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Platform: Philips CD-i
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The CD-i started out as a CD add-on for the SNES, before being canceled. Before it was canceled, Nintendo gave Phillips the right to make games with their characters, which lead to the creation of three Zelda games, Hotel Mario (along with two canceled Mario games), and a canceled Donkey Kong game.
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Development, Early Idea
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Pokémon Gold Version
Pokémon Gold Version (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Silver Version (Game)
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Attachment Red's party in the Generation II games is based heavily on in-game events from the Generation I. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, and Pikachu are available in all iterations of the original Kanto plot. Espeon could have been obtained as an Eevee in Celadon City, and Eevee notably serves as Blue's starter in Pokemon Yellow. Lapras is given away by a Silph Co. employee, and two Snorlax are required to be caught or defeated in order to travel to Fuchsia City. Furthermore, in the Generation II games, only the Snorlax that was previously blocking Route 12 (now blocking the entrance to Diglett's Cave) is available to the player, suggesting that Red defeated it and caught the one blocking Route 16. His party in the Generation II games also matches that of Red in the Pokemon Adventures manga during his venture to Mt. Silver, although Pokemon Adventures' Red borrowed Charizard and Blastoise temporarily from the characters Blue and Green, as he didn't own those Pokemon.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities, Suggested, Theory
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Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
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Early on in the pre-production of "The Tyranny of King Washington" DLC, Conner was going to get a love interest in the form of Aveline de Grandpré from Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. The idea was later dropped when the developers saw how the characters' motivations and personalities were too different from each other.
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Development, Early Idea
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New Ghostbusters II
New Ghostbusters II (1990)
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New Ghostbusters II was only released in Europe. There were plans to make it available in America, but Activision had the rights to make a Ghostbusters video game in the USA, so it was never released outside of Europe.

A prototype of the American version of New Ghostbusters II was eventually leaked online as a ROM and can be played via emulation.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars (1992)
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Attachment There was originally going to be a trash compactor level as seen in the film "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" where the player would've possibly battled the dianoga creature. The level was removed due to the memory limitations of the Super Nintendo cartridge, however a single known screenshot was published in Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) which was taken at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Development, Early Idea
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Metal Gear
Metal Gear (1987)
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Hideo Kojima personally hated Metal Gear on the NES, and has gone on to say that he couldn't even get past the first scene of this port.
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Console Difference, Development, General, Real Life
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P.N.03
P.N.03 (2003)
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Originally, Vanessa was going to carry around a gun instead of shooting energy blasts from her hands. However, due to schedule constraints, the developers were unable to complete the gun animations in time.
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Development, Early Idea
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Saints Row
Saints Row (2006)
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Saints Row was originally intended to be called Bling Bling, and was planned for release on the PlayStation 2. Alan Lawrance has stated the "vision" of the original game to Saints Row changed very little, but the technology had.
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Development, Early Idea
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The Godfather II
The Godfather II (2009)
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Attachment To promote the game, EA sent out a press-kit to reviewers containing a number of items, including a pair of brass knuckles. However, because in some states the possession of brass knuckles is considered illegal, EA had to recall them.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987)
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According to Al Lowe, sometime after the release of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of The Lounge Lizards there were talks about a live-action Leisure Suit Larry movie. Al even stated that Jim Carrey was one of the considered actors to play as Larry. The movie didn't go through into full production. Al later stated that the scripts he was handed for the film "didn't feel like the game".
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Development, Early Idea
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Divekick
Divekick (2013)
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Attachment The character Redacted is a likeness of Marvel's Wolverine; she shares his dive kick move from Marvel Vs. Capcom, smokes cigars and hails from British Columbia, Canada. She was even called Wolverine early in the game's development but had her name changed to avoid legal issues with Marvel.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Fallout 3
Fallout 3 (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Van Buren (Game)
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Attachment Fallout 3 was originally being developed around the early 2000s by developer Black Isle Studios under the codename Van Buren. The game was an RPG similar to the previous installments played from a top-down view and would've used the engine from the canceled "Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound". The game would've been set in the southwest of America and the story focused around a prisoner who escapes from prison and trys to discover why he was there in the first place and to stop a scientist named Presper from unleashing a virus to cleanse the world of non-pure blood humans. The project was canceled after Interplay had laid off the development team, however a tech demo was later leaked onto the internet.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 26, 2013
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels (2010)
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels was pulled from the Xbox Live Marketplace twice before being released with a plus at the end of its name and new cards, features, and modes on February 12th 2013.
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Bonus Content, Development, General, Real Life
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (2008)
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DLC was planned for the game. Quan Chi and Harley Quinn were the only ones officially confirmed. There were also hints for Kung Lao and Doomsday. Due to Midway's bankruptcy, these were never released.
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Bonus Content, Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Character, Unused Content
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month August 26, 2013
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Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third (2011)
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The main character of Saints Row: The Third was originally going to be an undercover cop infiltrating the Saints, and the story was more choice-driven. The idea was scrapped after the first six months of development because the developers didn't think the concept felt like a Saints Row game.
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Development, Early Idea
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The Lion King
The Lion King (1994)
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Microsoft DirectX was created in response to the PC port of The Lion King. The Lion King was released on Christmas 1994, and many children tried playing the game, but it would crash when loading. A Wall Street Journal article was published about someone spending his entire Christmas evening trying to get The Lion King to work for his daughter. Even Disney's helplines were flooded with phone calls. Many developers became suspicious of Windows as a viable platform, and stuck with MS-DOS. In response, Microsoft quickly developed the first version of DirectX for the upcoming Windows 95.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
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According to someone on the Team Fortress 2 development team, the song that was going to be playing in the Pyro's mind in the video, "Meet The Pyro," was originally going to be Tiny Tim's "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight." For one reason or another, the song was not used and was instead replaced with "Do You Believe in Magic" by The Lovin' Spoonful.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Music
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Franchise: Sam & Max
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There have been two canceled games in the series. The first was an action game called Sam & Max Plunge Through Space. The game was being made for the Xbox, but was canceled before much about the game was revealed. The second game, simply known as Sam & Max: Freelance Police, made it fair into production (to the point it was even rated by the ESRB) before being canceled due to "current market place realities and underlying economic considerations." When Freelance Police was canceled, many of the employees left LucasArts to form Telltale Games so they could make episodic games.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life
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Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome
Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome (2005)
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Attachment Asagi was originally supposed to get the role of the main character in the planned sequel, Makai Wars. However, the game was indefinitely postponed, which has led to Asagi being a recurring character in many Nippon Ichi games, usually trying to steal the spot of the main character for herself.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Mass Distraction calendar_month August 26, 2013
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Mega Man
Mega Man (1987)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mega Man Powered Up (Game)
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Attachment During development, it was once planned the original Mega Man game would have eight Robot Masters instead of the final's six. One of these two scrapped Robot Masters was Bond Man, a robot that would have used glue as his main weapon and when acquired by Mega Man, he could temporally hold enemies in place (a gimmick that would later be used by the final game's Ice Slasher).

The game's PSP remake, Mega Man Powered Up, features two additional Robot Masters: Time Man and Oil Man, whom have no connection to Bond Man. There did exist plans to add Bond Man into Powered Up, but this idea was recalled to keep Bond Man's cult status.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
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