One Interesting Fact...

[NoriYuki Sato]

Birdo is supposed to be a guy who thinks he's a girl.

although not video game related....HORSE The Band is an amazing band..i saw em live ^-^

 

[pha kin su pah]

Donkey Kong got his name when Miyamoto tried to come up with an English name that communicated that this character was a stubborn gorilla. He got "Kong" for "Gorilla," and mistranslated "stubborn" to mean "donkey."

I thought Donkey Kong's name was obtained by somebody making a typo from "M" to "D" and they just ran with it.

 

[Thaius]

Donkey Kong got his name when Miyamoto tried to come up with an English name that communicated that this character was a stubborn gorilla. He got "Kong" for "Gorilla," and mistranslated "stubborn" to mean "donkey."

I thought Donkey Kong's name was obtained by somebody making a typo from "M" to "D" and they just ran with it.

My statement thrown into question, I embarked on an epic journey to the hallowed halls of knowledge (aka Wikipedia), and came back with this information...

"Shigeru believed "donkey" meant "stupid" in English, and assumed the name Donkey Kong would convey the sense "stupid ape" to an American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck."

So I wasn't quite on, but almost. And I must admit, I can see how he would think "donkey" meant "stupid"... those things are dumb as a rock.

 

[LeonLethality]

Orginally FFVII was intended for the N64 but was changed to the PS1, as the game would have required 12 cartridges to play it.

WRONG Final Fantasy VII was going to be for the SNES and would have taken place in a real world new york. AND THEN it was going to be for the N64, then the playstation!

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

ALSO WRONG!
they are not random they are set and there is more than four one is in lowtown by old dalans place, when sneaking into the palace the two chests in the southwest corner of the cellar must not be opened, all the treasure chests in Nalbina Dungeon's Confiscatory, where Vaan, Balthier, and Fran regain their lost weapons and equipment must not be opened and finally at Phon Coast, there is a beach with 16 chests placed in a grid. The 4th chest that must not be opened is among these, so it is best to leave them all alone. then you find it in a chest at the Necrohol of Nabudis

 

[LeonLethality]

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.

er... I hate to say it but.... also wrong... that's a common misconception though the real story is: Planning to retire from the game industry, Square Co.'s president and producer/director Hironobu Sakaguchi declared that his final game would be a fantasy RPG, hence the title.

 

[Caligulove]

THIS became Conker's Bad Fur Day

 

[neosman8]

valve announced half life2 episode 3 was going to be realeased in 2008, then 2009 and still not out

 

[Carnagath]

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

And then farming for 3 months with a 0.1% drop rate. Never got it.

 

[nezroy]

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

And then farming for 3 months with a 0.1% drop rate. Never got it.

No.

 

[James Cassidy]

Did you know

The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net.

The word "atari" comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." Technically, it is the word used by a player to inform his opponent that he is about to lose, similar to "check" in chess.

Here is one I found out

The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop the PlayStation as a machine of its own.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Nintendo used to own a chain of love hotels, and is also the majority owner of the Seattle baseball team

 

[Queen Michael]

A lot of people believe that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges of E.T. for Atari were buried in a New Mexico landfill. The weird fact is that this actually is true, they were.

 

[Carnagath]

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

And then farming for 3 months with a 0.1% drop rate. Never got it.

No.

Last time I checked, Henne marathons were the only way to get the spear. Of course, I don't know if that has changed, since you answer with a one-word post and are, most likely, a tard.

 

[Gaderael]

Hmm, interesting facts. Well, let's see. Did you know that if you keep clicking on the avatars of units in Starcraft makes them more and more irritated? Repeatedly clicking on the Protoss scout thing (it's been a looooong time since I played), it will seem to start picking up random radio transmissions, and one of them is the old lady from the village in Diablo.

In the original Warcraft, if you clicked on the alliance's wizard too many times, he'd lightning bolt the screen.

Cool. I never played it before (I know, I know, I should hang my head in shame), so I didn't know that. That's awesome.

 

[dj_8612]

ur foot is the same same size as the distance from ur elbow to ur hand. nokia used to make diapers and tyres

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Mother 3 was originally developed for SNES. Then it moved to 64 and the bad stuff happened.

 

[Kodlak]

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.

er... I hate to say it but.... also wrong... that's a common misconception though the real story is: Planning to retire from the game industry, Square Co.'s president and producer/director Hironobu Sakaguchi declared that his final game would be a fantasy RPG, hence the title.

Oh sorry my bad, but still interesting

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Fallout 3 has lyrics from Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad on two random terminals.

 

[Froobyx]

*Looks through lecture notes*

I have a module at uni called History of Games! We play old games..

Interesting facts: Sony were originally called Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company.

First real computer came was in 1958 on an analogue computer called Tennis for Two, was developed at Brookhaven National labs.

I could go through all the lecture notes from that lecture but...

Atari were orignially called Syzgny or something like that, think I might have wrote it down wrong.

Pong wasn't called Ping Pong because someone else owned the rights to that name.