30 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia That Spewed Out of Our Heads When Someone Punched Our Hitbox

These video game facts will land some serious blows to your brain!
30 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia That Spewed Out of Our Heads When Someone Punched Our Hitbox
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Back to the Future

Back to the Future 1989 . T in the GRACKED.COM It's Marty McFly the way we all know him: as a muscle-shirt Greaser who walks down the street collecting alarm clocks and avoiding bees. The story is as non-existent as your character's health, so it's safe to say this is just a generic NES scroller with the barest Back To The Future sheen.

Fight Club

Fight Club 2004 Angel Face CRACKED.COM If you remember the movie Fight Club for the message it's really cool to take off your shirt and punch people, then this game was made for you. Although stripped of the complexity that made the movie compelling, you can unlock Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and break Jared Leto's spine.

Batman Forever

Batman Forever 1995 CRACKED COM Awkward video-capture sprites of Batman and Robin sway and jump through ugly levels and constantly get their rubber-suited butts whipped by a bunch of crowbar wielding nobodies dressed like garbagemen.

The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt For Red October 1991 2 02 M 7 SCRACKED COM No one can say for sure if it was in the 30-year-old game's best interest to not even attempt to digitize Sean Connery onto the SNES, but the submarine side-scrolling shoot em' up doesn't make up for this shortcoming by doing anything interesting or fun.

Star Wars

Star Wars 1987 GRACKED.COM This Japan-only release takes visual cues from the Star Wars universe, but little else. As Luke Skywalker, in his karate pajamas, you travel the starways fighting the animal-transforming Darth Vader, and get instantly killed with every hit.

Space Jam

Space Jam 1996 13 CRACKED.COM Not quite as endearingly primitive as the mid 90's website, the Space Jam game is a grab-bag of random minigames loosely tied to the events of the movie. If the prospect of collecting sneakers while avoiding getting mauled by a dog doesn't inspire excitement, then the eye-straining graphics and awkward controls definitely won't.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz 1993 CRACKED COM Taking a rather liberal interpretation of the source material, Dorothy straps on her ruby slippers and puts the beat-down on cactus cats, unicycle corn, and sentient furniture. It could have been an unusually rad tie-in game, but the controls and murky visual data made for a frustrating experience.

The Lion King Video Game

Disney's The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure 2000 CRACKED.COM This is a game where you play as a lion that gets hurt by ladybugs and small lizards. Instead of trying to tell an interesting story, or even following the familiar one of the movie, this Lion King game is more interested in making you collect thousands of paw-print tokens scattered over ugly, blocky levels.

Top Gun

Top Gun 1987 10048ALT. RADAR: MISSILE ft 2 10 PEMAIN 00597SPEED TYPE т-гг tol/h CRACKED.COM The high octane action of the Tom Cruise film is translated as well as possible on the limited hardware, which is to say you fire blobs at other blobs, against a solid blue backdrop. It doesn't even have greased up pilots playing volleyball.

Crash Bandicoot 2

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back CRACKED COM A death animation that shows Crash getting crushed into a wobbling head/feet abomination was removed from the Japanese version. Around that time, a Japanese serial killer had left a severed head and a pair of shoes as kind of a gruseome calling card.

Final Fantasy

FINAL FANTASY Final Fantasy got its name because its creator + figured he was done. Square was out of money after a + string of unsuccessful games. Hironobu Sakaguchi chose the name Final Fantasy because he thought it would be his last game. CRACKED.COM

Centipede

CENTIPEDE Think you're a space ship shooting lasers, in Centipede? You're not. You're an elf named Oliver who lives in a magical forest. You usually get along fine with the centipedes, but a wizard enchanted them to attack you. Now you're fighting them off with your wand. CRACKED.COM

Mario

MARIO Everything about Mario was created to + conserve pixels. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto added: A hat, so he wouldn't have to draw hair, a nose and mustache, so Mario's face wouldn't just be a blob, and overalls, to give Mario's arms definition. CRACKED.COM

The Legend of Zelda

LEGEND OF ZELDA Zelda originally had you defeat an enemy by + screaming at it. EEK! Originally the Japanese NES had a microphone, and the way to defeat a Legend of Zelda monster called Pols Voice was to scream into the mic. CRACKED.COM

Space Invaders

SPACE INVADERS Space Invaders' increasing speed is because of a + hardware problem. Even after a year working on the hardware, the invaders moved really slowly. They only sped up when there were fewer of them on the screen, because they'd been shot. Hence the slowly accelerating pace. CRACKED.COM

Metal Gear

METAL GEAR Metal Gear is a stealth game because it started + out on a slow system. It was originally designed to run on a computer called an MSX2, which could only support a few characters (and bullets) at a time without crashing. CRACKED.COM

Silent Hill

SILENT HILL The creepy fog in Silent Hill is there to hide the + game's slow load time. It sets a creepy atmosphere, and prevents players from seeing monsters until the last second, but it's actually there to conceal the fact that the scenes take a while to render. + CRACKED.COM

The Legend of Zelda (Again)

LEGEND OF ZELDA The beta version of Zelda let you choose either a sword or a boomerang. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. The game was also originally meant to be set both in the past and the future. Link got his name because he was meant to be the connection between the two. CRACKED.COM

The Konami Code

GRADIUS The Konami code was left in the game + by accident. в A START Gradius was so hard that Kazuhisa Hashimoto couldn't play to test it. Не eventually added a simple set of button presses to give himself a full set of power-ups. Не forgot to delete the code before the game was released. CRACKED.COM

Farmville

FARMVILLE Farmville F is a shameless ripoff of a game called + Farm Town. Farmer Farm LEARNING DE ROPES Farm Town Farmville Farm Town debuted just months before Farmville spammed its way into Facebook history. The gameplay and visuals are virtually identical. CRACKED.COM

Goombas

GRACKED COM GOOMBAS IN SUPER MARIO BROS. WERE A LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE GAME... MEANING THEY had BARELY ANY STORAGE LEFT TO INCLUDE THEM To RESOLVE THIS, DEVELOPERS USED A SINGLE IMAGE THAT IS FLIPPED BACK AND FORTH HORIZONTALLY TO CREATE THE ILLUSION THAT THE GOOMBA IS WALKING.

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30 Random Bits of Video Game Trivia That Spewed Out of Our Heads When Someone Punched Our Hitbox

Donkey Kong 64

The Donkey Kong 64 development team encountered a bug that would cause the game to crash, and eventually discovered that using a memory expansion kept the crashes from occurring. DONKEY KOHO64 So instead of fixing the bug, they bundled the memory expansion with the game for free. It was either very brilliant or just plain old lazy. CRACKED COM

Sonic

Some of the textures TIME 00:52:81 (rocks, walls, etc...) used 002 in Sonic Adventure are from pictures its developers took during trips to Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. 04 CRACKED.COM

Devil May Cry

x36 1 The developers of Onimusha: Warlords noticed a glitch in the game, where enemies could be launched in the air and 'juggled' with sword strikes. The glitch then became a famous feature in Devil May Cry. CRACKED COM

Wing Commander

The game Wing Commander crashes with an error message that would read EMM386 Memory manager error. when exited. EJECT EJECT nation LOS TUTE LOIS coma NAVICATION USA as en Nana Gunc Lazer cannen DESTINATION Ner 2 ANGE NOZ km HAPPY Objective This bug was made into a feature by one of the game programmers by changing the error message to Thank you for playing Wing Commander! C:\wc1> CRACKED.COM

GoldenEye 007

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 INTERNATIVE 1997- ARTS ART Designed FIV NH Rumble Party GAME OF THE YEAR - - H - TEEN T 4015 111 NILE

Skyrim

CRACKED.COM In SKYRIM, Tables....are actually shelves

Battlefield 3

CRACKED COM THE BUSHES IN BATTLEFIELD 3 WERE JUST TREES SUNKEN INTO THE GROUND The bushes you see are just the tips of the trees peeking through the ground at different angles; appearing to be unique to each other, but are really just cheap shortcuts made by the developers.

Mirrors in Old Gen Games

CRACKED COM EVER WONDERED HOW MIRRORS WORKED IN OLD GEN GAMES? BEHIND A MIRROR WAS ACTUALLY A DUPLICATE OF THE ROOM YOU WERE IN, NOT A REFLECTION; MODELED EXACTLY THE WHEN YOU WERE ACTIVE IN A SAME ONLY FLIPPED: INCLUDING YOU. ROOM WITH A MIRROR, THE GAME WOULD SPAWN ANOTHER YOU, AND IT WOULD MIMIC ALL OF YOUR ACTIONS. IND PLAYERS COULD EXPLOIT THE MIRROR HEALTH ALTH AMMO BOUNDARY AND JUMP INTO THE ALTERNATE AREA- 42 2 9 OCCASIONALLY WITH YOUR DUPLICATE FOLLOWING YOU IN REVERSE.

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