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101 things you didn't know about games

From the useless to the trivial - amazing facts about videogames

Words: GamesRadar UK

82. John Romero put his Ferrari on eBay in 2002. It featured a modification that allowed its engine to be tuned with a laptop.

83. Tom Clancy initially rejected Sam Fisher’s triple-eyes goggles in Splinter Cell, due to the implausibility of goggles capable of both thermal and night vision.

84. Hectic PS2/Xbox/PC racer Flatout 2 features over 5,000 destructible objects on each of its race tracks.

85. Okami’s official soundtrack spans five audio CDs.

86. In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, one of the levels contains pizza boxes sporting Danish text that translates to “Real pizza with shit on it.”

87. Only 2000 or so units of Capcom’s hulking Steel Battalion, an Xbox game powered by a table-hogging 40-button controller, were released. There was a very limited follow-up run in the US, however.

88. The Xbox was originally due to be called the DirectX-box, after Microsoft’s programming interface for Windows.

89. A comic book spin-off of Killzone was once in the pipeline, but failed to materialise after its publisher went bankrupt.

90. Remember the Resi 4 Chainsaw controller? A katana controller was also released for Onimusha 3, and was nearly a metre in length.

91. Before working for the company, former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi ran a taxi firm and even a ‘love hotel’ which rented rooms by the hour.


 
14 Comments
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Johnny6Gun  - 1 year 1 month ago 
A very fun feature loaded with some great trivia. Top shelf.
sumguy08  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Yes I agree, top shelf.

But seriously I liked this article. It showed me some unfarmiliar things, and other things I experienced myself
Nintendophile  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Awesome article! I didn't know a lot of those things, and many of them were great surprises!
statuslegendary  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Nice work, that was a great list.

Now I have plenty of new ammo for my next edition of get drunk video game trivia!
cliffB  - 1 year 1 month ago 
one of the best ones so far, great article
Patius  - 1 year 1 month ago 
72. Resident Evil Zero is the only non-spin-off Resi title to remain exclusive to a single format, the GameCube.


There's a Japan only Wii version out.
key0blade  - 1 year 9 days ago 
Nice
The_Zanger  - 1 year 9 days ago 
what happens to Animal Crossing after 29 years?!
WoodsieLord  - 1 year 8 days ago 
#89 There is actually ONE character you can talk to in Fallout when you have very low Intelligence. He is a character who speaks only in grunts if your character has high Intelligence. But when you are just as dim as he is, you can talk fluently with each other.
Black_X_1111  - 1 year 8 days ago 
I would think Mario's surname would be Mario Jumpman. Or maybe Mario is his surname and its Jumpman Mario?
Chapmoin  - 1 year 6 days ago 
You done used that "Jumpman" fact twice! Also one of your facts is "the average gamer is 28" so of course we are well aware of such things. My favourite fact is #84 of the first list.
uvebeenpwned  - 10 months 19 days ago 
i love this article

ps 12TH!!!
SaladinTCO  - 7 months 11 days ago 
Sorry, but FIFA 2001 wasn't the only "scratch and sniff" disc.

There was also Gran Turismo 2: Simulation Disc.
Scratch to create the smell of burning rubber.
spiderking2009  - 4 months 16 days ago 
good article
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