10 Little-Known Gaming Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

I know loads about games me I'm like a walking video game encyclopedia and if you ever see me in the street feel free to come up to me and ask for a fascinating fact and I shall regale you in life or maybe I'll just scream and run away or question your true motives as we may not run into each other though it's only fair that I still bestow this knowledge upon you and that's what this video is all about I'm Simon from what culture calm and it is 10 little-known gaming fact that will blow your mind number 10 original Japanese sonic had a human girlfriend this is doubly important to bring up because in 2006 this happened again in the reboot of Sonic the Hedgehog where the blue animals for the love is time kissing a human woman it wasn't the first occasion he's always had this fish way back when though there was indeed a lady who loved Sonic so much she would chase him around constantly no matter where he went from the mind of Illustrator notes or Ashima who claimed he did this because such a thing would be any Mel's fantasy Sonic was only revamped when he came over to America and Sega got rid of that idea as well as fangs and the fact he was a rock star these were probably the right number 9 Mario's blocks are innocent people while I doubt Nintendo want this to be canon today if we do read the original instructions that came with the first Super Mario Brothers in 1985 it has some very interesting information within it telling us the story of the mushroom people who were turned into stone bricks and even plant it soon becomes apparent all those blocks Mario's early is heading to to get items are actually these residents meaning Mario is murdering innocent civilians when he's supposed to be saving the world these instructions seem to notice too because the plumber isn't described as a guy who's maybe the hero of the piece yeah or a massive number 8 link was inspired by Peter Pan given that link came to be in the 80s this isn't too much of a surprise and even less though would you learn that his creator Miyamoto absolutely loved Disney he thought the health of Mickey Mouse is the be-all and end-all so many people it is this is why during an interview he was very keen to tell everyone that link inspired by Peter Pan right down to the long hat and long ears so they shared it specific similarity and they both love to wear greed with that in mind it could also be white Lincoln's ever age bit like Peter then thankfully is nowhere near annoying so that's good Peter Pan never shuts up fly away your green goose number seven don't be Kong originally featured Popeye today most of us know that Donkey Kong is where Mario originated a jumping what some aren't aware of is that in the same vein DK didn't starve a fever originally Nintendo had a licensing bill to create a Popeye game and thought Bluto would be a fine specimen to be hurling barrels of the man who loved spinach for one reason or another that never came to be and instead we got Mario and we got Donkey Kong and the rest as they say is history imagine it had that happened to be playing Popeye cast know what's there over an olive oil number six the PlayStation side life as a Nintendo Adam from best friends to bitter enemies when Sony wants to get involved in the gaming industry its first four core words to ring up Nintendo and try to work together you can believe that the machine they came up with even got shown off from time to time as an add-on which is basically a spheres that had a CD drive there's quite the step forward in 1991 as always though the two fell out we have a game of Mario Tennis or something and certainly went on with its ideas anyway and created what we know is the PlayStation today given this literally changed the industry I would think everyone at Sony is very happy this part your voice number five you can only ever push a button 16 times a second now you're free to debate this if you have any evidence otherwise please let me know but if we're to believe record-setting Japanese gamer Toshiyuki Takahashi pushing a button 16 times the second is the most the human being can do it possible to do more well unless you're lying or you're super a computer programmer at heart and someone who had been working within the industry for some time it was during the 80s he managed to pull off this feat in so far no one has topped it meaning it has to be fact and good luck for your fingers which I'm sure you're know is going to go away upon number four fasten treat targets were all real probably something you assumed anyway given the Ubisoft were keen to stress there was some historical accuracy in terms of attack but it is true every person you take out in the original game weren't just created for said game but in fact real people who either went missing or died in the areas where these assassinations took place now not only is that very cool the testament to the developer for the work they put in we also give the fastens Creed a nice air of authenticity if they had them for all that animus lodges in there this may have been even better but he did and we have to put up with that Gary Neville look-alike Desmond what I'm not I'm not the story that was number three Lara Croft chest size of an accident if you were to zoom back to the 90s most gaming magazines were obsessed with the size of Lara Croft check now it was awful in many ways for obvious reasons yet somehow there is interesting story behind it when Tomb Raider was being developed designer Toby Gard accidentally increased Lara's chest size or hundreds of fifty percent their normal size when he went to prison bats are normal the rest of his team that he should leave it probably because they were massive pervert but that was that it didn't cause a huge splash when it went public and you could say even got Tomb Raider to make sure coverage of the may not I've had otherwise so stupid though we should all be ashamed of ourselves as human number two the game boys crater was a janitor gunpei Yokoi the brain behind the game boy had a very interesting story basically going from zero to hero from nowhere gunpei had spent a lot of his life of both the janitor and an assembly line work but used his spare time crates and toys your forward by an engineering degree this caught the eye of nintendo and it would all eventually spill into the game and watch LCD system from the 1980s this sparked the man's career now and as he made his way up the ladder and when the time came to refine this idea Yokoi came up with a gameboy in 1989 and he changed the world in the process horrendously be killed in a car accident in 1997 but his legacy will never die betrayed one of the best consoles ever number one the original Final Fantasy was meant to be squares laughed game before Final Fantasy Square with nobody I bet you can't even name a game they were responsible for before they're now legendary series there's a good reason then ready this is why Final Fantasy had the word final in it it was the Lark arrived aboard going bankrupt because the universe is stupid however it kick-started one of the most successful RPG series ever and brought the company back from the brink now the name is just a joke there's about fifty six thousand eight hundred and ninety different versions meaning it makes no sense for the rags to riches story as few better than this know of any other game in fact it will flow people's minds laugh know in the comments below and end up at the like share and subscribe then head on over to what Coachella come to read more articles like this follow what culture on Twitter I am salmon from what culture and remember you see me in the street I'll have a game fact waiting

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Keywords: Gaming, Games, Video Games, PS4, Xbox One, Next Gen, E3

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Length: 7min 2sec (422 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 25 2017