Touhou Project (東方Project) About Touhou Project (Japanese: 東方Project Tōhō Purojekuto) is a series of PC-9801 and Windows scrolling manic shooter games created by Team Shanghai Alice’s sole member, ZUN.
Ever since its first Windows game release, Touhou Project: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, this doujin (Japanese for the indie genre) game series has created a Japanese sub-culture with its excessively large fanbase. Development The first five Touhou games were developed for the Japanese PC-9801 platform by a group called Amusement Makers. The first game, Highly Responsive to Prayers (東方靈異伝, Tōhō Rei’iden), was released in 1996. After four years of inactivity, lead Touhou creator ZUN left Amusement Makers and created his own group: Team Shanghai Alice, whose members consisted of only him. Official Games There are 21 official games in the series. PC-98 era: Windows era: Reimu Hakurei, a Japanese shrine maiden, is the protagonist in all PC-9801 games.
Unofficial Games Labyrinth of Touhou ～ Massive RPG. Gameplay Fanbase China. Leeroy Jenkins. About Leeroy Jenkins is the name of a World of Warcraft character that is known for screaming out his name before ignorantly charging headlong into battle, killing everyone in his party.
Though the video may have been staged, Leeroy Jenkins was embraced by Blizzard Inc., making several appearances in World of Warcraft products. Origin The video was first uploaded to World of Warcraft fansite Warcraft Movies on May 11th, 2005. The guild PalsForLife posted the video to the official World of Warcraft forums asking for constructive criticism on their gameplay. As of May 2012, the first upload to Warcraft Movies has only 1,766,568 views. Do a Barrel Roll!
About “Do A Barrel Roll” is a catchphrase used to call on someone to perform a 360 degree horizontal spin.
The phrase is sometimes used to caption image macros where the subject appears to be in mid-rotation, or in animated GIFs where the subject is performing a full rotation. Origin The barrel roll has been used as an airplane aerial combat technique since dogfighting emerged in 1913 during World War I. Za Warudo/WRYYYYY. About “ZA WARUDO…WRYYYY” is a meme based of a character Dio Brando of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, a popular Japanese Manga, which has an arcade game of the same name.
One of the most known Dio’s moves using his stand The World to stop time, while also shouting “ZA WARUDO”. Then knives are thrown at the opponent, and eventually Dio slams a steamroller onto them, followed by pummelling the steamroller until it explodes. Falcon Punch. About The term Falcon Punch is used on the internet usually as an image macro as a verb for someone punching someone else intensely, it is also often portrayed as a way to abort pregnancy.
Origin The Falcon Punch is a special move performed by Captain Falcon in the Nintendo game series Super Smash Bros. The move was originally created for Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo 64 game console and didn’t exist in Captain Falcon’s original game series F-Zero. Evolution of Dance. About Evolution of Dance is viral video of a man dancing to clips from 32 different songs from a variety of genres and time periods.
The video starts with Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” from 1956 and finishes with “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” by Jay-Z from 2004. You Have Died of Dysentery. Zerg Rush. About Zerg Rush is an online gaming term used to describe an overwhelming scale of attack carried out by one player against another in real time strategy (RTS) games.
The term originates from the popular RTS game Starcraft, in which the “Zerg” race is notoriously known for its ability to mass-produce offensive units within a short time frame, thus allowing the player to overpower the opponent by sheer number. Origin Similar to You must construct additional pylons! And In Ur Base, Zerg Rush came from StarCraft, a military science real time strategy game originally released on March 31st, 1998. Terminology.
You Must Construct Additional Pylons! Origin StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on the 31st of March 1998. (Source: Starcraft) In that game, there are three races: Terran, Zerg and Protoss. I Can't Let You Do That Star____ Origin Can’t Let You Do That (Star Fox) is a meme that’s based off a line in StarFox 64 (also spawner of the infamous Barrel Roll), this line happened in the level “Fortuna” when the character Wolf O’Donnell leader of the Star Wolf team told Fox McCloud he could disarm the bomb at the base.
Line at 1:59 Formula The consists of the character Wolf O’Donnell being shopped into situations either entirely or partially and all caps announcing: CAN’T LET YOU DO THAT [insert person/thing here] Usually the targets are things that rhyme with “StarFox” and occasionally actions sound like “Do”. Spread. Konami code. Origin The “Konami Code” otherwise known as the “Contra code”, first appeared in the 1986 release of “Gradius” for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System, or “Famicom” in Japan.), It is used in many Konami games and Non-Konami games.
The most famous use of the code is in the game “Contra”, a two player shooter also for the NES. In Contra it gave you thirty lives, dubbing it the “30 lives code”. There are many variations of the code, used in many games. The code itself is “UP UP, DOWN DOWN, LEFT RIGHT, LEFT RIGHT, B, A, START BUTTON.” Usage as Easter Egg The Konami Code has been showing up a lot recently as the preferred method for unlocking cool easter eggs (“bonus” features) on popular websites. On April 26th, 2009, an unnamed designer working for ESPN.COM created an Easter Egg in which one could “Cornify” the page by entering the Konami code.
As of May 8th, 2009, the Konami Code can be entered into Facebook to activate lens flare effects when you click your mouse. Notable YTMND’s. All Your Base Are Belong to Us. About “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” is a popular catchphrase that swept across the internet at the dawn of 21st century as early as in 1998. An awkward Engrish translation of “all of your bases are under our control,” the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a nostalgic 16-bit shoot’em up game released in 1989. Marked by abundance of poor grammar, “All Your Base” phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on popular discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.
Origin The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing. Captain: What happen ? The poor grammar present is an example of Engrish; phrases originally written in an Asian language but translated poorly into its closest English approximation. Its first appearance on the internet is hard to pinpoint due to sites closing down. Photoshop Phenomenon Search Trends. Video Games (hub entry)