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35 Random Bits of Trivia About Video Games and the Gaming Industry

September 21, 2024

These video game facts are a lot like gamers who take games a little too seriously. They care so deeply about spreading game-based truths, but they need to be reminded that it’s supposed to be fun. The word “game” is right there in the name.

So to these facts, and the intense gamers of the world, let’s focus on the G-word today.

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YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grand Theft Auto

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

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 adidas 30 Y Achievement unlocked ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST The creators of the game saw Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, which made you kill 53,594 zombies, and decided to make it 0.001% harder. The task: kill 53,595 zombies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GTA 3 features a mission called Two-Faced Tanner, in which you're sent to kill an undercover cop called Tanner, who's described as strangely animated and more or less useless outside of his car. This is a shot at the protagonist of the Driver series, undercover cop John Tanner, and the series' lack of on-foot abilities compared to GTA. mage eleny CRACKED.COM — Source

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ASTEROIDS Spacewar is just like Asteroids, only better- + and it came first. Spacewar was a two-player game where you could shoot the other player, there was a black hole in the middle of the screen, and the star field was based on actual star fields. Asteroids: 1979. Spacewar: 1962. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SUPER MARIO The Chain Chomp monsters in Mario games + are based on a dog. When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, his neighbor had a chained dog who constantly barked. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. Chex Quest GRACKED Thomas C. says that, despite its humble origins as a prize that came in cereal boxes, it still ranks as a legendary early fps game. — Source

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Hell is in... New Mexico? DOOM The game's first episode canonically happens in a moon of Mars, but the sky is a stock photo taken in Yangshuo, China. The sky graphics for episodes 2 and 3 come from Utah and the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, respectively. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHUN-LI ALMOST WORE PANTS. DETE 2018 STAREET GROZ Chun-Li was drawn with pants through most of her development process. Only at the last possible minute did artist Akira Yasuda change them to tights. (Не also gave her thick thighs because, well, he liked her that way and he could not lie.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, so he didn't sue him into oblivion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The multiplayer mode that defined GoldenEye 007 for many, was created on the sly. The game was already running behind so the devs knew they'd never get permission from the higher-ups at Nintendo and Rare. They just did it (in a month's time) and added it right before release. PLAYERS MILLION NN SELLER CHOICE de 1998 INTERACIONE 1997- ARTS ART SOURCED Georgen FBC NH Rumble Par GAME OF THE YEAR SAMOON - - SRB 14 TEEN T 4015 125 — 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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The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team modeled them using photos of actual car crash victims and war casualties. CRACKED COM — Source

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Street Fighter

CAPCOM WAS AGAINST MIRROR MATCHES. STREET FIGHTER Why would anyone want to play the same character? the top brass said when the American team pitched the idea. Meanwhile, players were frustrated they couldn't do exactly that. The idea got traction eventually, though, and Street Fighter II: Champion Edition came out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A ton of Christian imagery had to be replaced for the US-version. CRACKED.COM You can still see a cross on Link's shield, but other elements were adjusted due to Nintendo of America's religion ban: priests and churches became sages and sanctuaries, and what we know as The Book of Magic was originally The straight-up Holy Bible. — Source

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This game actually hurt people who sucked at it. PUSPUT CRACKED.COM The PainStation, a German creation, is a two-player Pong-like game. Players can get shocked, whipped, or burned by the console. — Source

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A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOUR ARI UNDER CLOSE SURVITILANCE CAN They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM A bug from another game inspired Devil May Cry's iconic feature where the main character can suspend enemies mid-air using continuous attacks. Cool ! 3 During the development of Onimusha: Warlords, they discovered a bug that caused the enemy to stay floating when being attacked. They thought it was kind of cool and adopted it for Devil May Cry. — Source

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Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series originally looked a lot like Johnny Knoxville. Developer Naughty Dog based the character model on the Jackass star, but later decided to go for a less goofy approach, and turned the handsome up a few notches. The final product became a mixture of Knoxville and Drake's voice actor, Nolan North. 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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The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP MOM - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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John Romero's head behind the Doom II end boss was a joke the artists put in, thinking Romero wouldn't know. The head is behind the spot you shoot to kill the boss. Romero found out and, to tell them he knew, he made the boss speak (backwards): To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero. CRACKED.COM — Source

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L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Sonic the Hedgehog was initially a rabbit. Developer Yuji Naka wanted to give the character a somersault attack, but later figured that it'd make zero sense for a rabbit to do so with its long ears, because it'd hurt itself while doing the attack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Legend has it that 26-year-old designer Toru Iwatani came up with Pac-Man when he removed the first slice from a pizza pie. And our old pal Scott Pilgrim was right: the name was changed because the original Puckman was just begging for vandalism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mario walked SO that Pikmin could... scuttle. un Glapt ПЯРА are X Super Mario 128 was a bizarre demo designed to show that the GameCube could render 128 Marios in a single environment. That rapid object generation is the basis for the now-classic Pikmin army. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nintendo was denied the rights to Popeye only after Shigeru Miyamoto had designed a game around it. So he swapped Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto for a generic carpenter, a princess, and the gorilla bizarrely named Donkey Kong. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED Austria tells Sony to refund FIFA Ultimate Team card pack buyers in 2023. In March 2023, an Austrian court made a decision that FIFA Ultimate Team's card packs went against the country's gambling laws and told Sony to give money back to people who had bought them. 92 88 см 90 CM см 94 см PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO 73 PAC 91 DRI 70 РАС 90 DRI 75 PAC 90 DRI 76 PAC DRI 79 SHO 66 DEF 79 SHO 68 DEF 93 76 80 SHO 71 DEF 85 SHO DER 91 PAS 64 PHY 93 PAS 65 PHY — Source

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Stealing PlayStation 4s

CRACKED SNEAKING A PLAYSTATION 4 THROUGH SELF CHECKOUT AS FRUIT SNOLLIO ЗНУКО SONY PS4 In 2019, a 19-year-old from Nice, France snuck a PlayStation 4 through a supermarket self-checkout as fruit - he weighed it on the scale, then stuck the printed €9.24 (£8.10) price tag on it. — Source

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Sony and Nintendo were collaborating on a CD-based game console in 1988. But there were conflicts, so the companies parted ways and Nintendo partnered — Source

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Indiana Jones is a protest hero in an old Czech video game. The text-based game The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on Janua — Source

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VIN DIESEL is a game designer. He's played D&D for over 20 years, and opened his own gaming development house to create a Riddick-based game. Metacrit — Source

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