» posted on 10:24am - March 17 2009 | posted by Lev
- The voice of Marcus Fenix from Gears of War is performed by John DiMaggio, who also does the voice of Bender for the Futurama animated series.
- The voice of President John Henry Eden from Fallout 3 is performed by Malcom McDowell, the same man who once played Alex in the classic, A Clockwork Orange.
haha, both of these I learned from Nero.
- You could only carry 255 rupees in the original Legend of Zelda game because that is the maximum value of an unsigned 8 bit integer, and carrying more would have required more memory at a time which memory wasn't as expendable as it is today.
- The developers of Bioshock had considered using numerous other mechanisms or characters to retrieve the ADAM, instead of the Little Sisters. One suggestion was even using a two legged dog with rolling wheels.
- Several of the characters in Fable 2 are not only named after the Fable 2 staff, but designed to look like their real life counterparts.
- up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, b, a is known both as the Konami code and gamers code. While Contra was the game that gave popularity to the code, it actually first appeared in Gradius.
- In Kakiriko village in Zelda: A link to the past (SNES) a portrait of Mario appears on a wall inside a house.
- Chun-Li makes a cameo appearance in the first ever Breath Of Fire game by Capcom.
- The first gaming console to ship with an internal hard drive was the Sega Saturn.
- The original Donkey Kong game (which gave birth to "Jumpman", later renamed "Mario) was the first video game to feature a story behind the characters and what was going on.
- "Mario" was an Italian landlord for Miyamoto when he chose to give Nintendo's icon character a name.
- In Final Fantasy 7, a portrait of Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of Final Fantasy) appears on the wall inside of one of the houses in Rocket Town.
Anyhow, now is your turn; if you know a funny video game fact that you think many people won't know, then share it!
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Necromaster · date:
11:49pm - March 18 2009The creator of the new Bionic Commando game is the first American (maybe first non-asian) to lead a Capcom title in Japan. (from what I read he gets a lot of shit from the hard core Japanese guys who been with capcom for a long time)
The voice of Dark Sector's Hayden is played by Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor on Smallville)
Here is one no one knows.
Necromaster was picked to go work on Dark Sector. The day he was about to leave for London, Ontario he was told he was being replaced by someone more experienced. Necromaster hated his boss ever since. haha
(Im sure most people know this...)
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sadistikaa · date:
4:25pm - March 17 2009The GTA games have a slew of guest voices on them, including Ray Liotta, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, DANNY TREJO, Fairuza Balk, Big Boi, Ice-T, Sammy Jackson, and a SHIT TON more. Awesome shit....
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Nemo Metis · date:
12:07pm - March 17 2009David Hayter, best known for his voicing of Solid Snake, is also a script writer, and once wrote a script for Watchmen. Alan Moore said of the script that it was probably the closest it could ever get to being true to the comic.
I am the human race's worst nightmare.
The human race is my worst nightmare.
Guess who go the raw end of the deal.
Fuck.
I can ail what cures you.
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