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During the heyday of Creatures' fandom, a user nicknamed "AntiNorn", a late US Army officer, started posting videos of Norns (the pets featured in the game, which were coded in a manner more closely resembling the human brain than a regular pet simulator game) being abused as a counter-cultural response to the Creatures community favoring idealized fan content that ignored or removed elements of conflict or danger from the game.
AntiNorn provided an abused Norn called "Slave" for visitors to download and import into their games, which horrified certain members of the Creatures fandom to the point of AntiNorn being sent graphic death threats. While many players downloaded Slave with the intention of protecting her, she turned out to have a fear of the player character, which she named "God"; had been trained to eat poisonous weeds as food; could fall unconscious out of sheer stress; and was too frail to live a particularly long life.
Some players did manage to rehabilitate Slave and allow her to live a full life, but AntiNorn later revealed that she had her DNA genetically modified to produce alcohol in her bloodstream, meaning that if players had breeded Slave, their entire Norn lineage would be contaminated with perpetually drunken Norns. The response to this was immense and fierce, to the point of AntiNorn receiving graphic death threats.
Following this, AntiNorn would start a website called "Tortured Norns", which contained more edgy downloadable content including cocaine pipes for Norns, recipes made from Norn babies, and a Norn wired to associate reward with punishment and therefore only able to experience pain.
There has been a trend of retrospective reviews and historical content relating to the North American video game crash of 1983 mentioning Chase the Chuck Wagon as a contributing game to the crash, despite the fact that it only had a limited mail-order release and was not the first product-placement-based video game. This is theorized by Cassidy of the "Bad Game Hall of Fame" to be the result of a quote from the G4 documentary series Icons that was taken out of context, referring to a proliferation of companies trying to branch into video games as opposed to any specific games or the use of product placement, with the mistaken belief that Chase the Chuck Wagon was published or developed by Purina itself like with Quaker Oats' "U.S. Games" brand. The quote in question reads:
"Toy companies like Parker Brothers and Hasbro form video game divisions. But when unrelated companies like Chuck Wagon dog food and Quaker Oats jump on-board, the market begins to turn."
Despite not winning the Vote-a-Fling event at any point, Lotus was added to Crush Crush as a datable girl to commemorate the release of Hush Hush: Only Your Love Can Save Them, where she appears as a major character. While Lotus' bundle normally costs $2, it can be acquired for free if you have save data for Hush Hush.
Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, sent a letter of complaint to Nintendo in regards to a minigame in 1-2-Switch where players can milk a cow. She called the game "unrealistic" and accused Nintendo of "taking all the cruelty out of milking". She also said that, instead of "sugarcoating the subject, Nintendo should instead move over to "simulating activities in which no animals suffer".
Not For Broadcast currently holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Full Motion Video footage in a videogame" at 42 hours, 57 minutes, and 52 seconds.
After the game's release, Nate Fox (game director) and Jason Connell (creative director) were appointed as permanent ambassadors of tourism for Tsushima Island in Nagasaki, Japan by the Mayor of Tsushima, Hiroki Hitakatsu.
In September of 2020, a typhoon toppled a torii gate at the Shinto Shrine of Watatsumi on the Island of Tsushima. A few months later in November of 2020, a priest from the shrine, Yuichi Hirayama, created a fundraising campaign page to help rebuild said torii gate. Fans of Ghost of Tsushima flooded the campaign page and smashed the goal amount of ¥ 5 million Yen (about $48,000 USD) eventually hitting over 20 million Yen by the end of December 2020. As of now it is unknown whether the gate has been fully rebuilt or not, as updates on the crowdfunding page were only viewable to supporters, although it appears to have gotten far enough that the last supporter update headlines in 2022 concerned the construction of a memorial monument and nameplate.
In response to Ghost of Tsushima's popularity, Nagasaki Prefecture of which the island of Tsushima is governed under, created a website to help encourage tourism to the island. It explores historical sites that show up in the game, local foods, and activities to partake in on the island that also involve locations depicted in the game.
All of the celestial bodies of the Alpha Centauri system (the star and star system that both in real life and the game is the closest to The Sun and the Solar System) are named after real-life humans who had or have a hand in space travel and cosmic studies. This includes the following:
• Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin - A Soviet Cosmonaut who is known the world over to be the first man and human in space.
• Bondar - Roberta Bondar - First female Astronaut from Canada.
• Jemison - Mae C. Jemison - The first African-American woman to visit outer space.
• Olivas - John D. Olivas - NASA Astronaut and Engineer who helped out with the STS-117 and STS-128
• Curbeam - Robert Curbeam - The NASA Astronaut who holds the record for most Space Walks in a single space flight.
• Grissom - Gus Grissom - an esteemed NASA astronaut that became one of the first Americans in space.
• Kurtz - Michael J. Kurtz - a Harvard University astrophysicist known for his work on NASA's Astrophysics Data System, and for studying the distribution of different galaxies throughout space.
• Chawla - Kalpana Chawla - First woman of Indian descent to go on a space flight and also sadly one of the victims of the 2003 space shuttle Columbia explosion.
• Hawley - Steven Hawley - American Astronaut who flew on five US space shuttle flights.
• Lovell - Jim Lovell - The man who piloted the command module of the Apollo 8 vessel that was successful in orbiting the Moon.
• Voss - James Voss - An Astronaut who has visited the International Space Station 5 times.
• Zamka - George David Zamka - Pilot of the space shuttle Discovery and visitor to the ISS.
Scott Cawthon retired from game development in 2021 after it was revealed that he had donated thousands of dollars to anti-LGBTQ+ Republican political candidates. Cawthon posted a message to his fans on his website stating:
"I've had a blessed, fulfilling, and rich career. I've been shown great kindness and I've tried to show great kindness in return. I've tried to make some good games (let the debate ensue), and I've witnessed the creation of possibly the most creative and talented fanbase on the planet. - I realized that I miss a lot of things that I got to focus on before FNaF became such a success. I miss making games for my kids, I miss doing it just for fun, and I miss making RPGs even though I stink at it. All of this to say that I am retiring"
He also stated that he would be choosing someone that he trusts to take over the FNaF franchise. Cawthon later removed this message from his website, has not announced a successor for the franchise, and appears to still have complete control over it. In 2023, Cawthon released the first game since announcing his retirement, Freddy in Space 3: Chica in Space, as a supposed tie-in to the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie from that year.
In 2023, there was a brief debate regarding the game's canonicity to the overall Sonic franchise. Ian Flynn initially stated that the game was non-canon, despite the fact that Sonic acknowledged the game's events in a Sonic Channel interview. However, this would later be revealed to be due to a change in the game's canonicity after he had been told it was non-canon. Flynn later firmly stated that the game had resumed being a canon entry in the series.
Security Breach: Fury's Rage is a parody of arcade beat 'em up games, specificallyFinal Fight and Streets of Rage. This was the last game Scott Cawthon made before retiring from game development, which was only made to apologize to fans for delaying the next mainline game in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. Scott even states in a cutscene in the game:
"No. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna kill me. The fanbase. When they find out that I have to delay the game again. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna burn my house down. They're gonna- they're gonna- they're gonna tar and feather me. What am I gonna do? I know. I'll make a game for them. A game where I can help them. A game where I fight with them. That's it. Then I can be- then I can be the hero. Then they won't kill me. And what will I call the game? Hmm, something creative."
For YouTube channel The Game Theorists' St. Jude Charity Livestream, the game Freddy in Space 2 was created. Scott Cawthon added a points counter to the game and pledged to donate money based on how many points were earned, up to a maximum of $500,000. Scott still donated the full $500,000 to the charity even though MatPat, with the aid of fellow YouTubers Dawko and Markiplier, would not be able to reach the goal in time before they needed to wrap up the stream.
Despite the fact that Tom Kenny reprises his role as SpongeBob and Gary in this game, he does not reprise his role as the French Narrator from the show. This is unusual not only because the French Narrator has a prominent role in this game, but because the character sounds completely different to how he sounds in the show.
Sonic's Schoolhouse started development as an original edutainment title called "Answer Hunt", that was fully developed by BAP Interactive and had no association with Sonic. This changed when BAP's production partner, Motion Picture Corporation of America, approached Sega, who expressed interest in repackaging the game as a Sonic product.
On July 5, 2023, POPGOES Evergreen was featured on a Times Square billboard via PixelStar. The video used was a combined version of the teasers for False Balloon Boy and False Freddy, two of the unique animatronics being featured in the game.
In an interview with IGN, the game's director Shiro Mouri said that Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto was, at first, not a fan of Elephant Mario as he believed it "did not look like a Mario character." Miyamoto also believed the physics for the power-up wasn't realistic to an actual elephant.
The popularity with fans after its reveal was what eventually changed Miyamoto's mind.
Lexibook, a company infamous for low-quality unlicensed NES-based consoles, or "Famiclones", featuring plagiarized content from a variety of sources including Nintendo games, has official licensing rights to various Nintendo IP including Animal Crossing and Super Mario
Despite not winning the Vote-a-Fling event at any point, Lotus was added to Crush Crush as a datable girl to commemorate the release of Hush Hush: Only Your Love Can Save Them, where she appears as a major character. While Lotus' bundle normally costs $2, it can be acquired for free if you have save data for Hush Hush.
Billie Sue, the protagonist of Wabbit, was the first playable human woman in a console video game.
Scott Cawthon retired from game development in 2021 after it was revealed that he had donated thousands of dollars to anti-LGBTQ+ Republican political candidates. Cawthon posted a message to his fans on his website stating:
