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33 Bits of Video Game Trivia Stolen From Our Castle by an Italian Plumber With Revenge on His Mind

August 28, 2024

You gamers clearly remember the first game that got you on your gamer path, right? That eye-opening view into a new pixelated world was probably quite the experience. Well, that’s how we felt about our first video game fact. We remember it like it was yesterday. It was, “Wall jumping in the original Super Mario Bros. started as a glitch.”

Wow. We got a little teary eyed just typing that. These facts will probably hit you right in the feels, too.

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Someone calculated just how fast the Doom guy is. Redditor u/Phytor has done the math on this long-debated issue. Не concluded that Mr. Doom Man weighs 1,204 lbs, and still manages to walk at a speed of 49.5 miles per hour. That's faster than Usain Bolt (on a motorbike). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nintendo ran a M price-fixing cartel for years. In the '90s, getting a Nintendo game in Spain cost you three times as much as it did in Britain or Germany. The European Commission fined the company 149 million euro in 2002 for rigging the market. In 1991, they had been found guilty of the same racket in the U.S. CRACKED.COM — Source

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33 Bits of Video Game Trivia Stolen From Our Castle by an Italian Plumber With Revenge on His Mind — Source

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Some of the textures TIME 00:52:81 (rocks, walls, etc...) used 002 in Sonic Adventure are from pictures its developers took during trips to Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. 04 CRACKED.COM — Source

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The AI in such Bethesda games as Elder Scrolls and Fallout can't handle ladders. The developers worked around it by simply omitting functioning ladders from the games. If the main character attempts to climb a ladder, a loading screen appears instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The game Wing Commander crashes with an error message that would read EMM386 Memory manager error. when exited. EJECT EJECT nation LOS TUTE LOIS coma NAVICATION USA as en Nana Gunc Lazer cannen DESTINATION Ner 2 ANGE NOZ km HAPPY Objective This bug was made into a feature by one of the game programmers by changing the error message to Thank you for playing Wing Commander! C:\wc1> CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM THE BUSHES IN BATTLEFIELD 3 WERE JUST TREES SUNKEN INTO THE GROUND The bushes you see are just the tips of the trees peeking through the ground at different angles; appearing to be unique to each other, but are really just cheap shortcuts made by the developers. — Source

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MOST FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GAMES DON'T RENDER OR VISUALIZE BULLETS AT ALL Since the weapon hits the target almost instantaneously, any bullet that comes from the weapon would not be visible and unnecessary to show Instead, games calculate the trajectory to where the bullet would hit the target if fired from a certain position. The calculation is far more simpler and faster than the calculations needed for a bullet rendering. GRACKED.COM THIS TECHNIQUE IS CALLED HITSCAN — Source

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Super Smash Bros.

SUPER SMASH BROS. LUIGI MARIO DK LINK SAMUS C.FALCON NESS YOSHI KIRBY FOX PIKACHU JIGGLYPUFF 1PHMT 2PHR 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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PERFECT DARK Position Image ari ightness OK CRACKED.COM Perfect Dark was to have a face-mapping feature that enabled players to change the appearance of enemies into that of family and friends using their GameBoy Camera. Insurmountable technical difficulties caused the feature to be scrapped; that, or the eventual lawsuits sure to follow. — Source

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CRACKED COM STARDEW VALLEY began as a C# exercise. Computer science graduate Eric ConcernedApe Barone wanted to improve his coding skill after his job applications got turned down. So he decided to create a Harvest Moon clone as a coding exercise, and ended up creating a hit indie game. — Source

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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. — Source

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POKEMON CRYSTAL Nintendo PoKéMoN Gotta catch emall! PHM TRAINER RED wants to battle! GRACKED.COM AME BOY. COLOR 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. — Source

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Scott Cawthon created Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic mascots after his previous game was mocked for being inadvertently terrifying. LE PA Cawthon developed a kid's video game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. that featured a beaver that many critics labeled: a scary animatronic. This got him to question his career path before ultimately saying, you want something scary? I'll give you scary. CRACKED.COM — Source

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STARCRAFT During development Blizzard had trouble keeping the harvesting units from bunching up together like L.A. traffic because of their pathfinding. O of 100 Oas 22/26 activated Terran Refinery Veapane Ger 4992 700/750 Their good enough fix was to make harvesters the only units in the game that can walk through other units. CRACKED COM — Source

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Axton from Borderlands 2 is bisexual thanks to a code screw up. When playing as Axton and reviving another player, there's a chance a flirtatious dialogue will trigger. This was only supposed to happen when reviving female characters, however, a coding mistake resulted in him flirting with male ones as well. After people voiced their disappointment that it was just a mistake, the writers officially made Axton bisexual in the DLC. GRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM WALL JUMPING STARTED AS A GLITCH. In the original Super Mario Bros, if Mario ran against a wall in midair, he would briefly register as being inside the object, which made the game believe he was on solid ground, allowing him to jump again. Developers liked this feature so much that they left it intact for ten years, until it became an actual in-game ability — Source

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got its iconic art ZAM I style thanks to Playstation 2 limitations. At the start of development, Okami was using realistic graphics, but due to the game having big open areas that players could explore the developers realized they would have to thin out a lot of the content to make the game run. So they settled on the Japanese ink-wash style that we all love today. CRACKED COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM The sounds Minecraft's ghasts make are the sound designer's vocalizations and the noises of his cat being disturbed in its sleep. — Source

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Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim because Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic, assumed that hedgehogs can't swim. TIME 2:15 RINGS 1 He's wrong. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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. — Source

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HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED CRACKED.COM Halo: Combat Evolved was almost a top-down, real time strategy game, a la StarCraft. It wasn't until Microsoft bought the developing studio, Bungie, and launched Halo as their flagship XBox title that it became the first person shooter we know. — Source

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SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 GRACKED.COM Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally more similar to the first game, although much harder. So hard, in fact, that developers didn't think Americans could play it, so they reskinned the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic with familiar Mario characters. — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 2013, a special mech was introduced to Sarah's Jenner was released to MECHWARRIOR honor the memory ONLINE of Sarah Parries, a five-year-old MWO enthusiast who was taken by brain cancer. Designed with things she loved, it cost $10, and all proceeds (more than $122, 000) were donated to the Canadian Cancer Society. JR7-D(S) 10% ХР BOOST GENERAL WEAPONS G EQUIPMENT TONNAGE 35 LEFT ARM Medium Laser v2 ENGINE 300 XL LEFT TORSO Beagle Active Prube TOP SPEED 138.9 kph CENTER Streak SAM x2 MAX ENGINE 300 TORSO RATING RIGHT ARM Medium Laser v2 ARMOR 214 HARDPOINTS INTERNAL — Source

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Oblivion's original Radiant Al was too smart to ship. In one case, a quest became impossible to complete in testing because skooma addicts kept killing a quest NPC to take the skooma from his corpse. Seriously, sometimes it's gotten so weird it's like dealing with a holodeck that's gone sentient. - Emil Pagliarulo, Bethesda designer CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallout 3 GRAGKED.COM Due to nuclear warfare still being a sensitive subject in Japan, the Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb. — Source

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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 — Source

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ACIEN CRACKED.COM EXPLORERS' CLUB ACTIVISION CHOPPER N COMMANDOS E W S THE ACTIVISI BUCKET BR ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED Patch Adams Video game achievements started out as real-world merit badges. Fans of early Activision games could take a picture of their high scores and mail it to the company. Activision would then send them a patch that highlighted their accomplishment. Eventually, this method of showing off was digitally incorporated into the games and gaming platforms themselves, thus morphing into the achievements we waste our precious free time over today. — Source

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Counter Strike started out as a free Half-Life multiplayer mod that was created by two college students. A year later, the mod got so popular it was immediately acquired by Valve, the company that created Half-Life. A 1955 ВБ 201 404 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hackers discovered where all the children are in Elden Ring. Parry Grafted Scion One of the first tough enemies players encounter, the disgusting homunculus Grafted Scion, is a terrible assemblement of body parts under a cloak. Upon closer inspection, players discovered that it's the result of stitching a bunch of kids together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TWITE Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM — Source

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There is a mysterious, human-sized statue of Sonic The Hedgehog sitting in the woods. The Sega World Kadoma theme park in Takao, Japan closed in 2005, and the park auctioned off whatever people could carry away. A homeowner named Mr. Kadeo bought the statue to serve as a landmark guiding visitors to his house from the road. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Space Invaders had its own term for repetitive strain injuries in the '80s. Snacks WIN . UP TO Space Invaders Wrist was coined by one writer to the New England Medical Journal in 1981. By the following year, BBC was reporting that each family doctor typically now saw one new case of Space Invaders Wrist every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

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