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Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana (1993)
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Attachment In Ice Country, a screen south of Santa's House, there is a Howler enemy stuck in the trees, immobile, and only visible when targeted with Lava Wave magic.
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General, Glitch, Mistake
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Secret of Mana
Secret of Mana (1993)
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Attachment Due to a miscalculation in the scrolling of the background, the backdrop when you enter the cave to visit Sage Joch differs from the backdrop you see when you exit. The former will still be showing the tops of trees below the mountains, while the latter displays clear blue skies.
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General, Mistake
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Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity (2004)
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Before going to the 10th dimension, Dr. Cortex says "Come now, as we explore a new dimension! It should have been two new dimensions but we... ran out of time." This is a reference to the development period of 12 months, as the development team originally wanted to put another world into the game. However, due to time constraints, the world was scrapped.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
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Minecraft: Java Edition
Minecraft: Java Edition (2011)
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Endermen sounds are actually a person saying "Hi" and "What's up" played backwards and distorted.
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General, Real Life
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)
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Attachment Yoshi's house can be found in World 1, Sky Station Galaxy. If you select the first mission and go up to Yoshi's house, there will be a sign in the front that reads: "Hello, friend! Please go around back! -Yoshi" If you then quit the level and then select the third mission and read the sign, it will read: "Hello, friend! Please go around back! -Yoshi the space dragon"
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Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message
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Tetris
Tetris (1989)
subdirectory_arrow_right Game Boy (Platform)
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Attachment After the second phase of the Gulf War ended in early 1991, Dr. Stephan Scoggins, a medic during the war, mailed his Game Boy to Nintendo of America hoping to get a replacement after it was damaged when his tent burned down in a fire. While the back of the console was in fair condition, the front was melted, severely charred and blistered, and the technicians that received it initially determined it could not be fixed. As an experiment, they inserted a copy of Tetris and powered it on, and to their surprise, the console still worked. The D-Pad, A and B buttons were nonfunctional, but the Start and Select buttons worked as normal. The magazine Nintendo Power sent Scoggins a replacement Game Boy "as a special 'Desert Storm' courtesy", and his letter asking for a replacement along with pictures of the console were featured in the magazine's July 1991 issue. The damaged Game Boy was not discarded; it was later displayed at the Nintendo New York store in New York City since its opening in 2001. As a testament to the console's durability and longevity, it remained powered on, looping the title screen and attract mode demo of Tetris, and receiving timely maintenance for over 20 years, until it was returned to Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond, Washington in 2023.
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General, Magazine, Real Life, Technology
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Footage of the Game Boy at Nintendo New York in 2006:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo

[Below links and info provided by MehDeletingLater.]

Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a27183316/nintendo-game-boy-survived-gulf-war/

G.I. Jobs article (Stephan Scoggins letter taken from Nintendo Power: Volume 26 [July 1991] - Page 7):
https://www.gijobs.com/gulf-war-game-boy/

Game Boy's removal from Nintendo New York (Note: Scoggins clarifies in the second link that a widely reported origin of the Game Boy being damaged in a bombing at his barracks is not true. He confirmed there was a bombing in the area he was stationed in, but that the Game Boy was damaged in a separate incident when his tent caught fire):
https://www.siliconera.com/the-gulf-war-game-boy-says-goodbye-to-nintendo-new-york-store-removed/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780549/gulf-war-game-boy-nintendo-nyc

Stephan Scoggins archived personal website biography:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230701201035/https://www.stephanscoggins.com/biography/
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2 (2010)
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When in the Sol system, the player can launch probes at the planet Uranus. Doing so will also illicit one of two sarcastic responses from EDI:

"Probing Uranus."
"Really, Commander?"
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Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998)
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At the title screen, if you press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right and Square, a Spyro the Dragon Demo will be available to play.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
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When Mumbo turns you into a creature he says "Oominaka." Grant Kirkhope, Mumbo's voice actor, revealed that at the time of recording the voices for the game his left testicle was swollen. "Knackers" is British slang for testicles, so he thought it would be funny if Mumbo said "Ooh, my Knackers." Thus, every time that Mumbo uses his magic to turn you into a creature, he's actually complaining that his testicles are in pain.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Tetris
Tetris (1989)
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Attachment The Type A music used in the Game Boy version of Tetris is the well-known Russian 19th Century folk song, Korobeiniki. It originally told the story of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, who haggled over goods as a metaphor for courtship. The fact that this song was included is consistent with Tetris' Russian origins.
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General, Music, Real Life
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Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land (1989)
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Attachment In the instruction manual, Daisy is referred to as "Daisy Princess" instead of "Princess Daisy." This is because of her Japanese name, Deiji-Hime, places the word for Daisy before the word for Princess.
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General, Manual, Mistake
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Knuckles' Chaotix
Knuckles' Chaotix (1995)
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Knuckles Chaotix is the only Sonic-related game released on the Sega 32X.
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General
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Spyro the Dragon
Spyro the Dragon (1998)
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If you press L1 and Triangle at the same time on the title screen, a Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped demo will play.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
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Attachment The Famicom Disk System version of Super Mario Bros. also contains World 0-1 but it is a full-fledged world with complete programming.

• 0-1 is a differently-textured version of 1-3, though it takes place underwater (even though there is no visible water and features bizarre elements, such as floating Princess Toadstools and floating, headless Bowsers).

• 0-2 is a carbon copy of 7-3.

• 0-3 is a copy of 4-4 that lacks its False Bowser and maze-like elements, features a different color palate (i.e. blue lava), and floating bloopers that can be stomped for 1000 points.

After beating 0-3, the player is taken back to the title screen (with the activation of hard mode upon starting the game), as if they had beaten the game.
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Bonus Content, General, Glitch
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
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In one of the pools on Starfish Island, there is a beach ball. Hitting it will start a hidden mini-game in which the player must keep the ball in the air for as long as possible. A counter appears above the player's head to mark their progress.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe (2003)
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Attachment Blade Master Alastor is really the personification of the Alastor sword from Devil May Cry. Many of his moves are taken from the game, and the sword and lightning he uses look very similar. When fighting Dante in the PS2 version, Alastor will berate Dante about mistreating and forgetting him.
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Bonus Content, Console Difference, Easter Egg, General, Reference, Version Difference
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Franchise: Gradius
subdirectory_arrow_right Yu-Gi-Oh! (Franchise)
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There are a series of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards derived from the Gradius series.
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General
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Platform: Wii
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Attachment On the Photo Channel, the "Undo All" option when doodling makes the same "rocket ship" erase graphic and horn sound effect as an erase option in Mario Paint.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference
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Donkey Kong Country Returns
Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
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Attachment In the Options menu, a coral reef is shown that is believed to be based on the Rare logo, possibly to pay homage to the developers of the previous Donkey Kong Country titles.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
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Company: Nintendo
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Attachment Nintendo started out as a card company under the name Nintendo Koppai. They made Hanafuda cards when they started becoming popular. This lasted from 1889-1928. Nintendo continues to manufacture cards with Nintendo themes on the Nintendo web site in Japan.
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General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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