"Why do this? It's the thrill of the chase!".
Video games of all flavours are filled with real-world items that pop up time and again all over the place. Coins, rings, stars - these things are part of the vocabulary of games to the point that we don't really notice them any more, and it's the usually same with level furniture and background features. Occasionally though, a real-world object will really catch your eye and make you wonder why it's there. Case in point: Moai.
Pronounced moe-eye, the large monolithic statues from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean can be found in a surprising number of games on all platforms, including Nintendo's. The most recent example is probably the Moe-Eye statue that Mario can take over with Cappy in
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Video games of all flavours are filled with real-world items that pop up time and again all over the place. Coins, rings, stars - these things are part of the vocabulary of games to the point that we don't really notice them any more, and it's the usually same with level furniture and background features. Occasionally though, a real-world object will really catch your eye and make you wonder why it's there. Case in point: Moai.
Pronounced moe-eye, the large monolithic statues from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean can be found in a surprising number of games on all platforms, including Nintendo's. The most recent example is probably the Moe-Eye statue that Mario can take over with Cappy in
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, but there are countless others to be found in games from the past 35 years or so, and one person has taken it upon themselves to catalogue the lot on a website known called (appropriately)
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