Unbelievable Stories and Factitious Snippets Gathered From the Annals of Gaming

•  Sid Meier is not only the father of Civilization, but due to a curious quirk of replicative programming he is also its mother, uncle and third cousin.
•  More people have played Tetris than have been born on Tuesday afternoons.
•  Street Fighter II was nearly named Punch Freak Holiday Radio.
•  Alice Elderburton (51) played Bust-A-Move for three hours while sound asleep.
•  No one in history has ever finished Myst without drooling slightly at the corner of their mouth. 
•  The energy consumed by World of Warcraft players each day could power Uganda for a month.
•  Will Wright’s name appears to be misspelled.
•  Superman 64 is not the all-time worst game ever made. The worst game ever made–Death Team Dance-off–was so painfully bad that its own dev team conspired to burn their studio to ensure that nothing remained of their unfortunate creation. Humanity owes them a great debt. 
•  The Prince of Persia suffered more deaths per session than any other video game hero save one. The crown of the untimely demise belongs to Spelunker Guy!
•  Sonic was originally designed as a rabbit, then as a capybara, a tapir, a sheep on wheels and finally a pink and purple skunk named Petunia before Sega hit on the bold concept of employing a blue hedgehog wearing sneakers.