20 Retro Gaming Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know!

[@toxicmanbaby1069]

for those who don't know, in Japanese the word Hedgehog is literally "needle mouse", or harinezumi. So mr.Needlemouse is a fancy way of saying Mr.Hedgehog.

[@RetroOrBust]

Thanks for the explanation! I almost put that in the video but wanted to keep the facts fast & punchy 👍🏻

[@stuffthings1417]

performing the Adventure secret as a kid was such a cool feeling. i don't even remember how i learned about it.

[@RetroOrBust]

It's a wonder how anyone ever found some of those Easter eggs back then before the internet! Well, before they were printed in a cheats section in a magazine, that is.

[@adrianottiwell2196]

Great video Rob - you do a lot of research!! And the production quality just goes up and up!!!

[@RetroOrBust]

Cheers Ady! 👍🏻

[@Fanto_Sir]

Just subbed and shared your video on bluesky with the large gaming community over there. Nice to see a fellow Northerner Retro enthusiast 🎉

[@RetroOrBust]

Thanks! ❤️ I haven't moved over to this Bluesky thingy yet, but might do in the New Year 👍🏻

[@Fanto_Sir]

@RetroOrBust oh you should 1000% the gaming community is just full of lovely people. No nasty comments or hate posting. Some people try and sneak in but they get blocked pretty quick. It's the nicestbinline space for gaming chatter since MySpace era in 2007 lol.

[@RetroOrBust]

​@@Fanto_SirBloody hell! MySpace. "Now, that's a name I've not heard in a looong time."

[@SimmyBassline]

Great video Rob, I really enjoyed it. There was only a couple of these facts I'd heard before too 👍

[@RetroOrBust]

Cheers, Simmy! 👍🏻

[@daneast]

We played Duck Hunt that way a lot back in the 80s. Someone would control the duck to make it harder. You can also cheat that way because you can control the duck and thus know when they are going to change direction. If you don't make any movements for a couple seconds the duck starts switching directions on its own again.

[@stuffthings1417]

like him, i never heard this.

[@monoxzide1073]

Did you know you can become small with firepower in super mario bros nes

[@RetroOrBust]

No I didn't! Just looked that up & found some other tricks I never knew about!

[@HillHomeGaming]

Not sure on ones I know but I DID know about the Duck Hunt one because it was one of the few games I could get my Dad to play and we had fun messing with each other in 2 player mode.

[@JayAlfredoG]

Just realized. The fact that real pong was built in logic hardware means that all home ports of pong are “emulators”

[@RetroOrBust]

You're right! Never thought of that! 👍🏻

[@Justhexo]

This is cool I’m going to sub!

[@RetroOrBust]

Thanks! ❤️

[@tdata545]

Megadrive was our first console as well. Surprised with how smart I was as a child, who would have been 4 or 5 when we got it, I didn't put two and two together, since my dad had it at his office. It was a two pack, Sonic 1 and Quackshot or We Love Donald Duck as it's known in Japan. We would also later get some child inappropriate games in Predator II and Alien 3. Both we never figured out how to play.

[@RetroOrBust]

I loved my Mega Drive back then. It was great not having to wait almost 10 minutes for a game to load after having a Commodore 64 for so long! I've recently got Alien 3 but I haven't played Predator 2 in a while. Might have to give it another go soon! 👍🏻

[@electricsheep1984]

7:14 *Gunpei Yokoi

[@RetroOrBust]

Thank you 👍🏻 I must've wrote his name down wrong in my notes! 😞

[@lewiswaddo5045]

Great video Rob! Great editing!

[@RetroOrBust]

Cheers. Took bloody ages to edit this one!

[@grotgrusson5124]

That X-box fact was not so mind boggling to me. Of course the time will increase for each year that passes. I think I got what you were aiming for, that the gap between an "old" console, and a much more advanced machine (the X-box) was tighter, than the time that has passed since the original X-box was launched. But as I said, since time increases all the time, it will continue to be a bigger gap for each year that passes...

[@RetroOrBust]

I agree. I think the reason for it is that time seemed to go slower when we were kids & now as we're older it passes so fast. So the time between the launch of the 2 systems seemed like an eternity, & the release of the OG Xbox, when I was working at Electronics Boutique, doesn't feel all that long ago to me. 👍🏻 But yeah, it was the least mind blowing fact but thought I'd still include it.

[@revelationnow]

I liked the D-Pad donkey kong game.Black Knight was the first pinball with a saveable score. Raiden 2 runs on a 386 board. Thats all I got off the top of my head.

[@revelationnow]

I suppose one other one is that until the 486, computers were very much integer based machines. Floating point numbers could be done in software, but it was almost alien to them. Thats why 3D games were so challenging.

[@RetroOrBust]

Interesting! I never knew that!

[@kanebellamy-jackman6202]

Loving the videos, hope lifes been good since the Game days. Kane & Poppy

[@RetroOrBust]

Cheers, Kane. 👍🏻 Kinda miss working there but at the same time, don't miss it, lol.

[@f.k.b.16]

Man that's crazy talk! All of these are great! It's interesting about Brazil... I wonder if the video game industry is about to see another crash...? Spending billions and the only advancement of the new systems at this point is better ray tracing...? Maybe Brazil will be leading a new trend!

[@RetroOrBust]

Yeah, when a new console was released 25/30 years ago, you could see vast improvements in graphics from the ones before it. Nowadays, I can hardly tell what the difference is!

[@Iohannis42]

You lost me when you said "Nez"... It was always pronounced as an initialism... N.E.S.

[@RetroOrBust]

I've always pronounced it NEZ lol. Same with the SNEZ. I blame Violet Berlin from the TV show 'Bad Influence', as she always pronounced them that way! Don't ask how I used to pronounce 'Sega'! 😂

[@deadvikingtrolls]

How u get duck hunt no mario

[@RetroOrBust]

Huh? 🤔

[@deadvikingtrolls]

@RetroOrBust Duck hunt carts must be rare. I only ever saw them with super mario bros.