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Gaming's hidden messages

Grant kids to hell, read into the Bungie logo and become Death - destroyer of grammar

Words: Justin Towell, GamesRadar UK

Sonic and Mario can't have hidden messages in them, can they? Well, there was the famous (infamous) "U R MR GAY" scandal, with the Photoshop sparkles on the official boxart (look at your own copy if you don't believe us)picking out specific letters on the Super Mario Galaxy box art.

 

But Mario's not the only one said to 'drive on the other side of the road'. Listen to the Sonic trailer for Super Smash Bros Brawl played backwards:



Surely it wasn't done on purpose, surely. In a less controversial observation, it seems there's a secret nod to Mario in the very first Sonic The Hedgehog:

 

Deliberate cap-tip to the plumber, or just two lions standing up against a pedestal (that handily makes for a nose, eyes and moustache)? We reckon it's the former.

While we're on the subject of Sonic, there's a reference to a 'one-eyed snake' in the Sonic cartoon, too. Strange choice of words, Bunny.



 
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cricket0  - 8 months 4 days ago 
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hockeyd44  - 7 months 23 days ago 
Don't forget the sign found at the UNLV level in rainbow 6 vegas. Found in the "quad" it says emo kids suck.
mangaman88188280  - 7 months 21 days ago 
You forgot Portal (or this was written before the release of the Orange Box - meh.)the messages written on the walls:

Because I could not stop for death,
he kindly stopped for me.
The cube had food, and maybe ammo,
and Immortality.

Not in anger, not in wrath,
The REAPER came today.
An ANGEL visited this gray path,
and took the cube away.
thephntm  - 7 months 16 days ago 
tnx for no screamers.

PS the optimus prime door is hilarious!
WBxRelentless  - 7 months 14 days ago 
haha in gta vice city..
candy suxxx?
haha
machellx  - 7 months 12 days ago 
hmm cocks must be some way of saying satan
reyalejandro13  - 7 months 10 days ago 
What about in Final Fantasy I and II Dawn of Souls on GBA? In FFI, there's a Tombstone somewhere that says "Here Lies Link" Final Fantasy Characters killed Link? GASP!
nicksayswatzup  - 7 months 9 days ago 
Ep1c failLlllllllz0rz Wtf/ no PoRtL?!1 the CakE Is a LIe11111 aNd so is Gamsraider1111111 thi artIcLE dIED of DysEnTARy
scruffy117  - 7 months 8 days ago 
i was well scared of a scremer
mr.mr.mr.mr.  - 7 months 8 days ago 
In MP3,it says "Wii is awesome" when it has the random data flow in the beginning.
hyperboy  - 7 months 6 days ago 
personally i thought there might have been a screamer which makes me shit myself.
hyperboy  - 7 months 6 days ago 
oh and about the tomb stone that says here lies link was meant that final fantasy 1 buried legend of zelda.
jello500  - 6 months 24 days ago 
gay gay gay gay gay
SwampRock  - 6 months 18 days ago 
for a village. i thought the sonic one was gonna be a screamer or the first one.
Gamefreak1234  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Thank god. No screamer. But another one about halo 3. Who could ever forget the backwards auido files when you would look at a terminal! There classic, and anyone can hear 'em. Oh, BTW, where is the optimus prime door.
midgiemelendez  - 6 months 4 days ago 
maybe the halo 3 thing said "CHANGE" huh? Obama, change we can believe in
(or something like that)
civver  - 5 months 18 days ago 
Don't put the subtitles under the audio clips! It enhances pareidolia.
Spybreak8  - 5 months 15 days ago 
lol no the halo thing said caching!
LieutenantCipher  - 5 months 12 days ago 
lol, Real mature GTA XD
Funny though - I've palyed AC a hell of a lot of times and I never came across a door like that; or I just didn't notice it, better go play it again just for shits and giggles
LieutenantCipher  - 5 months 12 days ago 
also, could've sworn it says CAR in the Bungie logo, everything else doesn't look remotely close to letters
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