[Lynk Former]

I'll start...

• The DS wasn't the first Nintendo device to feature a microphone, the Famicom (Japanese version of the NES) was. The player 2 controller for the Famicom had a microphone in it although it was used in very few games.
  
  
  Also, the Famicom controllers were directly hard-wired into the console, meaning that neither of them could be removed. Also, only the player one controller had the START and SELECT buttons while the player two controller doesn't.

• One game that used the microphone feature on the Famicom was The Legend of Zelda. In the game there are creatures called "Pols Voices" and the only way to defeat them is to talk into the player two controllers microphone. In the versions of The Legend of Zelda outside of Japan, this feature was removed because the NES had the microphone feature removed, however the hint about Pols Voices hating loud noises was still left in the manual.
  
  
  
  
  The feature of using a microphone in a Zelda game is later used in the DS game Phantom Hourglass.

• The bushes in Super Mario Bros. are just recoloured clouds.
  
  
  
  
  Also, the fire flower is just a recoloured coin on its side. But that's not all, many think that Goomba's are mushrooms, but in fact they are chestnuts. The reason for this is because Goomba's happen to be recoloured mushrooms in the original Super Mario Bros, however in Super Mario Bros. 3, they look more like chestnuts.
  
• When Mario was being created for the game Donkey Kong, it was decided to give him a cap because it was too difficult to create hair animation for him.
  
• The three legendary birds in Pokemon are named Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres... as in uno, dos, tres.
  
• Pokemon's hero, Satoshi is named after its creator, Satoshi Tajiri. Satoshi's rival in the series is Shigeru who is named after Shigeru Miyamoto.
  
• Tingle looks strangely like Koji Kondo, the composer of Mario and Zelda and other Nintendo games. Also, the Happy Mask Salesman is said to look strangely like Shigeru Miyamoto.

...now it's your turn. What videogame facts do you know that'll blow our minds?