Interesting facts you didn’t know about the gaming world

The gaming world is like an alternate universe, where imagination becomes reality, uncanny beings become your friends and normal becomes abnormal. While gamers have their own parallel world, there are certain fascinating aspects of the gaming world, which you wouldn’t have come across in your day to day life.

• In the famous video game super Mario, where the title character Mario goes on a quest to find the princess, the character was actually named after Mario Seagale-- landlord of the first warehouse of Nintendo.

• Till date, the highest grossing game of all time is World of War Craft that has grossed over 10 billion dollars in its entire existence.

• The famous Mega Man was actually known as Rock Man in Japan. The makers changed the name when the game was launched in America.

• The thought of globally popular game Pac Man was actually conceived by its designer Toru Iwatani when he was eating a delicious pizza!

• During the period of 1983, due to an exponential increase in the popularity of Nintendo’s Mario Brothers, there was an immense increase in parents naming their children Mario, after the popular video game character.

• In the initial, original version of the popular video game Donkey Kong’s arcade version, the character of Mario was actually a carpenter, instead of a plumber that he has been otherwise portrayed as.

• Atari, a big name in the corporate world of gaming, is actually a Japanese word, the meaning of which is success.

• The Princess Daisy trophy in the original version of the popular game Super Smash Brothers Melee had a third eye right on the back of its head. This error went unnoticed by majority.
  
  

  

• Post the tragic 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rockstar removed a character from the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 3 game. The character was called Darkel, who would assist you in rigging buildings with big and hazardous explosives.

Well, it seems that not just nature but also the gaming world is flooded with so many interesting facts that many of us might have overlooked despite being ardent gamers!