Staff cameos in Nintendo games and more.

[Da Robot]

Sorry, for the thread topic, I did not know what else to say to describe it. Most of these cameos are people that made the game or were based off pets of the developers.

I also threw in some trivia for these games as well, I thought it might be good the NinDB as well.



Goldeneye 007

- The fictional character Dr Doak and secret mulitplayer character Dave is named after and bears likeness to (former Rare staff member) David Doak.

- Some of the guards faces in the game are based off staff members from Rareware.

- Several references to James Bond films exist in GoldenEye 007, the most apparent being the titles of the various multiplayer modes and the Bond Girl names for the game's control schemes. The CCTV tape found in the second Bunker mission features the cover of the VHS release of the GoldenEye film. (sorry if this doesn't count as a cameo)

Trivia

- Multiple objectives across the same stages was inspired by the mutiple tasks of each stage in Super Mario 64.


Perfect Dark

- In Perfect Dark, enemy soldiers' faces are mapped from the game staff and from Nintendo employees (like Goldeneye). Shigeru Miyamoto's face is seen on the patrolling guard in the opening movie for the Pelagic II stage.

Trivia

Despite popular belief, Joanna's hair color was never meant to be brown but, always red. This can be seen in renders done by Rare, (Link, ). The developers claimed that it was due to the limitations of the Nintendo 64.

Also many references to Goldeneye exist in the game, such a some of the multiplayer stages being from Goldeneye, unlockable weapons from Goldeneye, a BAFTA award won by Rare because of Goldeneye can be found in a safe in the game.

GB Camera support was going to be in the game that would allow you to take a photo of someones face and use it on playable characters in mutliplayer but was never implemented into the final game. (for more info on that subject see the bottom of the multiplayer article on Wikipedia).



Various Skip devloped games (Giftpia, Chibi Robo and even Captain Rainbow).

The dog Tao, that appears in Giftpia, Chibi Robo and Captain Rainbow is actually based off a pet owned by Kenichi Nishi who works for Skip (and also another studio named Vanpool).

Here's a picture of the dog in real life and video of the Tao gallery that Jaken posted from CR of Tao.





Tao's name is also a reference to the Ying-Yang from Taoism because he has a black side and white side to his face. (source).


I think that's all the stuff I can think of for now.

[Fryguy64]

The Goldeneye and Perfect Dark stuff is pretty widespread. The fact that the vast majority of them have Rare staff face textures (one of them is even the gardener for the old Rare offices).

The Trivia seems to be entirely unrelated to the post - you do realise that we will lose that forever when this topic dies, right?

The Tao stuff is interesting though. Also, I didn't know Kenichi Nishi also worked with Vanpool (they did Tingle's Rosy-Rupeeland).

[Deleted]

I knew Perfect Dark was going to have GBC support through the Transfer Pak but RARE stated it froze the game and they didn't want it in the game because they didn't want people to have death matches with people they hated and RARE didn't want to look bad for that so they removed the feature. Also it is rumored that you can access the Perfect Face feature with two lines of coding.

[Fryguy64]

Sounds like another fan rumour...

I know there was supposed to be GBC support... but the reason for it being removed could have been concern over people "killing" their friends, or it could have easily have been the lack of hardware support. GBC doesn't work in the GB Pak.

[Koopaul]

Wait, yes it does. Pokemon Crystal connects to Pokemon Stadium 2 doesn't it?

[Da Robot]

Nov 14, 2008 22:14:47 GMT -5 Koopaul said:

Wait, yes it does. Pokemon Crystal connects to Pokemon Stadium 2 doesn't it?

When I was saying GBC I was meaning Game Boy Camera, not Game Boy Colour.

[Fryguy64]

Yeah, same here. Wasn't until after I posted I realised that could be confused

[Hiker of Games]

Another one for Goldeneye:

A weapon in the game is named after Ken Lobb known as the "Klobb".

[Deleted]

They did say that the GBC froze the game during development but I'm sure they could have gotten it to work. I also hears that you could take color pictures with it and play the Game Boy Camera through the transfer pak.

[Da Robot]

BUMP!

Picture of Miyamoto and oddly enough Matt Casamassina of IGN in Perfect Dark.





Source.

[Da Robot]

BUMP!

This is just a thought I'm had for while but I'm finally decided to bring up.

We all know G007 has references to other JB movies and I think you (Fry) don't want to have on those on nindb but shouldn't you reconsider since G007 is different to others on this site since it's based off a movie based game and it's references other movie/stories from it's own franchise . . . well I don't how to explain it much more than that.

I know it's taken me a while for me to bring this up,

[Fryguy64]

Out-of-Nintendo cameos are gonna be a lot more difficult to do on the new site. They may not have a place at all.

As for staff, that may have to be a "special feature" cameo page. Iwata's appeared a few times, not to mention the many supposed references to Howard, and Miyamoto a couple times. Oh yeah, and Totakeke as K.K. Slider (although he has a page to himself already, bless him).