One Interesting Fact...

[Kodlak]

The Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator has more graphics processing power than the Commodore 64. Amazingly, some basic C64 games can even be programmed into it.

 

[_Janny_]

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

Please tell me you're kidding or I might just explode from jealousy...

(sorry for the off-topicness, but the most of the gaming trivia I know has already been posted)

 

[Keepitclean]

hey, nokia used to make toilet paper

 

[Vlane]

Spoiler

http://paulstallard.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/bill-murray-you-suck.jpg

Yes Bill Murray says you suck. Well that's interesting.

But lets see.

The first person to invent and successfully play a quad guitar is Michael Aneglo Batio [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-XfnkLdkjo] who is considered by some people to be one if not the best guitarist in history (I am "some people" in this example but really, he's a god at the guitar).

Edit: Oh gaming facts. Ok. Mark Ecko's Getting Up (a great game) has the best soundtrack I've ever heard.

 

[Froobyx]

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

Please tell me you're kidding or I might just explode from jealousy...

(sorry for the off-topicness, but the most of the gaming trivia I know has already been posted)

Not kidding! I swear down.

http://www.tees.ac.uk/undergraduate_courses/Animation_Games_&_Computer_Graphics/BA_(Hons)_Computer_Games_Design.cfm

Linky for the course, look at the modules for the first year (on the right scroll down a little)

 

[brunothepig]

I'm not really sure if this is old news to a lot of you, but Duke Nukem is officially canned. Yep, that big ten year project has been abandoned. Now they're just arguing with the "investors" about how much of their money they wasted.

 

[MercurySteam]

Apparently playing Halo is good for you......... but not for your wallet, social life or dignity.

 

[orangebandguy]

The TF2 Heavy was originally expected to have a mullet.

Can you imagine such a thing?

 

[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).

Resistance and Uncharted similar?
No.

In the nature that they switched from very cartoonish to very serious games, they are similar.

Also they both have numerous references to each others games in their games. (At the Start Button Screen for RnC2 Ratchet would either be playing Sly 2, Jak 2 or RnC1, there was also a Jak poster in Clanks Apartment) There was a RnC2 billboard in Jak II,etc.

There is also another fun scene in Ratchet and Clank 2 after you finish the grind rail in the room with all of the proto pets Clank will do the Daxter dance from Jak and Daxter: the precursor legacy.

Also, in Jak 3 Ratchet appears in the gun course as a target.