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29 Video Game Facts to Blow the Dust Off of Before Cramming Them Violently Into Your Brain

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29 Video Game Facts to Blow the Dust Off of Before Cramming Them Violently Into Your Brain

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You old heads remember when a game working off the hop was a real coin-flip? We sure do. It was a slight annoyance, but we always knew that a quick blowie would fix everything.

Okay, that sounded weird. We didn’t know a term for blowing into a cartridge before shoving it back into the system, so we just went for one.

Anywho, we gave all of these a quick blowie (yep, still weird!), so you can get right to them. No slight annoyances on our watch!

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Earthworm Jim

Bugs in pop culture Earthworm Jim A simple earthworm that got access to a space- worthy supersuit is just the tip of the strange iceberg that is this classic video game from the '90s. CRACKED.COM

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door M CRACKED.COM The character Vivian was actually a male in the original Japanese version. But, because he smooches Mario, the North American version had to be a lady. — Source

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Mortal Kombat: Deception

Mortal Kombat: Deception CRACKED.COM This game was almost a major disappointment in France. Literally -- déception means disappointment, so they renamed it Mortal Kombat: Mystification. — Source

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Chase the Chuck Wagon

Chase the Chuck Wagon CHUCK WAGON RELEASED ON: ATARI 2600 VIDEO GAME CARTRIDGE CHASE THE CHUCK WAGON CRACKED.COM 0053 Based on a single commercial, the maze game was put together in three days and available with proof of purchase of enough Purina dog food. The promotion failed, and unsold cartridges were destroyed. — Source

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Video Game Cut Scenes

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Doom

Doom was originally more ambitious than the game we got. DODK The initial Doom Bible (written by developer Tom Hall) describes a game with several named characters, an elaborate gameplay, and an ongoing storyline told with cinematics. Most of the features were never implemented, basically because they had to release the game at some point. CRACKED.COM — Source: 30 Geeky Facts About Famous Video Games

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Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM — Source: 31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

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Catacomb 3-D

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Dark Souls

Grimes wrote a song about Dark Souls DARK SOULS The musician has written a song designed to be listened to while playing the notoriously difficult video game. CRACKED.COM — Source: Pitchfork

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Flickr’s Origins

Flickr started as a video game. In 2002, husband and wife Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake founded a software company to create an MMO titled Game Neverending. The game failed, but a feature for sharing images stood out - so it was spun into its own product, called Flickr. — More: Flickr And Slack Both Started As Failed Video Games

19

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 — 31 Design Tricks Behind Famous Video Games (You Can't Unsee)

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Blanka in Street Fighter

CRACKED.COM BLANKA TOOK A WHILE TO BE GREEN. STREET FIGHTER The electric Brazilian was more naturally colored at first, which looked weird. With each iteration, each character got more and more vivid colors - with Blanka finally becoming the green beast we all know and love. — Capcom

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The Getaway

The Getaway gives you a minute to chill. CRACKED.COM This open world action-adventure game inspired by British gangster films is fairly grounded, allowing your character to heal by doing something we're all familiar with: leaning up against a wall until you can catch your breath. Sure, gunshot wounds miraculously closing up because you're taking a 5 second breather aren't super realistic, but we can forgive that. — IGN

16

Street Fighter

ZANGIEF WAS AT FIRST CALLED VODKA GOBALSKY. ещается смотрет STREET ВНИМ. FRIGHTER ННЕ! According to Akira Nishitani, that was only a placeholder name, and wasn't intended to make it to the finished game. We don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. CRACKED.COM — Insert Credit (via archive.org)

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Iji

Iji has an end-game weapon that ends the game. CRACKED.COM Unlike most weapons and powerups you get for completing a game 100%, the Null Driver in Iji tends to break the whole experience when it's used. As you fire the end-game weapon, glitches occur, replacing the tiled background with art assets from earlier portions of the game, until it's impossible to move on. The only way to get rid of the weapon is to quit the game. — TV Tropes

14

No More Heroes

No More Heroes wants you to erect a sword. 1 . CRACKED.COM The Wii game, unusually horny for a Nintendo release, has more than a few suggestive portions. The most egregious is one you can't avoid, which charges Travis' beam katana by vigorously pumping the Wiimote, causing the limp weapon to become rigid. — Destructoid

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Pokemon Green

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS THE OLD MAN THAT BLOCKS YOUR PATH IN VIRIDIAN CITY IS ACTUALLY A DRUNK. -h...... Mmn... My head hurts... GRACKED.COM Looks like I was pretty drunk! In the original Japanese release of Pokémon Green, the NPC that stops you from progressing until you deliver Professor Oak's package tells you he was pretty drunk and that his head hurts. When the game was localized for English audiences, this was changed to an old man needing his morning coffee. — Did You Know Gaming

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Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Ghostbusters) CRACKED.COM Considered by some fans to be the true third film in the series, Ghostbusters: The Video Game sees the four original spectral exterminators reunite for a chaotic romp through various ghoul-infested locales throughout New York City. — Source

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Ion Fury

Iron Maiden forced a video game to change its title. In 2019, the band sued the developer of the retro-style game lon Maiden for $2 million, claiming it was an incredible blatant infringement on their trademark. The game people caved and renamed their product lon Fury. — Source

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The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague

Indiana Jones is a protest hero in an old Czech video game. The text-based game The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on Janua — Source

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Cruisin’ USA

Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously prude, so making this game Family-Friendly was always going to be a tall order. The funniest

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Mario’s Details

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Tencent Games

Tencent Games, known for dash of dans, earned more video game revenue in 2018 CAPCOM UBISOFT Nintendo JIALXt A Tencen Games ACTIVSION BLZZARD than Act — Source

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog was initially a rabbit. Developer Yuji Naka wanted to give the character a somersault attack, but later figured that it'd make zero

5

Oblivion

Oblivion's original Radiant Al was too smart to ship. In one case, a quest became impossible to complete in testing because skooma addicts kept killin

4

Lu Bu

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Pac-Man

CRACKEDGOM Behold! The world's first feminist video game character! No, serlously. The series creator Toru lwatani wanted Pac-Man to contrast with vio

2

Dragon’s Dogma

In Dragon's Dogma, your character falls in love. ...with whomever they speak to most. The game chooses the NPC you interact with most to be your roman

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Gary Oldman’s Video-Game Voicework

Gary Oldman played Harry Potter's godfather Sirius Black. He's also Spyro's mentor, lgnitus. Oldman has voiced many other video game characters includ

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