Not trying to confuse "trivia" as in a quiz. I mean trivia as in facts that are mildly intresting. Here's a few:
-Shigeru Miyamoto is left handed.
-Resident Evil 4 went through at least 3 variations before it was released.
- The PlayStation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony to design some of the inside components. When Nintendo secretly renegaded this agreement, Sony decided to make a console anyway.
- Nintendo employees who cannot get 120 stars in Mario Galaxy receive less salary and must eat in a separate canteen labelled 'Fail'.
- If every person working inside of the video game industry were standing in a circle, the circle would easily besiege Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.
Do any of you know any intersting facts involving games?
Video Game Trivia
" Not trying to confuse "trivia" as in a quiz. I mean trivia as in facts that are mildly intresting. Here's a few:It is interesting that you spelled the word "interesting" as both "intresting" and "intersting" in the same block of text.
-Shigeru Miyamoto is left handed.
-Resident Evil 4 went through at least 3 variations before it was released.
- The PlayStation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony to design some of the inside components. When Nintendo secretly renegaded this agreement, Sony decided to make a console anyway.
- Nintendo employees who cannot get 120 stars in Mario Galaxy receive less salary and must eat in a separate canteen labelled 'Fail'. - If every person working inside of the video game industry were standing in a circle, the circle would easily besiege Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. Do any of you know any intersting facts involving games? "
I do want to look up the bit about workers at Nintendo and getting 120 stars though.
- The Gamecubes micro-processor was nicknamed "Gekko"
- All Volkswagen cars used the Playstation 1's proccessor for their in-car entertainment systems.
I found a few on the net....
The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net.
The Microsoft Xbox is the first video game system to completely support HDTV
Popular Science recognized the Sega Dreamcast as one of the most important and innovative products of 1999.
The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The new Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself!
The PlayStation 2 is the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edge personal computer at the time of its release.
The Nintendo N64 marked the first time that computer graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) developed game hardware technology.
While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn't released until 1978. It was delayed because the game couldn't scroll the screen -- players couldn't move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling, a key part of many games today.
The Atari Pong video game console was the No. 1 selling item for the holiday season in 1975.
The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.
The PlayStation 2 is the first video game system to use DVD technology.
On the original Magnavox Odyssey, players had to keep score themselves because the machine couldn't.
The Nintendo GameCube's proprietary disc can hold 1.5 gigabytes of data -- 190 times more than what an N64 game cartridge can hold.
On the market from 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 (1977-1990) as the longest supported gaming console in history.
The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.
Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV.
Nintendo's Game Boy is the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
The word atari comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." Technically, it is the word used by a player to inform his opponent that he is about to lose, similar to "check" in chess.
In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider.
The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology.
" Not trying to confuse "trivia" as in a quiz. I mean trivia as in facts that are mildly intresting. Here's a few:A lot of those are either common knowledge or seem to be made up. Also, how can you even measure the last one? Are there any measurements?
-Shigeru Miyamoto is left handed.
-Resident Evil 4 went through at least 3 variations before it was released.
- The PlayStation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony to design some of the inside components. When Nintendo secretly renegaded this agreement, Sony decided to make a console anyway.
- Nintendo employees who cannot get 120 stars in Mario Galaxy receive less salary and must eat in a separate canteen labelled 'Fail'. - If every person working inside of the video game industry were standing in a circle, the circle would easily besiege Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. Do any of you know any intersting facts involving games? "
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