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Street Fighter II

STREET FIGHTER II SHAMELESSLY RIPS OFF MOVIES. STREET ZICHER Capcom's CEO told designer Akira Yasuda to take inspiration from movies ... so Yasuda just went and plagiarized them. Notably, several stages were lifted from 1975's Hard Times - known in Japan as The Street Fighter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Donkey Kong 64 development team encountered a bug that would cause the game to crash, and eventually discovered that using a memory expansion kept the crashes from occurring. DONWEY KOHO64 So instead of fixing the bug, they bundled the memory expansion with the game for free. It was either very brilliant or just plain old lazy. 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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Atari

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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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. — Source

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Censorship

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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The Legend of Zelda

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

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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Lord of the Rings

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

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EVERYTHING IN ZELDA: A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS + IS TILTED BACK. What the game looks like from top-down. What the game looks like from a different angle. That's because a true top-down view would make the game incredibly boring looking g - you'd only really get to see the top of Link's hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Miyamoto designed the game based on his own childhood adventures. CRACKED.COM As a kid, he spent a lot of time wandering around the woods near his village. That, coupled with the maze-like layout of his home, and a small cave system he reportedly crawled into, account for the sense of adventure and discovery he aims to foster in every Zelda game. — Source

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Nintendo thought TLOZ would be too hard for Americans. CRACKED.COM ...and they were basically correct! Nintendo of America set up a toll-free number that gave hints and tips for the game. It got to be so popular that they expanded it to other games (and started charging for it on a 1-900 number). — Source

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COMBOS WERE INVENTED BY ACCIDENT. STREET FIGHTER Special moves (like the Shoryuken) were at first very hard to pull off, as you had to do several things at the exact same time. So the developers tried to open up the time window a little bit - and as a side effect, it was suddenly possible to perform a quick series of connected moves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SPLATOON THE M CRACKED.COM Splatoon was going to feature familiar faces from the Mario games before Miyamoto settled on creating new characters, the Inklings, for the company's first foray into the competitive shooter genre. — Source

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Just four guys invented first-person shooters. DOOM 100% ٦ 2 3 9 0% BULL 57 200 SHEL 700 50 5 G 7 ROKT 50 AMMO HEALTH ARMS ARMOR CELL 300 While Doom wasn't the first game to give you a POV shot of the game world, it did become the blueprint for the genre, set out by the founders of id Software - John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE FIRST STREET FIGHTER LITERALLY BLOODIED YOUR FISTS LIKE A REAL FIGHT. ON VS Initially, the cabinet didn't have buttons, but rubber pads you actually had to punch (and through those, your opponent), resulting in players getting their hands hurt. The game became much more popular after that baffling design choice was abandoned. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ARCADE GAME RAD MOBILE REVEALS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. 19 RANK the Round GRAGKED COM 41 Half a year before Sonic hit the Sega Genesis in North America, he could be seen dangling from the rearview mirror of a Ferrari 330 P4 Type in the coin-operated Rad Mobile. — Source

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Video Games

ARCADE GAME RAD MOBILE REVEALS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. 19 RANK the Round GRAGKED COM 41 Half a year before Sonic hit the Sega Genesis in North America, he could be seen dangling from the rearview mirror of a Ferrari 330 P4 Type in the coin-operated Rad Mobile. — Source

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Tetris

Tetris, when played after a trauma, positively affects people. СНПУЧ CRACKED.COM Research has shown that playing everyone's favorite Russian puzzle can stop the formation of bad memories associated with trauma. — Source

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30 RT R.O.B. B V2 x GRACKED.COM Having a robot play a game with you sounds amazing. It would be if the robot was competent, or the few games he played along with you were fun. — Source

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Doom could have been an official Aliens game. DOWN According to John Romero, id Software was offered the license to Aliens. They decided to turn it down, however, as they didn't want to take someone else's directions about what they could and couldn't do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Trespasser and its cleavage health gauge. CRACKED.COM This Jurassic Park PC game isn't well remembered or liked, despite some really great voice overs from Richard Attenborough's John Hammond that help to fill out the story. The most bizarre choice in this survival game is the placement of your health bar: a heart tattoo on the chest of your female character, that you view by looking down at your cleavage. — Source

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Sega Dreamcast 50 VMU BE + x CRACKED.COM Dreamcast SLEEP MODE в A Turning your memory card into a separate game system is brilliant, but not many other game companies have tried to do it since Sega's last attempt. — Source

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Space Invaders may have caused a coin shortage. SCORE SPACE TAITO WIND INVADERS SPECE SINCE CRACKED.COM Though some consider this debunked, the game may have affected production of the 100-yen coin, which increased after the game was released. — Source

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