Ever wondered why every copy of Donkey Kong 64 shipped with an Expansion Pak? It was because of a fatal error that was so embedded in the coding, the programmers couldn't figure out a way to fix the problem without it. This cost Rare a lot of money.

Final Fantasy is a well-known JRPG franchise, but back in 1987, things were looking bleak for Squaresoft. On the verge of bankruptcy, they put everything they had into this one game and named it as such, thinking it would be their last game. Obviously, it was a major success and now people are anxious for Final Fantasy 15.

Final Fantasy 7 was suppose to be a Nintendo 64 exclusive, but was moved to the Playstation due to hardware limitations. In its raw state, it would take 5-22 N64 cartridges to fit all the data, depending on the capacity of the cartridges.

Although released in November 2000, Final Fantasy 9 had a side quest that went undiscovered by many players until May 2013, where one game discovered a side quest at the beginning of disc 4 involving the Tantalus brothers. The reward is a Protect Ring.

Goldeneye 007 was never meant to have multiplayer. It was created in less than a month without the higher ups knowing about it until it was released.

Rockstar paid Max Clifford to generate bad press and raise controversy over their first Grand Theft Auto game in help drum up sales.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was the first commercially available video game to be released with an AO Adults Only rating because of the infamous "Hot Coffee" mode, a hack which allowed players access to a sex mini game.

In terms of development, Grand Theft Auto 5 is the biggest and most expensive video game ever created. It had a combined budget of 265 000 000, had a team of over 1000 people across many countries and took 5 years to make. But, risk big, win big. During the time after its release, it broke 7 Guiness World Records, the fastest selling entertainment product being one of them.

In 1990, Chris Houlihan entered and won a contest where the grand prize winner would have their name put in a then new Nintendo game. His named is included in a top-secret room in A Link to the Past and can only be accessed when the game encounters a load error that's difficult to trip.

You know about that hippo in Animal Village that sits down when you enter her house, right? In the original Japanese version, she's actually naked and has more defined female features and is actually covering up when Link enters. This was obviously censored for North American release.

Majora's Mask was created on a bet between Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma. Aonuma was fed up with work on Ura Zelda and wanted to scrap the project completely and Miyamoto would authorize it under the condition that Aonuma and his team create a sequel to Ocarina of Time in only a year. Needless to say, the gamble paid off.

Zelda's Oracle games were originally designed to have 3 versions, mystical seeds of power, mystical seeds of wisdom, and mystical seeds of courage. The courage version was scrapped completely because it was becoming too complicated to interact with three versions at once. Seeds of power became Oracle of Seasons and Seeds of Wisdom became Oracle of Ages.

Although released in October 1987, Mike Tyson himself didn't get around to playing his own game until sometime in the summer of 2013. In an interview, he said he couldn't even get past Glass Joe.

The original Nintendo Entertainment System had more than twice the computing power of the first lunar lander.

Pokmon Gold and Silver were to mark the end of the Pokmon franchise completely because Pokmon CEO Tsunekaz Ishihara thought it would be time to do something completely different come the 21st century. Needless to say, the franchise isn't showing signs of slowing down any time soon.

Pokmon Puzzle League is notable for being the only game thus far to a be based on the Pokmon anime franchise and b not be officially released in Japan in any format.

You probably know about the star up screen at the start of Sonic the Hedgehog, the one where the Sega logo appears and you hear that famous "Seeegaaa" voice. What you might or might not know is that sequence alone takes up 12.5 or 18 of the cartridges available memory.

The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros have the exact same sprites, except with different colors. This was done to compensate for the NES' storage limitations.

This is not the real Super Mario Bros. 2. It's actually the Mario version of Doki Doki Panic. The real Super Mario Bros. 2 was, at its core, the same as the last game, except with harder level designs that Nintendo thought would be too punishing for North Americans and thus stayed in Japan until it was included in Super Mario All-Stars as The Lost Levels.

Bowser's Koopa Kids make their debut in Super Mario Bros.3, all of who are named after famous musician, as if Ludwig von Koopa wasn't enough of a hint.

If you look closely at Sirena Beach's exterior from an aerial view, you'll notice how it's identical to the Gamecube controller layout.