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30 Video Game Factoids That Fit Nicely in Any ‘Tetris’ Scenario

February 16, 2024

You’re going to think we have a time machine, because we just learned that there was a video game called Spacewar from 1962! That was 17 years before Asteroids, and 62 years before our jaws hit the floor just now. 2024 is 62 years after 1962, so you see what we… You get it. The point is, that’s just one of many insane video game facts we have for you below, so just imagine what else you can learn minutes into the future!

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

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS YOU COULD CUT YOUR CHANCE OF A CRITICAL HIT INSTEAD OF BOOSTING IT. GRAGKED.COM The move Focus Energy and the item Dire Hit are intended to quadruple the critical hit rate, but they will quarter the chance instead. — Source

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A boat in Assassin's Creed IV gets sucked into an abyss. And the sailors are left floating in air. If you claim a ship called the Jackdaw, you might show up to the dock to find a hollow space-time vacuum where the boat is supposed to be, and the crew screaming as they get sucked into the sky. CRACKED.COM https://www.youtube. — Source

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THE TREES IN DIABLO 3 ARE MADE OF FLAT PLANES. Front View Side View Each section is painted with great detail, assembled and strategically placed to give the illusion of the real thing when viewed from the right angle. This trick made the trees look incredibly realistic without being very technically demanding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ASTEROIDS Spacewar is just like Asteroids, only better- + and it came first. Spacewar was a two-player game where you could shoot the other player, there was a black hole in the middle of the screen, and the star field was based on actual star fields. Asteroids: 1979. Spacewar: 1962. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FALLOUT 3 TURNS THE PLAYER INTO + A TRAIN. Since it would be too complicated to create a functioning train system, the developers decided to turn the train into an armor piece. When you start the train, the game equips a train hat on your character, which gives the appearance of a moving, functioning train. GRACKED COM — Source

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METAL GEAR SOLID V GAVE AWAY ITS ENTIRE PLOT WITH THE SONG IN ITS TRAILER. CRACKED.COM The lyrics of Garbage's Not Your Kind of People acts as a huge plot synopsis, including Big Boss rebuilding his army, a plot against English speakers, and Big Boss actually being a medic in disguise. — Source

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BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM 2-41 PERFECT CRACKED GOM Batman: Arkham Asylum was going to turn into a colorful, 2D rhythm game whenever a fight would start. Developers said they wanted the fights to feel choreographed but with the player in complete control, which isn't SO different from how the final game turned out, minus the colorful notes flying up the screen. — Source

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ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO SHEEP LEVELS OZ PLAYER SALE created Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — Source

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2 WiiFit x Balance Board CRACKED.COM This revolutionary exercise tool for Nintendo's best-selling console now mainly gives a workout to the Goodwill employees who have to move them around the store. — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Those 7 Up games GRACKED A lot of people brought up that 7 Up game, but only Joseph N. knew about Spot, (an Othello-style game) and Cool Spot, (a beach-like adventure). Sadly, no one mentioned Spot Goes to Hollywood. — 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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SUPER MARIO The Chain Chomp monsters in Mario games + are based on a dog. When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, his neighbor had a chained dog who constantly barked. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dwarf Fortress and its ridiculously detailed combat system. Nutable KITIN Ubest anoel the of г 179 tie mdr Hin epe Musc 179 Rathe - 179 out The no an 79 179 A our av HD 179 BRO TIPI . 179 DOG . 179 2 179 79 We 179 79 ac e 179 - Ro VO 179 hen 179 711 . 179 ne . 79 ru derea the ног agec the goblin LVI 179 FP de 179 . abli CIV Pe . CRACKED. COM The creatures you fight in Dwarf Fortress don't just have a simple number representing their overall health, — Source

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BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS CUBONE'S FIRST INTRODUCTION WAS EVEN SADDER. CRACKED.COM Cubone has one of the more depressing backstories, often depicted wailing and alone, with the skull of its dead mother worn like a mask. This was more apparent with its original name Orphon, basically leaving nothing to the imagination. — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Chex Quest GRACKED Thomas C. says that, despite its humble origins as a prize that came in cereal boxes, it still ranks as a legendary early fps game. — Source

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Hell is in... New Mexico? DOOM The game's first episode canonically happens in a moon of Mars, but the sky is a stock photo taken in Yangshuo, China. The sky graphics for episodes 2 and 3 come from Utah and the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, respectively. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHUN-LI ALMOST WORE PANTS. DETE 0818 STREET FRICHTER GROZ Chun-Li was drawn with pants through most of her development process. Only at the last possible minute did artist Akira Yasuda change them to tights. (Не also gave her thick thighs because, well, he liked her that way and he could not lie.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. NINTENDOM EXPANSION PAK DONKEY OnlyFor INCLUDED! KONG64 - - THE - - Fat - DOLBY G COLLECTOR'S EDITION YELLOW GAME PAK SURKOUND PAL VERSION DONKEY NINTENDO The mystery bug caused the game to crash randomly unless the pak was inserted. The game didn't really need the pak, but Rare convinced Nintendo to include it at great expense to fix that one stubborn bug. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back CRACKED COM A death animation that shows Crash getting crushed into a wobbling head/feet abomination was removed from the Japanese version. Around that time, a Japanese serial killer had left a severed head and a pair of shoes as kind of a gruseome calling card. — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Tapper Budweiser CRACKED Kent K. recalls this blatant Budweiser ad, where the bartender held up a can of Budweiser and said 'This Bud's for you. — Source

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Game makers created a government body to oversee video game censorship. EARLY CHILDHOOD EVERYONE EVERYONE 10+ TEEN © ® T . E C E CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY ESRB ESRB ESRB ESRB MATURE 17+ ADULTS ONLY 18+ RATING PENDING M a A RP CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY ESRB ESRB ESRB CRACKED.COM Working with Congress in the 90s, they created the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which makes the black and white letters on game cases most people ignore. — Source

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John Romero posed for the cover illustration. DOCM A model was hired for reference photos, but the guy couldn't manage to look like he was fending off demons. Frustrated, Romero took his shirt off and grabbed the prop gun to show the illustrator what he wanted. Or, as Romero puts it himself, I AM THE DOOMGUY. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TLOZ's dev team were credited under pseudonyms. THANKS LINK, YOU' RE THE HERO OF HYRULE. FINALLY, PEACE RETURNS TO HYRULE. THIS ENDS THE STORY. CRACKED.COM Nintendo wanted to make sure competitors couldn't poach them, so all the names in the credits are fake. Shigeru Miyamoto is credited as S. Miyahon. — Source

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STREET FIGHTER II WAS GOING TO BE SET ON A DESERTED ISLAND. 727-3 ning 627-= 577-3 427-5 that STREET FRENTER An early idea was that the player had to make his way to the top of the island, fighting characters in order along the way. (If you ever played the game, you know this never happened.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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GEOMETRY WARS STARTED AS AN ANALOG STICK TEST. While working on the Xbox prototype hardware, the developers of Project Gotham Racing encountered issues with the analog sticks on the controller. They decided to make a test app in order to find a fix for the problem and input it into Project Gotham Racing. This test app ended up becoming Geometry Wars. CRACKED COM — Source

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DUKE NUKEM 3D ...isn't actually 3D. In games based on the Build engine, maps are made up of 2D sectors with different ... floor and ceiling heights (and sometimes slopes). However, tricks are used to overcome the limitations of this. ...and be inconspicuously teleported somewhere else in the map to land in the lower room. For example, you could fall down a shaft... CRACKED.COM — Source

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