STRANGE DETAILS ABOUT VIDEO GAMES

NINTENDO OF AMERICA PRESIDENT REGGIE

FILS-AIME USED TO BE THE SENIOR DIRECTOR

OF NATIONAL MARKETING AT PIZZA HUT

HALO 2 IS THE BEST-SELLING FIRST-GENERATION

XBOX GAME WITH AT LEAST 6.3 MILLION COPIES

SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE

FIFA 2001 BECAME THE FIRST (AND REMAINS THE ONLY

GAME TO DATE) TO USE A “SCRATCH AND SNIFF”

DISC. THE DISC SMELLED OF TURF

THE FIRST VIDEOGAME EASTER EGG IN HISTORY

IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN IN ADVENTURE FOR ATARI

2600, WHERE THE PLAYER COULD ACCESS A ROOM

DISPLAYING THE NAME OF THE GAME’S CREATOR.

TIMES HAVE DEFINITELY CHANGED SINCE THEN

IN THE ORIGINAL DONKEY KONG ARCADE GAME,

MARIO WAS CALLED JUMPMAN, AND HE WAS A

CARPENTER, NOT A PLUMBER

THE VOICEOVER ACTOR FOR TONY MONTANA IN

SCARFACE: THE WORLD IS YOURS, ANDRE SOGLIUZZO,

WAS HANDPICKED BY PACINO HIMSELF. AS MOST OF

YOU UNDERSTAND BY NOW, THE GAME’S DEVELOPERS

OBEYED THE GREAT AL PACINO’S WISH

A SIX-DIGIT NUMBER CAN BE SPOTTED ON THE

SCORPION TANKS IN HALO, WHICH REFERS TO

THE BIRTH DATE OF THE GAME’S ART DIRECTOR,

MARCUS R. LEHTO. HIS INITIALS ALSO APPEAR

ON MASTER CHIEF’S BOOTS

IT MIGHT BE THE MOST POPULAR GAME IN HISTORY;

YOU HAVE DEFINITELY PLAYED IT AT LEAST ONCE

IN YOUR LIFE; BUT WE BET YOU NEVER KNEW THAT

THE MAIN INSPIRATION BEHIND PAC-MAN’S DESIGN

WAS THE ROUND SHAPE OF A PIZZA MISSING A

SLICE. WELL, NOW YOU KNOW