27 Mind-Blowing True Backstories of Famous Video Games

Video game developers pay a lot of money to give their products a great story. Sometimes, though, the real story is what's going on behind the scenes.
27 Mind-Blowing True Backstories of Famous Video Games

Video game developers pay a lot of money to give their products a great story. Sometimes, though, the real story is what's going on behind the scenes.

Because she has a crippling video game addiction, we got AuntieMeme to help us bring to light some of the most interesting backstories in video game history.

Hironobu Sakaguchi chose the name FINAL FANTASY. because he thought it would be his last game Square was out ofmoneyafte a'string of uinsuccessful gam
THE CREEPY FOG IN SILENT HLILI c..sets the tone for a haunting, scary atmosphere prevents the players from seeing hidden monsters until the last secon
The original NES uension oF Legeno of Zelda Required scReaning to defeat an enemy EEK Originally the Japanese NES had a microphone, and the way to def
IFLTUILHIY IFITELTEI IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. The Legend of Zelda's beta version gives players the choice between a sword and a boomeran
The spies in Team Fortress were inspired by a glitch. There was a bug that caused players' clothes to change to the colors of the enemy team. Instead
SPACE INVADERS GRADUALLY InCreasing SPEED LUAS CAUSED By a HARDWARE PROBLEm. Programmer Tomohiro Nishikado spent a year trying to build a system with
The first video game system for television was the Magnavox Odyssey. and the game used to demonstrate it dCtoss the country was called Table Tennis. T
HIGH SCORE 36550 800 MS. PACMAN WAS CREATED BY HACKERS.. In 1982, two MIT students decided to create their own arcade game called Crazy Otto. They bui
Sony's Station was originally planned as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo. At the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991, Sony launched a new vi
The Monkey Island games were inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice-versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse o
1993's Wolfensteinis usually Credited as being the first first sf-person shooter. However. the. 1973 game Maze War predates not onLY Wolfenstein, but
Metal Gear was originally designed to run on a slow computer called an MSX2. The MSX2 was too slow to support the multiple enemies of a traditional ac
In the Japanese version of Marvel Super Heroes VS. Street Fighter, there's a creepy old pervert. He's an older man named Norimaro, and he dresses like
The Super Mushrooms that make Mario grow and shrink look just like Amanita Muscaria, which can cause hallucinationst that screw up your perception of
EVERYTHING ABOUT MARIO WAS CREATED TO CONSERVE PINELS. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto added: A hat, SO he wouldn't have to draw hair. The nose and m
Lara Croft's big chest is the result of a mistake. Artist Toby Gard, one of the people in charge of designing Lara's character, was editing her dimens
HALF-LIFE 2 2ORIGINALLY HAD A CHARACTER AMED MR. FRIENDLY WHO FOLLOWED FReEMAN Noaiss AROUND AND ate THE CORPSESH He Left BEHIND. Mr. Friendly was mea
THE onam CODE LAS LEFT in GRADIUS BY ACCIDEnT. 1> BA B A START The game was SO hard that Kazuhisa Hashimoto, one of the guys who helped create the hom
Kirby was a placeholder for a to be designed character. Game designer Masahiro Sakurai dropped a circle into his game as he was designing it, figuring
Gand theFt AUTO Was hoN OUt Of a bug IN a RacING game. Race'n'chase Game Design Version 1.05 March 22 1995 01995 DMA Desig Let Rockstar released a fai
Farmville is shameless CRACKED COM a ripoff of a game called Farm Town Farmers Farm Farm Town that debuted just months before Farmville spammed its wa
ADVENTURE THE FIRST VIDEO GAME SYSTEMT GAMEPROGRAM 3o L g RARS B EASTER EGG WAS CREATED BY A DISGRUNTLED ATARI EMPLOYEE. C Warren Robinett was the sol
Earthbound, a ute little RPG for the Super Nintendo, originally had a naked level. When the main character, Ness, travels to Magicant, his clothes dis
Donkey Kong was meant to be the hero not the villain. The game manual explains that Donkey EDLS Kong was Mario's pet, and he escaped 5800 because Mari
Atomic Bomberman almost had a really filthy mouth. The disk contains voice tracks for a number of seriously nasty exclamations, all done in the voices
Before there was Asteroids, there was Spacewar-a two-player version of virtually the same game, but with more features. You could shoot the other play
Think you're a spae ship shooting lasers, in Centpede!? You're not. You're an elf named Oliver, who lives iN a magical forest. You usually get along f

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