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Resident Evil 4 has at least two trolls, or El Gigante in it.

Princess Toadstool is also known as Peach.

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Silent Hill 4 was originally going to be seperate game rather than a sequel.

Pressing L+R+Start in TNSMB allows you to play as Luigi.

The Mystery Eggs and Ice Key in Banjo-Tooie were supposed to be collected from inaccessible locations in Banjo-Kazooie by hot-swapping the cartridges to transfer data, until a modification to the N64 hardware in recent production lines made such a feat impossible.

Solid Snake was born in 1972

A man by the name of Lee Yun-Yeol is so good at the game Starcraft that he earned over $200,000 by playing the game on a professional level in one year.

Judge Magister Ghis is the Commander of the 8th fleet in Final Fantasy XII.

In Resident Evil 4, you can look up Ashley's skirt.

I am old enough to remember playing Pong when it came out and thinking it was really cool.

In Space Invaders, you can make the last Invader in the front row make a rainbow.

Squall Leonhart's birthday is on August 23 (Final Fantasy VIII)

Manny Calavera messed up so badly in his life that he had to make up for it in death by selling other dead guys ways to get through the Land of the Dead--everything from train tickets to walking sticks.* (Grim Fandango.)

*"That compass on the handle will sure come in handy, too!" One such walking stick was used by a customer to kill a demon beaver.

FFXII has 6 permanent party characters, which can be given any skills and abilities you pay and license for.

There are Espers and Quickenings, which can only be assigned to one character each. There are no character classes, however, some characters have HP or MP than others.

The infamous konami code (up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,start) does something in almost every game that konami has made.

The words Giygyas speaks during the fight with him at the end of Earthbound have a very disturbing source.....

The movie Jacob's Ladder is seen by many to be one of the major influences on Silent Hill, including the change to a 'decaying' world, human-like monsters, and the disturbing rapid head shake.

(Spoilers) In Final Fantasy IX, the plight of the world Terra, the desperate means the Terrans take to survive using advanced technology, and the parasitisation of Gaia echo the basic plot of the Doctor Who story The Tenth Planet.

Mark Wing-Davey, the voice of Judge Ghis in Final Fantasy XII, is also famous for playing the role of Zaphod Beeblebrox from the radio and TV versions of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, while Simon Templeman, the voice of Judge Zargabaath, is of course best known as Kain from the Legacy of Kain games.

Force Your Way, the boss battle music for Final Fantasy VIII, has elements from Bach's Fugue in D Minor, while the opening sequences of One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII were admitted by Nobuo Uematsu to be more or less an orchestrated version of the opening of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.