Super mario galaxy u r mr gay
UR MR GAY? YA, I M, R U?
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Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park fame once said life finds a way. He should hold said life finds a gay, since that seems to be an even greater truth. At least on the Internet. You can put anything in front of your standard ‘net nerd and I guarantee you that within five minutes they’d contain found some sort of hilarious homosexual connotation in it. Thus it is with Mario Galaxy 2. I’m quite amazed at how they managed to contrive this one.
The authentic Mario Galaxy‘s box art was infamous for its “secret” messages. Various letters in the logo were marked with a celebrity, and when you isolated those letters they spelled “UR MR GAY.” Naturally, the first thing that the repressed homosexuals of the Internet did was try to find UR MR GAY in Mario Galaxy 2. It wasn’t there since different letters were starred. However, that didn’t stop them. As I said, life finds a gay.
Now, they’ve started reading the letters from the bottom to the top. When you get the new starred letters and arrang
A NeoGaf poster discovered, in the cover art of Super Mario Galaxy, the most humorous coincidence of the year (or perhaps the devious work of a cover artist). In the box art for Super Mario Galaxy, stars highlighting certain letters in the title spell out: U R MR Queer . The stars, which are attached to specific letters, are part of the original official art (from Nintendo's compress site); we manipulated the image's paint scale above to emphasize the stars and corresponding letters, but did not alter the image otherwise.
Nintendo is almost certain to transform this now that it's come out, but it does make us recall all those urban legends about sexual innuendo hidden in Disney films. Sony Defense Force and Xbots have a field day 'cause even Nintendo artists have given you fuel for your crusade. Maybe Nintendo just means people who buy Super Mario Galaxy are happy? Not that there's anything mistaken with that.
Super Mario Galaxy says: U R MR GAY
Sept 17, 2007
Eagle-eyed forum dwellers across the internet have discovered a hidden message/humorous plan accident on the Super Mario Galaxy logo that spells out 'U R MR GAY'.
Possess a gander at the left-hand picture below of Super Mario Galaxy's box art and see at the placement of the seven bright stars dotted on various letters of the game's logo. If you scribble out all the letters vanishing only those decorated with a celebrity - as we've done in the right-hand image - it leaves you with the letters 'URMRGAY'. Throw in some spaces and you've got U R MR GAY.
This is the kind of brilliantly unbelievable stuff that urban myths are made of and we are absolutely definitely using it in our next'101 things you didn't know about videogames'feature. It's like playing records backwards and hearing the words 'I'm Barney the purple dinosaur'.
This could, of course, merely be an innocent by-product of perfect artistic composition, but we'd choose to think that it's an example of deliberate style in-joke japery never meant to be discovered that has been well and truly rumbled.
Above: On the left is the Super Mario Galaxy logo as it should lo U R MR GAY refers to a coincidental quirk in the lettering that appears in the title of Super Mario Galaxy. Certain letters in the title are adorned with sparkles. In order, these letters are U, R, M, R, G, A, and Y. Considering "U" and "R" to be abbreviations for "you" and "are," and splitting the letters into words appropriately, there appears to be a hidden message of telling the viewer, "You are Mr. Gay". The observation has develop a widely referenced internet joke for decades since it was first discovered in 2007. NeoGAF users first learned about the U R MR GAY message in a thread discussing video game "box art of the year". Discussion of this particular game's title continued in its retain dedicated thread, titled "Super Mario Galaxy boxart says you're gay", on September 18, 2007. Less than a day since NeoGAF users discussed the lettering, Destructoid posted an article about it. Joystiq and Kotaku covered the discussion a few days later. Peop U R MR GAY
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