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Franchise: Dead or Alive
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Attachment Bass and Tina's father-daughter relationship shares similarities to that of the one between former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and his daughter Brooke Hogan. Hulk Hogan was known to be very protective of his daughter in spite of her efforts to be more independent, which is often portrayed in their stage personas and public appearances. Also like Tina, Brooke has pursued careers outside of pro-wrestling; including modeling, acting, and music.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Similarities, Theory
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Dead or Alive ++
Dead or Alive ++ (1998)
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Bass Armstrong is heavily influenced by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, both in his character design and moves.
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Development, Inspiration
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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive (1998)
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Attachment Leifang's 14th costume from the PlayStation version of the game is a reference to the Pixie from Monster Rancher.
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Customization, Easter Egg, Reference
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 24, 2021
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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive (1998)
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Attachment Kasumi's 14th costume from the PlayStation version of the game is a reference to the Angel from Monster Rancher.
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Customization, Easter Egg, Reference
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Revelations: Persona
Revelations: Persona (1996)
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In a 1996 interview with the game's director Kouji Okada published in Dengeki PlayStation magazine, he stated that the demons are voiced by the staff from Atlus, including those enlisted from all over the company rather than just the game's developers, while also singling out that the female demons were voiced by female staff members.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 24, 2021
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Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive 3 (2001)
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Attachment Tina's default costume is based on an outfit worn by WWE professional wrestler Terri Runnels.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 24, 2021
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Trespasser
Trespasser (1998)
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In Episode 172 of the webseries "The Angry Video Game Nerd" in which the Nerd reviewed Jurassic Park: Trespasser, James Rolfe conducted an interview with the game's executive producer Seamus Blackley about the game's development. He asked him why they used the Tribe C Alpha Velociraptor as the final boss when raptors were already the most frequently-encountered dinosaur in the game. He responded:

"We didn't have time to create, or budget to create a new boss dinosaur, and we were in a huge rush to finish, and we had a huge amount of pressure from DreamWorks Interactive. Of course all of these things are ludicrous now when you think about them, because as we say 'a late game is only late until it ships, but a bad game is bad forever'."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Mistake, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 24, 2021
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No More Heroes
No More Heroes (2007)
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Attachment In the original Wii version, the river overpass in Santa Destroy has a wall underneath it with poor-enough collision detection that if you walk into it in a certain way, Travis will clip through the wall and can walk infinitely directly underneath Santa Destroy, even out of the city. This glitch was fixed in all future re-releases of the game.
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General, Glitch, Mistake, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Dead or Alive 2
Dead or Alive 2 (1999)
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Attachment Ayane's 6th costume is based on Millennia, the protagonist from the Tecmo game Kagero: Deception II.
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Easter Egg, Reference
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Dead or Alive 2
Dead or Alive 2 (1999)
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Attachment Helena's 3rd costume is a reference to Reina, the protagonist from the Tecmo game Deception III: Dark Delusion.
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Easter Egg, Reference
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Tetris Battle Gaiden
Tetris Battle Gaiden (1994)
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According to a 1993 Dengeki SFC magazine interview, the game's designer Norifumi Hara commented on the start of the game's development:

"We were tasked with creating a sequel to Tetris, and I love versus fighting games, so I wanted to make head-to-head competitive matches the main focus. Originally the title was "Batorisu" 1 [Note: This is a combination of the words "Batoru" (battle) and "Tetorisu" (Tetris) that does not quite translate well into English], and we were developing it for the Famicom, but of course the Super Famicom was a better choice, we realized."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)
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Attachment In April 2012, to promote the game prior to its first playable appearance at E3, Konami created an alternate reality game (ARG) entitled "Make It Right" which primarily involved fans performing instructions revealed on the official Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Rising Facebook pages and websites weekly leading up to E3. The campaign started on April 25th, when Konami released a new teaser for the game hinting at news to be revealed five days later. In addition, Konami manufactured two replicas of Raiden's severed left arm and sent them to Game Informer and Electronic Gaming Monthly. Connected to each of the arms was a USB drive that contained several cryptic images related to the game's plot, as well as the first in a series of short, live-action trailers promoted as secret video files found in Raiden's arm which were released by Konami over the course of the ARG. These videos depicted flashbacks to Raiden (voiced by Quinton Flynn) undergoing surgical procedures initiated by Maverick Security Counseling, Inc. that ultimately turn him into a Cyborg Ninja, as well as flashbacks to his time training as a child soldier under Solidus Snake (voiced by John Cygan). The last flashback trailer depicting Solidus killing a hostage, released on May 17th, ended with a binary code message "01000101 00110011" which translates to "E3", and the final trailer released during the ARG was a short clip of the title screen to the game's E3 2012 demo. The events in the videos were meant to hint at what would be shown in the story to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but these events would end up only being mentioned in an optional codec call between Raiden and Doktor about left arm data.

Two other recognized actors featured in the videos include an interrogator played by Noah Nelson, the voice of Cunningham from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, and a surgeon played by James Horan, who would later voice Skull Face in Metal Gear Solid V.
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Alternate Reality Game, Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
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Dead or Alive 4
Dead or Alive 4 (2005)
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Attachment Jann Lee's 3rd costume is a reference to Bruce Lee as Hai Tien in his final, unfinished film The Game of Death.
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Easter Egg, Reference
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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According to a 1998 The Playstation magazine interview with the game's director Hideki Kamiya & writer Noboru Sugimura, they originally had no intention of bringing back the Tyrant, since the first game already had him as the final boss.

Kamiya thought of making him a "perfect, invincible Tyrant", but after the two talked it over, they realized it was a bad idea because he would be so strong that the G-virus would be rendered meaningless, so they came up with the idea of the Tyrant's mission to retrieve the G-virus instead.

Sugimura also commented on about the Scenario choice for the Tyrant:

"One of the consequences of having players go through the same scenario twice was that, by the second time, they’re used to things and it’s too easy. For that reason we decided to have the Tyrant appear in Scenario B, as a way to raise the difficulty."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Advent Rising
Advent Rising (2005)
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There are Warp Pipes that can be found within the game's first and fourth chapters that strikingly resemble the Warp Pipes from the Mario series. Upon entering either Pipe, there will be a secret room with three more Warp Pipes along with 8-bit music playing in the background, which resembles the Warp Zone from World 1-2 in Super Mario Bros. Upon entering any of the three Pipes, they will warp the player to certain chapters within the game. Furthermore, finding all six buttons within the first chapter without the use of cheat codes will reveal a rainbow bridge that resembles the Rainbow Road track from the Mario Kart series that leads to a blue Warp Pipe, which takes the player to the secret room.

The second Warp Pipe is inaccessible in the PC version due to the switch used to access it not working; whether or not this inaccessibility was an intentional choice by the developers or a glitch is unknown.
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Console Difference, Easter Egg, General, Glitch, Reference, Removed Feature, Secret, Unused Content, Version Difference
person Tuli0hWut calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Dead or Alive 6
Dead or Alive 6 (2019)
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NiCO was designed to appeal to fans of anime and Japanese light novels. Her fighting style was inspired by Penchak-Silat (an Indonesian martial art), and director Yohei Shimbori was inspired by the 2011 film The Raid to implement this fighting style into a fighting game.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Darkstalkers 3
Darkstalkers 3 (1998)
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According to general producer Noritaka Funamizu in a 1997 Gamest magazine interview, he stated that the original plan for the Dark Force system was to make it so that "you could just completely pummel your opponent" while in Dark Force. However, there were problems with the idea, so it morphed into the form that was used in the final game, having been developed with an emphasis to making Dark Force feel unique to each fighter in the game.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 23, 2021
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Franchise: Pokémon
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The in-game description for the Ability "Levitate" used since Generation IV states that it makes the Pokemon that knows it completely immune to all Ground-type attacks. However, this is false, because in all games since the Ability's introduction in Generation III, a Pokemon that has Levitate can still get hit and affected by non-damaging Ground-type attacks, such as Sand Attack. This means that the Ability only makes its Pokemon immune to damaging Ground-type attacks, such as Earthquake and Earth Power among others, and not ones that do not affect the Pokemon's HP.
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General, Mistake, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Text
person PirateGoofy calendar_month September 23, 2021
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
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After draining the water surrounding the Swamp Dungeon, Link can pick up the fish that are flopping around as a result of the reduced water levels. If Link throws a fish back into the pond, it will verbally thank Link and give him some Rupees. However, if Link carries a fish to Kakariko Village and gives it to the Street Merchant, he will give Link an assortment of Rupees, Bombs and Arrows.
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Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive 3 (2001)
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Most likely because this game was released as a launch title for the Xbox, it was released in an incomplete state in the North American market in November 2001. As such, the European and Japanese versions of the game, which released a few months later, feature a new opening cutscene as well as extra content and gameplay updates such as new costumes and attacks for certain characters. Between June and September 2002, the Official Xbox Magazine distributed a "Booster Disk" for Dead or Alive 3, which included the new opening cutscene and all of the extra costumes released in the European and Japanese versions of the game. It did not, however, contain the new attacks or gameplay balancing that the other versions brought. This update would later be released as unlockable sync-able content under the name "DOA3 Booster Disc" in Dead or Alive Ultimate upon unlocking every costume in the game.
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Bonus Content, Development, General, Regional Difference, Suggested, Theory, Update Difference, Version Difference
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