fun facts about games thread!

remixedcat · Friday at 5:30 AM

post your fun facts you know about any games from any system!

I'll start!

GUYS STOP WHAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND LISTEN TO THIS VERY IMPORTANT FACT!

ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON WAS MADE IN ASSEMBLY!

londiste · Friday at 6:06 AM

NES Super Mario Bros is 40KB.

64K · Friday at 6:24 AM

In Max Payne 2 there is a level (don't remember now which one) where you have to go out of a window on a ledge high up. The obvious way is to go left to a place where you can jump down. If you go right and around the building there is a window to climb in. In the room is a small table with a lit candle and a picture and a note that he was missed by all. The picture is of one of the developers who passed away during the making of the game. I think it was pretty cool to leave this tribute to their friend in the game.

jarablue · Friday at 6:37 AM

londiste said:
NES Super Mario Bros is 40KB.

That is crazy! It could fit on a floppy...multiple times! When I think of how many hours I spent on that game and it was only 40kb. Nuts!

Baldurs Gate 1 and 2....all the artwork on every level was hand drawn. Many hours went into those games!

ratirt · Friday at 6:59 AM

Do you guys remember Atari games? You would load a game using a cassette recorder?
For those who don't

You put a cassette and you run the command to load a game. (For Atari 65e it was holding Select and Start together while you switch the computer on)
You have a meter there (right side above the LED) that spins around very very slow

When you load a game written in basic, it would take lets say 200 spins. That 200 spins is like 20-30 minutes. (No joke here guys)
Even though it is loading it can get a self test at any time. (or your younger brother presses reset button) meaning you need to start over. You would not breath loudly nor touch anything to avoid this self test (blue screen of the 80's for me). Normally we would leave the room to make it happen.

Sometimes it took us half a day to get it running. depending on a game that is.
One of those games that would load so long was FRED.

or Bruce Lee

By the time you are done with the loading your mom tells you, "You little knuckleheads. Ya'll doing nothin' but play games. Get your stinky asses to the bathroom. It's time to wash-up and hit the hay.
There was this TURBO option and you would need a game written in that programming language. Also, a cartridge that has the extension for the language. It would take several spins and it is done. Things progressed quickly there

Man, how the times have changed though. It is damn hilarious to think about these days.

remixedcat · Friday at 7:02 AM

ratirt said:
Do you guys remember Atari games? You would load a game using a cassette recorder?
For those who don't View attachment 354106

You put a cassette and you run the command to load a game. (For Atari 65e it was holding Select and Start together while you switch the computer on)
You have a meter there (right side above the LED) that spins around very very slow
When you load a game written in basic, it would take lets say 200 spins. That 200 spins is like 20-30 minutes. (No joke here guys)
Even though it is loading it can get a self test at any time. (or your younger brother presses reset button) meaning you need to start over. You would not breath loudly nor touch anything to avoid this self test (blue screen of the 80's for me). Normally we would leave the room to make it happen.
View attachment 354109
Sometimes it took us half a day to get it running. depending on a game that is.
One of those games that would load so long was FRED.
View attachment 354107
or Bruce Lee
View attachment 354108
By the time you are done with the loading your mom tells you, "You little knuckleheads. Ya'll doing nothin' but play games. Get your stinky asses to the bathroom. It's time to wash-up and hit the hay.
There was this TURBO option and you would need a game written in that programming language. Also, a cartridge that has the extension for the language. It would take several spins and it is done. Things progressed quickly there

Man, how the times have changed though. It is damn hilarious to think about these days.

I think 8bit guy had a vid on this!

ratirt · Friday at 7:45 AM

remixedcat said:
I think 8bit guy had a vid on this!

Seen it

remixedcat · Friday at 7:46 AM

ratirt said:
Seen it

Cool!!

ratirt · Friday at 7:49 AM

remixedcat said:
Cool!!

Honestly, it squeezed a tear in my eye a bit

Nice vid.

Apocalypsee · Friday at 7:54 AM

64K said:
In Max Payne 2 there is a level (don't remember now which one) where you have to go out of a window on a ledge high up. The obvious way is to go left to a place where you can jump down. If you go right and around the building there is a window to climb in. In the room is a small table with a lit candle and a picture and a note that he was missed by all. The picture is of one of the developers who passed away during the making of the game. I think it was pretty cool to leave this tribute to their friend in the game.

It's the levels where you get up to a condo with Mona on the ground floor giving you directions, after you met the killed inner circle member at the top floor and you go down through some scaffolding, before you go back inside through the window, turn back and go around the corner where the room is located. God I play this game so many times back then I still remember the details. There's even a music when you first enter the room

They did the same on Max Payne 1 where there is a secret room with a dead person nailed to the floor with word BUFF written in blood, supposed a reference to Buffy Vampire Slayer. There's some molotov and grenade in the room too.

More fun fact about Max Payne 2, if you play on Dead on Arrival difficulty, you get an alternate ending

You can hear NPC singing to Poets of The Falls - Late Goodbye on some instances, Mona Sax also sings this when you met her at her apartment when she's showering

the apartment cleaner where you get the code of the door also sing this song, at the condo I mentioned earlier, one of the enemy play this song on piano.

natr0n · Friday at 8:07 AM

street fighter ex series, I own all 3 import versions
you can play as dark kairi on ex3 for PS2 only on the JP version, no real difference just a darker palette
the JP version of ex3 has a coding error so at the game ending you fight multiple characters like final fight but the game continuously get slower,US version is fine
US versions of all 3 games are censored and missing,blood animations, stages/music such as Shadow Geists stage shows a dude hanging from a tree in a surreal setting
The dev team is know as Arika which is the founders name Backwards Akira
Fighting EX layer is the 4th game in the series without capcom or its own character attached in anyway

I could go on but cant think any more deeper atm

I should be sleeping at 3 am

AleXXX666 · Friday at 8:25 AM

ratirt said:
Do you guys remember Atari games? You would load a game using a cassette recorder?
For those who don't View attachment 354106

You put a cassette and you run the command to load a game. (For Atari 65e it was holding Select and Start together while you switch the computer on)
You have a meter there (right side above the LED) that spins around very very slow
When you load a game written in basic, it would take lets say 200 spins. That 200 spins is like 20-30 minutes. (No joke here guys)
Even though it is loading it can get a self test at any time. (or your younger brother presses reset button) meaning you need to start over. You would not breath loudly nor touch anything to avoid this self test (blue screen of the 80's for me). Normally we would leave the room to make it happen.
View attachment 354109
Sometimes it took us half a day to get it running. depending on a game that is.
One of those games that would load so long was FRED.
View attachment 354107
or Bruce Lee
View attachment 354108
By the time you are done with the loading your mom tells you, "You little knuckleheads. Ya'll doing nothin' but play games. Get your stinky asses to the bathroom. It's time to wash-up and hit the hay.
There was this TURBO option and you would need a game written in that programming language. Also, a cartridge that has the extension for the language. It would take several spins and it is done. Things progressed quickly there

Man, how the times have changed though. It is damn hilarious to think about these days.

I remember SEGA (or maybe it's variants), so I've played games with cartridges lol. ("cartridge" what I could tell now is like expansion card, there is some circuit board packed in plastic shell and shell has stickers of what games there are)

Devon68 · Friday at 8:46 AM

You can play Hitman Contracts and finish the game without killing anyone but the intended target's.

Bagerklestyne · Friday at 9:09 AM

Cheat code I remember in the Amiga variant of 'The New Zealand story" was "fluffykiwi" but also that "motherfxxkenkiwibastard" worked too.

natr0n · Friday at 9:14 AM

game genie code for supernintendo street fighter 2 to hit anywhere b229 a7a7

I cant believe I know this

Carillon · Friday at 9:25 AM

Vagrant story uses 3 save slot per game save, it could have used just 1, the extra 2 slots are reserved for cheater stats that don't affect the game.

ratirt · Friday at 9:34 AM

AleXXX666 said:
I remember SEGA (or maybe it's variants), so I've played games with cartridges lol. ("cartridge" what I could tell now is like expansion card, there is some circuit board packed in plastic shell and shell has stickers of what games there are)

All consoles had it. Snes and variety of consoles used these. Nintendo had those big ones. Computers also had those cartridges. Commodore so as Atari. Spectrum also as far as I remember. Nintendo switch uses SD cards instead since they can pack more data. The unoriginal variants of Nintendo had also cartridges with hundreds of games on it.

For Atari, at some point you could buy a blank cartridge and you could load a game on it so you want have to wait too long to play it.

64K · Friday at 9:42 AM

Speaking of game cartridges. My Atari 2600 game cartridges were 4 KB. The console had 100 Bytes of RAM. It's laughable today. I have 16 GB RAM on my gaming rig and will be going to 32 GB on my next build and started out gaming with 100 Bytes.

ratirt · Friday at 9:57 AM

64K said:
Speaking of game cartridges. My Atari 2600 game cartridges were 4 KB. The console had 100 Bytes of RAM. It's laughable today. I have 16 GB RAM on my gaming rig and will be going to 32 GB on my next build and started out gaming with 100 Bytes.

Imagine. the Atari 65xe (owned one) had a 64KB of ram. I mean wow. 130X had double that.
I remember when a friend showed me Atari 520ST. now that was a top of Atari's computer back then. With astonishing 512KB ram

Atari 2600 was a console. I get to enjoy the unforgettable moments with a computer.

When the cartridges showed up with games, it was a game changer for me. So quick. You just slap it in and boom you go. Even the Turbo mode could go suck eggs it was so fast.

masterdeejay · Friday at 10:02 AM

I have a few modern c64 cartridges 1-2Mb size. ~20-30 games each.
One of my favorite game on c64 is wizzard of wor. That is 20kb and it takes a few minutes to load with the tape drive. The default tape loading speed is 50 bytes/second (but there is a turbo mode hack)
The largest c64 game is the Newcommer, 7 disks ~2.2Mb

64K · Friday at 10:19 AM

ratirt said:
Imagine. the Atari 65xe (owned one) had a 64KB of ram. I mean wow. 130X had double that.
I remember when a friend showed me Atari 520ST. now that was a top of Atari's computer back then. With astonishing 512KB ram
Atari 2600 was a console. I get to enjoy the unforgettable moments with a computer. When the cartridges showed up with games, it was a game changer for me. So quick. You just slap it in and boom you go. Even the Turbo mode could go suck eggs it was so fast.

I got to mess around with the Atari 65XE a bit but at the time I owned a Commodore 64 with the same 6502 CPU and 64 KB of RAM. That's where I chose my username on BBS from long, long ago. Everyone just shortened the name of the RAM and called it 64K

P4-630 · Friday at 10:28 AM

Need to buy a crt TV to play my CD-i Games..

ratirt · Friday at 10:53 AM

64K said:
I got to mess around with the Atari 65XE a bit but at the time I owned a Commodore 64 with the same 6502 CPU and 64 KB of RAM. That's where I chose my username on BBS from long, long ago. Everyone just shortened the name of the RAM and called it 64K

Did you have it with cassettes? The Commodore 64? I had one as well. I remember the left arrow (or was it right?) HF command to start the configuration process to align the head in the tape recorder.

P4-630 said:
Need to buy a crt TV to play my CD-i Games..

I want to get those old school computers. It's fun to see it and play with it now

I still have commodore 64 but I miss Atari.

64K · Friday at 10:55 AM

ratirt said:
Did you have it with cassettes? The Commodore 64? I had one as well. I remember the left arrow HF command to start the configuration process to align the head in the tape recorder.

Yes, my first storage was a cassette drive. Later a 5 1/4 floppy drive that made a hell of a racket. It's a wonder it didn't rattle itself to death.

ratirt · Friday at 10:58 AM

64K said:
Yes, my first storage was a cassette drive. Later a 5 1/4 floppy drive that made a hell of a racket. It's a wonder it didn't rattle itself to death.

I had to change my Atari cassette player at some point. Damn, remembering how frustrating it was it was still so much fun. Never had the floppy drive

Although my friend showed me his C64 and floppy. That was fast to load.

Have you guys ever played Bop n Rumble on C64? It was a funny game. Type of a final fight when you go in one direction and beat the crap out of opponents. What was funny is the way you could attack. You could grab someone and hit'em with your head or you could swing and hit with your chest. It changed with every stage. It was funny

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