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Random video game facts.

After beating Demon Souls, I found out during the credits that people with their names fully capitalized were used in the game.
 
agentnnc said:
Superman 64 is widely considered to be the worst video game of all time.
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That's more or less an opinion rather than "fact"

Like Abe said, provide three sources to backup that claim. I did some searching and I came up with a different "worst video game of all-time" and it happened to be "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (although a very, very old game where gaming was in its infancy).

EDIT: A fact that most people are probably familiar with: The Playstation first began as a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony. However after Nintendo went behind Sony's back and tried to develop a CD-ROM addon with Phillips, Sony decided to take their technology and form their own competetive console with it.
 
You can't really establish the worst video game of all time, since there is no formal rating scale of bad games. Any game that claims to be 'The worst game of all time' will always be an opinion, so really there isn't much point in trying to verify a game's status as the wrold's worst. Having said that, jsut for argument's sake;

Wikipedia said:
Superman, unofficially referred to as Superman 64, is a video game that was released by Titus Software on May 31, 1999 on the Nintendo 64. The game is based on the Superman Animated Series. It is notorious for negative reception it received from critics and is considered one of the worst games of all time.
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GameFAQs said:
This may be the worst game I've ever played, because this certainly doesn't remind me of Superman with his sissy fighting moves, and the fact that he does everything Lex Luthor tells him, and that he needs powerups. Superman 64 just sucks.
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GameSpot said:
This is easily the worst game I've ever played. To steal a line outright from a film review in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, it serves no purpose other than to firmly establish the bottom of the barrel.
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Freshmilk - you can't cite Wikipedia and Gamefaqs as "proof" ... just think about that for a minute.
 
Freshmilk said:
You can't really establish the worst video game of all time, since there is no formal rating scale of bad games. Any game that claims to be 'The worst game of all time' will always be an opinion, so really there isn't much point in trying to verify a game's status as the wrold's worst. Having said that, jsut for argument's sake;







Wikipedia
GameFAQs
GameSpot Review
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A gamefaqs quote from a member post. Great source.

The reason I said that was because I was thinking of ET or that car game where you just drive through everything. I think someone even made a thread on it here.
 
FrozenIpaq said:
That's more or less an opinion rather than "fact"

Like Abe said, provide three sources to backup that claim. I did some searching and I came up with a different "worst video game of all-time" and it happened to be "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (although a very, very old game where gaming was in its infancy).

EDIT: A fact that most people are probably familiar with: The Playstation first began as a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony. However after Nintendo went behind Sony's back and tried to develop a CD-ROM addon with Phillips, Sony decided to take their technology and form their own competetive console with it.
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My appologies. You're right about ET. I've just seen it on a lot of lists. Cool fact with the PS1.

FACT: The Nintendo Enterainment was originally called the Famicom (which was short for Family Computer) in Japan. The design and name were changed to appeal more to American customers.

The Famicom:
Famicom.jpg

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The NES:
nes-console.jpg
 
The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The newest Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself.
 
Like Abe said, provide three sources to backup that claim. I did some searching and I came up with a different "worst video game of all-time" and it happened to be "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (although a very, very old game where gaming was in its infancy).
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Also, E.T was considered as one of the biggest commercial failures of all times.The developers thought it was innovative,but it was received so negatively,that tons of copies of the game were buried in New Mexico.
 
The Famicom/NES was redesigned for US and European markets so it could be easily advertised as a toy, due to retailers not wanting to stock video games after the legendary 1983 Crash caused by Atari and ET. Nintendo also bundled ROB the Robot with the NES on US release for similar reasons.
 
3dfx was originally supposed to be the company to design the GPU for Dreamcast, but then their cooperation with Sega got scrapped and Sega got NEC to do it instead.

(OT: Who here had a 3dfx Voodoo graphics card in the old days? Those things fukken rocked!)

ProfessorBurnt said:
enough people play wow to populate a small country
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Enough to populate like two and a half Finlands.
 
William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. It was called "Tennis for Two"
 
In Japan, Birdo is actually referred to as a she. This was changed in North America.

Spare parts of one of Atari's systems known as Jaguar were sold and used as dental cameras in dentist offices.
 
Pokemon are called Pocket Monsters in Japan.

Just in case someone didn't already know that.
 
Old Atari systems were code named after women who worked in the Atari Offices at the time. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is the 2600, code named 'Stella'.
 
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