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31 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

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31 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

May 28, 2024

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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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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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Video Game Achievements

ACITY GRACKED.COM EXPLORERS' CLUB ACTIVISION CHOPPER N COMMANDOS E W S THE ACTIVISI BUCKET BR ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Patch Adams Video game achievements started out as real-world merit badges. Fans of early Activision games could take a picture of their high scores and mail it to the company. Activision would then send them a patch that highlighted their accomplishment. Eventually, this method of showing off was digitally incorporated into the games and gaming platforms themselves, thus morphing into the achievements we waste our precious free time over today. — 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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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. 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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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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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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Typing Of The Dead teaches you to spell, or die trying. Too many enemies Jolly Roger Out of breath CRACKED.COM First launched on Japanese arcade machines and then later ported to the Dreamcast, this game takes the familiar House Of The Dead setting and adds an educational twist. Instead of pulling the trigger to blast zombies in the head, players must quickly spell words that flash on screen before the undead are able to catch them. — Source

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem will make you think you're losing it. VOLUME CRACKED.COM As your in-game sanity meter depletes in this horror action-adventure title, the game plays tricks with the scenery, causing hallucinations. The fun doesn't stop there, the game will actually mess with you in real life, by making your controller not work at critical moments, turning the video signal off, and making it look like your memory card was wiped. — Source

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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and one controller. CRACKED.COM These two brothers are close, close enough to use a single controller to move both of them. One brother moves with the left thumbstick and trigger, while the other uses those on the right. Each brother has different strengths, which you use in tandem to complete levels. — Source

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The Getaway gives you a minute to chill. CRACKED.COM This open world action-adventure game inspired by British gangster films is fairly grounded, allowing your character to heal by doing something we're all familiar with: leaning up against a wall until you can catch your breath. Sure, gunshot wounds miraculously closing up because you're taking a 5 second breather aren't super realistic, but we can forgive that. — Source

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GOLDENEYE 007 MAGNUM EWLEE - 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. — Source

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... 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. — Source

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Conan O’Brien

32 In Mission 6 of Halo 4, you'll find two marines standing near a forklift. If you wait around long enough, they 'II begin talking, and you'll hear the voices of Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter. CRACKED COM — 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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In Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic, there is a hidden room: Homer Simpson's office at the nuclear power plant. SECTOR 7-G HEAPONS IDU HEALTH ARKOR ВИНО HEYS 3 72/200 5: 0/50 8 0/99 100 0 0/50 6 0/50 9: 0/10 48 CRACKED.COM 48/200 1: 0/50 0 0/99 — Source

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CRACKED.COM Jason - Lvl 47 Jason Voorhees, of Friday the 13th, can be found in the jungle of Dead Island. — 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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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. — Sourcev

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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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Fallbut 3 GRAGKED.COM Due to nuclear warfare still being a sensitive subject in Japan, the Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb. — Source

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GRACKED.COM Overwatch sound designer Paul Lackey wanted the game's hit confirmation sound effect to be satisfying to hear but couldn't find one, until he opened a bottle of beer one night. Не then reversed the sound and programmed it into the game. TECATE — 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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The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP MAD- - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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