Retro game facts

The lyrics are vague about the exact deal they reached. Afterwards, the woman refuses to take his goods except for a ring and says she wants to get engaged. The vendor agrees to marry the woman when he comes home from selling his goods. When he is on his way home, he gets murdered when he stops to ask for directions. The developer said that after Van Damme turned down the offer, they considered a variety of possible names for the game.

Luckily, he discovered that the more enemies were destroyed, the faster the remaining enemies could be displayed. So, he left in the increasing speed function as a way for the game to ramp up the difficulty as a player progresses. As a result of this hardware limitation, the game is recognized for introducing the concept of a difficulty curve.

In the original version, Bowser pours the champagne into his mouth with a lot of it spilling down his chest. Video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto envisioned a very different appearance for Mario. But he found himself struggling with the limited video game graphics of the day. For example, Miyamoto had trouble giving Mario a distinguishable nose.

Miyamoto gave Mario a hat because hair was too difficult to render using the graphics capabilities of the day. Finally, Mario ended up with overalls because it was the only way players could see his arms moving. This last fact further illustrates how the advantages and disadvantages of early gaming technology impacted the way the first video games looked and performed. Remember that classic, coin-operated marvel, Space Invaders?

As you shoot and destroy formations of space invaders intent on subjugating the earth, they move faster and faster. This crescendo of speed leads to some hair-raising moments and lots of button mashing.

Larry Hagman, who played J. Ewing, was the only actor to appear in all episodes of the TV show, Dallas. Salvatore Ferrara II of the Ferrara candy company was born by forceps.

Because of this, his temporarily misshapen appearance inspired the Lemonheads Candy. To give the water an ocean-like consistency, during the parting of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments , they added gelatin to the water. As a teenager, Christopher Walken worked as a Lion Tamer. The Slap Bracelet fad produced injuries when kids removed the fabric covering from the bracelets. A school even attempted to ban them to help prevent further injuries.

This meant that people with satellite dishes could get an unedited and uncensored version of the show. This worried Johnny and people at the show and they pushed the network to change how the show was transmitted and satellite broadcast ceased in the eighties. The Talkboy from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was so popular that Hasbro had to pull ads since they could not keep up with the demand for the toy.

In , the first widely available disposable camera was released by Fujifilm. Other restaurants continued to operate under the Burger Chef name, but they have no connection with the original chain.

While convenient for shoppers, it was even more convenient for shoplifters. Centipede was no exception to this situation. Back in the early '80s, Atari created a board game that allowed players to take on the role of the gnome as well as the centipede itself. Gnomes had to defend the garden again, while the person playing as the centipede could pull cards that impede the gnome's progress. The last person standing at the end of the game was the winner.

Who would have thought Nintendo could turn a game like Centipede into a high octane adventure? Players are tasked with battling a giant centipede during a time of ruin and chaos. This game is a refreshing and contemporary take on the original title. It is definitely worth a look if you want to experience another perspective on this iconic arcade game.

Centipede was one of the first major games to find an audience with female gamers. Weird as this bit of trivia may sound, it isn't much of a surprise when you know who was involved. Dona Bailey, the only female employee at Atari's arcade game department, helped create the original game.

Her involvement and work resonated with female gamers and helped propel Centipede's popularity. Who knew a simple game like Centipede could get women excited about gaming? Back in the early 80s, Bailey was a programmer for General Motors. The story goes that one night, she was out at a bar and heard a song by The Pretenders entitled "Space Invaders.

A friend told her there was a game at another bar by the same name, which inexplicably sparked inspiration in Dona's mind. She then went to lunch with her friends, played some Space Invaders , and the rest is pretty much history.