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tholly
08-06-2004, 03:31 PM
FUN FACT! Christian video games are not very popular.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:31 PM
FUN FACT - Viewtiful Joe is going to be ported to PS2 with Dante from DMC as a playable character

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:31 PM
FUN FACT: Programmer Roger Deforest only worked for Color Dreams for about 6 months in 1990.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:31 PM
FUN FACT: Final Fight was going to be a Streetfighter branded game until Capcom changed their minds.

Joe is gonna love doing the scoring in this thread ;)

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:31 PM
FUN FACT! In some quarters, Xbox games aren't very popular ;)

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:32 PM
FUN FACT! tholly has never heard of Epyx until this Tribes contest.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:32 PM
FUN FACT: Outrun was released in 1986.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:32 PM
FUN FACT - Sega doesn't make consoles anymore!

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:32 PM
FUN FACT: Programmer Roger Deforest was fired from Color Dreams because he “wouldn't copy the Japanese style of video game graphics” (in his own words).

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:32 PM
FUN FACT: I'd never heard of Color Dreams until this Tribes thing!

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:33 PM
FUN FACT! 1984 - Computer Software Associates introduces the 64 Doctor diagnostic software for the Commodore 64

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:33 PM
FUN FACT: Commodore is now owned by a Dutch company called Tulip.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:33 PM
FUN FACT - 1981 - IBM introduces its PC

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:33 PM
FUN FACT: Jumpman was done by Randy Glover

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:34 PM
FUN FACT - the commodore 64 vic 20 was released at 400.00 MSRP

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:34 PM
fUN FACT: Jupiter lander was the first game released for commodore 64.

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:34 PM
FUN FACT: Capcom’s Megaman was almost called "Mighty Kid".

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:34 PM
FUN FACT! 1985 - Electronic Arts releases the Touchdown Football game for the Commodore 64

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:35 PM
FUN FACT - SUMMER GAMES - The animations were mostly done with pencil and paper, and then hand converted into data for the animation sequences.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:35 PM
FUN FACT: Epyx used to be called Automated Simulations

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:35 PM
FUN FACT: Commodore used to make office furniture, among other things.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:35 PM
FUN FACT - large factor in the success of the Commodore 64 was its amazingly versatile, futuristic and user-friendly design

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:36 PM
FUN FACT: The sprite from Impossible Mission was reused in Summer Games

Keir
08-06-2004, 03:36 PM
FUN FACT: The VIC in Commodore’s VIC-20 stands for Video Interface Computer and the 20 is a rounding down of the amount of memory in the VIC (~22K).

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:36 PM
FUN FACT - The Commodore 64 utilized the Commodore 6510 microprocessor chip

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:36 PM
FUN FACT: Games released under the bunch games label were actually developed by the color dreams people.

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:36 PM
FUN FACT! 12/31/1987 - Shipments of Commodore 64C computers to date: 267,000

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:37 PM
FUN FACT! Googling for 'Xbox fun fact' returns a review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:37 PM
FUN FACT: XBox Live still trails behind PS2 online subs due to FFIX and Socom 2.

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:37 PM
FUN FACT: Bill gates wants to buy Nintendo.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:37 PM
FUN FACT - November 1973 Microsoft expands its growing empire to Europe, establishing a new representative, Vector Microsoft, of Belguim.

downfall
08-06-2004, 03:38 PM
FUN FACT: You guys post way too fast.

sorry..

FUN FACT: Color Dreams was sued in 1990 by Nintendo, but made it through fine, as they didn't violate any of Nintendo's copyrights or trademarks!

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:38 PM
FUN FACT! sega released a front loading and top loading cd add on

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:38 PM
FUN FACT! The original Street Fighter was released on the PC Engine as 'Fighting Street'

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:38 PM
FUN FACT: Konami released Castlevania!

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:38 PM
FUN FACT - January 1979 Being unable to entice quality staff to the dessert of New Mexico, Microsoft moves its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington.

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:39 PM
FUN FACT: SIlent assault was developed by joyvan but published by color dreams.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:39 PM
FUN FACT: Capcom had to tailor Commando to be less human in Germany calling it Space Invasion

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:39 PM
FUN FACT - CAPCOM did not release Mega Man 6 - Nintendo did

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:40 PM
FUN FACT! There cannot be many Color Dreams fun facts left!

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:41 PM
FUN FACT: Sega Ages collection in Japan are PS2 versions of their great hits

downfall
08-06-2004, 03:41 PM
FUN FACT: Sega does what Nintendon't.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:41 PM
Fun Fact - Sonic & Knuckles had LOCK ON TECHNOLOGY

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:42 PM
FUN FACT: Sega made the alex kidd games.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:42 PM
FUN FACT - 1981 - capcom - Corporate name was changed into "SAMBI Co., Ltd., and a head office was moved to Habikino, Osaka.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:43 PM
FUN FACT: Mike Haggar loaned Zangief his spinning lariat for SF2

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:43 PM
FUN FACT: color dreams made the only game I can think of with the word "Drunkard" in its title.

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:43 PM
FUN FACT! The CDTV was the first attempt at at a set-top-box-style unit

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:43 PM
FUN FACT: Once FInal Fight was a success, a slew of other scrolling fighters emerged.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:43 PM
FUN FACT - C64 Just as the Commodore Vic 20 was beginning to become fairly popular and many stores and some multi-level marketing programs had acquired significant inventories of Vic products rumors began to emerge that Commodore was working on a vastly more powerful version of the Vic 20 to be called the Vic 64 and eventually called the Commodore 64 (many came to casually refer to it as the "C-64" or just the "64")

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:45 PM
FUN FACT! Color Dreams is spelt the lazy American way without the 'u' :)

ps - how long is it since someone got one in quick enough? ;)

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:46 PM
FUN FACT: the color dreams game robodemons was designed in less than a month.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:46 PM
FUN FACT: Sega are one of only a handfull of companies to try handheld gaming

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:46 PM
FUN FACT - Sega's Sonic Heroes PS2 version ran the slowest of all.

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT! Megaman : The Wily Wars was his first ever appearence on a Sega machine

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT: Crystal mines has only one review on Gamefaqs.

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT! ! 1988 - At the Consumer Electronics Show, Capcom announces the Tiger Road game for the Commodore 64

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT: The designer of Final Fight also worked on Gyruss and Time Pilot

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT - May 1984 CAPCOM Released "VULGUS" for the first arcade video game.

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:47 PM
FUN FACT!
Blanka's real name is Jimmy

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:48 PM
FUN FACT: color dream spelt backwards is "smaerd roloc"

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:48 PM
FUN FACT - In 1970, Sega Enterprises Ltd. was bought by Gulf & Western, and started making coin-up arcades and software through the 1970's and 1980's.

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:49 PM
FUN FACT! Strider and Ghouls & Ghosts are the only Capcom games released on the Master System

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:49 PM
FUN FACT: I don't own any color dreams games.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:49 PM
FUN FACT: Sega made the first 360 degree rotating arcade machine.

anagrama
08-06-2004, 03:49 PM
FUN FACT! I own lots of Capcom games :)

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:49 PM
FUN FACT - segas first home console was the SG-1000

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:50 PM
FUN FACT: Color dreams does not make Xbox games.

Mayhem
08-06-2004, 03:51 PM
FUN FACT: Capcom have made over 15 different iterations of Streetfighter series

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:51 PM
FUN FACT - may 1994 CAPCOM Constructed Ueno facility in Ueno, Mie.

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:51 PM
FUN FACT: I don't have a commodore 64

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:51 PM
FUN FACT - in japan M.BISONS name is VEGA

Crush Crawfish
08-06-2004, 03:52 PM
FUN FACT: Color dreams games are carb-free.

Cmosfm
08-06-2004, 03:53 PM
FUN FACT - 2004 Jul. Established Clover Studio Co., Ltd. for the purpose of software R&D. - CAPCOM

tholly
08-06-2004, 03:54 PM
FUN FACT! There are no more useful color dreams facts left.