There are many things from video games history that are unknown, but still plenty of information about some game statistics, gamers behavior, gaming consoles is available. Gaming is growing every day because of all these gaming consoles, online free games and other stuff that enables developer to build a graphically rich game experience. Here are some random facts from video games history that you will love to now.
- The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
- Mario is all time best selling (222 million) video game franchise followed by Pokemon (193 million) and Tetris (125 million).
- ‘The Sims’ and ‘The Sims 2′ are all time best selling PC games followed by ‘World of warcraft’ and ‘Start Craft’.
- By genre- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (for PS2) is best selling action/adventure game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) is best selling fighting game while Halo 3 (Xbox 360) is best selling ‘First person shooter’ and Guitar Hero II (PS2) is best selling music game.
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was best selling game of 2009 (11.86 million global sales / 8.82 million in the USA).
- Pac-Man was designed by Toru Iwatani for appealing to women, because Pac-Man is always eating like women do.
- Microsoft’s Xbox was the first video game system to provide full support fot HDTV.
- Atari Lynx was the first color portable video game system , introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
- Shigeru Miyamoto drew famous game character MARIO, Mario wears a cap because Shigeru Miyamoto found drawing hairs difficult and also the moustache which was easier to see in video game screen resolution back then.
- Mario and his younger brother Luigi are known as the “Mario Brothers” which makes Mario’s last name as Mario.
- The largest gathering of people wearing game characters costumes was in London on May 23, 2009. There were 376 participants.
- After 9/11 world trade center attack, Darkel, a homles character that rigs building with explosive, was removed from Grand Theft Auto 3.
- Xbox’s original name was DirectXbox, it was created by DirectX developers.
- All of the voices in arcade hacking-and-slashing game Golden Axe were performed by American prisoners on death row.
- U.S. computer and video game software sales grew 22.9 percent in 2008 to $11.7 billion – more than quadrupling industry software sales since 1996.
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