28 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia We’re Now Burdened With Like a Lifelong Escort Mission

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28 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia We’re Now Burdened With Like a Lifelong Escort Mission

We’re so glad you guys are here to help with this load today. We don’t know why, but this set of video-game facts feels a lot heavier than most, and we can barely keep our heads up. Our brains are feeling a lot like Yoshi carrying baby Mario around, ya know? 

We’ll hopefully find some sort of reinforced neck brace while you guys take these from us one by one.

Gears of War 5

YOU CAN TRANSFORM MARCUS FENIX INTO BATISTA IN GEARS OF WAR 5. Batista, a big fan of the Gears franchise, appeared as a DLC skin for the game's multiplayer mode. The skin even allows players to perform his signature wrestling finisher on enemies. CRACKED COM

Grand Theft Auto IV

KATT WILLIAMS AND RICKY GERVAISE PERFORM STAND UP IN GTA IV. When you want to take a break from all of GTA's murder and mayhem, you can visit Liberty City's comedy club. There you'll find either Gervaise or Williams performing several minutes of their actual comedy routines. CRACKED COM

Hitman

28 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia We’re Now Burdened With Like a Lifelong Escort Mission

True Crime: Streets of L.A.

YOU CAN PLAY AS SNOOP DOGG IN TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA. Crenthaw Blvd Cresten Bivi Venice Blvd Btvd BURGER 6 You unlock Snoop by finding 30 dog bone collectibles that are hidden through the city-once unlocked you can play as him or have him join you as a teammate. CRACKED COM

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO Grand Theft Auto was inspired by a bug in + another game. Race'n'Chase Game Design Version 1.05 March 22 1995 с 1995 DMA Design Ltd Rockstar released a driving game called Race'n'Chase, and early testers panned it until they found a glitch. It + was a bug that caused the police to try to run players off the road. So instead of running missions, players screwed around while the police tried to run them off the road. And GTA was born. CRACKED.COM

Final Fantasy

FINAL FANTASY Final Fantasy got its name because its creator + figured he was done. Square was out of money after a + string of unsuccessful games. Hironobu Sakaguchi chose the name Final Fantasy because he thought it would be his last game. CRACKED.COM

Space Invaders

SPACE INVADERS Space Invaders' increasing speed is because of a + hardware problem. Even after a year working on the hardware, the invaders moved really slowly. They only sped up when there were fewer of them on the screen, because they'd been shot. Hence the slowly accelerating pace. CRACKED.COM

Metal Gear

METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM

Silent Hill

SILENT HILL The creepy fog in Silent Hill is there to hide the + game's slow load time. It sets a creepy atmosphere, and prevents players from seeing monsters until the last second, but it's actually there to conceal the fact that the scenes take a while to render. + CRACKED.COM

The Legend of Zelda

LEGEND OF ZELDA The beta version of Zelda let you choose either a sword or a boomerang. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. The game was also originally meant to be set both in the past and the future. Link got his name because he was meant to be the connection between the two. CRACKED.COM

World of Warcraft

Ethereum was created by a pissed-off World of Warcraft warlock. WORLD WARCRAFT S GRACKED COM Weinte Vitalik Buterin has stated that he quit the game and worked on the technology after a change to the spell Siphon Life.

Source: Polygon

Atari Mindlink

Atari 3T V2 Mindlink BE X x CRACKED.COM ATARI Mindlink Even early gaming had its share of dumb add-ons, like this mind-control controller that really only recorded your forehead movements.

Source: Forbes

Treasure Land Adventures

16-bit Ronald makes the world safe for MCDONALDS McDonads Treasure Land Treasure Land Adventure and Good gen the the GENT SEGA GA SEGA SEEA GENESIS SECK CRACKED.COM From the folks who brought you Sonic, I Treasure Land Adventures gets suprisingly good reviews. Ronald beats up anthropomorphic food to gather pieces a treasure map, which ultimately sends the clown back to McDonaldland for a heapin' helping of cholesterol.

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Donkey Kong as Hero

28 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia We’re Now Burdened With Like a Lifelong Escort Mission

Super Mario 128

The demo was a huge hit, and for years, the press hounded Shigeru Miyamoto about Super Mario 128. But it was such an ambitious undertaking that he was

The Running Man

TRUTH You can't beat the Running Man. DA ENID OF R OF T PRE S 1998-in.do The Running Man is programmed to beat you by 1 second every time. People have

Call of Duty: Black Ops

HORROR MOVIE LEGENDS FIGHT ZOMBIES IN CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS. DANNY ROBERT TREJ ENGLUND SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AND MICHAEL BGKEB A DLC for the game's

World of Warcraft

At some point, the world's biggest WORLD video game got WARCRAFT desperate enough to seek endorsement from chuck Norris in an ad made of his already d

The Nintendo Wii

CRaCKED.com The Nintendo Wii sold well to senior citizens and retirement communities. With titles like Wii Sports and Wii Fit, which are easy to pick

‘80s Arcades

In the '8Os, video game arcades were seen as seedy dens of drugs and sex. CHAM JUNGTUE KOING Going there to play Donkey Kong could lead kids to a life

Super Mario Bros.

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Luigi

Originallyh Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mar

PlayStation

For some bizarre reason, Sony decided that the best way to advertise the dual touch panel functionality of their new Playstation Vita console... TOUCH

Chester Cheetah

Chester Cheetah the mascot Of eetos featured in 2 video Games, made a cameo appearance in Archie Comics, and almost had his own TV show CRACKED COM

Donkey Kong

Universal Studios sued Nintendo when they released Donkey Kong, stating his resemblance to King Kong infringed on their copyright. crAh Universal igno

Nintendo

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