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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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The Dark Brotherhood member "Antoinetta Marie" is an obvious reference to French Queen Marie Antoinette.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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Attachment Every city was originally planned to have an Arena. Unused lines exist for the gatekeepers of each city arena, as well as Bruma's Arena being shown in the E3 2001 trailer. The final game uses what was originally the Chorrol Arena as the Imperial City Arena.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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Attachment The "skooma drinking" animation in the final game is buggy and functions incorrectly. When a character is displaying the animation, their mouth clips through their head, and unlike any other animation in the game, they do not stop the animation when entering dialogue with the player.
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General, Mistake
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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According to a fan interview conducted with Todd Howard, a "Nobility" faction was originally present in the game and would have focused on the dealings of The Elder Council. According to Howard, "You made your way up and became "The Duke of Colovia" and sat on the Elder Council. The only remnant of that questline is the dead Duke in Castle Kvatch, which was to be the beginning of that line."
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Development, Early Idea
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Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure (1998)
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In the E3 1999 demo of Sonic Adventure, Knuckles had a very different voice. This was the same voice actor, but they re-recorded nearly all of his lines before the game's release. Surprisingly, voices for his entire story were included, even though the demo only had two stages for Knuckles.
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Unused Audio, Unused Content
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The Simpsons Game
The Simpsons Game (2007)
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Gameplay of a prototype version from 2004 was uploaded to YouTube. The player controls only Bart Simpson and runs around in the house. The game was played on the original Xbox, suggesting such an OG Xbox version may have been planned at one point.
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Cancelled Release, Development
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Cuphead
Cuphead (2017)
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Attachment If the game detects that the game is pirated, a pitch-shifted and reversed version of the main theme song will play on the title screen. When this song is plugged into a spectrogram, the end of the song will form The Devil in the 3 forms of his boss fight - Regular, skeletal and giant face.
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Anti-Piracy, Easter Egg, General, Music, Secret
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
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During the quest "The Tower Outta Nowheres", Geralt encounters a wizard trapped behind a magical door inside a tower. The wizard claims he was trapped there by the tower's Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM), which locks down the tower if anyone but the original owner tries to enter it. The tower's previous owner wrote a treatise on how to remove the defenses called "Gottfried's Omni-opening Grimoire" (GOG).

The initials "DRM" are a reference to Digital Rights Management, which is used by game publishers and platforms to prevent a game's original purchaser from freely sharing digital copies of it over the internet. The initials "GOG" are a nod to the website Good Old Games, which was founded in 2008 by The Witcher 3's publisher CD Projekt. It's famous for selling DRM-free copies of games and other software so that users may freely backup and share what they purchase.

Later on, while Geralt and the wizard are escaping, the defense system notes "disturbing indications of freedom". This is likely a jab by the game's developers at aggressive DRM policies, and echoes a common criticism that DRM restricts end users from freely controlling the software they purchase.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go (2016)
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Attachment In 2019, Pokemon Go had a cross over event with popular manga series One Piece to support the reconstruction effort of Kumamoto, Japan after the devastating 2016 earthquake. The event was a collaboration with One Piece creator Eichiro Oda (a native to Kumamoto) that spawned Pikachu wearing straw hats, and a new special Pokestop in Kumamoto for the statue of One Piece’s main character, Monkey D. Luffy (featuring special art by Oda himself). Although the global release of this event didn’t mention One Piece by name, the announcement did make hints that referenced the pirate anime.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Murder on the Mississippi
Murder on the Mississippi (1986)
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In 1986 then video game journalist Boris Schneider undertook one of the first documented fan translation efforts. Over the course of one weekend he single-handedly cracked and translated the Commodore 64 version of Murder on the Mississippi into German by using a simple hex editor and a self-written disk editor. He then sent his translated version of the game to Activision, who gave him the means to make an official translation, which they released in Germany.
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Development, General, Real Life
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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (1998)
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Japanese actor and martial artist Sho Kosugi is responsible for the main character Rikimarus motion capture, as well as providing all of his Japanese voice work. His son Kane Kosugi was also involved, but as to which capacity, official accounts vary: Shos official bio states that Kane provided the motion capture for the second main character Ayame, although in the games closing credits, he is only credited with providing the motion capture for the antagonist character Onikage.

While this fact is virtually unknown in the west - other than for astute readers of the games credits - it was heavily promoted in its native Japan, going so far as to even include a pretty rare "Making Of"-CD with snippets of the motion capture sessions as a special bonus to people who pre-ordered the original Japanese release in early 1998.
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Development
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Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (2006)
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Attachment At the grave beneath the second Yawn battle, there is a new angle of the tombstone that reads 'LISA TREVOR'. This references the mutant girl of the same name who first appeared in the 2002 remake of Resident Evil.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Secret
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Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. (1999)
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The 3D portraits on the character select screen are based on character artwork from some of their home games. Mario's render is from Super Mario 64; Link's is from his artwork for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time; Donkey Kong's Donkey Kong Country artwork is the basis for his Smash portrait; Yoshi's comes from Japanese artwork for Yoshi's Island; Kirby's is from Kirby's Adventure artwork; Fox's is taken from Star Fox 64; Captain Falcon has a 3D realization of artwork from F-Zero X; Pikachu and Jigglypuff are 3D versions of Pokemon Red & Blue concept art; Samus Aran's comes from Super Metroid; Ness's is a redone done version of his EarthBound art; And Luigi's appears to be taken from Mario Kart 64.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference, Secret, Similarities, Theory
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Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis (1999)
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According to the development team in the game's official Japanese guide book, during the planning stage they had a list of dinosaur names they wanted to include the game. Two dinosaurs that were on the list but left out of the final game are Triceratops and Ankylosaurus.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Sonic Mania
Sonic Mania (2017)
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Attachment In Press Garden Zone Act 1, there's a hidden area that has word "HELLO" spelled backwards on the wall.
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Debug, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Secret
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God Hand
God Hand (2006)
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According to the game's director Shinji Mikami, when he played Final Fight: Streetwise he hated the game's direction and believed it to be a terrible entry in the series. Mikami thought about making a similar game, which would later become God Hand.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Fallout 4
Fallout 4 (2015)
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When visiting General Atomics Galleria and entering the diner, players will find that the diner is run by two General Atomic Robots who will say that they are there to serve you. After questioning them on how they'll serve you, or simply stating you're not hungry, they'll attack the player. This is a reference to The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" in which the premise is an alien race are there to seemingly help mankind, but in the end are in fact carrying a book titled "To Serve Man", a cook book on how to cook and serve humans.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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There's a disease in-game called "Ticklebritch" that typically goes unused in normal gameplay, but the DLC Mehrune's Razor provides a singular way to contract it. If the player picks up a certain hoe in Sundercliff Mines, they will contract the disease. Given that the only way to contract this disease is through picking up a hoe, this is likely a joke by developers alluding to STDs.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Message
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Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
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If the player goes near Raton Canyon at Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness between 19:00 and 20:00, they'll see a car parked on a cliff road surrounded by police vehicles that'll drive off the cliff when an officer approaches it. This is a reference to the end scene in the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Hong Kong 97
Hong Kong 97 (1995)
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General, Real Life
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