#3-Top 10 Amazing Facts About Online Gaming That Will Blow Your Mind
1: SEGA Saturn was the first console with internal storage. It was shipped with one megabyte of memory.
2: Mario was named after the landlord of Nintendo’s first warehouse Mr. Mario Segale.
3: Super Mario’s last name is also Mario, making his full name Mario Mario.
4: Action games enhance attentional control. A 2012 study demonstrates that games are even effective at training us how to learn and shape our attention.
5: EA’s simulation predicted the outcome of the Super Bowl in 2015.
6: Android is the preferred OS for mobile games. It comes to no surprise that more than half (53%) of developers are working on a game for Android.
7: RPGs and shooters are the most played genres for PC. Raising levels and raising hell are the two favorite activities of the average PC gamer, according to the video games statistics.
8: Nolan Bushnell founder of Atari also founded the famous kid’s fast food chain ‘Chuck E Cheese’ as a way to get kids play Atari arcade games.
9: Starcraft is so famous in South Korea that the top gamers receive huge salary and prizes to play the game at various competitions.
10: Deus EX predicted the 9/11 attacks. Deus EX was released 19 years ago – in 2000. There are sections of the game where New York is visible. Interesting enough, the WTC twin towers weren’t there. The twin towers don’t exist in the game because of memory limitations. The developers explained in-game why the towers were missing.
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