The Ultimate Gaming Facts Thread.
 

... Post your gaming facts!!


*The world's youngest professional gamer, Lil Poison, was born in 1998. He started gaming at 2!

*There have been 7978 games released for the PSone.

*In 2007 during November, a 16-year-old American - Corey Ryder - went on trial for hiring a hitman to kill his mother. His mom had confiscated his PlayStation.

*The last release for the Atari 2600 console was a game called Acid Drop in 1992.

*The French water company that became the corporation known as Vivendi Universal was originaly known as Compagnie Générale des Eaux. It was created by an imperial decree drawn up by Napoleon III in 1853.

*Nintendo was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to create handmade playing cards.

*The first computer bug was actually a moth found in the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator on the 8th of September 1947.

Ps3 is better than Xbox360.

That is true, and in the long run aswell.

N64 ftw.

Fifa 09 is the best game ever created.

Final Fantasy 7 is the best Rpg ever

and final fantasy as a series is the best series ever

Call of duty 4 was the best selling game in 2007
Grand theft auto was best selling game in 2008

Final fantasy has sold over 80 million copies world wide

and has a star in the hall of game along with 7 other games

GTA is better than Final fantasy...

N64 is pants!

Obivion rules the world..

Fifa 09 is pure amazing on a epic scale! The mighty pro evo has fallen.

*The original PlayStation can be connected to a mobile phone for data transfer.

*The classic Pac-Man screen displays 240 pills.

*The first hard drive was invented in 1956 by IBM.

*IBM's Hollerith punch card technology helped Hitler catalogue Jews during the holocaust.

*Moore's Law staes that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every two years.

The Original Silent Hill games are the best survival horror games :wink:

Final fantasy has sold 15 million more copies then GTA and that looks to increase as final fantasy 13 and dissidia will be released this year

The series holds seven Guinness World Records in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008, which include the "Most Games in an RPG Series" (13 main titles, 7 enhanced titles, and 32 spin-off titles), the "Longest Development Period" (the production of Final Fantasy XII took five years), and the "Fastest-Selling Console RPG in a Single Day is Final Fantasy X)

*The world's first home gaming console was the Maganavox Odyssey, released in 1972.

*The official name for the language used in The Sims is Simlish.

*The powerful PS3 has an overall performance of two teraflops, the xbox 360 has just one.

*When the FIFA website asked about improvements wanted for FIFA 08 it received over 5000 suggestions.

*Dizzy the egg (Codemaster's game) was created to take advantage of a coding trick that could rotate a bit-mapped graphic easily. This became a rolling egg.

*Jen in the PlayStation 2 game Primal is voiced by Hudson Leick,who is best known for playing Callisto in the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.

*The UK games industry is the third largest interactive entertainment market in the world.

*The first plans for the PlayStation were put together in 1988, but it wasn't released until 1994.

*At $699 dollars, Phillip's 3DO, released in 1993, perfectly demonstrated how expensive game consoles could be, but sold few.

*German video games don't feature Swastikas, even WWII ones.

*The first person to buy a PS3 in the UK was Ritatsu Thomas, a 17-year-old who queued for over 36 hours.