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Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dreamcast (Platform)
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Attachment In the 1999 Sega Dreamcast commercial for Crazy Taxi, the DMV features the address number 666 (the Number of the beast) in reference to common complaints about long wait times and poor service at DMVs.
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Mario Tennis
Mario Tennis (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Waluigi's Foot Fault (Game)
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Attachment The September 2000 issue of Nintendo Power contains a "Nintendo Power Online" section on page 12, featuring an article titled "Mamma Mia! It's Waluigi!" The accompanying text introduces Waluigi to readers, reveals that he has his own website: www.waluigi.com, and claims to have an upcoming online game called "Waluigi's Toenail Clipping Party".

At the time of the Nintendo Power issue's release, www.waluigi.com was identical to the official website for Mario Tennis, www.mariotennis.com. One of the files hosted on the Mario Tennis website was the Adobe Flash file "toenails_coming.swf", which is an advertisement for the game instead titled "Waluigi's Foot Fault" depicting him showing his bare feet and unkempt toenails (he also occasionally blinks). Another file hosted on the website was "toenails.swf", which was supposedly the game itself. Catalogued alongside this file are two additional .swf files named "paint_the_lines" and "deface_painting", which could be evidence of other Flash games hosted on the Mario Tennis website.

However, the waluigi.com domain has since been turned into a redirect to the official Nintendo website. The toenails.swf file was not preserved, and as of 2023 has not resurfaced.
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Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion (2001)
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Attachment The October 2001 issue of Nintendo Power included a page with preview screenshots of Luigi's Mansion, including a screenshot of an earlier build of the Safari Room with the caption: "When your ghoul-busting mission takes you to the trophy room, proceed with caution. If you meet up with the ghost of a hunter, he'll want to add Luigi to his collection." This sparked rumors among players that the Safari Room originally featured a hunter boss who wanted Luigi's head as one of his trophies, and that it was removed from the game for being too frightening to the target audience of children.

However, no evidence of a hunter ghost is present in the game's data despite the presence of other unused ghosts, and no direct mentions of the boss exist in previews prior to the game's release in Japan in September 2001. The caption was likely an attempt at hyperbole rather than a serious indication that a hunter-themed ghost was in the game, as the article was written after Luigi's Mansion was released in Japan, meaning all characters would have been finalized long before the article was published.
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
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Although the Headless Snowman is a minor character in his few appearances, he received some publicity in the form of a Nintendo Power joke published around the time of the main circulation of the "L is Real 2401" Super Mario 64 rumors.

In Volume 107 of Nintendo Power, in the April Fool's-themed "April News Briefs" segment, a "Luigi 64" article is present, where Nintendo states that Luigi fans had been campaigning to have the character in his very own game, and the company's response was to create a hoax upcoming game known as "Headless Snowman 64". This game was apparently intended to satisfy fans of the "second bananas" by featuring a cast of both well-known and obscure Nintendo characters, with the obscure characters including the Wave Race 64 announcer, "random audience members from Super Punch-Out!!", "the frogs in the meadow" from Diddy Kong Racing, and the Headless Snowman himself. Additionally, the game would supposedly contain some non-Nintendo characters such as "that bald guy from Blast Corps," and "the bikini woman in Cruis'n USA." Humorously, this never-made game was not going to feature Luigi, with a developer comment at the end of the article confusing him for "one of the civilian women in GoldenEye 007".
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Platform: BBC Microcomputer System
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Following the release of the BBC Micro, independent branches of rival free-to-air channel ITV initiated plans to brand a microcomputer by Transam Computers with the ITV name, selling at the same price as the BBC Micro. This was ultimately vetoed by the Independent Television Companies Association due to ITV being prohibited from sponsoring products at the time, alongside potential conflicts of interest with ITV's own advertisers, which included other microcomputer manufacturers.
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Popular Computing Weekly Vol. 2 No. 49 - December 8-14, 1984 (Page 1):
https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1983-12-08/mode/1up

Personal Computer News No. #42 - December 22-January 4, 1984 (Page 4):
https://archive.org/details/mag_PersonalComputerNews042-04Jan1984/page/n5/mode/1up
Raid: Shadow Legends
Raid: Shadow Legends (2018)
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Raid: Shadow Legends was criticized for its aggressive marketing campaign through sponsorships with YouTube channels, usually ones that lack demographic overlap with a high-fantasy Western RPG to the point where adverts for the game are considered "inescapable". Developers Plarium Games have tried to claim that they don't actually sponsor content creators, and that content creators are simply shouting out the game unpaid because of how much they like it, which is easily disproved by watching any of the sponsor segments, where the legal clarity precautions for sponsorships are consistently followed.
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Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu (2003)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dragon Ball Z (Franchise)
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Attachment Leading up to the game's release, it was advertised as being the first Dragon Ball Z game to feature Broly. This was not necessarily true as he had made his first appearance a decade before in Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2 which was only released in Japan and Europe. He was even playable through the use of an obtainable cheat code. Although this would be his American debut, the advertising was still false.
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Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
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In late 2018, a trailer for the film's sequel "Ralph Breaks the Internet" premiered on TV as part of Disney Channel's "Movie Surfers" series. The first half of the trailer used almost 40 seconds of cutscenes from the 2012 Wii game based on the first movie, and used unreleased higher quality renders of these cutscenes rather than the compressed footage released in the game. This trailer also features a noticeably bad, ad-libbed narration from an unknown actor portraying Ralph; this actor does not sound like the original film's actor John C. Reilly, nor the soundalike actor used in the Wii game and commercials Brian T. Delaney. Considering the overall confusing cheapness of the trailer, it's not known why the show's producers chose to use unreleased HD renders of these cutscenes instead of footage from the first film, which they had to have had access to and would have matched the visual quality of the film's sequel better.
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Pong
Pong (1972)
subdirectory_arrow_right Peanuts (Franchise)
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Attachment "Puppy Pong", a rare alternate cabinet design for Pong intended for use in non-coin-op environments such as waiting rooms or entrance-fee arcades, was originally designed after Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip. However, the concept was rejected by Charles Schulz, leading to the creation of a generic puppy in Snoopy's place. An unthemed version titled "Dr. Pong" was also released.
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Pushover
Pushover (1992)
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The Steam release of Pushover leaves all of the Quavers-licensed imagery from the Amiga version intact, to the point that mentions of Quavers in quoted 90s magazine reviews in the blurb are left uncensored, even though a Quavers-free version exists on the SNES. This seems to have been unauthorized, as the current owner of the Quavers brand, PepsiCo, is not mentioned anywhere in the rerelease's Steam legal info.
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Multiple community provided screenshots of the Steam version feature Quavers and the Collin Curly mascot.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/814650/screenshots/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/814650/Pushover/
Company: Rare
subdirectory_arrow_right Ultimate Play the Game (Company)
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Attachment During their time as "Ultimate Play the Game", Rare were known for having minimal marketing to the point of not even releasing screenshots in magazines, and having print advertisements comprise of game logos and nothing else.
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The Great Giana Sisters
The Great Giana Sisters (1987)
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In-game, the hero of The Great Giana Sisters is called "Gianna" with two N's, while on promotional materials and all future Giana Sisters games, she is called "Giana" with one N. Gianna was the intended name for the character, but the name Giana was a typo on the box art which had to stick due to there being too tight a deadline for the box to be reworked.
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The Great Giana Sisters
The Great Giana Sisters (1987)
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Attachment It is often rumored that Nintendo filed a lawsuit or sent a C&D to Rainbow Arts over The Great Giana Sisters' resemblance to Super Mario Bros. - however, according to the game's music composer Chris Hülsbeck, this is not true, Nintendo only sent Rainbow Arts an "angry letter" over the UK release's cover art containing the phrase "the brothers are history!", leading to the game being pulled.
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Midnight Mutants
Midnight Mutants (1990)
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Attachment The box art of the game uses an image based on Al Lewis' portrayal of Grandpa Munster in the 1964 The Munsters sitcom and claims the game to be "Featuring... 'GRAMPA'". Despite this, neither Al Lewis nor The Munsters are mentioned on the game's copyright disclaimers and credits, and 'GRAMPA' is not the player character.
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Bubsy II
Bubsy II (1994)
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The working titles for Bubsy 2 were "Bubsy 2: Still No Pants!" and "Bubsy 2: Lost in the Amazatorium".
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Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2001)
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Attachment During the run-up to the game's release, SoBe aided the promotion by giving away a number of Oddworld-themed decorated goods, and Oddworld Inhabitants were able to return the favour by replacing a number of Health Up Vendos in the North American version with SoBe vending machines that function the same way. However, this led to a number of fans thinking that Oddworld Inhabitants had sold out and refused to ever have any association with Oddworld ever again, resulting in them being removed entirely from the PAL versions of Munch's Oddysee. This removal even applied to all the re-releases of the game except for the PC and Switch versions, where the SoBe vending machines are retained in some of the levels.
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Pictures of the original SoBe:
https://twitter.com/hypegeekpod/status/1641279960055943168

You'll find the Health Up Vendo featured in these alongside other Vendos:
https://vgsmproject.com/2017/07/24/oddworld-munchs-oddysee-2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnNXralkQQ

Talk about the SoBe Vendos inclusion:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141015033901/https://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/FAQ#What's_with_the_SoBe_vendos_in_Munch's_Oddysee
Top Trumps: Doctor Who
Top Trumps: Doctor Who (2008)
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Attachment The box art for Top Trumps: Doctor Who on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 is misleading, with the logo of Top Trumps, a popular UK card game, being hidden in the corner of the box in place of the corporate logos, making it easy for players to not notice it and therefore mistake the game for a Doctor Who adventure game. This would be remedied for the Wii version of the game.
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Bubsy 3D
Bubsy 3D (1996)
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Attachment The US box art of Bubsy 3D contains quotes from a review by PSExtreme magazine claiming the game to have received a "Gold X Award". For many years, the combination of the magazine's obscurity and the generally-accepted notion of the title's low quality led many to believe that the quotes and award were faked.

This was disproven in 2018 when Redditor Alex Winding provided a scan of the magazine to Retrovolve writer Josh Wirtanen.
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Sonic and the Black Knight
Sonic and the Black Knight (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Neopets Browser (Game)
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Attachment To promote the release of Sonic and the Black Knight, Neopets released a browser game called "Sonic Knight in Training", where Sonic must use Caliburn to deflect apples shot at him from the three Knights of the Round Table (Lancelot, Gawain, and Percival). If the player received a high enough score, they would unlock a then-new trailer for the game.
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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In Garfield's showcase presentation, the narrator remarks "It's time to kick Odie off the table!" when showing Garfield's light neutral attack. This is a reference to "Garfielf", a surreal fan animation by YouTube animator PilotRedSun. While kicking Odie off the table is a recurring gag in Garfield comics, the specific quote "It's time to kick Odie off the table" originates from the Garfielf video and seems to not be from any official Garfield media.
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