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30 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

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30 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

August 12, 2024

Video games and lists are all about the numbers. You got your 1-up, your 2D graphics, some Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4K resolution. Hmm, 2D graphics in 4K? Now, that’s gameplay that spans generations.

Either way, we have a lot more than four video-game facts here, so let’s see if you can keep the numbers game going!

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A PAINTING GIVES AWAY THE FATE OF THE JOKER IN BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY. JOKER THE CRACKED.COM Playing as Catwoman, you crack a safe that sits behind a painting titled Cain and Abel: The Duality of Man. Later in the game, Batman carries the Joker in the same manner, punctuating the twisted, good and evil, brotherly relationship between them. — Source

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SUPER SMASH BROS. LUIGI MARIO DK LINK SAMUS C.FALCON NESS YOSHI KIRBY FOX PIKACHU JIGGLYPUFF 1PHMT 2PHA 3PHM 4 HMN CRACKED COM Super Smash Bros. was pitched as a 4-player brawler, but Nintendo did not initially want their licensed characters to appear. After the small team of developers added Mario, Link and Samus anyway, Nintendo liked the demo so much they granted them permission to use the characters. — 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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KIRBY Kirby was a placeholder for a to-be-designed + character. Game designer Masahiro Sakurai dropped a circle into his game as he was designing it, figuring he'd flesh out the character later. Eventually he decided he liked the little sphere as-is, and added a few little details to give it personality. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM RETIVISION Start O Select Interact LE Previous Same et Next Game Exit IN BLACK OPS II, NUKETOWN MAP, IF YOU SHOOT DOWN ALL THE MANNEQUINS® HEAD IN UNDER 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS, WALK OVER TO THE LARGE TV IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP. FROM THERE, YOU CAN PLAY ACTIVISION'S CLASSICS LIKE PITFALL, H.E.R.O,, RIVER RAID AND KABOOM! — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS THE SERIES WAS INSPIRED BY BUG COLLECTING. GRACKED.COM As a child, Pokémon's creator Satoshi Tajiri was so enamored by bug collecting he wanted to become an entomologist, before ultimately finding his love of video games. The idea behind the Pokémon games is a marriage of these two loves. — 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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Atari made a dump in the desert because their games sucked so hard. ATARI 2600 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL CRACKED.COM The three-decade gaming rumor was confirmed in 2014: unsold copies of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial were jammed into a hole in the middle of a New Mexico desert. — Source

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Princess Zelda was named after a wealthy Alabamian. CRACKED.COM Miyamoto named her after Zelda Fitzgerald -- novelist, daughter of a state Supreme Court Justice, and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. — Source

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CRACKED.COM BLANKA TOOK A WHILE TO BE GREEN. STREET FRICHTER The electric Brazilian was more naturally colored at first, which looked weird. With each iteration, each character got more and more vivid colors - with Blanka finally becoming the green beast we all know and love. — 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 MOM - 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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REVEAL OF A CLOSE RELATION IS FORESHADOWED IN FINAL FANTASY V. Greetings, | am Siren. I'm afraid your companions' souls now belong to me. CRACKED.COM When the Siren uses visions of loved ones to trick her victims, both Lenna and Faris see King Tycoon, foreshadowing the reveal that they are in fact sisters. — Source

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DIDDY KONG RACING PLAYER SELECT 1 CRACKED.COM When game studio Rare needed more time to develop Banjo-Kazooie to compete with Super Mario 64, they pushed the generic title Pro-Am 64 for a Christmas release. There were concerns the IP wasn't strong enough and may hurt sales, so at the last minute assets were changed to the more familiar Diddy Kong. — Source

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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 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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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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CRACKED COM A bug from another game inspired Devil May Cry's iconic feature where the main character can suspend enemies mid-air using continuous attacks. Cool ! 3 During the development of Onimusha: Warlords, they discovered a bug that caused the enemy to stay floating when being attacked. They thought it was kind of cool and adopted it for Devil May Cry. — Source

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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 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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Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — Source

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GTA 3 features a mission called Two-Faced Tanner, in which you're sent to kill an undercover cop called Tanner, who's described as strangely animated and more or less useless outside of his car. This is a shot at the protagonist of the Driver series, undercover cop John Tanner, and the series' lack of on-foot abilities compared to GTA. umage lony 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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