Did you know? Interesting gaming facts...

[hudson]

I know, I've heard all versions, that's why I had the slightly sarcastic in there .

<hat, coat & scarf>

Matt Damon's favourite game whilst in High School was Rolling Thunder.

[BeyondJumpFish]

Michael Jackson was originaly suppost to do the music for Sonic 3 before Sega dropped him due to "The allegations". MJ's prodution team picked it up instead. Word is, some of the music is MJ's original concepts anyway.

[merf]

Sony only developed a 'Playstation' project after Nintendo backed out on a deal for a Sony produced CD drive add-on to the SNES.

The Playstation was a corporate act of revenge !

[fishbowlhead]

Sony only developed a 'Playstation' project after Nintendo backed out on a deal for a Sony produced CD drive add-on to the SNES.

The Playstation was a corporate act of revenge !

worked out quite well for sony in the end id say.

[BeyondJumpFish]

The original concept for the NES was going to be 16bit but Nintendo found that the prodution cost of the cartridges would be to expencive at the time and made it 8bit.

[merf]

well 1&2 were ok, 3 ?

[Kongster]

In the GC version of Viewtful Joe, Joe whistles the Super Mario theme as he brings out a bomb and juggles it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQI7y1uK6g

[Brats]

I think it was intentionally called Donkey Kong. The Monkey story isn't true (according to an issue of Edge's Retro).

The true story is that Miyamoto wanted the name of of the beast to echo an animal that was typically stubborn. Thus Donkey Kong.

Universal Pictures tried to sue Nintendo for trademark violation of King Kong. However Nintendo's lawyer Howard Lincoln went onto prove that Universal themselves had demonstrated that the King Kong brand was public domain in a previous lawsuit against RKO Pictures which led to the 1976 remake. Lincoln later went onto become Chaiman of NOA.

However Universal did successfully convince Coleco to pay royalties for their port of Donkey Kong on their Colecovision console. This was before Nintendo got the case kicked out. When it was kicked out, Coleco no longer had to pay the royalties and the money Uniersal had received in the meatime was given to Nintendo!

[Brats]

The name of id software originally came from their time working for on the Gamers Edge disc magazine for Softdisk, where there business cards said 'Ideas from the Deep'.

The first id games released on Shareware were some of the Commander Keen titles which were programmed whilst they were still working for Softdisk.

The first 3D game created by the id team was not Wolfenstein 3D, but was Hovertank 3D in which the player controls 'Brick Sledge'. This was released for Softdisk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D

Catacombs 3D was also released before Wolfenstein 3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_3D

Wolfenstein itself was not id's licence. The first two Wolfenstein games were completely written by Silas Warner for the Apple II back in 1981 and 1984. id loved the games and just decided to make a sequel without any approval (although Warner later played the game and loved it - giving id his blessing).

The name Quake and Daikatana come from the D&D games that John Carmack created and played with the id team during their early days together. Quake was Carmacks all powerful character who wielded a giant hammer and the Daikatana was the weapon of ultimate power that they all sought. The original vision of Quake was to be a complex adventire game along the lines of the D&D RPG, before Carmack scaled it back to a straight forward FPS.

[hudson]

Bomberman was first released in 1983 on MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp MZ-700 and FM-7 and ZX Spectrum in Europe.

The Spectrum version was renamed Eric and the Floaters.

Eric and the Floaters (Spectrum)




Bomerman (MSX)

[112]

Did you know that the combos in the original street fighter 2 were done by accident?

for example: the uppercut fireball/dragon punch was not intentional.

its discovery has manifested into a beat em up way of life.

112

[kryss]

There is a beer vending machine opposite Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto.

I can post a picture too. (I'm out of ideas now)

[anephric]

Zangief is teh ghey. Maybe.

[BeyondJumpFish]

Another World on the Megadrive has a very interesting link to Half Life. Complete Another World and at the end sequence the main character marries the love of his life - Betty Freeman. Betty has a brother by the name of Gordon Freeman. Around that time he has just been offered a job at a secret government testing. The main character then advises him from doing any dodgy experiments...after all that’s how the guy got transported to "another world". Gordon nods his head and the game ends.

[Magnakai]

Pics or it didn't happen!