30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History

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30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History
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We know how difficult it is to put the controller down, but trust us, this list is totally worth it. Toggling up and down on those things won't help you scroll through these video game facts, so if anything, they'll be a hindrance. It's a similar swipe of the thumb though, so you should be okay.

Not quite sure what to do with your controller-less hands are you? Maybe we just need to find a way to keep you gaming while also reading these gaming facts. Ooh, we got it! You can recite them into your headset for those dudes you're playing with!

SimAnt

SimAnt PAUSE SCENT Health CRACKED COM The console version included animation of ants puking, complete with disturbing, digitized HURKing. But Nintendo wouldn't allow it in the SNES version.

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 IDU HERPONS HEALTH ARKOR АННО 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

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

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

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.

Paper Mario

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.

Space Invaders

Space Invaders may have caused a coin shortage. SCORE SPACE TAITO шика INVADERS SPICE S WARS CRACKED.COM Though some consider this debunked, the game may have affected production of the 100-yen coin, which increased after the game was released.

Dreamcast VMU

Sega Dreamcast VMU B + x CRACKED.COM Dreamcast SLEEP MODE в A Turning your memory card into a separate game system is brilliant, but not many other game companies have tried to do it since Sega's last attempt.

Rad Mobile

ARCADE GAME RAD MOBILE REVEALS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. 19 RANK Round GRAGKED COM 41 Half a year before Sonic hit the Sega Genesis in North America, he could be seen dangling from the rearview mirror of a Ferrari 330 P4 Type in the coin-operated Rad Mobile.

Doom

Just four guys invented first-person shooters. DOOM 100% ٦ 2 3 9 0% BULL 57 200 SHEL 700 50 S G 7 RCKT 50 CELL AMMO HEALTH ARMS 300 ARMOR While Doom wasn't the first game to give you a POV shot of the game world, it did become the blueprint for the genre, set out by the founders of id Software - John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack. CRACKED.COM

Splatoon

SPLATOON THE M CRACKED.COM Splatoon was going to feature familiar faces from the Mario games before Miyamoto settled on creating new characters, the Inklings, for the company's first foray into the competitive shooter genre.

Street Fighter

COMBOS WERE INVENTED BY ACCIDENT. STREET FIGHTER Special moves (like the Shoryuken) were at first very hard to pull off, as you had to do several things at the exact same time. So the developers tried to open up the time window a little bit - and as a side effect, it was suddenly possible to perform a quick series of connected moves. CRACKED.COM

Zelda

EVERYTHING IN ZELDA: A LINK BETWEEN WORLDS + IS TILTED BACK. What the game looks like from top-down. What the game looks like from a different angle. That's because a true top-down view would make the game incredibly boring looking g - you'd only really get to see the top of Link's hat. CRACKED.COM

Rockband 2

30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History

LOTR

30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History

Duke Nukem 3D

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... GRACKED.COM

WiiFit

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.

Metal Gear Solid V

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.

Fallout 3

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

Bugs in the Graphics

The Team Fortress Va Spy is a glitch that never went away. A bug in the graphics caused some enemies to render as teammates. They pulled the old it's a feature, not a bug, and developed it into its own wildcard class. CRACKED.COM

Super Mario Galaxy

30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History

Diablo

30 Trivia Nuggets About Video Games from Pop Culture History

Street Fighter

STREET FIGHTER WAS BORN DURING A DULL MEETING. 100 STALEST FREHER Capcom programmer Takashi Nishiyama was getting really bored during a long meeting, so he started thinking about martial arts games, and the boss fights in those games, and wouldn't it be cool to make a game that was all about those boss fights. CRACKED.COM

Zelda

TLOZ's iconic title music was a last-minute patch. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA™ TM ©1986 NINTENDO CRACKED.COM They had planned to use Ravel's Boléro, but found out at the last minute that it wasn't yet in the public domain. Nintendo composer Koji Kondo had a day to whip up the iconic theme.

Geometry Wars

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

The Ratings Board

Game makers created a government body to oversee video game censorship. EARLY CHILDHOOD EVERYONE EVERYONE 10+ TEEN ® . ® T - E ee E CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY ESRB ESRB ESRB ESRB MATURE 17+ ADULTS ONLY 18+ RATING PENDING M ® A RP CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY CONTENT RATED BY ESRB ESRB ESRB CRACKED.COM Working with Congress in the 90s, they created the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which makes the black and white letters on game cases most people ignore.

Assassin's Creed

CRACKED.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.

Atari

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO SHEEP SKILL SEVELS OF PUNTA Lteated 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

Doom

Dungeons and Dragons was a big influence. DOCM Doom's cacodemon is the head of an Astral Dreadnought, as it appears on the cover of the D&D book Manual of the Planes. Also, aspects of the game came from a long-running D&D campaign the dev team was playing. CRACKED.COM

Wordle

WORDLE Facts ITS WORD LIST EXCLUDES OBSCURE WORDS Of the some 12,000 five-letter English words, Wardle's partner Palak Shah pared them down. You can thank her we aren't having to guess words like amyls' or 'vinew.' CRACKED.COM

Pac-Man

The creators of Pac-Man did not know how the game ended as it was designed to run indefinitely. It was only when Billy Mitchell finished the game, after all its internal storage ran out, that they saw how it ended. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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