28 Video Game Trivia Tidbits to Up Your XP

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28 Video Game Trivia Tidbits to Up Your XP

With all of our attention being focused on the games themselves, we’ve been forgetting about our skull’s console. We hit pause (for a few short minutes) to slip this fact disc up in there for level after level of exciting new brain play. Care to make it a multiplayer experience?

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SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 GRACKED.COM Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally more similar to the first game, although much harder. So hard, in fact, that developers didn't think Americans could play it, so they reskinned the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic with familiar Mario characters.

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This game actually hurt people who sucked at it. PUSPUT CRACKED.COM The PainStation, a German creation, is a two-player Pong-like game. Players can get shocked, whipped, or burned by the console.

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Mario walked SO that Pikmin could... scuttle. DISPA will are X Super Mario 128 was a bizarre demo designed to show that the GameCube could render 128 Marios in a single environment. That rapid object generation is the basis for the now-classic Pikmin army. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM Katamari Damacy's eternally disappointed King of the Cosmos AILM has the body of ballerina Tetsuya Kumakawa and the face of FREDDiE MERCURY

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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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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

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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 195 ВБ 201 404 CRACKED.COM

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