You think you know everything about every single videogame, huh? You know the infinite combo moves, you know the location of every single Skull, you know how to do that glitch so that you can play as that super-hidden character that isn’t supposed to be on the disc, you even know the best way to Zerg rush someone minutes out of the gates. You are the King of Gaming Knowledge.

Or are you?

There are some things that most people don’t know about. Useless knowledge, things that will never affect stock market prices or destroy companies from within, but nonetheless exist, and are true. Named for the crossroads from which the idle conversation of peasants occured (trivium, ‘three roads’), trivia exists for everything under the sun. Including videogames.

Here’s some useless knowledge you can use to impress people who are easily impressed by useless knowledge.

1) The clouds in Super Mario Bros. are recoloured bushes. Oh? You knew that? No you didn’t. Nobody knew that. You’re crazy.

2) Goldenrod Gym is arranged in the shape of a Clefairy. Clefairy, Clefairy! Okay, still not impressed?

3) Optimus Prime cameos in Assassin’s Creed. Roll out!

4) Secret “Lost” room in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Probably a shout-out to the fact that Lost featured characters playing the original Half-Life in one episode (and I mean actually playing, unlike on most every TV show ever).


5) Guybrush Threepwood of Monkey Island Fame was named for his filetype. During development, Guybrush’s visual design was created before his name and personality. The files in which his pictures were stored was called “Guy”, and the filetype was .brush. So he was called Guybrush in internal communication, and the name stuck.

7) Articuno. Zapdos. Moltres. Count ‘em!

8) GlaDOS is a vindictive, upside-down girl wired to the ceiling. You can’t unsee it!

9) There are no Twin Towers in Deus Ex, a game released in the year 2000. Because of memory limitations, the developers took the non-Twin Towers dominated part of Manhattan’s landscape and mirrored it; as the first few levels explained that the Statue of Liberty had been destroyed by a terrorist group, the developers threw up their hands and declared that so had the Twin Towers.

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’nuff said!