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Have you ever wondered how the Final Fantasy franchise got its name and what it means? Turns out, it’s mainly called that because the creator thought it would be the studio’s final game. More on that and 30 other bonkers facts about iconic video games below…

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Space Invaders may have caused a coin shortage. SCORE SPACE TAIYO алка INVADERS SPECE 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. — World Coin News

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Sega Dreamcast VMU

Sega Dreamcast 50 VMU BE + x GRACKED.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. — Kotaku

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Trespasser and its cleavage health gauge. CRACKED.COM This Jurassic Park PC game isn't well remembered or liked, despite some really great voice overs from Richard Attenborough's John Hammond that help to fill out the story. The most bizarre choice in this survival game is the placement of your health bar: a heart tattoo on the chest of your female character, that you view by looking down at your cleavage. — Engadget

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Doom

Doom could have been an official Aliens game. DOOM According to John Romero, id Software was offered the license to Aliens. They decided to turn it down, however, as they didn't want to take someone else's directions about what they could and couldn't do. CRACKED.COM — Doom Center (via archive.org)

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30 BT R.O.B. V2 x GRACKED.COM Having a robot play a game with you sounds amazing. It would be if the robot was competent, or the few games he played along with you were fun. — Polygon

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Tetris

Tetris, when played after a trauma, positively affects people. СНПЧУ CRACKED.COM Research has shown that playing everyone's favorite Russian puzzle can stop the formation of bad memories associated with trauma. — NPR

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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. — Rings and Coins

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Pokemon

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THERE WAS (ALMOST) NO SUCH THING AS 100% ACCURACY. :L9 HP: MANKEY :L9 HP: 10/ 29 MANKEY's attack missed! CRACKED.COM There is a 1 in 256 chance to miss any move, even if they have perfect accuracy. The only exceptions were for moves that didn't check for accuracy, such as Swift and Bide. — Bulbapedia

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THE FIRST STREET FIGHTER LITERALLY BLOODIED YOUR FISTS LIKE A REAL FIGHT. Z ON VS Initially, the cabinet didn't have buttons, but rubber pads you actually had to punch (and through those, your opponent), resulting in players getting their hands hurt. The game became much more popular after that baffling design choice was abandoned. CRACKED.COM — Polygon & Wikimedia Commons

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Just four guys invented first-person shooters. DOCK 100% ٦ 2 3 9 0% BULL 57 200 SHEL 700 50 5 G 7 ROKT 50 AMMO HEALTH ARMS ARMOR CELL 300 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 — PCMag

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... TELL US NOW. Dredd vs. Death GRACKED Philip H. says this game was just a big Red Bull commercial. Which is weird, because it's also stated in the game that energy drinks like Red Bull are banned in Mega-City One for being bad for your health. — Tell Us Now: 20 Blatant Examples Of Product Placement In Video Games

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS THE OLD MAN THAT BLOCKS YOUR PATH IN VIRIDIAN CITY IS ACTUALLY A DRUNK. -h...... Mmn... My head hurts... GRACKED.COM Looks like I was pretty drunk! In the original Japanese release of Pokémon Green, the NPC that stops you from progressing until you deliver Professor Oak's package tells you he was pretty drunk and that his head hurts. When the game was localized for English audiences, this was changed to an old man needing his morning coffee. — Did You Know Gaming

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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. — Gamespot

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COMBOS WERE INVENTED BY ACCIDENT. STREET FRIGHTER 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 — Polygon

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The Legend of Zelda

Nintendo thought TLOZ would be too hard for Americans. CRACKED.COM ...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 a 1-900 number). — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Zelda Facts

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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. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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Farmville

FARMVILLE Farmville F is a shameless ripoff of a game called + Farm Town. Farmer Farm LEARNING DE ROPES Farm Town Farmville HAMP Farm Town debuted just months before Farmville spammed its way into Facebook history. The gameplay and visuals are virtually identical. CRACKED.COM — 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Rob Zombie

... TELL US NOW. Twisted Metal 4 CRACKED RJ K. remembers the bonkers playable Rob Zombie character: his wish at the end was just playing the video for Dragula. — Tell Us Now: 20 Blatant Examples Of Product Placement In Video Games

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Miyamoto designed the game based on his own childhood adventures. CRACKED.COM As a kid, he spent a lot of time wandering around the woods near his village. That, coupled with the maze-like layout of his home, and a small cave system he reportedly crawled into, account for the sense of adventure and discovery he aims to foster in every Zelda game. — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Zelda Facts

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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 — 13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games

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A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDER CLOSE SURVITILANCE - They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM — 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

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Tomba! CRACKED COM This bright, fun game about a feral child battling pig people takes on a grave meaning in Italy. Literally; tomba means tomb in Italian, SO they had to call it Tombi! in Europe. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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Skyrim

In Skyrim, you can put a basket over a merchant's head. A Stock Goat Cheese Wheel WEIGHT 2 VALUE 10 Then you can do some shoplifting. There are no penalties for the theft, either. In fact, there's no acknowledgement whatsoever-even if you're grabbing merchandise from the counter right in front of them. They can't see or hear you. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/bm/799MEOSk — 12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game

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In Duke Nukem 3D you can find a familiar dismembered corpse. When Duke sees the corpse he'll say, Why so serious, Sam? A SECRET PLACE! FIR AID Inv HEALTH HRMOR AMMO 64 84 142 302 Duke's not predicting the Joker's Dark Knight line ten years ahead of time. He's throwing shade at his rival franchise. The corpse in question is Sam, the protagonist of the Serious Sam games. CRACKED.COM — 11 Video Games That Openly Mock Other Games

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CRACKED COM EVER WONDERED HOW MIRRORS WORKED IN OLD GEN GAMES? BEHIND A MIRROR WAS ACTUALLY A DUPLICATE OF THE ROOM YOU WERE IN, NOT A REFLECTION; MODELED EXACTLY THE WHEN YOU WERE ACTIVE IN A SAME ONLY FLIPPED: INCLUDING YOU. ROOM WITH A MIRROR, THE GAME WOULD SPAWN ANOTHER YOU, AND IT WOULD MIMIC ALL OF YOUR ACTIONS. INO PLAYERS COULD EXPLOIT THE MIRROR HEALTH ATH AMMO BOUNDARY AND JUMP INTO THE ALTERNATE AREA- 42 2 9 OCCASIONALLY WITH YOUR DUPLICATE FOLLOWING YOU IN REVERSE. — 31 Design Tricks Behind Famous Video Games (You Can't Unsee)

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Searching through Peach's room in Super Mario RPG gives you this. Found Toadstool's ??? Hey there!! What do you think you're doing? Let's refrain from searching through other peoples' things! It's as much an easter 699 for fantic writers as it is for the average gamer. — 21 Easter Eggs In Classic Video Games

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CRACKED.COM In Gears of War 3, Act One Chapter One, after you raise the lift so the Raven can land, there should be four tubes, two on either wall. Walk up to each one and call Hello? down the tube. Once you have shouted into all of the tubes, a chicken should pop out of one. — 21 Easter Eggs In Classic Video Games

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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 — 10 Insane Video Game Achievements

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