Whats your useless gaming trivia

[Anarchemitis]

All windows XP operating Systems have a secret starwars episode IV text-based movie in the telnet network.

Do tell: are there any easter eggs in Vista?

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

All windows XP operating Systems have a secret starwars episode IV text-based movie in the telnet network.

Do tell: are there any easter eggs in Vista?

If you look hard enough, you can uninstall it.

 

[miller483]

- The original Metroid was the first game to use the Password system.

- Around the time Donkey Kong came out in arcades, Universal Pictures (the owners of King Kong) sued Nintendo over copyright infringement. (don't worry, Ninty won.) Nintendo's defense attorney in that case was a man named Jack Kirby.

Can you guess which famous Ninty character was named after the attorney?

 

[miller483]

Was it the guy from Bionic Commando? I bet it was.

Er....no. Try again.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

I knew the first, and watched the second.

Mario's original shirt, as featured by Jump Man, on the side of the Donkey Kong arcade was not solid blue. It was checkered.

Pac-Man went through several name changes before settling on his moniker. The name that was to originally be released was Puc-Man, however the developers feared vulgar vandalism.

Actually, no. Pac-man was a Japanese game. While trying to come up with a character, the designer looked at a piece of pizza with a slice taken from it. Once there, they made the name: Paku (The Japanese otomotopia for being hungry or eating, I can't remember which) Man. This was later brought to the US, where it became Pac man. A mistranslation once labeled a knock-off it as "Hangly Man". It was unknown to most at the time that it was supposed to be "Hungry Man"

Sources: History Channel, Knowledge of Japanese.

As for my trivia: Whose face did they use for Chell in portal?

Answer: Alesia Glidewell, also known as Krystal from Star Fox's voice actor in Assault.

Also: What game is the most addicting, despite all its years? Solitaire. There was a study done. I'm dead serious.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

- The original Metroid was the first game to use the Password system.

- Around the time Donkey Kong came out in arcades, Universal Pictures (the owners of King Kong) sued Nintendo over copyright infringement. (don't worry, Ninty won.) Nintendo's defense attorney in that case was a man named Jack Kirby.

Can you guess which famous Ninty character was named after the attorney?

Umm... Going out on a limb here, but Kirby?

 

[fyrh56]

Didn't I read somewhere that Half Life 1 is built off an expanded version of the Quake 1 engine?

Yeap. The Half-Life engine is heavily based on the Quakeworld engine.

The first RTS ever made was Stonkers for the ZX Spectrum.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Rare Software made a potentially legally-damaging gaffe in the manual for Goldeneye 64. Though the names of the weapons were changed in the game to avoid legal issues with the owners of their trademarks, one weapon- the Skorpion submachine gun, renamed the "Klobb" ingame- had its real name printed in the manual. As far as I know, nothing was ever made of the issue.

Also speaking of weapons and legal issues, the only weapon to retain its original name in the retail versions of Counter-Strike is the MAC-10 (technically, the Ingram M10). The company that manufactured and trademarked the weapon, Military Armament Corporation (MAC), went out of business in 1976.

Also: What game is the most addicting, despite all its years? Solitaire. There was a study done. I'm dead serious.

Odd, I would've pegged it as Tetris.

 

[OneHP]

Microsoft Excel '97 had a flight simulator easter egg.

Which featured a scrolling credits monument, and 'The Sea of Orgasm'.
(Access via, select cells(f5?) x97:l97, chart wizard)

Word '97 had a pinball game easter egg.
(Access via, write the word blue, format it blue and bold, I forget the final stage)

 

[MK-Smash]

The cake is a lie.

 

[Anarchemitis]

That is not funny, Smash. People have made that as cliche as RickRolling.

All windows XP operating Systems have a secret starwars episode IV text-based movie in the telnet network.

Do tell: are there any easter eggs in Vista?

If you look hard enough, you can uninstall it.

Fantastic. The internet can make its opinions more useless to me faster than ever before, thanks to Firefox.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

All windows XP operating Systems have a secret starwars episode IV text-based movie in the telnet network.

Do tell: are there any easter eggs in Vista?

If you look hard enough, you can uninstall it.

For someone pretty familiar with Windows, but certainly not an expert, how do you access this?

 

[L4Y Duke]

If you spin around a lot, you can get dizzy and throw up.

Oh, wait. Videogame trivia.

If you spin the sticks around a lot in the Survival Viewer in Metal Gear Solid 3, you can get dizzy and throw up.

 

[Radelaide]

Okay guys i have checked and either the search feature hates me or there is no thread for useless gaming trivia so you can put yours here.

I have two

*the XBOX was so heavy that the manual said that you may be harmed by falling XBOX's

* Bill gates featured in an ad for the windows 95 port of Doom (screened in '95)

so whats yours

The first one it also warned you about falling XBOX controllers.

Now can be said about xbox 360 DC power-thingies *can't remember the real name thingie*

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Okay guys i have checked and either the search feature hates me or there is no thread for useless gaming trivia so you can put yours here.

I have two

*the XBOX was so heavy that the manual said that you may be harmed by falling XBOX's

* Bill gates featured in an ad for the windows 95 port of Doom (screened in '95)

so whats yours

The first one it also warned you about falling XBOX controllers.

Now can be said about xbox 360 DC power-thingies *can't remember the real name thingie*

At work, we just call them bricks. In the computer, they're called power adapters.

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

Gunpei Yokoi was the engineer reponsible for designing the NES and GAMEBOY. He also headed the team that created Metroid.

and if a friend i have is to be beleived he created the virtual boy, after which nintendo shamed him into retirment wherebye sony looked into hiring him but durring the car ride to pick him up they were hit by a drunk driver and he died. at least thats what a super nerd frined of mine has told me of course i could be confusing him for someone else i don't remember the name of the guy he was talking about

in starcraft if you click on the creatures 50 times quickly they explode like nukes.

 

[DMShade]

Nintendo explained the sprite mirroring in Link to The Past (Sword in left hand facing left, right hand facing right) by claiming Link always kept his shield pointed at Death Mountain out of superstition.

...So what about when he was facing south?

 

[RubberChickenMan]

dmc1 was supposed to be resident evil 4.

dmc1 dante was suppose to be leon kennedy.

dmc character names are inspired by (dante's inferno "the devine comedy")

dmc2 was suppose to be a non-dmc game staring lucia.

 

[Illanair]

All windows XP operating Systems have a secret starwars episode IV text-based movie in the telnet network.

If by Secret Star wars episode easter egg you mean connecting to towel.blinkenlights.nl via Telnet as seen in many easter egg videos such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4IeuuLDFQ (at about two minuts in) then it is just that. Connecting to an Internet Server hosting content using the Telnet protocol in Windows and in fact not an easter egg at all.

- The original Metroid was the first game to use the Password system.

Do you mean the first game "ever" or just in modern console timelines? It's an interesting fact

in starcraft if you click on the creatures 50 times quickly they explode like nukes.

This has been true for every Blizzard game since Starcraft that I can think off. Warcraft 2 and 3 has the same easter egg and I'm sure they'll keep it in Starcraft 2 as well.

Also while on the topic of Blizzard easter eggs you can find alot of funny objects and scenes if you use the "Disable Fog of War" cheat codes in Warcraft III - Like the Phat Lewt item guarded by a couple of pirates - in the Orc tutorials I recall