There are few references o Easter eggs that the programmers of video games they intentionally place within their titles to the surprise of gamers, as a dedication or wink to other works -such as actors, movies, series or even other video games-.
That not to mention many others singularities born by accident or the peculiarities of some aspects or developments of certain titles. Today we are going to offer you up 150 oddities that will surely contain some that you did not know. If you are gamers and curious, we invite you to settle in and read the list that we have compiled for readers of MundiVideogames.
1. The playable map of "GTA: San Andreas" is almost 44 square km. That's roughly 5 times the size of Liberty City, and 4 times the size of Vice City.
2. The game "Ratchet & Bolt" canceled for Megadrive 32X, had a final boss that was 30 screens high and carried about 33 weapons.
3.In the Chihuahuas races of "God's Hand", there is a dog called M_ikami's Head (Mikami's Head), it is named in honor of the quote from the creator of "Resident evil": 'Before I lose my head than see' Resident Evil 4 'ported to the PS2'.
4. The highest possible score in a game of "Pac-Man" is 3,333,360 points. Only five people achieved that.
5. The Oddworld5 saga has several unpublished titles, "The Hand of Odd", "Squeek's Oddysee" and "SligStorm".
6. The Sega Space game "Channel 5" had a legal battle against Lady Miss Kier, who was a member of Deee-Lite, over similarities between her and the game's main character, Ulala. Miss Kier lost.
7. The first product marketed by Sony was a rice cooker.
8. The robotic action game for PS2, "Armored Core Nine Breaker", has a training mode of 150 lessons.
9. The weirdest video game cameo must have been "Alien Hominid" appearing in an episode of "The Sopranos."
10. In the "RPG Metal Saga" on PS2 (it has not been released in Europe, it is distributed in the USA by Atlus) you can access one of the endings from the introduction.
11. In the original "Donkey Kong" arcade, Mario is called Jumpman and he is a carpenter, not a plumber.
12. A 6-digit number can be read on the Scorpion Tanks in "Halo", this number is the date of birth of the game's art director, Marcus R. Lehto. His initials also appear on the sole of Master Chief's boots.
13. The first Easter Egg found in a video game, is considered to have been in "Adventure" by Atary 2600, and consisted of a room where the name of the creator of the game could be seen.
14. The first person shooter, »Doom 3 ″, contains a reference, found on an 'ingame' PDA, to the British comedy 'The office'.
15. Guy Cihi, who plays James Sunderland in "Silent Hill 2," is a high-risk investor who was cast while accompanying his daughter to a casting for another game.
16. There are 504 pieces of equipment in "Final Fantasy X".
7. Michael Jackson, one way or another, appeared in "Sonic the Hedgehog 3", "Ready 2 Rumble Round 2", "Space Channel" 5,1 and 2, "GTA: Vice City" and obviously in " Moonwalker ».
18. Back in 1995, Nintendo said that more than 100 third-party titles were in development for the yet-to-be-created Virtual Boy.
19. "Everybody Loves Katamari" contains a bonus level that consists of collecting a million roses. Luckily, it doesn't have to be completed in one go.
20. "FIFA 2001" was the first and only (maybe not, it is said that the first "Gran Turismo" too) to use scratch and sniff CDs. The CD holia to grass.
21. "Fable: The Lost Chapters" contains the grave of Peter Molyneux.
22. "Red Dead Revolver" was originally a Capcom development, but sold the rights to Rockstar.
23. The game "The Guy Game" for PS2 and Xbox, had to be withdrawn when it was discovered that one of the girls was underage when the game was published.
24. "Halo 2" is the best-selling Xbox game, it sold something like 8 million copies. Its most direct competitor is the first "Halo", with 5 million.
25. In "Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", there is a talking beetle hidden on a small island, which is also a vendor.
26. 'ICO' is a derivation of the Japanese word for 'let's go'.
27. In "Animal Crossing" on Nintendo 64, which did not leave Japan, you had to enter the date and time each time you started the game.
28. The president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, was previously the senior director of national marketing at Pizza Hut. While it was, it launched the Bigfoot Pizza and the Big New Yorker.
29. Squat braniac Raz was not always the main character in "Psychonauts." Initially, it was an ostrich.
30. Before creating great classics like "Outrun", "Shenmue" and "Virtua Fighter" for Sega, Yu Suzuki wanted to be a dentist.
31. The protagonist of "Tomb Raider", Lara Croft, was originally going to be called Laura Cruz.
32. Nintendo never gave Mario a surname, although "Mario Bros." (Mario brothers) suggests it's MARIO.
33. The PS2 game "Asterix & Obelix XXL 2" contains more than 100 parodies of characters / titles from other video games, including "Pac-man", "Tomb Raider", "Tetris", "Street Fighter" or " Super Mario Sunshine ».
34. The code name during the development of "Half-Life" was Quiver (Quiver), in honor of the Arrowhead military base in Stephen King's novel, "The Fog."
35. The first game of "Dynasty Warriors" was a face-to-face beat 'em up.
36. "Gran Turismo 2" had about 650 cars, "Gran Turismo 3" did not.
37. According to the 'Entertainment Software Association', the average player in the USA is 33 years old, and has been playing for about 12 (what a vice).
38. Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi owns a majority stake in the Seattle Marines baseball team, now led by Nintendo of America leader Howard Linciln.
39. Keita Takahashi, director of the Katamari games, cites Picasso and a "Little Shop of Horrors" as part of his inspiration.
40. In the early stages of development of "Final Fantasy XII", there were plans to allow a second player to join the game.
41. In 2001, a couple of students created a version of Pong, called the 'Painstation' that gave real whipping, burns or electric shocks to losers.
42. David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake in the "Metal Gear Solid" saga, wrote the screenplay for "X-men."
43. Almost half of the disk space of "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" is dialogues.
44. When the first GTA was released (at E3 '97), attendees were told that it would take about 3 minutes to drive from one end of the game city to the other.
45. In the single player campaign level of "Halo 2, Metropolis", a soccer ball can be found hidden in a ceiling.
46. Before defining 'Simlish' as something unintelligible, the creators experimented with languages such as Ukrainian, Navajo or Tagalog (Filipino) (Will Bright himself has once said that it is based on Navajo)
47. A total of 57 games were released for Nokia's NGage.
48. The title of "Pikmin" is in honor of Shigeru Miyamoto's dog.
49. Sega's «Outrun · has appeared in 19 formats.
50. A game of "Animal Crossing" on Gamecube can last up to 29 actual years, potentially.
51. Lara Croft's breasts are the result of designer Toby Gard accidentally adjusting the model's chest to 150% of the size he was looking for, and being persuaded by other designers to leave it that way.
52. In Japan, "Viewtiful Joe" for PS2 was subtitled, "A New Hope", in honor of Episode IV of Star Wars.
53. A certain soldier in "God of War" emits the 'Wilhelm Scream', a stock sound effect, which has been used in TV and movies for more than 50 years. We can also hear it in "Metal Slug", "Lost Planet", "Scarface" and "Lego Star Wars".
54. What is the most powerful weapon in the game of "American McGee's, Bad Day LA"? The nail clipper.
55. In Japan, 2007 games were released for Dreamcast in 4.
56. Steve Downes, the man who voices the Master Chief, is a DJ for a radio station in Chicago.
57. In Capcom's game 'Shadow of Rome', there is a bonus, called 'Urine Trouble', for attacking someone who has just lost control of their bladder (I played it, it's quite fun) .
58. There is a game called "Communist Mutants from Space". It's a 2600 Atari 1982 "Space Invaders" clone.
59. John Carmack, "Doom" guru-programmer, is a volunteer employee at Armadillo Aerospace, a Texas-based company dedicated to orbital space flight.
60. The team responsible for porting "Resident Evil 2" to N64, is now Rockstar San Diego (authors of "Red Dead Revolver", "Midnight Club" and "Table tennis"
61. "Nintendo" translates to "Leave luck to heaven", something like "leave luck to paradise" or "be lucky to leave paradise."
62. "Final Fantasy" was named for the fact that Square's creator and co-founder, Hironobu Sakaguchi, used the company's last cash reserves to make it.
63. Terry Butcher, current manager of Brentford FC, made the opening remarks for "Pro Evolution Soccer" in 2001.
64. Simultaneously with the development of "Full Spectrum Warrior" by Pandemic, a more advanced version, with more strategy, known as "Full Spectrum Command" was made for the army, and has never been shown to the public.
65. As of today (2007), 24% of Americans over the age of 50 play video games, compared to 9% in 1999.
66. At the end of 2005, Sony hired graffiti artists in 7 cities in the USA, to promote the PSP, ending in a colossal lawsuit, and a 'Cease and desist' order.
67. The lyrics of the songs in the PSP game, "Loco Roco", are deliberately written in unintelligible, so they could not be located, and would sound the same all over the world.
68. Capcom is short for 'Capsule Computers'.
69. Even though you will hardly ever see them, Yoshi has teeth.
70. In the UK, "Rayman" is the best-selling PSX game of all time.
71. "Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory" was banned in South Korea, as it contained the destruction of Seoul, its capital. The ban was lifted at the end of 2006.
72. "Resident Evil Zero" is the only non-spinoff of the RE saga, which remains exclusive to a single format, the Gamecube.
73. 'J Allard' is, in fact, J Allard's name. It was changed from _James Allard.
74. "Psychonauts" managed to sell less than 90 thousand copies between PS2, Xbox and PC.
75. All the carrier pigeons in "Killer 7" are named after some female character from the James Bond movies.
76. "Saints Row" for Xbox 360 contains more than 130 licensed songs, 40 of which are classical music.
77. Having the video game "Manhunt" in New Zealand is a crime (it is fine to be violent but).
78. At E3 2004, nearly 5000 games were shown. 1000 of which were brand new, while 16% of the games were classified as 'educational'.
79. Each of the more than 700 cars in "Gran Turismo 4" takes designers a month to create.
80. In the American launch of the gameboy game, "Final Fantasy ¨Legend II", the censorship of Nintendo forced to turn a band of opium traffickers, in a band of smugglers of bananas.
81. The Chain Chomp from the Mario games are based on a dog from Miyamoto's childhood neighborhood that was always tied to a tree.
82. John Romero sold his Ferrari on eBay in 2002. It had a modification that allowed the engine to be tuned with a laptop.
83. Tom Clancy at first rejected Sam Fisher's 3-eyed goggles in "Splinter Cell", due to the impossibility that goggles were capable of both thermal and night vision.
84. "Flatout 2" has more than 5.000 destructible objects in each circuit.
85. The original soundtrack for «Okami», occupies 5 CDs.
86. In "Hitman 2: Silent Assassin", one of the levels contains pizza boxes with Danish text that means: Real pizza with real shit in it.
87. Only about 2000 units of the Capcom game "Hulking Steel Battalion" were released, an Xbox game that was controlled with a 40-button controller.
88. The Xbox was originally going to be called DirextX-box.
89. There was going to be a "Killzone" comic run, but the publisher went bankrupt.
90. Do you remember the electric sieera command for "RE4"? A katana command was also made for "Onimusha 3" that measured almost a meter (for the chichis).
91. Before working for the company, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi had run a taxi firm and a Love Hotel.
92. Enemies speeding up in the original 1971 "Space Invaders" was a bug, but it stuck.
93. The best-selling Gamecube game? "Super Smash Bros. Melee", which sold just over 6 million.
94. "The Sims" stayed 82 weeks in the top ten of PC sales in the UK.
95. "Metropolis Street Racer" was released 3 times on Dreamcast, due to various bugs in the game.
96. During the creation of "Forza Motorsport 2," the creative team racked up 41 fines, and two driver's licenses were withdrawn.
97. "Mercenaries" contains both Han Solo and Indiana Jones as unlockable characters.
98. Max Payne's face is modeled after that of Sam Lake, who wrote the script and story for the game.
99. "ICO" was initially a development for PSX. Also, the horns was
for Yorda, not for ICO.
100. Mega Man is blue thanks to the first appearance being on the NES, which had a limited selection of colors.
101. The world's largest arcade machine is 4,11 meters long and has buttons like lentil dishes, apart from a 1,81 meter screen. In it you can play more than 150 different games, yes, up a ladder.
102. To promote the Xbox 360 console in Australia, Microsoft organized the largest water balloon battle in history, launching more than 51.400. We do not know very well if among the participants or all directly to the Redmond company.
103. A 1987 video game about Jack the Ripper was the first game in history to receive the 18+ rating due to its violent imagery.
104. The most expensive video game in history has been "GTA IV", costing more than 100 million dollars to develop, which at this point has already been amply recovered. The previous most expensive game to develop in history was Dreamcast's "Shenmue" costing $ 80 million, although it failed to recoup the investment.
105. The mansion with the most rooms in the history of video games is the one featured in Psx's "Castlevania: Symphony of the night," with 1890 rooms.
106. The longest cutscene to appear in a video game is from "Metal Gear Solid" for Psx, it appears when Metal Gear Rex is defeated, and it lasts no less than 15 minutes and 17 seconds. At the end of this sequence, it is more than likely that we have forgotten how the game was played.
107. The game with the most characters to select from is "Lego Star Wars", which adds up to 96, but by being able to combine different pieces and body parts together we can have more than a million selectable characters.
108. "Street Fighter 2: The Movie" is the first video game in history to be based on a movie that is also based on a video game. Obviously so much degeneration could not be good and the game had a resounding commercial failure.
109. "Mortal Kombat" was the video game that led to the creation of the ERSB, the organization that classifies video games based on age and violence in the United States, where even this video game was present in congressional discussions.
110. The first shooter video game in history was created in 1961. It
called "Spacewar!" and it was done in just 200 hours.
111. The first «Half-Life» is the most awarded game in history, receiving more than 90 awards, in addition to 51 rankings as “The best game of the year”.
112. The highest grossing in history in a single day from the sale of a video game was with the sale of "Halo 3", raising 151 million dollars on its first day of release.
113. The largest video game saga if we count its number of installments is undoubtedly "Megaman." From the original Nes to the present day, the saga has more than 43 sequels.
114. The best soccer game in history according to user ratings is "Sensible Soccer", where its tremendous and addictive gameplay surprised the technical level of the time.
115. «Colin Mc Rae: Dirt», has an elaborate realistic sound system, in which you can mix, ATTENTION: 1.005.772.154.467.879.035.136 sounds.
116. All Nipon Airways, a Japanese airline, has four planes fully painted with Pokemon characters, and even the flight attendants wear aprons of them.
117. In the massively multiplayer role-playing game "Everquest 2", we could type "/ pizza" and then we would connect directly to the Pizza hut portal from the game, accepting home orders. Very useful for people who do not want or can not go out and still have 32 hours to kill the dragon.
118. The University of Washington created in 1991 “Virtual Retinal Display”, a technology that uses low-frequency lasers to directly write information on our retina, and our own eye becomes the monitor.
119. The video game with the most extension to go is “Armed Assault”, which has a land area of 400 square km. We do not know if going through it on a skateboard will unlock a prize in the game.
120. By exploiting a series of glitches it is possible to finish N64's "Super Mario 64" by taking a single star out of the 120 there are. Playing normal, you need 70 minimum.
121. Ralph Baer created the Magnavox Oddysey in 1972, which would become the first game console in history. Six years later he would create the "Simon" (1978), the most popular of electronic toys.
122. The «OXO» (1952), a ta-te-ti, is considered the first video game with graphics in history since games in text mode already existed. Despite that, there are some doubts as to whether it was really the first game, as a patent dating from 1947 describes a missile simulation game using a cathode ray tube.
123. "Pacman" was born one night that its creator, Tohru Iwatani, went out to dinner with his friends. They ordered pizza, and the idea of the character came to his head when he saw the figure that was left when he took the first slice.
124. Japan suffered a great shortage of coins used in fichines with the arrival of the "Space Invaders". At first, this situation was addressed by lowering the price of the items, but it was not enough and in the end the government had to intervene by putting more coins into circulation.
125. The best player in the world of «Pacman» is called Billy Mitchel and he achieved a score of 3.333.360 points in the game, reaching level 255 (penultimate level) with the first life and eating each one of the fruits.
126. The first coin-operated arcade machine was "Computer Space," launched in November 1971 by Nutting Associates. The money made by its creators, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, they used to found Atari.
127. "Polybius" is the most mysterious arcade game of all time and not a single copy of it remains. According to legend, this puzzle that appeared in a few sites in Portland, Oregon was an experiment by the US government capable of causing nightmares and memory loss in players.
128. Not all Street Fighters are fighting games. "Street Fighter 2010" is a futuristic action game in which its main character, Kevin, must face hordes of mutant creatures. Upon his arrival in the United States and as a Capcom America business strategy, Kevin's name was changed to Ken.
129. In China, minors are prohibited from playing video games online for more than three hours, following several cases of deaths after long hours of being on the computer or playing video games. I suppose it will be for World of Warcraft.
130. One of the most astonishing secrets of the NES "Super Mario Bros" is that of Minus World or World -1, a world that can be reached by crossing a wall and is made up of a water phase. Despite Mario reaching the end, a pipe will send him to the beginning with the time he has left, so if Mario steps on World -1, he is doomed to die.
131. Starting at level 18, the ghosts of the "Pacman" stop turning blue and can no longer be eaten.
132. Sega's first mascot was Alex Kidd.
133. "Pacman" is known as "Puck-man" in Japan, but it was his entry into the American market that led to his name change due to the similarities in English between the words "Puck" and "Fuck" (to vomit and garchar).
134. Following the success of the movie "ET," a video game was made for the Atari 2600. They were so sure it would be a bombshell that they made more cartridges than the number of game consoles they had sold.
A simple and boring mechanic coupled with a huge glitch in the game made Atari not find any way out for the cartridges of the friendly alien.
According to urban legend, Atari chose to bury the ET games in a New Mexico desert, to avoid the high cost of storing them. At the place where they are believed to have been buried there is a sign that reads: "Here rests ET and his family."
135. In "Pacman," there is no way to pause the game, but there is a way to take a break. There is a place within the labyrinth that can be reached when none of the ghosts are around and that allows the player to hide in a place where no one will find them.
136. "Pacman" was the first game to have a character.
137. The rarest game in the world is "Nintendo World Championships 1990" for the NES, and there are only 116 units in circulation.
138. The design of the Zelda Triforce is based on the banner of the Japanese feudal clan Hojo.
139. An American representative from Capcom commented that in the Final Fight game it was in bad taste for the protagonists to have to face girls in a fight. The Japanese game designer replied that there were no girls in the game. When the American asked him about Poison and Roxy, the Japanese replied that they were not girls, that they were transsexuals. The two "girls" had their haircuts and costumes changed for the final version.
140. Nintendo invented the cross and the first controller it was incorporated into was on the NES pad. However, a similar control system was that of the Mattel Intellivision, which consisted of a disk that when pressed with the finger, was able to distinguish between 16 different positions.
141. "Final Fantasy VII" was a game designed for the Nintendo 64. However, Square and Nintendo had arguments because of the cartridges used by the 64-bit console, since they limited the size of the games. Square, tormented, would finally release his Final Fantasy for the Playstation on 3 cds.
142. Originally Lara Croft was a man.
143. The power of the ps3 allows it to be used to investigate diseases.
144. In the «Duck hunt» there is a moment when you cannot play anymore and a dog stands in the middle of the screens mocking us, which cannot be killed despite being shot.
145. In the Super Nintendo video game "Chrono Trigger" a character appears using magic that does not correspond to him. He is seen throwing fire when his element in the game is water.
146. The clouds and shrubs of the original "Mario" were the same but with different colors. The same is true of the enemies mushroom and the mushroom posta.
147. In the "Asassin's creed" there is a wooden piece of furniture very similar to the Optimus Prime from "Transformers".
148. In "Zelda: the occarina of time" when link meets the princess you can see in a window pictures of Bowser, Luigi, the princess and two other characters from "Mario 64".
149. In a "Final fight" fight in the first phase in Hong Kong, Chun Li from the "Street fighter" can be seen in the background eating in a restaurant.
150. Megaman at first was going to call "Rainbow man" due to his ability to change color with each ability, but luckily there was already a superhero with that name.