One Interesting Fact...

[Kodlak]

I want people to post interesting facts about games that not many people might know. Mine is that Tetris was originally a test that the USSR used to test their astronauts, and was sold to the public when they realised how addictive it could be.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

 

[MGlBlaze]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

This. This, this, this. xD

 

[Ciarang]

Repeat thread is repeated...

Nintendo used to make cards, but everyone knows that.

Erm... did you know that I don't know a lot about games?

 

[Gigaguy64]

Mr.Mayamoto got the name for Mario and Luigi from the pizza shop " Mario And Luigis" that was down the street from the old nintendo building.
At least thats how i remember it.
(goes to look up)

 

[Sassafrass]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

LIAR!!
THEY CAME AND TOOK MY SOUL THEN OFFERED IT TO THE EVIL GOD IMHOTEP!!!

*ahem*

Bungie didn't have anything to do with Halo Wars.
Not many people seem to know that.

Also, Too Human was in development for ten years.

 

[Casual Shinji]

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

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

Bungie didn't have anything to do with Halo Wars.
Not many people seem to know that.

Sorry to brutally slaughter your point and its village, but they had a minor minor teensy tiny influence in production, but didn't develop 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."

 

[Sassafrass]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

Bungie didn't have anything to do with Halo Wars.
Not many people seem to know that.

Sorry to brutally slaughter your point and its village, but they had a minor minor teensy tiny influence in production, but didn't develop it.

They did?
Well ,that's made that knowledge sort of irrelevant.

 

[The Eaten Cake]

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

Blimey, really? That's pretty interesting, as it goes.

Hmm... There was actually a Halo DS demo out there, but the project got cancelled.

 

[Tharwen]

Modern Warfare 2 has a level in which you slaughter innoc- what? You already know this? Oh, alright then, I'll be quiet...

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Games aren't actually evil! =O

Bungie didn't have anything to do with Halo Wars.
Not many people seem to know that.

Sorry to brutally slaughter your point and its village, but they had a minor minor teensy tiny influence in production, but didn't develop it.

They did?
Well ,that's made that knowledge sort of irrelevant.

Har har, I destroyed everything you know... About Bungie's involvement in Halo Wars...

[sub]I should really step it up a notch if I want to get anywhere in life...[/sub]

 

[Kodlak]

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

 

[Pilot Bush]

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

 

[Lord Beautiful]

There was once a 3D reimagining of Chrono Trigger in the works, but Square shut it down (it was an independent project unauthorized by the company).

I'm guessing people already know this, but for those who don't, all two of you, there you go.

 

[Green Tentacle]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is impossible to complete in the German version of the game because you had to play as a Nazi scientist to complete parts of the game which the German version did not include.

 

[SeanthePsycho]

Before Harmonix made Guitar Hero and Rock Band, they made FreQuency and Amplitude, two of the greatest music games ever.

 

[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?