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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
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Attachment The iOS and Android apps were updated in March 2013 by Sonic community hackers Taxman and Stealth from the ground up, using the Retro Engine also used in the HD remake of Sonic CD (the engine is named after Sonic Retro, a prominent Sonic fansite). Besides featuring a constant 60fps, this remake has a ton of extras, such as the ability to play as Tails, Knuckles and Super Sonic, being able to collect the seventh Chaos Emerald (which allows the player to become the aforementioned Super Sonic), adding Elemental Shields from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, turning on and off the Spike Bug and the ground/air speed caps, and, last but not least, you can add prototype characters and sprites through debug mode, like Splats the Bunny (a Green Hill Zone enemy that never made it into the final game) and the UFOs in Marble Zone.
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Bonus Content, Console Difference, General, Update Difference, Version Difference
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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A time paradox is created in Ocarina of Time. According to Guru Guru in Kakariko Village, Link played the Song of Storms as a child to speed up the windmill, yet Link is taught the song by Guru Guru as an adult. Because of this, the question of who originally composed the song remains a mystery.
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General
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Franchise: Parodius
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The Parodius series as a whole is a parody off of Gradius, and has since parodied Antarctic Adventure, Castlevania, Xexex, Axelay, Thunder Cross, Taisen Puzzle-Dama, Space Manbow, Goemon, Lethal Enforcers, Tokimeki Memorial and TwinBee.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (2008)
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Wygol Village reuses sprites from "The Lost Village" from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
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General
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)
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The Song of Healing has the same first six notes as Saria's song but played backwards with a different rhythm.
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General, Music
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Gradius
Gradius (1985)
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Attachment A special version of Gradius was given away by ArchiMENdes, a ramen noodle company. The Vic Viper would power up using cups of ramen noodles rather than the usual pods.
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General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Mega Man Legends 2
Mega Man Legends 2 (2000)
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After buying and/or collecting the three gift items from island shops and giving them to Roll, she will be missing from the cockpit, leaving Data alone. If you go to the bathroom after talking to data, a black screen appear with Roll yelling at you, implying you walked in on her taking a bath. Mega Man will do his victory pose right after this. If you go into Roll's room after this and read her diary she will mention this and another time that Mega Man walked in on her, referencing the Easter egg from the first game. Strangely, this scene is also the trigger for Roll to give you 10% discount on Weapon upgrade prices.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Reference, Secret
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The name of the mission "Body Harvest" is likely a reference to the Nintendo 64 game of the same name, produced by Rockstar North when they were DMA Design. It is arguably Rockstar's first free roaming 3D adventure, setting the precedent for GTA III to follow. The use of the Combine Harvester is likely also a reference to Body Harvest, as a part in the game involves the use of a combine harvester to run over zombies.

At one point during development, the Combine Harvester had a green body color, no step bars into the driver cab, and a less detailed combine head.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference
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Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
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According to Tetsuya Nomura, the idea to put Sea-Salt Ice-Cream in the game came from the time he went to Tokyo DisneySea, where they sold this type of ice cream. He stated he liked the treat so much, he asked Disney if he could put it into the game as a treat the kids in Twilight Town ate during summer vacation.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Pokémon Black Version
Pokémon Black Version (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon White Version (Game)
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Fans believe a number of areas in the game include music that sounds similar to music in Mother 3, such as Pokemon's "N's Farewell" and Mother 3's "Love Theme," and Pokemon's "Surf Theme" sounding like Mother 3's "The Green Train's Fun Too!"

None of the songs in the game are confirmed to be inspired by the Mother series.
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General, Music, Similarities, Theory
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Collection: Leisure Suit Larry
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A Leisure Suit Larry 4 was once in production. According to Al Lowe, the game was meant to be the first multiplayer online adventure game, and was going to use a new way to play the game. However, there were many problems with the technology they had at the time, so the game was shelved. The ending to Leisure Suit Larry 3 was also very definite and had almost no way to lead to another game. Because of both of these reasons, the developers decided to skip 4 and go straight to 5 to be able to do what ever they wanted with it. The 4th game is now considered an in-joke among fans and developers.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)
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Like Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 has hidden wallpapers that can be found by inserting the Dreamcast disc into a computer's CD drive.
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Bonus Content, General
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Attachment Mr. Wong's Launderette's sign incorrectly spells Launderette as "Laundrette".
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General, Mistake
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Warner and Atari were so confident that they would have the biggest game of 1982, they ended up paying somewhere in the region of 20-25 million dollars for the license. They then assigned the project to Howard Scott Warshaw, (who programmed Yar's Revenge amongst other games for Atari) and gave him a strict deadline to make the game in time for the 1982 holiday season. That deadline was anywhere between four weeks and a couple of months. Atari felt confident that the game would sell well based off of the name recognition alone. They produced 5 million copies of ET (more games than there were 2600 consoles in homes), and only managed to sell 1-2 million. The leftover unsold inventory is believed to be buried in a New Mexico landfill.
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General, Real Life
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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The game experienced great sales at first, but due to most players not understanding how to play the game, which is explained in the manual, many were returned. Atari didn't earn as much money as they expected, and consequently this game is considered to be one of several factors to Atari's downfall. Alongside the port of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, it is also a huge contributing factor to the Video Game Crash of 1983.
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General, Real Life
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Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!! (1984)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Punch-Out!! (Game)
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Many of the original Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!! cabinets were converted in to "Play Choose 10" cabinets, as they had the same design. Nintendo even sold conversion kits to help arcade operators. Because of this, finding an original intact cabinet of either game is very rare.
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General, Real Life
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Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun
Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun (2003)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mega Man Battle Network 4: Blue Moon (Game)
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Attachment Red Sun and Blue Moon are infamous for their many, many spelling and grammatical mistakes. Throughout the game, characters will say "a viruses" or "viruses is" instead of "a virus" or "viruses are". "To" and "too" are of mixed up, and there are various single letter mistakes like "It looks live we've been kidnapped" and "Loosing the DarkChip and ShadeMan." Certain lines are also just translated poorly, such as "MegaMan, is the jack out now!"
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General, Mistake
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Hotel Mario
Hotel Mario (1994)
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Depending on the day the CD-i's clock is set to, very brief messages will appear underneath the loading screen of the game's first level in place of the standard "HERE WE GO!" message:

• January 1st = "HAPPY NEW YEAR!"
• February 14th = "HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!"
• February 17th = "ITS HOLLIES BIRTHDAY!", celebrating the birthday of Play Consultant Hollie S. Lohff.
• May 8th = "DO NOT FORGET MOTHERS DAY!"
• July 4th = "HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!"
• August 31st = "READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL?"
• October 31st = "BOOOOOOOOO!!!"
• November 24th = "HAPPY TURKEY DAY! GOBBLE GOBBLE!"
• December 25th = "HAPPY HOLIDAYS!"
• December 31st = "HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

In regards to the February 17th message, Hollie S. Lohff is the daughter of one of the game's engineers, Thomas Lohff. She was brought in to playtest the game and commented that Mario should be able to jump, as it was weird to play a Mario game without that mechanic. The developers took her advice and added her to the game credits as "Play Consultant."

The French version of the game features its own unique messages to indicate French holidays:

• January 1st = "BONNE ANNEE" ("Happy New Year.")
• Late January = "ALLONS CHERCHER LA FEVE" ("Let's find the charm." Displays in a time of year where in France the people eat some "Galette des Rois" (King's Pie) and there is a charm hidden in the pie.)
• February 14th = "C'EST LA SAINT VALENTIN" ("It's Valentine's Day.")
• Carnival celebration in France = "ON SE DEGUISERA POUR LE MARDI GRAS" ("We'll be dressing up for Mardi Gras.")
• Easter = "OU SONT CACHES LES OEUFS" ("Where are the eggs hidden?")
• Last Sunday in May = "BONNE FETE MAMAN" ("Happy Mother's Day, Mom!")
• May 31st = "L'ECOLE EST BIENTOT FINIE" ("School is almost over." Displays when most schools began Summer vacation at the time.)
• Third Sunday of June = "BONNE FETE PAPA" ("Happy Father's Day, Dad!")
• July 14th = "ALLONS ENFANT DE LA PATRIIIIEEE" ("Arise, children of the Fatherland." Displays on France's national celebration. Taken from the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", although "ENFANT" should be "ENFANTS" due to the plural grammar rule.)
• August 31st = "PREPAREZ VOS CARTABLES" ("Prepare your schoolbags." Referring to returning to school. Displays when most schools were ending Summer vacation at the time.)
• December 25th = "JOYEUX NOEL" ("Merry Christmas.")
• December 31st = "BONNE ANNEE" ("Happy New Year")
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Secret, Version Difference
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The Cutting Room Floor article:
http://tcrf.net/Hotel_Mario

Hollie S. Lohff birthday message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CnX5TUaJqE
Franchise: Guilty Gear
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Attachment The character Zato-ONE from Guilty Gear was replaced in Guilty Gear XX with a parasite named "Eddie." The character was killed off due to his voice actor, Kaneto Shiozawa, dying in 2000 from a severe concussion. Daisuke Ishiwatari wanted to keep Zato in the game out of respect, so they had Eddie take over Zato's corpse. Eddie is currently voiced by Takehito Koyasu, establishing him as a different character.

As of Xrd, Zato has been resurrected and is once again playable under his original "Zato-ONE" name, albeit still voiced by Koyasu.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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Originally, Jax was going to be in the game, going under the name Kurtis Stryker. He was later dropped and replaced with Sonya Blade (who also adopting Jax's backstory) when Ed Boon wanted to add a female player to the then all male cast. Jax would later be made into a character for Mortal Kombat II, where he was made into Sonya's partner. The name Kurtis Stryker was later given to a police officer in Mortal Kombat 3.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Character, Unused Content
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