29 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games That Can Scale The Mountain Of Pop Culture, No Problem

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29 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games That Can Scale The Mountain Of Pop Culture, No Problem
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We're deathly afraid of heights, so rounding up these video game facts was pretty unpleasant. We just wanted you to know what we went through, so you'll appreciate our efforts.

Some fact lists are as easy as looking out our back window, but some (like this bad boy) involve ropes and pulleys and oxygen tanks for that dastardly altitude sickness. It's all part of the job though. Wherever video game tidbits happen to be, you can count on us not being too far behind!

Duke Nukem 3D

In Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic, there is a hidden room: Homer Simpson's office at the nuclear power plant. SECTOR 7-G HERPONS ILU HEALTH ARKOR NEYS ВИНО 72/200 5: 0/50 8: 0/99 100 0 0/50 6: 0/50 9: 0/10 48 CRACKED.COM Wي 48/200 1: 0/50 0 0/99

Halo 4

32 In Mission 6 of Halo 4, you'll find two marines standing near a forklift. If you wait around long enough, they 'Il begin talking, and you'll hear the voices of Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter. CRACKED COM

The Force Unleashed

INSIDE THE TROPHY ROOM IN THE IMPERIAL KASHYKK LEVEL OF STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, YOU'LL FIND JAR JAR BINKS FROZEN IN CARBONITE. CRACKED.COM

Vice City

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

Far Cry 3

GRACKED COM The buried man from the cover of Far Cry 3... ...is actually in the game. (map coordinates: X: 619.7, Y: 559.4)

The Lion King

Disney's The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure 2000 CRACKED.COM This is a game where you play as a lion that gets hurt by ladybugs and small lizards. Instead of trying to tell an interesting story, or even following the familiar one of the movie, this Lion King game is more interested in making you collect thousands of paw-print tokens scattered over ugly, blocky levels.

Top Gun

Top Gun 1987 10048ALT. RADAR: MISSILE ft 2 10 PEMAIN 00597SPEED TYPE т-гг tol/h CRACKED.COM The high octane action of the Tom Cruise film is translated as well as possible on the limited hardware, which is to say you fire blobs at other blobs, against a solid blue backdrop. It doesn't even have greased up pilots playing volleyball.

Crash Bandicoot 2

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back CRACKED COM A death animation that shows Crash getting crushed into a wobbling head/feet abomination was removed from the Japanese version. Around that time, a Japanese serial killer had left a severed head and a pair of shoes as kind of a gruseome calling card.

Final Fight

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.

Pac-Man

Pac-Man READY! CRACKED.COM That signature wakka-wakka onomatopoeia is pronounced paku-paku in Japan. They nearly translated that to Puck Man, until someone noticed how easily arcade cabinets could be altered to something more... flattering, yet sinister.

Mortal Kombat: Deception

Mortal Kombat: Deception GRACKED.COM This game was almost a major disappointment in France. Literally - déception means disappointment, so they renamed it Mortal Kombat: Mystification.

Contra

Contra CRACKED COM They had to turn pretty much every human and alien into a robot, in order to comply with Germany's strict anti-violence laws. That's why, over there, it's called Probotector, i.e. robot protector.

Indigo Prophecy

Indigo Prophecy CONTROVERSY...WHAT CONTROVERSY? FAHEENHEIT CRACKED.COM Gamers everywhere except North America know it as Farenheit. Atari was worried Americans would conflate it with Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11.

Kirby

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

Mario

MARIO Everything about Mario was created to + conserve pixels. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto added: A hat, so he wouldn't have to draw hair, a nose and mustache, so Mario's face wouldn't just be a blob, and overalls, to give Mario's arms definition. CRACKED.COM

Legend of Zelda

LEGEND OF ZELDA Zelda originally had you defeat an enemy by + screaming at it. EEK! Originally the Japanese NES had a microphone, and the way to defeat a Legend of Zelda monster called Pols Voice was to scream into the mic. CRACKED.COM

Space Invaders

SPACE INVADERS Space Invaders' increasing speed is because of a + hardware problem. Even after a year working on the hardware, the invaders moved really slowly. They only sped up when there were fewer of them on the screen, because they'd been shot. Hence the slowly accelerating pace. CRACKED.COM

Metal Gear

METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM

Silent Hill

SILENT HILL The creepy fog in Silent Hill is there to hide the + game's slow load time. It sets a creepy atmosphere, and prevents players from seeing monsters until the last second, but it's actually there to conceal the fact that the scenes take a while to render. + CRACKED.COM

Legend of Zelda

LEGEND OF ZELDA The beta version of Zelda let you choose either a sword or a boomerang. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. The game was also originally meant to be set both in the past and the future. Link got his name because he was meant to be the connection between the two. CRACKED.COM

Tomb Raider

TOMB RAIDER Lara Croft has a big chest because of a mistake. Artist Toby Gard, one of the people in charge of designing + Lara's character, was editing her dimensions. When he decided to increase her bust size by 50%, he mistyped 150%, and an icon was born. CRACKED.COM

Gradius

GRADIUS The Konami code was left in the game + by accident. в A START Gradius was so hard that Kazuhisa Hashimoto couldn't play to test it. Не eventually added a simple set of button presses to give himself a full set of power-ups. Не forgot to delete the code before the game was released. CRACKED.COM

Farmville

FARMVILLE Farmville F is a shameless ripoff of a game called + Farm Town. Farmer Farm LEARNING DE ROPES Farm Town Farmville Farm Town debuted just months before Farmville spammed its way into Facebook history. The gameplay and visuals are virtually identical. CRACKED.COM

Sonic

From the beginning, Sonic was a somewhat cynical attempt to create a brand ambassador to rival Mario. SONC THE HEDGEHOG SEGA They wanted a character t

Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. FECANSION DONKEY AK Onhrer INCLUDEDE KONG G DX4 COLLECTOR'S EDITION YEL

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