One Interesting Fact...

[tmujir955]

In Final Fantasy XII, the Zodiac Spear is obtained by not opening four random chests.

 

[MiketheBassMan]

The original Resident Evil had a animation between rooms to mask load times. In the remake the load times were non-existent so the animation was no longer needed. Playtester said it felt unnatural so they added the animation back in.

Those stupid door and staircase animations were the most frustrating part of that game! Well, except maybe the controls...

 

[RanD00M]

The famously awful E.T. game for the Atari 2600 actually sold more than its most famous game, Space Invaders. E.T. sold 1.5 million, while Invaders only shifted a million.

 

[AlexanderAstartes]

During the Cold War, America planned to fire a nuclear missile at the moon as a show of might. Someone decided it might be a waste of resources.

 

[gremily]

When a farmer fucks a sheep, he does it at the end of a cliff, so the sheep pushes back.

What does this have to do with video games?

oh...it was about games? then...nevermind

lolololololololololololololololol

 

[Viivrabe]

the makers of DBZ: Budokai T3 were sued for putting mini games in there loading screens. don't know why though

 

[Viivrabe]

The famously awful E.T. game for the Atari 2600 actually sold more than its most famous game, Space Invaders. E.T. sold 1.5 million, while Invaders only shifted a million.

they also expected people to purchase several copies, so there were more cartridges made than there were game systems to play it on, meaning that to sell them all each person would have had to have like 2 copies or so.

that was retarded.

 

[Lenny Magic]

My mind has gone blank...

Dungeon Keeper 3 was going to be set above ground. Personally I think that may have been the point where Molyneux started to go a bit loopy...

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Pikmin was inspired by gardening. It was also supposed to be developed as a title set in the Garden of Eden, but was changed.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

Abe's Oddyssey was initially meant to be a movie.

if that's true, it's a bloody shame it never happened, awesome as the game was.. that'd have made a cool movie

 

[A random person]

Apparently NPC's tried to rake their carpets in the process of Making Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Sorry, most interesting thing that I immediately remembered.

Also, especially surprising with this community's general views on the subject (though NeutralDrow's taking steps to change things), but well-written eroge exists.

 

[Speccr]

Fight Night: Round 2 made Little Mac look like sloth from the goonies...

And unrelated to video games:
-If you say beer can in a English accent you say bacon in a jamaican accent...
and the word bed looks like a bed

 

[roastbeefy]

Before Halo, Bungie developed games exclusively for Macs.

 

[jboking]

Fun fact: Naughty Dog and Insomniac originally worked in the same building on the Universal Interactive Studios backlot. This is said to be the reason for their close relationship with one another and the reason they seem to release very similar games(Crash to spyro, Jak to Ratchet, and Resistance to Uncharted).

 

[roastbeefy]

During the Cold War, America planned to fire a nuclear missile at the moon as a show of might. Someone decided it might be a waste of resources.

There was also a plan to build a base on the moon. This was before the moon landing.
Here's a list of some crazy Cold War projects.
http://www.cracked.com/article/153_nuke-moon-5-certifiably-insane-cold-war-projects_p1

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Yes, pacman was really thought up when they ordered a pizza and took a few slices

 

[RobDJClark]

Final Fantasy was named so as it was supposed to be Square's final game due to a succession of unsuccessful games... guess we can all appreciate the irony here.

Didnt know that, and found it really interesting,

Did you know that there's only 14 final fantasy games that have indefinite numbers,even though there's well over 30 final fantasy games,because kingdom hearts and its spin-offs count too.

people know this, I just felt like saying it

 

[ma55ter_fett]

When a farmer fucks a sheep, he does it at the end of a cliff, so the sheep pushes back.

What does this have to do with video games?

Its like he is trying to illicit a response or something...

The original halo game (before Microsoft bought Bungie) had the detachable turrets (which wouldn?t make it into the series till halo 3) and a machete.

there are screen shots out there if you can find them.