Even if you don't care about
video games, these weird video game facts should interest you enough to at least play that Google dinosaur game for a few minutes. These facts don't have much in common with one another, since some of them have to do with the video game makers and others are just
weird fan stories (and one is a porn story). They're just all weird, and they're all true, so try to
enjoy them while you can. For more shoddy gaming content,
click here.
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If you add up all the hours Fortnite has been played, you get more than 10 million years. That means the amount of total collective time spent on Fortnite is far greater than the existence of humans.
3
The blocks in Super Mario Bros. are actually made from people who were turned to stone. Mario is basically pulverizing dead people every time he breaks a block.
4
Human brains contain a protein called "sonic hedgehog" that is part of the hedgehog signaling pathway. The scientist who discovered it chose the name after seeing a Sonic ad and because he was listening to a lot of Sonic Youth at that time.
5
Nintendo once bought the rights to two Super Mario porn parodies, Super Hornio Brothers, to stop them from being distributed. The extremely rare porns obviously star Ron Jeremy as Mario.
6
In 2009, a Japanese man known only as Sal9000 tried to marry a video game character named Nene Anegasaki. The marriage isn't legally binding, but this guy will still probably die a virgin.
7
The founder of Atari also created Chuck E. Cheese's and used the restaurants to push his games onto kids.
8
Wario was originally going to be German, then for some reason Nintendo decided he should be Italian just like Mario. But you can still hear Wario speak German in Mario Kart 64 when he says "so ein mist" ("aw, crap"), which sounds like he's saying "oh I missed."
9
Goldeneye for Nintendo 64 originally let you play as three of the original James Bond actors—Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore, and Sean Connery—in multiplayer mode. The characters were left out of the game because Rare never got the appearance rights for the actors, but hackers years later uncovered the secret dudes.
10
The precursor to the online service provider America Online was GameLine, a $60 device for the Atari 2600 that let you download and rent games over a phone line for $1 each. It was basically GameFly but it came out in 1983.
11
The director of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, confirmed that the Korok "seeds" you collect in the game are actually poop. They really have you stuffing your pockets with shit.
12
In the '80s, Atari buried hundreds of copies of their failed E.T. game in a New Mexico desert. They were uncovered in 2014 and altogether they're worth $108,000.
13
Grand Theft Auto was originally called Race'n'Chase, a game where players just tried to escape cops by driving cars. A glitch in the game caused cop cars to ram players whenever they drove up on the sidewalk, and that interaction was so fun the developers changed the entire focus of the game.
14
Someone is writing a fan fiction Super Smash Bros.novel that's currently more than 4,000,000 words long.
15
Duck Hunt is actually a two-player game. Player two can use the regular controller to move the ducks around the screen.
16
There's a video game called RapeLay where your objective is to stalk and rape a woman and her two teenage daughters. The game was banned in a bunch of countries, and at the end of the game your character dies (either by getting hit by a train or being stabbed by the mom).
