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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The Secret of Monkey Island used a "dialogue tree" system that influenced all future adventure games. #MonkeyIsland #LucasArts #AdventureGames #GamingHistory #PCGaming
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Jun 13
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The Neo Geo was the most powerful console of its time, but cost $649 (roughly $1,400 today). #NeoGeo #SNK #GamingHistory #RetroGaming #LuxuryGaming
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Jun 12
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Super Mario World introduced Yoshi. #SuperMarioWorld #Yoshi #SNES #Nintendo #GamingHistory
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Jun 11
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Prince of Persia used rotoscoping, where the creator filmed his brother running to animate the sprites. #PrinceOfPersia #GameDev #GamingHistory #Animation #RetroGaming
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Jun 10
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The Sega Genesis launched with "Blast Processing," which was actually just a faster data transfer rate. #SegaGenesis #Sega #GamingHistory #RetroGaming #ConsoleWars
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: SimCity was originally rejected by publishers because it had no "win" or "lose" condition. #SimCity #WillWright #Maxis #GamingHistory #PCGaming
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The Game Boy was powered by only 4 AA batteries and lasted up to 30 hours. #GameBoy #Nintendo #HandheldGaming #GamingHistory #RetroGaming
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Super Mario Bros. 2 in the US was actually a re-skinned Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic. #SuperMarioBros2 #Nintendo #NES #GamingHistory #GamingTrivia
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Mega Man was blue only because the NES had the most shades of blue available in its palette. #MegaMan #Capcom #NES #GamingHistory #GameDesign
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Metal Gear on the MSX introduced the "stealth" genre. #MetalGear #HideoKojima #StealthGames #GamingHistory #MSX
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Street Fighter’s original arcade cabinet had two giant rubber pads you had to punch to strike. #StreetFighter #Capcom #ArcadeHistory #GamingHistory #FightingGames
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Final Fantasy was named that because Hironobu Sakaguchi intended to quit the industry if it failed. #FinalFantasy #SquareEnix #JRPG #GamingHistory #GamingFacts
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Dragon Quest established the template for nearly all Japanese RPGs. #DragonQuest #JRPG #GamingHistory #SquareEnix #RetroGaming
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Metroid featured Samus Aran, one of the first female protagonists in gaming. #Metroid #SamusAran #Nintendo #GamingHistory #WomenInGaming
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Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The Legend of Zelda was the first game to allow players to save their progress via a battery. #Zelda #Nintendo #NES #GamingHistory #RetroGaming
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May 30
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: The NES "Seal of Quality" was created to rebuild consumer trust after the market crash. #NES #Nintendo #GamingHistory #RetroGaming #GamingFacts
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May 29
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Super Mario Bros. was so large it didn't fit on the cartridge; developers had to reuse the cloud sprite as the bush sprite (colored green). #SuperMarioBros #Nintendo #GameDev #GamingFacts #NES
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May 28
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Punch-Out!! used two monitors stacked vertically in arcades. #PunchOut #ArcadeHistory #Nintendo #GamingHistory #RetroGaming
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May 27
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Duck Hunt’s second player could actually control the ducks with a controller. #DuckHunt #NES #Nintendo #GamingTrivia #RetroGaming
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May 26
Historical Gaming Fact of the Day: Tetris was the first software exported from the USSR to the US. #Tetris #GamingHistory #USSR #PuzzleGames #RetroGaming
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