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Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance (2003)
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To promote the game in the UK, Acclaim wanted to have advertisements for it in bus shelters which would spill fake blood, which they dubbed as "Bloodvertising". The advertisements would've remained for a week spilling the blood onto the pavement and streets with cleaners hired to clear it up after the run.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month January 4, 2014
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Ziggy
Ziggy (1987)
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The game contains a secret message from the developers that is visible if the user has a debugging monitor attached:

So you've got a MC monitor? That's nice. Now use it to write your own software - do NOT pirate other people's work, or they won't bother writing anything else
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Real Life, Secret
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Fur Fighters: Viggo on Glass
Fur Fighters: Viggo on Glass (2012)
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In the iOS version of the game, the 'World Quack Centre' was renamed to 'Empire Quack Building'. This was likely to avoid any references to the World Trade Center and the September 11th terrorist attacks.
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Censorship, Console Difference, Development, Real Life, Version Difference
person RadSpyro calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
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Koichi Hayashida, the Director of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Level Design Director of Super Mario Galaxy, provided the voice for Major Burrows.
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Development, General, Real Life
person weegeechan calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Paper Mario
Paper Mario (2000)
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Attachment There is an unused sprite that appears to be Princess Peach kissing someone. It was most likely Peach kissing Mario during the descent of the the castle during the game's end.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
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In the E3 2004 trailer, Nintendo reused voice clips of Nobuyuki Hiyama (Ocarina of Time's Link) instead of Akira Sasanuma, who provided Link's voice in the final version of Twilight Princess.
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Development, General
person Takahashi2212 calendar_month January 3, 2014
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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Charles Martinet has expressed interest in providing the voice of Link:

"I spoke to Mr. Miyamoto and said: "I wanna be Link, I wanna be Link", and Miyamoto told me that Link isn't going to have a voice; he is going to stay the way he is."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person VinchVolt calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
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Attachment Inside Banjo's house is a portrait of Banjo & Kazooie walking through a forest. While commonly believed to be an early screenshot of the level Fungi Forest which would later appear in Donkey Kong 64, this is actually a screenshot from an early build of Banjo-Kazooie's prototype Dream: Land of Giants, after the original protagonist was replaced by Banjo.
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Development, Early Build, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Misconception, Prototype, Reference, Unused Content
person Mr. Jellysquid calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Project Dream documentary by Rare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72kj20YNA0

Banjo-Kazooie - Banjo's House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kizUniWX0w
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
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Judging by an unused file in the game data, the mission "No Russian" was originally going to take place in a real-life location: Domodedovo Int'l Airport in Moscow. It was probably changed to a fictional one in order to avoid further controversy.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger (1995)
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Massato Kato stated in a Chrono Trigger Ultimania interview that he and Yuji Horii intended for Crono Spoiler:to stay dead after the Ocean Palace scenario. The party would have to then retrieve a version of Crono pre-dating the Millennial Fair to complete the quest, and then return him to his home time, Spoiler:bitter-sweetly knowing he would go on to die at the Ocean Palace. Square deemed this too depressing and had them write the clone plot device to save him.
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Development, Early Idea
person Cavery210 calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Gunvalkyrie
Gunvalkyrie (2002)
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The game was originally designed for the Sega Dreamcast. Beta footage still exists showing some gameplay and several bosses from this period of development.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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The setting of the game was originally going to be Liberty State, rather than just Liberty City, and it would have included countryside surrounding Liberty City, mountains based on the Adirondacks and Catskills, and possibly The Caraways.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy II (1988)
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Attachment The Moogle was initially created for Final Fantasy II as a race called クライオン (Kuraion, lit. "Clion") that lived in cold regions, but they were scrapped along with several other races. Their sprite and race details became the Beaver race in the finished game.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person Cavery210 calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Double Dragon Advance
Double Dragon Advance (2003)
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A lot of content planned for the game was cut during development, including a playable prologue, additional cutscenes, improved enemy AI, lots of weapons and special moves, "Marian's Escape" mode in which the player would play as Marian escaping from her captors, "Renegade Abobo" mode in which the player could play as Abobo helping Marian escape, and the three main characters from Combatribes being playable in Survival Mode. In addition, Marian would have appeared in Survival Mode after every 20 beaten enemies to refill some of the player's health.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items, Unused Text
person Mass Distraction calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Double Dragon Advance
Double Dragon Advance (2003)
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Attachment According to Muneki Ebinuma, the game's planner, the developers took a lot of influences from Bruce Lee's movies to the game. One of the most notable is the cover and promo art being an imitation of the cover art for Lee's Way of the Dragon.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
person Mass Distraction calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
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Attachment Director Chihiro Fujioka and producer Shigeru Miyamoto originally considered having Mario battle using weapons and magic rather than his standard jump and hammers. They couldn't decide which style to use. They settled the matter by appearing at a special event and hearing fan responses when the two styles were announced. More fans applauded the jump and hammer option, so Fujioka chose it for the game.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person NerdyBoutKirby calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Oh Shit!
Oh Shit! (1985)
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Attachment A later publication of the game by Eurosoft features a cover taken from the book "The Howling III: Echoes" by Gary Brandner.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Shenmue
Shenmue (1999)
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During the early stages of development, Shenmue featured a bicycle that could have been used to quickly transverse town.
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Development, Early Idea
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
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In an early E3 video, it shows that Banjo and Kazooie could fly at any time they wanted without the use of a flight pad. This was most likely removed to limit the amount of area the player could cover at one time.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month January 3, 2014
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Doom
Doom (1993)
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Attachment In versions of Doom prior to 1.4, a room in the level "E1M4: Command Control" features a sector shaped like a swastika. According to John Romero, this is a reference to Wolfenstein 3D, an FPS previously developed by id where the protagonist fights Nazis.

"Yes, [in Commander Keen 5] there is a swastika in one of the levels, one of my levels to be exact, but I removed it shortly after the game was released because people were upset that an evil symbol was in a cute kid's game. It was a premonition of things to come, namely, Wolfenstein 3D. I also put a swastika in Doom's E1M4 as a Wolf3D reference, but I changed it later for the exact same reason."
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Censorship, Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference, Release Difference, Version Difference
person LordyLord calendar_month January 3, 2014
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