Cracked Archive - Video Games
5 Horrifying Details You Never Noticed in Famous Video Games
When we look back at our harmless games, all the rose-colored glasses in the world couldn't hide the blood.
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Ian Ury, John Mulroy
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297 The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Video Game Covers
Don't you wish game companies would let the designers have a bit of artistic freedom? Yeah? Be careful what you wish for.
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- By Tristan Cooper
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- 253
The 5 Most Sadistic 'Game Over' Scenes in Video Game History
When a simple handwritten middle finger to the player would have sufficed, these jerks built a laser, carved the letters into the moon, then bombed NASA so nobody could ever erase it.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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The 5 Most Cringe-Worthy Video Game Commercials
For decades, out-of-touch marketers who have never held a controller in their lives have tried to come up with ad campaigns that make their game seem hip or edgy with often awkward results.
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- By Chris Rio
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5 Video Game Versions of Movies That Add Insane Plot Twists
Sometimes video game developers leave their draft of the script in the wash, and can only loosely guess at the ending based on the shapes of the inkblots.€™
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- By Michael Kane, Lucas Landini
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- 416
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6 Awesome Hacks That Did Mind-Blowing Things With Old Games
Taking old games and rebuilding them from the ground up in amazing new ways is a thing now and it is awesome.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Brandon Drake
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6 WTF Video Game Ads That Traumatized Their Audiences
If the purpose of a video game commercial is to deeply terrify your young fan base so profoundly that they wouldn't dare forget your product, the creators of the following doses of nightmare elixir succeeded brilliantly.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Peter File
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5 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Video Game Realism (Pt. 2)
There are a few brave souls in gaming who declare that they want to make their work realistic. It's a nice thought -- in theory.
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- By Ed Stevens, António M. Pereira
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The 5 Most Absurdly Difficult Video Game Puzzles (Pt. 2)
Sometimes developers just don't give a damn. Or maybe they hate us.
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- By Ian Ury, Ed Stevens, Ryan Menezes
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5 Disturbing Details You Didn't Notice in Famous Video Games
Apparently it's just very easy for video game developers to slip in disturbing details that will go unnoticed.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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5 Insane Video Game Easter Eggs You Weren't Supposed to Find
Unlike those elitist chocolatiers, we believe Easter Eggs should be available year-round.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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The 5 Most Unintentionally Horrifying Children's Video Games
It's a wonder you're not in an asylum right now after being exposed, far too young, to stuff like this.
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- By Michael Kane
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5 Ridiculous Things the Media Blamed Video Games For
If you're a politician or pundit, ranting and raving about the evils of video games is still a surefire way to get everyone's attention. And that is how you wind up with manufactured outrages like these.
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- By Henrik Magnusson , Will Leonard, Ryan Menezes
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The 5 Least Subtle Product Placements in Gaming History
These folks rolled up their sleeves and showed us how to really whore out our integrity.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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6 Baffling Video Games Adapted From Famous Movies and Shows
Sometimes programmers are apparently in such a rush to finish a game before the deadline that they don't actually have a chance to watch the material they're basing the game on. So, you wind up with deeply confusing titles like these.
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- By Chris Rio
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- 433
