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Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal (1995)
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There were originally different endings for each of the racers. They were filmed with real actors and some differ to the final endings. The endings were dropped for numerous reasons, most notably, the campness and cheesiness of the endings themselves, the poor production quality, and the fact that they were using the working title of 'High Octane'. The endings can be found in Twisted Metal: Head-On Extra Twisted Edition.
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Bonus Content, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Viewtiful Joe 2
Viewtiful Joe 2 (2004)
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In early trailers, a multiplayer mode was shown off. One player would play as Joe while the other player would play as Silvia. However, sometime during development, the mode was dropped.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando (1987)
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Attachment In Japan, the game was titled "Hitler no Fukkatsu: Top Secret" which translates to "The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret". The western release was drastically altered to not feature any mention of Nazism with the enemy changed to the "Badds". The leader of the enemy's name was changed from Weizmann to Killt and the final boss who was Hitler revived was named Master-D, however his appearance still remains the same.
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Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (1993)
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Attachment There was once a Genesis port planned for release, but it was canceled for unknown reasons. A ROM of the game can still be found online.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (Game), Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Game), Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (Game), Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (Game)
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Attachment In the first three versions of Street Fighter II, "World Warrior", "Champion Edition" and "Hyper Fighting", Ryu and Ken's Hadoken sprites would sometimes appear orange. Developer Akira Nishitani confirmed that this was added as an Easter egg, and wasn't a glitch as previously thought.

In later versions of the game, starting with "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers", Ryu would receive a legitimate orange Hadoken special move called "Shakunetsu Hadoken"
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Secret
person MightyKombat calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem Forever (2011)
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During the first fight with an Assault Commander boss, Duke says, "I'm going to kill you old style!" This is a reference to the Youtube video Ventrilo Harassment where a Ventrilo user is harassed by someone with a Duke Nukem soundboard. The voice actor for Duke Nukem, John St. John, has mentioned in interviews that he has seen the Ventrillo Harassment video, which probably lead to the line being in the game.

"It's awesome, especially the Ventrillo Harassment! I LOVE that fans have used my voice to create some very funny videos and soundboards."
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Franchise: Crash Bandicoot
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The concept of Trash Bandicoot (now known as Fake Crash) came from some cheap looking knock off Crash Bandicoot dolls. These dolls had huge eye brows and a giant overbite.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Minecraft: Java Edition
Minecraft: Java Edition (2011)
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Attachment Gears were a type of block that were available in Indev 0.31 which could be used in a similar way to redstone. They could only be placed on the side of blocks, and were never available in the release versions. In earlier builds players could hack the game to make them accessible, but the files were removed in later updates.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Update Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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Attachment The Pokemon Trainer has an unused jumping animation. Some fans have speculated he may have been playable on his own, but it seems more likely that this jumping was planned to help him traverse large areas like The Subspace Emissary.
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Development, Early Idea, Moveset, Rumor, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person ClaudX calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime (2002)
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Attachment Kraid was intended to return as a boss, but was scrapped due to time constraints. Kraid's character model was completely finished, but the there wasn't enough time left to create a fully polished boss fight.

"It was decided that Kraid was not imperative enough to the Metroid Prime project to run the risk of pushing up the release date in order to fit him in." -Gene Kohler
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Pokémon Gold Version
Pokémon Gold Version (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Silver Version (Game)
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Attachment Pokemon Gold & Silver started out as Pocket Monsters 2. It was planned to come out in 1997, but due to delays and other issues the name was dropped. One year later the game was re-announced as Pocket Monsters: Gold & Silver.
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Development, Early Idea
person Funland47 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Franchise: Mario
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Mario's hair is brown, while his mustache is black. This was because around the time of Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario's creators wanted him to have a definite hair color in game, while it was easier to draw his mustache by extending the black outline of his nose.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person wiz85 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Metal Slug 5
Metal Slug 5 (2003)
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Attachment In an unused debug level, you can find an assist character named Acchiles. He was left out due to Metal Slug 5 being rushed. In one of Metal Slug 5's flyers, he is seen along with an unknown character.
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Debug, Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Character, Unused Content
person pyoro64 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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Attachment The Pokemon, Ditto, was meant to be a possible helper when a Pokeball was thrown. He was supposed to transform into the player that threw the ball and would help fight. However, there were problems with its programming and it was removed. By using an action replay, Ditto can be put back into the game, but he is lacking his "transform" ability. Instead, all it does is say "Meta!" (it's Japanese name being Metamon) and disappears. Anyone who runs into it is dealt 7-8% damage.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Franchise: Halo
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During the development of Halo 3 and Halo Wars, Microsoft gave the rights to different companies to make a Halo MMO, as well as a handheld Halo game. Both of these were never finished.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Portal 2
Portal 2 (2011)
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Attachment The original idea for the game was to replace Chell with a new protagonist named Mel. Cave Johnson was to replace GLaDOS as the antagonist, and Mel was going to have many different personality spheres follow her (such as the Adventure Sphere, Betty, and one referred to as the "Morgan Freeman Sphere") instead of just Wheatley. Play testers were up for the idea of Mel until they became disappointed when GLaDOS woke up and didn't recognize the player as the character that defeated her in the first game. Mel was then put in the multiplayer before being scrapped entirely and replaced with Atlas and P-Body.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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Attachment Captain Falcons' red costume was originally planned to say "Hell Hawk" on the back.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month April 20, 2013
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Platform: Philips CD-i
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When the Phillips CD-i was first introduced in 1991, it was not advertised as a gaming console, but as a multimedia product to promote the CD format, aiming to provide an all-in-one experience with a single system. Consequently, in addition to audio CDs and game discs, the CD-i included support for the following sub-formats:

• CD+G discs, a variant of audio CD with allows listeners to display low-resolution graphics on a monitor in time with the music.
• Video CDs, a precursor to the more successful DVD format, distinct from both CD+G and the CD/LaserDisc hybrid format CD Video. Video CD playback required the installation of a supplemental MPEG-1 decoder cartridge.
• Photo CDs, which allowed users to store and display uncompressed digital transfers of film photographs on a video monitor.

Low sales caused Philips to try promoting it as a game console three years later.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person Antwan calendar_month April 19, 2013
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Archived web page documenting the history of the CD-i:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240203204503/http://www.philipscdi.com/history.htm

The 8-Bit Guy video about the CD-i:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxSCNhblC3g
Pokémon Crystal Version
Pokémon Crystal Version (2000)
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Attachment Even though Pokémon Crystal is incompatible with the Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2, there is an unused Super Game Boy border programmed into the game. This can be seen by setting a flag in the game's RAM to enable the Super Game Boy features. Cheating devices such as the Game Genie can also be used to achieve the same effect temporarily. The border is a leftover from the Japanese version of Pokémon Gold; the design is the same and the text reads Pocket Monsters Gold Version, rather than the English version's title of "Pokémon Gold".

When the player attempts to play the game on a model of the Game Boy prior to the Game Boy Color, the error message "This Game Pak is designed only for use on the Game Boy Color." is output by the game, with the word Crystal spelled out using Unown. There is an unused color palette associated with this message, using an orange tint, which appears when triggering the unused Super Game Boy border.
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Debug, Development, Early Idea, General, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person thewitchofgeek calendar_month April 19, 2013
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Minecraft: Java Edition
Minecraft: Java Edition (2011)
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Attachment The Leather chain armor is a sprite from Indev (an older test version of Minecraft's Survival mode) 0.31's items.png armor. It never made it to the release versions.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Content, Unused Items
person Kingperson24 calendar_month April 19, 2013
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