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Clock Tower
Clock Tower (1995)
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According to Hifumi Kouno, the inspiration for Scissorman and his signature blades came from the disfigured killer Cropsy in the horror movie "The Burning," which scared him as child.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month September 5, 2013
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Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc (2003)
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Murfy's last quote in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc is "See you in Rayman 4", so it is probable that he was to appear in the cancelled Rayman 4. Or he may have been referring to Rayman 3's sequel, Hoodlum's Revenge, where he appeared.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Suggested, Theory
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Half-Life
Half-Life (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Half-Life (Game)
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There was a Dreamcast port in development at the same time as the PlayStation 2 version. The port was being developed by Gearbox Software and was going have the Blue Shift expansion included. Though is was almost finished and was pretty much ready to ship, the port was cancelled "due to changing market conditions."
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Disney's Aladdin
Disney's Aladdin (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Disney's Aladdin (Game), Disney's Aladdin (Game), Disney's Aladdin (Game)
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The Super Nintendo, and Game Gear ports of Disney's Aladdin are drastically different to ports on other consoles. SEGA had rights to publish Disney related video games and had a collaboration with Disney's animation studios. SEGA tasked Virgin to program the game. This version ended up on most systems (including the NES and Game Boy). The Game Gear port was programmed by SIMS instead of Virgin Interactive, so gameplay and level design is slightly different. The Super Nintendo version (and by extension the GBA port) was developed by Capcom. Capcom still had rights to develop Disney related games on Nintendo consoles, so they made their own game with different gameplay and levels.
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Console Difference, Development, Version Difference
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Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
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Attachment There is an unused Kill Icon in the game that suggests the Taunt item 'Shred Alert' was once planned to be a Taunt Kill, meaning that players within it's radius would be killed, similar to the Pyro's Armageddon Taunt.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Company: Team Shanghai Alice
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Despite the name, Team Shanghai Alice only consists of one member, Jun'ya Ota, who goes by the name "ZUN." He is responsible for the programming, graphics, and soundtracks of the main-series Touhou Project games.
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Development, General, Real Life
person TailsFiraga calendar_month September 4, 2013
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment At the main menu screen, the mounted head of Banjo and the Kazooie umbrella weren't just references to the characters from the Banjo-Kazooie series, but statements made by the developers about their rivalry between the development teams at Rare. The developers would see each other's work and become jealous over the progress that they'd seen.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 4, 2013
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Platform: Xbox 360
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Attachment The most expensive Xbox 360 Kinect sensor peripheral was inspired by pop singer Kylie Minogue and features over 6000 Swarovski crystals and worth $1,242 USD. Designed by PlayBling, it was given out as a prize as part of a promotion by Microsoft and Dance Central in celebration of Kylie Minogue's upcoming European tour.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 4, 2013
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Bayonetta
Bayonetta (2009)
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Attachment The weapon Shuraba was intended to have an animation where the sword's pulsing heart would show on the hilt of the sword when the weapon was fully charged. During development, the developers forgot to put the animation on the weapon, so the animation does not appear in the game, but the code still exists.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)
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A large number of unused items in the game's code suggests that the ninja characters were originally planned to appear in the game. These include an animality animation for Ermac, a friendship animation for Classic Sub-Zero, unused win text for Scorpion, and a debug menu with references to Sub-Zero and Smoke.
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Debug, Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Dazz calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Pinball Challenge Deluxe
Pinball Challenge Deluxe (2002)
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The game fails to save any data once turned off, even though a save feature was coded into the game. According to Stewart Gilray, director of development at the time of the game's release, hardware issues stopped this feature from working.

"We created the game to allow saves etc, but for some reason, I'm guessing budgetary, Ubisoft at the last minute decided to NOT manufacture the game with EEPROM save memory."

Stewart Gilray also went on to state that saving the game does work when using a flash cart or playing the game through emulation, and that he would "encourage people that play it to play it on a backup cart just so to allow saving."
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Development, General, Glitch, Mistake, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Dazz calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
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Attachment In the DOS version of the game, there are hidden credits in the Dam level to two people named Dean and Mike, accessed only by using cheats. These people are Mike Smith and Dean Grifiths, graphics artists who worked on the DOS port.
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Console Difference, Debug, Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Credit, Version Difference
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month September 2, 2013
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)
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The game was based on the 1967 science-fiction short story of the same name. Harlan Ellison, the short story's author, also worked on this game. Despite not being a fan of computer games and not owning a personal computer at the time, he co-authored the expanded storyline and wrote much of the game's dialogue, all on a mechanical typewriter, provided artwork of himself used for a mousepad within the game, and voiced "AM" the supercomputer.
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Adaptation, Development, General, Real Life
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Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic 3D Blast (1997)
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The Saturn version was ported in only two months, and was released on the same day as the Genesis version in North America to make up for the cancellation of Sonic X-treme.
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Development, General, Real Life
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Warlocked
Warlocked (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Wizards (Game)
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Attachment There was a sequel planned for the game to be released on the Game Boy Advance titled Wizards. However, the game was continually postponed until it was dropped.
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Cancelled Release, Development
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Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red Version (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Blue Version (Game)
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After Shigeru Miyamoto became Satoshi Tajiri's mentor, Satoshi gave thanks to him by making the default rival name 'Shigeru'. Satoshi made himself the default name for the protagonist. This can be found in the Japanese Generation I Pokemon games.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Franchise: Devil May Cry
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Attachment Dante's name comes from Dante Alighieri, who was a great Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, Divine Comedy, is often referenced or used as a background throughout the Devil May Cry series. While his brother's name comes from Publius Vergilius Maro, who was a classical Roman poet. Dante Alighieri made Virgil his guide through Hell and Purgatory in his Divine Comedy.
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Development, Inspiration
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The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us Part I (2022)
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An enemy which had been scrapped from the final game was an infected elephant which had tendrils of fungus extending from its legs and blooming mushrooms on its head. An encounter with the creature would have Joel, the game's protagonist, scrambling away from it.
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Development, Early Idea
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The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us Part I (2022)
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Before deciding on the fungal infected enemies, early designs of the zombie-like creatures looked like bald, fanged beasts with stringy fungus growing off their back.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Journey to Silius
Journey to Silius (1990)
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Attachment Journey to Silius was originally a game based on the 1984 film The Terminator, however the deal had fell through resulting in the story and graphics being altered. It was intended to be released in 1989, the same year as Sunsoft's game based on the Batman film was to be released.
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Development, Early Idea
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