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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (2007)
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After completing the game, a mini-game becomes playable where a Bonelich will perform a song from previous Capcom games. These include:

1. Flute of the Growlin' Goblins - Ghosts 'n Goblins Stage 1
2. The Fountain Guardian - Speed Rumbler Stage 1
3. Icicle of Prosperity - SonSon Stage 1
4. Relics of the Past - Bionic Commando Stage 1
5. Mad Science - Mega Man II Wily 1
6. Barbaros's Land - Zack & Wiki Main Theme
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Easter Egg, General, Music, Reference
person Bean101 calendar_month March 24, 2013
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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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Moon Knight and Colossus are not on the roster of playable characters in the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PlayStation Portable version, but they can still be accessed on these versions by using an exploit.
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Bonus Content, Console Difference, Debug, Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Character, Unused Content, Version Difference
person Bean101 calendar_month March 24, 2013
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Street Fighter X Mega Man
Street Fighter X Mega Man (2012)
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Street Fighter X Mega Man first started off as a private project by Seow Zong Hui who later presented an early build of the game to Christian Svensson, Capcom's Senior VP of planning and business development, at EVO 2012.

Capcom agreed to support and officially release it to celebrate the 25th anniversary of both Mega Man and Street Fighter.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 24, 2013
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Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
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Attachment In Noki Bay, once inside the bottle in the Red Coins in a Bottle level, Mario should fall to the bottom of the bottle and then locate a small rock formation there. If Mario maneuvers into a small square opening towards the back right of the rock formation, he can find a small door inside the opening which is impossible to open. Therefore, the player must rotate the camera to see what is on the other side of the door. In doing so, Mario can see a brown book on the floor of the room behind the impassable door, though its purpose is unknown.

The book itself may be a reference (or vice versa) to the level's background music. In the Original soundtrack, the title of the level's theme is in fact "The Book in the Bottle". It's also been said that this mission was originally different, and that Mario would collect the book rather than 8 red coins.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Mistake, Secret, Unused Content, Unused Items
person Bean101 calendar_month March 23, 2013
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Company: Microsoft
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When Sega went bust, Microsoft wanted to buy Sega to try and make their way into the video game market. The deal never went through. This was because Bill Gates didn't think Sega had the power to stop Sony, so they decided to try and do it on their own.
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General, Real Life
person retrolinkx calendar_month March 23, 2013
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Franchise: Pokémon
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Attachment In Pokemon generations II, III, and IV, the in-game Pokedex designs are based on their corresponding handheld device.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person pkmngmr calendar_month March 23, 2013
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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
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month March 23, 2013
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Franchise: Super Smash Bros.
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Peach's Final Smash since Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a piece of music from Super Mario Bros 3 that has been sped up. The music is from World 5: The Sky, Coin Heaven bonus levels and in the Warp Zone.
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Easter Egg, General, Moveset, Music, Reference
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month March 23, 2013
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Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana (1999)
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Of all the enemies in the game, Demi-Human enemies have the same palette between enemies and allied monsters. However, unused alternate palettes do exist for every Demi-Human. For Demi-humans from previous Mana games, the alternate palettes used happen to be alternate palettes from the previous games, as well.
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Bonus Content, General
person TomGuycott calendar_month March 23, 2013
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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
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 23, 2013
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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)
Drawn to Life
Drawn to Life (2007)
subdirectory_arrow_right Drawn to Life (Collection)
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Attachment According to series creator Jeremiah Slaczka in a 2022 interview, the Creator in the Drawn to Life series is meant to represent the Christian God, and Wilfre is meant to represent Satan. This was hinted at in the game years beforehand, as one of the Creator's quotes is clearly based on a quote from Genesis 1:3. The Book of Life is a book given to the Raposa civilization by the Creator, so it's comparable to the Christian Bible. Wilfre, the villain of Drawn to Life, was a power-hungry character who turned against the Creator and became evil. He attempts to destroy the Book of Life many times, and he leads others down evil paths. Also of note is that the main protagonists aside from the creation hero are named "Mari and Jowee", of "Mary and Joseph", and that the Hero is drawn in a crucifix pose.
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General, Inspiration, Real Life, Religion, Similarities, Suggested
person NerdyBoutKirby calendar_month March 23, 2013
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VGFacts forum thread from 2013 detailing the connection (please note all but one YouTube video in this post have since been deleted):
https://archive.vgfacts.com/thread-241.html

Interview with Jeremiah Slaczka from 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoxNnnrowm4#t=1341
Disney's DuckTales
Disney's DuckTales (1989)
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It is possible to finish the game with $0. Upon doing so, you get a special ending where the newspaper reads:

"Scrooge McDuck has lost his fortune in his search for the legendary five treasures. He will use them to rebuild his empire."
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Secret
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month March 23, 2013
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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
person ThisGuyInTheSuit calendar_month March 23, 2013
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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
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Fusion (2002)
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In the Chozo language, the word "Metroid" roughly translates to mean "ultimate warrior."

It is possible this name was chosen because the Chozo created the Metroids to fight the highly dangerous X parasite on SR388.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person JoeOdranDoran calendar_month March 23, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Game)
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Attachment There are several signs in Ocarina of Time that you can cut. In the Nintendo 64, Gamecube and Wii versions of the game, you can cut them diagonally. The 3DS Version of the game only allows you to cut them vertically and horizontally.
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Console Difference, General, Release Difference, Version Difference
person yeahitsyousuf calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Pokémon Black Version 2
Pokémon Black Version 2 (2012)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon White Version 2 (Game)
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Attachment There's a female trainer named "Guitarist Billy Jo," whose name and appearance resembles a female version of Billie Joe Armstrong, guitarist and singer of the band Green Day.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person Furball200x calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Sega Smash Pack Volume 1
Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 (2001)
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Within the game is a text file named ECHELON.TXT, calling out the warez group of the same name. The file basically explains how to create a ROM loader using the emulator the game uses. This is particularly perplexing as the game was released the same day Sega announced they were to pull out of the console market. Gary Lake, who left these instructions, was the programmer of the game. He is now the Director of Technology at Capcom.
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General, Real Life, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Text
person SonicManEXE calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Half-Life
Half-Life (1998)
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In original copies of Half-Life, During Chapter 3, there is a secret room in map c1a1c that can only be accessed by enabling cheat mode and noclipping through the floor. The room is made of tiled pictures of Valve co-founder Gabe Newell. The room still exists in later versions of the game, although the imagery of Newell has been removed and attempting to enter the room takes you back into the normal map.
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Cameo, Debug, Easter Egg, General, Release Difference, Secret, Version Difference
person Retsof-Noraa calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango (1998)
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Grim Fandango was the first LucasArts adventure game that did not use the SCUMM engine. It ran on the GrimE engine, which was scripted in Lua.
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General
person usyboroda calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Franchise: Half-Life
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In Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Dr Magnusson accuses Gordon Freeman of a "debacle at Black Mesa" involving "a certain microwave casserole." This refers to a moment in the game's opening in which the player is able to tamper with a microwave, causing the food inside it to explode.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference
person Retsof-Noraa calendar_month March 22, 2013
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