Video Game Trivia: 35 Little-Known Facts Part 2

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall has the largest in-game world ever created, being twice the size of Great Britain in terms of square mileage. It takes two weeks in real-time to walk from one side of the game to the other.

27. In Quake III Arena, needing to calculate x^(-1/2) quickly, a piece of code used was so strange that the developers commented the code with “evil floating point bit level hacking” and “what the f*ck?”

28. By mid-1981, more than four billion quarters, or $1 billion, had been grossed from Space Invaders machines.

29. When Space Invaders was released in Japan, it is said that the game caused a coin shortage because people just couldn't stop playing it.

30. Mortal Kombat II was so popular when it hit the arcades that several of the machines were later installed with deadlock security panels on the back to prevent thieves from ripping the game's motherboard straight out of the machine and taking it home.

When the original Mortal Kombat game came out, an audit menu listed Error Macros under the name ERMAC, leading fans to think there was a third hidden ninja in the game. This myth resulted in the creation of the character named ERMAC in future games.

32. There is a Wolfenstein 3D clone where you play as Noah and put animals to sleep on the Ark. It is the only commercially released SNES game that was not licensed, and used a hack to bypass Nintendo's DRM.

33. In 2017, so many people played Gran Turismo Sport on Christmas weekend that PlayStation Network thought their servers were under a DDoS Attack.

34. There is a video game, called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.

35. A video game named Homefront, which was released in early 2011 and based on a war against a North Korean global power, successfully predicted both the year of Kim Jong-Il's death (2011) and North Korea's nuclear test in 2013.