27 Mind-Blowing True Backstories of Famous Video Games

By:

Video game developers pay a lot of money to give their products a great story. Sometimes, though, the real story is what's going on behind the scenes.

Because she has a crippling video game addiction, we got AuntieMeme to help us bring to light some of the most interesting backstories in video game history.

Entry by AM Smiley

The first video game system for television was the Magnavox Odyssey. and the game used to demonstrate it dCtoss the country was called Table Tennis. T

Entry by AM Smiley

In the Japanese version of Marvel Super Heroes VS. Street Fighter, there's a creepy old pervert. He's an older man named Norimaro, and he dresses like

Entry by AM Smiley

Lara Croft's big chest is the result of a mistake. Artist Toby Gard, one of the people in charge of designing Lara's character, was editing her dimens

Entry by AM Smiley

Kirby was a placeholder for a to be designed character. Game designer Masahiro Sakurai dropped a circle into his game as he was designing it, figuring

Entry by AM Smiley

ADVENTURE THE FIRST VIDEO GAME SYSTEMT GAMEPROGRAM 3o L g RARS B EASTER EGG WAS CREATED BY A DISGRUNTLED ATARI EMPLOYEE. C Warren Robinett was the sol

Entry by AM Smiley

Atomic Bomberman almost had a really filthy mouth. The disk contains voice tracks for a number of seriously nasty exclamations, all done in the voices

There are FIVE chances for you to win some cold, hard Internet dollars. Click on the prompt that catches your fancy, and post your entry in the thread. Or submit to all of them and increase your chances of becoming rich and famous. (Photoplasty winners gets 10,000 pennies, GIF winners get 15,000 and macro winners get 20,000!)

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

MUST READ

Forgot Password?