Adding fun facts, mostly related to sales

[Thunderforge]

The following are sources for my fun facts, to prove that I'm not making them up:

• Nintendo Wii Supreme being the most expensive console
• 3DO price
• Lemmings beingported to 25 platforms
• PlayStation 2 being the best-selling video game console
• Authors of the game Breakout
• Famicom microphone
• Commodore 64 being the best-selling single computer model

[hiulit]

Thanks a lot for the new Fun Facts! 😃 🎉

[hiulit]

Btw, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions:

• Do you find Fun Facts! Splashscreens useful? Are you using it?
• If so, did you install it via this repository or RetroPie-Extra?
• Did you find the instructions easy to follow? Are they readable/understandable?
• What would like to see improved, if anything?

Thanks!

[Thunderforge]

Do you find Fun Facts! Splashscreens useful? Are you using it?

I just started using RetroPie and have been experimenting with splashscreens. This was one that I ran across. So far, I have not installed it.

If so, did you install it via this repository or RetroPie-Extra?

I did not install it yet, but if I did, I would do it from RetroPie-Extras due to the one-step setup.

Did you find the instructions easy to follow? Are they readable/understandable?

The instructions for adding facts was simple enough. I found the instructions to generate splashscreens to be difficult to follow, which is why installing it from RetroPie-Extras was desirable.

What would like to see improved, if anything?

I think there needs to be some standardization on the writing style of the facts. There are a number of issues that I saw:

• The facts differ wildly in length, which may make screens look inconsistent.
  • Extremely short: Devil May Cry started out as a failed Resident Evil game.
  • Extremely long: In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider.
• Game names are inconsistently handled. Some are just plain (e.g Ice Climber was the first game…, some are in single quotes (e.g. The highest grossing game of all time so far is 'World of Warcraft')
• Pokémon is misspelled as "Pokemon" throughout.
• There is inconsistent tone, especially with some facts having a pithy comment at the end.
  • Neutral tone: The first game to feature true background music was Namco's Rally-X in 1980.
  • Casual tone: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 features a hidden room inspired by the television show "Lost". Desmond, push the button!
  • Incredulous tone: The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself!

I would recommend having some guidelines like the following (I'm just making these up on the fly):

• Fun facts must be between 50-300 characters long.
• The tone should be neutral (even if you find it surprising)
• The name of the game should match that found on Wikipedia (this includes Pokémon, not "Pokemon")
• Surround game names with single quotes (it would be great if we could somehow italicize them when displayed in the screenshots)

Also, I think it would be good to require sources in PRs, that way we don't have any urban legends sneak in (e.g. By exploiting a glitch, you can earn the Triforce in 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time').