For many decades, video games have been accompanying countless people through their lives. Unforgettable characters, large franchises and unique stories were created.
If you are still looking for a conversation material at your next cocktail party, you've come to the right place. Because we picked out five exciting facts from the world of gaming.
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- Pong runs without a source code
- The fastest bug in history
- Doom (2016) has the nastiest sound effects ever
- Hunt: Showdown has a very special soundtrack
- Kirby was on trial to defend Donkey Kong
Pong runs without a source code
One of the oldest and most famous games is pong. Most of you know the rules of the game, which many do not know: the video game does not have a single line of source code.
What sounds impossible for today's players is a fact. The gameplay of the Pong Arcade version is only controlled via electronic components. There is no code that is interpreted by a CPU in the background.
Itschematic construction planYou can still look at and download from Atari today. Maybe you are still looking for your next DIY project.
The fastest bug in history
The racing game Big Rigs Over The Road Racing was released in 2003 for the PC. To date, it is considered one of the most unfinished titles that have ever been launched on the market. An example pleasant? The developers have even forgotten to limit the speed for reversing in the source code.
As soon as you put the reverse gear and press on the tube, your truck also accelerates exponentially. So it doesn't take long for you to suddenly reach the completely insane speed of around 11.9 and kilometers per hour. The game acknowledges this performance with a simple one: you won the race.
Only for classification: an undezillion consists of a 1 followed by 66 zeros and corresponds to a thousand decillions. At a speed of 11.9 and vertical km/h, you could cross the entire known universe in less than a second. But pay attention to speed camera, they are everywhere!
Here you can see a rapid Let's Play of the game in which the bug is exploited:
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Doom (2016) has the nastiest sound effects ever
Attention: If you continue, you will never be able to play the shooter from ID software normally again. Because for the partly brutal sound effects of the title, the sound designers became very creative as they did onceIn an interviewgranted freely. A few examples:
- With some of the famous Glory Kills of the Mancubus you hear some developers who can burp particularly well.
- A sound effect was created by the developers a cry -tube (often asChildren's toyused) with raw chicken meat. The g forgail noise created when stuffing and pulling out can be heard somewhere in Doom, have fun searching!
- Do you know how it sounds when a tube ketchup is pressed into a pamp that can no longer be defined? Right, because here is a video of the sound recordings for Doom (2016):
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Hunt: Showdown has a very special soundtrack
If you are wondering who for the groovy background music ofis responsible, we have the answer for you: the Port Sulphur Band.
But we don't just want to give you a music tip. The really cool thing about this small fact is that the band members are employees of the Hunt developer Crytek:
- Nicolette Kyle Stewart - singer
- Dominik Zingler - piano
- Jonas Obermüller - Bass
- Chris Green - gitarre
- Simon Lomet - drums
You can also hear the songs of the Crytek band outside of Hunt: Showdown, for example atSpotify,iTunesor onYouTube.
Kirby was on trial to defend Donkey Kong
Nintendo's rosa -colored aller eater once boxed out his monkey in court. Well, that's not the truth. Rather, the origin of the name Kirby is in this story.
In 1984, the Universal Studios sued the Japanese game manufacturer Nintendo, who was still rather unknown internationally. The reason: The newly debut character Donkey Kong is a plagiarism of iconic film monkey King Kong. Nintendo threatened a lot of adversity and a bad outcome of this procedure would have given us a very different video game world.
But Nintendo won. The lawyer, who made this triumph possible, was called John Kirby. The legal representative from Falls Church, Virgina was able to prove in court that Universal said in an earlier procedure against the film studio RKO itself that King Kong was already common good, i.e. can be used freely.
Nintendo got away with it and presented himself extremely gratefully to the lawyer. John Kirby is said to be a sailboat worth $ 30,000Donkey Konghave received. In addition, Shigeru Miyamoto once gave in oneInterviewTo record that the game figure Kirby, invented a few years after Masahiro Sakurai's procedure, was named after the lawyer in question.
Well, did you have fun reading this article? Please let us know if you want to have prepared other curious facts from the gaming world from time to time. We cannot guarantee that you are always new to you, but we give our best to dig deeper and not to get out of the old camels!
