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Franchise: Pokémon
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Attachment The Pokemon 'Drowzee' is based on tapirs, which, in Japan, are said to eat dreams.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person wiz85 calendar_month June 12, 2013
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012)
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A rejected idea in New Leaf was to allow the player to pan for gold.
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Development, Early Idea
person wiz85 calendar_month June 12, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Children and elderly people with walkers were planned for the game, but were cut.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month June 6, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Claude could originally run with the baseball bat.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month June 6, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Some early copies of GTA III still featured the logo of DMA Design, the original name of Rockstar North, during the opening credits.
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Development, General, Real Life, Release Difference, Version Difference
person ClaudX calendar_month June 6, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Attachment The beta version of GTAIII's HUD had a life bar instead of percentages.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month June 6, 2013
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Franchise: Pikmin
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Olimar's Japanese name (オリマー Orima) is an anagram of Mario (マリオ). Similarly, Olimar's partner's name, Louie, is based on Luigi.
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Development, Inspiration
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month June 4, 2013
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Pikmin 2
Pikmin 2 (2004)
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Attachment The four levels seem to be based off the four seasons. The first level(Valley of Repose) is winter, the second level(Awakening Wood) is spring, the third level(Perplexing Pool) is summer, and the last level(Wistful Wild) is fall.
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Development, Inspiration
person oozy the wolf calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo GameCube
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The GameCube's SDK has strings that reference all of the known N64 peripherals, including obscure ones such as the keyboard and mouse, suggesting that the GameCube was once planned to have support for Nintendo 64 peripherals.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory
person xianc78 calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Persona 4 Arena
Persona 4 Arena (2012)
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Arc System Works wanted Ryoyaro Dojima (Yu's uncle) as a playable character. Instead of a persona, he was supposed to summon his daughter Naniko to his side. This idea was rejected by Atlus.
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Development, Early Idea
person Outofmind23 calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009)
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Attachment There was a level cut from the final release of the game where the Ghostbusters fight haunted floats in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. At one point during this level, the team would have made a trip to Ray's Occult Books, which was Ray Stantz's book store in Ghostbusters II. A Dopey Dog float was supposed to be the end level boss, but was replaced with a different character. Dopey Dog was a character from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon show.

There was also a "Crowd" mechanic developed for use primarily with this level that was also cut. The "Crowd" mechanic was supposed to simulate the many people that walk the streets of New York City. This "Crowd" mechanic gave up to 1,000 individual NPCs their own AI. The members of the Crowd Mechanic successfully reacted to the Ghostbusters walking by, became scared of ghosts that appeared out of nowhere, and ran in terror when the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appeared on the street.
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Cameo, Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Mortal Kombat Trilogy (1996)
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Johnny Cage was going to be the only classic character to not return. Because his actor quit/was fired after Mortal Kombat II, a new actor had to replace him, which meant remaking all of his sprites. Johnny Cage also replaces the unmasked Sub-Zero, which can be seen in early promo photos.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Fallout 3
Fallout 3 (2008)
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Attachment Liberty Prime is loosely modeled after Gort, from the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

The "Prime" in Liberty Prime is actually NOT an intentional reference to Optimus Prime from the Transformers, as many people suspected.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person G-Haven calendar_month June 1, 2013
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Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
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It was originally believed that the only reason the game needed the Expansion Pak to run was because it fixed a game-breaking bug that caused the 4 megabyte game cartridge to randomly crash. Rare couldn't find any other solution, so they bundled the Expansion Pak with the game, costing them a lot of money. They still don't know what caused the bug. According to software engineer Chris Marlow:

"There was a bug that caused the game to randomly crash that only occurred in the 4meg-only version ... and they couldn't find out what it was, so they had to shift with the memory card in it for free and it cost them a fortune."

However, developer Mark Stevenson claimed that while there was a game-breaking bug, it only affected one hardware revision of the Nintendo 64 that would be resolved on later models. He claims that the actual reason the Expansion Pak was required was because Rare's management instructed the game's developers to support it early in development to accommodate advanced graphical effects like dynamic lighting. Stevenson speculated that these two stories were likely conflated into one, creating the memory leak rumor that persisted for years.

Ultimately, Simon Craddick, one of the four engineers who worked on the Expansion Pak's implementation into Donkey Kong 64, claimed in a Facebook group that the only thing the Expansion Pak actually did was add vertex lighting to the levels.
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Development, General, Glitch, Real Life, Rumor, Theory
person Charlie calendar_month May 30, 2013
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Pikmin
Pikmin (2001)
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Attachment Unused textures left in the game reveal that, at one time, it was intended for Pikmin types other than yellow to be able to carry bomb-rocks. This feature was eventually implemented in later sequels of the series.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person oozy the wolf calendar_month May 30, 2013
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Ares Rising
Ares Rising (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders (Game), Cyberdreams (Company)
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Cyberdreams was originally going to publish Ares Rising and Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders. When the company folded in 1997, the games managed to be completed and published under different companies: Imagine Studios for Ares Rising and Orion Interactive for Blue Heat.
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Corporate Affairs, Development, General
person Antwan calendar_month May 30, 2013
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Cave Story
Cave Story (2004)
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During development, nearly all of the enemies were based on bars of soap. The design of these enemies were the basis for Balrog's design.
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Development, Inspiration
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 29, 2013
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
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Attachment In the original teaser trailer for the game, Sonic was shown to be able to transform into Super Sonic at will and not just during a boss fight. This was a feature that couldn't be done in previous 3D Sonic games, but was cut during development due to extreme time constraints. However, by hacking the game, an unused gem called the Rainbow Gem can be found and equipped. When used, Sonic performs an animation where he is supposed to transform, but is unable to turn into the Super mode and immediately drops to the ground once the animation is complete, a relic of the Super Sonic transformation feature.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 29, 2013
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SonicRetro article:
http://info.sonicretro.org/Game_Secrets:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%282006_game%29#Unused_icons.2FRainbow_Gem

Rainbow Gem hack [link and attached image provided by Bolbi Stroganovsky]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbNsAcKoJ2Q

Sonic the Hedgehog Tokyo Game Show 2005 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNCRThYlQcM
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars (2010)
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Both Phoenix Wright and Franziska von Karma were planned to be fighters in the game, with Franziska being the more wanted as her whip would have been easy to implement. However, Phoenix had only one move planned, "Objection!", which the developers had trouble balancing since the attack became larger when translating the 4 letter "異議あり" (Igiari) to the 10 letter "Objection!".
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 29, 2013
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Mario Power Tennis
Mario Power Tennis (2004)
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In the intro is a tournament board with every character in the game. In the bottom left corner of the board you can see the team of Toad and Toadette, hinting that they were possibly planned to appear as playable characters at one point during development.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 28, 2013
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