*DOUBLED FACTS* The Book of Random Facts

Part 4 - Gaming

#1 - The Playstation 2 (or PS2) still is the most popular games console ever, selling 155 million (I bought one), and being produced from 2000 to 2013.

#2 - The Sega Saturn was the first 32-bit Games Console.

#3 - South Korea put a ban on Japanese cultural imports following World War II. That meant South Korean gamers didn't get NES  until 2004, which was called the Hyundai Comboy in South Korea, which was superseded by the Super Comboy and Comboy 64.

#4 - In Mario, there is a character called Reznor, who is named after Trent Reznor, a member of American rock band Nine Inch Nails.

#5 - Scribblenauts almost launched with a strange bug, in which a lion would eat itself if bacon was glued to its back. The odd occurrence was found in the late stages of A.I. finalization.

#6 - The satisfying "ding" that rings out when a Fat Man nuke is launched in Fallout 3 is the lunch bell from Bethesda Softworks' cafeteria.

#7 - Lara Croft was originally Laura Cruz.

#8 - A famous game developer is named after Final Fantasy VII.

#9 - The Game Boy version of Tetris was the first game played in space.

#10 - Ubisoft's long-running and highly successful Assassin's Creed series was originally going to be a Prince of Persia spinoff.

#11 - During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama purchased ad space in 18 games that ran in 10 states.

#12 - NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell is such a huge Detroit Pistons fan that he rigged his game so the Pistons would have a better shot at beating the then-rival Chicago Bulls.

#13 - In 2010, the U.S. Air Force created the Condor Cluster, a heterogeneous supercomputer built using off-the-shelf commercial components, including over 1,700 PlayStation 3s.

#14 - A gene and protein that separates your right brain from the left, and determines you have two eyes is called sonic hedgehog.

#15 - In 1999, Microsoft's Ed Fries met with the DirectX team to discuss a new idea called the DirectX Box, a PC with a hidden Windows OS that would be marketed like a console machine.

#16 - Final Fantasy VII was a Nintendo exclusive

#17 - In the first Civilization game, Gandhi's aggression rating was the lowest score of one, meaning he didn't want to make war. However, if a player chose democracy, his aggression dropped two points. Instead of falling to negative one, the number looped around to 255, the highest aggression rating possible. Democracy turned Gandhi into a nuke-firing titan.

#18 - The U.K. versions of FIFA 2001 and Gran Turismo 2 shipped with the peculiar idea of "scratch and sniff" discs.

#19 - Mobile gaming revenue will hit $1.5 billion in a couple of years.

#20 - Angry Birds racks up 1.825 billion hours of game time each month year.

#21 - $8.86 is the average price for a game on Steam.

#22 - In order for Sony, the makers of the Playstation 2, to avoid paying more tax on the making of it, it was classed as a PC, with a full Linux pack, so it could be ran as a PC.

#23 - The PlayStation 2 was the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edge personal computer at the time of its release.

#24 - The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net.

#25 - The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself!

#26 - The Atari Pong video game console was the No. 1 selling item for the holiday season in 1975.

#27 - The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.

#28 - The PlayStation 2 was the first video game system to use DVD  technology.

#29 - The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.

#30 - 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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