WTF Fun Fact – Inspiration For The Sims
Will Wright got the inspiration for the original The Sims game while assessing his losses and material needs after his … Read More & Source
Gaming
WTF Fun Fact – Card Counting Legality
Despite it being common practice for casinos to ban card counters, a 1979 New Jersey Supreme Court decision banned all … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Games For Science
After 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game called Foldit … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – No Bad Publicity
When DMA Design/Rockstar Games first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – William Higinbotham
Physicist William Higinbotham worked on both the first nuclear bomb and what some consider to be the first video game … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Chess Advisor
In medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to a queen would be given the title of “advisor,” … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Yu-Gi-Oh Hygiene
Hygiene standards were so low that the official 2019 Yu-Gi-Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to the … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Music While You Work
People who work in silence are slower and less proficient than those who listen to music while working. Video game … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Goldeneye 007 Rookies
The iconic game Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 gaming system was created by a group of only 9 people, … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Sex In A Box Game
When Milton Bradley Company introduced Twister in 1966 as a game of physical skill, it was denounced by their competitors … Read More & Source