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Created April 19, 2026 22:47
Retro Game Facts
Fact: The "Save" icon in most games is a floppy disk, a piece of hardware many younger gamers have never actually seen in real life.
Fact: In Super Mario World, the sound Yoshi makes when he sticks out his tongue is actually a record scratching played in reverse.
Fact: The PlayStation 2 was so powerful for its time that the Iraqi government reportedly bought 4,000 of them to link together as a supercomputer.
Fact: Nintendo was founded in 1889—over 100 years before the N64—originally making handmade hanafuda playing cards.
Fact: In the original Zelda on NES, the "old man" in the cave was originally intended to give Link a choice between the sword and a boomerang.