Konami and 573: They are more obssessed then you know!

sfetaz · Vivid Member Joined: 02 May 2002

http://www.konami.com/usa/contact.shtml

Do a word search for 573 on that page, and see the madness!

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

That's great! They're office phone number in Japan ends with 573

Nikorasu · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject:

Not just that one, but half the phone numbers have 573 in them, and the P.O. Box. That is funny.
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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

In case someone here didn't know, 573 spelled out in Japanese would be "Go Na Mi"... aka Konami.
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slik · Trick Member Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Location: augusta, ga

Hah, I found it!

-=+Dikamai+=- · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Location: Hermitage, TN

YmkFX · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: California

Wouldn't it be Go Nana San? Unless you want to cut off the extra "na" and replace the "san" with it's counter (For days, things) which is "mistu" and "mikka".

I'm only in Japanese 2 though, so I guess I haven't learned enough to see the correlation.
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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

Yeah it's like kind of like a shorthand way of saying the numbers... I'm not really the best one to explain it.

It's kind of like, Kanji is pronounced differently if you use it in different words... kinda like that, that's why 3 would be miinstead of san. Like how the kanji is pronounced as Mitsu in oh.... Mitsubishi... but when you use the shorthand it's just Mi. Eh, kinda weird.
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rampage · Administrator Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Redmond, WA

573 == "GONAMI" which is close enough to Konami.

It's a Japanese thing, they like to do stuff with phone numbers based making words with the numbers. Sort of like "1-800-YOU-SUCK".