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Alphabet Park Adventure
Alphabet Park Adventure (2004)
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Attachment When the Mark 2 V.Smile was released, the pack-in game Alphabet Park Adventure got a revised iteration that, among other changes, replaced every single sprite of the two player characters to make them appear more realistic, albeit still cartoonish.
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Bundled/Pack-In Game, Character Design, Release Difference, Version Difference
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PaRappa the Rapper
PaRappa the Rapper (1996)
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One particularly infamous lyric in PaRappa the Rapper is in Prince Fleaswallow's rap, where he claims to have "been working here since [his] mama was a baby". While it is simply an exaggerated simile and not an actual piece of world lore, it has still been the source of mild chuckles from players for its unintentionally disturbing undertones if taken literally.

When music from PaRappa the Rapper was played by an orchestra at Sony's 23rd Game Symphony Japan concert in 2018, the lyric would be revised from "Since my mama was a baby" to "Since your mama was a baby", a more fitting lyric as PaRappa is supposed to be a young adult and Fleaswallow is presumably significantly older.
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Mistake, Music, Retcon, Version Difference
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Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt (1984)
subdirectory_arrow_right Golf (Game), Stack-up (Game), Excitebike (Game), Kung Fu (Game), Wild Gunman (Game), Baseball (Game), Ice Climber (Game), Wrecking Crew (Game), Pinball (Game), Gyromite (Game), 10-Yard Fight (Game), Tennis (Game), Hogan's Alley (Game), Clu Clu Land (Game), Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform), Family Computer (Platform)
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Multiple early "black box" NES releases' cartridges produced during the console's US launch in Winter 1985 didn't use NES ROM chips, but rather Famicom ROM chips with a built-in converter. The 15 NES launch titles, and the only games known to have these chips, are:

•10-Yard Fight
•Baseball
•Clu Clu Land
•Duck Hunt
•Excitebike
•Golf
•Gyromite
•Hogan's Alley
•Ice Climber
•Kung Fu
•Pinball
•Stack-Up
•Tennis
•Wild Gunman
•Wrecking Crew

All of these games would eventually be reprinted with regular NES chips.
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Regional Difference, Release Difference, Technology, Version Difference
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Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac 'n Roll (Game), Pac-Land (Game), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Game), Pac-Man Museum+ (Game), Pac-Man World Re-Pac (Game), Pac-Man (Franchise), General Computer Corporation (GCC) (Company), AtGames (Company), Ms. Pac-Man (Collection)
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Attachment In 2019, AtGames, a company specializing in replica microconsoles containing compilations of retro or retro-styled games, acquired a portion of the rights to Ms. Pac-Man from General Computer Corporation, the company that made the original Ms. Pac-Man game for Midway and Namco - this led to a lawsuit over the IP, with an undisclosed turnout. After this, Ms. Pac-Man would begin to disappear from Pac-Man games, implying that AtGames won the case, with Ms. Pac being replaced by a character named Pac-Mom, who has a visual design resembling Ms. Pac-Man's mother from Pac 'N Roll.

Pac-Mom first appeared in the Arcade Archives release of Pac-Land through graphical modification to the original ROM, and would then be named for the first time in Pac-Man Museum+ alongside modifications to other games that originally featured Ms. Pac-Man such as Pac-in-Time, and would appear again in Pac-Man World: Re-Pac in place of Ms. Pac-Man.

Ms. Pac-Man's final appearance in an original title would be on the Pac-Land stage in 2018's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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Acquisition, Character Design, Corporate Affairs, Legal Affairs, Name Change, Unused Character, Version Difference
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Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993)
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Attachment Due to the limited amount of space on the Sega Game Gear screen, the title screen for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine on that platform is spelled as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machin.
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Console Difference, Mistake, Version Difference
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Frogger
Frogger (1981)
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The music in Frogger is taken from a variety of sources, some public domain (such as the Japanese nursery rhyme "Dog Policeman" and the minstrel song "Camptown Races") while others are stolen copyrighted music from anime (the Japanese theme songs to Rascall the Raccoon and Heidi, Girl of the Alps).

Re-releases of Frogger tend to replace all of the music in the game, including certain public domain songs, with original tracks (though "Camptown Races" tends to remain intact).
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Console Difference, Music, Plagiarism, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja (2010)
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An easier, medical version of Fruit Ninja was created in collaboration with Neuroscience Australia for stroke rehabilitation programs in hospitals; this version of the game could export data into patients' medical records.
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General, Real Life, Unreleased Content, Version Difference
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Luke Muscat video on how he designed Fruit Ninja:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5v2uI-Nis#t=1095

Article on the use of Fruit Ninja in stroke rehabilitation programs:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fruit-ninja-helps-stroke-patients-slice-through-recovery-flna121495
Rayman
Rayman (1995)
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The Atari Jaguar version of Rayman contains many messages for developers' family and friends that can be seen by using specific passwords, some written in French while others are written in English. Some notable ones include:

[translated from French]:
The Jaguar is my friend, and so is Rayman, so let them live!!


[translated from French]:
The world is kind
Bettina is kind
Fred and Fred are very kind
Mom is kind
Sophie is very kind
Eric is very kind
Rayman too is very kind
Everyone on Rayman [the development team] is very kind.
Oliver, Jean Christophe and Michel are very kind
Signed: Bettina!!


[translated from French]:
You see I can break your spine in two with this fist of mine!!!
Signed: Serge H


[written in English]:
I wanted to thanks[sic]: Konami and Nintendo for the great games they made!!!


[translated from French]:
For Sale: Ascona (19XX) in wreck state
Signed: Jean Marc G


[translated from French]:
A beer... Gimme a beer, d'ooh... Everyone, let's go to Euro Disney!!!!!!!
Signed: Bruno B
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Development, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message, Inspiration, Version Difference
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The Mysterious Murasame Castle
The Mysterious Murasame Castle (1986)
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Attachment In the original game, the screen flashes black, red, and white when the thunder strikes the title screen. The Virtual Console release changes this to a single slower pink flash, as part of the Nintendo re-release tradition of lessening the chance of causing epileptic seizures.
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Censorship, General, Real Life, Version Difference
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Yoshi
Yoshi (1991)
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Attachment The Game Boy version of Yoshi has an unused Bullet Bill piece. It is not present in the NES version.
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Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Items, Version Difference
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Atari Video Cube
Atari Video Cube (1982)
subdirectory_arrow_right Rubik's Cube (Franchise)
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Atari Video Cube was originally an unlicensed adaptation of the Rubik's Cube toy - it would eventually be released as an official Rubik's Cube product.
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Adaptation, Inspiration, Name Change, Title, Version Difference
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"Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide" by Brett Weiss, ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-3226-4. Page 33:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BzxTtml8Jq4C&;dq=%22Atari+Video+Cube%22&pg=PA33&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Atari%20Video%20Cube%22&f=false
Um Jammer Lammy
Um Jammer Lammy (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Um Jammer Lammy Now (Game)
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Attachment In the original Japanese and European versions, Paul Chuck's song had a line about "chopping trees down for fun". In the US, this was changed to "Knowing that we're here for the fun" in Lammy's song, and changed two times due to being repeated in PaRappa's version: "Rockin' to the beat just for fun" and "Rollin' up high in the sun". The censored version is used in Um Jammer Lammy NOW.
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Censorship, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Um_Jammer_Lammy#Stage_5

Um Jammer Lammy Now lyric changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8htmQvnOUt8#t=1917
Um Jammer Lammy
Um Jammer Lammy (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Um Jammer Lammy Now (Game)
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Stage 1 of Um Jammer Lammy was incomplete in the original PlayStation version, not being accessible in either multiplayer or PaRappa's story. With a GameShark code, a US player can access an unfinished version of PaRappa's stage 1, which has no animations and only uses triangle buttons. Stage 1 would eventually be finished for Um Jammer Lammy NOW!, released 9 months after the PlayStation version, with Rammy and PaRappa support.

Stage 1 is the only PaRappa stage to use the instrumental of the Lammy version.
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Cheat, Console Difference, Hidden Level, Music, Release Difference, Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Zoop
Zoop (1995)
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Attachment Print adverts for Zoop give the pieces in the game their own names:

• The olive-shaped green piece is called "Ganggreenus"
• The martini-glass-shaped purple piece is called "Martinicocki"
• The boomerang-shaped blue piece is called "Infectococci"
• The baby's-dummy-shaped orange piece is called "Lockjawbacilli"
• The yellow splat-shaped piece, used as a power-up in the game, is called "Fungusamungus"
• A spiral-shaped piece, not present in the game but resembling the spring power-ups, is called "Mosquitick"

It should be noted that the splat and spring pieces are given different names in the game's manual: "Color Bomb" and "Bonus Spring" respectively.

The patterned square pieces from the Game Boy version of the game do not have names.
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Advertisement/Commercial, General, Manual, Title, Version Difference
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Suikoden II
Suikoden II (1998)
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Attachment According to Raww Le Klueze, global admin of the Suikosource forums, there are three unused sprites found in the PC version that appear to be part of an unused Blue Gate summon or something similar. The three sprites are supposed to appear in different spots on the screen which would explain why they are looking in different directions.

To support that idea, in the Gensou Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide (published only in Japan by Konami), within a section detailing a scrapped idea to summon spirits of other elements, there are a few characters resembling the three unused sprites if they were mixed together.
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Artwork/Illustration, Similarities, Theory, Unsolved Mystery, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
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Suikosource thread:
https://www.suikosource.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=158715#p158715

Gensou Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide (Konami Official Guide) JP, pages 71-72. Pages self-sourced by user in lieu of archived digital copy which as of this submission date can no longer be found online:
https://archive.org/details/gensousuikodenii108starscharacterguidekonamiofficialguide
Disney's Tigger's Honey Hunt
Disney's Tigger's Honey Hunt (2000)
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In 2002, the PlayStation version of Tigger's Honey Hunt was rereleased under a new US publisher, Take-Two Interactive. However, the only difference is that the game's voice acting was removed, making it match its Nintendo 64 version which originally released without voice acting.
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Release Difference, Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Version Difference, Voice Acting
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PaRappa the Rapper
PaRappa the Rapper (1996)
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In the US PSP and PS4 versions of PaRappa the Rapper, PJ Berri and Katy Kat's Chunky Burger orders in the intro are censored - in the PS1 version they ask for a "giant vanilla frosty" and a "large chocolate frosty" respectively, but in the remastered version they instead ask for a "giant vanilla" and "large chocolate". The subtitles for PJ's order completely omit any drink from his order. This is due to "Frosty" (in the context of a drink) being trademarked by Wendy's. Despite this copyright issue, the claim from Katy Kat that Jet Baby could defeat Superman goes uncensored.
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Censorship, Console Difference, Copyright, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986)
subdirectory_arrow_right Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX (Game)
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In the Japanese version of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Alex eats a rice ball at the end of each stage. The 1990 US revision of the game changes this to a hamburger.

In Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, a Spanish omelette and fish & chips are added as options, possibly in tribute to the Master System's popularity in Spain and the United Kingdom.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Regional Difference, Remake, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Theory, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sega Ages Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Game)
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Attachment Contrary to popular belief, the Janken battles in Alex Kidd in Miracle World are not RNG-based, but instead always have a set winning move.

•Stone-Head: Rock, Scissors
•Scissor-Head: Scissors, Paper
•Paper-Head: Rock, Scissors
•Stone-Head Rematch: Rock, Scissors
•Scissor-Head Rematch: Rock, Rock
•Paper-Head Rematch: Rock, Scissors
•Janken the Great: Paper, Paper

If you incorrectly answer, that will change the answers from that point on.

In the Sega Ages release of the game for Nintendo Switch, one of the game's borders has the correct Janken moves on the top and bottom.
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General, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Hell's Kitchen: The Game
Hell's Kitchen: The Game (2008)
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Hell's Kitchen censors the profanity that made its source material famous - developer Ludia temporarily provided a more vulgar version of the PC game on its website as a limited time release, which was timed to be taken down following the finale of Season 4.
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Censorship, Complaint, Console Difference, Version Difference
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