Anecdotes and curiosities of the world of the video game

You knew that the creator of PacMan (Pacman) it occurred this personage eating pizza, when I remove a portion he realized that it had an immense mouth prepared to eat bogeys. I call the personage Puck Man (Puck is the name of the cards of the ice hockey), although before the foreseeable pranks that could be created changing the P into the F, which would come to be a Fuck Man (fucked man), one decided to put him of name Pac Man.

At the end of the 90 in full battle on the new generation, in a golf party between Sony managers, Sega boycotted the game, set in the entry to a Sonic giving the welcome, in every ball of golf Sega it put a spiral, symbol of Dreamcast, and during the party a light aircraft was flying over the field with the message 9-9-1999 the date of exit of Dreamcast in the United States.

The horrible offenses of September 11 also had consequences in the world of the video games, which was going to be the game of this year, Metal Gear Solid 2, it had to cut a few scenes in which the twin towers were appearing while the Arsenal Gear was smashing against the city of New York, also it was necessary to cancel a game of Dreamcast that was based in covering planes with stars. Also the Japanese throwing of the console Nintendo GameCube had that I will be late two days since it was foreseen for this fatidical day.

In 1982 in Atari they had the idea of making E.T a game of the movie of the year., for it they bought the license for which they paid nothing more and neither more nor less than 20 millions of dollars. So that the game was turning out to be profitable more games had to sell that consoles were on the market therefore the idea was that the players were buying the console along with the game.

The problem was when only they were 5 months old to realize the game with what her quality of the same one was more that debatable and before this frightful quality and the horrible ones critical there is no advertizing campaign that remedies it. Finally Atari made 5 million copies of those that only 1 million could sell, and as the costs of storage were very big one decided to undo of the 4 million copies training them in the desert of New Mexico, really still they can be over there. They know already do not forget to take his E.T. if they travel to the United States.

Three in Streak it had the honor of being the first video game of the history. A. S. Douglas, student of the University of Cambridge in 1952, was the creator of this digital game, designed for a machine EDSAC, one of the first computers of the history. The target of the game is known by all, it is a question of completing a line, be already in horizontal, diagonal or vertical with zeros or some. In this case the player had to face the computer and the result was visualized on a screen of 35x16 pixels.

A classic game that has a big anecdotes quantity is Donkey Kong, the first one was that in this game the mythical personage Mario was born, although I am not called this way but his name was Jumpman and was a carpenter instead of plumber. You prop in this game it was going to be based on the series of animation Popeye but at the last hour Nintendo lost the license and they had to change to all the personages. Peach for Olivia, Mario for Popeye and Brutus for Donkey Kong. And finally due to the success and the similarity of the title with Universal King Kong, the studies tried to extract slice and demanded Nintendo, but they lost the judgment.

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Big Boss http://www.faseextra.com
Date September 11, 2008
Very good the anecdotes, he was not knowing that the first video game of the history was three in streak, all my life thinking that it was the Pong.

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gameadaffiliates http://gameadaffiliates
Date September 12, 2008
You see already, although good I do not believe that the pensara that this was to come to something more than an experimiento

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TimeDevouncer http://befrikimyfriend.blogspot.com/
Date September 14, 2008
Go, he was thinking that that thing about E.T. was an urban legend.
Very curious the anecdotes, I have liked very much, the same as your web. I am going to look ;) at it for myself calmly, that does very interesting (and with this rockman there any it resists jeje)
Salu2

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Andresito http://elpixelilustre.blogspot.com/
Date September 14, 2008
Very interesting the anecdotes, I already knew a few. But that thing about was not knowing completely three in streak.

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Kirkis http://elpixelilustre.blogspot.com
Date September 15, 2008
Arrr, big article. It was the whole dishonor not to have you between our linkage xD

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