NES Nudity Galore - The JUSTIN BAILEY Conspiracy

Ben Mallahan writes "The debate has raged for years over the origins of the infamous JUSTIN BAILEY code for the original Metroid; but now the truth has finally come out. Brace yourself for the story of the biggest cover-up in video game history ... and a healthy dose of 8-bit nudity!" You've been warned. This short was produced by Ben Makes Movies.com, and I got hooked into watching a few of the other shorts there as well.

Welcome to facebook

[QuantumG]

That's right, Slashdot is now posting Internet memes.. doors are open.

I can't believe...

[AKAImBatman]

...that was posted. Dear God. Someone mark the date. Slashdot just died today.

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[pembo13]

While it is really sad that this made it to the front page. The vid itself was funny.

Re:I can't believe...

[nschubach]

Interesting, sure. Funny? I guess that depends.

I was actually more interested in the REAL story of who Justin Bailey was from the code and why his name was used. A comment below linking to Wikipedia was worth more to me than the cheesy video. Sorry.

I thought I was too mature for this...

[Hojima]

...until I nearly peed myself laughing at the 8-bit dong on Peach

Never thought I'd see the day

[19thNervousBreakdown]

5/7 NEVER FORGET.

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[rrkap]

Given the nature of Slashdot's death, I think that should be:

5/7 NEVAR FORGET

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[Minwee]

Given the nature of Slashdot's death, I think that should be:

5/7 NEVAR FORGET

I think you meant "5/7, 5/9, 5/12, 5/13, 6/2, and 8/14 (so far) -- NEVER FORGET".

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[Captain Splendid]

Given the nature of Slashdot's death, I think that should be:

5/7 NEVAR FORGET

And, given the nature of Slashdot's nationality, I think that should be:

5/7 NEVAR FORGET. Now, let's go invade the Ladies' Home Journal forums.

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[Yvan256]

Never forget 0.714285714285714?

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[Lectoid]

I meant to mod your comment funny, buy my pointer jumped and clicked on overrated. I am posting to remove my mod. Sorry about that.

Re:I can't believe...

[Stormwatch]

No, it didn't. It did the leap just fine, and the shark did not touch it.

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[Darby]

No, it didn't. It did the leap just fine, and the shark did not touch it.

Even the shark knows enough to wait for the dupe.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, come on, guys. Slashdot is now officially dead because they posted a tongue-in-cheek story about a videogame many of us grew up with? This article probably appeals to a great number of us, and nobody is forcing you to read it. Hell, it isn't even a full article on the main page--it's just a one-line "preview" that sits between actual articles. Something you could have easily skipped over if you aren't a Metroid fan, or for that matter, a fan of humour in general.

It took about a thousand times more effor

Re:I can't believe...

[Anonymous Coward]

You are surprised that 8 bit nudity made it to the front page of a site largely run by someone calling himself "Command Her Taco"?

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[xrayspx]

You have no idea how important that post is. Chris DiBona admits to being "Evil".

This [google.com] Chris DiBona. So much for Google's only rule. This thread is conspiracy theory central apparently.

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[Workaphobia]

The article summary looks like utter crap, so can some one please spare me the pain of having to click the link myself and just tell the rest of us exactly what the fuss is about?

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[sesshomaru]

It's basically an Internet comedy youtube video about video games, except it isn't funny and has a lot of really bad tranny porn in it.

I once read a review of the Batman and Robin movie that said, "one man's homoerotic fantasy. see it, but tear your own eyes out first" which applies equally to this video.

If you'd like to see something funny on youtube about video games, might I suggest Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw's Review of the Darkness Demo. [youtube.com] That's actually good and entertaining, and doesn't fill you wit

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[DimmO]

err, The date is written right at the top of the post. it's already marked. good times.

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[Shadow Wrought]

Slashdot just died today.

Not until Netcraft confirms it!

Peach! NOOOOO!

[Gat0r30y]

So many hours playing mario just to find that princess peach... I'm so disillusioned right now...

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[rrkap]

Quick, someone, rule 34 on Princess Peach!

No, I don't care about my karma any longer...

Re:Peach! NOOOOO!

[Anonymous Coward]

http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/peach/1 [paheal.net] This is OH SO not safe for work or your childhood memories.

Re:Peach! NOOOOO!

[pla]

Quick, someone, rule 34 on Princess Peach!

Oh, for shame! You at least need to do a GIS [google.com] (warning: NSFW!) before invoking Rule 34. Hell, we even have Peach/Daisy lesbo action by the third image. Not even a challenge. ;-)

For that matter, even Bowser turns up porn on the first page. Some topics make it just too easy. Now,"TV Tray Tables"[*], there you have a challenge.



(3rd page, for those really really bored).

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[19thNervousBreakdown]

ham pita

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[Eli Gottlieb]

OW MY SOUL. My precious, precious soul... Why have you so ruined it?

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[religious freak]

Wait a minute, I call shenanigans. I did a Google for "TV Tray Tables" and didn't see anything. Went to page four. Am I missing some kind of rule 34 trick here?

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[pla]

Wait a minute, I call shenanigans. I did a Google for "TV Tray Tables" and didn't see anything.

Heh... Okay, in fairness, I didn't find any outright porn in the first few pages. I did find some rather "racy" pics in the first few pages, though.

The order appears to have changed since I posted that, but the one I specifically meant looked like some sort of European beer ad (which I can't find at all, now). I also found one of a Vargas girl a few pages later (though now appearing on page 16, and I know I

Entertainment?

[Faylone]

Isn't this what the Idle section is for?

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[f1r3f0g]

Isn't this what Digg is for?

No, seriously, how the hell did this make main?

[Draconix]

I don't think even Fark would greenlight this. _Maybe_ to the videos section.

"The Goomba has been jumped"

[4g1vn]

The was very cool!

I for one welcome our shark jumping overlords

[Omestes]

Hmmm... I've been reading /. for years, and have come to expect a certain standard (or lack thereof) for the front page, this... though...

Is the dumbest thing I've ever seen here.

Who the hell is this "Ben Mallahan", and would it be okay to break his knee caps? Notice I don't pick on Timothy, some things are expected.

Perhaps its April Fools somewhere in the universe?

Is it god hinting at me that I should spend more time wading though the Obama spam on Reddit?

Has Slashdot jumped the shark?

Is there a cowboy neal option?

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[Kjella]

Is there a cowboy neal option?

I for one would rather not see a CowboyNeal option... especially not if he's the pixelated character.

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[lgw]

Has Slashdot jumped the shark?

No, /. has jumped the Goomba!

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[Lisandro]

Is the dumbest thing I've ever seen here.

Fucking A.

Who the hell is this "Ben Mallahan",

Internet meme dork of the month, it seems...

and would it be okay to break his knee caps?

Yes. In fact, partial credit for trying.

Notice I don't pick on Timothy, some things are expected.

Never mind. Forget that partial credit.

Perhaps its April Fools somewhere in the universe?

God, i hope. This is the lamest story i've seen on /. in years. Hell, i think it's the lamest story i've ever seen here.

Is it god hinting at me that I

Congrats!

[bcdm]

Congratulations, Slashdot, on your great accomplishment! Almost 11 years online before completely jumping the shark!

Re:Congrats!

[Profane MuthaFucka]

They overflowed the shark?

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[briuri]

Sharkdotted.

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[antic]

A while back, not a week would pass on Slashdot without something ridiculous being posted, me thinking "Oh dear, that's lame" and the shark-jumping comments emerging from others.

Things had been decent recently, that is, until this item.

I don't know about jumping the shark because we'll all be back tomorrow and there will be interesting stories in the future, but yes, this entry was really quite poor.

I register my -1 to this story too.

I think there's a problem with my DNS server

[Chlorus]

The domain slashdot.org is redirecting to digg.com for some reason. And there might be a problem with my browser's cache, because it looks just like slashdot save for the news stories.

/. has my respect

[Thondermonst]

Thanks, I had a great laugh. Don't know what should be the problem. Please, enlighten me.

What? No rickroll?

[Malevolent Tester]

What the hell are youtube links coming to these days?

Digg article up.

[Aaron England]

no text.

They should change the name

[Nero Nimbus]

They should change the name of this place to //./

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[irby0]

Haha; how did this not get modded hilarious?

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[geekboy642]

I, for one, don't have a clue what he's talking about. And it's really tough to Google punctuation these days. And for some reason I had 15 mod points when I logged in, so I really wanted to go on a mad modding rampage.

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[irby0]

Looks like an ASCII version of "the shocker" to me.

I could be wrong in my interpretation, however.

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[Nero Nimbus]

That's an interesting idea, but no. To keep this short, it's a reference to the *chan boards, and /b/ in particular.

Ben is Ben

[Saint_Waldo]

[e-mail] got hooked into watching a few of the other shorts on Ben Makes Movies? Really? Who'd-a-thunk?

Re:Ben is Ben

[Digi-John]

To be fair, it was the editor (timothy) who said he got hooked into watching the other videos. Still, remember the days when you had to wait for someone else to find your stuff and post it? Then you got to show up in the comments halfway down and say something like "Oh haha, wondered what was hitting our server so hard!"
These days half the submissions seem to be "I just wrote an amazingly content-less blog post about Microsoft, check it out and give me ad revenue".

No.

[urcreepyneighbor]

Sweet feathery Jesus.

Video would have been better

[badboy_tw2002]

If that guy's eyes had rolled out of his head at the end. He looks like the hunchback from Young Frankenstien and Gareth from The Office had a baby who was then raised by the Cookie Monster.

As the Comic Book Guy would say...

[Anonymous Coward]

WORST. SUBMISSION. EVAR.

My god, it's full of garbage

[Alzheimers]

That was the dumbest, stupidest, most idiotic thing I've EVER seen on the internet.

And I've been to SomethingAwful.com

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[Yvan256]

You haven't seen it all until you encounter this page [shibumi.org].

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[vux984]

You haven't seen it all until you encounter this page.

Someone should open a restaurant there.

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[Yvan256]

It's just the end of the Internet, not the end of the Universe.

real origin of the JUSTIN BAILEY code

[j0nb0y]

Very humorous video.

Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] of course has the real story:

"...the JUSTIN BAILEY password is a total fluke. If you play around with Metroid's password system (something you can do with the Metroid Password Generator program, found in Fan Apps), you can come up with other names and words that work as passwords. The "Justin Bailey" code is one which was found early on and happened to work pretty well, so it became widely reported."

I always remember Kid Icarus that used the same password system. It too had an interesting fluke password:

ICARUS FIGHTS
MEDUSA ANGELS

Hours of fun for the whole family.

/.b0rk'd

[ViralInfection]

5/7 NEVAR FORGET

I will miss the days of high quality news

What a waste of time

[rabitd]

WTH is going on around here?

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[Tailsfan]

I donno, but this guuy knows hoe to paint nude NES sprites.

Dang sound card

[Tailsfan]

What is he saying.

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[roguetrick]

He said slashdot jumped the goomba.

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[Tailsfan]

I mean the guy on the video.

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[Tailsfan]

oh, i got it on my wii. I hear it.

Oh noes!

[BenMakesMovies]

Thanks for featuring this :) Some of you people take ur internets a bit too seriously... but I appreciate the comments nonetheless. We had a fun time making this, and I'm glad that people are getting to see it!

Re:Oh noes!

[Omestes]

I don't take "ur" internet very seriously, but... I do like everything in its place, and while your thing has its place, it isn't this place (unless under the barren wasteland that is Idle) for your thing.

Notice the title "news for nerds", you only got half of the criteria. I came here expecting both, which, oddly, is why I still come here.

To remove the aura of flamebait-y-ness, your thing was funny and clever. But next time, please, submit it to Digg. I don't like being advertised at in the incorrect channels.

Hmm...

[sesshomaru]

I watched the first few seconds of the video... I think I got as far as "they're after me."

It was like falling into Hell.

If Pinhead shows up, I'm telling him it was Timothy who opened the Box.

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[sesshomaru]

Actually, speaking of this, this article about an actual 8-bit product that few know about may help ease the pain of this content-less 8-Bit news story:

History of the NES game that never was: Hellraiser from Color Dreams [gamespy.com]

Slashdot effect?

[Awptimus Prime]

That video has only had 3700 views since it was originally posted. If you are to believe /. has an 'effect' this is proof to the contrary.

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[Killjoy_NL]

It proves that we do not only not RTFA, we don't even watch TFA :D

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[Awptimus Prime]

While working for a to remained unnamed web hosting provider, we had several sites get "slashdotted". Most often it was just a few hits, but at a time when the 250 other hosts on the box was getting hammered by the primetime bandwidth peak. A store application on another site would fail, taking all the sites on the same box and a thousand posters on /. would all pet their penii in unison about how /. took it down, meanwhile it was usually aunt betty placed an order and the system blew up just like it would

What it is and why.

[flayzernax]

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]

with an emphasis on entertainment

i would like to point out that its not GAMES but shows up under games

More then likely this is some form of test against the slashdot community.

Testing what is what geeks will accept amoung the well established elite ranks of slashdotters.

It might be a test by the Corporate slashdot to see if its readers would like an entertainment section much like cnn.coms entertainment section.

See - > http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/ [cnn.com] were u go if u click the

This isn't news!

[DFENS619]

Slashdots tagline is: News for nerds, stuff that matters... this story violates both statements

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[mark_hill97]

no, not even nerds can appreciate that garbage. thats "Crap for Losers"

/./b/

[psergiu]

Looks like this is the first post in the new slashdot Misc section: /b/

/./b/

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[tepples]

Looks like this is the first post in the new slashdot Misc section: /b/

I beg to differ [slashdot.org].

I kept waiting for the funny...

[analog_line]

...but nothing happened.

Buried.

[Tarlus]

OMG THIS IS SO BURIED


...oh, wait, this isn't Digg. Could've fooled me. Slashdot is now linking to a Youtube video that uses "Princess Penis" like it's a clever joke. (That's as far as I got before closing it.)

This is what we call "jumping the shark."

Fire Timothy

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm deadly serious. Let Timothy go.