33 Video Game Trivia Tidbits to Let That Thumb Callous Heal

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33 Video Game Trivia Tidbits to Let That Thumb Callous Heal

As kids, it was impossible to wrap our heads around the making of a video game. We unboxed those consoles and games (pre-YouTube, we might add, so none of us became millionaires filming it), and we delved into whatever world was laid out before us. Years later, we’d hear terms like “programmer” and realize that making them takes just a little bit more work than unboxing them.

L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. L The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM

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A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDER CLOSE SURVITILANCE - They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM

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A ton of Christian imagery had to be replaced for the US-version. CRACKED.COM You can still see a cross on Link's shield, but other elements were adjusted due to Nintendo of America's religion ban: priests and churches became sages and sanctuaries, and what we know as The Book of Magic was originally The straight-up Holy Bible.

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SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 GRACKED.COM Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally more similar to the first game, although much harder. So hard, in fact, that developers didn't think Americans could play it, so they reskinned the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic with familiar Mario characters.

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TLOZ's iconic title music was a last-minute patch. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA™ TM ©1986 NINTENDO CRACKED.COM They had planned to use Ravel's Boléro, but found out at the last minute that it wasn't yet in the public domain. Nintendo composer Koji Kondo had a day to whip up the iconic theme.

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CRACKED.COM The multiplayer mode that defined GoldenEye 007 for many, was created on the sly. The game was already running behind so the devs knew they'd never get permission from the higher-ups at Nintendo and Rare. They just did it (in a month's time) and added it right before release. PLAYERS MILLION NN SELLER CHOICE de 1998 INTERACIONE 1997- ARTS 183 Gesigned FBC NH Rumble Par GAME OF THE YEAR - - H SRD TEEN T 4015 121

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33 Video Game Trivia Tidbits to Let That Thumb Callous Heal

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Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, so he didn't sue him into oblivion. CRACKED.COM

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