Is There Anything More Fun Than Video Game Trivia?

By Petr Navovy | Social Media | January 26, 2023 |

By Petr Navovy | Social Media | January 26, 2023 |

When it comes to trivia, there’s a fine line between useless and awesome. Often there is no line at all! With trivia, the more technically useless a fact is, the more awesome it can be. I saw a beautiful Twitter thread the other day that illustrated this perfectly. It concerned one of my main comfort foods in life: Video games. Kicking off when a relatively small Twitter account posted a prompt that asked people to name the most useless piece of video game knowledge they could think of, it soon mushroomed into a massively viral thread, with users contributing by the bucket load the kind of trivia that I personally could devour endless amounts of. Think Homer in doughnut hell. That’s me with video game facts.

OK, that’s enough babble, let’s dive right into the good stuff!

What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?

— Aaron & Tommy: Super Pod Saga 🎉 (@SuperPodSaga) January 15, 2023

in gta 5, the game makes you invincible around the starting points of missions, meaning that the mission "dead man walking" can be started by crashing a blimp into the observatory https://t.co/pjBZruzhJ4 pic.twitter.com/c9Mo4hB51n

— jacob (@jbzingo) January 23, 2023

that the German title for Zelda Ocarina of Time is the silliest fucking thing ever yet no one ever talks about it https://t.co/zS8zzkHaf4 pic.twitter.com/zDTF8pxItE

— 💛🤍 Mat 💜🖤 (@MatttGFX) January 22, 2023

Marlon Brando's last performance was possibly an easter egg in The Godfather game

He required an Oxygen mask in old age but he still recorded some lines. Naturally they were unusable, so when Don Corleone is in hospital you can track back and hear his recorded lines. https://t.co/yfuZVpmDy5 pic.twitter.com/ioKw6CXgwM

— Christina Tasty (@ChristinaTasty) January 23, 2023

In KH2, there's a large cargo net in Port Royal that's technically coded as a party member, meaning that if you cause it to get the last hit in a required story fight, the camera dramatically zooms in on the wooden post. https://t.co/CK91llQBEe pic.twitter.com/Sl4qtRiEQ6

— Moth (Blood Crisis Dev) (@BloodCrisisGame) January 24, 2023

In Fallout 3, the outro sequences are just 29 possible video files glued together.

But with New Vegas having more outro slides, they instead placed the player infront of a giant projector like screen, and placed an NPC behind it, playing the voice lines named Ron The Narrator… https://t.co/8vMInUDv4f pic.twitter.com/mhVc288apw

— ItsJabo (@Its_Jabo) January 23, 2023

In Fallout New Vegas the pet mole rat you find in Sloan named Snuffles has a higher intelligent stat than Caesar https://t.co/wSTviKPezr pic.twitter.com/6ALgOaSHEK

— Kira (@RebirthOfKira) January 22, 2023

In Oblivion, the Bravil castle steward, Dro'Nahrahe, accidentally had her home coded as a house in Bruma, a different city halfway across the world map.

Every day she walks that red line until she is inevitably killed by wildlife or some other roaming threat. Usually on day one. https://t.co/jtLar63pBf pic.twitter.com/U6DR6JjK8t

— Burrow's Armored Squadron (@saltandbrepper) January 22, 2023

There’s a quarry in Fallout 4 that references the flashing time travel episodes of Lost and if you go down the hole they’re drilling, in keeping with the plot of the show, there’s a mini nuke down there.

— Dan Wilbur (@DanWilbur) January 23, 2023

https://t.co/SjloFKsv6K

— Shesez (@BoundaryBreak) January 24, 2023

Okay so, in the Legend of Dragoon(PS1). There’s optional boss fights where you battle against the original dragoons from 10,000 years ago. Who are actually voiced by the runner ups who didn’t get the main characters part. pic.twitter.com/kvXXjbCDMB

— Prim just be tweeting|🕹️DREAMCON23 (@poeticprim) January 24, 2023

Freya is the only party member that’s left handed in Final Fantasy 9. Her being left handed does nothing to the story at all and the only thing that changes is that she, well, uses her left hand, and that they specify each party member’s dominant hand on their name card pic.twitter.com/8X0cnFLZaQ

— Renaisauce (@Bimorphia) January 24, 2023

Charles Martinet, voice of Mario, appears briefly in the David Fincher thriller The Game, as Michael Douglas's late father. pic.twitter.com/qe9ymfhjOm

— Ben Prunty (@benprunty) January 23, 2023

The NES game Werewolf was originally supposed to be a Wolverine game before losing the license, but many enemies are still clearly X-Men in origin including the last boss that looks just like Magneto pic.twitter.com/4vxcAZU5SJ

— 8-Bit Alchemy (@Spongillidae) January 16, 2023

Goldeneye 007 on the N64 was originally going to be an on-rails shooter like Virtua Cop or House of the Dead

— James Deardenayake (@TechnocratGames) January 23, 2023

Dante and Vergil have an insane healing factor that essentially heals as the damage is being done, so no wounds or scars. Due to this, they’re likely uncircumcised. pic.twitter.com/qmLro2AEdI

— GRJP GRJMXZ | OTHERWORLD COALITION (@ssstlyish) January 22, 2023

The game Croc was initially pitched to Nintendo as a 3D Yoshi game. After Nintendo rejected the idea they reworked the games main character from Yoshi into Croc. pic.twitter.com/bNwHt6ECTa

— Michael Conde (@braniac345) January 16, 2023

If you set the inertia tensor of the Warthog in Halo 1 to a negative number it drives like an older version. This was done because last minute tuning broke the final jump of the trench run, so that one Warthog needed to be reverted.

— Jaime Griesemer (@32nds) January 22, 2023

From Generations 1 to 3, a Pokémon which knew the HM "Cut" could cut down Tall Grass pic.twitter.com/qbvxLgA0ra

— The Sauce Baybee (@SourceLocator) January 22, 2023

You can beat Final Fantasy VI by dying 52 times in a row, followed by a frame-perfect button press. This caused the speedrun records to drop by over three hours when this was discovered.

— Jane! (@jane_m_lewis) January 21, 2023

In Sub-Rosa, if you run, look all the way up and then hold right click, you'll be able to look further backwards and break your back pic.twitter.com/RWC3a4UyKD

— Murphy (@spacemonkeys30) January 17, 2023

In Super Metroid, Draygon’s children swim in a peculiar pattern through the boss arena before Draygon herself arrives. The path they swim spells out “Keiko Love.” The programmer that programmed the babies was dating a girl named Keiko at the time. pic.twitter.com/8FPbg0UiYr

— 🏳️‍⚧️ Amanda Rae 🏳️‍⚧️ (@realamandarae) January 24, 2023

https://t.co/YNvYALkwa8

— Rinch Evens (@bartsimsonreal) January 22, 2023

During pre-production of Disco Elysium, lead artist Aleksander Rostov made the first design of Kim Kitsuragi that was so good that they not only never re-designed him, but also reused the monochrome sketch for his portrait in the final game. pic.twitter.com/YgRNBLansr

— originalpear (@OriginalPear) January 25, 2023

in TWEWY, there's a NPC with a male sprite that may appear while walking in Shibuya.

If you scan his thoughts, it says he wants to wear a skirt but is scared. Later on, you can find an NPC with a female sprite that says dressing up as a girl was fun and no one has caught on pic.twitter.com/HdPkHd3tDf

— Water♥| PixelArt 🏳️‍⚧️ (@WaterPixelArt) January 23, 2023

Oro’s sweep in 3s shows his penis for a single visible frame during the animation. Idk who needed this at capcom but this makes Oro the first fighting game character to do show their genitals. pic.twitter.com/wZcqZxWAOz

— Neogears (@Neogears27) January 20, 2023

In Super Mario World (1991 - SNES), if you stare directly at a Boo enemy for long enough, it'll eventually make a taunting face at you. pic.twitter.com/JzA83i6gCV

— Brandon Mitchell (@Karubo2568) January 24, 2023

In Xenoblade 3, all characters in the game’s files are listed with a number for gender. 0 is male, 1 is female; however, the character Juniper is listed as 2. Furthermore, in Xenoblade 2, the character Roc’s gender is listed as 4. Thus, there are at least 5 genders in Xenoblade. pic.twitter.com/Ct4IG8WDLk

— C2 (@Ceetwo_stinky) January 21, 2023

In the original RE2 Leon's welcome party sign is misspelled as "wellcome". The remake spells it right but plays tribute to it by having a second L laying around on one of the desks. pic.twitter.com/8Rn5oyqjZL

— K (@cursedblessing) January 24, 2023

The Japanese version of Mario Kart 64 had a bunch of parody brands that were removed from the US version. Notably an ad for "Marioro" cigarettes. pic.twitter.com/Wclu22Ad1y

— Mario Ramirez (Commissions Closed) (@Marioshi64) January 24, 2023

They changed the water height in the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 2 between the Dreamcast and GameCube version because it was tall enough to drown Tails.

— VoidLemon, #DONTGETSPOOKEDSWEEP (@VoidLemonBun) January 20, 2023

Kindergarten Cop and Silent Hill pic.twitter.com/PLU0dTGcUn

— Mitchell Hammond 🗿 (@BipedalBastard) January 24, 2023

In NieR: Automata's files there's an early mockup version of an area in the game that reuses untextured models from Bayonetta 2. pic.twitter.com/lZ1tBh3CRe

— ⛧ AlphaSatanOmega ⛧ (@AlphaSatanOmega) January 23, 2023

This Wonder Boy III ad changed the style of the protagonists in two consecutive issues of Gekkan PC Engine pic.twitter.com/RI07yEIcv0

— Japanese Magazines Ads (@japmagads) January 22, 2023

The Sega-CD version of Wolfchild had a bug that omitted scrolling and scenery in levels 2 and 3. Never encountered a "retro gamer specialist" that mentioned this & no original devs I contacted were interested in it, either. I actually fixed the issue with a patch back in 2021. pic.twitter.com/TqPHbdyer0

— 4lorn (@4lorn5) January 22, 2023

When fans decompiled Sonic Adventure 2's textures, they found that Rouge has cameltoe. pic.twitter.com/5q7f2rYEoz

— Maximillian Arikado (🔞 VTuber) 🦇 (@ArikadoVTuber) January 23, 2023

The voice actor for Chum Chum is the same as Khan Makyr in Doom Eternal

(shoutout nika futterman) pic.twitter.com/XgDBQX6Brw

— Prittito (@acribli) January 22, 2023

pic.twitter.com/IMOvsh5SwQ

— Brody (@Brodiuss) January 22, 2023

In Hitman: Absolution during one mission near the end of the game you have the option to either kill your suffering target as an act of mercy, or spare his life. If you choose the last option, then wait for a minute or so, he will just get hit by a random ice cream truck pic.twitter.com/iHspUjAS6X

— Homemade Suki (@ohnizTL) January 22, 2023

The main Villain of Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage/Gateway to Glimmer is named “Ripto” this name came from how Spyro’s name appears when it was translated to Japanese. pic.twitter.com/uxVKZajcOZ

— Themeguy (@Theme_guy) January 22, 2023

In Stardew Valley storms are useful for battery packs, but they are rare. There is an item called a rain totem that makes it rain the next day, but not storm. Unless, that is, it is used DURING a storm, prolonging it. It has been storming in Pelican Town for 12 days straight now pic.twitter.com/ZroEQqF73v

— wage (@lil_wage) January 22, 2023

If you input the Konami code on the Super Monkey Ball Jr. title screen, it changes into this. pic.twitter.com/CzC4YXIefw

— Trash Unleashed (@TrashUnleashed) January 22, 2023

There’s this super loud room in I believe chapter 2 of Dead space 1? The noise comes from a tram a developer would ride to work. Dude really hated the noise and the director said yeah record it so we can put it in the game pic.twitter.com/wL9qSoTie7

— Swiss (@GoWheezyK31) January 23, 2023

well since i havent seen anyone else do it: in the files of Team Fortress 2 there's a jpg of a coconut, if deleted tf2 would no longer start. pic.twitter.com/lOpkfF3PPC

— Gender Fluid Lemonade Enjoyer (@LBP_______) January 23, 2023

In Halo 3 forge mode, there is an extra message if you can flip the elephant pic.twitter.com/GhUFACSG7z

— MarthFieri (@MikuF_) January 22, 2023

During the creation of Spyro, the dragon was originally going to be green. They changed him to purple last minute because they thought that green would blend in with the grass too much. pic.twitter.com/X1gz6X7d4x

— Sir Penjamin Blinkerton III (@JakobBro_) January 22, 2023

In Half-Life 2, in the map d1_canals_05 there's a random piece of destructible environment, that looks like concrete, yet has the material properties of glass.
Source: https://t.co/QicjFpUGK4
This channel makes videos documenting the most useless facts about the Half-Life series. pic.twitter.com/AGoB6GMvIR

— ⛧ AlphaSatanOmega ⛧ (@AlphaSatanOmega) January 23, 2023

u can give snake a razor which makes him shave his beard off in mgs2 pic.twitter.com/uVJasZ8Q2B

— wanupdeshroom (@WanupDeShroom) January 22, 2023

@Zeether77 found a 3d rendered portrait of Beavis in F-Zero X during the Nintendo gigaleak pic.twitter.com/D70c64O48Y

— Ⓩⓔⓗⓝ (@zehn39) January 20, 2023

In Portal 2, after Wheatley has taken over the facility and he says he’s a genius. He says a something in Spanish to demonstrate.

What he says translates to. “You are using this translation software incorrectly, please consult the manual.” pic.twitter.com/s7SxrxKPPw

— SparkBag (@sparkbagart) January 23, 2023