101 Random Video Game Factoids
How many square miles is San Andreas? How many Dreamcast titles have been released in Japan this year so far? What does Nintendo literally translate to? Who is Max Payne modeled after? These are just a few of the questions answered in Games Radar's "101 things you didn't know about games." Here are some bizarre tidbits I found particularly interesting:
7. The first ever product released by Sony was a rice cooker.
28. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime used to be the senior director of national marketing at Pizza Hut. While there he launched the Bigfoot Pizza and The Big New Yorker.
42. David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games, wrote the screenplay for the movie X-Men.
53. A certain soldier in God of War emits the ‘Wilhelm scream’, a stock sound effect that’s been used in TV and movie productions for over 50 years. You’ll also hear it in Metal Slug, Lost Planet, Scarface and LEGO Star Wars.
96. Throughout the creation of Forza Motorsport 2, the development team racked up a total of 41 speeding tickets. Two licences were also revoked.
Awesome.
101 Things You Didn't Know About Games [Games Radar]
Lazy Panda
Posted to Video Games on 23 September 2007
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