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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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Attachment Niko Bellic, one of the game's protagonists, was based on the character Sasha from the 2001 film "Behind Enemy Lines" played by Vladimir Mashkov. Mashkov was even asked by Rockstar if he'd like to play Niko Bellic but, declined the offer.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 7, 2013
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
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Attachment There is an unused animated Yoshi egg texture in the game's data, suggesting that Yoshi was going to play a bigger role in the game, similar to Super Mario World.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person xianc78 calendar_month August 6, 2013
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Doom
Doom (1993)
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In 1995, it was estimated that Doom was installed on to more computers than Microsoft's own Windows 95. This led Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, so they could have the rights to the Doom name. This also led to the development of a Windows 95 port of the game to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 6, 2013
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EarthBound
EarthBound (1994)
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Attachment Early previews of EarthBound show that the game's localizers had considered calling Giygas "The Geek".
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Development, Early Idea, Name Change
person ThisGuyInTheSuit calendar_month August 5, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
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The idea for the game came from an elevator ride with Shinji Hashimoto (Final Fantasy and Square producer) and a Disney producer, who shared the same building in Tokyo. They came up with a crossover as a vague production idea, and the head of Square-Enix, Hironobu Sakaguchi, later agreed to the idea.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 2, 2013
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Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
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Attachment There is an unused music track in the game of the Noki Bay theme, as if you were riding Yoshi, even though Yoshi is not in Noki Bay. Many have speculated this is because Yoshi was going to be in the level, but was removed.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Music
person TheSkeletalMinion calendar_month August 1, 2013
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Attachment The trademark Sonic Emblem, as featured in Sonic the Hedgehog and subsequent installments on the Sega Genesis, is based off of the logo from the 1988 Sega arcade title, Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Reference
person Cheshireson calendar_month August 1, 2013
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)
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According to an interview with director Lorne Lanning, Abe's stitched mouth was done because "When he was born, he was more of a crybaby...and it was something that was done to him to help the situation", and it was done before he developed consciousness, causing him to perceive the stitches as a part of him.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person VinchVolt calendar_month August 1, 2013
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G4TV interview with Lorne Lanning [link currently dead]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB_TyNnTOMc

Oddworld Library article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141015033901/https://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/FAQ#Why_are_Abe's_lips_stitched_together
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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Hideo Kojima decided to have Harry Gregson-Williams compose most of the game's soundtrack after Kojima and sound director Kazuki Muraoka watched "The Replacement Killers" in a cinema, and enjoyed the music that Williams composed for the film. They had planned to watch "Saving Private Ryan", but the line for the movie was very long.

Gregson-Williams was given limited descriptions of the music he had to compose, such as "heroic" or "stealthy" as Kojima wanted the music to be pure Gregson-Williams. Gregson-Williams was told that the limited instructions he got was due to language barriers.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life
person MightyKombat calendar_month August 1, 2013
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Platform: Atari 2600
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Attachment There was going to be a peripheral for the Atari 2600 called the "Mindlink" that made it possible to play games with your mind. Atari said the device would allow users to "think" the movement of objects on the screen. The product however simply read electronic impulses in the forehead whenever the user moved their eyebrows, rather than actual brain waves.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life
person peanutgamer calendar_month August 1, 2013
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011)
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Attachment After the big bar fight in the beginning of the game, if you walk over to the other side of the bar instead of following Sully, you can find a newspaper that reads, "Scientists are still struggling to understand deadly fungus." This is referencing the fungal infection in the game "The Last of Us." This easter egg was planned to be removed by the development team before the game was shipped (as they were not planning to reveal the game until much later) but forgot about it and released the game with the easter egg still in.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Reference
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 30, 2013
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Mega Man 3
Mega Man 3 (1990)
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Keiji Inafune considers this the least polished of the Classic series, as they didn't have that long to work on the game (roughly a year), and many things kept going wrong during development. Inafune told Nintendo Power, "If we had more time to polish it, we could do a lot of things better, make it a better game, but [Capcom] said that we needed to release it."
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Development, General, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 30, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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According to the first volume of Metal Gear Saga, Liquid Snake, Spoiler:having faked his own death from the FOXDIE virus, was meant to be the main antagonist of the Tanker Chapter (an aircraft carrier during this part in development). However, this, along with most of the original plot, was scrapped due to tensions rising in the Middle East.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 28, 2013
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Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario 3D Land (2011)
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Following the events of the massive earthquake that devastated Japan in March 2011, the development of Super Mario 3D Land shifted focus entirely. Nintendo's primary goal became making a game that could bring happiness to a tragedy-struck country.
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Development
person SideSmash calendar_month July 28, 2013
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Platform: Xbox
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The original Xbox prototype was built using dismantled Dell laptops.

"In 1998, Berkes and his team ordered a few Dell laptops, took them apart and built the first prototypes of a Windows gaming console.

Ed Fries was leading Microsoft's games publishing business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team."
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Development
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month July 27, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
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During early development, there were once bus shelters around the city. The model still exists in the game's code.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person ClaudX calendar_month July 25, 2013
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)
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Originally, the scene where Abe escapes Rupture Farms was suppose to show a meteor shower hitting the moon which would slowly create the hand print seen in-game, which hinted at the greater powers guiding Abe through his adventure. Due to budgeting problems, the scene was shortened.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 25, 2013
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Mega Man Soccer
Mega Man Soccer (1994)
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Attachment An early sketch from Rockman's Soccer shows that Guts Man was once planned for the game. He was replaced with Proto Man on the cover art.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
person GorgonBull35 calendar_month July 24, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
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This game is named after a real medical condition. Phantom pain is pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there. Doctors once believed this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but experts now recognize that these real sensations originate in the spinal cord and brain.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person Psychospacecow calendar_month July 23, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
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There is an additional outfit that is referenced in the game's files (Textamerican.gxt>MAIN>OUTFT13). It was cut during development and was called MC Tommy.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items
person ClaudX calendar_month July 23, 2013
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