Top 10 Things You May Not Know About Classic Video Games

The Top Ten
1 Mario was originally a carpenter, not a plumber
2 Super Metroid is actually one of the glitchiest and most exploitable games ever made
3 The first few DOOM games did not allow the player to aim up or down at all
4 Mortal Kombat pretty much invented the modern-day ESRB rating system, specifically with Sub-Zero's infamous spine-rip fatality
5 Cave Story and Undertale were both made using Game Maker
6 Zelda 1's dungeons were actually based off of Japanese grid houses
7 Soda Popinski's original name in Punch-Out was Vodka Drunkenski
8 Xenoblade is actually a sub-series of a much larger franchise
9 Mario's original name was quite literally Jumpman
10 Sonic was intentionally given a red-white-and-blue color scheme by Sega in order to appeal to Americans
The Contenders
11 Donkey Kong was originally going to be named Monkey Kong, but Nintendo felt that they needed to give him a stupider name
12 The original Metroid had a door glitch that allowed Samus to travel through endless hallways of randomly generated rooms
13 The only reason Yoshi's Island was labeled as a sequel to Super Mario World was to attract attention to it
14 Luigi originally was literally just a straight recolor of Mario
15 Mario is Missing Was Actually Luigi's First "Day in the Limelight" Game and is Also the Origin of Weegee
16 Super Mario World and Super Metroid are the Two Biggest Games in the Rom-Hacking Business as It Stands Right Now
17 Metroid 2 recently got at least as good of a remake as the first one did, and it was fanmade
18 Mother 3 was originally going to be on Nintendo 64
19 Earthbound and Mother 3 had to be held back from Virtual Console releases because of their numerous musical references
20 At the time when the original Metroid came out, Samus being a girl in it was actually one of the biggest plot twists of all time
21 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is, in fact, the only version of the game to actually feature him as the final boss fight
22 Pacifist and Genocide are actually fanmade nicknames for the two main playthrough types in Undertale
23 Despite looking as gorgeous as it did, Resident Evil 4 actually didn't control much better than its predecessors
24 Chara Isn't Actually Evil in Undertale Unless You Choose to Make Her that Way
25 Giygas in Earthbound Was Based Off of a Rape Scene that the Game's Creator Witnessed in a Movie Theatre
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