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The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994)
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena was originally designed around arena battles, requiring your team to go from city to city becoming the champion in each of their arenas. During development, they decided to partially shift the focus away from the arena and eventually removed them from the game entirely.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Hessian calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Spyro the Dragon
Spyro the Dragon (1998)
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When Insomniac Games first started to develop the game, Spyro was a green dragon. However, this caused problems as Spyro kept blending in with most of the environments, causing them to eventually change his color to purple.
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Development, Early Idea
person RadSpyro calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land (2011)
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land underwent an 11-year development cycle, perhaps one of the longest in the series. It started right after the release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, designed for the GameCube. This project featured 2.5D visuals (similar to Kirby 64), co-op multiplayer, was tentatively titled "Kirby GCN", and was one of 3 canceled projects.

The second one was in a fully 3D environment, yet had not achieved the quality Nintendo had expected. The third one was once again a 2D side-scroller with pop-up book visuals. These projects were eventually recognized as failures due to how most of the focus was on multiplayer instead of the game itself.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person VinchVolt calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pikmin (Game), Mario 128 (Game), Mario (Franchise), Nintendo GameCube (Platform)
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A tech demo developed by Shigeru Miyamoto over a number of years titled "Mario 128" was shown off at Nintendo's Spaceworld 2000 trade show and was designed to showcase the GameCube's ability to utilize multiple AIs. The demo featured 128 Marios dismantling a pseudo-8 bit Mario sprite composed of several blocks by picking up and carrying them away. This project had a tumultuous development cycle with little to no details coming out over the years until 2007 when he revealed at a GDC Keynote that some parts of the project were utilized in two games he produced in the 2000s. The general concept and some other parts of Mario 128 were developed into Pikmin after Miyamoto asked his team to create an entirely new game that would be nothing like a sequel to a Mario game. As for the second game, the ability to warp the terrain seen in the tech demo as well as "different sizes of spherical items" influenced the free-form gravity and ability to walk around entire planets in Super Mario Galaxy.
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Cancelled Release, Demo, Development, Prototype, Trade Show
person MortalKombat2007 calendar_month March 27, 2013
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1Up.com article about Super Mario Galaxy influence from Mario 128:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160602184133/http://www.1up.com/news/super-mario-galaxy-derived-mario

YuriofWind video [this source and additional information provided by VinchVolt.]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uCnbDrp9o

[Below sources and information provided by Wolfen50.]

DidYouKnowGaming video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1IML3xlp0

Shigeru Miyamoto 2007 GDC Keynote - Part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwYBSkzevw?t=66

Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok?t=1028
Shadows of the Damned
Shadows of the Damned (2011)
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Attachment In an interview with IGN, Suda 51 said that his next game (after No More Heroes 2) would be a action/horror title in which he said the main character would have a "very cool watch".
The game was later to be revealed to be Shadows of the Damned however, the main character, Garcia Hotspur doesn't wear a watch.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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NieR
NieR (2010)
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Attachment There are actually two versions of the game Nier. Nier: Gestalt (an Xbox 360 exclusive title) features an older version of the protagonist, while Nier: Replicant (a PS3 exclusive title) features a younger version. Originally the team had trouble deciding on what kind of protagonist they wanted for the game so they decided to make one game with an older protagonist to appeal to western audiences and a younger to appeal to Japanese audiences. Nier: Replicant was never released in the west.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Version Difference
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Attachment Originally, the female lead character was supposed to be Elza Walker. When Resident Evil 2 was made again, she was replaced by Claire Redfield. Elza's only appearance was in Resident Evil 1.5.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person pyoro64 calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Pokémon Diamond Version
Pokémon Diamond Version (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Pearl Version (Game)
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The title screen music for Pokemon Ruby, Saphire, and Emerald can be found in the code for Diamond and Pearl. It is labeled "MIDI HEX 0003" and was likely used for testing purposes during development.
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Development, General, Music
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo GameCube
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Before it was released, a tech demo for the Gamecube was developed which featured an explorable version of Princess Peach's castle. This demo was later leaked online.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person DokemonStudios calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Deadly Premonition
Deadly Premonition (2010)
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Attachment Deadly Premonition originally started development as a multi-platform game under the name of Rainy Woods. However when the game was teased at Tokyo Game Show 2007, many people commented that it looked incredibly similar to the television series Twin Peaks. The game was then delayed and a lot of the elements in the game were either scrapped or entirely reworked to make it less similar to that of the TV show.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Similarities, Theory
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Banjo-Pilot
Banjo-Pilot (2005)
subdirectory_arrow_right Diddy Kong Pilot (Game)
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Attachment A new character named Redneck Kong was to be a racer in the original Diddy Kong Pilot, however he was later intended to be replaced with Candy Kong.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Resident Evil
Resident Evil (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Resident Evil (Game)
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Attachment A port of Resident Evil was planned for the Game Boy Color but was cancelled due to hardware limitations. The game was supposed to have new enemies and a new save feature. ROMs of the game have since been released online after a collector got their hands on an unfinished version of the game following a $2000 dollar fundraiser in order for him to do so.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life
person Mass Distraction calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Collection: Mana
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The Mana series (known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu) actually started off as a Gameboy spinoff to Final Fantasy, called Final Fantasy Adventure. The Final Fantasy elements the game originally had were dropped in the remake, Sword of Mana for GBA.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person Mass Distraction calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Star Fox 64
Star Fox 64 (1997)
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The way the characters in the game talk by opening and closing their mouths was inspired by Thunderbirds and other "English puppet dramas" (called "Supermarionation" by Thunderbirds co-creator Gerry Anderson). Shigeru Miyamoto was a fan of these shows and imagined that if the Star Fox series became popular enough, AP Films themselves would come from England to talk about turning it into a "puppet drama".
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person EnoRed calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Franchise: The Legend of Zelda
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Attachment Before the timeline of The Legend of Zelda series was revealed in Hyrule Historia, there were attempts of releasing an official document detailing the order of when the games took place.

Nintendo first published http://www.zelda.com/lib_timeline.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a page on the official Zelda.com website which told how up to "Oracle of Ages and Seasons" each Link was the same, but was later taken down.

The second attempt was by Dan Owsen, one of the English script writers for Nintendo and the Legend of Zelda games, who presented a document to Nintendo of Japan, however they vetoed the idea so to keep the timeline open to interpretation.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 26, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Game)
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Attachment Before destroying the support pillars and causing the fourth floor to collapse onto the third, the four rooms in the center of Eagle's Tower's third floor are entirely different, consisting primarily of an extremely large pit. Of these rooms, the upper two are inaccessible and never normally seen in-game. It appears the one on the left was meant to be used, but due to the way the crystal switches work, the blocks controlled by them will always deny you entry. And even if it was accessible, the pit is too open and can easily lead to getting trapped on the second floor. Interestingly, while the room is inaccessible, it was still updated after the first version.

To the right of that room is one that was definitely never intended to be used at all, consisting only of a "down" staircase leading up to the fourth floor, presumably for testing purposes. It's also the only way to get up there. (Leaving the 4F area in any direction will take you to blank "default" rooms.)

These rooms are also present in the DX version.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Release Difference, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Banjo-Pilot
Banjo-Pilot (2005)
subdirectory_arrow_right Diddy Kong Pilot (Game)
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Attachment Before Rare was acquired by Microsoft, Banjo-Pilot was being developed as "Diddy Kong Pilot", a sequel to Diddy Kong Racing. After the acquisition, the game was changed to feature Banjo-Kazooie characters instead as Nintendo still owned the rights to Donkey Kong characters.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Adventures (2002)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dinosaur Planet (Game)
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Attachment Star Fox Adventures was at one point called "Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet". This name referenced both original incarnations of the game, Rare's "Dinosaur Planet" and also Nintendo EAD's "Star Fox Adventures" that was in development around the same time; both ended up being merged into the same project, hence the original title, though sometime before release, the "Dinosaur Planet" subtitle was dropped, leaving the final game named as just Star Fox Adventures.

Curiously, when looking at Star Fox Adventures save data on a GCN memory card through the Wii, it actually includes its original "Dinosaur Planet" subtitle, as well as using the Star Fox emblem present in the beta logo for the save data icon. This was not the case in the GameCube's data card management menu.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Unseen64 article:
http://www.unseen64.net/2009/07/17/starfox-adventures-gamecube-beta/

Wii menu image comes from user Fruitcake of the Dinosaur Planet Discord:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/827620143135588402/1218289827229732944/tumblr_mel4zfaVYJ1rwudczo1_400.jpg?ex=66071fd1&;is=65f4aad1&hm=ac719940f8ea96ece90cbe5e3175c07eb59a386afd1e38228e2bc255a9a53f54&

Article by Kev Bayliss on a leaked build of Dinosaur Planet:
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/opinion/dinosaur-planet-leak/
Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pro-Am 64 (Game)
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Attachment Diddy Kong Racing wasn't originally going to star Diddy Kong, and was originally a game called Pro AM 64. It wasn't until a demo of the game was presented to Shigeru Miyamoto that he suggested Diddy be the mascot of the game.
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Development, Early Idea
person Koopaul calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
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Attachment The Engineer Update was originally going to have a new building called the Repair Node, which would repair nearby buildings in bursts. It was scrapped due to how poorly the Engineer played when it replaced the Dispenser or the Teleporter.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Antwan calendar_month March 26, 2013
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