Help: "_____ Get!"

lodger

Confession time. I started playing games on an Atari 2600 near its first release. But then mine became a Sega household. SMS, Genesis, SegaCD, Saturn, etc. So I've missed out on a lot of the references from the other side of the gaming world. I've picked up the bits about spoony bards and Dodongo's attitude toward smoke, but there's one bothering me lately.

What the hell is "(item) Get!" a reference to?

Antihippy

Megaman?

I think.

BonesNYC

Mario Sunshine (in Japan)

Getting the star at the end of each level resulted in "Shine Get!"

Lunker

BonesNYC wrote: »

Mario Sunshine (in Japan)

Getting the star at the end of each level resulted in "Shine Get!"

Bartholamue

It's a reference to Super Mario Sunshine. In the japanese version, when you got a shine, star, whatever, it would display the words, "Shine Get!."

urahonky

BonesNYC wrote: »

Mario Sunshine (in Japan)

Getting the star at the end of each level resulted in "Shine Get!"

Xenogears of Bore

Megaman 2 as well.

MEGAMAN

GET EQUIPPED WITH

XXX XXX

But yeah, it's just some good ole fashioned Engrish.

mrsnackroad

In the original Dead or Alive for the Playstation, after clearing storymode with a character you'd read "NEW COSTUME GET!"

PikaPuff

but that wasn't what the meme was from, xob.

Xenogears of Bore

PikaPuff wrote: »

but that wasn't what the meme was from, xob.

I know. :P

slash000

A few games over time, mostly japanese, would have this phrase, but the game that truly popularized it, which in turn became the meme, was Super Mario Sunshine (see image above).

cloudeagle

Yup. I remember a Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble ripoff called Puzzle de Pon in my local bowling alley in the mid to late 90s that, inexplicably, would award you zodiac signs as you proceeded. "Aries get!" Became a running joke with my friends in college.

So yeah, I think it's a common Engrish mistake popularized by the Japanese version of Mario Sunshine.

Peewi

The Japanese version of Super Mario Galaxy has the same engrish and says STAR GET! when you get a star.

Athenor

The funny part is that as I'm learning Japanese (in my 2nd year), it isn't that hard to see why someone would have done this. They just looked up the English word, and put it in the Japanese sentence structure. You leave off the subject, because it is obvious, and then you put the verb as the very last part of the sentence. IE (completely bastardized romanji): Mario wa shine ga get.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

Athenor wrote: »

The funny part is that as I'm learning Japanese (in my 2nd year), it isn't that hard to see why someone would have done this. They just looked up the English word, and put it in the Japanese sentence structure. You leave off the subject, because it is obvious, and then you put the verb as the very last part of the sentence. IE (completely bastardized romanji): Mario wa shine ga get.

Arigato obvious tai-cho.

Kaseius

I thought it was just common japanese engrish that everyone has accepted or laughed at.

DarkPrimus

FISH ON!

halkun

It's a Japanese thing. Verbs go at the end of a sentence there, so it's grammatically correct Japanese, just with English words. "______ get" is kind of a proper gaming idiom there.

LordOfMeep

DarkPrimus wrote: »

FISH ON!

GOAT IN!

halkun

Inzigna

What in the world is that, it looks fascinating.

Zandracon

It's moontube.

Also known as niconico douga.

ZackSchilling

Imagine Youtube, only the moronic comments scroll across the video.

halkun

Inzigna wrote: »

What in the world is that, it looks fascinating.

The screencap is from NicoNico Douga. It's a Japanese Youtube of sorts, but has it's own culture. You must have an account to view, and I think uploads are all pay. They also make it intentionally difficult for non-Japanese speakers to get an account. Basically the comment system work by pausing the video, and making a comment at that mark. The comment then scrolls across the screen. (You can turn that off with the "comment" button" in the lower left hand corner that looks like a baby chick)

The whole system is a self-feeding circle-jerk of epic proportions.

The video here is of a girl and her boyfriend, dancing to a hard rock remix "Princess Bride!" a song by KOTOKO. (Sometimes named OTOKO ("man" in Japanese) because KOTOKO isn't exactly the most attractive Japanese girl in the world.) It all started when someone took A LOT of video of the characters from IDOLM@ASTER dancing and pasted their movements into a new dance. People started dancing the dance, remixing the music, and the result is what you see here.

The masks are to protect their identities.

There is a way to "sneak out" a video without an account with a script. You can see the video here

Triple B

I first saw the "____ Get!" thing in some Metal Gear Solid online thing they did a while back. Someone would get a Kerotan, and it would say "Kerotan First Get!"

FreddyD

Meme Get!

Bionic Monkey

I've always been rather fond of "GOAT IN!"

Dyvion

When I lived in Okinawa there were several Arcades (yes, with a capital A) on the way to the Jusco (think american mall, with lowercase A/m). On the side of one of them was a massive Sonic the Hedgehog with a whole paragraph of Engrish. I kick myself for not taking a picture of that whole paragraph... it was epic.

Monolithic_Dome

Fall Out!

Shady3011

The only MegaMan game to have that horrid line is X8. After it showed all three characters' ability from the boss weapon, it would show them all posed together and say, "Weapon Get".