Nintendo secretly hates you: Highly offensive easter egg found in nine-year-old Gamecube game

Shocker of the day. Wave Rave: Blue Storm contains hidden insult mode

Words: on September 3, 2010

High in self-esteem, are we? Maybe a little too high? Worried that you're beginning to get a bit cocky, and are in danger of alienating those around you? You need to dig out a Gamecube, fast. No, not to revile the years of fanboy ridicule that came with being a Nintendo fan when everyone else had a PS2 or Xbox (it still hurts, damnit!). Nintendo's little purple fun box has a completely different way to resize your ego. And it comes as part of a recently discovered unlockable mode in first-party jet ski racer Wave Race: Blue Storm.

Long story short: With the correct cheat mode inputs (Remember them? They were great), it's possible to make the game's commentator hurl vile and slanderous word venom at you, crushing your spirit with insults and brutal sarcasm at every turn.

We knew Nintendo were unhealthily nice. That kind of repression was always going to spill out somewhere. And it spilled out here:

If you still have a copy of Blue Storm and a GC or Wii, you have to check this out for yourself. Some of the insults the game throws at you are downright hilarious. My particular favourite at the moment is the acridly sarcastic "Oooooh, a turbo!' when you pick up a boost. And for some reason, the turbo noise has been replaced with a little girl saying 'Meow meow'. I do not know why. But I embrace it.

If you want to pull off the cheat (and you do), you'll need to do the following:

1, Go to the audio settings in the options screen.

2, You'll find a waveform display at the bottom that changes if you press the Z Button. Tap Z until the waveform looks like vertically rising fog.

3, On the D-Pad, press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, X, Z. You’ll hear an audio cue if you did it right.

4, Back out to the front end.

5, Start a race. Pick the first guy.

Now prepare yourself for the repressed verbal sickness that comes with 18 years of deleriously happy video games. We won't judge you if you cry.

Is this the best cheat mode ever, or what? It must certainly be one of the longest hidden. But if you know of a more obscure of funnier one, let me know.

I must know.

Source: NeoGAF user RaoulDuke

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Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC, PSP, DS, 3DS

Topics:

Nintendo , WTF

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  • elpurplemonkey

    elpurplemonkey  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    The commentator sounded like a man who hates his job.
  • nemesisuprising

    nemesisuprising  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    anyone notice all the insults sound like some characters from FF? like sephiroth and cloud? idk, it ight just be me...
  • ShaneCedt

    ShaneCedt  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Some goth depressed dude
  • ProfessorBonk

    ProfessorBonk  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Huh. I didn't know The Agency hosted sporting events.
  • Thequestion 121

    Thequestion 121  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Oooh, turbo! lol that was really funny!
  • oufour

    oufour  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    "just because you go around in circles doesn't make you a big wheel."


    0-0
  • Cosmis

    Cosmis  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    "You have betrayed the little amount of trust I put in you."
  • ThatGuyFromTV

    ThatGuyFromTV  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Whoops, didn't read the 2nd half of the article. My bad.
  • ThatGuyFromTV

    ThatGuyFromTV  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B? Basically the Konami code... how did this stay hidden lo long with such an obvious code?
  • Darkshine34

    Darkshine34  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    highly offensive? i think not.
  • TFUPrivateIron

    TFUPrivateIron  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    @db1331: Hey, no fair! I'm not a troll. The game just looks really good on that tiny little screen there. On a tube tv, both Gamecube and Wii games look pretty freakin' good.
  • KnightDehumidifier

    KnightDehumidifier  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    It was that last zinger in the video that was downright brutal.
  • austin128

    austin128  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    @Hydrohs
    Me too! When I read "highly offensive", I expect some cussing!
  • Hydrohs

    Hydrohs  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I was expecting something much, much harsher.
  • EliteM0nk3y

    EliteM0nk3y  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I am surprised by how well the graphics still stand today. They look better than 90% of the Wii games.

    OT: That is pretty awesome! Which I had known that when I still had my Gamcube.
  • Styrophoamicus

    Styrophoamicus  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    "You don't have an inferiority complex, you're just inferior." X3
    @TFUPrivateIron I agree with you in regards to third-party developers, but Nintendo's games have always looked sharp on the Wii
  • grappler51

    grappler51  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    This was the first gamecube game I ever played! I think I still have it at home, I should try this sometime.
  • Crabhand

    Crabhand  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Now I regret having ignored this title all those years ago. I loved Wave Race on the N64, it was so great :(
  • adamhowes

    adamhowes  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    YAWN that was dull
  • db1331

    db1331  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    @TFUPrivatelron

    Are you trollin'? No way Blue Storm looks better than TP, Galaxy 1&2, or Prime 3 just to name a few. I remember thinking it was quite the beaut when it came out though. I still have it, but now that I've seen the video I have no need or desire to try it myself.
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