The first video game was actually a 1959 oscilloscope game based on cricket.

The Atari VCS was also known as the Atari 5200.

As a joke, Peter Molyneux (the genius behind Fable, Black & White, and Godus) has the term 'serial fibber' on his CV.

The Wii Remote sensor bar is unnecessary, as long as you have a couple of tea lights handy.

Pac-Man was the first video game to be adapted into a cartoon.

There exists a game in which the only goal is to flip a table as hard as you can. The controller is...a big plastic table.

The first anthropomorphic hedgehog to star in a platformer was not Sonic, but a fella named Spiky Harold.

Mario's surname is Mario. By extension, Luigi's surname is also Mario.

Crash Bandicoot's original name was Willy the Wombat.

The main theme from RoboCop on the Game Boy was later used in an advert for washing machines.

Wii Sports is the best-selling Wii game of all time, and the best-selling single-platform game of all time.