In the early stages of Half-Life 2, there was to be a friendly alien that followed Freeman, feasting on the corpses of his dead enemies. The game E.T. for the Atari (yes, the awful one.) actually sold more than Space Invaders. Rockstar's Manhunt (the REALLY violent one) actually originally had a boss called Binbag, a psychopath wrapped in garbage bags. Obviously, he was removed. Little Sisters from Bioshock were first envisioned as mole-like creatures on the search for Adam. In Fallout 2's Junktown, in the Cafe Of Broken Dreams, you can find Dogmeat in a hidden room. In the original SSB Melee, the Princess Daisy trophy had a third eye on the back of its head. Goldeneye's Multiplayer mode features three Bond actors: Moore, Connery, and Dalton. They can only be seen through a cheat device. The Playstation was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony. The woman Mario is fixated on rescuing in the original Donkey Kong is named Pauline. Attacking the black pig on Outset Island in Wind Waker will eventually attack back; the pig can't be defeated, however. Mega Man is known as Rock Man in Japan, but it was changed because in America, "rock" was slang for cocaine. The original Devil May Cry was meant to be the next Resident Evil chapter. The developers of Dead Space studied car wreck victims to design their gruesome Necromorphs. The average age of a gamer is 28. Capcom's original name was Capsule Computing. Kratos comes from the Greek meaning of "cratos", which means power. The first game with multiple endings was Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. Sonic has appeared in four TV series. Silent Hill 4 wasn't originally a Silent Hill game, but was rather a separate franchise titled "The Room". Dragon Quest, in its prime, was only released on weekends in Japan. This was because kids would play sick to buy the game. It's only humanly possible to press a button on a controller 16 times per second. There's a full book to read in Deus Ex; titled "The Man Who Was Thursday". The creator of Pokemon got the idea from collecting caterpillars and watching them turn into butterflies. The first Fable was originally going to have a Multiplayer mode. Carmaggedon was allowed in the UK only when the pedestrians were changed to zombies, in India, when the cows were removed, and it was banned altogether in Germany. If you have a Madden 06 save on your memory card, you get a Madden themed van when you play Burnout: Revenge. In the first Fallout, if you have a character with under 4 intelligence points, your only dialogue options are grunts. Wii Play has sold roughly double the amount Halo 3 has. The play area of GTA: San Andreas is 17 square miles. The maximum score available to achieve in Pac-Man is 3,333,360. Armored Core Nine Breaker, a PS2 game, has a training mode with 150+ lessons. Also in the original DK, Mario was called "Jumpman", and he was a carpenter. The first ever Easter Egg is in Atari 2600's Adventure. It was a secret room displaying the developer's name. There are 504 pieces of equipment in Final Fantasy X. Nintendo claimed that over 100 third party titles were in development for the Virtual Boy. FIFA 2001 had a "scratch and sniff" CD, which smelt of turf. Red Dead Revolver was originally being developed by Capcom. The Elder Scrolls 3, Morrowind, featured a secret talking crab. He was also a trader. Lara Croft's name was first to be Laura Cruz. "Mario Bros" indicates that Mario's true name is Mario Mario and Luigi is Luigi Mario. Gran Turismo 2 featured 650+ cars. Early stages of Final Fantasy XII was to have two player co-operation. Nearly half the disc space on The Elder Scrolls Oblivion is taken up by dialogue. When GTA (the first one) appeared at E3, attendees were told it would take about three minutes to drive from one side of the map to the other. Shadow of Rome gives a point bonus called "Urine Trouble" for attacking someone who's just... Well, urinated. There is a game called "Communist Mutants From Space". Nintendo translates to "leave luck to heaven". Yoshi, from the Mario franchise and whatnot, actually has teeth. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was banned in South Korea. The Chain Chomp enemies from Mario were inspired by a chained dog. Having a copy of Manhunt in New Zealand is a criminal offense. Final Fantasy Legend II, due to censorship laws, changed a band of opium smugglers to banana smugglers. Tom Clancy initially rejected Fisher's triple eye goggles from Splinter Cell. Metropolis Street Racer was released three times due to game bugs. If you exploit glitches, it is possible to complete Super Mario 64 with merely one star. In Kirby: Superstar Ultra, if you have the "Stone" ability, there is a chance that you will turn into a statue of Samus or Mario. The clouds and bushes are the same thing in Super Mario Bros.- but in different colors. The Konami code is first used in Gradius. Pac-Man was designed to be appealing to women. You can spot Pac-Man in Tron, if you look closely. Jen Taylor, who voiced Princess Peach and Toad in several games, also voices Cortana for Halo. The design of Goldenrod City's Gym is actually a Clefairy. Early versions of Half-Life had players assuming the role of "Ivan the Space Biker". Super Mario 64's Boo laugh is a sped up Bowser laugh. In Metal Gear Solid 3, players can save as they begin the battle with The End, change the clock to a week in advance, and The End will be dead of old age. The Legend of Zelda beta version gave players the choice of a sword or boomerang at the beginning. In Super Mario RPG, renting a room in the Mushroom Kingdom's hotel will have you wake up next to Link. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 features a room inspired by the television show Lost. In Battlefield 4, there is a rogue transmission activated on a multiplayer map when two buttons are pushed at the same time. This activates a dinosaur roar and waving trees in the background. But hey, the more you know! In the early stages of Half-Life 2, there was to be a friendly alien that followed Freeman, feasting on the corpses of his dead enemies. The game E.T. for the Atari (yes, the awful one.) actually sold more than Space Invaders. Rockstar's Manhunt (the REALLY violent one) actually originally had a boss called Binbag, a psychopath wrapped in garbage bags. Obviously, he was removed. Little Sisters from Bioshock were first envisioned as mole-like creatures on the search for Adam. In Fallout 2's Junktown, in the Cafe Of Broken Dreams, you can find Dogmeat in a hidden room. In the original SSB Melee, the Princess Daisy trophy had a third eye on the back of its head. Goldeneye's Multiplayer mode features three Bond actors: Moore, Connery, and Dalton. They can only be seen through a cheat device. The Playstation was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony. The woman Mario is fixated on rescuing in the original Donkey Kong is named Pauline. Attacking the black pig on Outset Island in Wind Waker will eventually attack back; the pig can't be defeated, however. Mega Man is known as Rock Man in Japan, but it was changed because in America, "rock" was slang for cocaine. The original Devil May Cry was meant to be the next Resident Evil chapter. The developers of Dead Space studied car wreck victims to design their gruesome Necromorphs. The average age of a gamer is 28. Capcom's original name was Capsule Computing. Kratos comes from the Greek meaning of "cratos", which means power. The first game with multiple endings was Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. Sonic has appeared in four TV series. Silent Hill 4 wasn't originally a Silent Hill game, but was rather a separate franchise titled "The Room". Dragon Quest, in its prime, was only released on weekends in Japan. This was because kids would play sick to buy the game. It's only humanly possible to press a button on a controller 16 times per second. There's a full book to read in Deus Ex; titled "The Man Who Was Thursday". The creator of Pokemon got the idea from collecting caterpillars and watching them turn into butterflies. The first Fable was originally going to have a Multiplayer mode. Carmaggedon was allowed in the UK only when the pedestrians were changed to zombies, in India, when the cows were removed, and it was banned altogether in Germany. If you have a Madden 06 save on your memory card, you get a Madden themed van when you play Burnout: Revenge. In the first Fallout, if you have a character with under 4 intelligence points, your only dialogue options are grunts. Wii Play has sold roughly double the amount Halo 3 has. The play area of GTA: San Andreas is 17 square miles. The maximum score available to achieve in Pac-Man is 3,333,360. Armored Core Nine Breaker, a PS2 game, has a training mode with 150+ lessons. Also in the original DK, Mario was called "Jumpman", and he was a carpenter. The first ever Easter Egg is in Atari 2600's Adventure. It was a secret room displaying the developer's name. There are 504 pieces of equipment in Final Fantasy X. Nintendo claimed that over 100 third party titles were in development for the Virtual Boy. FIFA 2001 had a "scratch and sniff" CD, which smelt of turf. Red Dead Revolver was originally being developed by Capcom. The Elder Scrolls 3, Morrowind, featured a secret talking crab. He was also a trader. Lara Croft's name was first to be Laura Cruz. "Mario Bros" indicates that Mario's true name is Mario Mario and Luigi is Luigi Mario. Gran Turismo 2 featured 650+ cars. Early stages of Final Fantasy XII was to have two player co-operation. Nearly half the disc space on The Elder Scrolls Oblivion is taken up by dialogue. When GTA (the first one) appeared at E3, attendees were told it would take about three minutes to drive from one side of the map to the other. Shadow of Rome gives a point bonus called "Urine Trouble" for attacking someone who's just... Well, urinated. There is a game called "Communist Mutants From Space". Nintendo translates to "leave luck to heaven". Yoshi, from the Mario franchise and whatnot, actually has teeth. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was banned in South Korea. The Chain Chomp enemies from Mario were inspired by a chained dog. Having a copy of Manhunt in New Zealand is a criminal offense. Final Fantasy Legend II, due to censorship laws, changed a band of opium smugglers to banana smugglers. Tom Clancy initially rejected Fisher's triple eye goggles from Splinter Cell. Metropolis Street Racer was released three times due to game bugs. If you exploit glitches, it is possible to complete Super Mario 64 with merely one star. In Kirby: Superstar Ultra, if you have the "Stone" ability, there is a chance that you will turn into a statue of Samus or Mario. The clouds and bushes are the same thing in Super Mario Bros.- but in different colors. The Konami code is first used in Gradius. Pac-Man was designed to be appealing to women. You can spot Pac-Man in Tron, if you look closely. Jen Taylor, who voiced Princess Peach and Toad in several games, also voices Cortana for Halo. The design of Goldenrod City's Gym is actually a Clefairy. Early versions of Half-Life had players assuming the role of "Ivan the Space Biker". Super Mario 64's Boo laugh is a sped up Bowser laugh. In Metal Gear Solid 3, players can save as they begin the battle with The End, change the clock to a week in advance, and The End will be dead of old age. The Legend of Zelda beta version gave players the choice of a sword or boomerang at the beginning. In Super Mario RPG, renting a room in the Mushroom Kingdom's hotel will have you wake up next to Link. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 features a room inspired by the television show Lost. In Battlefield 4, there is a rogue transmission activated on a multiplayer map when two buttons are pushed at the same time. This activates a dinosaur roar and waving trees in the background. But hey, the more you know! |