The word that Nintendo REMOVED from Zelda games

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  • There's one word which Nintendo went out of their way to remove from ALL ZELDA MEDIA. It's not offensive, so why did they have to get rid of it? Let me explain!
    PATREON - / thomasgamedocs
    TWITTER - / thomasgdocs
    NOTE: The “hu” from the Japanese company name “Yahū” actually sounds somewhere between the English “hu” and “fu” sounds. It’s almost always transliterated as “fu”, eg. Mount Fuji. However to make the pronunciation clearer, I transliterated it as “hu” in the context of the company name.
    SOURCES
    - legendsoflocalization.com/3-t...
    - Honestly most of the video was just my own research! I spent a long time testing out all of the different versions of the game to see whether YAHOO was included, and I dug up all the old game manuals to see what name was included in each one, too!
    CREDITS
    - • The Legend of Zelda En... (Footage of Zelda encyclopedia)
    • The Legend of Zelda En... (Footage of Zelda encyclopedia)
    - www.flickr.com/photos/jaytong... (YAHOO sign)
    MUSIC
    - "Logic and Trick" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Original Soundtrack, remixed by Zinle
    - "Affinity 20" from Tomodachi Collection Original Soundtrack
    - "Ballad of the Wind Fish" from Link's Awakening Original Soundtrack, performed and arranged for piano by me
    - Other music via Epidemic Sound
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  • @ThomasGameDocs
    @ThomasGameDocs  2 ปีที่แล้ว +524

    good tweets here twitter.com/thomasgdocs

    • @Louie_Log
      @Louie_Log 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shameless plug. I like it

    • @HakimiLeo
      @HakimiLeo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh ok

    • @fergalfarrell3382
      @fergalfarrell3382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg hiiiii I I love your vids!!

    • @Mx_Mc
      @Mx_Mc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah yes a smooth plug that went over my head

    • @commanderofthewind
      @commanderofthewind 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yahoo!

  • @SueZQue83
    @SueZQue83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3765

    So Toad,Luigi,and a few others can Scream “Yahoo” but not this poor old woman

    • @Messiah.Complex
      @Messiah.Complex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      Peach can, grandma can't.
      The double standards of 1s and 0s against 0s and 1s in PC culture is staggering >=( ;)

    • @doodle4503
      @doodle4503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      and you can't forget th- oh, March 31st happened

    • @kiddbusiness
      @kiddbusiness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Mario says it all the time

    • @Scorch-SkittishMCJames813
      @Scorch-SkittishMCJames813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was just about to say that XD

    • @Mr.Goufball
      @Mr.Goufball 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      It’s because it’s a sound not text that’s almost identical to the YAHOO! logo.

  • @WalrusStu
    @WalrusStu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2765

    I would have replaced it with "Yeehaw!" because it's just as weird.

    • @starjuker
      @starjuker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      or "Yoohoo!", less weird but it still

    • @kevinkite3418
      @kevinkite3418 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      Now imagine if a new site called "Yeehaw!" is released because of that.

    • @WalrusStu
      @WalrusStu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@kevinkite3418 Just went to it.
      It takes you to viruses lol

    • @Richyrion
      @Richyrion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I would go WAZZUP! Since it sounds weird for an old lady and the original is a greeting.

    • @amazingfireboy1848
      @amazingfireboy1848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yippee!

  • @SheosMan117
    @SheosMan117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1006

    So, in a way, Grandma Yahoo essentially saw the company rise and fall, during her lifetime.

    • @mattwood8659
      @mattwood8659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      We all have

    • @resmur8095
      @resmur8095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mattwood8659 I'm 9

    • @petruciosxd1374
      @petruciosxd1374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@resmur8095 thaat's dangerous

    • @kgratia4748
      @kgratia4748 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@resmur8095 I’m turning 13 very soon

    • @nortonman5238
      @nortonman5238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@resmur8095 I've got a van and free candy

  • @VerDae
    @VerDae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +755

    "YOO-HOO!" would have been a good replacement too

    • @metaltom2003
      @metaltom2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      But that's the brand name of a chocolate milk drink.

    • @VerDae
      @VerDae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@metaltom2003 that is true, but technically, unlike YAHOO!, the brand Yoo-hoo isn't in all caps

    • @metaltom2003
      @metaltom2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@VerDae This is true!

    • @brare45996
      @brare45996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ooh that’s even better than my suggestion. I like that!

    • @SudiPaddi
      @SudiPaddi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But that’s a chocolate milk brand

  • @TeamBlueToad
    @TeamBlueToad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +779

    Poor old lady. She was just having fun by sweeping the floor.

    • @cessnafun5385
      @cessnafun5385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Imagine sweeping the grass like some crazy old woman.
      Oh.

    • @King_Luigi
      @King_Luigi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ♪ That _broom_ is not a _rake_ ♪

    • @YoSoySrRojo
      @YoSoySrRojo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nintendo: no. You will not have fun

    • @wooper2186
      @wooper2186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Let her tell whatever she wants

    • @manuelalejandro2027
      @manuelalejandro2027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's a greeting actually

  • @saltedwounds
    @saltedwounds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3089

    This reminds me of when Mario says “Yahoo!”

    • @crashban4t.f.s.b783
      @crashban4t.f.s.b783 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @JayLeeBeanz 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      No, Mario says, "Wahoo!" not, "Yahoo!"

    • @crashban4t.f.s.b783
      @crashban4t.f.s.b783 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@Gloomdrake Nope. He says Yahoo. Watch the Mario & Rabbids Kingdom Battle trailer

    • @grofy925
      @grofy925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @JayLeeBeanz Replace it with a deep *"Hello, Mario."*

    • @liketrainslol420funni
      @liketrainslol420funni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  • @businessmansealeo
    @businessmansealeo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    This video is kind of like a sequel to your banned peace sign one in Mario 64

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except for one thing i ya ho isnt pronounced E yah hoo it's pronounced E yah hoe . Besides both words meaning hello, I think the real reason it was removed. Is because, yahoo just isnt used in english and could be considered a stereotype.

    • @totallyfrozen
      @totallyfrozen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @
      A “stereotype”. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@totallyfrozen Depends of the first or second definition of the word.

  • @bhirawamaylana466
    @bhirawamaylana466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    Plot Twist: Yahoo take their name from grandma Yahoo.

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly Thomas game doc keep miss pronouncing i ya ho . It's not said like yahoo (Yah - who ) rather it's said more like (yah - hoe .) So, the words do not sound alike . So, Yahoo even if they wanted to . They couldnt sue for using a old word. That can't legally copyrighted. Although , using the name for a company is a different issue.

    • @benjo_5
      @benjo_5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The word Yahoo comes from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

    • @thisisasupersayin376
      @thisisasupersayin376 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @ he pronounces it as Yah-hoe though

    • @basicallysnake
      @basicallysnake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Or Grandma Yahoo Founded Yahoo*

    • @jaeheekanghan
      @jaeheekanghan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's literally what I thought hahah

  • @deebee5378
    @deebee5378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1829

    I probably would have translated it as "ahoy-hoy!" It's an old-fashioned way to answer the phone that lost to "hello" in usage. It would emphasize her as being weird and old-timey to fit the tone of the game. It also ties into her husband's phone obsession and is sort of island-y.
    Being a Mr Burns reference wouldn't hurt either.

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      I came to suggest ‘Ahoy!’ for similar reasons

    • @yoursoulsbelong2Nyx
      @yoursoulsbelong2Nyx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ...that's genuis... ;-; PRAISE ;-;

    • @Discoh
      @Discoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      That's actually a really good idea! I like how it ties into the phone motif of Old Man Ulrira, it's cute and it really sells that they're a couple.

    • @wariolandgoldpiramid
      @wariolandgoldpiramid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I would have used "Yello!", probably.

    • @superzigzagoon
      @superzigzagoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@oldvlognewtricks That's "hello" in Czech in Slovakia I believe

  • @turisuto
    @turisuto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +621

    That’s kinda stupid… the game was made before YAHOO became a thing, that’s weird that they removed it imo

    • @ScooterinAB
      @ScooterinAB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      It's also a non-issue, considering that at the time of the Virtual Console, Yahoo was completely irrelevant in the West. It's just Nintendo being stupid and overtly PC again, and completely disregarding reality outside of Japan.

    • @miss_yuzu
      @miss_yuzu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@ScooterinAB lmao tf you think "PC" means?

    • @macaylacayton2915
      @macaylacayton2915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      also it's in the switch game, explain that

    • @FireflamoFF
      @FireflamoFF 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i guess they knew what later players were gonna think

    • @helloworld4990
      @helloworld4990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@miss_yuzu According to these kinds of people PC means “The bad thing that I hate and left wing people do and is bad >:((((((“

  • @theknightofhyrule
    @theknightofhyrule 2 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    There is another weird thing about this whole situation. In the beginning of OoT, Saria says “Yahoo! Link”. And in the 3DS remake, she still says Yahoo to Link. So I don’t understand why anything had to be changed if one game didn’t change anything.

    • @CuantumQ
      @CuantumQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I mean, that sounds like a mostly throw away line in oot. In Link's Awakening, Yahoo! is the character's main character trait, enough so that she's named after it.
      Of course, I doubt it Link's Awakening needed to change anything, after all it was just a rerelease of an old game, but that would explain the difference

    • @pyrrhicvictoly
      @pyrrhicvictoly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It wasn't written in all caps, unlike the way they stylized the old lady's speech. "Yahoo" as an exclamation predates the brand, and I don't think they were worried about a few instances of its normal usage. It's more that they didn't want the all caps logo plastered all over the game.

    • @appsnake7225
      @appsnake7225 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pyrrhicvictolyWhy wouldn't they just lowercase it then?

  • @dea4673
    @dea4673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    3:25
    In Japanese, a vowel is sometimes added at the front of words, especially interjections, to express that the word is said loudly, strongly, passionately, etc.
    "イヤッホー / iyahhō" is just a derived word of "yahhō". Just like "やったー / yattā (=Yeah!; I did it!)" is sometimes written as "いやったー / iyattā". So for native Japanese, it sounds not so weird.

    • @TinNovaKiin
      @TinNovaKiin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Interesting, may I now where you learnt that? I'm studying Japanese and knowing idiomatic habits is very important to me

    • @dea4673
      @dea4673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      ​@@TinNovaKiin
      I'm a native speaker so I've never learned this kind of thing. I just guess on my experiences.
      It works just like "cooool" means "cool" and has some extra nuances. Maybe you can't learn these kinds of rules from textbooks. You need to read more and get enough experience to guess it.
      Here are some examples.
      よっしゃ (basic form)
      add a vowel(s) at the front of words.
      いよっしゃ
      add a "っ (small tsu)" at the end of words.
      よっしゃっ
      add a vowel at the end of words.
      よっしゃあ
      add "ー (long sound symbol)" at the end of words.
      よっしゃーーー
      add extra っs if the word has っ in it.
      よっっしゃ
      add extra vowels.
      よおおおおっしゃ
      *Small vowels (ぁぃぅぇぉ) are sometimes used for these extra vowels.
      So, よっしゃ can be...
      ぃぃいいよぉぉおおおっっっしゃぁぁぁあああーーーーーっっっ!!!
      (It's a little overweighted, though...)
      Actually, many iconic phrases in manga use these methods.
      DIO sometimes says "無駄 / muda" as "無駄ァ" and "無駄ッ"
      When Luffy says "I'm gonna become the Pirate king!!", an extra "っ" is sometimes added at the end. (海賊王におれはなるっ!!)
      Goku's iconic line, "Are you talking about Kuririn?!!!!" is originally "クリリンのことかーーーーーっ!!!"
      And so on.

    • @TinNovaKiin
      @TinNovaKiin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dea4673 Oh right, I already saw some of these ! (didn't know about the original japanese version lines you mentioned though, like the mudas in JoJo... btw do you actually pronounce these final っs?)

    • @dea4673
      @dea4673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@TinNovaKiin
      You can't pronounce "っ" if it's at the end of a sentence, because, as you know, っ itself doesn't have a sound. It's added to express extra nuances, not to express the sound. It's not exactly the same, but I think it works like exclamation marks.

    • @TinNovaKiin
      @TinNovaKiin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dea4673 Oh okay, I thought it would be like a sudden stop. Anyways, thanks a lot for the help!

  • @CasualSunGod42
    @CasualSunGod42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    Wait, doesn't Saria say "Yahoo!" in Ocarina of Time?

    • @katblackwell
      @katblackwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      She does haha, that's the first thing she says in the game

    • @jruler93
      @jruler93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Yeah, even in OoT3D.

    • @ThaneGaming
      @ThaneGaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      I checked the script and it looks like multiple characters in Ocarina of Time say some variant of the word! Saria says "Yahoo!" when first greeting Link, Darunia says "YAHOOO!!" as he's dancing, and the fishing guy says "YAHOOOOOO!" if you catch a record breaking fish with the sinking lure 😆

    • @widow216
      @widow216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @I care shut up bot

    • @kaspervletter290
      @kaspervletter290 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In ALL CAPS?

  • @Der_Arathok
    @Der_Arathok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    but yahoo would be so fitting! I mean you call her husband for advice!

    • @TundieRice
      @TundieRice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glad they brought it back then!

    • @DaSheepKiller
      @DaSheepKiller 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Someone didn't watch the full video before commenting

    • @Der_Arathok
      @Der_Arathok 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DaSheepKiller yup!

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry but its said ya how ( ya ho ) if the game said ya hu . Than yes it would be yahoo in the japanese phonetics . Otherwise, the video got the pronounciation wrong.

  • @SaintNicholasFan
    @SaintNicholasFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    This whole idea that they banned the word “Yahoo!” From all of their Zelda games because they were scared of copyright infringement is nonsense. The word was never even banned. Go play Ocarina of Time, right at the start of the game when Link walks out of the front door of his house, Saria runs up to him and the first word out of her mouth is “Yahoo!” Not only that, but they kept the “Yahoo!” in the 2011 3DS remake.

    • @MedK001
      @MedK001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      They didn't ban "Yahoo!", they banned "YAHOO!", with caps. The web services' logo was written on all caps.

    • @starandeath4735
      @starandeath4735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Japan is strict with copyright so they are gonna flip

    • @youhaveayds8975
      @youhaveayds8975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@starandeath4735 oh boy are they some tough cookies

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@MedK001 They didn't "ban" anything in any real sense, they just removed the word from a single game (it's even in other Zelda games lol). And plus, that's not how trademark/copyright law works anywhere I can think of, including Japan. First of all, the company didn't even exist yet. Kinda hard to infringe on a trademark when _you said it before the company existed,_ right? Second, one generally doesn't have a claim when a word is simply being used in a book or game, _especially_ when the context and meaning are entirely separate and cannot be misconstrued as referring to the company.
      I would bet that they did this solely to prevent younger English gamers (who would perhaps not be familiar with the old-timey phrase and instead associate it with the company) from being confused or having their immersion broken. I can say with almost absolute certainty that this has exactly nothing to do with any legal worries.
      Edit: just had to add the word _gamers_ to my computer dictionary. What the heck, Windows 10?

    • @ZBR_ProXP
      @ZBR_ProXP ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you, you saved me 12 minutes

  • @sonicguyver7445
    @sonicguyver7445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My youngest brother was always creeped out by her because of a trick we learned. In the original version of the game if you hit 'select' as you were crossing into the next square you would appear on the same side of the next square as the spot you were standing in on the previous one. A great way to bypass hazards. But it could cause glitches to happen. Once the glitch was Grandma Yahoo's sprite replacing the sword and shield moblin. Seeing that old lady coming at you with a sword and shield just really did something to him.

    • @Roadent1241
      @Roadent1241 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Creepypasta worthy XD

  • @supercat2087
    @supercat2087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    We did it, we found out what *the gamer word* was.

    • @imasspeons
      @imasspeons ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol is this a DSP reference?

  • @davintheraven
    @davintheraven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The Japanese manual that you show calls her "Yahō-baasan", not "Iyahō-obaasan". The fact that in-game she often says "iyahō" (with an "i" at the beginning, even though her name is "Yahō") isn't some rare or unusual way of spelling it, it's more of a deliberate written convention to convey an odd accent or mannerism of speaking. It's like characters in English-language games who use a lot of the letter "z" at the beginnings of words to suggest a French accent.

    • @AndrewB21
      @AndrewB21 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, exactly. It's a completely normal greeting, just with the Y at the beginning emphasized a little more than usual, turning it into an extra i.
      But gaijin's gonna gaijin.

  • @KikiAelita
    @KikiAelita 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Imagine the feeling of that. You were once intimidating enough to make Nintendo hide form having issues with you... But now are such nothing that now they don't care anymore.

    • @ADKBuddy
      @ADKBuddy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yawho?

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Except that Yahoo the search engine was irrelevant during the 3DS days.

    • @AndySola
      @AndySola 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yahoo! is still the biggest website in Japan tho.

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AndySola This edit was applied only to non-Japanese-language versions of the game, so that's irrelevant.

    • @AndySola
      @AndySola 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@angolin9352Yes, but no. Nintendo HQ is still in Japan, the only country Yahoo! has any power what so ever.

  • @BoltMoonSteven
    @BoltMoonSteven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is funny to me because in Phantom Hourglass Linebeck yells “YAHOOOOO!” At the top of his lungs after having female interaction, so this seems like a veeeery strange decision

  • @chameleonhrt
    @chameleonhrt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    Well, I think there's only one word that can help celebrate this changing back in the remake...
    GOOGLE!

  • @gugm9837
    @gugm9837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Surprised they didn’t go for YOOHOO!

    • @SudiPaddi
      @SudiPaddi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Chocolate milk brand

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well in japanese you would have to sau yu hu . For it to sound like yoohoo in english :/

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Except that would make her sound like she's into Link.

    • @jaeheekanghan
      @jaeheekanghan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@angolin9352 how? 🦆

    • @BassMaster.454
      @BassMaster.454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jaeheekanghan Ooga ooga

  • @ThaneGaming
    @ThaneGaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    5:24 - I really like reaction to "HELLO!" 😆 The zoom in to the 3DS screen as the speaker gets closer...
    The dramatic revelation of Grandma Yahoo's new name at 6:25 is great too! I've been listening to your newer uploads while I do chores (not sweeping) but I decided to actually watch this one--love the overall presentation & style!

    • @DamageMaximo
      @DamageMaximo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      such a good out of context moment

  • @MacyReal
    @MacyReal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    That settles it. Grandma Yahoo is my favorite character in all of Zelda.

    • @mayravixx25
      @mayravixx25 ปีที่แล้ว

      I still prefer Link's grandmother from Wind Waker myself, but Grandma Yahoo is a close second.

  • @spicypeppers7773
    @spicypeppers7773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Sony when they say something offensive: fine
    Nintendo when they accidentally say anything offensive: Lawsuit time

    • @CasualSunGod42
      @CasualSunGod42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Not just anything offensive. "YAHOO!"

  • @Nikku4211
    @Nikku4211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Nintendo could have easily argued that the English version of their game predates the existence of the Yahoo website and it would have been one and done.

  • @birdieberry
    @birdieberry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the "yahoo!" greeting in Ocarina of Time.

  • @DieAlteistwiederda
    @DieAlteistwiederda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I hear Links Awakening and immediately thought about the weird sexual jokes they had in the German version of the GB version. They changed it for the later versions saldy but as a German collector of older games I of course still have the original.

    • @schufck5272
      @schufck5272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait, were those only in the German version?

    • @Otome_chan311
      @Otome_chan311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      >weird sexual jokes
      you mean the mermaid bra thing? That's in the original Japanese version and was censored in western releases.

    • @SuperMistertoast
      @SuperMistertoast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Otome_chan311 actually the German version also had the Bikini like the Japanese version. But they were talking about the buzz blobs saying „never without condom“ when you use the powder on them in the German version. The first German Nintendo translations were like one-man-projects and there weren’t any standards for German video game translation yet, since almost no company translated games in German (you could say only Nintendo and Lucasarts)

    • @chillfactory9000
      @chillfactory9000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      this is unrelated but I love ur pfp

    • @Echidneys
      @Echidneys 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow that story was so cool I read it twice

  • @Discoh
    @Discoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    When used as a greeting, I'm more used to writing "Yoohoo!" I think they could have replaced it with that instead.

  • @georgieramone
    @georgieramone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Links Awakening is my favorite in the series as well. So many fond memories of playing it on family road trips on the original GameBoy. I love it’s Twin Peaks inspired weirdness, references to other games, and sense of humor. Also being able to shoplift was always one of my favorite features in any game

  • @BologneyT
    @BologneyT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Man it's amazing the stuff that happens in creative work and decisions. Every little thing in the world has a story. So many stories you never even get to know, even if you wanted to.

    • @applelayla4532
      @applelayla4532 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly. It's sad for the fans, but precious for the developers.

  • @RetroArca9
    @RetroArca9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Does the ocarina of time 3DS game keep saria's opening line "YAHOO!"

    • @bewearstar9462
      @bewearstar9462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not all capital

    • @souptime3915
      @souptime3915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bewearstar9462 but all text in links awakening is capital, so it could technically be, translated, lowercase

  • @DrZalmat
    @DrZalmat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love Link's awakening. It is my favourite Zelda title, simply because it is a relatively short story that is beautifully crafted. Almost nothing diverts from the "leave the island" quest which makes it feel much more urgent than the quests in other Zelda titles. the whole defeat Ganon and save the world questline seems way less urgent when there is an allergic woman needing her Cuckoos collected or there is a fishing pond You can spend hours in or there is a cannon game where You get shot into targets.
    That and i like the story itself, i like the bittersweet feel of it

  • @MrPomegranX
    @MrPomegranX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Mario characters sweating right now...

  • @jayb8934
    @jayb8934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Imagine if her catchphrase had been "Google"! LOL.

  • @CitrusArchitect
    @CitrusArchitect 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Love the obscure trivia! More please ;)

  • @Phaios95
    @Phaios95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact:
    The translators had fun in the German version of Link‘s Awakening. There‘s an enemy which says things like „never without condom!“ and „give me your juice and I‘ll give you mine“ after you have sprinkled it with magic powder.

  • @robo567
    @robo567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    link’s awakening has one of the best stories in the franchise imo. it’s the only story i’ve seen where the “it was all just a dream” trope is used effectively, and to such a tragic effect.

  • @GottaBGlitches
    @GottaBGlitches 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    News just in: Mario arrested for saying Yahoo

  • @camharkness
    @camharkness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Ooo one of my favorite zelda games.

  • @jamiebruce8610
    @jamiebruce8610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It’s strange because in ocarina of time the very first thing saria ever says to you is “yahoo! Hi there”, however this was never changed for the 3ds port, unlike links awakening which WAS changed to the 3ds port. And to make things even stranger, both games were ported In the same year.

  • @thebenwilbert
    @thebenwilbert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Who knew how “offensive” the word “Yahoo” could have been

  • @indigomage2833
    @indigomage2833 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "The massive powerhouse Yahoo"
    Yahoo has literally only done two things and that's give us Yahoo answers and Tumblr

    • @angolin9352
      @angolin9352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Their mail service was wildly popular in the early 2000s.

    • @SamPearman
      @SamPearman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yahoo! Japan is a much bigger company than Yahoo!. In fact, Yahoo! Japan is the dominant search engine in Japan (Japanese text is hard for computers to deal with well and Y!Japan handles it better than anything else most of the time)

    • @rotundmonibuv5103
      @rotundmonibuv5103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Zoomer moment

    • @indigomage2833
      @indigomage2833 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rotundmonibuv5103
      You got me there

    • @jaeheekanghan
      @jaeheekanghan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yahoo answers was the only thing useful in that site during 2000s cause of school homework and some random dumb funny questions

  • @hylian_princess
    @hylian_princess 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another great episode of Thomas game docs, you learn something new everyday

  • @TwilightWakerofTime
    @TwilightWakerofTime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thomas. How do you notice this stuff? I was the Link's Awakening expert on the Zelda Dungeon Wiki around when the 3DS version came out, and I scoured that thing for info and made every single character's wiki page, including Grandma Yahoo (or, as we called her, Grandma Ulrira). I went in-depth on the Trading Sequence in particular and got direct game quotes for every single character in it. Despite this, somehow I did not once notice that Grandma Yahoo's text had been completely changed in this new version. I'm so shocked hahaha.

  • @ninjagamer1359
    @ninjagamer1359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Dang I never thought I be so emotionally invested in the word yahoo before. I literally cheered at the end lol

  • @catriamflockentanz
    @catriamflockentanz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a very similar incident with the Chain Chomp in Link's Awakening. In the first german translation it was called "Stuppi" (like the well-known dog from the "Tim & Struppi"(alias Adventures of Tintin)) but already in Link's Awakening DX the name of the Chain Chomp was altered to "Komet" to avoid a potential problem albeit the Comic's Publisher never showed any issue with the name called after "theirs".

  • @bawbsmith
    @bawbsmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The topic was very interesting! It's definitely one of those fun facts that I never would've found out on my own, but am glad to know for a game I love so much.
    But... and sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, I don't mean for it to be, but the video felt pretty drawn out. In terms of the actual story, it's pretty short - Someone translated an uncommon phrase to a name of a big company, so they removed it, but then later brought it back because the company became much smaller. I don't know if this required 11 minutes, with sections like "so why did they remove the word Yahoo?" when the answer was pretty obvious.
    Also, at 9:58 you state "she says yahoo again, for the first time in 20 years". I thought the 3DS port where they removed the word was released in 2011 - wouldn't this be just 10 years ago? (at the time the video was made).
    Last thing - while it's technically true it's "the word that Nintendo removed from Zelda games", that's a pretty misleading title (I'm guessing intentionally, to drive up interest). She appeared in only one title in the Zelda franchise, albeit multiple times via different versions and ports of the same game. So... yes, it's technically true, but in reality it didn't affect any of the other 26 or so games in the franchise.

    • @blankface9363
      @blankface9363 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like for the MASIVE WALL OF TEXT THAT IM TOO LASY TO REED! And dedication.

  • @IyoMaestro
    @IyoMaestro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That reminds me of the fact that if you sprinkle Magic Powder over a Buzz Blob in the original German Version it says “Nie ohne Kondom“ which means “Never without a condom“ or it says “Gib mir deinen Saft, ich geb dir meinen“ which means “Give me your juice and I'll give you mine“'. Ehm.. so yeah it means exactly what you think it means and there are even more strange phrases in the German Version like „STOP THE WAR! GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!!“ All coming from the legendary translator Claude M. Moyse who has made a name of himself because of such brilliant localisations. Now when I think about it Claude M. Moyse's translations would be an interesting topic for a video.

  • @kgoblin5084
    @kgoblin5084 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another fun fact with Granny Yahoo - in the original version, there was a bug/exploit where you could kind of teleport around the map (something something stand by edge of screen, & hit start+select as you go forward). Exploit had some other, interesting side effects... one of which was you could access this scrambled dungeon from a certain spot. But another was if you used it just 2 screens over from dear old Granny, near the pits & bushes maze, it would transform one of the rhino-with-sword enemies into Granny with a sword instead.

  • @KBXband
    @KBXband 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That character was adorable. I love how tweaky and hyper she is!
    YAHOO!!!

  • @YaBoyRanD
    @YaBoyRanD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can we get a Ballad of the Wind Fish piano tutorial?? :o Sounds incredible!

  • @trueRocc
    @trueRocc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never would have thought that saying yahoo would be such a major problem

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats because, thomas game doc got something wrong. I ya ho is said like (E-yah-hoe) not (E-yah-who) . In japanese if the game said i ya hu than it would sound like yahoo. But, I dont think the japnese pronounciation was taken into consideration . Cause, he kept saying it in the english pronounciation .

  • @TheAurgelmir
    @TheAurgelmir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Link's Awakening, Link to the Pasts weird little borther.
    My very first Zelda game. Got it when it came out.
    To this day the music from that game brings joy to my heart.
    I love how the Switch version was able to capture so much of the charm of the old game, while adding a whole charm of it's own.

  • @zeniktorres4320
    @zeniktorres4320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Entertaining video 👍 A bit of trivia from my point of view, for me, others here and during my childhood before Yahoo company existed, we would say say ya-HOO and later for the company name we say YA-hoo, that is, there is a different emphasis. You seem you pronounce it ya-HOO for both. Anyway, I found it interesting.

  • @reecehebblethwaite4088
    @reecehebblethwaite4088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    These videos are so cool and interesting I wouldn't have known any of this about zelda or Mario or Nintendo

  • @kirbo-.
    @kirbo-. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Words are sometimes scary

  • @doodoostickstain
    @doodoostickstain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Link's Awakening is absolutely my all time favourite zelda game. I put SO so SO many hours into it, playing it over and over again....and the map warp glitch made the replayability endless once you figure out how to jump between dungeons and the like. Missing No has nothing on this haha

  • @shn4449
    @shn4449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    7:17 Isn't that the guy who made the amazing fan translation for Mother 3?

  • @JRENZO10
    @JRENZO10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The new Links Awakening has an art style perfect for a new EarthBound remake!

  • @whydoineedausername1386
    @whydoineedausername1386 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How on earth did you talk for 10 minutes about the word yahoo in LA but completely miss how it was in OoT, in both 1998 **and 2011**?

  • @d_the_great
    @d_the_great 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Link's Awakening is one of my favorite games of all time, and I first had it as a kid with it on Virtual Console. Kinda cool to see someone else who shares that!

  • @henrikalbritter8807
    @henrikalbritter8807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can find even more differences in the earlier german version. You fish a bikini top from under the bridge insted of a necklace. And a few Dialog lines have been completely changed in later versions becaus the wehere quiet risky/lewd. Also a naked painting was removed after the first release.

  • @judgejudge1309
    @judgejudge1309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine saying in real life "YAHOO!" And then company sues you for saying it

  • @EmilioBPedrollo
    @EmilioBPedrollo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This game alone saw the rise and fall of a internet giant.

  • @Dw7freak
    @Dw7freak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think the reason it's back in the remake is that you can't trademark/copywrite common words. With "yahoo" being a common word to express excitement, as long as the logo isn't used, Yahoo! can't do anything legally about it.
    Japan is notorious about their super strict copywrite laws, so they probably changed it in the VC release just to be on the safe side.

  • @ClownOwO
    @ClownOwO 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the excitement in this video over grandma yahoo returning is quite infectious. i didn't know this character 10 minutes ago but i celebrated along with the video when she said yahoo

  • @speedorinobpb8280
    @speedorinobpb8280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The german version have even more controversy’s with the translation lol

  • @hazzard_destroyer
    @hazzard_destroyer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Intriguing also love links awakening great game ❤️ keep up the amazing work

  • @dsproductions19
    @dsproductions19 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:08 I wouldn't call it 'little', but I'm glad to see someone else talk about Link's Awakening. It's such an under-appreciated game.

  • @bretterry8356
    @bretterry8356 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Yahoo" existed as a word long before the website. It comes from the book Gulliver's Travels, where it's a term for animals that look like humans but act like wild beasts. My dad used to call us kids "a bunch of wild yahoos" with that meaning.

  • @natescorner
    @natescorner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I laughed out loud when he said OOT had a massive world!

  • @Cannon_The_Guy
    @Cannon_The_Guy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hey Thomas!

  • @lukesoup27
    @lukesoup27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Ocarina of Time? Saria says "Yahoo!" at the very beginning of the game. And Oot3D, which kept the line, was only a year after LA on 3DS came out

    • @bluerious5475
      @bluerious5475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The difference is the capitalization

  • @goatbone
    @goatbone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Two things that I think should have been mentioned. Firstly, when the woman says YAHOO! it also has the exclamation mark which is how it is expressed in the logo, pushing it closer to a trademark issue that is not just the word. Secondly, Yahoo is still huge in Japan as the most popular website for auctions, comparable to eBay in the US.

  • @SpeedySteedyYT
    @SpeedySteedyYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Now tell me: Does Dan Owsen look like the type of guy who translated Link’s Awakening

  • @jetstudiosx
    @jetstudiosx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, I guess Nintendo better change all of Mario's dialog from *Yahoo* to *Hello*

  • @GGG_gaming
    @GGG_gaming 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    well the original grandma "yahoo" was out before the company so not much can be sued about it
    1. they didnt want to be free advertizement for yahoo
    2. just used a different version port iteration for different medias (look at super mario 64 where there were i believe 4 different "versions" since some version types didnt have BLJs for example) and simply overlooked since they might of used a unreleased build they had in their vault that was before simple text polishes
    3. translation teams probably just used their own discretion of it since yahoo is just an odd greeting/name (since luigi in mariokart games still says yahoo in i think every game)
    4. who says their own name at the start of conversations the odd japanese spelling of is probably meant to be seen as a quirk/tick or accent

  • @yannatoko9898
    @yannatoko9898 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Majora's Mask on the Zelda Collector's Edition used 2 save files, even in the JP version. This was reverted to the original 3 for the Wii Virtual Console version.

  • @lilyote1361
    @lilyote1361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I clicked faster than Thomas can say link

    • @sdrawkcab_emanresu
      @sdrawkcab_emanresu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't klick the link from @I care. Its spam. The only thing you can do is report him as such

    • @leonannaves9273
      @leonannaves9273 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @I care do not click*

    • @wareforcoin5780
      @wareforcoin5780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @I care No. Stop.

  • @Louie_Log
    @Louie_Log 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Well, it's not as big as a certain racial slur Kamek said in Mario Party....

    • @LostSoulSilver
      @LostSoulSilver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What? Erratic?

    • @Louie_Log
      @Louie_Log 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LostSoulSilver you know the word

    • @windmillwilly
      @windmillwilly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Louie_Log It wasn't racial it was ableist

    • @Louie_Log
      @Louie_Log 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@windmillwilly tell that to Thomas. HE wrote the title of the video

    • @Louie_Log
      @Louie_Log 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yoursoulsbelong2Nyx go see Thomas's vid.

  • @diegofaria6831
    @diegofaria6831 ปีที่แล้ว

    How come you don't have more subs? Just found your content and it's amazing!

  • @kerto6240
    @kerto6240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very interesting video!! enjoyed it a lot! :) hope to see more great content! (loved the inclusion of detective conan too!)

  • @solitarioerrante4296
    @solitarioerrante4296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Detective Conan ? i see you are a man of culture.

  • @Lovuschka
    @Lovuschka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So someone named their website after a Nintendo character, and then Nintendo stopped using that name?

  • @janjohansson2567
    @janjohansson2567 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually the Virtual Console ROMs were modified surprisingly often! Most of all flashing graphics is patched out of many games, but also other adjustments were made. In Ogre Battle 64 for example, "Jihad" is renamed "Laser"...

  • @RedStoneMatt
    @RedStoneMatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nintendo: We're remaking the game !
    Thomas: *I won't be able to enjoy this game's full experience without Grandma Yahoo.*

  • @CasualSunGod42
    @CasualSunGod42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    BLIND GUESS: Is it "Yahoo"?

    • @CasualSunGod42
      @CasualSunGod42 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Matsnat64 No, I read about it on the wiki and made this comment when the video came out as an impulse decision. (I might delete it now, but I'm not sure.)

  • @ShyGuyXXL
    @ShyGuyXXL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They also changed the german name of Bow-wow from Struppi to Komet, since Struppi (aside from being a common dog's name) is the german name of Tintin's dog. Tintin in general is called "Tim & Struppi" in german, so the name is even in the trademark.
    Still kind of stupid, if you ask me. No one should be able to trademark common pet names.

  • @rtyuik7
    @rtyuik7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...but in Ocarina of Time (even in the 3DS version), the very first thing Saria says to you is "Yahoo! Hi, [name]!" (OoT-N64 was 1998, but OoT3D was 2011 too)

  • @cyber6843
    @cyber6843 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The story of gradma Yahoo is very interesting! I like this content a lot! Keep making amazing videos! (Also I love the moment you put detective conan in the video 😆)

  • @Nintentoad125
    @Nintentoad125 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if YAHOO will be present in the Zelda Game & Watch version of Links awaking that's coming out in November

  • @andrescalderon5432
    @andrescalderon5432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thomas, you're an amazing story teller!

  • @blakethesimms
    @blakethesimms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you just make an hour long video of you saying "i ya hō" I love the way you say it

  • @skootergirl22
    @skootergirl22 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can you copyright a word?

  • @clarafedde8674
    @clarafedde8674 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Several games got that treatment. You should see the Startropics series rewrite. No more yo-yo, no tetrads, no Caesar Hut. I think they Herlock Sholmes too. I was happy to see Grandma Yahoo again... I'm glad I have the original carts.

  • @JesusJavierAmaviscaValenzuela
    @JesusJavierAmaviscaValenzuela 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Something that i noticed as a kid, being a non english speaker, was that in Ocarina of Time, in the first 5 mins of the game Saria literally says: "Yahoo! Come here Link" or something like that. And i was like "Yahoo? Like that Internet thing?"

  • @RexVergstrong
    @RexVergstrong 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:47, that wood base where the gavel hits is wrong.

  • @LuckyLynette
    @LuckyLynette 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if you change the date on your console to when the game came out if you can see yahoo?🤔🤔🤔

    • @tsukileo897
      @tsukileo897 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's not how that works