Top 10 Facts - Video Games

1) If it is considered "Final Fantasy", how come a lot of games in the series? We've all probably heard it before, and it really brings up a valid point. But there is a perfectly good explanation. The year is 1987. And the creators of the Final Fantasy series are about to leave the video game industry altogether. Why? Because the company he works for, Square is about to go bankrupt. So in a "final" attempt to make a successful game, he creates the final fantasy.

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2) Grand Theft Auto / GTA only exists due to a glitch in the second game. In 1995, Rockstar was working on a game called Race'n'Chase. The game was much like what GTA later became. However, the game is only focused on car chases as well as playing with the police trying to catch the culprits. But due to a bug in the game the AI ​​police cars tried to run and run off the road instead of actually catching and busting you. It was popular enough with testers that the game's model was remodeled to better suit this dynamic.

Hence GTA was born. While working on Deuce X, and adding the New York skyline to the game, the designers had to cut many parts of the background, including the Twin Towers, due to memory limitations. Gamers noticed this and when they complained, the developers of Des X explained that the towers were destroyed by terrorist attacks in the game. The game was released a year before the actual 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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3) "Boy" Xbox was originally named Direct Xbox. As initially designed to show how Microsoft's Direct X graphics technology can benefit the console market.

4) The Boschock series is known for its enemies such as Big Daddies and Little Sisters. You might think that before coming up with the idea for Little Sisters, there is only one Big Daddy, however, the creators had some other ideas in mind.

5) First of all, the Little Sisters or "Gathers" as they were called at the time were designed based on a sea slug and look at it. But no one sympathized with this character. big surprise. The actors were therefore tasked to create a character that would allow players to feel more at ease. One artist abandoned this design of a dog in a wheelchair. And the other was an anus with a funnel attached to an anus! Yes try to sympathize with that!

6) In New Zealand, the sport is considered a proprietary offense of the manhunt. The game was described by a court that it kills humans as "fun". And the more violent it is, the more fun the killing is. Video games not only visuals. Even though twelve-year-old screaming little boys seem to be a minority of gamers, this is surprisingly far from the truth. Nonsense, you are 100% wrong. Around 32% are under 18 years old. This is only because small minorities are actually honest children / teens.

7) 68% of all gamers are 18 years or older. Only because those people are actually giving children the input of their false birth date. And the average age of a gamer is actually 30 years. Again, this is because children are telling a false birth date over 30. But the most shocking fact about all of this is that about 45% of all gamers are women. So Mobile Gaming Makes You a Gamer? "So you're telling me there's a chance?" The best-selling video game console of all time is PlayStation 2. It has sold more than 155 million units worldwide.

8) The best-selling handheld device is the Nintendo DS. Over 153 million units were sold worldwide. The best-selling console of all time is Apple Pippin. Which sold about 43,000 units in the market over a period of two years. Not surprisingly, it was created by Apple. Naw, I'm just kidding! Not necessary. But the failure had to do with its price. It had a price tag of $ 599, and competitive consoles were quite cheap in terms of performance and features.

9) Mega Man was originally called Rock Man. But for its release in the US, he changed it to Mega Man. Because Nintendo of America thought people might mistake his name for a cocaine man.

10) At approximately $ 270 million, Grand Theft Auto V currently has the largest budget of any sport in history. It was actually so expensive to make, that so far only one film has had a big budget. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 for 300 million.