Facts

I stumbled across a rather amusing post today, 50 interesting and weird facts about the gaming world. I filtered through some of the less relevant ones leaving me with these, I'm slightly sceptical as to whether they are all facts, as did a few people who commented, but the author seemed adamant they were so...



∆ You could only carry 255 rupees in the original Legend of Zelda game because that is the maximum value of an unsigned 8 bit integer, and carrying more would have required more memory at a time which memory wasn’t as expendable as it is today.

∆ The first gaming console to ship with an internal hard drive was the Sega Saturn.

∆ The original Donkey Kong game (which gave birth to “Jumpman”, later renamed “Mario) was the first video game to feature a story behind the characters and what was going on.

∆ “Mario” was an Italian landlord for Miyamoto when he chose to give Nintendo’s icon character a name.

∆ The Game Boy is the best selling video game system of all time.

∆ Atari is named after a Japanese word mean ‘success’.

∆ The Apple Pippin by Macintosh was the worst selling console ever, selling less than 24 000 units and cost 600 $.

∆ A man named Faiz chopdat (lol) once went to jail for 4 months because he played Tetris on his phone while flying a plane.

∆ In fact the first video game is a missile game from 1947, and the first game console is from 1951!

∆ Sonic the hedgehog is not only a fast hedgehog in a video game. Sonic Hedgehog is also a name of a gene on chromosome 7 of a human genome. Biologists!

∆ The video game of all time that is least success is ET, it came on the Atari 2600 in 1982. The game is so bad that more than hundreds of thousands of cartridges were buried in a New Mexico trash hole and this game is blamed for the nearly complete collapse of the video game industry.

∆ Unlike Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo has never made a loss at the end of a year… even with the GameCube!

∆ The PlayStation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony to design some of the inside components. When Nintendo secretly renegaded this agreement, Sony decided to make a console anyway.

∆ Since the release of Mario Bros in 1983, many American children have been named Mario.

∆ The maximum achievable score possible in a game of Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.