30 Bits of Video-Game Trivia to Hoard Like Extra Lives in a Bonus Level

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30 Bits of Video-Game Trivia to Hoard Like Extra Lives in a Bonus Level
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Like little digital squirrels, we love stashing lives, weapons, coins or any other useful goodies on our quest. We may have gone too far today though, since we don’t have any more room for these sweet video-game facts. 

Hopefully there’s a safe place to offload some goods, because these will surely prove more useful.

The Force Unleashed 2

CRACKED.COM IN STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED 2, THERE'S А ROOM WITH THREE STATUES OF GUYBRUSH THREEPWOOD, WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THE MONKEY ISLAND THEME SONG PLAYING. SMASH THE SLOT MACHINES IN FRONT OF THE JABBA HOLOGRAM, AND YOU WILL FIND А HOLOCRON THAT TRANSFORMS YOUR CHARACTER INTO GUYBRUSH.

Hitman Absolution

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.

Duke Nukem 3D Atomic

In Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic, there is a hidden room: Homer Simpson's office at the nuclear power plant. SECTOR 7-G HERPONS ILU HEALTH ARKOR NEYS ВИНО 72/200 5: 0/50 8: 0/99 100 0 0/50 6: 0/50 9: 0/10 48 CRACKED.COM Wي 48/200 1: 0/50 0 0/99

Black Ops II

CRACKED.COM AETIVISION Start O Select Interact LE Previeus Gème et Next Game Exit IN BLACK OPS II, NUKETOWN MAP, IF YOU SHOOT DOWN ALL THE MANNEQUINS HEAD IN UNDER 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS, WALK OVER TO THE LARGE TV IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP. FROM THERE, YOU CAN PLAY ACTIVISION'S CLASSICS LIKE PITFALL, H.E.R.O,, RIVER RAID AND KABOOM!

Dead Island

CRACKED.COM Jason - Lvl 47 Jason Voorhees, of Friday the 13th, can be found in the jungle of Dead Island.

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.

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.

Total Recall

Total Recall 1990 SCORE HI 1560 1560 CRACKED COM The mind bending, extraplanetary action classic is reduced to a generic platformer with the instantly recognizable Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced with a Some Dude in a green onesie. The barrel-chested hero runs like he isn't going to make it to the toilet.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 CRACKED.COM A pixelated fire hydrant does the best Indiana Jones impression it can muster as it struts around a blank background, occasionally scrolling into a new zone and immediately plunging to its death. There were limits to what the technology could do at the time, but even Dig Dug looks like a James Cameron movie compared to this.

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.

The Force Unleashed

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

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 Ltd 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

Donkey Kong

DONKEY KONG Donkey Kong was supposed to be the hero, + not the villain. M DK The game manual explains that Donkey Kong was Mario's pet, and he escaped because Mario mistreated him. CRACKED.COM

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

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

Legend of Zelda

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

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

Prince of Persia

30 Bits of Video-Game Trivia to Hoard Like Extra Lives in a Bonus Level

Imposters

IN THE MIDST OF TREES AND BUILDINGS IN A GAME, SOME OF THEM ARE NOT 3D. THEY'RE FLAT FACADES THAT REPLACE ENTIRE 3D MODELS. THESE CUTBOARD MODELS ARE CALLED IMPOSTERS, ARE MUCH, MUCH FASTER TO BUILD AND PLAYERS GENERALLY WON'T NOTICE THEM. CRACKED GOM

2D Games

30 Bits of Video-Game Trivia to Hoard Like Extra Lives in a Bonus Level

Shigeru Miyamoto

CRACKED COM Shigeru Miyamoto, the designer of Super Mario Bros., likes to create the first level of his games after all the other levels are ready, to use them as a hands-on tutorial. For example, Goomba, the very first enemy that appears in Super Mario Bros., can be defeated by jumping on it, and shares its shape with the power-up mushroom ( (o). This was specifically designed to make the players believe the power-up mushroom was an enemy like Goomba and get them to attack it, to surprise them with the transformation into tall-Mario. GOOMBA

Duke Nukem 3D

DUKE NUKEM 3D ...isn't actually 3D. In games based on the Build engine, maps are made up of 2D sectors with different adidas floor and ceiling heights (and sometimes slopes). However, tricks are used to overcome the limitations of this. ...and be inconspicuously teleported somewhere else in the map to land in the lower room. For example, you could fall down a shaft... CRACKED.COM

Sonic Adventure

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

Minecraft

Minecraft isn't made up of blocks. It's a giant model that looks like it's made of blocks. This is done by having an enormous list of points (called point-cloud) that represent if a block exists or not and what type it is. When the computer builds the giant model it uses this list to decide what it should build. Every time you place or destroy a block, the computer does this calculation and rendering so quickly, you don't notice any change. CRACKED.COM

Bethesda Games

The AI in such Bethesda games as Elder Scrolls and Fallout can't handle ladders. The developers worked around it by simply omitting functioning ladders from the games. If the main character attempts to climb a ladder, a loading screen appears instead. 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

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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