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Fun Fact #54 - Do you have a copy of Tetris for your NES? If so, you might want to dig it out and check which version you have stashed away. The Tengen copy (Tengen being Atari's publishing arm) is thought to be in limited quantity—with only around 100,000 copies still in existence. The Tengen version preceded Nintendo's own version of Tetris, but was pulled off the shelves.
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Fun Fact #53 - Video games have evolved to offer players almost any type of experience. Currently, there are over 30 different types of video games, including programming games like CodinGame, where players must use programming languages like C++ and Java to advance through the levels.
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Fun Fact #52 - The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was the first video game controller to feature a directional pad, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) was the first controller to feature right- and left-shoulder buttons, and the Nintendo 64 (N64) popularized the analog thumbstick.
The company that developed the Wii motion technology offered it to Microsoft and Sony first (who both turned down the technology), and Nintendo ultimately introduced motion control to the masses!
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Fun Fact #51 - You might have already known Super Mario Bros. was the first video game to be made into a movie. But did you know that an up-and-coming actor named Tom Hanks campaigned for the role of Mario? At the time, Nintendo execs worried he wouldn’t have enough box office clout to carry the film.
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Fun Fact #50 - Remember the PlayStation 2 startup screen? Well, the seemingly random blocks and towers represent game progress—the more you play and save your games, the more blocks and towers appear. The towers represent the game, and the longer you play the taller they get. The blocks represent saved data. The design of the PS2 was modeled after the Atari Falcon Microbox. Sony bought the rights when Atari went bankrupt.
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Fun Fact #49 - Player reaction to a simulated disease in World of Warcraft so closely resembled historical records about real plagues that epidemiologists are currently using the data from WoW to evaluate how people would respond to a potential future virus outbreak.
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Fun Fact #48 - The classic coin-op Space Invaders was originally developed so that all the enemies moved at the same speed. However, as players destroyed the alien invaders the computer had fewer objects to draw, so it could render the objects faster. The result? As you destroy critters, the remaining ones “march” toward Earth faster.
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Fun Fact #47 - Mortal Kombat was developed in ten months by a team of four people. A year after its debut in the arcades, Mortal Kombat was released on Mortal Monday, September 13, 1993, to the Nintendo’s Super NES and Game Boy, and Sega Enterprises’ Sega Genesis and Game Gear. The Nintendo versions completely omitted the blood the game was known for.
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Fun Fact #46 - According to a recent study, the average age of a gamer is 34, which just goes to show that the market is growing far beyond just kids and teens! As more generations grow up with video games, undoubtedly the demand and variety of options will grow. We can't wait to see where that goes.
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Fun Fact #45 - It was so bad, the creators buried the evidence. Literally. The Atari ET video game is widely regarded as the worst video game ever created, and years after it was created, copies were found buried in the New Mexico desert. If it truly was that bad, it seems like Atari ET got its just deserts.
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Fun Fact #44 - It's no secret that Esports have exploded in recent years, but the extent of their popularity might surprise you. For the past several championships, the League of Legends world competition has drawn more viewers than the Super Bowl or NBA finals.
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Fun Fact #43 - An estimated 2.7 billion people played video games in 2020 alone. This increase is likely due to the global pandemic, a wide supply, and an ever growing demand. Here's to the age of the gamer!
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Fun Fact #42 - The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop the PlayStation as a machine of its own.
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Fun Fact #41 - Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology.
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Fun Fact #40 - The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
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Fun Fact #39 - In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider.
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Fun Fact #38 - The word atari comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." Technically, it is the word used by a player to inform his opponent that he is about to lose, similar to "check" in chess.
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Fun Fact #37 - Nintendo's Game Boy was the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
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Fun Fact #36 - Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV.
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Fun Fact #35 - The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.
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Fun Fact #34 - On the market from 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 (1977-1990) as the longest supported gaming console in history.
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Fun Fact #33 - The Nintendo GameCube's proprietary disc held 1.5 gigabytes of data -- 190 times more than what an Nintendo 64 game cartridge could hold.
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Fun Fact #32 - On the original Magnavox Odyssey, players had to keep score themselves because the machine couldn't.
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Fun Fact #31 - The PlayStation 2 was the first video game system to use DVD technology.
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Fun Fact #30 - The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.
