28 Video Game Facts That Play All Day on a Single Quarter
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To kids these days, quarters are just some dirty circles that can’t buy much and probably won’t be around much longer. To us, though, they were the keys to otherworldly arcade portals. We used to lug pockets full of those bad boys around like medieval tax collectors. No wonder cargo pants were all the rage. They’d clink around in there as you approached a wall of games, and life was good. Boy howdy, life was good.
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/1037442.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/1037441.jpg)
![MONKEY ISLAND Monkey Island was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse of Monkey Island, which was inspired by the Disneyland ride. The movie never got made, but writer Ted Elliott went on to write Curse of the Black Pearl. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/1037440.jpg)
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/1037439.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. Jet Li: Rise to Honor GRACKED Seth В. says the sales pitch didn't end after you bought this game: there's one point in the game where they PLUG THE GAME YOU'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/1037438.jpg)
![INSIDE THE TROPHY ROOM IN THE IMPERIAL KASHYKK LEVEL OF STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, YOU'LL FIND JAR JAR BINKS FROZEN IN CARBONITE. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/1037437.jpg)
![AFTER THE VOLGIN TORTURE SCENE IN METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER, SAVE AND TURN THE GAME OFF AND ON AGAIN. YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN SNAKE'S DREAM AND YOU WILL GET TO PLAY A MINI HACK N' SLASH GAME CALLED 'GUY SAVAGE' CRIME CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/1037436.jpg)
![32 In Mission 6 of Halo 4, you'll find two marines standing near a forklift. If you wait around long enough, they 'Il begin talking, and you'll hear the voices of Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/1037434.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Every named character you kill in the Assassin's Creed series is a real historical person, died in the right year in the right location. Think about that next time you stab somebody in the heart. You could be killing your own great-great-grandfather.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/1037435.jpg)
![In Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic, there is a hidden room: Homer Simpson's office at the nuclear power plant. SECTOR 7-G HERPONS IDU HEALTH ARMOR HEYS ВИНО 12/200 5: 0/50 8: 0/99 100 0 0/50 6: 0/50 9: 0/10 48 CRACKED.COM بيرياي 48/200 1: 0/50 0 0/99](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/1037433.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM RETIVISION Start O Select Interact LE Previeus Géme et Next Eams Exit IN BLACK OPS II, NUKETOWN MAP, IF YOU SHOOT DOWN ALL THE MANNEQUINS® HEAD IN UNDER 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS, WALK OVER TO THE LARGE TV IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP. FROM THERE, YOU CAN PLAY ACTIVISION'S CLASSICS LIKE PITFALL, H.E.R.O,, RIVER RAID AND KABOOM!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/1037432.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Jason - Lvl 47 Jason Voorhees, of Friday the 13th, can be found in the jungle of Dead Island.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/1037431.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM In Grand Theft Auto: San There are no Andreas, fly to the Easter Eggs up here. top of the Golden Go away. Gate Bridge... Or go into Zero's RC Shop to YELLOW MODE TRAIN find Vice City action figures YELLOW MIDEL TRAIN grand grand YELLOW more TRAITE theru DIEFG BUGO BUDO YELLOW - TRAIN grand grand thero CHEFU BUDO BUDO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/1037430.jpg)
![Back to the Future 1989 H in TIME GRACKED.COM It's Marty McFly the way we all know him: as a muscle-shirt Greaser who walks down the street collecting alarm clocks and avoiding bees. The story is as non-existent as your character's health, so it's safe to say this is just a generic NES scroller with the barest Back To The Future sheen.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/1037429.jpg)
![The Wizard of Oz 1993 CRACKED COM Taking a rather liberal interpretation of the source material, Dorothy straps on her ruby slippers and puts the beat-down on cactus cats, unicycle corn, and sentient furniture. It could have been an unusually rad tie-in game, but the controls and murky visual data made for a frustrating experience.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/1037428.jpg)
![Fight Club 2004 Angel Face CRACKED.COM If you remember the movie Fight Club for the message it's really cool to take off your shirt and punch people, then this game was made for you. Although stripped of the complexity that made the movie compelling, you can unlock Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and break Jared Leto's spine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/1037427.jpg)
![Batman Forever 1995 CRACKED COM Awkward video-capture sprites of Batman and Robin sway and jump through ugly levels and constantly get their rubber-suited butts whipped by a bunch of crowbar wielding nobodies dressed like garbagemen.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/1037426.jpg)
![Home Alone 1991 CRACKED COM Kevin McCallister's home, a seemingly endless hallway corridor and Fort Knox style bank vault, is under attack from The Wet/Sticky Bandits, as well prohibition-era gangsters in bowler hats. You don't set any elaborate traps in this take, choosing to instead jump around collecting valuables before the bad guys.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/1037424.jpg)
![Total Recall 1990 SCORE HI 1560 1560 CRACKED COM The mind bending, extraplanetary action classic is reduced to a generic platformer with the instantly recognizable Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced with a Some Dude in a green onesie. The barrel-chested hero runs like he isn't going to make it to the toilet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/1037423.jpg)
![Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 CRACKED.COM A pixelated fire hydrant does the best Indiana Jones impression it can muster as it struts around a blank background, occasionally scrolling into a new zone and immediately plunging to its death. There were limits to what the technology could do at the time, but even Dig Dug looks like a James Cameron movie compared to this.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/1037425.jpg)
![Final Fight CRACKED.COM The absolute prudes at Capcom USA made a whole range of changes. Bosses Damnd and Sodom became Thrasher and Katana, all drug and alcohol references were removed, and the exclamation Oh! My God became Oh! My car.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/1037422.jpg)
![The Combatribes CRACKED.COM am / This game came out in the 90's, but when Nintendo re-released it for their Virtual Console (notably...post-9/11), they renamed the Ground Zero gang to Guilty Zero.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/1037419.jpg)
![SimAnt PAUSE SCENT Health GRACKED COM The console version included animation of ants puking, complete with disturbing, digitized HURKing. But Nintendo wouldn't allow it in the SNES version.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/1037421.jpg)
![Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously prude, so making this game Family-Friendly was always going to be a tall order. The funniest update they had to make? Renaming the XL Power Shaft to the less phallic XL Power.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/1037420.jpg)
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/1037418.jpg)
![Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door M CRACKED.COM The character Vivian was actually a male in the original Japanese version. But, because he smooches Mario, the North American version had to be a lady.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/1037417.jpg)
![Mega Man CRACKED.COM Because the Japanese-to-English translation of his name doesn't distinguish between an L or R sound, Dr. Thomas Light is alternately known as Dr. Right and Dr. Wright in various games and manuals.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/1037416.jpg)
![Starfox CRACKED.COM Quick: say Starfox in a German accent. You just said the name of German company StarVox. Instead of delaying launch trying to get legal permission, they just called Starfox and Starfox 64 Starwing and The Lylat Wars in Europe.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/1037415.jpg)