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36 High-Res Facts and Stats About Video Games

Your high scores aren’t the only stats in the video game game

36 High-Res Facts and Stats About Video Games

November 22, 2023

How many players? How many points? How many hours have we sat here playing this game? Okay, maybe there are some numbers we don’t need to know. We also didn’t need to know how many pizzas we ordered, but that stack of boxes in the corner easily reminded us. There is a good number of video-game facts here though, so not all numbers are bad.

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Minecraft

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. — Source

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PAC-MAN WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED PUCK-MAN PUCKMAN LU HIGH SCORE 2500 2590 OSCAR JCKMAY UNCH OUT!! Pubble engle THE NAME WAS PUCKMAN - CHANGED FOR AMERICAN RELEASE TO PREVENT VANDALS FROM CHANGING THE P INTO AN F. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Starcraft

STARCRAFT During development Blizzard had trouble keeping the harvesting units from bunching up together like L.A. traffic because of their pathfinding. 0 of 100 Oas 22/26 counter Decivated Terran Refinery NU Veapene der 4992 700/750 Their good enough fix was to make harvesters the only units in the game that can walk through other units. CRACKED COM — Source

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Sonic the Hedgehog was initially a rabbit. Developer Yuji Naka wanted to give the character a somersault attack, but later figured that it'd make zero sense for a rabbit to do so with its long ears, because it'd hurt itself while doing the attack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Counter Strike started out as a free Half-Life multiplayer mod that was created by two college students. A year later, the mod got so popular it was immediately acquired by Valve, the company that created Half-Life. A 1905 ВБ DE R 201 402 CRACKED.COM — Source

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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. — Source

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Video Games

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 — Source

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A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDER CLOSE SURVITILANCE - They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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36 High-Res Facts and Stats About Video Games — Source

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b ya The Team Fortress Spy is a glitch that never went away. A bug in the graphics caused some enemies to render as teammates. They pulled the old it's a feature, not a bug, and developed it into its own wildcard class. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, so he didn't sue him into oblivion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kirby’s Dream Land

Kirby's relatively unimaginative round body was supposed to be a temporary placeholder. Nintendo KIRBY'S DREAM LAND Nintendo - - ABOUT KA GAME BOY But, like a kid who found a stray puppy, designer Masahiro Sakurai fell in love with it after naming it. His original name - and a great name for a puppy - was Popopo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's no coincidence that Johnny Cage is a cocky pretty boy movie star who can do a split. Mortal Kombat was designed to be a vehicle for Jean-Claude Van Damme. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM WALL JUMPING STARTED AS A GLITCH. In the original Super Mario Bros, if Mario ran against a wall in midair, he would briefly register as being inside the object, which made the game believe he was on solid ground, allowing him to jump again. Developers liked this feature so much that they left it intact for ten years, until it became an actual in-game ability — Source

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METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FIFA

In FIFA 12, the A practice goalie can turn enormous. SCOREBOARD GOALS 9 SAVES REPESES But his size doesn't help him tend goal. Attempting to score on the gigantic goalie causes him to fall over and flop around like a beached dolphin. Fixed versions of the game had the same giant goalie glitch, but without his head and arms. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/pLuDriewk8 — Source

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Minecraft is helping the United Nations develop living spaces. CRACKED.COM The Block by Block Foundation works with the game to help neglected urban spaces get an architectural upgrade. — Source

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CRACKED COM A bug from another game inspired Devil May Cry's iconic feature where the main character can suspend enemies mid-air using continuous attacks. Cool ! 3 During the development of Onimusha: Warlords, they discovered a bug that caused the enemy to stay floating when being attacked. They thought it was kind of cool and adopted it for Devil May Cry. — Source

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GOLDENEYE 007 MAGNUM - 63 148 CRACKED.COM Since the team working on GoldenEye 007 was inexperienced and stretched thin, the game was initially intended to be a simple rail-shooter, lacking the immensely popular 4-person multiplayer that eventually made the game a bestseller on the Nintendo64. — Source

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Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 called 30 .. Achievement unlocked ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST The creators of the game saw Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, which made you kill 53,594 zombies, and decided to make it 0.001% harder. The task: kill 53,595 zombies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!

Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — Source

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$92.12 billion -Pokémon, the highest grossing media franchise of all time. In second place is Hello Kitty at $80 billion, followed by Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, and Star Wars. GRACKED.COM — Source

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3.1 billion - active gamers in the world It's estimated that almost 40% of the world's population play games regularly. Only 8% of those are dedicated console players, but they also seem to play more. About 1.5 billion people prefer PC over console, and mobile gamers account for almost half of all video game consumers in the world. CRACKED.COM — Source

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37% of all games sold on Steam are never played. CARDS BIOSHOCK Now With Trading Cards Collect the trading cards to craft . game Escape badge and eem rewards. A Daris - -50% Learn more about trading cards $29.99 CARDS CARDS - YOU ARE NOT HERE ANTI-CHAMBER DEFIANCE Vanille DER - DUE -66% -66% -40% $13.99 96.79 $8.90 CARDS CALL JUAREZ - CARDS ENDLESS SPACE TORI GUNSLINGER CANTED Z - BAM HAIR -66% -33% -34% $10.19 $10.04 99.99 And only 13% are played for more than 30 hours. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The gaming industry is bigger than the film and music industry combined. И In 2018, the gaming industry earned a revenue of $137.9 billion, CRACKED.COM compared to the film and music industry with $41.5 billion and $19.3 billion, respectively. — Source

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Fortnite

CRACKED.COM WAILING WOODS FORTNITE players searched for one game-related.com item per second on eBay in 2018. DUSTY DEPOT eBay also reported a 35% increase in sales for gaming headsets and computer monitors, which was directly related to Fortnite's popularity. — Source

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The overall swiping distance traveled by the fingers of Candy Crush users on a daily basis is 71,458 miles. BMW 61 78 35 30 Glear all the jelly! Candy SAGA Crush I GROUP - 21 That's the same as running 2725 marathons daily. It's also about three times longer than the circumference of the earth! GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The number of attendees to concerts featuring video game music is now twice as many as the more traditional concerts like Bach or Beethoven. — Source

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Collectively, mankind has spent 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. 5 10 6° ... 15 50 20 45 25 40 35 Join 30 That's about as long as we've spent evolving as a species. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE SESAME STREET EASTER EGG IN HALO INFINITE CRACKED.COM nen OBCAR'S HOUSE The urban-themed map has an alleyway featuring two dumpsters with one tagged as Oscar's House. It's the only trash can with that tag, and it of course refers to Oscar the Grouch. — Source

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Far Cry 6

The tradition continues: FAR CRY 6 has an early alternative ending Easter egg You'll have to work a bit harder than before, and the ending involves a beach, pandemic lockdowns, and Gloria Estefan's Conga. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Last Jedi

THe LAST JeDI HAS AN EASTER EGG OF AN OBSCURE TEXT-BASED '70S GAME Zork was a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure computer game that came out in 1977, and in 1986 the trilogy games were packaged and released along with a Zorkmid coin used in the game's fictional empire. Rian Johnson kept his coin and it makes an appearance when Benicio del Toro's DJ discovers a bunch of casino coins and chips. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Call of Duty

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR There's an Easter egg on John McClane's MP5 SMG. There's text on there that reads, Now I have a machine gun, which is a reference to Die Hard's elevator scene. HAVE MACHINECUN CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gray 1846 THE REAL ROCK IN RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2. Between the town of Valentine and Emerald Ranch there's a rock near the trail with characters like Frank Heck and Otis Miller's names on it. It's a reference to a very real location where settlers would carve their names into a rock. CRACKED.COM — Source

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