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Duck Hunt
About
Duck Hunt is a light-gun video game originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1984. In the game, the player is tasked with shooting ducks that fly across the screen with a peripheral known as the NES Zapper.
Since its release, Duck Hunt has received generally positive reviews[1] from critics, and has garnered a cult following, as well as a significant cultural impact on the gaming world.
History
Duck Hunt was developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and released in Japan on April 21, 1984, America on October 18th, 1985, and Europe on August 15th, 1987.
In the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was packaged along with Super Mario Bros as part of Nintendo’s “Action Series”.[2]
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The Dog
One of the most popular features of Duck Hunt is the dog which assists you while playing. The dog is supposed to scare the ducks out of the tall grass, and catch them when you hit one. If you miss a duck, the dog will proceed to pop out of the tall grass and laugh at you. Many players have grown to hate for the dog for this reason.
The Duck Hunt dog has been referenced several times in popular culture, making cameo appearances in some modern hunting games such as Barker Bill’s Trick Shooting and Remington Great American Bird Hunt. UGOEntertainment listed the ability to kill the dog using a special in-game method as #7 in a list of the top 14 video game urban legends.[3]
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Super Mario
About
Super Mario (also known as “Super Mario Brothers” or just Mario) [1] is a critically acclaimed video game franchise published by Nintendo. The games typically feature Nintendo’s mascot Mario and his brother Luigi as playable characters that venture through different areas in the fictional land known as the “Mushroom Kingdom.”
History
Arcade Era
The character Mario made his debut in the arcade game Donkey Kong, released on July 9th, 1981. The side-scroller featured the protagonist “Jumpman,” who attempts to rescue his damsel in distress from a large gorilla named “Donkey Kong” (shown below, left). The game was the designed by Shigeru Miyamoto,[4] who went on to work on several Super Mario releases. The Jumpman character was named “Mario” after Mario Sengale, the owner of several warehouses once rented by Nintendo.
In 1982, Nintendo released a sequel titled “Donkey Kong Jr,”[5] in which the player controls a young gorilla attempting to rescue Donkey Kong from Mario by climbing vines and avoiding various traps (shown above, right). On June 1st, 1983, Nintendo released Mario Bros.,[6] another arcade game that featured Mario and his brother Luigi as Italian plumbers attempting to exterminate creatures emerging from pipes by jumping on their heads and kicking them.
Console Era
On September 13th, 1985, the game Super Mario Bros.[7] was released with the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 8-bit video game console. The game was one of the first console side-scrollers with a panning screen and featured 8 worlds with 4 levels in each. The main antagonist is Bowser,[8] a large snapping turtle with a spiked shell that can breath fire and repeatedly kidnaps Mario’s love interest Princess Peach.[9] The game features power ups such as a mushroom that increases Mario’s size and allows him to take an extra hit without being killed and the fire-flower which gives Mario the ability to shoot fireballs. Mario has since made an appearance in over 200 video games.[13]
Online Presence
Super Mario Bros. Crossover
On April 27th, 2010, the flash game “Super Mario Bros. Crossover” was released on Newgrounds] by game developer Jay Pavlina of Expoding Rabbit.[15] The game modified the original Super Mario Bros. to include other well-known video game characters, including Samus, Mega Man, Link and Simon Belmont.
Mari0
On May 5, 2012, the gaming modification website Stabyourself.net[12] released Mari0, a free downloadable game combining elements from Portal with the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES. The game allows players to use portal guns to navigate levels in the 2D side scroller game and use a level creator to make their own custom games.
Fanart
Mario has often been the subject of fanarts online, with over 148,000 image uploads on the art-sharing website DeviantArt.[14]
Related Memes
But Our Princess Is In Another Castle!
The phrase but or princess is in another castle comes from the original NES Super Mario Bros. game. It has been used to caption image macros and inspired the creation of the snowclone “Sorry X, but your Y is in another Z.”
Mama Luigi
Mama Luigi is a series of YouTube Poop videos featuring clips from the final episode of the 1991 television series “Super Mario World.”
Hotel Mario
Released in 1994 for the infamous Phillips CD-i game disc, Hotel Mario features Mario and Luigi working together to save the princess from Bowser’s hotels. It was negatively received by gamers due to the horrible controls of the CD-i, the game’s frustrating gameplay and poorly produced cut scenes which are often used in YouTube Poop videos.
Weegee and Malleo
Weegee is a photoshop meme based on the avatar of Luigi in the DOS version of the educational video game “Mario Is Missing!” Edited images typically place Weegee in an awkward situation to add a sense of discomfort or use to create a facebomb. Weegee’s counterpart is Malleo, a Mario version of Weegee.
Automatic Mario
Automatic Mario is a subgenre of remix videos that emulate popular songs and soundtracks through gameplay footage of customized level stages in Super Mario World. Mostly created by fans using Super Mario ROM editors, musical compositions in Auto-Mario videos are carefully prearranged by the architectural design of each level and thus rarely requires any input from the player.
DuckTales Moon Theme Remixes
About
DuckTales Moon Theme Remixes, also known as “X on the Moon”, refer to a series of instrumental covers andYouTube Poop Music Videos (YTPMVs) that sample the 8-bit “Moon Theme” audio track from the 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game DuckTales.
Origin
In September 1989, Capcom released the North American version of the NES game DuckTales[1], which is based on the Disney animated series of the same name. In the game, the player assumes the role of Scrooge McDuck, an anthropomorphic white duck that is obsessed with accumulating as much wealth as possible. The fifth stage level of the game features a background audio track called the “Moon Theme”:
The “Moon Theme” background music had enjoyed a cult-like status prior to its incorporation in the YTPMV genre, as evidently seen in a number of discussions threads on Reddit[2][3] and isolated instances on the GIF-sharing community YTMND.[4] The YouTube clip “Best VGM 40 – DuckTales – The Moon”[5] has gained over 690,000 views since its original upload on October 24th, 2007.
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On January 11th, 2008, YouTuber digamejh posted a live performance of the Moon Theme song cover by Californian rock band The Advantage, which came in second place out of over 50 contestants at the MAGFest (Music and Gaming Festival, originally the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival) Dwelling of Duels.[6]
On January 24th, YouTuber and Newground artist SupraDarky uploaded a synth remix of the Moon Theme titled “[SD] DuckTales Fun on the Moon.” Three days later on January 27th, YouTuber methidos posted a Mario Paint edition of the Moon Theme.
The same song was also used in a well-known YouTube Poop video titled “This is What I see With My Eyes Closed” (shown left) uploaded on December 3rd, 2009. It subsequently inspired a Garry’s Mod fad called “this is what I see with my X closed”:
Notable Examples
In early 2008, other YouTube Poop creators[8] began mimicking the video style by using the 8-bit audio track in various videos with the phrasal template “(X) on the Moon”.
Remastered Edition
In March 2013, Capcom announced at the PAX East that a high-definition reboot of DuckTales was being developed by WayForward Technologies. Titled DuckTales: Remastered, the game was introduced as a “2.5D” platformer featuring 3D modeled levels and 2D hand-drawn character sprites voiced by surviving members of the original animated series cast. On August 7th, 2013, six days before the release of the game, Capcom released a documentary short film about the creative process behind remastering the video game’s soundtrack, featuring a series of interviews with the technical team as well as snippets of the new theme songs. On August 13th, DuckTales: Remastered was officially released on the PlayStation Network, Nintendo eShop and Steam.
Ermahgerd
About
Ermahgerd (also known as “Gersberms” and “Berks”), a lisped pronunciation of “oh my god,” is an image macro series featuring a photo of a young woman holding several books from the children’s horror fiction series Goosebumps. The phonetically written captions are meant to sound like a speech impediment caused by the use of an orthodontic retainer, often using the snowclone template “Ermahgerd X.”
Origin
On March 14th, 2012, a post titled “Just a book owners smile…” was submitted to the /r/funny[9] subreddit with a photo of a young girl posing with three Goosebumps books and her mouth agape in excitement. A comment posted by Redditor plantlife[10] linked to a Quickmeme submission of the photo with the caption “Gersberms / Mah fravrit berks.” The same day, the image macro was submitted in a post titled “BERKS!”[1] which reached the front page of Reddit accumulating over 17,000 up votes within two weeks.
Precursors
The humorous trope of “retainer lisp” has been portrayed through various characters in popular TV shows and films, such as Beth from the animated series Total Drama Island (shown left) and Stan’s sister Shelly from the animated television series South Park (shown right).
Spread
On March 15th, 2012, the image macro was submitted to Funnyjunk[2] by user michellemc, receiving over 18,000 views in less than two weeks. The same day, it was posted to the Memebase site Derp[8] with the title “Thurrrrr So Scurrrrry.” On March 16th, YouTuber Berks Gerl uploaded a video titled “Mah Fravorit Berks!”, which featured the original image macro accompanied by a voice-over narration of the caption.
On March 19th, Body Building[7] forums member Wilsbrah posted a thread titled “Gersberms!” with the original macro embedded in the post. Other forum members responded to the thread using incorrect English mimicking the caption. On June 4th, Redditor TycoBrahe submitted a post titled “Ermahgerd! Cluhrnet!”, which included an animated GIF of Malena Ernman performing a rendition of the orchestral interlude “Flight of the Bumblee.” Within 16 days, the post received over 8,700 up votes and 270 comments.
On June 16th, Graphic Design Forum[23] member KitchWitch submitted a thread titled “Ermahgerd”, which included several notable image macros from the series. The meme has continued to spread on Memebase[17] and Tumblr[18]under the tag “#ermahgerd.” As of June 20th, 2012, the “Berks” Quickmeme[3] page has received over 4,200 submissions, the “Ermahgerd” Meme Generator[20]page has received more than 1,000 items and a Facebook[21] page for “Ermahgerd, Berks” has accumulated over 990 likes.
Notable Examples
Identity
On March 28th, 2012, a post titled “BERKS Revealed” was submitted to the /r/adviceanimals[11] subreddit by user superdude4agze, which included a picture of a young woman with the caption “Ermahgerd / I’m hot” (shown left). The following day, a post comparing the facial features in the two photos (shown middle) reached the front page of Reddit[12], which sparked a lengthy discussion over the authenticity of Superdude5agze’s photo. On March 30th, Redditor ThazCrazy submitted a post to the /r/self[22] subreddit titled “Actual BERKS Girl”, which included a photo of a woman named Maggie (shown right) whom ThazCrazy claimed was the real Berks woman.
Animal Variations
On June 8th, 2012, the website I Can Has Cheezburger[19] published a post titled “Animal Memes: Ermahgerd! Er’m a Perg!”, which featured a photo of a pug staring at a box of Milk-Bone dog treats with the caption “Ermahgerd / merlkbehrns” (shown below, left). On June 16th, the pug image was submitted in a post titled “merlkbehrns” on the image remixing site Canvas[16], where it received several replies with other variations based on cute animal photos that were captioned with the snowclone template “Ermahgerd X” (shown below, middle, right). On June 18th, the Tumblr[15]blog Pleated Jeans published several images from the thread in a post which received over 67,300 notes within two days. The following day, the same images were published in a post titled “7 Super Excited ‘Ermahgerd’ Animals” on the viral content site BuzzFeed.[14]
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