Facts about the games and developers

* The area of ​​the game world GTA: San Andreas - 25 square kilometers, which is five times larger than Liberty City (from the third part) and 4 times more Vice City;

* The first device that is produced by Sony - rice;

* Tutorial Armored Core Nine Breaker for Play Station 3 includes 150 levels;

* From the Scorpion tank in the series Halo, if you look closely, you can find a six-digit number, indicating the date of birth of an art director of the developer Markus Summer (Marcus Lehto), and his initials are written on the bottom of the Master Chifa.

* In Doom 3, you can find PDAs with the scheme of the main office of the company, the project's creator id Software;

* In GTA: Vice City there is Michael Jackson;

* The original license disks FIFA 2001 smelled like grass;

* In the vast world of the game Fable: The Lost Chapters has a tombstone director of Lionhead Peter Molyneux;

* President of the subsidiary Nintendo DS in the United States Reggie Fils-Aime to his current post of administrator was working the restaurant chain Pizza Hut;

* The creator of games Outrun and Virtua Fighter in his youth was a dentist;

* The company's founder Hiroshi Yamauchi Nintendo DS in parallel is the owner of a baseball team. In turn, this team manages the founder of the American division of Nintendo, Howard Lincoln;

* David Hyder, to voice Solid Snake in all Metal Gear Solid, wrote the script for the first X-Men;

* Half of the disk space occupied by a title The Elder Scroll's 4: Oblivion, make dialogues;

* Before we make the characters in The Sims series incomprehensible muttering, developers have experimented with several languages, among them - Ukrainian;

* A huge chest of Lara Croft games Tomb Raider - the idea of ​​the designer Toby Gard, who offered to increase its size in half compared to the original. The developer team unanimously supported the idea;

* Steve Downes, voiced in a series of Master Chief Halo, working as a DJ at a radio station in Chicago;

* In the Shadow of Rome fashionable receive the award Urine Trouble (literal translation - "problem with mocheisuskaniem"), if you kill the enemy until he "defecate»;

* John Carmack - co-founder of Id Software in 1991 - before that he worked for Armadilo AeroSpace, which has launched satellites into space;

* The name of Nintendo's Japanese means "leave luck sky»;

* Terry Butcher, who in 2001, the voice of the commentator in the Pro Evolution Soccer, is now the manager of the football club Brentford FC;

* Now 24% of the US population over 50 years of playing video games. Compared with 1999, this figure increased by 15%;

* Distribution of Title Manhunt in New Zealand threatens development company by the court;

* In Gran Turismo 4, a total of 700 machines are presented. On the creation of each one man went to a month;

* At one level Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, you can find pizza boxes. They have inscriptions in the Danish language, which are translated "real pizza shit»;

* Founder of Nintendo before that was director of a taxi company;

* The first part of The Sims was in the top ten of the British charts for 82 weeks;

* During the development of a racing title Forza Motorsport 2 employees developer Turn 10 Studios collectively received 41 fines for speeding and failure to comply with other rules of the road. Just two employees lost their rights;

* The Mercenaries have a bonus character - Indiana Jones;

* The prototype of the protagonist of the series Max Payne was the writer of the same titles.

Platform arcade game Another World, released by French studio Delphine Software in 1991, became the world's first game, which was used polygonal 2D-graphics instead of the usual sprite. At the same authors were able to implement a full-screen animation on the processor with a frequency of 10 MHz. This technology has become a mass only six years later, when there was a software package Macromedia Flash.
During the development of Doom 3 it was written more than 500,000 lines of code and created more than 25,000 images for various displays and menus that are used in the game.

Rise of the Triad - one of the few shooters, where the levels are created using a random number generator. The total number of unique combinations of 2 billion 146 483 000 648 pieces.

Working on the soundtrack spy shooter No One Lives Forever, Monolith Productions composers were inspired by the music of European porn 1960s.

The whole year looking for Mirage Interactive publisher for the American version of the shooter Mortyr. First, the game refused to Ubisoft, considering it too cruel to his audience. Subsequently, in the same way and the company entered Interactive Magic. The third time the Poles were luckier - their cherished offspring Interplay.

The development of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun lasted 4 years. The first lines of the design documents were written in 1995, weeks after the release of the first part of the game. The master drive went into print in July 1999.

Solid Snake, one of the main characters in the series Metal Gear Solid, born by cloning the DNA in 1970.

«I like writing good programs - ones that bring new capabilities to people and hit the engineering" sweet spots "as best they can.» John Carmack (John Carmack)

Three-dimensional engine role-playing game Betrayal at Krondor first debuted in the simulator Abrams Battle Tank.

Electronic Arts was founded by Trip Hawkins May 28, 1982 immediately after his departure from the post of director of marketing for Apple Computers. Start-up capital, formed entirely from personal savings Hawkins, was 200 thousand. USD. At the time the company was called Amazin 'Software.

«In the beginning, I was the designer, programmer, artist, test engineer, copywriter, and box designer. Today, we have at least one person for every task. »

Bruce Carver (Bruce Carver), Microsoft Game Studios

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! - The first game in a series of adventure Lovelace-loser Larry Laffer, published on CD-ROM with full voice acting. She - the first where a new button «Try Again», prevented the death of the hero, "rewind" time back and avoid a fatal error.

The last game released under the label MicroProse, was the British Grand Prix 4 edition, which appeared in late 2002. By that time, the once mighty company was fully acquired by Infogrames (aka - Atari), but the publisher has kept the brand as a tribute to the British fans MicroProse.

Studio Origin Systems was founded in 1983 by brothers Robert and Richard Garriott. It lasted until February 2004, when Electronic Arts, which bought the firm Richard Garriott in September 1992, has closed its office in Austin, Texas.

«Computer games do not affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.»
Christian Wilson (Kristian Wilson), Nintendo, Inc.

Ultima Online, one of the first multiplayer role-playing games, launched in September 1997, at the zenith of fame had about 225,000 subscribers worldwide.

The total volume of files of Doom 3 130 times the size of Ultimate Doom, which was published in 1995.

The first game in the Command & Conquer series sold around the world sold more than 10 million. Copies.

While working on Wolfenstein 3-D, the staff id Software came up with many names for its first 3D-shooter. Among them: Castle Ochtenstein, Luger's Run, The Fourth Reich, Adolph's Bane, Hard Cell, Luger Me Now, Tank You Very Much, Castle Hasselhoff, How Do You Duseldorf ?, Castle Verlassen, Sturmwind, Hollehammer, Shattensendener, Geruchschlect, Dolchteufel, Grabgrabbener, Eisenschwert and Dammerung. Ultimately, the company acquired the rights to the trademark creator arcade Castle Wolfenstein.

Real-time strategy Command & Conquer: Generals was officially banned in Germany 6 March 2003, as its plot too closely follows the events that took place at that time (the US invasion of Iraq). In addition, the censors considered too cynical game due to the presence in it of carpet bombing, nuclear weapons, suicide bombers and episodes of attacks on humanitarian convoys of the UN.

«Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important. »John Carmack (John Carmack), id Software

In 1998, Electronic Arts was forced to withdraw from the sale of about 100 million copies of the golf simulator Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf '99 because of the bad joke developers recorded on the master disc one of the episodes of the animated series «South Park».

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity - the first game in a series of adventure King's Quest, the protagonist of which is not a member of the ruling dynasty of the fairy kingdom of Daventry.

Diablo originally conceived as a turn-based, strictly single-player RPG based on the image of X-COM. The idea to switch to real-time came from one of the employees of Blizzard. In reworking the code took only three hours.

Bill Roper (Bill Roper), a leading designer of Warcraft and Warcraft 2, voiced all the characters in both games.

The German version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert is different from the English-language original lack of Hitler in the introductory video and contains cyborgs instead of living men.

Quake was originally planned as a role-playing game with the same name as the daemon glavzlodeya. Gradually mutating into a shooter, she broke up with the plot and the original concept, and the role of the villain went to the final Shub-Niggurath, one of the accomplices Quake.

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned - The latest adventure, released in light of the studio Sierra On-Line.