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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda (1986)
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Attachment Former Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa was hesitant about releasing The Legend of Zelda in The United States, as he wasn't sure Americans would have enough patience to understand the game.

The following is an excerpt from "The Ultimate History of Video Games" by Steven Kent:

When the first prototypes of The Legend of Zelda arrived in the United States, Minoru Arakawa was not sure how people would respond to a complex game with text windows in it. He worries that perhaps the game was too complicated for American audiences. To test this out, he had several employees try the game. In order to give the game a fair chance, Arakawa arranged for Japanese-speaking workers to sit with American employees and translate any Kanji that appeared in the text boxes.

"It was all in Japanese, which made it really hard to play, but it was just so compelling that we kept playing it and playing it. The way the game mechanics worked, the fact that it did this great thing with that sword... It had great mechanics. Typical of Miyamoto, it had puzzles. You would come across things that would be on the island or behind a door or whatever, and you could see them, but you couldn't have them." - Howard Phillips

As he tested The Legend of Zelda on his employees, Arakawa noticed a disturbing trend. Most American workers who played the game did not warm up to it instantly. They all ended up giving the game high marks, but Arakawa noticed that some people needed as much as ten hours before they understood the game and enjoyed it.
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person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month August 22, 2013
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Franchise: Final Fantasy
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Attachment The recurring summon, Shiva, is an inaccurate interpretation of the Hindu god of the same name. The summon is always shown to be a female ice monster, while the Hindu god is a male/androgynous god who is associated with fire.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 22, 2013
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002)
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Attachment Pornstar Jenna Jameson voiced the unlockable character Daisy.
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person mrlenny94 calendar_month August 20, 2013
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Platform: Atari 2600
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It is possible to play an Atari 2600 using a Sega Genesis controller. The reason why the Sega Genesis controllers work on the Atari 2600 is because both the Genesis and the 2600 use DE9 ports. These ports were a popular type of port, and were used for the Sega Megadrive, the Atari 7200, Commodore 64, MSX, and the 3DO.
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person peanutgamer calendar_month August 18, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
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Attachment In pre-release screenshots, the Blista Compact can be seen with a GPX logo on the rear. The letters "GPX" are a reference to the Honda CR-X, on which the vehicle is based upon.
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person ClaudX calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Franchise: Mario
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Charles Martinet (the voice for Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi from 1990 to 2023) was actually not invited to the auditions to be the new voice of Mario. He crashed the auditions and was just asked to do an Italian accent until he ran out of things to say. He knew nothing about Mario going into the audition, and since he was told that he was going to talk to children throughout the game, he started to do a more playful and gentle voice instead of the traditional gruff Italian accent that Mario had before. Martinet left so much of an impression at the recording that his tape was the only one sent to Nintendo.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third (2011)
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Attachment As part of a promotion for Saints Row: The Third in France and the Netherlands, THQ produced 25 replicas of the Penetrator, a four-foot purple dildo weapon from the game, to be sent out to game reviewers.
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person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Pikmin 3
Pikmin 3 (2013)
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The planet where Alph, Britanny, and Charlie come from is called "Koppai." This is a reference to Nintendo's origins, as the company was founded in 1889 as "Nintendo Koppai".
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person Apacado calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Halo 2
Halo 2 (2004)
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The PC version of Halo 2 was delayed from release due to an image of a man, who was one of the developers, mooning the camera and exposing his bare buttocks in the game's data (in an error report known as .ass).
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person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Halo 2
Halo 2 (2004)
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There are 21,090 lines of dialogue in Halo 2. Most of these are randomly triggered during combat.
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person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month August 17, 2013
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Ōkami
Ōkami (2006)
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After the Moon Cave in Sei'an City is a girl that's drawing. The drawing will be of whatever you had for a mask. She will also ask you to draw a few designs that she thinks will "be the next big hit." The second design she gives you is a V. When you come back to her, she describes it as the "henshin" pattern, which she finds "viewtiful" and exclaims "Henshin-a-go-go, Baby!". This is a clear nod to the Viewtiful Joe series. The third pattern she gives you is the clover pattern, which is a self reference to Clover Studios, the company who made the game. The last design she gives you is the kanji for heaven, which is also used by Akuma from Street Fighter on his Gi.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 16, 2013
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Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (2005)
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During the credits, The Guru's voice actor, Terry Rose, is wrongly credited as "The Shaman."
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General, Mistake, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 16, 2013
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Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (2003)
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Attachment The Binary on the signs on Planet Notak spell Dan and are homage to Dan Johnson.
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person SiiGMA Viperz calendar_month August 16, 2013
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
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Attachment In the Heroic Fantasy book 'The Name of The Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, the main character Kvothe stumbles at one point (Page 22 in the attached PDF) and says "I took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago" The book was published in 2007 and might be where Bethesda got the line from. If this is the case, then 'arrow in the knee' may be an Easter egg or reference to the novel.
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person DiGiulio calendar_month August 16, 2013
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Halo 3
Halo 3 (2007)
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Attachment In the level "The Covenant" on Normal or higher difficulty, the Windows voice program "Microsoft Sam" can be found commenting on the game and it's developers on the right ledge of the Citadel, whilst on the left ledge can be heard the song "Siege of Madrigal" from Bungie's previous game 'Myth'.
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person ChinlessWonder calendar_month August 13, 2013
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Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Attachment Resident Evil 2's story was continued in two now non-canon radio dramas exclusive to Japan called 'Chiisana Tōbōsha Sherry' (Sherry, the Little Runaway) and 'Ikiteita Onna Spy Ada' (Ada, the Female Spy, is Alive).
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person Mass Distraction calendar_month August 11, 2013
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Company: Sega
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Sega was actually created by Americans.

SErvice GAmes started out in 1945 in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a partnership by father-son team Irving Bromberg and Martin Gerome Bromberg with James L. Humpert, who worked with the family to manufacture and distribute their slot machines and other coin-operated devices. Irving, already an innovator in the coin-op field, brought some of the first vending machines to Brooklyn (one of the five boroughs of New York City), Boston (the capital of Massachusetts) and Washington, D.C. (the capital of the US) back in 1933. Aimed at military bases for distribution, the junior Bromberg and Humpert were actually working in the US Navy Shipyard at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attacks of World War II. In 1952 Service Games needed somewhere else to sell their excess amount of games, as the US Congress had prohibited any distribution of gambling machines on military bases in 1951. So, they decided to set up shop around Japan, Korea, basically anywhere where US soldiers were stationed--and it worked well for them.

Meanwhile, in 1954, a businessman and former US Air Force officer, David Rosen, fell in love with Japan after the Korean War and decided to stay there. Originally meant to import art, Rosen Enterprises started to boom after it had imported some US coin-op photo booths. Rosen Enterprises expanded and also started importing other American coin-op games.

Having found huge success, with his imports being found in almost 200 Japanese arcades, Rosen wanted his company to grow even more, and went to Bromberg to do so. In October 1965, the two companies merged to become Sega Enterprises.
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person SonicManEXE calendar_month August 9, 2013
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Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
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Attachment The Dalokohs Bar got its name from the Russian word for chocolate, spelled backwards (shokolad).
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person Antwan calendar_month August 8, 2013
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011)
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A Special Education teacher named Lyobel was able to connect with her student, who had autism, by learning MMO terminology and playing through Star Wars: The Old Republic with him. BioWare heard about the story and sent both the student and teacher signed posters.
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person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 8, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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Attachment Niko Bellic, one of the game's protagonists, was based on the character Sasha from the 2001 film "Behind Enemy Lines" played by Vladimir Mashkov. Mashkov was even asked by Rockstar if he'd like to play Niko Bellic but, declined the offer.
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person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 7, 2013
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