30 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

Eight complete rookies made one of the best video games of all time
30 Trivia Tidbits About Video Games

If some square is giving you grief about how much time you spend playing video games, just tell them that it’s a whole lot better than mindlessly scrolling on TikTok. You could even double-down with the fact that you’re here, learning a thing or two about them as well! Who cares if you’re learning about trigonometry or video games? Every new little tidbit of knowledge helps beef up that brain of yours. 

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“The Matrix” revolutionized slow-motion: bullet-time.

BULLET TIME 1999 CRACKED.COM The term bullet-time was first used in the original script for The Matrix and has since been used in a variety of video games. The effect is achieved with the aid of multiple cameras to capture moments in slow motion that were otherwise unfilmable.

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The 7 Up Spot had a video game, even though Connect Four was right there

Spot: The Video Game RELEASED ON: TOO GODDAMN MANY THINGS ZUP PROOD PRESENTS SP T 17004 THE VIDEO GAMIN THA GAME GRITICS SAY CRACKED. COM TWO THUMBS UP What's lamer than making the circle in your logo your mascot? Making a video game with that mascot that is just a 2,500 year old Chinese board game.

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A man successfully sued a video game publisher for making their game too addicting. XLOR CRACKED Craig Smallwood sued NC Interactive after playing their game Lineage II, a MMORPG like World of Warcraft, for 20,000 hours and ruining his life. Consequences like those smallwood suffered would normally be covered in the End-User Licensing Agreement, but in Hawaii, where the case was filed, they don't recognize contracts that waive the ability to make gross-negligence claims.

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Terminator and Predator might be connected

CRACKED.COM SKYNET MODELED THE TERMINATOR AFTER... MAJOR DUTCH SCHAEFER? The 1994 Alien versus Predator video game establishes that Cyberdyne Systems took the hero from Predator as their template.

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Game studios are desperately trying to make us watch ads in games we’ve paid money for.

Playstation and Microsoft are trying to make in-game ads the new norm. Microsoft is investing in technology that'll facilitate the implementation of better ads on video games, making it easier to update their games to display what's hot at any given moment. CRACKED.COM

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Video games are bringing teens into libraries.

Many American public libraries carry video games as an attempt to entice teenagers into a library. CRACKED.COM The result is more teenagers coming to the library and books are being checked out at a rate that exceeds what it was before the gamers arrived.

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KDND's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest takes a tragic turn.

CRACKED Hold Your Wee for a Wii killed a woman. In 2007, KDND ran a contest called Hold Your Wee for a Wii, where the person who drank the most water without peeing would win a $250 Wii video game system. The station urged contestants to drink as much water as they could, resulting in the death of 28 year old Jennifer Lea Strange by water intoxication. !!M e-107.9 A the end Wii all the hits GAME INCLU JEU INCLUS! JUEGO INCLUIDO Wii

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Rookie Team Takes on Big Project.

CRACKED GOLDENEYE 007 A small team of nine people created GoldenEye 007, and eight of them had never made a game before. Somehow, they managed to make one of the most beloved video games ever.

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