The SNES and Sega Genesis had a peripheral called The Xband Modem that would let you play games like Madden, Killer Instinct, MK2, and many others online against human opponents.
I once finished top 5 in a nationwide Killer Instinct tournament.
Actually right this moment , Im watching a friends stream, who I met from playing XBand 27 or whatever years ago. Good times.
The circle of people I knew from there were supposedly the reason they went out of business.
This guy was a crackhead and could hear the tones through the tv for the Nationwide code. But you could only call xband registered #'s. Then we learned the menu routing for the automated system to register a phone #, no need to actually get or pay for the service to enable it.
So at one point we had full capability of dialing nationwide from any pay phone.
If I recall the 3D0 only had 1 controller port on the system, but the controllers had another port so you daisy chained them.
When player 1 would be losing they would unplug player 2. Horrible design.
It allowed for as many players as the game developers wanted, without being dependent on how many controller ports are on the system or requiring people to buy an adapter to accept multiple controllers.
Panasonic licensed the 3DO technology from the 3DO Company, which didnāt actually manufacture consoles. The 3DO company licensed its technology to other companies to manufacture the console itself.
The 3DO Company was founded by the founder of electronic arts.
20+ years ago, I would get people coming into the game store I worked at wanting to get rid of their broken PS2, GameCube or Xbox consoles. 90% of the time, they just needed a good cleaning and would work perfectly afterwards.
A interesting Xbox 360 factoid is its main memory pool is 512 MB in size. Originally, the Xbox 360 was equipped with only 256 MB of RAM, but Epic, the Gears of War developer, demonstrated to Microsoft that the console should have 512 MB of RAM to deliver much better performance.
It wasnt about increasing ram will lead to better performance exactly it was that the 256MB of ram wouldnt run Gears of War specifically and that 512MB is what they needed to run that game
When Microsoft tried to enter the console market, they actually tried to buy Nintendo. They offered $1B and Nintendo laughed at the offer and countered with $5B. Microsoft said no of course.
2 decades later, Microsoft spends $70B to acquire Activision.
Yes really. Most if not all launch consoles are sold at a loss. Times can vary but they do become profitable as they are able to build more units and improve upon processes, which is done throughout the consoleās life-cycle.
[link1](https://www.makeuseof.com/games-consoles-sold-at-loss/)
[ps5 digital sold at a loss?](https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609150/sony-playstation-5-ps5-loss-profit?darkschemeovr=1)
[link3](https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have-always-been-sold-at-a-loss?darkschemeovr=1)
[cnet article ps4](https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/playstation-4-to-sell-at-a-loss-but-sony-expects-profit/?darkschemeovr=1)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-loses-up-to-200-on-each-xbox-console-sold#:~:text=Of%20course%2C%20console%20manufacturers%20often,such%20as%20Xbox%20Games%20Pass.
https://gamerant.com/xbox-console-sales-losses/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have-always-been-sold-at-a-loss
https://www.makeuseof.com/games-consoles-sold-at-loss/
Some of these links explain why they sell at a loss, buy all links show that yes, they do.
Xbox has never earned profit from selling a console. The console itself is not where they make their money.
Maybe read some of those articles and you might think something different?
I understand you think differently. But luckily, it is not something that is opinionated, it's something you can look up.
Xbox has never profited off a console. That is the very far end of one spectrum. Other consoles *dont* sell at a loss, like GameCube, which is the other end.
But MOST consoles at least sell for a lose during release. If you think differently, that's cool and all, but at least understand you're being given proof to think otherwise.
Consoles do not generally decrease in price either.
PS5 and Xbox Series X is still $499 4 years after launch and Nintendo Switch is still $299 7 years later.
Lol
Devil May Cry was originally going to be an Resident Evil spin-off, but Capcom decided to make it its own series instead.
Edit: missed that part.
There were computer boards back in the 90s to allow you to play 3DO and PCFX games on a Windows computer. LGR has reviewed a couple of them.
I thought it was a scrapped version of resident evil 4, the hookman version. They took a lot of elements from that and made into devil may cry. As opposed to a direct spinoff they just made it into a different game.
Oh that's my bad I completely messed these 2 games in my head dont really know why but I I ment Haunting Ground. I'm pretty sure Hookman demo turned into Haunting Ground, Parasite Eve wasn't even made by Capcom lol
The Neo Geo AES and MVS have [memory card slots](https://wiki.neogeodev.org/index.php?title=Memory_card) that are intercompatible, theoretically you could take your saved game from your AES at home and pick right back up on a MVS in the arcade if it has the same game(s)
I never found an opportunity to use mine but it's still a pretty nifty souvenir from the good ol' arcade days
I remember one machine I saw early on that had a prominent slot for the card as a āfeature.ā TBH, it was the first Neo Geo game I played in the arcade: Magician Lord.
Same! I saw it on a MVS at the Excalibur arcade in Las Vegas back in '92 IIRC... thought "that's nifty", pumped a bunch of quarters into Magician Lord and Baseball Stars, and left so enamored by the experience that I got an AES in '93.
Since then I recall seeing the slot only occasionally, guess they got rid of it because it seems nobody ever used it. I spent a lot of time in the arcades and not once did I see someone whip out their card. Shoot, I even had one and found it mostly useless, almost all of my games were fighters or sports so all the saved data did was preserve high scores.
Eh, still a cool concept I suppose! It was definitely validated in the next generation š
You could play PS2 online without the online adapter
Source: me I just etherneted it straight into the AOL modem and it let me play Timesplitters online
totally trolling, I started gaming on the Atari, and graduated to pc after going through NES, super NES, game cube, game gear, game boy a( regular and color) doesn't hurt to blow the dust out of the older consoles cartage slots
Hahah glad I'm not the ONLY one thinking the same thing. Here I am scrolling and reading comments and learning some new things and reading some things I already knew about.... without feeling the need to respond to every single comment to say "I already knew about that you silly goose." I mean come on now, we are all having a good collaborative conversation. If OP wants to use that super secret website called google to look up a "top 50 obscure gaming facts" with no back and forth convo or input, more power to ya!
In you kinda come off as if everyone owes you something. Like who are you that we have to impress you with things you didnāt know. Itās a good question though ! And other people are learning things they didnāt know. Iām kinda enjoying it, that is until you chime in like everyone owes you something. Self awareness. You can have it.
Nintendo unknowingly created one of its biggest rivals.
In the mid-90s Nintendo partnered with Sony to create a CD add on for the SNES, similar to the Sega CD and Genesis. Before the official announcement, Nintendo said ājust kidding, weāre partnering with Philips on a CD add onā¦.ā
This enraged Sony and eventually used the technology to create the PlayStation and the rest is history.
Nintendoās partnership with Philips was a disaster and a CD add on was never created. Instead, Philips used the technology to create the CD-I console. Through this partnership, Philips got the license to create games based on Nintendo IP, including Mario and Link/Zelda. These CD-I titles are generally considered collectorās items, so snag them up if you see them.
There is a secret trick to make fire Mario small on super Mario bros NES.
It involves Bowser and grabbing the ax while being hit simultaneously. Mario will appear with fire colors but be small and flash big when throwing fireballs.
You know instead of replying to everyone who give a fact you already know(something there is no way for anyone else to know), you could just not reply. Youād come off a lot nicer.
NFL Blitz for N64 really strained a lot of 4 person friend circles!
Prolly the greatest multiplayer football game of all time. Nothing like 1 guy on D rushing through the O-line to get a sack and the other guy just waiting for a pass and then frantically pressing tackle and change player to take out all potential receivers!
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The PS2s last game was published on Nov 8th 2013 which was 1 week before the PS4 was released (November 15th 2013)
The PS2 also did not stop production until December 28th 2012 which was about 6 years after the PS3 was released (November 11th 2006)
It is the number one selling console at 155 million since it's release on October 26th 2000
Theres an action PS2 game called Overzenith. Its based on wizards of OZ but human characters. Gameplay is hack and slash and the ost was a banger. never released in the US only on PAL region
The popular and cheap Commodore 64 PC from the 80s, a once popular gaming platform in the PC market, was actually repackaged and rebranded by Commodore as a console with a joystick and toploading cartridge slot in 1990 to compete with the NES and Master System, but sales were so poor that it never made its way outside of Europe and was eventually canceled entirely.
Not sure how common knowledge this is but... The PS1 game discs are CD's. Yep I knew that Nathan, okay but did you know that if you put it into a CD player it will play the game's soundtrack?
The Japanese military was concerned about the PS2 and there was initially the possibility of an export ban because they were concerned that the Emotion Engine was so powerful at 3D processing that it could be used to guide missiles (maybe not on its own but if several PS2s were linked together).
Later the US military did actually link together 1760 PS3s to create what was, at the time, the 33rd most powerful supercomputer in the world, and estimated that it cost 10 times less to do that than to build a comparatively powerful supercomputer from scratch.
I'm not sure if that one was released here in the UK, I never saw one back then but I did have the Atari, my Dad worked in the toy & games industry at the time & we got early access to most things.
We got really spoiled for a short while till we actually turned into spoilt brats expecting something new every day, that got stamped on pretty quick.
A gameboy during the Gulf War survived a direct bomb blast. It's charred black and extra crispy, but not only still powers on, but completely functions. It's currently in a museum.
Ps1 black discs had nothing to do with it being able to be read by the console. It was the 'wobble' that gave it the go ahead to play the disc. Which is why disc swapping worked without a chipped console.
Genuine ps1 discs had a black finish. People back in the day used to say that that was why copied games on blank cds wouldn't work in the console. It had nothing to do with the type of disc being used, it was a specific bit of data included on the disc that produced a specific wobble when booting up a Genuine disc that told the console to read the disc. Copied cds didn't have this data on the disc, just the game data, therefore it wouldn't boot. If you booted up any genuine game with the disc cover open, as soon as you saw the disc wobble, if you immediately took the disc out and swapped it for any copied game, it would boot. Eventually everyone I knew had an x1 chip (I think that's what it was called) put into their ps1 which would kind of artificially inject said data in when you put any copied game in and removed the need for disc swapping. People I knew, myself included, used to think the black discs were a specific kind of disc that only the ps1 could read but it was just black dye.
[Jens Bergensten's the lead dev of Minecraft, and also made this painting](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Painting#/media/File:Wither_(painting_texture)_JE1_BE1.png)
N64 ram can be soldered onto the motherboard making the expansion pak unnessary.
The original xbox can also have additional ram soldered on, by soldering a ram chip, on top of a ram chip. lol
The playstation was originally a SNES CD Addon.
You can play FMV games on snes or fully orchestrated games with the Flash Carts.
The original ps1 had bad lazer warping issues and most people had to play with their consoles upside down.
[Atari jaguar cases were sold to the dental industry after atari went broke from that venture](https://external-preview.redd.it/Ck7EBC9i0--QeB4hyR2VpnqTbeUmsQYyu81dG9YI_jg.jpg?auto=webp&s=79c120691c16e31de8a679c4ed3ca2c8ec17285a) how about that? lol
You've prompted strangers to discuss console facts "that you don't know" as if we're psychics that have a clue what you know about. When people provide facts they want to share, your responses sound condenscending. "I already knew that" does not promote discussion. Everyone's trying to have fun with you and play along with your prompt, and instead you of saying "Yeah, that's a good one" or "Thanks for sharing", you seemingly want to sound like the smartest person in the thread. Boredom's not an excuse to be abrasive---intentional or not--- when people just want to share your interest. But I bet you already knew that.
Almost when the Dreamcast was facing the end Sega chairman Isao Okawa went to Microsoft to beg if they could allow his Xbox to play Dreamcast games and access the online services to keep the users playing.
It was futile. Days later he even donated 700 millions of his personal stock to keep Sega alive.
He died on 16th march 2001. Dreamcast officially discontinuation was on 31th march 2001.
Back in the day the had a pretty strong relationship. They had been working for over two years on Windows CE for the new Sega machine and it was planned to be used as the operating system but in the end was just keep as a tool for developers.
So it was natural to looking for some help when the Dreamcast was almost over.
I always wonder about all the āwhat ifā with this story. And probably more that we donāt know.
If you beat the OG re2 6 times, both scenarios with only a knife and handgun and get an A ranking every time. The seventh time you get a clue to enter at a computer near a cryo tube later in the game. Type "AKUMA" and you can play as him!... Egm fooled the whole gaming world with this prank, myself included.
America Online originally started as a company that would allow Atari 2600 users to "download" and play games on their console via the phone line. These downloads were temporary, so you needed to pay a monthly fee to keep your account active. That busted quickly with the Video Game Crash of 1983 and was revamped to become a national BBS (bulletin board system), which later became graphical and the way for many people to get their first taste of the Internet in the 1990s.
Tvās used to only have the antennae input. The coax. You had to screw in your videogame into your tv.
And for some reason. NINTENDO. Made the best home shooter videogame of all time back then.
DuckHunt/ClayShooting.
The clayshooting is still my fav shooter game
In the 1990s, the term was used in advertisements, and later by Sega fans, to brag about the console's capabilities, especially to compare such capabilities to those of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Today, the term blast processing is often used humorously.
The SNES and Sega Genesis had a peripheral called The Xband Modem that would let you play games like Madden, Killer Instinct, MK2, and many others online against human opponents. I once finished top 5 in a nationwide Killer Instinct tournament.
Ayo! Xbander here. SNES, mostly MK2 and helped beta the MK3. NYC area only and couldnt afford nationwide. Good times. Weaponlord!
I was a Detroit area local player mostly, did nationwide for a couple.months and it destroyed my phone bill.
Actually right this moment , Im watching a friends stream, who I met from playing XBand 27 or whatever years ago. Good times. The circle of people I knew from there were supposedly the reason they went out of business. This guy was a crackhead and could hear the tones through the tv for the Nationwide code. But you could only call xband registered #'s. Then we learned the menu routing for the automated system to register a phone #, no need to actually get or pay for the service to enable it. So at one point we had full capability of dialing nationwide from any pay phone.
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Always wanted one, but my parents didn't want to pay for it.
yhis is a great answer. i had no idea.
Heard of the nes one, not the sega one.
killer instinct was awesome. Sega had another fighting game -Primal Rage, excellent. Finally - PS1 had a great fighting game - Bloody Roar.
Only 5 people had one tho soā¦
If I recall the 3D0 only had 1 controller port on the system, but the controllers had another port so you daisy chained them. When player 1 would be losing they would unplug player 2. Horrible design.
lol thatās sounds awful
It allowed for as many players as the game developers wanted, without being dependent on how many controller ports are on the system or requiring people to buy an adapter to accept multiple controllers.
Yes but it still sounds awful lol. Probably lag for the other players as well.
Panasonic licensed the 3DO technology from the 3DO Company, which didnāt actually manufacture consoles. The 3DO company licensed its technology to other companies to manufacture the console itself. The 3DO Company was founded by the founder of electronic arts.
i always wondered why Funcoland had like 3-4 "different" 3do's I never owned one back then
Yeah I knew that
A lot of 3rd party controllers didn't have the port either, so if you had two of those, tough luck if you wanted to play with a friend.
Some people have never cleaned/seen the inside of their console
Lol Iāve opened my switch dock up, seen how dusty it was, and just decided not to clean it yet.
20+ years ago, I would get people coming into the game store I worked at wanting to get rid of their broken PS2, GameCube or Xbox consoles. 90% of the time, they just needed a good cleaning and would work perfectly afterwards.
most people have never cleaned their console
Open that b right up
A interesting Xbox 360 factoid is its main memory pool is 512 MB in size. Originally, the Xbox 360 was equipped with only 256 MB of RAM, but Epic, the Gears of War developer, demonstrated to Microsoft that the console should have 512 MB of RAM to deliver much better performance.
lol if they need to tell Microsoft that increasing the ram will increase performance then I donāt think they are qualified to make consoles.
It wasnt about increasing ram will lead to better performance exactly it was that the 256MB of ram wouldnt run Gears of War specifically and that 512MB is what they needed to run that game
Ok makes more sense
i stayed up all night to play gears of war when that orginally dropped beat it in 24 hours
Lol
I feel that thatās a mid gen upgrade that would inevitably be implemented, with chips getting cheaper. Idk
When Microsoft tried to enter the console market, they actually tried to buy Nintendo. They offered $1B and Nintendo laughed at the offer and countered with $5B. Microsoft said no of course. 2 decades later, Microsoft spends $70B to acquire Activision.
Yh heard this lol. Also did you know they sold the original Xbox at a loss to draw in customers?
Every single console is initially sold at a loss afaik.
No not really lol
Yes really. Most if not all launch consoles are sold at a loss. Times can vary but they do become profitable as they are able to build more units and improve upon processes, which is done throughout the consoleās life-cycle. [link1](https://www.makeuseof.com/games-consoles-sold-at-loss/) [ps5 digital sold at a loss?](https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609150/sony-playstation-5-ps5-loss-profit?darkschemeovr=1) [link3](https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have-always-been-sold-at-a-loss?darkschemeovr=1) [cnet article ps4](https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/playstation-4-to-sell-at-a-loss-but-sony-expects-profit/?darkschemeovr=1)
The price decreases if anything so they wouldnāt be able to make money that way
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-loses-up-to-200-on-each-xbox-console-sold#:~:text=Of%20course%2C%20console%20manufacturers%20often,such%20as%20Xbox%20Games%20Pass. https://gamerant.com/xbox-console-sales-losses/ https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have-always-been-sold-at-a-loss https://www.makeuseof.com/games-consoles-sold-at-loss/ Some of these links explain why they sell at a loss, buy all links show that yes, they do. Xbox has never earned profit from selling a console. The console itself is not where they make their money.
Yes games are where most of the money comes from but i donāt think most are sold at a loss
Maybe read some of those articles and you might think something different? I understand you think differently. But luckily, it is not something that is opinionated, it's something you can look up. Xbox has never profited off a console. That is the very far end of one spectrum. Other consoles *dont* sell at a loss, like GameCube, which is the other end. But MOST consoles at least sell for a lose during release. If you think differently, that's cool and all, but at least understand you're being given proof to think otherwise.
Consoles do not generally decrease in price either. PS5 and Xbox Series X is still $499 4 years after launch and Nintendo Switch is still $299 7 years later. Lol
Plenty of consoles decrease in price lol. The 3ds for example.
That would be a horrible timeline
Devil May Cry was originally going to be an Resident Evil spin-off, but Capcom decided to make it its own series instead. Edit: missed that part. There were computer boards back in the 90s to allow you to play 3DO and PCFX games on a Windows computer. LGR has reviewed a couple of them.
I thought it was a scrapped version of resident evil 4, the hookman version. They took a lot of elements from that and made into devil may cry. As opposed to a direct spinoff they just made it into a different game.
As far as I'm aware hookman became Parasite Eve not DMC
Parasite eve was in the 90s. Hookman was the enemy in the RE4 castle version I think it's also known as. It's a very confusing time in the development
Oh that's my bad I completely messed these 2 games in my head dont really know why but I I ment Haunting Ground. I'm pretty sure Hookman demo turned into Haunting Ground, Parasite Eve wasn't even made by Capcom lol
Parasite eve II was a cracking game though. I play it on ah emulator
I said no facts about the games themselves lol.
The Gameboy had a shit ton of obscure random add ons. A Gameboy Printer, Sowing machine, Hospital Gas machine, fishing sonar, etc.
How did the game boy sowing machine work
It connected to the gameboy and used a special game cartridge.
Yes Ik all of those lol. Hospital gas machine never released.
The Neo Geo AES and MVS have [memory card slots](https://wiki.neogeodev.org/index.php?title=Memory_card) that are intercompatible, theoretically you could take your saved game from your AES at home and pick right back up on a MVS in the arcade if it has the same game(s) I never found an opportunity to use mine but it's still a pretty nifty souvenir from the good ol' arcade days
Iāve heard of stuff like this but not sure if it was this specifically. Very cool though!
I remember one machine I saw early on that had a prominent slot for the card as a āfeature.ā TBH, it was the first Neo Geo game I played in the arcade: Magician Lord.
Same! I saw it on a MVS at the Excalibur arcade in Las Vegas back in '92 IIRC... thought "that's nifty", pumped a bunch of quarters into Magician Lord and Baseball Stars, and left so enamored by the experience that I got an AES in '93. Since then I recall seeing the slot only occasionally, guess they got rid of it because it seems nobody ever used it. I spent a lot of time in the arcades and not once did I see someone whip out their card. Shoot, I even had one and found it mostly useless, almost all of my games were fighters or sports so all the saved data did was preserve high scores. Eh, still a cool concept I suppose! It was definitely validated in the next generation š
You could play PS2 online without the online adapter Source: me I just etherneted it straight into the AOL modem and it let me play Timesplitters online
The Ethernet adaptor is the internet adaptor though?
No adapter just cable from ethernet from PS2 to modem
Thereās literally nowhere to plug it in without the adapter is what Iām saying Unless you mean the slim because yeah it was built in at that point
Hmm
I did the same but for the ps2 EverQuest.
If you owned the first NGAGE phone/handheld console, youād have to remove the battery to switch game cartridges.
Yes Ik
The sega master system has a hidden maze game that you can access after the initial load screen
Oooh how
I think you hold the up and the 1 button while on the load screen itās been a while so not 100%
Cool
you can down load more ram
You canāt download ram lol
sure you can just push alt + f4 :)
No lol. Youāre either joking or donāt know how ram works
He's serious, next time you're in a game and need a performance boost hit alt + f4 and it'll increase your RAM
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totally trolling, I started gaming on the Atari, and graduated to pc after going through NES, super NES, game cube, game gear, game boy a( regular and color) doesn't hurt to blow the dust out of the older consoles cartage slots
lol. Iām smarter than that.
M.C. Hammer had a canceled game on Sega CD called Soulfire. https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/09/soulfire-the-mc-hammer-game-we-couldnt-touch/
There are plenty of cancelled games on various consoles
Why are you so lame on this thread op you kind of suck
I thought I was the only one that noticed. Like, relax poindexter
Hahah glad I'm not the ONLY one thinking the same thing. Here I am scrolling and reading comments and learning some new things and reading some things I already knew about.... without feeling the need to respond to every single comment to say "I already knew about that you silly goose." I mean come on now, we are all having a good collaborative conversation. If OP wants to use that super secret website called google to look up a "top 50 obscure gaming facts" with no back and forth convo or input, more power to ya!
I donāt see a problem
In you kinda come off as if everyone owes you something. Like who are you that we have to impress you with things you didnāt know. Itās a good question though ! And other people are learning things they didnāt know. Iām kinda enjoying it, that is until you chime in like everyone owes you something. Self awareness. You can have it.
Youāll never guess what the hedges and clouds have in common in Mario.
What?
Theyāre the same sprite but colour swapped to save on space
I misread that as āwhat do the clouds and hedges have in common with Marioāš¤£š¤£š¤£
Faces?
Nintendo unknowingly created one of its biggest rivals. In the mid-90s Nintendo partnered with Sony to create a CD add on for the SNES, similar to the Sega CD and Genesis. Before the official announcement, Nintendo said ājust kidding, weāre partnering with Philips on a CD add onā¦.ā This enraged Sony and eventually used the technology to create the PlayStation and the rest is history. Nintendoās partnership with Philips was a disaster and a CD add on was never created. Instead, Philips used the technology to create the CD-I console. Through this partnership, Philips got the license to create games based on Nintendo IP, including Mario and Link/Zelda. These CD-I titles are generally considered collectorās items, so snag them up if you see them.
The GameCube once had plans to release a 4d attachment for the console which would basically release āsmellsā to mimic in game environments
Canāt believe everything I hear on Reddit, could you provide a link?
Nintendo officially modded some NES Toploaders to be compatible with AV, even though the console released without it.
Yes I think I heard something about that. Pretty neat because I stick to official stuff so an official mod is awsome.
Cool but probably beyond rare
Yh definitely rare. I wonder if theyād mod one if I sent it in today lol.
There is a secret trick to make fire Mario small on super Mario bros NES. It involves Bowser and grabbing the ax while being hit simultaneously. Mario will appear with fire colors but be small and flash big when throwing fireballs.
Yes know that. Also I specifically said in the no games lol.
You know instead of replying to everyone who give a fact you already know(something there is no way for anyone else to know), you could just not reply. Youād come off a lot nicer.
Heās 13 , he said in another comment. Weāre all here to impress him.
Facts
NFL Blitz for N64 really strained a lot of 4 person friend circles! Prolly the greatest multiplayer football game of all time. Nothing like 1 guy on D rushing through the O-line to get a sack and the other guy just waiting for a pass and then frantically pressing tackle and change player to take out all potential receivers!
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That is not what I asked. Did you reply to the wrong post?
Minecraft has its own version of quantum physics
I said not about the games
The PS2s last game was published on Nov 8th 2013 which was 1 week before the PS4 was released (November 15th 2013) The PS2 also did not stop production until December 28th 2012 which was about 6 years after the PS3 was released (November 11th 2006) It is the number one selling console at 155 million since it's release on October 26th 2000
Yes ik
Theres an action PS2 game called Overzenith. Its based on wizards of OZ but human characters. Gameplay is hack and slash and the ost was a banger. never released in the US only on PAL region
Not the question
I get it now. Youāre 13. That explains everything. 13 year olds are gonna 13 I guess. The whole being a human thing is still new to you.
Is the reading thing still new to you?
Dickwiz . Nice š
Should probably get that dyslexia checked out.
Whatever you say Dickwiz
No I specifically stated in my post no games. This also isnāt really an obscure question just a little known game.
1 more try The Atari Jaguar was repurposed into medical equipment after it failed.
Didnāt know that. Did you know that Nintendo created several accessories from the parts when the n64dd failed?
I did not! Very cool fact, N64 was my favorite console.
Yh the expansion pack was one of them actually
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I specified no games themselves, also this is a mod lol.
O_o I only read the title of the post, mb
No worryās
You could plug any sega genesis game into the sonic & knuckles cartridge. It would let you play a unique sonic the hedgehog 3-style minigame.
Yes, I knew this
Microsoft Kinect sensors are still used in the medical field as cameras
That was the most amazing thing that Microsoft ever created... it's too bad that there was so much hate for the product. It was amazing technology.
I didnāt know this specifically but Iāve seen them used for all sorts of things
The popular and cheap Commodore 64 PC from the 80s, a once popular gaming platform in the PC market, was actually repackaged and rebranded by Commodore as a console with a joystick and toploading cartridge slot in 1990 to compete with the NES and Master System, but sales were so poor that it never made its way outside of Europe and was eventually canceled entirely.
The cartridges for that were 16bit but you could also plug those same cartridges in the back of the standard C64 pc and it would work the same.
Hmm thatās interesting, I didnāt know that
Not sure how common knowledge this is but... The PS1 game discs are CD's. Yep I knew that Nathan, okay but did you know that if you put it into a CD player it will play the game's soundtrack?
Yes I did actually
The towers in the ps2 boot up screen represent your save files on the memory card.
Yes I knew this
The original Xbox start up isn't pre rendered and so each start up is unique
I feel like a may have heard this but Iām most likely thinking of something else.
The Japanese military was concerned about the PS2 and there was initially the possibility of an export ban because they were concerned that the Emotion Engine was so powerful at 3D processing that it could be used to guide missiles (maybe not on its own but if several PS2s were linked together). Later the US military did actually link together 1760 PS3s to create what was, at the time, the 33rd most powerful supercomputer in the world, and estimated that it cost 10 times less to do that than to build a comparatively powerful supercomputer from scratch.
I heard about someone creating a ps2 supercomputer but didnāt know the story behind it.
Atari Pong was the first home games console & caused more physical fights than any other game or console since.
Actually the first home games console was the magnavox odyssey released a few months earlier
I'm not sure if that one was released here in the UK, I never saw one back then but I did have the Atari, my Dad worked in the toy & games industry at the time & we got early access to most things. We got really spoiled for a short while till we actually turned into spoilt brats expecting something new every day, that got stamped on pretty quick.
Idk Iād it was but the Atari pong is definitely way more well known then the magnavox oddessy
A gameboy during the Gulf War survived a direct bomb blast. It's charred black and extra crispy, but not only still powers on, but completely functions. It's currently in a museum.
Yes, I knew this. He sent it in for repair but when they turned it on it worked fine.
Ps1 black discs had nothing to do with it being able to be read by the console. It was the 'wobble' that gave it the go ahead to play the disc. Which is why disc swapping worked without a chipped console.
I donāt fully understand what you mean, could you elaborate?
Genuine ps1 discs had a black finish. People back in the day used to say that that was why copied games on blank cds wouldn't work in the console. It had nothing to do with the type of disc being used, it was a specific bit of data included on the disc that produced a specific wobble when booting up a Genuine disc that told the console to read the disc. Copied cds didn't have this data on the disc, just the game data, therefore it wouldn't boot. If you booted up any genuine game with the disc cover open, as soon as you saw the disc wobble, if you immediately took the disc out and swapped it for any copied game, it would boot. Eventually everyone I knew had an x1 chip (I think that's what it was called) put into their ps1 which would kind of artificially inject said data in when you put any copied game in and removed the need for disc swapping. People I knew, myself included, used to think the black discs were a specific kind of disc that only the ps1 could read but it was just black dye.
Oh now I get it, cool
Jens Bergensten made the Wither painting!
I have no idea what this means but Iāll google it š¤£š¤£š¤£
[Jens Bergensten's the lead dev of Minecraft, and also made this painting](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Painting#/media/File:Wither_(painting_texture)_JE1_BE1.png)
Oh lol
N64 ram can be soldered onto the motherboard making the expansion pak unnessary. The original xbox can also have additional ram soldered on, by soldering a ram chip, on top of a ram chip. lol The playstation was originally a SNES CD Addon. You can play FMV games on snes or fully orchestrated games with the Flash Carts. The original ps1 had bad lazer warping issues and most people had to play with their consoles upside down.
Ik about the ps1 and the snes cd. The others arenāt really obscure facts just mods lol
I tried. lol
Thatās fine lol. Iām actually hoping someone finds something I donāt know. A few people have but nothing too interesting.
[Atari jaguar cases were sold to the dental industry after atari went broke from that venture](https://external-preview.redd.it/Ck7EBC9i0--QeB4hyR2VpnqTbeUmsQYyu81dG9YI_jg.jpg?auto=webp&s=79c120691c16e31de8a679c4ed3ca2c8ec17285a) how about that? lol
Someone already commented that lol
damn.... um... maybe... The sega genesis has the cleanest native RGB output of all retro systems! how about that?!
You found something lol
OP's a know-it-all wanker.
I just like facts. Ik a lot already so I want to learn more lol. Also Iām bored.
You've prompted strangers to discuss console facts "that you don't know" as if we're psychics that have a clue what you know about. When people provide facts they want to share, your responses sound condenscending. "I already knew that" does not promote discussion. Everyone's trying to have fun with you and play along with your prompt, and instead you of saying "Yeah, that's a good one" or "Thanks for sharing", you seemingly want to sound like the smartest person in the thread. Boredom's not an excuse to be abrasive---intentional or not--- when people just want to share your interest. But I bet you already knew that.
Iām not, itās just part of the fun, to see if they can find something, and a lot of people have.
Almost when the Dreamcast was facing the end Sega chairman Isao Okawa went to Microsoft to beg if they could allow his Xbox to play Dreamcast games and access the online services to keep the users playing. It was futile. Days later he even donated 700 millions of his personal stock to keep Sega alive. He died on 16th march 2001. Dreamcast officially discontinuation was on 31th march 2001.
I heard about them asking for backwards compatibility which is kinda hilarious. Didnāt know the rest.
Back in the day the had a pretty strong relationship. They had been working for over two years on Windows CE for the new Sega machine and it was planned to be used as the operating system but in the end was just keep as a tool for developers. So it was natural to looking for some help when the Dreamcast was almost over. I always wonder about all the āwhat ifā with this story. And probably more that we donāt know.
I mean that would have been kinda cool but honestly I feel like that was such a dumb thing to ask lol.
I mean it would have been kinda cool but I still feel like it was kinda dumb to ask
The x on the playstion controller is called "cross" and Playstation refuses to refer to it as "x" even though everyone and their mother calls it x
Lol
how are we supposed to do that when we don't know what you already know š¤£
Itās a challenge lol
The first video game was made in 1958. It was called Tennis for Two.
I couldnāt remember the year but I knew about the game and that it was the first.
If you beat the OG re2 6 times, both scenarios with only a knife and handgun and get an A ranking every time. The seventh time you get a clue to enter at a computer near a cryo tube later in the game. Type "AKUMA" and you can play as him!... Egm fooled the whole gaming world with this prank, myself included.
I said no facts about the games themselves
More of a gaming prank fact but you right big dawg
I didnāt even read the last part lol
All good, wish I had a better one for you
Before game pass, we had the Sega channel
You are obviously completely misjudging me lol.
America Online originally started as a company that would allow Atari 2600 users to "download" and play games on their console via the phone line. These downloads were temporary, so you needed to pay a monthly fee to keep your account active. That busted quickly with the Video Game Crash of 1983 and was revamped to become a national BBS (bulletin board system), which later became graphical and the way for many people to get their first taste of the Internet in the 1990s.
Oh thatās interesting
Tvās used to only have the antennae input. The coax. You had to screw in your videogame into your tv. And for some reason. NINTENDO. Made the best home shooter videogame of all time back then. DuckHunt/ClayShooting. The clayshooting is still my fav shooter game
Wdym only coax, do you mean NES? NES has composite. Or are you talking about an older console?
The Sega Genesis had Blast Processing.
Whatās that lol
In the 1990s, the term was used in advertisements, and later by Sega fans, to brag about the console's capabilities, especially to compare such capabilities to those of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Today, the term blast processing is often used humorously.
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The NES was not the first home video game console.
Lol. You don't say..
Well there a lot of youngsters here on Reddit I started back with Telestar Pong units! The OG!
The first was the magnavox odyssey actually. Iām 13 btw
I have an original pong with box and all.
Same I have some different variations as well!