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Did You Know... (86)

DYK facts
#	did you know...	date	views
1	... that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance?	December 30, 2008	1,589
2	... that IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time?	July 18, 2009	2,200
3	... that Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is the first video game to use the Food Network license?	December 15, 2009	2,100
4	... that Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance?	December 17, 2009	905
5	... that Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island follows David Beckham on his quest to defeat the evil Mister Woe in order to restore peace to Soccer Island?	December 19, 2009	3,300
6	... that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee?	December 22, 2009	5,600
7	... that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle?	February 25, 2010	1,200
8	... that IGN's Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation?	March 3, 2010	1,300
10	... that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer?	June 14, 2010	115
11	... that Scene It? Twilight has no questions about New Moon even though the movie version of the book was released at the same time as the game?	June 17, 2010	1,400
12	... that there were an estimated 8,000 members of Sam's Army in the stands at the U.S. men's soccer team's opening game of the 2010 World Cup in group play against England?	June 17, 2010	3,400
13	... that Let's Yoga includes yoga poses to complete in office chairs during times the player might be relegated to a desk?	June 21, 2010	1,800
14	... that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64?	June 28, 2010	1,400
15	... that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?	July 3, 2010	1,300
16	... that Alice in Wonderland, a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?	July 7, 2010	Data unavailable
17	... that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft's E3 2010 press conference?	July 10, 2010	Data unavailable
19	... that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?	July 13, 2010	1,700
20	... that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka, a wetsuit, and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X?	July 14, 2010	1,400
22	... that IGN's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by a few guys down in someone's basement?	August 13, 2010	4,806
23	... that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival?	August 25, 2010	3,400
24	... that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple's App Store?	August 27, 2010	4,000
25	... that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001's graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?	August 31, 2010	4,400
27	... that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?	September 22, 2010	908
28	... that IGN's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation?	September 25, 2010	957
29	... that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?	October 1, 2010	6,300
30	... that IGN's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?	December 17, 2010	2,400
31	... that the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres?	January 19, 2011	1,300
32	... that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?	January 28, 2011	4,200
33	... that the instruction manual for the video game Summer Sports: Paradise Island was misprinted, leaving out instructions for four of the games?	February 5, 2011	1,000
35	... that The Daily Telegraph's Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?	February 21, 2011	1,600
36	... that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water?	March 16, 2011	1,600
37	... that Ron Gilbert, the creator of the Monkey Island video game series, told Wired that he was an addict for the iPhone and Android video game Game Dev Story?	February 19, 2012	1,722
38	... that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II?	February 25, 2012	2,861
39-43	... that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica, Dungeon Village, Epic Astro Story, Grand Prix Story, and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft?	June 9, 2012	685+607+315+321+504=2,432
45	... that the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management co-manages a national park with the Forest Department of Belize?	July 24, 2012	506
46	... that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama, J. K. Rowling, and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?	July 28, 2012	1,150
47	... that dogs speak with the player and plead to adventure with them in PlayStation Vita Pets?	August 12, 2014	454+711=1154
48	... that Abyss Odyssey took inspiration from both the Art Nouveau movement and games like the Super Smash Bros. series?	September 1, 2014	2165
49	... that one reviewer said that Davis Cup Tennis might be worth buying only "if all available copies of Virtua Tennis and Mario Tennis suddenly vaporized"?	September 9, 2015	2342
50	... that Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released for a video game console?	September 11, 2015	2230
51	... ... that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded?	September 5, 2017	3,415
52	... that in his review, IGN's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?'	January 29, 2018	4,125
53	... that Command and Destroy's password save system was kept when it was ported from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo DS, to the annoyance of critics at its 2008 release?	March 2, 2018	4,707
54	... that the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria's name comes from a sign that one of the co-founders discovered at a liquor shop?	March 5, 2018	7,986
55	... that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame, which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?"	April 16, 2018	8,300
56	... that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first Congressional campaign?	April 21, 2018	379
57	... that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals, even though they have been the Globetrotters' traditional rival for over 50 years?	May 1, 2018	1,392
58	... that while one reviewer could not get past the second level of Army Men: Operation Green, another felt the game would only take a few hours to beat?	May 12, 2018	1,820
59	... that users of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Planner can send "G-mail" through the Game Boy Color's infrared port?	May 13, 2018	1,763
60	... that 9:05 takes only five minutes to finish?	June 18, 2018	9,524
61	... that a candidate in a 1981 congressional special election in Mississippi was kicked out of his leadership position with the Ku Klux Klan after going to a house party attended by neo-Nazis?	June 21, 2018	6,187
62	... that a group of Fijians placed a newspaper ad to recruit skiers for Fiji at the 2002 Olympic Games after discussing it at a New Year's Eve party?	June 28, 2018	2,556
63	... that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan were uncommon on handheld systems like the Game Boy Advance?	July 31, 2018	3,848
64	... that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin, and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?	February 8, 2019	4,664
66	... that the developers of Elsinore, a video game based on Hamlet, drew inspiration for the game's time-loop mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, anime, and visual novels?	May 24, 2020	1,741
67	... that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?	July 26, 2020	2,221
68	... that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?	August 28, 2020	5,848
69	... that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in London?	July 26, 2021	4,787
70	... that My Child Lebensborn was among the first wave of video games that were allowed to show the swatzika in Germany?	November 25, 2021	5,770
71	... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul?	February 5, 2022	4,260
72	... that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing?	March 12, 2022	2,070
73	... that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy?	September 10, 2022	3,689
74	... that Terra Invicta's development company is a group of former volunteer video game modders that decided to release their own game after the success of their mod?	November 11, 2022	4,931
75	... that background research for Dujanah included interviews with Muslim apostates and a Scottish veteran of Afghanistan?	December 9, 2022	5,695
76	... that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?	March 15, 2023	3,597
77	... that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?	March 17, 2023	2,899
78	... that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?	March 23, 2023	3,672
79	... that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee"?	April 2, 2023	12,834
80	... that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics?	April 12, 2023	5,517
81	... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?	April 16, 2023	4,730
82	... that the title of Lemnis Gate refers to the lemniscate?	May 5, 2023	2,467
83	... that one reviewer said that her favorite part of Cassette Beasts was that it is not "forced to cater to younger children", unlike Pokémon?	May 12, 2023	11,875
84	... that one reviewer said that players should try using a guitar controller with Fret Nice "to gain a new appreciation for a traditional controller"?	May 14, 2023	3,266
85	... that the developers of CT Special Forces: Back to Hell responded to criticism of their previous game's password save system by making even more detailed passwords?	May 15, 2023	7,232
86	... that one critic called Patrician IV a "very dry affair"?	June 3, 2023	6,987
87	... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?	June 24, 2024	5,737
88	... that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?	October 7, 2024	7,668