]

100 gb patches have enter the chat