HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES

#1: On the original Magnavox Odyssey the machine couldnt keep track of the score instead the player had to.

#2: The best selling console in the history of video games is the gameboy with over 100 million sold around the world.

#3: Wii play sold a staggering 16 million copies about twice as much as Halo 3 had sold.

#4: In the first fallout game if you give your character less then 4 intelligence points the only way you can talk to people is by grunting noises making the game almost impossible to finsih that way.

#5: A gamer names Toshuyuki Takahashi pressed a button on a controller sixteen times a second the fastest time humanly possible.

#6:the creator of pokemon Satoshi Tajiri got the idea for the pokemon game on gameboy by collecting caterpillars asa kid and watching them turn into butterflies ( hence the pokemon caterpie and butterfree)

#7: The SNES hit Super Mario World took a whopping 29,000 hours to program.

#8: Atari football was the first game that involved a scrolling screen.

#9: The Nintendo Gamecubes disc is capable of holding 150 times more data then the Nintendo 64s game cartridge.

#10: The Atari 2600 and SNK NeoGeo AES share the record time for staying on the market for 13 years.

#11: Atari in acient Japanese means you are about to be engulfed.

#12:Final Fantasy VII was going to be on the N64 but there wasnt enought space for the game on a cartridge it would have filled 13 cartridges and was instead put on the ps1.

#13: In super smash bros melee the princess daisy trophy has a third eye on the back of her head.

#14: Clover the makers of Okami intended to have the game look realistic but the ps2s hardware wasnt sophisticated to make it realistic and the makers gave it the graphics it has today.

#15: Star fox started out as a game called Dinosaur planet and starred Krystal.

#16: Mega mans name in Japan is rock man but the name wasnt used in the USA for being slang for crack cocaine.

#17:The first Devil May Cry was origionally going to be a chapter in the Resident Evil franchise.

#18:Final Fantasy got its name because it was going to be Squares last game.

#19: Castlevania 2: Simons quest was the first game to have multiple endings.

#20: Sonys first product was a rice cooker

#21:Fifa 2001 had a scratch and sniff cd the smeel of it was grass/turf.

#22: The American version of Super Mario Bros 3 gives the koopa kids names while the Japanese version does not.

#23: The Japanese version of the Legend of Zelda included a microphone that could be yelled into to deal damage to some enemies.

#24: Samus was origionally going to be male but halfway through devolopement the team working on it thought it would be a cool suprise to make Samus a woman.

#25: Conkers bad fur day was origionally going to not be an adult game but a decision by Rare was made to do so.