What is the relevance of "57300?"

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:08 pm

57300 is the pre-set high score in a lot of Konami games... I haven't paid attention to if any non-Konami games have it. Anyone have any idea what it might represent?

Zach Keene · Post by **Zach Keene** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:30 pm

You're the one living in Japan; you tell us.

(go nana mittsu)

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:23 pm

Those crazy JP number-name puns...

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:30 pm

1% of the Japan population don't speak Japanese, he must be one of them. LOL

llabnip · Post by **llabnip** » Sat May 21, 2005 11:32 pm

Ganelon wrote:Those crazy JP number-name puns...

Ding... ding... ding... we have a winner!

5=Ko
7=Na
3=Mi

That is... Konami

Most of the numbers associated with the dog bonuses in Radiant Silvergun also fall into these number-puns... the stage 3C dog is 106550 points - which is the Japanese pun: "Irem Go! Go!". Nice homage. Anyway, Konami loved to use the 573 in in all their games default high score... sometimes 57300 and sometimes 573000.

TVG · Post by **TVG** » Sat May 21, 2005 11:42 pm

llabnip wrote:
Ganelon wrote:Those crazy JP number-name puns...
the stage 3C dog is 106550 points - which is the Japanese pun: "Irem Go! Go!". Nice homage.

awesome.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:22 am

Wow, so obvious I overlooked it I guess.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:42 am

Does anyone know if the wonky scoring numbers in Batsugun have the same kind of puns going on with them? According to Rando's ST, in the game's first "scoring trick" the enemy in question is worth 68,930 points, in the second each enemy is worth 56,930 points, and the last batch are worth 59,630 points. Any rhyme or reason to any of those numbers, or are they simply as random and inscrutable as the scoring tricks themselves?

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Sun May 22, 2005 3:09 am

llabnip wrote:
Ganelon wrote:Those crazy JP number-name puns...
Ding... ding... ding... we have a winner!

5=Ko
7=Na
3=Mi

That is... Konami

Most of the numbers associated with the dog bonuses in Radiant Silvergun also fall into these number-puns... the stage 3C dog is 106550 points - which is the Japanese pun: "Irem Go! Go!". Nice homage. Anyway, Konami loved to use the 573 in in all their games default high score... sometimes 57300 and sometimes 573000.

I don't understand

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Sun May 22, 2005 3:18 am

5963 - gokurousan (ご苦労さん) ("I appreciate your efforts.")

I can't figure out the others.

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:07 am

That one is awesome enough--thanks :)

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:01 pm

The KO Na Mi and Irem Go! Go! puns are kick ass. I love hidden homages.

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:14 pm

Wait can someone explain how it goes from numbers to the letters (Ko, na, mi)?

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:22 am

janrodricks wrote:Wait can someone explain how it goes from numbers to the letters (Ko, na, mi)?

They are the first letters of the Japanese words for the numbers.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:03 am

MSZ wrote:1% of the Japan population don't speak Japanese, he must be one of them. LOL

Probably less than that. Less than a percent are not Japanese, and some of those people speak Japanese.

Here's some more
893 -- Yakuza (also a drink)
39 - Thank You (san kyuu)

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:36 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Probably less than that. Less than a percent are not Japanese, and some of those people speak Japanese.

Yea, you are right. Probably less than 1% after I found some infos about Japan's population...

From CIA - The World Factbook:

Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914)
note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004)

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:59 am

BrianC wrote:
janrodricks wrote:Wait can someone explain how it goes from numbers to the letters (Ko, na, mi)?
They are the first letters of the Japanese words for the numbers.

Ohhh thanks. That is cool

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Tue May 24, 2005 5:55 pm

What's strange is that they even have 573 as part of their Phone #.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue May 24, 2005 7:35 pm

So what does 666 stand for?

Microsoft!?

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue May 24, 2005 10:31 pm

What's strange is that they even have 573 as part of their Phone #.

IRL, or just in the Snatcher world?

Zach Keene · Post by **Zach Keene** » Tue May 24, 2005 10:54 pm

IRL, at least back when the Gradius DP was released. (It was the most recent Konami game I could reach without having to get off my fat ass.

)

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:35 am

Guys, you're forgetting the second most important number pun:

765 = NAMCO

takohiko · Post by **takohiko** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:07 pm

SFKhoa wrote:What's strange is that they even have 573 as part of their Phone #.

and not just one phone number, but (almost) all of them - http://www.konami.com/gs/contact.shtml

It also appears in the intro of Parodius Da! - in the Euro SNES version it's "Product Nr. 573", the Japanese version I think says something different but still 573-related.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:14 pm

takohiko wrote:
SFKhoa wrote:What's strange is that they even have 573 as part of their Phone #.
and not just one phone number, but (almost) all of them - http://www.konami.com/gs/contact.shtml

It also appears in the intro of Parodius Da! - in the Euro SNES version it's "Product Nr. 573", the Japanese version I think says something different but still 573-related.

Konami Marketing (Asia) Ltd's Korea Branch even has 573 for their P.O. Box Number. It's insane!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:33 am

Turrican wrote:Guys, you're forgetting the second most important number pun:

765 = NAMCO

That's right! In Pac-Land you can actually get 7650 as a bonus; I forget what for, though.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:59 am

dave4shmups wrote:
Turrican wrote:Guys, you're forgetting the second most important number pun:

765 = NAMCO
That's right! In Pac-Land you can actually get 7650 as a bonus; I forget what for, though.

That's for the Victory Dance bonus. A jump that's timed just right will get you the 7650.

Eating enough ghosts in Pac-Mania gets this as well. The first four ghosts have their usual values, and from there you go to 3200 and finally 7650. If you've eaten a red powerup, then you get to 7650 with only three ghosts.

Tar-Palantir · Post by **Tar-Palantir** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:23 am

The first two R-Types have 174600 (or 174500) as their high scores. Does this transcribe to anything?

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:05 am

Bump.

Speaking of which, in Soldier Blade's 5 minute mode, the last Zen bonus is 46200, and strancely enough, if you add 1 to the first three digits, it turns out to be 57300. Is it a coincidence or was there something going on between Konami and Hudson.

Off Topicness: if you beat a song in Beatmania IIDX with only 80% life, you get a "Border Bonus" that's worth 5730 points.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:52 am

I found the term for this sort of thing. This is called a "goro-awase".

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/get ... 0613zg.htm

Here's a snippet from the article:

Originally by Japan Times
Any time I require the services of a taxi, I can easily recall the telephone number of the Daiwa Taxi Co., 3563-5151, because it transliterates phonetically into "Sa, Goro-san, koi-koi" (Well, come and pick me up Goro-san).

Some other goro awases here:

4126= "Yo-i-fu-ro" Good bath. A catch phrase of a famous Japanese hotel.
6480= "Mu-shi-ba-zero" No cavities. Popular with dentists.
710= "Natto" with 10 read as "to". July 10 is Natto Day.
1110= "i-i-toire" Nice toilet. Nov 10 is Toilet Day, when symposiums are held on improvement of the sanitary facilities.

flux · Post by **flux** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:15 am

If you guys are looking for massive dorkyness, go to the 573 Livejournal Community. Basically, it's pictures of 573 seen various places.