15 Interesting Facts About Video Games

15 Interesting Facts About Video Games - Not A Myth

15 Video Game Facts

1. The big N that makes up the logo of the n64 is actually made up of exactly 64 vertices or points and sixty four faces.

2. Mario was actually named after the landlord of Nintendo’s first warehouse Mr Mario Segale. The original name of Mario was actually Mr Video Game which ended up becoming Mr Segale’s nickname speaking of Mario he is actually appearing in over a hundred and twenty video games.

3. Space Invaders was so popular in japan that actually caused a nationwide shortage of 100 yen coins which is roughly the equivalent of $1.

4. Pac-Man was invented by the designer Toru Iwatani while he was eating pizza.

   5. The PlayStation was originally designed as a Nintendo Console with Sony to make the inside components when Nintendo console changed their minds about making the console Sony decided to go ahead make the PlayStation.

   6. The video game industry is valued at 70 Billion Dollars worldwide.
   7. The original Donkey Kong was conceptualized to be a Popeye game but the creators didn't like their game very much so Nintendo was forced to make up their own intellectual property.

8. In 1990 game, Golden Axe from SEGA was voiced entirely by prisoners on death row.

9. In some Chinese jails the prisoners are forced to farm gold in World of Warcraft so they can sell it to lazy players with too much money and not enough time.

10. In the original Legend of Zelda game, why you could only hold 255 Rupees (gold coins)? Because the maximum value of an unsigned 8bit integer and to hold more would have required more memory which wasn’t just doable for the technology at that time.

   11. The NES controller was originally expected to include a microphone, this was planned to be used in games like Zelda where you would scream into the mic to kill some enemies.

   12. You may feel sorry for Rockstar since they get so much controversy in the news but you shouldn't since the very first piece of controversy was actually paid to happen by Rockstar themselves in order to generate press.

   13. The most famous G code for video games of all time up up down down left right left right B A this was made popular by the game Contra which gives the player a full set of power-ups and it’s called Konami code or Gamers code.

14. The famous Konami code was never meant for the public the developer of Gradius made it for testing purposes but accidentally left it in the final game. Strange to think that we might never have one of the most beloved cheat codes if Dev wasn't so absent minded.

15. Atari is a Japanese word that actually means success.