Popular Video Game Myths
Yahoo! Games recently had a very interesting and entertaining article on video game myths and urban legends that have developed since pong. The article briefly describes each myth and at the end reveals whether or not there is any truth to it. The video game myths are,
1) Nintendo’s classic arcade game Donkey Kong was a mistranslation. Should it Have been Monkey Kong? False
2) Saddam Hussein purchased thousands of Playstation 2s to build military supercomputers. False
3) Sony first developed the Playstation for Nintendo. True
4) Million of Atari games are buried in the New Mexico desert. True
5) In the early 80’s, the military released a subversive arcade game that caused its players to suffer terrible nightmares, nausea and amnesia. Unknown/No
6) A man died by playing video games nonstop. True
Tags: Urban Legends, Video Game Myths, Video Games
