1CandySwipe
After his mom died, Albert Ransom learned to code and built an indie game called CandySwipe. Two years later, a near-identical game called Candy Crush Saga was released.
2. Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have helped rejuvenate Finland's economy after Nokia's downfall.
3. If Mario was a real person, he would have to run (and swim) 3.4 miles to complete Super Mario Bros.
4. Scientists have shown that playing Tetris can ease cravings for sex, drugs, and food.
5. The award for 10 consecutive kills with a shotgun in Halo 3 was titled "Cheneymania!" before it was changed to "Open Season!"
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6World of Warcraft
A World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself.
7. The Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb.
8. Rockstar Games hired a private investigator to locate the remaining relatives of one of the members of the Skatt Bros. in Utah in order to obtain license rights to the song "Walk The Night" for use in Grand Theft Auto IV.
9. Some political prisoners in China were forced to play World of Warcraft and other games to gather virtual currency.
10. Earthworm Jim was created as a result of the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The game was created as a satire of platform video games at the time; for instance, "Princess-What's-Her-Name" was a parody of how so many video games had throw-away female characters to be saved.
11Donkey Kong
Miyamoto believed "donkey" meant "stupid" in English, and assumed the name Donkey Kong would convey the sense "stupid ape" to an American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck.
12. The entire game of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is less than 1MB in size.
13. If you finish the incredible hard video game Ghosts n' Goblin, you will receive a message at the end that all was just an illusion and you will be forced to start at the very beginning of the game again. Only after playing through the second time you will see the real ending.
14. Game Boy was the first video game console to be played in space by Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov. The game he played was Tetris.
15. The multiplayer mode in GoldenEye was added last minute, without the knowledge of Rare and Nintendo.
16Video games
People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers (have control over their actions in dreams) than those who don't.
17. The surface area of Minecraft's overworld (on the PC version) is approximately 9,258,235 times larger than that of the earth.
18. The popular video game 'Deus ex' released in the year 2000 is missing the twin towers due to graphical limitations. The in-game explanation for this was that they were destroyed by a terrorist attack.
19. With over 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game playtime, people have played call of duty for longer than the course of human existence.
20. The entire GoldenEye 007 game on the N64 is only 12 MB.
21Battletoads
NES games like Battletoads were made so hard because Nintendo was losing money on video game rentals. If they took a long time to beat, people would have to buy the games instead.
22. Scientists in Berlin asked adults to play Super Mario 64 over a period of 2 months for 30 minutes a day. The group showed increase in grey matter, demonstrating "the direct causal link between video gaming and a volumetric brain increase."
23. A study surveying 5000 children on the video game and social habits, came to a conclusion that those playing video games on a regular basis are more satisfied with their lives, are less prone to being hyperactive, have less emotional issues than those who don’t play video games at all.
24. Goldeneye 007 for N64 only had 9 developers on the team, and 8 of them had never worked on video games before.
25. Best Buy removed the fighting video game "Primal Rage" from its shelves after an Arizona woman complained that her 11-year-old son had faithfully portrayed one of the game's gorilla-like character's "golden shower/urination" fatality move.
