27 Pixelated Bits of Video-Game Trivia That We’ll Try to Smooth Out in the Sequel

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27 Pixelated Bits of Video-Game Trivia That We’ll Try to Smooth Out in the Sequel

So what if some of these images aren’t the best? It’s all about the thrill you’ll get when you survive each fact level and move on to the next! Plus, the technology for better graphics doesn’t exist yet, bucko!

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Hitman

GRAGKED.COM HITMAN ABSOLUTION Am I in heaven? 2 S 5 7 25 In the mission titled End of the Road, if you shoot every nearby vulture... Your target will try to escape, only to be run over by an ice cream truck.

Star Wars

INSIDE THE TROPHY ROOM IN THE IMPERIAL KASHYKK LEVEL OF STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, YOU'LL FIND JAR JAR BINKS FROZEN IN CARBONITE. CRACKED.COM

Red Faction

CRACKED.COM IN RED FACTION ARMAGEDOON THERE IS A UNICORN GUN THAT POOPS RAINBOWS

Fallout

CRACKED.COM IN FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS GO SOUTHEAST OF GOODSPRINGS IN THE WILD WASTELAND TRAIT FOLLOW THE ROAD AND YOU'LL FIND THE REMAINS OF INDIANA JONES IN A NUKED FRIDGE

Far Cry 3

GRACKED COM The buried man from the cover of Far Cry 3... ...is actually in the game. (map coordinates: X: 619.7, Y: 559.4)

Elite

Released in 1984, the original Elite game boasted 2048 unique planetary systems; an incredible feat in itself. Front View When you consider that the game only required 20kb of disk space, it becomes downright unbelievable. So how was it done? The only data stored were the three base numbers from which each system was generated. The individual characteristics were created on the fly each time, but consistently, so the universe would always be the same for every player. CRACKED.COM

Borderlands 2

Axton from Borderlands 2 is bisexual thanks to a code screw up. When playing as Axton and reviving another player, there's a chance a flirtatious dialogue will trigger. This was only supposed to happen when reviving female characters, however, a coding mistake resulted in him flirting with male ones as well. After people voiced their disappointment that it was just a mistake, the writers officially made Axton bisexual in the DLC. GRACKED COM

World of Warcraft

CRACKED.COM WORLD WARCRAFT WORLD OF WARCRAFT DEVELOPERS USED INVISIBLE, UN-TARGETABLE BUNNY RABBITS AS TARGETS FOR BOSS ONYXIA TO ATTACK DURING FIGHTS AGAINST HER. Think ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND... WHILE YOU WERE BUSY TRYING TO DEFEAT THIS INSANE BOSS, SHE WAS PROGRAMMED TO NOT EVEN ATTACK YOU; JUST LITTLE BUNNIES YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WERE THERE... BUT YOU STILL MANAGED TO DIE

Starcraft

STARCRAFT During development Blizzard had trouble keeping the harvesting units from bunching up together like L.A. traffic because of their pathfinding. Oot 100 Gas 22/26 ponter DeLivated Terran Refinery NU Veepane Gas 4992 760/750 Their good enough fix was to make harvesters the only units in the game that can walk through other units. CRACKED COM

Iracing

Iracing(not an Apple product) is an online auto-racing simulator. The racetracks were recreated for the game by using a 3D laser scanner on the actual tracks. So, the game experience replicates all the cracks, rough spots and undulations of the real world counterpart. 14 CRACKED.COM

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO Grand Theft Auto was inspired by a bug in + another game. Race'n'Chase Game Design Version 1.05 March 22. 1995 с 1995 DMA Design Lat Rockstar released a driving game called Race'n'Chase, and early testers panned it until they found a glitch. It + was a bug that caused the police to try to run players off the road. So instead of running missions, players screwed around while the police tried to run them off the road. And GTA was born. CRACKED.COM

Prince of Persia

27 Pixelated Bits of Video-Game Trivia That We’ll Try to Smooth Out in the Sequel

Street Fighter

MAKING STREET FIGHTER II COST ABOUT $2.45 MILLION. Disney RED 3701 IP 99 It was the most expensive game Capcom had made up to that point, with about 35 people (half of them artists) working on it for nearly a year. It paid off, though, as the game was a huge hit, both in Japan and overseas. CRACKED.COM

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.

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

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

7 Up

... TELL US NOW. Those 7 Up games GRACKED 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.

The Illusion of Depth and Detail

27 Pixelated Bits of Video-Game Trivia That We’ll Try to Smooth Out in the Sequel

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress and its ridiculously detailed combat system. Fortu-Fast Notable KITTS Ubest SES anowl 100 + 199 Ne the GP at mdr Musc Rathe ege 179 11 un - 179 COUR Then De an 79 179 - ... ava HD each . 179 173 DOG 179 anee dorn 179 79 evo PC LIC 179 . 79 Carac da et 171 . Rc 99 179 hen da 179 20 21 . 179 Re ner END ru dereo the Hor Der aned the goblin our LVI 179 . BY be de 179 smot abli Pan PP ade - inanoz Curseo CRACKED.COM The

Metal Gear

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

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.

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

Street Fighter

CHUN-LI ALMOST WORE PANTS. 2012 2018 STREET FRICATER 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

Pokemon

Some bad luck with computers almost led to Pokémon Red and Green never being finished. Nintendo SQUIRTLE L5 HP: CHARMANDER L5 HP: 20/ 20 POCKET FIL NSTER GAME BOY. ... TRAINS CHARMANDER used SCRATCH! TM POCKET MONSPERS Super GAME BOY .............. ED29-E During its six year development, Junichi Masuda, who worked on sound design and music, had to fix four different computers after they went haywire. One computer crashed that had all the game's data on it, and after doing tons of research and making phone calls, the team finally recovered everything. CRACKED.COM

Red Dead

CRACKED.COM Rockstar saved the Red Dead franchise from Capcom's trash heap. XBOX 360 XBOX XBCX LIVE RED•DEAD - REVOLVER XBOXONE TAR GAMES PRESENTS - HD - DEAD PTION в After Capcom canceled their version of Red Dead Revolver developed by Angel Studios, Rockstar bought up Angel, inherited the assets, and finished the game themselves, starting what would become a multi-million dollar franchise.

Grand Theft Auto

CRACKED.COM Due to a young and inexperienced staff we almost never got the iconic GTA series. After the development teams GRAND argued for weeks THEFT the project was almost cancelled AUTO multiple times. The game didn't come together until creative director PlayStation Gary Penn got hired MATURE and saved the game M ADVISORY TA - ESPLICIE CONTENTS - ESRB from getting killed.

Halo

CRACKED.COM Halo's legendary multiplayer was almost cut from the game. For Halo: Combat Evolved Bungie just didn't have the resources to focus on multiplayer, and considered cutting it entirely until a handful of developers reworked it at the last minute.

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