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Segregating active playerbases due to corporate stubbornness
Walled gardens only exist to spite the consumer. For entirely arbitrary corporate reasons, massive multi-platform titles used to strictly block users from…
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Sneaking across tightropes as an unusually stealthy raccoon
Raccoons are notoriously clumsy garbage eaters, but give one a cane and a domino mask, and suddenly he's a master thief. Sly Cooper blended tightrope walking…
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The first jigsaw puzzles were political nightmares
Forget serene landscapes and cute animals. The original dissectologist challenges were strictly cut along complex international political lines, completely…
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The PlayStation 2 logo can change its orientation
The pinnacle of useless but incredibly satisfying hardware quirks. The tiny emblem on the disc tray can be manually twisted ninety degrees to match whether…
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Diablo III hides a rainbow unicorn world
Hidden beneath the dark, brooding gothic aesthetic is a blindingly bright landscape full of smiling clouds and prancing ponies. It is a brutally cynical…
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Eating off the dirty floor is highly nutritious
Consuming a fully roasted turkey found lying directly on the cobblestones of a dirty alleyway provides massive health benefits and zero diseases.
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Intergalactic hunters magically compress into tiny spheres
Navigating tight spaces is easy when you can casually ignore skeletal structure. A highly advanced technological suit somehow allows a fully grown human to…
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Failing to rap about baking a cake and crying in defeat
You gotta believe, unless your timing is slightly off, then you just completely ruin dinner. PaRappa the Rapper is a legendary rhythm game where a paper-thin…
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Tetherball requires wrapping a rope completely around a pole
It sounds incredibly simple until a heavy sphere smacks you in the face. The entire objective is just repeatedly striking a suspended orb until the attached…
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Why WoW players spend so much time walking
If you want to know how effective digital Skinner boxes are, look no further than Azeroth. Game developers quickly realized that creating actual content is…
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When video games were packaged like albums
Long before they pioneered the dark art of endless microtransactions, Electronic Arts just desperately wanted their programmers to look like legendary…
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Why Microsoft's big studio purchase disappointed
Tired of severely lacking exclusive family-friendly titles, they dropped nearly four hundred million dollars to snatch up a legendary studio. Unfortunately,…
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Risk began as a French game called The Conquest of the World
Nothing screams aggressive global domination quite like a French arthouse director. Albert Lamorisse, who famously won an Oscar for writing the cute,…
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The $6 box of bull feces that actually sold
To protest the gross consumerism of Black Friday, the creators literally offered a box of bull feces for six dollars. Thirty thousand people willingly paid…
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Why you keep checking the map while going straight
Trust issues heavily manifest when traversing vast virtual landscapes. Even if you are on a clearly marked road heading exactly north, you will frantically…
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The platformer starring a drunken squirrel
Most platformers feature cute turtles or mushrooms; this one featured a literal giant pile of singing waste. Conker's Bad Fur Day completely flipped the…
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Why the original PlayStation 3 had no rumble
Apparently, feeling your inputs was considered a last-generation feature. The launch pads shipped without any rumble capabilities whatsoever, relying entirely…
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Connect 4 grids contain exactly forty-two circular slots
The iconic vertical board is a strictly limited plastic frame consisting of forty-two holes. Because the space is entirely finite, every single dropped token…
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The legal battle over Lara Croft’s nude patch
When your marketing strictly relies on your protagonist's exaggerated physical assets, it's bold to get angry when the internet inevitably acts like the…
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Mario was almost armed with a laser rifle
Before he was cheerfully jumping on turtles to save a princess, Mario was heavily armed and dangerous. During the extremely early planning stages of Super…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 hides a catalog you can read
You can genuinely spend hours flipping through a perfectly recreated 19th-century mail-order book instead of riding horses. It is the ultimate procrastination…
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Final Fantasy menus pause time during intense moments
The ultimate defensive maneuver is simply checking your pockets. While a massive godly entity is charging up an attack that will shatter the planet, you can…
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Why Nintendo removed chants from Ocarina of Time
Early versions of this classic adventure featured actual Islamic prayer chants heavily sampled in the background music. Nintendo quickly realized the massive…
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Crash Bandicoot was almost called Willy the Wombat
Because 'Willy the Wombat' sounds less like a radical 90s gaming mascot and more like a rejected Looney Tunes side character. Naughty Dog fully developed the…
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