33 Thumb-Tenderizing Bits of Video Game Trivia Screamed Into Our Headsets By Some 12-Year-Old Across the Globe

These will teach all you video-game tidbit noobs a thing or two!
33 Thumb-Tenderizing Bits of Video Game Trivia Screamed Into Our Headsets By Some 12-Year-Old Across the Globe

You know what? Taking crap from some tween in a far-off land usually grinds our gears (of war). But today, we actually found the one kid who had a ton of useful video-game tidbits. Most of them are about games that came out way before he was born, so he must’ve done some serious research. 

We’re just grateful that these came to us via headset rather than having to get out of our gaming chair and go find them ourselves!

Pokemon

CRACKED.COM 1996 saw the release of Pokemon Red. PoKéMoN TM Red Version ©95'96'98 GAME FREAK inc. In 2018 you can emulate it, along with the console it was played on... Inside another game: Minecraft.

World of Warcraft

world of warcraft had a bona fide pandemic in 2005. The Corrupted Blood Plague wasn't some storyline in WoW-it was an actual digital plague. A negative effect that was supposed to be local and temporary became highly contagious due to a glitch, and spread throughout the entire game. CRACKED.COM

Neo: The World Ends with You

Neo: The World Ends With You rewards you for your clout. Studded Tiger Cap *10,900 K3200 V4.5001 v6.2001 11,000 +5.200- #4200 47,800 Clothes are important, HP o A but that's not the only panks ATK 4 BNAS thing that makes DEF 15 Tigre PUNKS someone punk. ABILITY First Blood BOLD OLIT BOLD OUT SOLD OUT Izumi Ariyoshi 09 CRACKED.COM This action RPG focuses on youth culture, especially surrounding Shibuya, a major commercial and financal center in Tokyo. Like in other RPGs, you can equip clothing to increase your stats, but the brand of clothing you wear in this game will

Myst

Disney almost made a theme park attraction based on the 1990s PC puzzle game Myst. They were going to make a real-life Myst island on an unused island area in the Florida park, but they couldn't figure out how to tie it into the theme. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Price-Fixing

Nintendo ran a M price-fixing cartel for years. In the '90s, getting a Nintendo game in Spain cost you three times as much as it did in Britain or Germany. The European Commission fined the company 149 million euro in 2002 for rigging the market. In 1991, they had been found guilty of the same racket in the U.S. CRACKED.COM

The Nintendo Origin Story

The Nintendo company has existed since 1889. Nintendo SELECT START CRACKED.COM Nintendo began as a Japanese playing card manufacturer in Kyoto. In 1951, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co. had a name change to Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd., finally dropping the playing card in 1963 when they began producing games.

Sega Master System

About 150,000 Sega Master System consoles are sold per year in Brazil. SEGA® Master System TM SEGA MASTER RISTEN Photo - «CHORCE PERA That's a console from the '90s, and it's so popular because modern consoles are hugely expensive thanks to high import fees - but Sega consoles are produced locally and are much cheaper. CRACKED.COM

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Kirby’s Dream Land

Kirby's relatively unimaginative round body was supposed to be a temporary placeholder. Nintendo KIRBY'S DREAM LAND Nintendo - - ABOUT KA GAME BOY But, like a kid who found a stray puppy, designer Masahiro Sakurai fell in love with it after naming it. His original name - and a great name for a puppy - was Popopo. CRACKED.COM

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Tiger Woods ‘99

Product Recalls TIGER SPORTS PlayStation H PGA TOUR GOLF E ано Tiger Woods 99 ЕА had to take back the PlayStation version of their golf game because it had a South Park video on it, somehow. CRACKED

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Live Action Zelda Series

CRACKED.COM Video game movies we were denied Live action Zelda series The reason behind the series not going forward? People heard about it, and it spooked Nintendo.

Source: /Film

Sega Dreamcast VMU

Sega Dreamcast 50 VMU BE + x GRACKED.COM Dreamcast SLEEP MODE в A Turning your memory card into a separate game system is brilliant, but not many other game companies have tried to do it since Sega's last attempt.

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Mortal Kombat

THE NINTENDO VERSION WAS NOTORIOUSLY BLOODLESS. Removing the gore from Mortal Kombat is like removing talking animals from Disney, yet that's what Nintendo demanded for the SNES port. The Sega version allowed the blood to be turned back on with a cheat code, which was one of the reasons it widely outsold the SNES version.

Source: BBC

The Combatribes

The Combatribes methtotl CRACKED COM This game came out in the 90's, but when Nintendo re-released it for their Virtual Console (notably...post-S they

GameCube

It was designed to show off the processing power and capacity for new mechanics that Nintendo fans could look forward to with the 2001 release of the

Sonic

From the beginning, Sonic was a somewhat cynical attempt to create a brand ambassador to rival Mario. SONC THE HEDGEHOG SEGA They wanted a character t

Blowing Into Game Cartridges

Everybody blew into their Nintendo cartridges when the game wouldn't load. Too bad doing that fixed nothing. GAIJKEMNOPORC DEF GAIKIMNO CIJKIMNDPI Not

Geometry Wars

GEOMETRY WARS STARTED AS AN ANALOG STICK TEST. While working on the Xbox prototype hardware, the developers of Project Gotham Racing encountered issue

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