Post a random gaming fun fact!!

[Blueskunky Blueskunky]

Microsoft added ads to Minesweeper way back in 2012.

 

[zombie100379]

" freedom Planet " started off as a sonic the hedgehog fan game

"shadow of the beast" is better on the master system then on the genesis

"space harrier 3D" on the master system isn't just a 3D version of the original - its a new game

" tetris" on genesis was on ebay for a million dollars

the sega master system is more powerful then an nes

"space harrier II" on genesis is utter rubbish when compared to the original master system game

"yakuza 0-6" are among the greatest games ever - who says so ? - ME

 

[JellyjamLu]

Pyramid Head is a monster not a dude wearing a pointy hat, that part is the actual head of the creature as stated by Masahiro Ito in the making of documentary.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Quoting this:

Also this girl knows about the existence of something called horses

 

[Bakuma1997]

In Ducktales 1, both Remake and OG, if you leave the level with Launchpad and your score's fifth number (Like this XX7XXXX) you enter a hidden bonus stage with lots of diamonds
Source: Trust Me Bro

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

This little thing may look cute and meme'd but is actually a very complex character.

Dorothy is a complex, flawed, and compelling character. In a game where pretty much every other female character has some degree of positive feelings for the Commander (the player stand-in), the most Dorothy can muster is begrudging tolerance. She's not here for you, she has her own things going on.
Dorothy in a sense is a conniving, two-faced, traitorous, manipulative, and cold-blooded mass murderer who snuffed out the lives of innocents because of a personal grudge with a system that she felt wronged her personally.

 

[Bakuma1997]

This little thing may look cute and meme'd but is actually a very complex character.

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Dorothy is a complex, flawed, and compelling character. In a game where pretty much every other female character has some degree of positive feelings for the Commander (the player stand-in), the most Dorothy can muster is begrudging tolerance. She's not here for you, she has her own things going on.
Dorothy in a sense is a conniving, two-faced, traitorous, manipulative, and cold-blooded mass murderer who snuffed out the lives of innocents because of a personal grudge with a system that she felt wronged her personally.

 

[ZeromusVX4]

One of my favorites is that in the Famicom game Ganso Saiyuuki Super Monkey Daibouken hidden in the RAM files there's a funny explicit message by the game's graphic designer stating how down bad he was when writing it

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[Nebulon_Galaxy]

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Most sane Nikke in the game mind you

 

[ZEGA ZONICZEGA ZONIC's icon]

 

[Majora Fi]

When Sony showed a demo of "Uncharted 4" at E3 2015, the presenter's controller froze for 30 seconds, creating a funny moment.

As soon as the game was released, this moment resurfaced when one of trophies required you to leave Drake standing still for 30 seconds in the same spot as in demo

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Red Alert 2 had a anti piracy system where if you had your game pirated and start a skirmish game you will play normally for like a minute or so then everything explodes and you get defeated! It's a funny touch from a game made in the year 2000


Also Red Alert 2 had you takeover the world trade center and airplanes would fly near the twin towers and even gimp into them sometimes , worth noting the promotional material of RA2 contained some images of NYC getting bombarded by the soviet navy and the twin towers were in the background , they got removed after the incident from all promotional material


Command & Conquer generals had cut lines for vehicles when ordered to run over infantry , the Chinese bulldozer had a line saying "what are they? Protesters?"

Red Alert 1 was originally going to be a NATO vs the USSR , images of the NATO emblem on the UI can be seen in early stage screenshots , eventually the idea was scrapped and we got the game occurring in 1952 with the Allies faction replacing NATO

(You can't kill the messiah just ask general Solomon)

Rockstar couldn't program swimming in GTA 3/vice city so they came up with the lore justification of oil leaking in the waters surrounding liberty city and sharks in vice city

Diablo franchise was named after a mountain with the same name in the city of the franchise creator David Bervik

Half Life was going to include female scientists but they got cut , the administrator was also planned to be a lady who betrays Gordon but it was eventually scrapped

Also in Half Life it had lots of cut monsters such as Mr Happy who was a neutral monster that feasts on corpses , but if provoked by the player it would attack you with his long hands or puke or use it's long hands to knock out Gordon glasses and attack him by sexually assaulting Gordon to death!

The houndeyes also a monster in half life was also a neutral creature but playtesters kept shooting them so valve made them hostile

The companion system in half life was also a coincidence during playtesting

WarCraft 3 was supposed to be a hybrid of strategy and RPGs , but the concept was scrapped and we got what we got instead

Initially WarCraft 3 plot may have included a war between the human kingdoms this also got scrapped

WarCraft 2 was planned to have each of the 7 clans/kingdoms start with unique bonuses , there is a picture of the pitched ideas they were something like "X kingdom: strong infantry/weak cavalry/strong navy" well sadly this was scrapped and it was just color differences

Initially WarCraft IP was going to be a 40k Warhammer game but blizzard failed to obtain the license so they went ahead and did their own thing (and it turned out to be better than 40K anyway)

Counter Strike started with hostage rescue mode only

Counter Strike also had a jail break mode where Terrorist team had to escape the map and Counter Terrorists had to stop them

Counter Strike also had the game mode assassination , where a VIP character needed to escape and will be protected by the Counter Terrorists , the Terrorists had to assassinate the VIP in order to win , for CTs to win they just needed to make sure the VIP reaches the evacuation helicopter , you can play the game mode in CS 1.6 with the map "oilrig"

In Red Alert 3 the nuclear weapons got removed because the developers thought it's disrespectful to include Japan as a faction with nukes in the game........i get it but come on.......

Also in Red Alert 3 you can destroy the game creators studio in Japan mission 6

Originally WarCraft 2 was going to be in the current day , blizzard even had a cutscene with dragons fighting fighter jets

Diablo was initially going to be a turn base game but blizzard HQ insisted that blizzard North try out the real time formula , David wasn't fond of it but most of the team was on the Real Time train so during a single evening he managed to turn the game from Turn Based to Real Time aka action AND he had a month payment in advance cuz he thought it's gonna take a month to change the combat system , he was amazed upon seeing the results too

Chris voice actor from RE1 died sometime around 2000 or 2001 (sad fact he also played Richter in SOTN)

Ahh I'm done with this ciao

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

In Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons of Liberty, you can take picture in the Solid Snake section of the game, giving you a chance to take random pictures and send it to Otocon, who will react based on the pictures, even the game developers faces can be found as well.

In Metal Gear Solid V, You can gain a certain character back by playing the mission 10 times...I can't say it since I'm on my phone and the spoiler button is showing up for me.

Fun fact, PEOPLE STILL MISS THE UNLOCKABLE SKINS RATHER THAN BUYING IT.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Doom started life as an Aliens game, but they couldn't secure the license.

It's funny to think how gaming may have looked like in that timeline.

StarCraft was scrapped and rebuilt from scratch when Blizzard saw Ion Storm's offering at that year's E3... except that it was fake! The people at Ion Storm's booth were just pretending to play a video!

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

In the Street Fighter 3 games, there's a single frame of animation for Oro's crouching heavy kick where you can see his... "Equipment" on full display. Very few people know about this, including the various ratings boards of the world apparently seeing as this game has always maintained a teen rating lol. I will not be pointing out the specific frame for obvious reasons, but now all of you know and will never forget

 

[Neb Lleb]

This little thing may look cute and meme'd but is actually a very complex character.

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Dorothy is a complex, flawed, and compelling character. In a game where pretty much every other female character has some degree of positive feelings for the Commander (the player stand-in), the most Dorothy can muster is begrudging tolerance. She's not here for you, she has her own things going on.
Dorothy in a sense is a conniving, two-faced, traitorous, manipulative, and cold-blooded mass murderer who snuffed out the lives of innocents because of a personal grudge with a system that she felt wronged her personally.

...Gacha weeb gunk.

 

[MasterOfpuppeters964]

This little thing may look cute and meme'd but is actually a very complex character.

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Dorothy is a complex, flawed, and compelling character. In a game where pretty much every other female character has some degree of positive feelings for the Commander (the player stand-in), the most Dorothy can muster is begrudging tolerance. She's not here for you, she has her own things going on.
Dorothy in a sense is a conniving, two-faced, traitorous, manipulative, and cold-blooded mass murderer who snuffed out the lives of innocents because of a personal grudge with a system that she felt wronged her personally.

Basic plot of one visual novel Denpa:

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Mega Man 2 was developed in the free time of the dev team (they mainly worked on a Baseball game).
Mega Man 3 was rushed and basically the release version is a beta.
Mega Man World 2 is the only game in where Minakuchi Engineering (dev of World 1 & 3-5) don't worked in because Capcom hired another studio named Thinking Rabbit. Since World 2 was critically panned (but sold pretty well), Capcom returned to hire Minakuchi Engineering for the rest of the series.
Mega Man 7 was developed in only 3 months and the dev team used to do sleepovers on the offices of Capcom.