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32 Random Bits of Trivia About Video Games You Can Probably Trade in for an Extra Life

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The business side of toys and games can take the magic out of it. Like, when we were little kids and we asked about how anything was made, the answer was usually elves. As we got a bit older, we were like, “Aw, there’s some really nice people out there who make these things for our enjoyment.” Then we start hearing the “making-of” stories about how two-player video games like Street Fighter were only made to get two kids’ quarters at the same time.

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In FIFA 12, the A practice goalie can turn enormous. SCOREBOARD GOALS 9 SAVES REPESES But his size doesn't help him tend goal. Attempting to score on the gigantic goalie causes him to fall over and flop around like a beached dolphin. Fixed versions of the game had the same giant goalie glitch, but without his head and arms. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/pLuDxiewkv8 — Source

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Minecraft

Minecraft is helping the United Nations develop living spaces. CRACKED.COM The Block by Block Foundation works with the game to help neglected urban spaces get an architectural upgrade. — Source

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The Legend of Zelda

The Triforce has roots in Mongolian invasions. CRACKED.COM It's based on the emblem of the Hoja Clan, who successfully fought off Mongol invaders and helped popularize Zen Buddhism. — Source

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MAKING A TWO-PLAYER GAME WAS ESSENTIALLY A BUSINESS DECISION. FIGHT! BATTLE 11 STREET FIGHTER It didn't just mean you could play with a friend - it also meant twice the money, making the game attractive to arcade operators. They had to heavily advertise the idea, though, as players didn't seem to get it at first and just played solo. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DEUS EX HINTS AT A CHARACTER'S ULTERIOR MOTIVES. CRACKED.COM The character of Paul Denton is a double agent, a fact that is hinted at in the password of his personal computer: Chameleon. — Source

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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. — Source

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Little Mac

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 — Source

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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 — Source

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17:12 516450240 In GTA Vice City, there 200 200 is a literal easter egg. N Donntown CRACKED COM — Source

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 called 30 ... 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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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. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS YOU COULD CUT YOUR CHANCE OF A CRITICAL HIT INSTEAD OF BOOSTING IT. GRACKED.COM The move Focus Energy and the item Dire Hit are intended to quadruple the critical hit rate, but they will quarter the chance instead. — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Jet Li: Rise to Honor GRACKED Seth B. 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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In Silent Hill 4, you can see a creepy stuffed rabbit through a peep hole. And sometimes he'll look back at you. Your neighbor Eileen has a plush bunny on her bed that you can see when you spy on her. But if you look through the peep hole after she goes missing, the little monster stares back at you. CRACKED.COM https://youtu be/paHTsm09Mkw — Source

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L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. L The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Doom II

John Romero's head behind the Doom II end boss was a joke the artists put in, thinking Romero wouldn't know. The head is behind the spot you shoot to kill the boss. Romero found out and, to tell them he knew, he made the boss speak (backwards): To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pac-Man

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 KAD-M LIMBETTE - 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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In Aliens: Colonial Marines, you find a containment capsule. It contains a tiny straw hat and cane. It's a reference to the scene from Spaceballs that parodies Alien with the Chuck Jones cartoon One Froggy Evening. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/ThyX0wAwbG8 — Source

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Easter Eggs

In Batman: Arkham City, you briefly see this painting. It's called Cain and Abel: The Duality of Man, and it hangs in Harvey Dent's office. This is how the game ends. CRACKED.COM https. ://youtu be/NN6CN7Upiml — Source

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In Bioshock, you spend part of the game helping Atlas find his wife and kid. 8+ 8 Patrick and Heira HALL POSEIDON PLAZA 1 MUSICAL III STORY CE LOVE MITER DUNTH But if you look around the city, you'll realize he's lying. There are posters plastered everywhere advertising a musical called Patrick and Moira, which is about dead people. Atlas' supposedly missing son and wife? Patrick and Moira. CRACKED.COM http o//bioshock wikia com/wiki/Atlas — Source

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The Konami Code

In Metal Gear Solid 2, Solid Snake and Otacon share a bro handshake. It goes up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. Yep, it's the Konami code. But instead of finishing with BA or the start button, they bro-hug. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/BeUhmtlUg7Y — Source

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Elder Scrolls IV

Elder Scrolls IVis packed with NPCs. And they've got lives of their own. For example, this guy, Roderick Pierrane, is having an affair. If you follow him around, you'll catch him sneaking out of his house to sleep with another woman once a week. He's an inconsequential background character with no role in gameplay. CRACKED.COM http://uk.pc. gamespy.com/p/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion/558955p4.html — Source

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One of the Halo developers left an M made of bullet holes in the game. It's a tribute to his girlfriend, Megg. It's insanely difficult to get to. It's on the ceiling in a locked room, and setting up a scenario where the door is open is incredibly complicated. CRACKED.COM https://www. youtube com/watch 7v=3kJLLUUFF4 — 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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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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Fallout 3

Fallout 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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Dead Space

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 — Source

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

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

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In Halo 3, the Chief shoots a ridiculous number of bullets. GIVER G And every one has his name on it. That detail isn't visible during regular gameplay - the bullets go by too fast. The markings weren't discovered until somebody noticed them in video replay mode. CRACKED.COM http ://halo wikin .com/wiki/Chief_EG-X — Source

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