Useless Gaming Facts

Onorie Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:49 pm

If you have any useless things you know from video games, post them here. It's a very interesting topic.

Here's some I found, feel free to add or correct anything.

There are four games in the Tribes series, Tribes, Tribes: Aerial Assault, Tribes 2, and an expansion for Tribes 2.

Of the two developper groups that left Blizzard to make their own game, guess how many went bankrupt and had to close down. Hint: All of them.

In Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3, you can rotate male character models in the biography to see them in almost any angle you want. However, female character model cameras do not let you rotate to view underneath their skirts, taking away certain angles.

When the mazes in the second quest of Zelda are put together, they spell "ZELDA".

Sonic 1 takes place over the span of 1 day:

Green Hill Zone - morning
Marble Zone - daytime
Spring yard zone - evening
Labyrinth Zone - Inside, so no look at the sky
Star Light Zone - night
Scrap brain zone - dawn

Pokemon names:
Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres

Did you know that the only reason why Mario has a mustache is that Nintendo couldn't fit a mouth on the NES, because it couldn't support enough.

The video game based on the Steven Spielberg movie, E.T., beat out Space Invaders in sales by half a million units sold. (E.T.:1.5 Million, Space Invaders: 1 Million)

Halo was originally planned as a Real Time Strategy game for the Mac before it became a first person shooter.

The video game industry now brings in more money than the movie industry. Partially beacause of Blizzard and their monthly 180 Million dollars!

The 3rd and 4th players in Halo 3 Co-op Campaign are called N'tho Sraom and Usze 'Taham respectively.

The voice actor who plays Jack from the game Mad World for the Wii also plays Zabuza From the American version of the Japanese anime Naruto.

Did you know that in one tree of the game Crysis, there is more programming than in the entire game of Far Cry 2?

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.

The Original Devil May Cry was originally intended to be the next chapter in the Resident Evil series. The gun juggle move was a glitch, but became part of Dante's move set.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 was one of the first ever games to have a simultaneous, worldwide release date. This was known amongst gamers as 'Sonic2sday', as it appeared in shops on a Tuesday. November 24, 1992 to be exact.

If, for some strange reason, you still have a Madden NFL 06 save game on your memory card, a special Madden van will be unlocked when you start up Burnout Revenge on PS2.

One of the intro videos for Team Fortress 2, Meet the Scout, shows RED team attacking out of BLU's base?

If you click on a ursadon multiple times in starcraft, they will explode in a nuclear explosion, which wont damage any nearby units or structures. Also, if you click many times on goats or sheep in the Warcraft RTS games, they will explode.

And there you go! You now know about stuff nobody but the truly hardcore gaming history buff cares about!