The original title for Minecraft was Cave Game. Toru Iwatani created Pac-Man, one of the most famous and iconic video game characters, while eating a pizza. Hence the form of the hero.
Do you like Plants vs Zombies? The first game of the succesful series was initially called Lawn of the Dead, a tribute to the movies by George A. Romero.
The iconic PlayStation was supposed to be a Nintendo Console, Sony having the task of designing and producing the inside components. After the Nintendo console proved to be such a huge hit then Sony decided to release their own creation.
Former president Bill Clinton was at one time the choice for voicing John Eden, the president in the hit Fallout 3.
Simcopter, a PC game which could be considered "ancient" by today's standards, was the first one to introduce to players "simlish", the unique imaginary language used in the Sims franchise.
In Japanese Atari actually means success.
Initially Super Mario 64 was planned as a co-op game, featuring Mario and Luigi.
In the year of 1995 Doom was such a huge hit that it became the most installed program on PCs, even surpassing Windows 95, at the time literally a revolution.
There are about 240 Mario games.
The first gaming console was the Magnavox Odyssey, released in the US by Magnavox in September 1972. It came at a rather hefty price of 99.99 dollars, but you could get it for only 50 bucks if you also bought a Magnavox TV set.
The value of the video game industry worldwide is over 70 billion dollars.
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