{"id":50749,"date":"2013-02-19T01:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50749"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:49:21","slug":"5-gaming-facts-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50749-5-gaming-facts-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"5 gaming facts you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world of gaming has some deep dark secrets, and its time that our favourite pastime’s hidden side comes to light.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 gaming facts that you need to know:<\/p>\n

Angry Birds meet an epidemic<\/h3>\n

While mobile game maker Rovio was developing Angry Birds, the team needed an enemy for the birds to blow up.<\/p>\n

The swine flu pandemic gave the developers the idea to use pigs as enemies, and therefore created the evil pigs (with the sickly green colour) to represent the idea.<\/p>\n

\"Angry<\/a>

Angry Birds<\/p><\/div>\n

Nintendo\u2019s pint-sized record-breaker<\/h3>\n

In 1999, Nintendo release the GameBoy Camera, which could take 256×224 (down scaled to half resolution on the unit with anti-aliasing), black & white digital images using the 4-color palette of the Game Boy system.<\/p>\n

At the time, the GameBoy Camera had the official Guinness World Record for being the smallest digital camera in the world.<\/p>\n

\"gameboy<\/a>

Gameboy camera<\/p><\/div>\n

Mel? Mel? Meeeeeelll!<\/h3>\n

In any Metal Gear game, you\u2019re going to have a lot of codec conversations. And for those of you who\u2019ve played 1992\u2019s Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, you probably stared at the character images for quite some time, thinking they look familiar.<\/p>\n

Well, they should, because they were all copied from various film stars and influential icons, such as Mel Gibson for Snake and Sean Connery for Big Boss.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>

Big Boss \/ Sean Connery<\/p><\/div>\n

Hitman: Silent Ass-assin<\/h3>\n

While Square Enix were prepping to show off Hitman: Absolution, the publisher first released a teaser trailer that showed a barcode, which revealed the date of the release, along with the number \u201c47\u201d, obviously referring to series\u2019 protagonist Agent 47.<\/p>\n

One Reddit user inverted the colours on the barcode (so that the iPhone\u2019s RedLaser app could read it) and scanned the barcode.<\/p>\n

What it led to was an Amazon product page for a “Drawstring Double Dong D**do Bag,\u201d \u2013 a bag specifically designed for sex toys.<\/p>\n

Was this a weird joke by Square Enix, or some awkward mistake?<\/p>\n

\"Hitman<\/a>

Hitman Barcode error<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t remember<\/h3>\n

While the first Super Mario Bros. on the NES is one of the most acclaimed and classic games in gaming history, there is one thing people don\u2019t know about it \u2013 its release date.<\/p>\n

The game was released in Japan on 13 September 1985, and made its way to North America shortly after, but no one knows the actual release date.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/a>

Super Mario Bros (NES)<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: DidYouKnowGaming?<\/a><\/h6>\n

More gaming features:<\/h3>\n

Spider-Man\u2019s dark secret, other weird superhero facts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Who has the cheapest Xbox 360?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alien games that don\u2019t suck<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 5 gaming romances<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Double Dong Bags, deadly epidemics, and hairy sex symbols are secrets of the gaming world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[355,8905,8904,5551,21,749,1005,3446,5552,1841],"class_list":["post-50749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-angry-birds","tag-game-boy","tag-game-facts","tag-gaming-facts","tag-headline","tag-hitman","tag-metal-gear-solid","tag-super-mario-bros","tag-video-game-facts","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50761,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50749\/revisions\/50761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}