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The video game Stardew Valley was developed…

March 13, 2021March 13, 2021Weirdo

The video game Stardew Valley was developed by a single person named Eric Barone. He spent 4 years working on the project, redoing it multiple times, and was the sole developer on the game, frequently spending 10 hours or more a day working on it. The game has sold over 10 million copies.

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The developers of the racing simulator…

February 26, 2021Weirdo

The developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the “bug” was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.

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The Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise…

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020Weirdo

The Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise is older than Windows itself, with the first flight simulator being released in 1982, while the first version of windows was released in 1985.

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William Higinbotham, the man who…

September 21, 2020Weirdo

William Higinbotham, the man who made the world’s first video game, was also a member of the team which made the world’s first nuclear bomb.

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Before the internet, Nintendo…

August 23, 2020Weirdo

Before the internet, Nintendo had “game counselors” – whom you could call if you were stuck in a game and they would coach you through it.

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The first computer game was Nim…

August 16, 2020Weirdo

The first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%

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Attorney John Joseph Kirby Jr. successfully…

August 15, 2020August 15, 2020Weirdo

Attorney John Joseph Kirby Jr. successfully defended Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character of Donkey Kong in 1984, from which Nintendo subsequently named the character Kirby to honor him.

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In the 1980s you could download…

May 25, 2020Weirdo

In the 1980s you could download video games from a radio broadcast, by recording the sounds onto a cassette tape that would then play on a computer.

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Elementary school children in Japan…

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020Weirdo

Elementary school children in Japan came together online by creating a virtual graduation ceremony in a Minecraft-rendered graduation hall with students attending as Minecraft avatars.

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Creator of Super Mario and…

May 18, 2020Weirdo

Creator of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, is forbidden to go to work with a bicycle because his safety is too valuable.

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