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100 INTERESTING VIDEO GAME FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

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When it comes to things that are too hot to handle, there's no better quintet of commentators to bring you the very best in listing things in an arbitrary order like the guys on 5x5.

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We simply cannot comprehend the idea that the afterlife is merely static and noise. The energy has to go somewhere, and things like "hauntings" happen to simply be when large collections of this energy collect in one place over time. Though we still don't know the exact reason why energies are drawn to one location, there's definitely nothing more to supposed supernatural instances than the facts which we have heretofore presented to you.

In the case of these spookiest video game ghosts though, everything is very much real. Stay away from these guys. They mean business, and will terrify you until the end of time.

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Donkey Kong owes his success to more than a failed attempt at a Popeye video game. Get the real, true facts about the birth of an arcade classic.

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Food and video games go together like Mountain Dew and pizza, or hot dogs and chili or apple pie and ice cream. Basically any kind of food thing combo.

These are the biggest video game foodies.

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There's no place like home, and these people really turned out some fantastic designs. From sconces to duvets and carpets to furniture, these interior designers are the cream of the crop.

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We've all been there, right? There's a cool-looking game announced, and we just start salivating over the potential and possibilities. Then it gets delayed. Then it gets delayed again. Finally, the game arrives, and it needs a major update to come anywhere close to being playable in one form or another. It's all too common these days, and the result is often massive waves of disappointment that wash over us like a... wave. Dammit.

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Capcom's Mega Man series has always been chock full of musical references and Easter eggs, but one of the most famous instances wasn't even planned by the developer.

From the lead character's true name, Rockman, to his sister, Roll, and numerous others, Mega Man video games have been littered with nods and homages to the music scene and genre. However, none were as overt and obvious as the American version of Mega Man X5.

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We've all been there. Our friends are hanging out chatting about the cool moment in that classic RPG, and they we are with nothing new to interject into the conversation. We just nod along, and before you know it, we've turned their stories into our stories, and it's just like we played the game ourselves.

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We've all got our favorite games. We've all got games we hate. Then there are those games in the middle; the ones you're afraid to talk about in front of your friends. These are the Best Guilty Pleasure Games.

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The Lara Croft we all know and love wasn’t always the woman Core Design envisioned when creating Tomb Raider. In fact, the original Tomb Raider protagonist was supposed to be a male Indiana Jones clone in the early stages of development. Fortunately for us, and Lara, the concept hit a little to close to the Lucasfilm character, and the team was forced to make some big changes to its action adventure game.

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Pull out the multitap, get your favorite fighting game, and settle in for the best video games to play at a sleepover with your friends who are totally there because they like you, and not because you’re the only kid at school with a Gamecube. Seriously though, how many great games were there to play with your friends on that thing?

Then of course, the Xbox and Halo came along and ruined friendships for all eternity.

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Pull out the multitap, get your favorite fighting game, and settle in for the best video games to play at a sleepover with your friends who are totally there because they like you, and not because you’re the only kid at school with a Gamecube. Seriously though, how many great games were there to play with your friends on that thing?

Then of course, the Xbox and Halo came along and ruined friendships for all eternity.

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There have been countless attempts at turning video games into movies. While there have been a few mostly watchable efforts, for the most part, video game movies have all been terrible abominations. Case in point, the five movies on today’s list. These movies should have been great. They should have been huge successes based on name alone, but instead, when fans and moviegoers alike wound up in theaters to observe these adaptations, they were face to face with crimes against humanity.

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Was the original sequel to Resident Evil scrapped before we ever got to play it? Find out in the debut episode of our new show, #RealTrueFact.

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I believe it was the late, great John Cougar Mellencamp who said, “Music is the weapon.” That’s so very true in the modern era. As you can tell from the completely serious list above, there are some great video game characters who are absolute monsters when it comes to rocking a sick beat… especially when it’s a sick beat of Death!

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Retro-game inspired metal covers from Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax? Yeah, we can get behind that.

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History has taught us the biggest monsters you'll ever face are those with one eye. Or something like that. These are some of the worst you'll ever face in a video game.