UNUSUAL THINGS ABOUT VIDEO GAMES

STEVE DOWNES, THE MAN WHO PROVIDES

THE VOICE FOR HALO’S MASTER CHIEF,

IS A DJ FOR A RADIO STATION IN CHICAGO.

LARA CROFT’S INFLATED BREAST SIZE WAS THE

RESULT OF DESIGNER TOBY GARD ACCIDENTALLY

ADJUSTING THE MODEL’S CHEST TO 150 PERCENT

OF ITS INTENDED SIZE AND BEING PERSUADED BY

THE OTHER DESIGNERS WORKING ON THE GAME

TO KEEP THE BALLOONED BOOBS.

THE FIRST XBOX CONSOLE WAS ORIGINALLY

CALLED THE DIRECT X BOX DUE TO ITS USE

OF MICROSOFT’S DIRECTX TECHNOLOGY.

EVENTUALLY, THE NAME WAS SHORTENED

TO JUST XBOX AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

IN 2001, A PAIR OF ART STUDENTS CREATED A

VERSION OF PONG KNOWN AS THE PAINSTATION,

WHERE LOSERS COULD BE INFLICTED WITH

GENUINE WHIP, HEAT, OR ELECTRICAL DAMAGE.

MOST PEOPLE MIGHT THINK OF AVID GAMERS AS

LITTLE KIDS AND TEENAGERS BUT ACCORDING TO

THE ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION,

THE AVERAGE US GAME PLAYER IS THIRTY-THREE

YEARS OLD AND HAS BEEN PLAYING GAMES FOR

AT LEAST A DOZEN YEARS.

GRAN TURISMO 2 FEATURED SOME 650 CARS,

A TOTAL THAT GRAN TURISMO 3 COULDN’T

MATCH OR EVEN COME CLOSE TO.

IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AN AVID GAMER AND AT THE

SAME TIME NEVER MISSED AN EPISODE OF SEINFELD

THEN YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER GEORGE COSTANZA

PLAYING FROGGER LIKE A MANIAC AND SCORING

AN EPIC 860,630 POINTS. THE RECORD, EVEN THOUGH

FICTIONAL, WAS FINALLY BROKEN IN 2009 BY A MAN

FROM CONNECTICUT WHO SCORED 896,980 POINTS.

TOMB RAIDER’S LARA CROFT WAS ORIGINALLY

A LATINA NAMED LAURA CRUZ.