1000 Facts About Video Games Vol. 3 Quotes

“If you search for “Atari Breakout” in Google Images, you can play the original Atari video game.”
― James Egan, 1000 Facts About Video Games Vol. 3

“A 12-year-old Japanese boy loved Space Invaders so much, he robbed a bank with a shotgun to get money to play the game at the arcade. He asked for coins instead of notes so he didn’t have to convert the money at the arcade. At the start of the game, the ships move very slowly. Each time a ship is destroyed, the ships gradually move faster. By the end of the game, the final ship moves at top speed. What many people don’t know is that the final ship is moving at the speed that the developers intended all of the ships to move from the beginning. So why don’t they? If”
― James Egan, 1000 Facts About Video Games Vol. 3

“If you combined all 18 Pokémon types into one, it would still have one weakness – Rock.”
― James Egan, 1000 Facts About Video Games Vol. 3

“The Twin Towers were removed from the game due to space limitations. To cover for this, the developers said that terrorists had destroyed the towers. The game was released on June 26th 2000, just over a year before the towers were attacked.”
― James Egan, 1000 Facts About Video Games Vol. 3