Post Your Interesting Gaming Facts

[WildWillyWilson]

Nightdriver on the 2600 was the first video game to be made by a woman.

I think Rob Fulop would be interested to hear you think he is a woman now

Maybe he was a woman and is post-op now?

[krusty40]

99.99% of nineties platformers featured an annoying animal as a main character, along with a fire level and an ice level.

you got that right, CROC

[liveinabin]

Nightdriver on the 2600 was the first video game to be made by a woman.

I think Rob Fulop would be interested to hear you think he is a woman now

Right console/company, wrong game/person.
Carol Shaw is widely acknowledged as the first female videogame designer. She made 3D Tic-Tac-Toe for Atari in 1979 but is much more famous for Activision's River Raid.

[krusty40]

another interesting fact: most of the street names in silent hill 1 have famous horror directors surnames

[famicom69]

1)Nintendo employees who cannot get 120 stars in Mario Galaxy receive less salary and must eat in a separate canteen labelled 'Fail' (pocketgamer.co.uk)

2)Popular Science recognized the Sega Dreamcast as one of the most important and innovative products of 1999.

I remember being wowed by Soul Caliburs graphics at a Tommorows World fair back in 2000(?) I think.

[AlleyKat]

another interesting fact: most of the street names in silent hill 1 have famous horror directors surnames

...And the teachers surnames Ranaldo, Moore, Gordon and Shelley, listed on a document in the school are the members of Sonic Youth (Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Steve Shelley).

[Space_turnip]

The cake is a lie.

Fact.

[krusty40]

The cake is a lie.

Fact.

cake?

[liveinabin]

Dracula by CRL (Spectrum/C64) was the first game to be given a rating by the British Board of Censors.

It only got a 15 and consequently didn't sell anything like as well as CRL hoped (gunning, as they would be, for the jackpot '18' cert).
It was also crap.

[Space_turnip]

cake?

...is a lie.

[Space_turnip]

If every FPS made does not feature at least 5 crates, John Romero will exlode. (which would be revenge for Daikatana)

[Sigma]

In the 1960's Nintendo ran a chain of "love hotels".

[woody.cool]

Street Fighter II .... the first game to use the six-button fighting engine.

[koopa42]

Rise of the robots was actually bought by some people, but more worrying is the smaller number that actually played it, scienticians are still trying to find someone who liked it - true story

An earlier version of street fighter has a pressure pad control system that you had to 'hit' to make your characters punch

[woody.cool]

An earlier version of street fighter has a pressure pad control system that you had to 'hit' to make your characters punch

Which oftern got broken as people tried kicking the pressure pads, breaking the sensors etc.