Cool Pikmin Thing

[James Harvey]

Has anyone ever noticed this before?

Olimar's original Japanese name is Orima. His name constitutes three japanese basic syllables, o-ri-ma. These are the same three syllables that make up the name 'Mario', but in reverse order.

Looking at the Pikmin 2 website I notice that Orima's brother, who looks a bit like Olimar except with a longer face, is called 'Rui'. This will probably become 'Louie' in the English language version. Hmmmm, I wonder how Miyamoto came up with that? His fertile imagination knows no bounds!

[Magnakai]

That's awesome
I love little things like that

[Smeghead]

bit like Alucard in SOTN

[Crisp_Rapper]

Alucard

wow, never noticed that!

[Tom Salter]

Wow...that's really cool!

I wonder what other games have this kind of thing in it.

[SharkAttack]

I thought it was common knowledge that Olimar and Loogie were names based on anagrams of Mario and Luigi in Japanese?

[Oh! My Car!]

yeah, known that for a while, but it is pretty cool 8)

[RLench]

I didn't know that. It sounds cool though