62. Final Fantasy got its name from the fact that its creator, Square co-founder Hironobu Sakaguchi, intended it to be his last video game, using up the remainder of Square’s money after a number of unsuccessful projects.
63. Terry Butcher, current manager of Brentford FC, provided commentary for the inaugural Pro Evolution Soccer back in 2001.
64. Alongside Pandemic’s Full Spectrum Warrior, a more advanced, strategy-led version known as Full Spectrum Command was developed for army use, and never released to the public.
65. At present, 24% of Americans over the age of 50 play videogames, compared to just 9% back in 1999.
66. In late 2005, Sony hired graffiti artists in seven cities across the US to promote PSP, leading to one mayor issuing a cease and desist order.
67. The song lyrics that feature in cutesy PSP puzzler Loco Roco were deliberately written as gibberish, so that they’d never be localised and sound the same the world over.
68. Capcom is short for ‘Capsule Computers’.
69. Although you’ll rarely see them, Yoshi does have teeth.
70. In the UK, Rayman is the bestselling PlayStation 1 game of all time.
71. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was banned in South Korea, thanks to it featuring the destruction of Seoul, its capital city. The ban was lifted at the end of 2006, however.
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