29 Video Game Facts to Hoard For Use Against the Final Boss

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29 Video Game Facts to Hoard For Use Against the Final Boss

You know the best part about hoarding weapons and little treasures in video games? They don’t weigh anything! Your character can carry all kinds of goodies without being slowed down in the slightest. Then, when they need some massive automatic rifle or beefy bazooka, they somehow pull it out of their back pocket and put it to good use.

It’s a lot like these video game facts. Your brain can soak thm in without be bogged down. If anything, they’ll probably give it a little pep in its step.

Diddy Kong Racing

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.

Pokemon Crystal

POKEMON CRYSTAL Nintendo PoKéMoN Gotta catch emall! PHM TRAINER RED wants to battle! GRACKED.COM AME BOY COLOR adidas INTERNATIONAL The Pokemon series was planned to end with Pokemon Gold and Silver, fighting your way back through the first game's gyms and using the original protagonist as the final boss was a fitting conclusion to the story. Of course, after the success of the previous games, the Pokemon Company decided to continue the franchise with Crystal.

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for.

Half-Life 2

HALF-LIFE2 Achievement unlocked LITTLE ROCKET MAN You'll have to carry a garden gnome from the beginning to the end of the game, then put him into a rocket ship and send him to space. Gnome Chompski (yes, he has a name) must be carried with your gravity gun, which means you can't use the gravity gun - or any other weapons-while carrying him. CRACKED.COM

Pure Hold’em

PURE HOLD'EM A Q Achievement unlocked PURE POKER This achievement requires you to get to level 100. Sounds simple, but it'll actually take about 10,000 hours of playing. That's thanks to the game's perplexing leveling system, whereby each level costs 10% more experience than all the previous ones combined. CRACKED.COM

Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT Achievement unlocked MY KUNG FU IS STRONGER You have to gain mastery of all 28 fighters. To accomplish that, you need to win 2,800 matches, perform 2,800 fatalities and 4,200 x-ray moves, spill 280,000 liters of blood, and play for at least 672 hours. As a bonus for completing this, you'll develop a total resistance to gore and violence. CRACKED.COM

Garry’s Mod

Garry's Mod Achievement unlocked YES, I'M THE REAL GARRY! Want to become a stalker and earn an achievement along the way? We got you covered. Your task is to play the game with its creator, Garry Newman. Не doesn't play the game regularly anymore, so you'll have to get a bit stalky to see if he's playing, and then get lucky enough to get into a session with him. CRACKED.COM

Rockband 2

29 Video Game Facts to Hoard For Use Against the Final Boss

Mario Easter Egg

A new Mario Easter egg in a Sega game has been found. CRACKED.COM It took 26 years for a player to spot Mario sitting in one of the files of the game Astal released in 1995.

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Nintendo

Nintendo thought TLOZ would be too hard for Americans. ...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

Cruisin’ USA

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

GameCube

It was designed to show off the processing power and capacity for new mechanics that Nintendo fans could look forward to with the 2001 release of the

Majora’s Mask

DEELOPHENIT The Legend of Zelda was a dungeon builder, like Super Mario Maker. The theme song was an afterthought. Majora's Mask is based on the 5 sta

Solid Snake

Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, S

Super Mario Bros.

CRACKED.COM WALL JUMPING STARTED AS A GLITCH. 00000 00000 00000 rrrerncac eoeneoerereeoroeeoeeorrkorr 00000 00000 In the original Super Mario Bros, if

The Legend of Zelda

Like Likes The legeud of are the ZELDA worst creatures in all of Hyrule. LEVEL-6 X83 B -LIFE- x2 X10 Like Likes will eat your shield and if you don't

Metal Gear Solid 2

METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY P Achievement unlocked GREAT DANE You'll need to collect 218 dog tags by holding up soldiers and waiting until they

Sonic the Hedgehog

In 2005, Sega answered the question we were all asking: What would Sonic the Hedgehog be like if he wasn't fun anymore and also murdered things? Shado

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