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Milenko Kindl

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Jun 27, 2011, 8:16:52 PM6/27/11
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1. The name of action game Oddworld (Xbox) where chosen after rejection
of following versions: The Hand of Odd, Squeek’s Oddysee and SligStorm

2. First item of Sony mass production was rice cooking machine.

3. Armored Core Nine Breaker for PS2 the training part contains 150 levels.

4. The hero of the computer game Psychonauts Raz were planned to be an
ostrich… at the beginning.

5. Well know computer game Manhunt was under the risk of legal
proceedings in New Zealand.

6. Capcom was developed by Red Dead Revolver and later sold to Rockstar.

7. 57 games were developed for Nokia N-Gage.

8. The half of disk space taken by Oblivion is dialogues (seems somebody
likes to talk so much!)

9. Songs of paunchy bubbles in LocoRoco for PSP were contrived
indecipherable on the purpose, so they sound same in all the versions of
this game.

10. Capcom is an abridgement from "Capsule Computers".

11. In 2005 Sony hired painters which draw 7 walls in different towns of
USA as an advertisement of Playstation Portable.

12. J Allard is a real name, this is an abridgement from James Allard.

13. While developing Xbox it has a working name DirectX-box but then it
was changed for shorter one.

14. John Karmac was working in Armadillo Aerospace before, the company
which launches satellites into open space.

15. In 2002 John Romero sold his Ferrari on eBay. In this car you can
work on laptop without additional charging, it is energized from car engine.

16. Each car from Gran Turismo 4 took one month of work of a single
person. In a final version of this game there were 700 types of cars.

17. In USA version of famous game Final Fantasy Legend II for GBA have
been made some changes. The smuggling of opium where renamed into the
smuggling bananas. Interesting changes don’t you find?

18. The face of Max Payne was drawn from a real person by name Sam Lake.
He is also an author of game script writing.

19. All pigeons in Killer 7 from Capcom named by names of James Bond’s
girlfriends.

20. Interesting bonus level – in the game Everybody Loves Katamari you
play as bubble creature, rolling around on the floor you have to gather
maximum items, so in bonus level the number of items exceed 1 million.

21. You can brake 5000 objects on each track of Flatout 2.

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