For this edition of Industry Top Facts, Lemmy&Binky are proud to feature perhaps the biggest player in the game industry. One who just so happens to be a reader of this very blog!

His (or possibly her) career has spanned decades (probably) and he/she is the most respected artist / programmer / designer / musician / tester / producer / receptionist not only in EA, but perhaps in the entire world. We salute you, EA Guy!

Initiate Factage!

1. There have been some poor games published by Electronic Arts. The primary reason for this is that EA Guy did not do any art/programming/music/testing/producing/phone-answering on them.

2. Electronic Arts was so called because its initials were the same as EA Guy.

3. EA Guy is so modest he/she once hired a team of hackers to replace all occurrences of “EA Guy” on the internet to read “Chuck Norris”.

4. A photo has never been taken of EA Guy because of fears it may be posted on the internet, turn all men/women gay and destroy the entire human race.

5. 90% of EA’s product range was conceived by EA Guy when he/she was idly doodling while talking on the phone.

6. EA Guy receives $3 million annually from royalties from the “Square, circle, triangle” motif he/she developed for the original Electronic Arts logo. Sony only actually hold the rights to the “X”.

7. EA Guy once managed to get Battlefield 2142 working on high settings on a Gameboy Color.

8. EA Guy once told Sir Clive Sinclair what a “rubber button” was.

9. John Carmack, Will Wright and Shigeru Miyamoto are all the lovechildren of EA Guy and Marilyn Monroe/Elvis.

10. EA Guy will not be bullied into buying a copy of Gibbage, but instead bought 10,000 copies with his/her vast fortune, purely because it’s a bloody good laugh.

11. EA Guy has never left a comment on Lemmy&Binky.com :’(

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Nice blog, innit? Would be even nicer if the stylesheet was finished for these blog posts… and we had nice funky comments… and the tabs at the top worked.

But… oh noes! It would appear that these last few changes will have to wait. For instead of finishing what we started waaaay back yesterday afternoon, back-stabbing Lemmy has spurned the site and has elected to spend the evening playing Vanguard in his wizard’s hat and cape.

Me? I’m going to spend the evening doing something much less geeky, and finish playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Which as we all know, is cool and trendy.

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It’s time for another edition of Industry Top Facts. This time we will be learning lots of interesting, and definitely true, tidbits about Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto!

1. Although most famous for coming up with Mario, Miyamoto was also responsible for inventing the postage stamp, Tuesday afternoons, and more crucially the Curley Wurley.

2. The main characters in Mario Bros were originally intended to be Russian gynaecologists, until Miyamoto came onto the project and insisted that Italian plumbers would be much more believable.

3. When demoing the Wii to top Nintendo execs, Miyamoto managed to sell the idea of the revolutionary control device by showing them a tech demo that involved poking a monkey out of a tree with a long stick.

4. The world and events portrayed in Legend of Zelda are based upon a true story.

5. Miyamoto is a huge fan of Gibbage, claiming it is much better than any game he’s ever come up with. He also refutes any claims that he has received any death threats through the post from Gibbage creator Don Marshall.

6. Miyamoto once wore a red plumber’s hat for 10 years straight for charity, but unfortunately he forgot to tell anyone; including the charity.

7. Miyamoto was once arrested for head-butting a shop proprietor’s block in downtown Tokyo.

8. The risqué comments Mario makes about the origins of Princess Peach’s name were removed from the US release of Super Mario Bros.

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Welcome to our regular feature where we dispense some interesting and completely true facts about leading people in the game industry!

The subject of this week’s Industry Top Facts is the great Peter Molyneux! Let the factage commence!:

1. Peter Molyneux was invented by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928.

2. For fun, Peter likes nothing more than shaving his collection of Arabian Baboons.

3. Peter was once arrested for spilling a cup of tea on Donald Rumsfeld’s head during a volleyball tournament in Santa Monica.

4. Peter’s all time favourite game is Gibbage, and he categorically denies that Dan Marshall has ever made a threatening phone call to him at 2am.

5. Peter once got up to go to the toilet 12 times in one night.

6. Peter Molyneux spelt backwards spells the words “Buy Fable, It’s Fab”.

7. Peter’s company, Lionhead, was named after a mountain lion skull Peter uses to scare away Trick or Treaters.

You learn something new every day, don’t you?

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