27 Mind-Blowing True Backstories of Famous Video Games

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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