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Welcome to, Say Lucid Ion, in this video we will see 10 crazy facts about games. So, let’s begin. Number 1. Gandhi, the aggressor. In the first Civilization game, Gandhi’s aggression rating was the lowest score of one, meaning he didn’t want to make war. However, if a player chose democracy, his aggression dropped two points. Instead of falling to a negative one, the number looped around to 255, the highest aggression rating possible. Democracy turned Gandhi into a nuke-firing titan. Number 2. Barack Obama campaigned in 18 games. During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama purchased ad space in 18 games that ran in 10 states. The Vote for Change billboards was in Burnout Paradise, Skate, Madden, and few other games. This targeted the demographic of ages 18 to 34. Number 3. It took Rubik a month to solve his cube. Erno Rubik created the Rubik’s Cube by accident. A professor of architecture, Rubik built a twistable box with colorful rows of labels on each side to see if it was possible to design blocks that could move without causing the entire structure to collapse. After Rubik rotated a few rows and mixed up the colors, his challenge began: Realign the hues. It took him about a month to restore the cube to its pristine condition. Number 4. Tetris reduces trauma. Tetris, the Nintendo Game Boy classic, might cure insomnia! In 2009, researchers determined that Tetris inhibited painful flashbacks when they exposed three groups of people to a 21-minute video showing traumatic events. Members of the group that played Tetris for ten minutes post-viewing had fewer flashbacks about the events in the video than those in the other groups who were asked to either do nothing or take a quiz. Why? Because playing the game engages a part of the brain responsible for storing memories. Try your hand at Tetris up to six hours after a traumatic event for fewer nightmares. Number 5. Angry Birds poked fun at our fears of swine flu. When Rovio launched the Angry Birds app, consumers were empowered to take action (albeit subconsciously) against some scary news of the time. According to Ville Heijari, former SVP of brand marketing, the game’s villainous, sniveling pigs were inspired by the then-rampant swine flu epidemic, a health crisis that was causing great alarm in the United States. Number 6. Nintendo made Mario by accident. Unable to get licensing rights to a Popeye game, Nintendo created a Bluto-like character named Donkey Kong, and Popeye turned into Jumpman. When the game hit America, the Nintendo team changed Jumpman’s name to Mario (as in Super Mario) after the company’s warehouse landlord at the time. Number 7. Minecraft is the best-selling video game so far. Markus Alexej Persson, more famously known as Notch, created the most successful indie game in Minecraft. With over US$180 million in sales, Minecraft was bought by Microsoft. However, it remains to be one of the most played games across all platforms, even beating the iconic Tetris’ sales by close to US$10 million. Number 8. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling gaming console of all time. Although relatively old in the console game, the PS2 has outsold every other console in existence up to this point. As of the last record in 2012, sales have reached US$155 million. Number 9. Pac-Man was supposed to be called Puckman. Pac-Man was supposed to be called “Puckman” his resemblance to a hockey puck. However, game developers were concerned that vandals could deface that name in a, particularly scandalous way. As such, Puckman was changed to Pac-Man. Number 10. Fortnite existence. If you add up all the hours Fortnite has been played, you get more than 10 million years. That means the amount of total collective time spent on Fortnite is far greater than the existence of humans.