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unusual facts about Video Games



360 Gamer

360 Gamer is a UK-based video games magazine dedicated to the Xbox 360 console, published since 27 October 2005 by Uncooked Media (which previously published its sister PlayStation 3 magazine, Play Gamer, as well as the current titles FSM and Neo).

Arsys Software

The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Artematica

Artematica Entertainment (known as Artematica) is an Italian developer of software, especially video games, established in the comune of Chiavari, near Genoa.

Atari Age

It was founded in 1998 by Alex Bilstein and Albert Yarusso and is well known for selling homebrew software for Atari video game systems, some of which have been included in official video game compilations such as Activision Anthology.

Battlecars

Battlecars is a simple wargame based upon the Mad Max genre of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs.

Chelsea Davis

When she is not doing gymnastics, her hobbies include video games, board games and NASCAR.

Command: Modern Air Naval Operations

Command: Modern Air Naval Operations (C:MANO) is a wargaming simulation video game developed by Warfare Sims.

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder

This game, like the previous CSI games CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, follows a distinct pattern of five cases, with the fifth case tying together the previous four.

David Rossi

It is hinted that he plays video games as Garcia mentions a report of an abducted child named "Niko Bellic", who Rossi points out to be a character from Grand Theft Auto IV.

Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2008

Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2008 (full title: Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2008 3D) is the fourth in a series of baseball video games developed and published by Gameloft for mobile phones, and the first version licensed by New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.

Dōjin soft

They are almost always exclusive to Windows-based PCs, but a few notable exceptions also exist for the Dreamcast, a console on which homebrew development was popular.

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter is a 2010 non-fiction book by journalist and critic Tom Bissell discussing the social relevance and importance of video games as well as defending the medium against detractors.

Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943

Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943 (commonly abbreviated Fire-Brigade) is a Computer Wargame developed and published by Panther Games in Australia in 1988.

Gamezebo

Gamezebo currently covers casual PC games from studios and publishers including PlayFirst, Big Fish Games, Oberon, RealArcade/GameHouse, MumboJumbo, Playrix Entertainment, Gogii Games, Sandlot Games, Reflexive Entertainment, Row Sham Bow, Inc and Last Day of Work.

Hanshin Expressway

Portions of the Osaka highway are featured in Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3, and Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3, 3 DX, and 3 DX+.

High Voltage Hot Rod Show

High Voltage Hot Rod Show was inspired by games such as R.C. Pro-Am and Micro Machines, with the style of the characters and vehicles taking inspiration from Kustom Kulture and the artwork of Ed Roth and Kenny Howard amongst others.

Karin Knorr

Examples include an online video chat, playing video games against others on the Internet or even a business deal done via videoconference.

Lex Plotnikoff

In 2007 Plotnikoff was offered to compose several soundtracks for video games developed by Akella.

Mayaeni

Her song "Nothing Inside" with DJ Sander Van Doorn (co-written with Justin Parker of Lana del Rey's "Video Games" fame) hit #1 on Cool Cuts, the DMC Buzz Chart, and the Beatport Overall Chart in June 2012.

Michelle Arthur

Arthur has also lent her voice to several video games, including Armed & Dangerous, playing three characters - "Leper boy", "Leper woman" and "Lady of the Pond", as well as voicing characters in X-Men Legends (as Moira & Female Prisoner #3) and EverQuest II (as Smith Cayless Chambers, Merchant Tanaira and Vida Sweeps).

Ninja Gaiden

Both games also feature Jason Voorhees look-alikes and the final boss in the arcade game vaguely resembles Bloody Malth from the NES game.

Palle Torsson

Using the graphic engine of existing video games such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Half-Life they transformed the museum architecture into violent first-person shooter games where the museum visitor could wander around inside a virtual version of the museum killing and blowing up master pieces.

Play N Trade

Play N Trade stores sell new and used consumer electronics, including video games and consoles, Apple products, laptops, and cellular phones, and accept trade-ins of the same.

Quest for Saddam

Fitting its genre, the goal is to fight Iraqi soldiers and eventually to kill the boss, Saddam Hussein.

Real Time Race

In a televised interview for BBC Click Mark Wilkin, Formula One editor of the BBC, commented that viewers wanted something more sophisticated than CGI video games.

Rene L. Moreno

He has also starred in video games, such as Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Ultimate Spider-Man, Call of Duty 2, and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.

Ryō Hanmura

One of his novels was the basis of the film Sengoku Jieitai, also a series of role-playing video games called "Eiyuu Densetsu" ("The Legend of Heroes") was loosely based on his novel by the same name.

Setsuna F. Seiei

He has also appeared in the direct film sequel Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer as well as video games and manga series related with the Gundam franchise.

The Specialists

The Specialists is intended to resemble a generic action movie and is often compared to the film Face/Off, though several of the default player models, maps, and some of the game-play elements appear to be references to The Matrix.

Theldrow

The game featured a turn-based first person perspective interface similar to early Might and Magic games, pixel art (originally black-and-white), and a very original fantasy setting.

Video Privacy Protection Act

It was created to prevent what it refers to as "wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records or similar audio visual materials, to cover items such as video games and the future DVD format." Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination.

Virtua Cop

Virtua Cop (known as Virtua Squad for the North American Windows version) is a first-person lightgun shooter arcade game created by Sega AM2 and headed by Yu Suzuki.

Volleyball spiking

"Spiking" as it related to volleyball entered the international and American lexicon through video games, movies and the growing popularity of the AVP.

Willis Burks II

His acting credits also included roles in video games, including The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

XBMC4Xbox

XBMC4Xbox has a "My Programs" section which functions as a replacement dashboard to launch Xbox games (retail and homebrew) and applications/emulator directly off the Xbox built-in harddrive, all from a GUI with thumbnail and list options.

Yūko Ishibashi

She is most well known for her vocal performances in Gust-produced video games such as the Ar tonelico series and Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm.

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (or ZUU for short) is an interactive fiction video game written by former Infocom Implementors Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn and implemented by G. Kevin Wilson using the Inform language.


see also

Aglaophotis

References to Aglaophotis are present in the video games Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3.

Apply Some Pressure

The song has also been featured in several video games such as SSX On Tour, Burnout Revenge, SingStar Rocks!, and the PlayStation Portable version of Asphalt: Urban GT 2.

Bio-Attack

It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.

Bionic Jive

Also during this period, the band achieved some airplay, shot music videos for ATYS songs “Pump” and “I Shot Lucifer,” and had music featured in the video games ATV Quad Power Racing 2.

Black Dialogue

The song "Let's Move" was featured in the EA video games Need For Speed: Most Wanted and NBA Live 06, and 'Party Hard' was featured on EA's Skate 3 and DLC for DJ Hero 2.

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

The song is a playable track in the music video games Band Hero and Dancing with the Stars: We Dance!

Braiger

The robot has been featured in the video games Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden and Super Robot Wars GC; the latter of which appeared with the other robots of the J9 Trilogy.

Burning Brides

The most successful song off the album, "Heart Full of Black" received some radio airplay and was featured in three video games, Guitar Hero, Burnout 3 and NHL 2005.

Christopher Murney

His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver.

Daft Punk Is Playing at My House

The song featured in the video games FIFA 06, SSX On Tour, Burnout: Revenge, Forza Motorsport 2 and the Dance Dance Revolution (2009 video games) games Hottest Party 3 and X2.

David Cage

His earlier works (under the name De Gruttola) include the music in the video games Super Dany (1994), Cheese Cat-Astrophe starring Speedy Gonzales (1995), Timecop (1995), and Hardline (1997).

Diego Stocco

He has done sound design and performed for video games such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry Instincts and The Conduit.

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

It recounts the development and rise of Tetris as one of the most-played video games of all-time, the role it has played in shaping the lives of the gamers it chronicles, the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of former Nintendo World Champion Thor Aackerlund, and the conception & execution of the first ever Classic Tetris World Championship by gaming enthusiast Robin Mihara.

Get Free

The song can be heard in several video games including the introduction video for Topspin, the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero and as playable track for Rock Band 3 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Gutter Phenomenon

The song "The New Black" is featured in the video games Guitar Hero II and MotorStorm.

Harumi Ikoma

She is the standard voice for the characters Blue Mary, King, Charlotte, and Nakoruru who appear in the popular franchises of video games King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown.

Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood

The 2-disc collection includes 77 songs performed by Daniel Amos frontman Terry Scott Taylor for the Doug TenNapel-created video games The Neverhood, Skullmonkeys and BoomBots.

Kinji Fukasaku

Near the end of his life, Fukasaku branched out into the world of video games by serving as the director of the Capcom/Sunsoft survival horror game Clock Tower 3.

Latias and Latios

Created by Ken Sugimori, Latios and Latias first appeared as central characters in the film Pokémon Heroes, and later appeared in the video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise.

Linnéa Handberg Lund

Several of her songs, including "Operator", "Hero", and "Pink Dinosaur", have appeared in the wildly popular Dance Dance Revolution video games.

Ludia

The company works with the owners of game show properties such as FremantleMedia, Sony, CBS, BBC Worldwide, Mark Burnett Productions and Disney to create video games based on game shows such as The Price Is Right, Family Feud/Family Fortunes, Press Your Luck, Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, Hole In The Wall, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

At the height of the group's success, they also had a video game released by Digital Pictures entitled Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video, but the game was not a success and has been considered one of the worst video games ever made.

Mechagodzilla

The Shōwa Mechagodzilla appears in the video games Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Godzilla for the Game Boy, The American version of Super Godzilla for the Super Nintendo, Godzilla: Battle Legends for TurboDuo, Godzilla Generations for the Dreamcast and Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact for the Dreamcast.

Mortal Kombat controversies

In 2011, a study conducted by Dr. Brock Bastian from University of Queensland's School of Psychology and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology "found evidence that playing violent video games leads players to see themselves, and their opponents, as lacking in core human qualities such as warmth, open-mindedness, and intelligence."

Musou

--*Musou Gauge, a gauge used in the Dynasty Warriors video games. Introduced in Dynasty Warriors 2, while the player character deals and receives damage, the gauge fills up. When the gauge is full, the player can press a button and perform a special attack specific to that player character. -->

My Adidas

The song appears on the soundtracks for the video games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and Saints Row: The Third.

N.Y. State of Mind

The song is included on the soundtrack of video games True Crime: New York City and Saints Row 2.

National Football League Properties

There have been several American football video games based on NFL teams created for various consoles over the years, from 10-Yard Fight and the Tecmo Bowl series for the NES to the more well known Madden series that have been released annually since 1988.

Patent Box

Creative Sector Tax Reliefs including Video Games Tax Relief, Animation Tax Relief, High-end TV Production Tax Relief, and Film Tax Relief

Psy-S

Frontman Masaya Matsuura went on to create several famous video games for the Sony PlayStation.

R.O.B.

R.O.B. has appeared as a cameo character in various video games, such as StarTropics, Kirby's Dream Land 3, the Star Fox series, the WarioWare series, the F-Zero series, Viewtiful Joe, and his head appears in Pikmin 2, called the 'Remembered Old Buddy'.

Ray Shulman

He also has created music for several video games, such as Privateer 2 and Azrael's Tear.

Rei Ayanami

Rei appears in many spin-offs and other media related to Neon Genesis Evangelion including video games such as Evangelion 64 and the popular cross-over franchise Super Robot Wars and the various manga adaptations, such as Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga adaptation of the anime.

Reto-Moto

The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games.

Rob Haigh

Many Omni Trio tracks feature on popular video games: "Renegade Snares" appears in the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, "First Contact" (from Even Angels Cast Shadows) is featured in Grand Theft Auto 3 and "Secret Life" is featured in the futuristic racing video game Rollcage Stage II.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games."

Rockman.EXE

Mega Man Battle Network, part of the Mega Man franchise of video games

Shadi Petosky

They have created video games for Cartoon Network and are creating animation for the television show Yo Gabba Gabba!

Silversun Pickups

Lazy Eye is also featured in the video games Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour, one of only 13 songs to be featured in both games.

Sonoma Raceway

Sonoma has been featured in many racing video games, beginning with Papyrus's NASCAR Racing for the PC, released in 1994 and has been a frequent addition to NASCAR based games and more recently road course variations have appeared.

Space Ace

A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of cartoon shorts based on current video games) with Space Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt.

Stupefied

Stupefied bases his gimmick, moveset, and attire around video games, more specifically games for the NES and SNES consoles.

Super Metroid

Starting with 1997's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the Castlevania series of video games borrows the backtracking and weapon upgrading elements from Super Metroid, leading to the term "Metroidvania".

Sweet Fuse: At Your Side

Its biggest selling point are several attractions based on popular video games, as well as the involvement of famous video game creator, Keiji Inafune.

Tap out

UFC: Tapout, a series of fight simulation video games for the Xbox

TRON command

The TRON command entered popular culture when it was used as the name of the 1982 Disney movie, "TRON." It has been subsequently included in a sequel movie, "TRON: Legacy," a television series, "TRON: Uprising," and two video games, "TRON: Legacy," and "TRON: Evolution."

Video game controversies

Craig A. Anderson and B.J. Bushman in 2001 suggested that violent video games may increase mild forms of aggressive behavior in children and young adults.

When Games Attack

Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA.