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Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart DS (2005)
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Attachment It's possible Birdo was originally considered as a playable character. A pink version of Yoshi's Egg 1 kart was found in the game's data, a possible reference to Birdo's pink eggs.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person SamManSam calendar_month June 26, 2013
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Fallout 2
Fallout 2 (1998)
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Attachment There is a special encounter in which you come across a stone ring called the "Guardian of Forever."

If you pass through it, you are instantly transported into Vault 13, where you can find good loot, as well as come across a Computer Terminal with a "functioning water chip." You cannot leave this area until you interact with the computer. Doing this will make you accidentally break the Water-Chip giving you 1000 exp and the message "You have broken the water chip... the vault has maybe 100-150 days left of water. This comforts you for some reason."

This is a reference to the Sci-fi series Star Trek, specifically referencing the episode The City on the Edge of Forever. In it, Kirk, Spock and Doctor McCoy are transported into pre-WWII America and cannot return home until history is fixed, with the stone ring acting as a portal into the past.

This also suggests that the player (The Chosen One) is directly responsible for the beginning of the first Fallout game, in which the player (The Vault Dweller) has to go out and look for a new Water Chip to replace the broken one, having only about 100-150 days to do so.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Reference, Suggested, Theory
person G-Haven calendar_month June 24, 2013
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No More Heroes
No More Heroes (2007)
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In the game, Travis' mentor is Thunder Ryu, a former professional wrestler turned Yakuza. Thunder Ryu shares a name with one of the many wrestlers in the game Fire Pro Wrestling, specifically Typhoon Dragon Thunder Ryu, who takes the place of real life wrestler Genichiro Tenryu, due to Fire Pro not having the rights to any actual wrestling federations. It's thought to be either a reference to the Fire Pro Wrestling, or the exact same character, due to the fact the developer, Goichi Suda, got his start in developing games with Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Final Bout, and Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special for the Famicom.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Similarities, Theory
person TBK calendar_month June 24, 2013
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Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
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Attachment Ulysses was originally going to be a companion, but was cut from the final version of the game and then put back in for the Lonesome Road DLC as the main antagonist.

This would have made him a Legion-sympathetic companion and would help explain Legion backstory elements, as there wasn't much Legion support from any of the other companions. He would have also reacted strongly to NCR/Legion conflict and the player's role in it, acting as a sounding board when possible.
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Bonus Content, Development, Early Idea, General, Suggested, Theory
person G-Haven calendar_month June 24, 2013
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Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
subdirectory_arrow_right Yume Koujou: Doki-doki Panic (Game)
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Contrary to popular belief, there is evidence suggesting that Super Mario Bros. 2 was the true sequel to Super Mario Bros. Some time after the original game's completion, Nintendo's Kyoto-based R&D division began working on a vertical-scrolling Mario engine. It became clear early on that a vertical-scrolling game couldn't offer the same quality of platforming as the original Super Mario Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto then stepped in and added horizontally scrolling aspects to the game.

The prototype engine was originally designed around carrying, throwing, and piling up items and featured 2-player cooperative play, which even included the ability to throw other players to hard-to-reach places to progress further in the game. A deal with Fuji Television was struck during development to promote their 1987 Japanese festival the Communication Carnival Yume Kōjō '87 (translated to English as "Dream Factory '87"), and the prototype eventually became Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Although cooperative play was dropped, the concepts of vertical scrolling and tossing around items to defeat enemies was incorporated into Doki Doki Panic, and in turn Super Mario Bros. 2. All of this supports the thought that Super Mario Bros. 2 was, in fact, the true sequel.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Theory
person VinchVolt calendar_month June 24, 2013
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DidYouKnowGaming? video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drUoa1G39P4

Video with Dream Factory branding of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYPQEla4DUA#t=213s
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009)
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Attachment On the disc, the characters' colours are arranged in the same pattern as the buttons on the Japanese and PAL SNES controller. It's unknown if this was intentional.
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General, Similarities, Theory
person Mario-Fan calendar_month June 24, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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Attachment Further proof that the Water Medallion was meant to be the Ice Medallion can be found in the fight with the Sorceress Sisters. Kotake's attack symbol (fire) has the same design as the fire medallion and Koume's attack symbol (ice) has the same design as the water medallion.
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Similarities, Theory
person DarkAdobe calendar_month June 22, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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In Link's house there is a picture showing link with a fairy fighting a monster. Due to the fact that it looks like a dinosaur some have speculated it to be King Dodongo.
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Similarities, Theory
person oozy the wolf calendar_month June 22, 2013
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Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
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When returning to the Sector 5 Church, two different images of Aeris may be seen. One appears for a split second in the center of screen before disappearing, while in the other Aeris is seen tending the flowers before Cloud moves closer. It has been speculated this is meant to be her "ghost".
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General, Suggested, Theory
person GladiatorGr calendar_month June 7, 2013
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Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003)
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Attachment The similar structure of buildings in the game's stage preview icon suggests that Rainbow Road takes place above Mushroom City, another course in the game.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month June 5, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo GameCube
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The GameCube's SDK has strings that reference all of the known N64 peripherals, including obscure ones such as the keyboard and mouse, suggesting that the GameCube was once planned to have support for Nintendo 64 peripherals.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory
person xianc78 calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Pikmin
Pikmin (2001)
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Attachment One of the ship pieces you can find in the game is a Geiger counter, though Olimar says he doesn't know what it is he notes that it goes off constantly, and the needle on it always seems to be moving. Since Geiger Counters are used to measure radiation it would imply that the seemingly humanless and vastly different earth of the Pikmin series was caused by Nuclear war.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person Evanpik64 calendar_month June 2, 2013
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Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
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It was originally believed that the only reason the game needed the Expansion Pak to run was because it fixed a game-breaking bug that caused the 4 megabyte game cartridge to randomly crash. Rare couldn't find any other solution, so they bundled the Expansion Pak with the game, costing them a lot of money. They still don't know what caused the bug. According to software engineer Chris Marlow:

"There was a bug that caused the game to randomly crash that only occurred in the 4meg-only version ... and they couldn't find out what it was, so they had to shift with the memory card in it for free and it cost them a fortune."

However, developer Mark Stevenson claimed that while there was a game-breaking bug, it only affected one hardware revision of the Nintendo 64 that would be resolved on later models. He claims that the actual reason the Expansion Pak was required was because Rare's management instructed the game's developers to support it early in development to accommodate advanced graphical effects like dynamic lighting. Stevenson speculated that these two stories were likely conflated into one, creating the memory leak rumor that persisted for years.

Ultimately, Simon Craddick, one of the four engineers who worked on the Expansion Pak's implementation into Donkey Kong 64, claimed in a Facebook group that the only thing the Expansion Pak actually did was add vertex lighting to the levels.
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Development, General, Glitch, Real Life, Rumor, Theory
person Charlie calendar_month May 30, 2013
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Mario Power Tennis
Mario Power Tennis (2004)
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In the intro is a tournament board with every character in the game. In the bottom left corner of the board you can see the team of Toad and Toadette, hinting that they were possibly planned to appear as playable characters at one point during development.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 28, 2013
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Portal 2
Portal 2 (2011)
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When the Companion Cube is destroyed, you can hear human screaming as it disintegrates. This, and GLaDOS' insistence that the cubes do not talk in the first game, as well as Doug Rattman being able to hear the cube speak, suggest that the cubes contain people.
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Suggested, Theory
person Hufff calendar_month May 27, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (2004)
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Attachment In the opening cutscene of the game, the story tells that a "tiny Picori appeared from the sky, bringing the hero of men a sword and a golden light". According the the official Legend of Zelda timeline, The Minish Cap is the second game chronologically, taking place only after the events of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. This might suggest that the Picori is the incarnation of Link from Skyward Sword, bringing the master sword down from Skyloft. In addition, the man brandishing the sword in the mural that is depicted as the text displays appears to be some incarnation of Link.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person Hufff calendar_month May 27, 2013
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Portal 2
Portal 2 (2011)
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Attachment In the final Doug Rattmann den in Portal 2, which is accessible through chapter 3 in test 17, if you go near the graffiti art you can hear somebody rambling through the wall, which is believed to be Doug himself.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person BolbiusMaximus calendar_month May 26, 2013
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Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Adventures (2002)
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There is evidence in the game's data that General Scales was meant to have a full battle with both Fox and Falco, but it was cut from the final game.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 26, 2013
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Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham City (2011)
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Playing the Joker's Carnival Challenge Map as Robin will have The Joker express surprise that Robin "is still alive." Joker is confusing this game's Robin, Tim Drake (the 3rd Robin) for Jason Todd, the 2nd Robin that Joker killed in the comics. Spoiler:Jason Todd appears in Batman: Arkham Knight as the eponymous antagonist, with a reference to Joker torturing, brainwashing and seemingly killing him, making it more odd he'd confuse Tim with Jason.
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Easter Egg, General, Mistake, Reference, Suggested, Theory
person Funland47 calendar_month May 20, 2013
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EarthBound
EarthBound (1994)
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Attachment An unused sprite of Mr. Everdred as a ghost is present in the game's ROM. It is assumed that either he was going to be a party member at one point during development (when one of the party members faints, they will appear as a ghost) or Spoiler:when Mr. Everdred was beaten near Jackie's Cafe in Fourside, a ghost would have flown out of his body. Its true purpose has never been confirmed.
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Development, Early Idea, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person BolbiusMaximus calendar_month May 20, 2013
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