text: 7. Bowser, the main antagonist of Nintendo’s Mario franchise, was originally envisioned to be an ox. This is probably why he has horns and a defined snout, even though he is a turtle.
  8. In Space Invaders, the more aliens you kill, the faster they come at you. This pattern of the game getting more challenging the more you play has become a staple in the gaming world, but it started as a fluke! The aliens were always supposed to come at you at the same speed, but with so many aliens on the screen the hardware could not handle it, so they were slowed down. The more alien's you killed as you played, the more system memory was freed up, so the game ended up running faster.
  9. The design of the PlayStation 2 is based on an old Atari computer, the Falcon 030 Micro-box. Apparently, Sony bought the design patent when Atari was going bankrupt.
  11. The urban legend – that turned out to be true – was that Atari had so many unsold copies of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial that they buried them in the desert. A documentary crew went out and dug them up!