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31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

September 10, 2023

31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games

So you think you know video games, do ya? Okay, let’s test your mettle then. Do you know about the phantom ship in Assassin’s Creed IV whose crew is left falling upward forever into the sky? How about the much more overtly offensive name they wanted to give to the character who ultimately became Soda Popinski? While we’re on the subject, why is Little Mac so little, anyway?

Have zero clue about the answers to any of these questions? No worries, we’ve got you covered below.

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... TELL US NOW. Jet Li: Rise to Honor GRAGKED Seth В. says the sales pitch didn't end after you bought this game: there's one point in the game where they PLUG THE GAME YOU'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING. — Tell Us Now: 20 Blatant Examples Of Product Placement In Video Games

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS YOU COULD CUT YOUR CHANCE OF A CRITICAL HIT INSTEAD OF BOOSTING IT. GRACKED.COM The move Focus Energy and the item Dire Hit are intended to quadruple the critical hit rate, but they will quarter the chance instead. — Bulbapedia

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A boat in Assassin's Creed IV gets sucked into an abyss. And the sailors are left floating in air. If you claim a ship called the Jackdaw, you might show up to the dock to find a hollow space-time vacuum where the boat is supposed to be, and the crew screaming as they get sucked into the sky. CRACKED.COM https://www.youtube. — 12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game

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GTA 3 features a mission called Two-Faced Tanner, in which you're sent to kill an undercover cop called Tanner, who's described as strangely animated and more or less useless outside of his car. This is a shot at the protagonist of the Driver series, undercover cop John Tanner, and the series' lack of on-foot abilities compared to GTA. mage lony CRACKED.COM — 11 Video Games That Openly Mock Other Games

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Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 Liower 30 T Achievement unlocked ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST The creators of the game saw Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, which made you kill 53,594 zombies, and decided to make it 0.001% harder. The task: kill 53,595 zombies. CRACKED.COM — 10 Insane Video Game Achievements

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17:12 516450240 In GTA Vice City, there 200 200 is a literal easter egg. Easter N Downtown CRACKED COM — 21 Easter Eggs In Classic Video Games

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Eye of V2 Judgment CRACKED.COM 10 This foray into the future of card games was ruined by the ability to photocopy cards, making this physical/digital card game easy to cheat at. — Wired

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MONKEY ISLAND Monkey Island was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse of Monkey Island, which was inspired by the Disneyland ride. The movie never got made, but writer Ted Elliott went on to write Curse of the Black Pearl. CRACKED.COM — 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Seaman wants you to chat with an aquatic abomination. CRACKED.COM The actual gameplay of Seaman is pretty light, you feed and care for this animal (inexplicably with a human face) and help it grow from basically a swimming eyeball to a full-fledged frog (again, with a human face). But just like a real creature, you need to check up on it every day, in real time, using the bundled microphone. Oh, also, the creature talks back- with the voice of Leonard Nimoy. — The Verge

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Little Mac had to be little because two thirds of the screen was needed for the player to focus on the larger, more intricate opponents. 3 2:58 POINTS: 4770 Rounos TKO And his name was indeed a play on the newly popular Big Mac. CRACKED.COM — The Surprising Origins Of 12 Iconic Video Game Characters

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GOLDENEYE 007 MAGNUM ECESE - 63 148 CRACKED.COM Since the team working on GoldenEye 007 was inexperienced and stretched thin, the game was initially intended to be a simple rail-shooter, lacking the immensely popular 4-person multiplayer that eventually made the game a bestseller on the Nintendo64. — Nintendo Everything

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DEUS EX HINTS AT A CHARACTER'S ULTERIOR MOTIVES. CRACKED.COM The character of Paul Denton is a double agent, a fact that is hinted at in the password of his personal computer: Chameleon. — IGN

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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 — 13 Weird Workarounds Behind The Magic Of Fav Games

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Ever wonder how fast-paced online games like Call of Duty or World of Warcraft can coordinate multiple players with connections of varying speed and stability, ranging from ranging from lightning-fast to snail-paced? CRACKED CON The magic is called client-side prediction, and it basically makes all your inputs happen instantly on your screen, then compares with the server and corrects accordingly. Usually the correction is so minor you don't even notice it, but when you have an unstable connection and see people teleporting around, that's the server correcting positions on your screen! — 31 Design Tricks Behind Famous Video Games (You Can't Unsee)

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CRACKED COM A bug from another game inspired Devil May Cry's iconic feature where the main character can suspend enemies mid-air using continuous attacks. Coot ! e During the development of Onimusha: Warlords, they discovered a bug that caused the enemy to stay floating when being attacked. They thought it was kind of cool and adopted it for Devil May Cry. — 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

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MAKING A TWO-PLAYER GAME WAS ESSENTIALLY A BUSINESS DECISION. FIGHT! BATTLE 11 STREET FIGHTER It didn't just mean you could play with a friend - it also meant twice the money, making the game attractive to arcade operators. They had to heavily advertise the idea, though, as players didn't seem to get it at first and just played solo. CRACKED.COM — Polygon

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The Triforce has roots in Mongolian invasions. CRACKED.COM It's based on the emblem of the Hoja Clan, who successfully fought off Mongol invaders and helped popularize Zen Buddhism. — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Zelda Facts

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31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games — IGN & Gameplay on YouTube

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Minecraft is helping the United Nations develop living spaces. CRACKED.COM The Block by Block Foundation works with the game to help neglected urban spaces get an architectural upgrade. — Block by Block Foundation

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... TELL US NOW. Death Stranding CRACKED Jesse R. says these clever devs had you replenish your stamina with Monster energy drinks. You can hardly tell it's an ad! — Tell Us Now: 20 Blatant Examples Of Product Placement In Video Games

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BLASTOISE WAS NOT ORIGINALLY THE EVOLUTION OF WARTORTLE. GRACKED.COM There was a more Wartortle-y design for Squirtles' final evolution, and even a baby Blastoise further down the Pokédex. At some point these two ideas were merged and Totartle and baby Blastoise were scrapped. — Polygon

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In FIFA 12, the A practice goalie can turn enormous. SCOREBOARD GOALS 2 9 SAVES MINESES But his size doesn't help him tend goal. Attempting to score on the gigantic goalie causes him to fall over and flop around like a beached dolphin. Fixed versions of the game had the same giant goalie glitch, but without his head and arms. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/pLuDriewk8 — 12 Glitches That Are The Best Part Of The Game

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Final Fight CRACKED.COM The absolute prudes at Capcom USA made a whole range of changes. Bosses Damnd and Sodom became Thrasher and Katana, all drug and alcohol references were removed, and the exclamation Oh! My God became Oh! My car. — 15 Video Games That Had To Change Bizarre Details (In Different Countries)

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31 Surprising Facts About Iconic Video Games — 10 Insane Video Game Achievements

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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. — 21 Easter Eggs In Classic Video Games

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Super Nintendo 2 Excercise Bike GRACKED.COM Way before the Wii Fit craze, Nintendo had a peripheral to En provide excertainment. This now-rare bike is one of the most expensive clothes hangers in the world. — Destructoid

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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 — 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Octodad really makes you feel like you have 8 arms. ES PINFAIR CRACKED.COM As an octopus in a suit, it's your job to not arouse suspicion while you clumsily shuffle around like a human man. Using all of the available control inputs at hand, this game makes you move each tentacled appendage individually, switching between which one you need, and using your suckers to grasp and release objects. — Forbes

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CRACKED.COM WALL JUMPING STARTED AS A GLITCH. In the original Super Mario Bros, if Mario ran against a wall in midair, he would briefly register as being inside the object, which made the game believe he was on solid ground, allowing him to jump again. Developers liked this feature so much that they left it intact for ten years, until it became an actual in-game ability — 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

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