Sarcastic announcer Easter egg uncovered in Wave Race: Blue Storm

by Griffin McElroy on Sep 4th 2010 5:00AM

A NeoGAF forumite going by the moniker "Raoul Duke" recently uncovered a timeworn Easter egg hidden within the folds of the aquatic GameCube racer, Wave Race: Blue Storm -- and appropriately enough, this egg is awfully rotten. By entering in a super-obscure code on the game's audio settings screen, players can change the typically pleasant (and omnipresent) pit crew commenter to a sardonic so-and-so who talks smack about your every action.

You can check out a video of this old-new Easter egg posted just after the jump, or, if you feel like taking a hit to your self-esteem for some reason, you can learn the arcane measures you have to follow to find the secret voice track over on NeoGAF.

Via: Wired
Source: NeoGAF

Tags: easter-egg, gamecube, nintendo, wave-race-blue-storm, wii

Reader Comments (54)

such a great pit crew commentator!

Nice it is good to se more Hunter Thompson fans.

@Cobra4455

*see

Wow, nobody found this out until now?

Cool.

@Harrishun

Yea, you'd have thought Gameshark or some cheat code site would have posted this back .. ya know.. when the game was relevant.

Totally worth waiting 9 years for. We need this announcer in every racing game.

Heh Konami code strikes again

Lol it's cool to see that codes are still being found in old games

There should be a *choke sarcastic commentator to death* code.

That's not an easter egg, that's just plain annoying and pointless.

That's nuts, this code has been hidden that long. I wonder what other games have easter eggs we don't know about.

@DeeZeee
all of them... maybe

@DeeZeee

Reminds me of Rogue Squadron. Came out in '98, and they hid an Episode 1 Naboo Fighter in the game, and didn't release the code until long after Star Wars: Episode 1 came out.

game still looks great!!

A little disappointed. I thought when I saw a Wave Race image that it meant Nintendo had just announced/leaked that there would be a new Wave Race for the Wii.

@mrmobius

Yeah, I guess the title saying nothing about a new Wave Race and specifying that older one by title was probably too subtle a hint that it wasn't related to a new Wave Race.

@mrmobius

So I got down voted? Fine. Though you seem to have took my comment wrongly. I'm disappointed because a new Wave Race would be awesome, but I still think this find is interesting.

I did guess what the article was about by the title, but I hadn't seen the title before I noticed the image.

Makes me want to play this again.

@Venner
Not me, It was a crap game.

No. It was AMAZINGLY CRAP. I hired this game since i loved the N64 Waverace, played it for about 4 hours, took the disk out, scratch it up so noone else could play it, and returned it to the video store.

@Foetoid

You are a tremendous asshole. You ruined any chance of fun someone else could have with that game.

@Foetoid
LOL. I gotta do that one day to a horrible game

Always amazing to think how Nintendo essentially owned water effects.

I can't think of any recent games with water that even come close to the undulations of Wave Race's oceans.

@CaptainProtonX I agree 100 percent with this, Wave race was awesome.

@CaptainProtonX

This may sound odd, but I've always really liked the water effects Mario Golf on the Gamecube had. It's obscure I know, but they were damn good.

@CaptainProtonX

Super Mario Sunshine had great water effects too.

And this is relevant why?

@jblank
...because it was just recently found & is awesome?
I do think we're still on a video game news site. A code getting uncovered in a game 9 years after it's release is pretty interesting.

@swooded If this was say....Red Dead Redemption, then sure, I'd agree with you, but this is a game on a system that nobody is playing on, in a game that nobody cares about anymore. It's as relevant as Richard Nixon is to the current political landscape.

News flash: Just because you no longer play a game does not mean the rest of us don't find it interesting!

If it were in Red Dead Redemption it would simply be "code found in Red Dead Redemption", and the reaction would be "Oh, a code not found before? Interesting."

This is "Code found in 9 year old game, never got press attention", and the reaction is "Wow, how'd that get by for so many years without coming to light?"

@jblank

You don't have an inferiority complex... You're just inferior

@jblank

You know, past presidential decisions still affect us to this day (Reaganomics, anyone?) So yes, Nixon is still relevant in today's political landscape.

@PreGHz Dude, stop being so dense. Obviously I was referencing THE MAN, not any decisions. That's why I said Nixon's name, not anything he did.

@jblank

Nixon is still relevant today, and he will be even in the future, as president of the Earth.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070219184803/wikiality/images/c/c3/Futurama-203-nixon.jpg

I love it when late glitches/codes are released or found.

reminds me about the playable master hand in smash bros melee that my friend showed to me a few weeks ago that I never knew about

Newsflash, I doubt anyone visits joystiq to read about obscure commentators found in 10 year old N64 games. Smart ass.

@Drake Lake Congrats......is a prize in order?

@jblank

Seriously, if you can't tell the difference between N64 and Gamecube graphics you should get your eyes checked.

@BrokenTriforce Ever heard of mis-speaking?

@jblank
There is a huge difference between *misspeaking* and writing something that is completely erroneous. I misspeak when I say Halo 3 is an Xbox game and not an Xbox 360 game. I'm completely wrong when I say Pikmin was for the N64. I'm also "completely wrong" if I make assumptions about fellow readers' reading habits.

@jblank Ever heard of saving face?

@jblank
lolwut

@jblank
someone needs a banhammering

@jblank

Really man, having bad eyes is nothing to be ashamed of, lots of the time its a genetic disorder. But I'm sure that your eyes have a problem because you stared at the sun for too long.

@jblank

By the power of Banhammer make these comments disappear!

Sweet.

Fun finding weird things in games. Like how people playing Mario Kart 64 would turn left when they first begin Rainbow Road--passing everyone by a long shot. Fun times.

@Sally

There was a Mew under that truck? Why the hell didn't anyone tell me that earlier?

@TheMichaelJackson

Only if you had all 3 starters, unevolved, at level 100 without rare candies, and then talked to Prof. Oak 100 times.

@Sally

Right, this "guy" at college.

I bet he was at the grassy knoll too.

i never thought i would play this again, but now i have to.
"if you miss buoys, you won't win races"

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