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Mario's Time Machine
Mario's Time Machine (1994)
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Attachment The NES version of Mario's Time Machine is the only version of the game to allow players to attack NPCs - including real world historical figures - by kicking Koopa Shells at them
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Console Difference, General
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3D Pinball: Space Cadet
3D Pinball: Space Cadet (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right PC (Microsoft Windows) (Platform)
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At an unknown point after 3D Pinball: Space Cadet's removal from Windows hardware starting with Vista, there was an attempt within Microsoft Garage (Microsoft's program for experimental, non-profitable employee projects) to revive the game with compatibility for current Windows operating systems. While the port was finished, it could not be publicly released due to the 1994 contract with Cinematronics (now merged into THQ Nordic) stipulating that the game could not be released as an independent entity, only bundled with Windows hardware.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Corporate Affairs, Development, Minigame, Remake, Unreleased Content
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Plok
Plok (1993)
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Attachment Plok! was originally envisioned as a coin-operated arcade game titled Fleapit, running off of Rare Ltd's Razz board, which was never used in a released game.

Chris Sievey, the actor behind the popular 80s UK comedy character Frank Sidebottom, had agreed to voice Plok in the game before its cancellation. The SNES game would not have any voice acting whatsoever outside of digitally-made grunts and laughter.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Removed Feature, Unreleased Content, Unreleased Hardware, Unused Content, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 27, 2023
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Hell's Kitchen: The Game
Hell's Kitchen: The Game (2008)
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Hell's Kitchen censors the profanity that made its source material famous - developer Ludia temporarily provided a more vulgar version of the PC game on its website as a limited time release, which was timed to be taken down following the finale of Season 4.
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Censorship, Complaint, Console Difference, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 25, 2023
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Smash T.V.
Smash T.V. (1990)
subdirectory_arrow_right Smash T.V. (Game), Super Smash T.V. (Game)
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The dual-joystick control setup for the arcade version of Smash T.V. was similar to designer Eugene Jarvis' previous game Robotron: 2084, where one joystick controlled the player's movements while the other controlled the direction the player shoots in. The NES and SNES versions carried over this original control scheme in different ways. For the NES version, it can be accessed by plugging in two controllers, holding them vertically with the control pads facing the screen, and using both control pads as you would in the arcade version. This control scheme is also available to use with two players on the NES version, but requires four controllers plugged into a multitap like the NES Four Score. The dual control aspect of the game works more efficiently on the SNES version, as a single SNES controller has four main buttons, A, B, X and Y, that are laid out like an additional control pad. This enables the player to shoot in one direction while running in another, and also eliminates the need for a multitap if you want a second player to join in.
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Bonus Content, Console Difference, Controls, General
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Smash T.V. NES version alternate control scheme demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_zruOA968

Super Smash T.V. footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXJmx2Q6bi0
Pac-Land
Pac-Land (1984)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac-Man Museum+ (Game)
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Attachment The wheels on the ghost cars in Pac-Land feature a Manji, a symbol used in Buddhism to represent eternal cycling. In the Pac-Man Museum+ version of Pac-Land, the wheel design was changed to avoid resemblances to modern Swastikas associated with Nazism.
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Censorship, Console Difference, Religion, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 25, 2023
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Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. (1983)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Bros. (Game)
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Mario Bros. was intentionally designed to be less graphically intensive than other games coming out at the same point so its Famicom conversion would seem more authentic to the arcade version.
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Console Difference, Development, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 24, 2023
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures (2013)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (Game), Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe (Game)
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Console Difference, Meme, Reference, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Original ScrewAttack version:
https://youtu.be/_9UaFGZBuow?t=30

7 Grand Dad version
https://youtu.be/jkRRlqDmChk?t=18
Gex: Enter the Gecko
Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Gex 64: Enter the Gecko (Game)
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In the PlayStation version, one of Gex's quips is "I guess Bowser's on vacation?", referencing the main antagonist of the Mario franchise. Ironically, this line doesn't appear in the Nintendo 64 version of the game due to many of Gex's lines having to be cut due to storage limitations on N64 cartridges.
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Console Difference, Reference, Storage/Memory, Voice Acting
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Zool
Zool (1992)
subdirectory_arrow_right Rise of the Robots (Game)
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The arcade version of Rise of the Robots contains code from an unreleased arcade version of Zool. However, this is only a file directory and as such unfortunately cannot be reverse-engineered into a playable state.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Remake, Unreleased Content, Unused Code
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 15, 2023
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Valhellio
Valhellio (2011)
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In a 2011 interview with the game's developer Masaaki Nagaura published in STG Gameside #5, Nagaura was asked at what points did he struggle when porting the game from mobile phones to the PC? He responded:

"From the start I had planned to release it for PC and mobile phones, so there weren’t any particular difficulties. When developing a game, the graphics are always expensive to create, but once you start thinking about improving their quality there’s really no end to it, and I always struggle with where to draw the line. But since I started development on the mobile platform, which has hardware limitations, I knew what the minimum requirements were beforehand. From there I brushed things up for the PC version, and I think it was a really efficient way to develop. With the mobile version my goal was to make “the best shooting game ever for a mobile phone,” so I worked hard tuning it up."
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Balancing, Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month October 12, 2023
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MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1
MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 (2004)
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In the PS2 version of MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1, you can find a full pirated copy of Metroid Fusion in the folder "DELETE_ME". It was likely used to test the compilation's emulator.
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Console Difference, Emulation, Mistake, Piracy, Plagiarism, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 10, 2023
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
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The Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has a reputation as one of the hardest installments in the Sonic franchise due to making minimal changes to already-challenging level layouts designed for the Master System's larger aspect ratio on the notoriously small Game Gear screen.

Because Sega prefers to release the Game Gear version of the game on newer hardware, and the original Master System version only being released in the Master System's most successful regions (Europe, Australia, and Brazil), most players are only familiar with the version generally considered inferior.
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Article that explains the Game Gear version's reputation:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-8-bit/

Level layout comparisons:
https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2_(8-bit)/Comparisons
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game), Sonic Origins Plus (Game)
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The 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has two endings:

• A good ending, played if the player collects all the emeralds, where Sonic and Tails run off together at night, and see a constellation in the shape of their heads in the sky.
• A bad ending, where Sonic runs alone in the night, and sees a constellation in the shape of Tails' head in the sky

Although it has never been confirmed, many fans have speculated that the bad ending is supposed to involve Tails dying at the hands of Dr. Eggman, with some even going as far as to suggest that a large star on the right of Tails' forehead is supposed to represent a gun wound. The @sonic_hedgehog Twitter account has jokingly acknowledged this theory without confirming one way or another if it is true - once in a cross-promotion for The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and the 8-bit game's addition to Sonic Origins Plus, where it compares both games' inclusion of "a beloved character's possible demise", and in a piece of promotional artwork taking place at a carnival, where Tails gets nausea on an intense ride and his constellation can be seen above him, with the "gun wound" star being placed on his muzzle.
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100% Completion, Console Difference, Ending, Rumor, Theory
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
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Attachment In the European version of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland for Game Boy Color, there is a friendly message to hackers:

Hello There Pilgrim...

If you have hacked this ROM, you no doubt are reading
this text. This game is basically a 2 Meg. Game. However,
Nintendo, in their infinite wisdom, has decreed that the
smallest ROM they will produce for the Gameboy Color is
8 Meg. -- Now, what to put in that empty 6 Meg.? So, the
developers of the game decided to put .GIF pictures of
themselves into the game. Why not? Might as well fill the
void with something entertaining. See if you can retrieve
them from this ROM. If you do, you win the prize. Please
call (609) 466-2092 (in New Jersey, USA) if you have been
able to view the two .GIF pictures, located in the rest of
the upper 6 Megs of this ROM. We will have a nice reward
for you...

Good Luck!

Roger W. Amidon
September 28, 2000

The described graphics do indeed exist within the game code. It is unknown who the first person to discover the images were, or if and how they were rewarded. Sadly, Roger W. Amidon has since passed away.
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Console Difference, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message, Sweepstakes, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
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Pac-Man Championship Edition
Pac-Man Championship Edition (2020)
subdirectory_arrow_right Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 (Game)
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The NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, featured in 2020's Namco Museum Archives Volume 1, was originally created as an unauthorized fan project by homebrew developer coke774 in 2008.
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Console Difference, Credits, Remake, Similarities, Unreleased Content, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 7, 2023
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Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen
Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (2008)
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In a February 9, 2023 interview with the game's producer Yutaka Fukaya published on the Siliconera website, he was asked when he began working on the game for its worldwide release? He responded that although him and his team started working on the game around the start of 2022, they had the concept well before then.

Fukaya was also asked how difficult it was to get the new ports ready, if any of the ports were easier to create than the others, and what were the unexpected issues that came up during its development? He responded that while it wasn't significantly more difficult than previous titles, the fact that it was a port from the Wii, "a hardware system that is not like any other", was one of the points that required ingenuity. He also said that while it wasn't exactly a difficulty, the team devoted a lot of time, effort and resources to the game's visuals to raise the quality of the game.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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M&M's Minis Madness
M&M's Minis Madness (2001)
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M&M's Minis Madness had a one-level demo for personal computers released on the M&M's official website which used a proprietary emulator. It does not feature the opening cutscene.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Console Difference, Version Difference
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Article about the demo:
https://www.gamezone.com/news/m_amp_m_s_mini_madness_gbc_demo_on_pc/

The Demo ROM has been preserved and can be found on piracy websites.
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (1994)
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Attachment The game's international cover art is split into two separate parts, the first part depicting Pac-Man about to hang glide off a cliff, and the second part showing him screaming in fear just moments after jumping off. The North American box art for both the SNES and Genesis versions of the game use the picture of Pac-Man screaming, while the European box art for the SNES version uses the picture of Pac-Man preparing to take off. Since this regional gag may have been missed by players at the time of the game's release, copies of the Genesis version featuring Namco's production line of the cartridge came packaged with a lenticular cover art insert showing both pictures in motion back-to-back.
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Box Art, Console Difference, General, Regional Difference
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Upon the release of the Hugh Neutron DLC, a glitch was added to the Switch version of the game that made Aang's air ball move an instant KO. This was quickly patched out.
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Console Difference, Glitch, Moveset, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 23, 2023
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