[Games fact 1] The name for the Japanese gangster organization Yakuza comes from the worst hand in the card game Oicho-Kabu: 8-9-3, pronounced "ya-ku-za".
[Games fact 2] In 1995, St. Jude's Hospital received an anonymous letter with a $1 million winning McDonald's Monopoly game piece. Although it was against the rules to transfer prizes, McDonald's honored it even after learning that the piece was sent by an individual involved in an embezzlement scheme.
[Games fact 3] LEGO model makers rely on solvents to weld blocks together rather than using glue.
[Games fact 4] All arcade games imported into North America from 1989 to 2000 had the following FBI slogan included into their attract mode: “Winners Don't Use Drugs.”
[Games fact 5] The popular arcade game NBA Jam was thought to be haunted. During demo mode, the machines would randomly shout "Petrovic", the name of an NBA player (Dražen Petrović) who died in a car accident shortly after the game finished production.
[Games fact 6] Simon in Simon Says (children's game) is different in other countries. In France it's Jack Says, Chinese is Teacher Says, Norway is The King Commands, and Ireland is O'Grady Says.
[Games fact 7] During the 2014 NFL season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal to use Microsoft Surface as the “the official tablet of the NFL”, but the announcers kept calling them iPads.
[Games fact 8] “The Doll Test” found that given a choice between Black dolls and white dolls, most Black children preferred to play with white dolls. This study was later cited as a factor in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
[Games fact 9] Nintendo 64 software rarely took advantage of 64-bit data precision operations. N64 game-titles generally used faster (and more compact) 32-bit data-operations. 32-bit code executed faster and required less storage space (which was at a premium on the N64's cartridges).
[Games fact 10] Due to a loophole in official chess rules, it used to be possible to promote your pawn into an enemy piece. In one chess puzzle, the winning move for white is to promote its pawn into a black knight.
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