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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012)
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Attachment The boss "Polygon Man" was actually the Playstation's original mascot from 1995. He was meant to demonstrate the power of the Playstation, but was dropped shortly after the Playstation was announced.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 26, 2013
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Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure (1998)
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Dred Foxx, who voices Parappa in Parappa the Rapper, rapped the lyrics for "Unknown from M.E." (Knuckles' Theme).
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment When playing on a mono-sound TV, or the audio is set to mono in the settings, calling Colonel Campbell a few times during the Hind battle will cause Snake's team to playfully mock him about not having a stereo TV.
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Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Real Life, Secret
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Hitman: Absolution
Hitman: Absolution (2012)
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Attachment The video reveal trailer ends by displaying a barcode. The numbers on the barcode teased a date (June 7th, 2011) when more about the game would be revealed. However, the company who made the trailer seem to have overlooked the barcode itself, as scanning the barcode takes viewers to an Amazon listing for a bag specifically designed to store sex toys.
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General, Mistake, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations (2011)
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Jaleel White, known for his acting as Steve Urkel in the 90's sitcom "Family Matters", was considered by SEGA to be the voice of Classic Sonic. Jaleel was considered because he had previously voiced Sonic in "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", "Sonic the Hedgehog" (1993), and "Sonic Underground". Sega ultimately decided against casting Jaleel, resulting in a mute Sonic.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Franchise: Wario
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It's easy to assume that Wario's name was based on turning the M in Mario's name upside down, but this isn't entirely the case. The Japanese word for 'bad' is 'warui', so Wario is actually a shortened version of 'Warui Mario' (Bad Mario). This is also the case for Waluigi (Bad Luigi), and works even better in Japan, where his name is pronounced 'Waruigi'.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Game Boy Camera
Game Boy Camera (1998)
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At the time of its release, the Game Boy Camera was the world's smallest digital camera.
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General, Real Life
person retrolinkx calendar_month February 25, 2013
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2004)
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A 12 year old boy called Jørgen Olsen saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he learned from World of Warcraft. Hans and his sister accidentally entered the moose's territory, and the moose attacked. Hans taunted the moose to take its attention away from his sister, and then proceeded to play dead, making the moose lose interest. In the game, 'Taunting' is used to get an enemy's attention, and 'Feign Death' tricks enemies into ignoring you.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Franchise: Pokémon
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There is a gene in the human body that was originally named "Pokemon", but was renamed to "ZBTB7". The name change was sparked by The Pokemon Company threatening legal action against the center that discovered ZBTB7, as it is a cancer-causing gene.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Sid Meier's Civilization III
Sid Meier's Civilization III (2001)
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If you change the date on your PC to January 8th (Elvis's birthday) and start a Regicide, Mass Regicide, or Capture the Flag/Princess game, the flag units will turn into Elvis.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Secret
person Sengir calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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The human body has a Gene called "Sonic Hedgehog", named after the character. The gene has an inhibitor (something that stop the process of a gene) named "Robotnikinin", named after Sonic's Nemesis, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2004)
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Between 2004 and 2011, the human race collectively spent almost 6 million years playing World of Warcraft.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 25, 2013
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Company: Konami
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The Konami Code was created by Konami programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto after failing to beat Gradius on the NES. He programmed a simple code into the game that gave him a full set of power-ups, which allowed him to play test the game to the end.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 24, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
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According to Shigeru Miyamoto, once Nintendo had finished developing Twilight Princess, the team decided to have fun with the game and put Miis across Hyrule. It was their way of relaxing once the project was done.
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Development, General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 24, 2013
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Franchise: The Legend of Zelda
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Princess Zelda was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

When asked about the name, Miyamoto said, "Zelda was the name of the wife of the famous novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald. She was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts, and I liked the sound of her name. So I took the liberty of using her name for the very first Zelda title."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Petie calendar_month February 24, 2013
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Collection: Rock Band
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When Harmonix was secretly developing the Rock Band Network (a network that allows artists to make their music playable in Rock Band games), they gave it the unofficial code name "Rock Band: Nickelback" to avoid attracting attention, naming it after the post-grunge band of the same name. They thought adding "Nickelback" to the title would deflect any and all curiosity due to the extreme negative reception and disinterest to their music on the Internet, ensuring it wouldn't be leaked.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 24, 2013
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L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (2011)
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Attachment To create a realistic post-war Los Angeles, the developers of the game studied photographs taken from a biplane by Robert Spence in the 1920s.
The developers used the photographs to create traffic patterns and public transport routes in the game, as well as the location and condition of buildings
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Dazz calendar_month February 22, 2013
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L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (2011)
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L.A. Noire was the first video game to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was shown as an hour-long film followed by a Q&A session where the audience could ask questions to the developers about the making of the game.
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General, Real Life
person Dazz calendar_month February 22, 2013
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds (2009)
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As of 2011, more than 200,000 collective years were spent playing Angry Birds, roughly the same amount of time that modern humans have existed.
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General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 15, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment Most of the voice actors were credited under pseudonyms since they did not know if the project was supported by the Screen Actors Guild. The only ones who used their real names were David Hayter (Solid Snake) and Doug Stone (Psycho Mantis).
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Credits, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
person Teller calendar_month February 13, 2013
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