Did you know? Interesting gaming facts...

[elkatas]

[Dogg Thang]

None of that is true except for the pigeon thing and the thing about Peter Molyneux.

[honeymustard]

Some things in Pokemon I only found out recently:

ArticUNO
ZapDOS
MolTRES (yes that should have been an obvious one...)


All the maps in Pokemon are mapped to Japan.


Goldenrod City gym is a Clefairy!

[Jay]

If you put the disks from Karateka or Summer Games II for the Apple into the drive upside down (basically put in side 2 instead of 1) the games will load but the display will be upside down.

[kryss]

All the maps in Pokemon are mapped to Japan.

I think some of them are mirror images, like Sinoh in the DS games is a mirrored image of Hokkaido.

[112]

Did you know that in the first batch of Killer Instinct 2 arcades there was a bug, that when you got to the game over screen and were prompted to insert a coin. If you inserted it during the count down the machine would crash and thus 'eat' your money?

Not very interesting i know.............

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[hudson]

Interesting and a heads up if anything, 112. Cheers

[Ady]

To continue the Another World theme from earlier, that title is, in fact Suda 51's favourite game of all time.

[Ady]

chipsmusic is great.

Ah, Chiptune. It amazes me how it's suddenly become popular over the last couple of years when it's been a niche form of electronica for a couple of decades. www.micromusic.net is a good place to start for fans, as it's one of the first websites dedicated to the scene.

A couple of friends of mine do Chiptune and are doing very well for themselves with it, too. You may have heard of Pixelh8? Yeah, he's local, I know him quite well and have played gigs with him:



And of course, there's Henry Homesweet, another local lad (and a lad he is, he's only 19!).

[egparadigm]

Another chestnut from Retro Gamer Vol 2: the model who played the titular Barbarian was none-other than Wolf from Gladiators (or Michael Van Wijk)!

[MattyD]

OMG I thought everyone knew that! I remember seeing him on TV after I had bought the Amiga version and thinking it was awesome! What a haircut

[egparadigm]

I don't know if I ever saw the posters. Back in the day we just had hundreds of pirated floppy discs lying about. Did read the odd Amiga Format/Power, though.

[usman]

Hey I happend to like FMV games when they're done well . Also think that Night Trap gets a lot of bad press when to me it's a very good game and at the time I haven't seen anything quite like it (even for FMV games) .
One of the few games where even members of the family like mum and aunt would take a interest in a game ... I think the game was way ahead of its time (for a FMVgame) and never fully gets the respect it should .

My God, there are two of us (!)

[Fastware]

No, there are 3 of us!

[SaijoBob]

4 if we're including the Wing Commander series! (although Prophecy was a bit hokey)