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  • Autor: NekoSakura2
  • hace 9 años

10 facts you didn't know about Japan ? ( or video games, vocaloid, Venezuela, etc)

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Video games:
1.Nintendo was forced to ship Super Nintendo consoles during the night because the company’s owners were scared of being robbed by the Yakuza, Japan’s mafia, one of the most violent in the world.
2. In 2001, a pair of art students created a version of Pong known as the PainStation, where losers could be inflicted with genuine whip, heat, or electrical damage.
3. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime used to be the senior director of national marketing at Pizza Hut.
4. Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game with at least 6.3 million copies sold in the United States alone.
5. FIFA 2001 became the first (and remains the only game to date) to use a “scratch and sniff” disc. The disc smelled of turf.
6. 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.
7. In the original Donkey Kong arcade game, Mario was called Jumpman, and he was a carpenter, not a plumber.
8. 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.
9. In late 2005, Sony hired graffiti artists to promote PSP across the country. It proved to be a bad idea since the company received a couple of lawsuits from angry mayors.
10.In case you’ve wondered, yes, the Reznor enemies in Super Mario World are indeed named after Trent Reznor of the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.
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