In the old days that game used cartridges,people would say that blowing into the cartridges that no longer worked would make them work.

Most ppl know, but Dr eggman used to be Dr Robotnik in Sonic
and princess peach used to be called toadstool in Mario

The first game was a space shooter game.

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Oh yeah and the lightning in Minecraft has no texture it's coded into the game

EDIT: I MEAN LIGHTNING AS IN THUNDER NOT LIGHTING AS IN SHADERS

Here are two more facts:

1. Yoshi's full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, according to a 1993 Nintendo Character Guide.

2. Mario Party was originally gonna support the Nintendo 64DD.
In the American version, having a 64DD connected to the N64 will just display a black screen.
In the European and Japanese versions, having a 64DD connected to the N64 will actually display an error message. This error message will be displayed in a different language depending on what language you selected!
Here's the error screen:

I will say a bunch of facts for 2 of games.

Halo: Before the forerunners, there was an even more advanced civilisation called The Precursors. They were massive beings that are nine meters tall (3 times taller than a Hunter).

The Covenant are horrible at making there own technology. Instead they just re-engineer Forerunner technology. They would be less advanced than Humanity.

Around the time of the Forerunners, Humanity is just as advanced as them and even found a way to reverse the effects of the Flood. The research was destroyed during the war that the Forerunners won, which was unintentionally started when Humanity was forced to invade there territory. I found all this out before the release of Halo 4 and I can remember it off by heart.

Fallout: The UN was disbanded when petroleum was running low. This lead to Chine invading Anchorage, Alaska to steal it's resources. After a sort, brutal campaign, the U.S Army defeats the Chinese and takes back the city.

Russia was most likely on America's side as they had strong relations.

These facts are like prologues. But not many people know these "facts". I can remember all this off by heart like I said before.

Heres a fact most girls will turn you down if you use odd video game facts as a conversation starter D

I think Mario's voice actor also voices Paarthurnax, the most epic dragon of all time.

Sonic being a hedgehog wasn't near the first design choice for him, in fact, Dr. Robotnik was an idea for the hero, but became the villain instead

You might see many champions in League of Legends the look like characters from other things...
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The PS2 version of Dead or Alive 2 is actually unfinished.

While the team was porting the game from the Dreamcast to the PS2, the sales manager of the company asked to "borrow" a copy of the unfinished game so they could play it. Instead, they took the game straight to publishing.

Yay. I think I revived this thread.

1). In The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening, the advisor from the SNES version of Sim City, Dr Wright, appears in a house. He's named after Will Wright, the creator of the Sim series.

2). Star Fox Adventures originally started life as Dinosaur Planet, a game developed entirely by Rare. It starred a blue fox called Krystal, who later became part of the Star Fox crew.

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You can get to the cake in Portal 1 by cheating

In LittleBigPlanet 3, Oddsock is the best thing ever!

In little big planet
Sometimes when you move you move your head and sometimes you move your hips

Oh boy... time to post in this thread again...

Did you know that you can eject the Animal Crossing disc from the Gamecube and still be able to play it?
It's because Animal Crossing's file size is very small, due to the fact that it was originally an N64 title. Due to the small file size, the game can be loaded entirely into the Gamecube's RAM.
From what I've heard, you still won't be able to play the NES games in-game without the disc. Not sure if this is true, though.

Obviously, you'll be able to continue playing without the disc until the Gamecube is either turned off or reset.

Diablo 3 has been in development for a bout 11 years O_O And it's STILL not out!

I hope this'll bring this topic back to life...
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Spyro's skin color was originally green, but was changed to purple to stop his skin from blending in with the grass.

The puck-man thing is true. It was changed because whoever created it was scared that vandals would change the "P" on the arcade machine into an "F".

Kirby was originally just a place-holder sprite, which explains his simple appearance. Masahiro Sakurai liked Kirby's design, and made him the star of the game.

Miyamoto originally wanted Kirby to be yellow, and Sakurai wanted him to be pink. It was eventually decided that he would be pink. NOA was never told what color Kirby was supposed to be, so he was displayed as white on the American box art of Kirby's Dreamland, just to be safe.

A game for the PlayStation 2 named Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love was released in Japan in 2005, but wasn't released until 2010 in North America.

the space miner in dead space 1 is a girl O_O
also where does sonic keep his rings?

(Some of these might not really be "Odd".)
Porky from Mother 2 was called Pokey in EarthBound, or the USA version of Mother 2.

Mother 3 was planned to be EarthBound 64 for the N64, but was delayed and never released by that name, and eventually released as Mother 3 for the gameboy advanced in Japan only.

Banjo Tooie has unused code for a "Devil Bottles" controlled by player 2 that can be activated with a GameShark.

Minecraft's Creepers came from Notch failing a pig model.

Nintendo's R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) was advertised as a toy instead of an NES accessory used for games due to a "Video Game Crash" that happened in 1983. (I saw this somewhere....)

The name of the main character of EarthBound (Ness) is an anagram of SNES.

On Pokemon Stadium, if you have a Pokemon gameboy cartridge with MissingNo., and you transport MissingNo. over to Pokemon Stadium and view its data while in Professor Oak's lab, it looks like the model used for a pokemon that uses the move "Substitute". If you try to use MissingNo., the game freezes.

Giga Bowser is in Super Smash Bros. games only, and Bowser is the only character to get a monster-like transformation that is unplayable in Melee.

Charles Martinet voices Mario.

The original Animal Crossing came out on the N64 for Japan, but was released on the Gamecube for the rest of the world.

Okay this may be old but:

In Half Life 2, at the start of the game in the playground, you can hear some old sound files for a NPC (Child Worker) that was never implemented.

peach was almost replaced by daisy

These creeps are constantly in the background of super mario galaxy II hell valley if I'm correct.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/8/7/9/gfs_125526_2_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/960551-super-mario-galaxy-2/images/screen-1&h=237&w=344&sz=3&tbnid=Cx9nLcBFTczguM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=131&zoom=1&usg=__vCshDM4Hxbp5MCZbQmnHpI4NLDg=&docid=IhaZKvkG1u-V1M&sa=X&ei=8nz-Ua7dNIOVqQHvioCwBQ&ved=0CEUQ9QEwBA&dur=453

Just go to didyouknowgaming.com for facts.

There’s a difference between the Japanese and US versions of Resident Evil 4. It occurs whenever Leon is killed by Mr Chainsaw. In the US version, his head is chopped off by the ‘saw. However, in the Japanese version, it cuts off part of Leon's face, exposing half of the front of Leon's skull and a single eyeball.

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MinecraftGuysBlogOkami was originally going to have a realistic look, but it proved too taxing for the PS2, forcing the devs to change to it's epic, painted look.

Isn't there an easter egg that lets you see footage of the game's realistic look?

Yeah, once you beat the game, you unlock it.

MinecraftGuysBlogOkami was originally going to have a realistic look, but it proved too taxing for the PS2, forcing the devs to change to it's epic, painted look.

Isn't there an easter egg that lets you see footage of the game's realistic look?

A tech demo at Spaceworld 2000 called Mario 128 was made to show off the Gamecube's power. Some features from the tech demo were used in later games.

For example, the controlling of 128 Marios was later used in Pikmin, and the sphere based movement was later used in Super Mario Galaxy.

Okami was originally going to have a realistic look, but it proved too taxing for the PS2, forcing the devs to change to it's epic, painted look.
Mega Man is known as Rock Man in Japan.
FFVII Was originally going to be on N64, but had to be moved because the game would have taken up 13 N64 cartridges.

Jaxtrm_Did you know that Pokémon Gold and Silver were supposed to be the final games?

Yes. I did. Besides, they quote-on-quote "wanted everything about these games to be gold and silver".

I don't know if it's odd or not but I thought it was interesting.

Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but wasn't given any credit.

Did you know that both Delia and Ash Ketchum are voiced by the same person?

Did you know that Pokémon Gold and Silver were supposed to be the final games?

Did you know that Gold and Silver went through a development cycle of over 4 years?

Did you know that in the Legend of Zelda, a dungeon is shaped like a swastika? However, in Buddhist religion, swastikas represent something much different that Hitler's use. Swastika can be translated to, "to be good," or, "being with higher self."

Did you know that Whitney's gym is shaped like a Clefairy?

Everyone knows the Uno Dos Tres of the legendary birds, but...
DID YOU KNOW that if you look at the headcrests on the legendary beasts, you can see the X-shape on Raikou, 5 points on Entei, and a hexagon on Suicune? Don't get it? 4, 5, 6.

DID YOU KNOW. That Arcanine was supposed to be a legendary, but they thought it would be too confusing for there to be 2 birds and a dog, so they just slapped a pre-evolution on him and made Moltres.