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37 Video Game Facts That Are the True G4mer Fuel

October 22, 2023

Mountain Dew can try all they want to convince the public that their nuclear green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ooze is “Gamer Fuel,” but true gamers know that the only way to truly fuel your game is to stuff your brain with a bunch of random facts about video games. For instance, did you know the sad backstory of the Pokemon Cubone? Or the inspiration behind the Mario villain Chain Chomp? Or that there was a better version of Asteroids before Asteroids came out?

All that and more below…

37

Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. WINTENDO* EXPANSION PAK DONKEY OnlyFor INCLUDED! KONG64 - - to - - Para x DOLBY - G COLLECTOR'S EDITION YELLOW GAME PAK SURROUND PAL VERSION DONKEY NINTENDO KOME The mystery bug caused the game to crash randomly unless the pak was inserted. The game didn't really need the pak, but Rare convinced Nintendo to include it at great expense to fix that one stubborn bug. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

36

Street Fighter

CHUN-LI ALMOST WORE PANTS. 2012 GRO STREET FRICHTER 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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

35

Doom

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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

34

Chex Quest

... 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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

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Pokemon

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS CUBONE'S FIRST INTRODUCTION WAS EVEN SADDER. CRACKED.COM Cubone has one of the more depressing backstories, often depicted wailing and alone, with the skull of its dead mother worn like a mask. This was more apparent with its original name Orphon, basically leaving nothing to the imagination. — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

32

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

GRACKED.COM The End COBRA UNIT DURING THE BOSS FIGHT WITH 'THE END' IN METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER, PLAYERS HAVE TWO OPTIONS IN DEFEATING HIM: 1. FIGHT HIM LIKE A MAN 2. SAVE THE GAME, STOP PLAYING FOR TWO WEEKS AND WATCH HIM DIE OF OLD AGE — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

31

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress and its ridiculously detailed combat system. Porty-Fast Nutable KITIN Ubest US anowl 100 + 199 de the EF at more MUSC Rathe epe 179 11 un - 179 COUE Then DP an 79 179 - ... ava RO each . 179 173 DOG 179 anee dorn 179 79 evo Pr un 179 1 79 Carac DA e 171 FC VO 179 hen da 179 Re 21 . 179 Re ner END ru dereo the ног Der aoed the goblin our LVI 179 . BY be de 179 smot abli Ran PP ade . inanoz Curseo CRACKED.COM The creatures — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

30

Super Mario Bros.

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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

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Flat Textures in Older Games

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28

Sonic the Hedgehog

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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

27

Doom

Doom was originally more ambitious than the game we got. DODK The initial Doom Bible (written by developer Tom Hall) describes a game with several named characters, an elaborate gameplay, and an ongoing storyline told with cinematics. Most of the features were never implemented, basically because they had to release the game at some point. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

26

7 Up Games

... TELL US NOW. Those 7 Up games GRAGKED A lot of people brought up that 7 Up game, but only Joseph N. knew about Spot, (an Othello-style game) and Cool Spot, (a beach-like adventure). Sadly, no one mentioned Spot Goes to Hollywood. — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

25

Spacewar

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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

24

Stardew Valley

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: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

23

Diablo 3

THE TREES IN DIABLO 3 ARE MADE OF FLAT PLANES. Front View Side View Each section is painted with great detail, assembled and strategically placed to give the illusion of the real thing when viewed from the right angle. This trick made the trees look incredibly realistic without being very technically demanding. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

22

Jet Li: Rise to Honor

... TELL US NOW. Jet Li: Rise to Honor GRACKED Seth В. says the sales pitch didn't end after you bought this game: there's one point in the game where they PLUG THE GAME YOU'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

21

Assassin's Creed IV

A boat in Assassin's Creed IV gets sucked into an abyss. And the sailors are left floating in air. If you claim a ship called the Jackdaw, you might show up to the dock to find a hollow space-time vacuum where the boat is supposed to be, and the crew screaming as they get sucked into the sky. CRACKED.COM https://www.youtube. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

20

Pokemon

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS YOU COULD CUT YOUR CHANCE OF A CRITICAL HIT INSTEAD OF BOOSTING IT. GRACKED.COM The move Focus Energy and the item Dire Hit are intended to quadruple the critical hit rate, but they will quarter the chance instead. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

19

Grand Theft Auto 3

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 lony CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

18

Punch Out

Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

17

Left 4 Dead

LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 called 30 .. 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: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

16

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

17:12 S16450240 In GTA Vice City, there 200 200 is a literal easter egg. N Donntown CRACKED COM

15

Eye of Judgement

Eye of V2 Judgment x CRACKED.COM 10 This foray into the future of card games was ruined by the ability to photocopy cards, making this physical/digital card game easy to cheat at. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

14

Seaman

Seaman wants you to chat with an aquatic abomination. CRACKED.COM The actual gameplay of Seaman is pretty light, you feed and care for this animal (inexplicably with a human face) and help it grow from basically a swimming eyeball to a full-fledged frog (again, with a human face). But just like a real creature, you need to check up on it every day, in real time, using the bundled microphone. Oh, also, the creature talks back- with the voice of Leonard Nimoy. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

13

Monkey Island

MONKEY ISLAND Monkey Island was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse of Monkey Island, which was inspired by the Disneyland ride. The movie never got made, but writer Ted Elliott went on to write Curse of the Black Pearl. CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

12

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

11

Goldeneye 007

GOLDENEYE 007 MAGNUM - 63 148 CRACKED.COM Since the team working on GoldenEye 007 was inexperienced and stretched thin, the game was initially intended to be a simple rail-shooter, lacking the immensely popular 4-person multiplayer that eventually made the game a bestseller on the Nintendo64. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

10

Deus Ex

DEUS EX HINTS AT A CHARACTER'S ULTERIOR MOTIVES. CRACKED.COM The character of Paul Denton is a double agent, a fact that is hinted at in the password of his personal computer: Chameleon. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

9

Fallout: New Vegas

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: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

8

Online Games

Ever wonder how fast-paced online games like Call of Duty or World of Warcraft can coordinate multiple players with connections of varying speed and stability, ranging from ranging from lightning-fast to snail-paced? CRACKED COM The magic is called client-side prediction, and it basically makes all your inputs happen instantly on your screen, then compares with the server and corrects accordingly. Usually the correction is so minor you don't even notice it, but when you have an unstable connection and see people teleporting around, that's the server correcting positions on your screen! — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

7

Devil May Cry

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: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

6

Death Stranding

... TELL US NOW. Death Stranding CRACKED Jesse R. says these clever devs had you replenish your stamina with Monster energy drinks. You can hardly tell it's an ad! — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

5

The Legend of Zelda

The Triforce has roots in Mongolian invasions. CRACKED.COM It's based on the emblem of the Hoja Clan, who successfully fought off Mongol invaders and helped popularize Zen Buddhism. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

4

DOOM

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3

Minecraft

Minecraft is helping the United Nations develop living spaces. CRACKED.COM The Block by Block Foundation works with the game to help neglected urban spaces get an architectural upgrade. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

2

FIFA 2012

In FIFA 12, the A practice goalie can turn enormous. SCOREBOARD GOALS 9 SAVES REPESES But his size doesn't help him tend goal. Attempting to score on the gigantic goalie causes him to fall over and flop around like a beached dolphin. Fixed versions of the game had the same giant goalie glitch, but without his head and arms. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/pLuDriewk8 — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

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Pokemon

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BLASTOISE WAS NOT ORIGINALLY THE EVOLUTION OF WARTORTLE. GRACKED.COM There was a more Wartortle-y design for Squirtles' final evolution, and even a baby Blastoise further down the Pokédex. At some point these two ideas were merged and Totartle and baby Blastoise were scrapped. — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

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