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Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles (2010)
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Attachment Xenoblade Chronicles was originally going to be titled "Monado: Beginning of the World" and was not intended as an entry into the Xeno series. The original title was last shown at E3 2009 where it was stated the game was named after the protagonist's sword, Monado. In 2010, it was renamed "Xenoblade Chronicles", in honor of Tetsuya Takahashi, the director of the Xenoblade Chronicles and creator of the Xeno series.
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Development, Early Idea
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Franchise: Harvest Moon
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Harvest Moon was created after series creator, Yasuhiro Wada, moved from the Japanese countryside to Tokyo. After living in the city he began to reminisce about his home, which is where some of the key concepts for Harvest Moon came from.
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Development, Inspiration
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Portal 2
Portal 2 (2011)
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Attachment During the development of the game, the team stated that there would be no cake jokes, as they were tired of the "The Cake Is A Lie" meme. Eventually, it turns out that they lied about this, as they "couldn't resist putting in just one."
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Development, General
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Game), Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Game)
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Arin Hanson, also known by his YouTuber alias Egoraptor, provided the voice for Dr. Bruce Banner during the development of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance after winning a contest held by Activision. Hanson described the experience recording Banner's lines as "humiliating" as it was the first time he had to work in a professional recording booth let alone for a AAA video game, and believed it was a bad performance. Hanson initially claimed in 2013 that his voice was used in the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS versions of the game, but a DS version does not exist and he is not credited in the PSP version. In a later email correspondence with a user from the Lost Media Wiki, he stated he recorded his voice after Activision informed him that it would be used in select versions of the game, those being the Wii, PSP and PlayStation 3 versions. Since this was also a local contest, Activision assumed that all auditions were coming from Los Angeles and in the surrounding areas. Hanson got a "congratulations" email and was invited to Los Angeles for recording, but he was unavailable at the time. His recordings ultimately went unused in favor of another voice actor due to time constraints from Hanson only getting a chance to record late in development. However, his unused recordings would end up being added in the 2016 re-release of the game.
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Development, General, Mistake, Release Difference, Unused Audio, Voice Acting
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance re-release voice acting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtmFwxJWAE

Arin Hanson MAGFest 2013 question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRHGYuENoE?t=57m7s

Lost Media Wiki article:
https://lostmediawiki.com/Marvel_Ultimate_Alliance_(found_Arin_Hanson_vocal_performance_of_action_role-playing_game;_2006)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006)
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Attachment At one point in time, both Link from The Legend of Zelda series and Samus Aran from the Metroid series were playable characters. The reason why both of them were removed is unknown, but it is speculated that it is due to Nintendo being shown the character in a PlayStation 2 version of the game, and that they weren't happy with their characters appearing on a competitor's console.
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Development, Early Idea, Rumor, Theory
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Portal
Portal (2007)
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Attachment At the end of Portal, Spoiler:when GLaDOS is disconnected and laying in the driveway, a hoop comes out of the air. This was VALVe's attempt at a new meme. Not knowing that "The Cake Is A Lie" would become the resident Portal meme, Hoopy the Hoop was lost into obscurity. The developers consider this the greatest disappointment in Portal.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Secret
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Conker's Other Bad Fur Day (Game)
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There was a sequel being developed called "Conker's Other Bad Day", however it was canceled.

The plot would've dealt with Conker's bad tenure as King after spending the treasury money on beer, parties and hookers. The game started with his escape, with a ball and chain attached to him, from the Castle's highest tower where he had been faced with the prospect of execution.

"We actually started on a direct sequel which was going to be called "˜Conker's Other Bad Day"˜ which dealt with Conker's somewhat unsuccessful tenure as King. He spends all the treasury money on beer, parties and hookers. Thrown into prison, Conker is faced with the prospect of execution and the game starts with his escape, ball and chain attached, from the Castles highest tower." - Chris Seavor
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
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Attachment Rikku was going to have a major role in the first game. She was going to be a part of Leon's group in Traverse Town and help Sora throughout the game. She was removed because of the similarly-named character Riku, and was replaced with Yuffie. She later appeared with the rest of the Gullwings in Kingdom Hearts II.
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Development, Early Idea, Similarities, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010)
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Attachment During development, Segata Sanshiro, the character played by Hiroshi Fujioka for the Sega Saturn ad campaign in Japan, was considered to be a playable racer. Concept art had been drawn for Sanshiro, including one of him riding a Sega Saturn.
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Development, Early Idea
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Platform: Virtual Boy
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Attachment The Virtual Boy came to be through an exclusive agreement between Nintendo and the Massachusetts-based company Reflection Technology, Inc., who had developed a monochrome red LED eyepiece display called Scanned Linear Array. General manager Gunpei Yokoi kept the red LEDs while developing the console instead of using a full-color LCD display for several reasons. Both companies claimed color LCDs would have been prohibitively more expensive, retailing at $500 ($1000 when adjusted for inflation in 2023), and tests of the displays were said to have caused visual glitches such as "jumpy images" and players "[seeing] double" instead of seeing depth. Yokoi preferred red LEDs as they were the cheapest option and used a more recognizable color, and unlike a backlit color LCD, he believed the contrasting black color could add a more immersive sense of depth.

It should be noted that a full-color LED Virtual Boy was impossible to release in 1995 due to the fact that high-efficiency blue and green LEDs only became available in 1996. The Virtual Boy, which uses an oscillating mirror to transform a 1-D line of dots to a 2-D field of dots, requires high-performance LEDs in order to function correctly. Without the high-efficiency blue and green LEDs, the Virtual Boy was limited to the red LED display.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Technology
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GamePro Issue #67 (February 1995) (Page 162 in the magazine):
https://retrocdn.net/images/c/c7/GamePro_US_067.pdf

Steven Boyter - A Virtual Failure: Evaluating the Success of Nintendo's Virtual Boy (article from "The Velvet Light Trap" volume 64, issue #64, pages 23-33 in the journal):
https://archive.org/details/VirtualFailure/mode/2up

Steven L. Kent - "The Ultimate History of Video Games: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched our Lives and Changed the World" (Page 514 in the book):
https://books.google.com/books?id=PTrcTeAqeaEC

Fast Company article:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3050016/unraveling-the-enigma-of-nintendos-virtual-boy-20-years-later

Kevin Rafferty - Super Mario takes leap into three dimensional space ("The Guardian" newspaper article, November 16, 1994):
https://www.proquest.com/docview/294877556/4C825E3013B347F4PQ?sourcetype=Newspapers

Planet Virtual Boy Hardware Database:
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/hardware/?type=vb
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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Attachment While under cover, Solid Snake assumes the name Iroquois Pliskin. "Iroquois" means "Black Snake" in the Iroquoian language, Huron. And "Pliskin" is a reference to the character Snake Plissken from the film "Escape from New York", which was the main inspiration for the development of Solid Snake. Naked Snake (Big Boss), Solid Snake, and Solidus Snake each wear an eye-patch like Snake Plissken.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
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Chrono Cross
Chrono Cross (1999)
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Attachment Magus was meant to make an appearance in Chrono cross. He was scrapped because Squaresoft thought that his complex backstory would be too hard to fit into the game. He was eventually replaced by Guile.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango (1998)
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The original title for the game was Deeds of the Dead. The name was changed to reference a poem recited in the game when the marketing department didn't want to publish a game with the word "dead" in its title.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Reference
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Manhunt
Manhunt (2003)
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Manhunt was banned in several countries due to how violent it was.
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Cancelled Release, Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Platform: Wii U
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Attachment The Wii U Gamepad Prototype was just two Wii Remotes and Nunchuck analogue sticks attached to the sides of an LCD screen.

They also created a prototype for the Wii U Zapper which consisted of an LCD screen attached to a Wii Zapper.
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Development, Early Idea
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Platform: Wii U
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In a previous Iwata Asks Interview from 2011, Satoru Iwata stated that the Wii U hardware started development back in 2008. This means it started development 2 years after the original Wii was released, 3 years before it's debut at E3 2011, and 4 years before it's release.
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Development, General
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Metroid Prime Hunters
Metroid Prime Hunters (2006)
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Attachment During development, a strange looking enemy that shares a similar model with two enemies from previous games was removed.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime (2002)
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Attachment During development, a flying insect-like enemy was removed from the game. It is speculated that it may have been an early design for the aerial pirates or possibly intended to serve as a boss at some point in the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
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Attachment Sonic was originally going to be called 'Mr. Needlemouse', a literal translation from the Japanese word for hedgehog.
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Development, Early Idea
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime (2002)
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Attachment During development, a four-armed gorilla enemy, possibly intended as a boss of the ice area, was removed from the game. Nintendo felt that some of the early models looked too much like monsters designed for an RPG and decided they did not fit in the Metroid world.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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