Potosu is a god damned Turtle?!

Rlan · Post by **Rlan** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:19 am

So I was updating VGAA, having recently scanned as much Sonic 2 art from the manuals / japanese guide as I could, when someone pointed out this critter:

http://vgaa.emulationzone.org:80/dir/in ... nemy20.jpg

And said "Is that a turtle in there?"

Holy crap. I NEVER realised that it was actually a turtle in a flying shell thing. You can see the hands and everything! I always thought it was just some ugly sonofabitch which floated around smiling, like a Grandpa with his pants pulled as high as he could.

The things you learn 13 years down the track, eh?

Speaking of VGAA, I've also uploaded all the Sonic Gameworld artwork too!

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:50 am

Well shit. That's pretty revelatory.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:15 am

This changes everything.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:14 pm

I thought it was just a little dude in a helicopter. Mind you, I didn't know that Grounder had that cool Egg Man logo on his arm.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:29 pm

You guys... you guys didn't know?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:42 pm

Holy shit, dude, nice work with the Gameworld art. Is that all in that little flipbook thing?

Speaking of Potosu, everytime I drop "ポトス" into the Google image search, I get a bunch of pictures from Japanese sites of pothos, which is apparently a popular houseplant. I wonder if this is perhaps what "Potosu" is supposed to mean, except that I don't think it makes much sense. What's your opinion, Stearns?

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:50 pm

I get plants when I put Potosu in Google too. This doesn't make any sense.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Mon May 09, 2005 1:04 pm

I always thought it was a flying bomb thingy. So is it supposed to be the same kind of turtle that rides on the flying turtle ships?

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:05 pm

No, those are smaller.

Ancient · Post by **Ancient** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:56 pm

Can't say I thought about it...

Flying turtles... Funky

Rlan · Post by **Rlan** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:57 pm

Yeah, it's all from that flipbook thing. Got it recently :)

And no, the Turtle inside is different, between the small and big ones in size. It's also orange. It's actually the same colour as the Turtles that come out of it.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:57 pm

Sonic is a fucking bastard for causing those poor turtles to plummet to certain doom in Sky Chase.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:00 pm

How true, and lettin seals flop their way into boiling hot lava in Marble Zone.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:10 pm

The seals did it of their own free will. Perhaps the knowledge of their wicked deeds when in robot form was too much for them to bear.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:24 pm

Zeta wrote:Sonic is a fucking bastard for causing those poor turtles to plummet to certain doom in Sky Chase.

Not all of them. I noticed a few of them actually landed safely on the Wing Fortess in the background.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:27 pm

Valkyn is a <i>bird</i>??!!??!?!!?

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:30 pm

You'd expect birds in Sky chase but nooo, we have suicidal turtles.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:49 pm

^Kamekaze?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:03 pm

Banned.

Post by **big_smile** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:12 am

Rlan wrote:Yeah, it's all from that flipbook thing. Got it recently :)

Do you have the instruction manual for it? If so, could you scan the story page (even if it is just the US version)?

^_^

Post by **G.Silver** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:29 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:Speaking of Potosu, everytime I drop "ポトス" into the Google image search, I get a bunch of pictures from Japanese sites of pothos, which is apparently a popular houseplant. I wonder if this is perhaps what "Potosu" is supposed to mean, except that I don't think it makes much sense. What's your opinion, Stearns?

The plant is one of those dangly-vine sorts that people like to keep in pots hanging from the ceiling, but I think your "poto-poto" was closer, considering how Sonic enemies tend to be named. Japan has more homonyms than any other language coincedences are likely.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:44 pm

Who asked for your goddamn opinion? Get your ass back in the kitchen with the other women.

Titan · Post by **Titan** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:09 am

The pic of Pocky is all messed up when you go to the full view;
http://vgaa.emulationzone.org/dir/index ... rabbit.jpg

Samface · Post by **Samface** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:33 am

That's nice.

Koosh Koosh! · Post by **Koosh Koosh!** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:18 am

Mind blowing.

To be honest, Potosu was one of those badniks that you never noticed in any great detail... I always assumed he was like ... just a pod with eyes, very much like Sonic & Knuckles' Gaadei (of course, Gaadei is much cooler).