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koopa42 · Post by **koopa42** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:38 pm

it was also an inevitable lawsuit waiting to happen

woody.cool · Post by **woody.cool** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:39 pm

koopa42 wrote:it was also an inevitable lawsuit waiting to happen

A mate of mine fell off of something he was holding on to when he kicked it ..... was very funny to see, but it bloody hurt the poor chap.

TwoHeadedBoy · Post by **TwoHeadedBoy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:03 pm

Erm...

49.8% of people believe Alex Kidd is called Alex THE Kidd? Maybe?

The Dreamcast was originally going to be called Mars, to fit in with the Saturn and the (abandoned) Neptune. FACT!

The Angry Jock · Post by **The Angry Jock** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:06 pm

I lost my virginity after playing Tekken 3, I won that bet

koopa42 · Post by **koopa42** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:08 pm

'kin hell - where did you stick the joystick?

The Angry Jock · Post by **The Angry Jock** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:10 pm

koopa42 wrote:'kin hell - where did you stick the joystick?

Ports 1 & 2 mate

krusty40 · Post by **krusty40** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:21 pm

The Angry Jock wrote:I lost my virginity after playing Tekken 3, I won that bet

huh? lost your virginity in your dreams or for real?

The Angry Jock · Post by **The Angry Jock** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:23 pm

krusty40 wrote:
The Angry Jock wrote:I lost my virginity after playing Tekken 3, I won that bet
huh? lost your virginity in your dreams or for real?

Ask your mum, I'm sure she'll remember

koopa42 · Post by **koopa42** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:27 pm

he's probably already in his w@nk sock now

Jeremiah Jones · Post by **Jeremiah Jones** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:38 pm

I think I've done the world's fastest playthrough of Castlevania on NES. Does that count?

aaa · Post by **aaa** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:48 pm

This afternoon I completed the world's slowest playthrough of Silent Hill. Just over 15 hours, and I got the bad ending.

Frank Chickens · Post by **Frank Chickens** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:51 pm

The best Phoenix game on the Speccy, Pheenix, was written across the road from me.

paranoid marvin · Post by **paranoid marvin** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:51 pm

Seadog74 wrote:Most people will already know this but Continental Circus was supposed to be called Continental Circuits but someone misheard it.

could have been worse I suppose. Imagine if it had been called Incontinent Haircuts?

Tepid Snake · Post by **Tepid Snake** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:02 pm

If you put the Mega-CD game Tomcat Alley into a normal CD player, you'll hear a bizarre track with the words 'gay monkeys' repeated over and over again.

There's a similar trick with a few Saturn games- both NiGHTS games and Sonic Jam, when put into your CD drive on your computer, all contain a 'bonus' folder with wallpapers for your desktop.

Finally...

koopa42 wrote:it was also an inevitable lawsuit waiting to happen

This actually happened to Taito! They released a pressure-pad-punching arcade game called Sonic Blast Man (the hero of which shows up in a few Puzzle Bobble games) and so many people injured themselves on the machine that they got sued! They still made a sequel a few years later, though...

revgiblet · Post by **revgiblet** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:16 pm

If you snap a PS1 CD in half, the game will no longer play correctly.

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