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30 video game trivia to maximize your brain power

By Max SmithApril 9, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read

Cool cats, have you looked into all the recent research on video games? Strategic thinking, quick decision-making, and collaboration with friends near and far all have big benefits for problem-solving and social skills I understand that. Listen to that, mom! While you print these out and stick them on your fridge, check out these super helpful facts.

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HALF-LIFE2 Achievement Unlocked Little Rocketman From the beginning to the end of the game, you have to carry a garden gnome and send it into space on a rocket ship. The gnome his Chompsky (yes, he has a name) has to carry along with the gravity gun. This means he cannot use gravity guns or other weapons while carrying him. Cracked.COM — sauce

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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HI Achievement Unlocked GREAT DANE You must collect 218 dog tags by picking up soldiers and waiting until they drop one. Each soldier has a different dog tag, so get ready to attack almost every enemy in the game. Also, each difficulty setting has a different dog tag, so be prepared to complete the 10+ hour game five times. Cracked.COM — sauce

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LEFT 4 DEAD 4 89 Liower 30 T Achievement Unlocked The creators of the Zombie Genocider game took a look at Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, which allows you to kill 53,594 zombies, and decided to make it 0.001% harder . Mission: Kill 53,595 zombies. Cracked.COM — sauce

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Starfox CRACKED.COM Quick: Say Starfox with a German accent. You just mentioned the name of the German company StarVox. Instead of trying to get legal permission and delaying the launch, they called Star Fox and Star Fox 64 Starwing and Lylat Wars in Europe. — sauce

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Mega Man CRACKED.COM Because the Japanese to English translation of his name does not distinguish between the L and R sounds, Dr. Thomas Wright is known alternately as Dr. Light and Dr. Light in various games and manuals . — sauce

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Paper Mario: The Thousand Years' Door M CRACKED.COM The character Vivian was actually male in the original Japanese version. However, he had to be female in the North American version to make Mario a smoothie. — sauce

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Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously cautious, so making this game family-friendly was always going to be difficult. What's the funniest update they had to do? Rename the XL Power shaft to the less phallic XL Power. — sauce

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SimAnt PAUSE SCENT Health GRACKED COM The console version included an ant vomiting animation with obnoxious digitized HURKing. However, Nintendo did not allow it in the SNES version. — sauce

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The Combattribes CRACKED.COM am / This game came out in the 90s, but when Nintendo re-released it for the Virtual Console (especially after...9/11) they changed the name of the Ground Zero Gang to Guilty Zero . — sauce

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Pac-Man was originally named Pac-Man Pac-Man Jun Hai Skewer 25% 2590 Oscar Ickman Public Eggy The name was changed to Pac-One upon American release to prevent vandals from changing the P to an F. — sauce

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GRAGKED.COM Minecraft's ghasts make sounds that can be used by a sound designer to speak and to disturb a cat's sleep. — sauce

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Space Invaders had its own term for repetitive strain injury in the 80s. Snacks win. The term — sauce

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An indie developer's Superman demo was a highlight of the Unreal Engine 5 announcement. These 15 Our Worlds Mute Yours! This demo by indie developer volodXYZ uses the detailed cityscape of the Matrix Unreal demo to give a promising look at what's possible. , all memories of Superman 64 are erased from our collective memory. Cracked.COM — sauce

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A mysterious human-sized statue of Sonic the Hedgehog sits in the forest. The Sega World Kadoma theme park in Kaohsiung, Japan, closed in 2005, and the park auctioned off everything people could take home. A homeowner named Mr. Cadeo purchased the statue as a landmark to guide visitors from the road to his home. Cracked.COM — sauce

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One woman is the voice of many of your favorite video game heroes. TWiTE Ashley Burch's start dates back to her 2008 show she produced with her brother called — sauce

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Stanley's Fables Commitment to Unlock Achievement Even if you hate Tuesdays, you'll love this achievement as it tasks you with playing the game for the entire 24 hours of Tuesday. Cracked.COM — sauce

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PURE HOLD'EM AQ achievement unlocked. PURE POKER You must reach level 100 to complete this achievement. Sounds easy, but it actually requires about 10,000 hours of play. This is thanks to the game's complex leveling system, where each level requires 10% more experience points than all previous levels combined. Cracked.COM — sauce

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GEARS OF WAR 3 Achievements Unlocked Seriously 3.0 Do you like playing this game? Well, you can't even try this. You'll need to play the game's mediocre multiplayer for about two years to complete the required 65 Onyx Medals. His 6,000 kills with 10 different weapons, his 500 MVP and his 4,000 headshots are just some of the fun tasks you have to do. Cracked.COM — sauce

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MORTAL KOMBAT achievement unlocked. My kung fu is stronger. All 28 fighters must be mastered. To achieve that, he must win 2,800 games, perform 2,800 fatalities and his 4,200 X-rays, shed 280,000 liters of blood and play at least 672 hours. Once you complete this, you will have complete immunity to gore and violence. Cracked.COM — sauce

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Garry's Mod Achievements Unlocked Yes, I'm the real Garry! Want to become a stalker and earn achievements? We've got you covered. Your task is to play the game together with its creator, his Garry Newman. Since Не doesn't play the game regularly anymore, you'll have to stalk him a bit to see if he does. And if you're lucky, you'll be able to attend a session with him. Cracked.COM — sauce

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Final Fight CRACKED.COM Capcom USA's absolute pride has resulted in a whole range of changes. Bosses Damned and Sodom became Slasher and Katana, and all references to drugs and alcohol were removed and an exclamation point, — sauce

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Punch out! ! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski originally had a more overtly offensive name: Vodka Drunkenski. — sauce

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker CRACKED COM Japanese censors seem to be lenient when it comes to nudity and religion, but they are less lenient when it comes to torture. The scene where Snake is tortured with a bull prod was edited for the Japanese market, with him being prodded with a laughing prod instead. — sauce

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Pac-Man is ready! CRACKED.COM That onomatopoeia of wakka wakka is pronounced ``pakpaku'' in Japan. They almost translated it into Pac-Man, but someone realized they could easily change the arcade cabinet into something more...flattering yet sinister. — sauce

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Mortal Kombat: Deception CRACKED.COM This game was almost a disappointment in France. Literally -- deception means disappointment, so they renamed it Mortal Kombat: Mystification. — sauce

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Contra CRACKED COM To comply with Germany's strict anti-violence laws, they had to turn nearly all humans and aliens into robots. That's why they're called probotectors over there, or robot protectors. — sauce

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The Indigo Prophecy Controversy... What Controversy? FAHENHEIT CRACKED.COM Gamers all over the world outside of North America know it as Farenheit. Atari was concerned that Americans would confuse the incident with Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. — sauce

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Tomba! CRACKED COM This bright and fun game of wild children fighting against pigmen has taken on a serious meaning in Italy. Literally; tomba means grave in Italian, so it had to be called Tombi. In Europe. — sauce

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