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April 08, 2024

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HALF-LIFE2 Achievement unlocked LITTLE ROCKET MAN You'll have to carry a garden gnome from the beginning to the end of the game, then put him into a rocket ship and send him to space. Gnome Chompski (yes, he has a name) must be carried with your gravity gun, which means you can't use the gravity gun - or any other weapons-while carrying him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HI Achievement unlocked GREAT DANE You'll need to collect 218 dog tags by holding up soldiers and waiting until they drop one. Each soldier has a different dog tag, so get ready to stick up almost every enemy in the game. Also, each difficulty setting has a different dog tag set, so get ready to complete the ten-hour-plus game five times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 Liower 30 T 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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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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PAC-MAN WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED PUCK-MAN PUCKMAN JUN HIGH SCURE 25% 2590 OSCAR ICKMAN Public eggie THE NAME WAS PUCKWAN TO CHANGED FOR AMERICAN RELEASE TO PREVENT VANDALS FROM CHANGING THE P INTO AN F. GRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.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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Space Invaders had its own term for repetitive strain injuries in the '80s. Snacks WIN . UP TO Space Invaders Wrist was coined by one writer to the New England Medical Journal in 1981. By the following year, BBC was reporting that each family doctor typically now saw one new case of Space Invaders Wrist every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One indie dev's Superman demo was the highlight of the Unreal Engine 5 launch. THIS 15 OUR WORLD MUT YOURS! The demo, by indie dev volodXYZ, shows a promising look of what-could-be, with the detailed city landscape from the Matrix Unreal demo, that wipes all memory of Superman 64 from our collective memories. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There is a mysterious, human-sized statue of Sonic The Hedgehog sitting in the woods. The Sega World Kadoma theme park in Takao, Japan closed in 2005, and the park auctioned off whatever people could carry away. A homeowner named Mr. Kadeo bought the statue to serve as a landmark guiding visitors to his house from the road. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TWiTE Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE STANLEY PARABLE Achievement unlocked COMMITMENT If you hate Tuesdays, you'll love this achievement, as it tasks you with playing the game for the entire 24-hour period of any given Tuesday. CRACKED.COM — Source

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PURE HOLD'EM A Q Achievement unlocked PURE POKER This achievement requires you to get to level 100. Sounds simple, but it'll actually take about 10,000 hours of playing. That's thanks to the game's perplexing leveling system, whereby each level costs 10% more experience than all the previous ones combined. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GEARS OF WAR 3 Achievement unlocked SERIOUSLY 3.0 You love playing this game? Well, you won't after attempting this. You'll have to play the game's mediocre multiplayer for about two years to complete the 65 required Onyx medals. Getting 6,000 kills with ten individual weapons, being the MVP 500 times, and getting 4,000 headshots are just a couple of fun task you'll have to do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MORTAL KOMBAT Achievement unlocked MY KUNG FU IS STRONGER You have to gain mastery of all 28 fighters. To accomplish that, you need to win 2,800 matches, perform 2,800 fatalities and 4,200 x-ray moves, spill 280,000 liters of blood, and play for at least 672 hours. As a bonus for completing this, you'll develop a total resistance to gore and violence. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Garry's Mod Achievement unlocked YES, I'M THE REAL GARRY! Want to become a stalker and earn an achievement along the way? We got you covered. Your task is to play the game with its creator, Garry Newman. Не doesn't play the game regularly anymore, so you'll have to get a bit stalky to see if he's playing, and then get lucky enough to get into a session with him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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. — Source

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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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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker CRACKED COM While Japanese censorship seems to be more lax when it comes to nudity and religion, they take less kindly to torture. A scene where Snake is tortured with cattle prods was edited for the Japanese market so that he was instead being poked with laughing rods. — Source

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Pac-Man READY! CRACKED.COM That signature wakka-wakka onomatopoeia is pronounced paku-paku in Japan. They nearly translated that to Puck Man, until someone noticed how easily arcade cabinets could be altered to something more... flattering, yet sinister. — Source

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Mortal Kombat: Deception CRACKED.COM This game was almost a major disappointment in France. Literally -- déception means disappointment, so they renamed it Mortal Kombat: Mystification. — Source

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Contra CRACKED COM They had to turn pretty much every human and alien into a robot, in order to comply with Germany's strict anti-violence laws. That's why, over there, it's called Probotector, i.e. robot protector. — Source

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Indigo Prophecy CONTROVERSY...WHAT CONTROVERSY? FAHEENHEIT CRACKED.COM Gamers everywhere except North America know it as Farenheit. Atari was worried Americans would conflate it with Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. — Source

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Tomba! CRACKED COM This bright, fun game about a feral child battling pig people takes on a grave meaning in Italy. Literally; tomba means tomb in Italian, SO they had to call it Tombi! in Europe. — Source

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