Gaming facts

[RadioBaby]

Post your gaming facts here, whatever you want it to be about.

Try and educate us about stuff we may not already know.

1) Dr Doak is the facility level of Goldeneye was a member of rare, now part of Free Radical

2) David Hayter, the voice of solid snake, wrote the screen play for both the X men films and The Scorpian King . He also had a small part in X men as the police man who checks if mistique is dead or not.

3) Nintendo used to make toys and Shiguru Miyamoto was an apprentice to one of the toy makers. He then helped as Nintendo went into the electronic market, he also married the secutary as one of Nintendo's offices.

4) Playstation was derived from a project Sony were working on for the SNES but Nintendo decided against it and cancelled the project.

5) Tomb Raider won a BAFTA for something.

6) The game Pikmin was inspired by Shigeru gardening

7) He can also play the Banjo

8) The design of the PS2 was based on the earth (the writing) in the middle of space. It was meant to represent something deeper than that but it dosn't.

Your turn.

[Timm]

4) Playstation was derived from a project Sony were working on for the SNES but Nintendo decided against it and cancelled the project.

they were working on a cd rom drive for the snes so it could compete with the sega mega cd thingy

[Your Mom, B*tch]

RadioBaby, 75% of what you just wrote made 0% sense.

[Token White Guy II]

the makers of halo originally went to PS2 to market their game...sony turned them down so they went to X-box.

sorry, thats the only one i can think of off the top of my head

[jakegtr301]

Ohh I gots one......
The creators the Sega Gamegear (that thing rocked) was originally thought up by Nintendo people, but the head hauncho's said "u are f u c k i ng stupid". So Sega took the idea and ran with it, it worked!

[Digital Boy]

Tifa was not included in the original script for FF7. Also, Aeris was not supposed to die.

[RadioBaby]

RadioBaby, 75% of what you just wrote made 0% sense.

All I can see is two typos :confused:

[shabutie]

RadioBaby, 75% of what you just wrote made 0% sense.

But if you devide that by chair and execute it to the :smash: power you have a constructive lemonade stand...

[Sandez]

John Romero supposedly ordered construction to begin on an entire skyscraper constructed of nerf-balls.

[Cyonidedrum]

the guy who does the voice of snake is the police officer in:
scooby doo: escape from zombie island


who expected that!!!

[shabutie]

the guy who does the voice of snake is the police officer in:
scooby doo: escape from zombie island


who expected that!!!

Oh I saw that one coming from a mile away :rolleyes:


A rumor that GTA 4 has been in development for aLONG tim already, supposedly to release with the launch of the PS4 as a surprise...I would regain faith in the Lord if that really happend.

[Sandez]

Isn't GTA4 Vice City?

And the PS4? They haven't even made a PS3 yet...

[shabutie]

my bad, i ment 3 but wasn't paying attention, i'm working a Flash file right now and trying to balance back and forth. I guess I didn't think about Vice City being 4, i thought it was just another GTA3 in a new city...the rumor seemed unreliable...

*apologizes*

[Brew]

the makers of halo originally went to PS2 to market their game...sony turned them down so they went to X-box.

sorry, thats the only one i can think of off the top of my head

I thought Halo was supposed to be coming out on PC first, then they went over to the X-Box?

[Lionheart1827]

3) Nintendo used to make toys and Shiguru Miyamoto was an apprentice to one of the toy makers. He then helped as Nintendo went into the electronic market, he also married the secutary as one of Nintendo's offices.



-nintendo also started out by making cards in the late 1800s I think.

-Miyamoto is a god

-the playstation was supposed to be a nintendo branded system, co-made with sony.
-FF7 was supposed to be on the n64 first then the playstation, but due to hardware limitations in cart, there wouldnt be any movie scenes. there was also a Final Fantasy 3/6 remake coming out for n64 as well(i have the demo videos to prove it) but it was scrapped when square left nintendo
-when square left nintendo, not only did they leave, they persuaded enix to leave too. bastards, now look at square, there making crappy games(cept for star ocean which is not made by square, its made by Tri-Ace and published by Squarenix). :thumb:
-bit rate does not matter anymore. for example, xbox is dual 32 bit processors, gamecube is a 64 bit processor, and PS2 is a 128-bit processor. but they dont have any bearing on console systems anymore. back in the day it did, not anymore.
-Final Fantasy X-2 sucks, HARD.
-Free Radical is made up of ex-rare members, most from the goldeneye team, which explains why timesplitters 2 is an awesome game.
-halo was originally supposed to come out for the PC at first, but we all know what happened there. overrated anyway
-Retro Studios, who made Metroid Prime and Prime 2, are made up of ex-Id and ex-Valve members. made 2 great games so far.

theres so much useless stuff i can post. :thumb:

[StreetlightRock]

The reason why Final Fantasy is called Final Fantasy is because it was the last game that the designer (forgot his name) was ever going to make due the massive flops that the games he designed before FF were. So it was his Final Fantasy, his last game that he was supposed to make.

DVG.

[RadioBaby]

-nintendo also started out by making cards in the late 1800s I think.

-Miyamoto is a god

-the playstation was supposed to be a nintendo branded system, co-made with sony.
-FF7 was supposed to be on the n64 first then the playstation, but due to hardware limitations in cart, there wouldnt be any movie scenes. there was also a Final Fantasy 3/6 remake coming out for n64 as well(i have the demo videos to prove it) but it was scrapped when square left nintendo
-when square left nintendo, not only did they leave, they persuaded enix to leave too. bastards, now look at square, there making crappy games(cept for star ocean which is not made by square, its made by Tri-Ace and published by Squarenix). :thumb:
-bit rate does not matter anymore. for example, xbox is dual 32 bit processors, gamecube is a 64 bit processor, and PS2 is a 128-bit processor. but they dont have any bearing on console systems anymore. back in the day it did, not anymore.
-Final Fantasy X-2 sucks, HARD.
-Free Radical is made up of ex-rare members, most from the goldeneye team, which explains why timesplitters 2 is an awesome game.
-halo was originally supposed to come out for the PC at first, but we all know what happened there. overrated anyway
-Retro Studios, who made Metroid Prime and Prime 2, are made up of ex-Id and ex-Valve members. made 2 great games so far.

theres so much useless stuff i can post. :thumb:

Post more then, interesting stuff.

[Retrovertigo]

6) The game Pikmin was inspired by Shigeru gardening

He saw ants working together, and worked with that.

[Klown]

Gaming fact - I am not the creative genius behind FFVII


:upset:

[Mardy]

Doom II: Hell on Earth
The programmers added a picture of John Romero's head on a stage at the last level. John noticed that and added a sample to the last level of him saying: "To win this game you must beat me, John Romero". The sample was pitch-shifted and reversed.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
If you beat the game, you will unlock Wolfenstein 3D (1992) (VG).(X-Box version only)

Columbia Pictures has announced that a movie based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein is being planned

In the Balkans rocket base, pasted on the door of a badly scorched airplane hangar at the airfield, there is a note warning air crews about cooking coffee in the fuel destillers, as this can cause explosions. The note is written by a major Vorsichtig, german for "Careful".

In Paderborn village, in the psychic's house, there is a letter to a doctor Merkwurdigliebe. Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, meaning Dr. Strangelove, is a character from Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964).

At the Secret Weapons Facility in Kugelstadt, as general "Deathshead" escapes in the nick of time in his submarine, the interrogation of the local commander gives his destination in occupied Norway at 67°N 16°E, a secret base under a mountain by a fjord. This location *is* actually a mountain by a fjord in the north of Norway.

[cobert]

OOH, OOH, OOH.......The final boss of DOOM is a recording of a person saying "John romero is god" played backwards.


EDIT: forget this, its already been posted and mine is wrong. and for more gaming secrets like this, go to

www.eeggs.com

Its a huge site for easter eggs hidden in games, movies, and books.

[Incognito]

If you've played Star craft and seen Robocop you've probably noticed that the Goliath unit and ED 209 look extremely similar, if you click on a Goliath enough times in a row he will eventually say something like "ee dee two oh nine online" (or ED 209) looks like the game makers will either paying an homage or acknowledging the fact that it looked similar.

[McpwnZorDelux.com]

if you collect all of the 1/36 soldiers in ff7 you get sephoroth in your party

[Lionheart1827]

-there are some great RPG's for SNES that werent released in the US. FF2 and 3 were never release in the US(but 1 and 2 were released on the FF Origins disc). The true FF3 is yet to come out in the US and it probably never will. The FF3 for SNES that we got was actually Final Fantasy 6. US's FF2 was actually a dumbed down easy version of FF4 in japan. Secret of Mana 2 never came to the states, instead, Secret of Evermore replaced it(and secret of mana 2 was so much better).

-the secret star levels in Super mario world for SNES are pretty hard.

-koji kondo is the famous compose of the franchise nintendo theme songs, like mario, zelda, etc. Nobuo Uematsu does the Final Fantasy games and Yasunori Mitsuda does the Chrono Trigger and Xeno games. Motoi Sakuraba does Star Ocean, Tales of symphonia, baten kaitos, and others.

-gamers in japan hate FPS games, and hate metroid games for some reason. Dragon Warrior is the most popular game in japan.

-FF6-10(excluding 9) had main characters whose names related to elements(Terra, Cloud, Squall, Tidus)

-Super Mario RPG was Square's last game for nintendo(excluding FF crystal chronicles on GC)

-Chrono Cross is not the sequel to Chrono Trigger. There was a text adventure game made for the japanese super famicom(SNES) called Magical Dreamers. If you ever noticed tons of plotholes in Chrono Cross's storyline, Magical Dreamers will clear up a lot if you can find a translated ROM of it.

-Super Mario Bros 3 was the only game(i think) to be revealed to the public for the first time through a movie(The Wizard).

-Solid Snake was supposed to be modelled after Christopher Walken.

Gran Turismo 4 was just delayed again to quarter 1 of 2005( :( )

-the new legend of zelda is gonna rock so much ***. There is no young link in this game and is focused on adult link's adventures. :thumb:

[McpwnZorDelux.com]

Nobuo Uematsu is in a band called the black mages and they are ****ing awsome!!! they play all music from final fantasy games

[Sandez]

Starcraft was originally going to be based around the Warhammer 40 000 universe, but Games Workshop, who created the tabletop game, withdrew their license at the last minute.

Races would have been:
Terrans= Marines
Zerg= Tyranids
Protoss= Eldar

The biggest mistake the company ever made.

[Sandez]

-nintendo also started out by making cards in the late 1800s I think.

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They've been around that long?!?!?? :O