36 Video Game Facts to Take Into Hyperspace, ‘Defender’-Style

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36 Video Game Facts to Take Into Hyperspace, ‘Defender’-Style

Our favorite games were perfect just the way they were! So it can be hard to hear that some classics had some absolutely massive last-minute facelifts. 

Donkey Kong, for instance, was originally meant to be a game about Popeye the Sailor Man. Luckily for the video game world as a whole, Nintendo failed to secure the rights, and settled for some big monkey who hucks barrels at some little mustachioed man in red.

GRACKED.COM The sounds Minecraft's ghasts make are the sound designer's vocalizations and the noises of his cat being disturbed in its sleep.

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MARVEL SUPERHEROES vs. STREET FIGHTER There's a pervert in the Japanese version of Marvel Superheroes vs. Street Fighter. He's an older man named Norimaro who dresses like a schoolboy. Не spends his time trying to take Chun-Li's picture. If you beat the game with him, he steals her panties. CRACKED.COM

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STREET FIGHTER WAS BORN DURING A DULL MEETING. 100 STALEST FREHER Capcom programmer Takashi Nishiyama was getting really bored during a long meeting, so he started thinking about martial arts games, and the boss fights in those games, and wouldn't it be cool to make a game that was all about those boss fights. CRACKED.COM

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A BANJO-KAZOOIE CHARACTER PREDICTS THE GAME'S SEQUEL. RIGHT, THAT'S IT! I'M OFF TO THE LAVA WORLD CRACKED.COM Gobi the camel tells Banjo and Kazooie that he is sick of being pounded on, so he's off to the Lava World. In the sequel, Banjo-Tooie, Gobi appears in the fiery Hailfire Peaks level.

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GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for.

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HALF-LIFE CRACKED.COM The early prototype for Half-Life's protagonist was a burly-bearded, strung out looking mad-man nicknamed by the designers as Ivan the Space Biker. As game production advanced, they changed Ivan into Gordon Freeman, with his iconic goatee and glasses.

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HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED CRACKED.COM Halo: Combat Evolved was almost a top-down, real time strategy game, a la StarCraft. It wasn't until Microsoft bought the developing studio, Bungie, and launched Halo as their flagship XBox title that it became the first person shooter we know.

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Fallbut 3 GRAGKED.COM Due to nuclear warfare still being a sensitive subject in Japan, the Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb.

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The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team modeled them using photos of actual car crash victims and war casualties. CRACKED COM

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