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Title: Various games etymologies
Post by: Xand on November 30, 2013, 07:32:41 am: M
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Post by: denzquix on November 30, 2013, 08:05:04 am: :fogethappy: this is cool, thank you!!

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Post by: Neuropath on November 30, 2013, 12:53:05 pm: haha wow... whoa... how long did this take you?
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Post by: Xand on December 01, 2013, 06:35:49 am: I
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Post by: hero_bash on December 01, 2013, 10:41:34 am: Wow. This is so useless but very impressive.
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Post by: crone_lover720 on December 01, 2013, 04:04:20 pm: If you're up to it, I'd love to see more unintentional etymologies of amateur rpgs
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Post by: Xand on December 02, 2013, 07:32:20 am: T
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Post by: Xand on December 07, 2013, 07:20:07 am: S
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Post by: Xand on March 18, 2014, 09:59:41 am: M
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Post by: ATARI on March 21, 2014, 08:23:15 am: this is what it has come to here
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Post by: Xand on May 02, 2014, 05:49:47 am: O
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Post by: Xand on June 25, 2014, 08:34:15 am: E
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Post by: Ice Baby1 on February 12, 2016, 10:36:15 pm: So "Luigi" means famous fighter... and so does Ludwig... hmm............. I wonder what the rivalry they have is like...

BTW, Mario's name means "Hammer".
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Post by: EpsilonEagle on June 26, 2016, 11:14:07 pm: This is pretty awesome, I always wondered how they came up with such interesting names for stuff.
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Post by: EpsilonEagle on June 26, 2016, 11:15:14 pm: PS: You should do Legend of Zelda next.
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Post by: Unguided on June 28, 2016, 05:00:56 pm: Quote from: Small Green Cicada on February 12, 2016, 10:36:15 pm
So "Luigi" means famous fighter... and so does Ludwig... hmm............. I wonder what the rivalry they have is like...

BTW, Mario's name means "Hammer".
Mario bros, Hammer bros. Rivalry there too.
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Post by: denzquix on June 30, 2016, 05:10:25 am: what does it mean that king koopa, in his final forms, could bring forth endless hammers from his head
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Post by: Ice Baby1 on June 30, 2016, 10:16:04 am: (http://[url=http://www.mariowiki.com/images/6/6b/Bowser_and_Peach_original_SMB.png%5Bimg%5D]http://www.mariowiki.com/images/6/6b/Bowser_and_Peach_original_SMB.png[img][/url]
shiggy miyamoto early drawing of bowser

And Koopa = kuppa which is Japanese for the Korean rice dish, gukbap. But interestingly enough, I can't find who came up with Bowser. Every single source on Bowser just glosses right over it. Like yeah, I understand they used to fuck around with names to make them less Japanese, I know it's just outta nowhere and some consultant probably did it. But there is no information about who exactly decided he should be called that. I don't know where to find out who was working on noa's [i]Super Mario Bros. Instruction Manual[/i], which is the first occurrence of "bowser". well it's all a bit outside of the scope of etymology. Bowser itself refers to...

[quote]a nickname for someone of a cheerful, pleasant demeanour or disposition, or for someone considered to be good looking, derived from the Old French elements "beu, bel", fair, lovely and "chere", face, countenance[/quote]

[img]http://www.gamers-association.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Evil-Mario-600x372.jpg)???