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Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red Version (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Blue Version (Game)
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In 2020, an unreleased extended cut of the 1998 Pokémon Generation I bus commercial was uploaded to YouTube. This extended cut shows that the bus featured in the advert was actually crushed during production, despite the final commercial cutting from the compactor starting to the compactor having already crushed the bus. The unreleased crushing scenes do not have Pokémon superimposed into the windows.
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Bubsy: Paws on Fire!
Bubsy: Paws on Fire! (2019)
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The Nintendo Switch launch trailer for Bubsy: Paws on Fire! contains a review quote from the French gaming news website Vandal claiming "This is probably the best game Bubsy has ever had..." In the full review, this is followed by "but that's not saying a lot".
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Advertisement/Commercial, False Advertising, Reviews
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Missile Command
Missile Command (1980)
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The originally planned title for Missile Command was "Armageddon", but this name was vetoed by upper management due to issues that children would have with spelling and pronouncing the name. It's also suggested that various members of Atari's upper management didn't know what the word actually meant. As such, the alternative title of "Missile Command" came about.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Development, Early Idea, Name Change, Real Life, Removed Feature, Title, Unused Text
person Lem0nDem0n calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Antonblast
Antonblast (2024)
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It is jokingly implied in a trailer for Antonblast that Anton is the father of Amy Rose from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. This is a reference to a fan art trend following the reveal of Sonic Origins, where fans would portray Anton as a friend or family member to Amy after her spinning hammer attacks were shown to have an aesthetic resemblance to Anton's hammer attacks.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Cameo, Fan Works, Meme, Reference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery (2024)
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Attachment YouTuber Markiplier starred in the game's launch trailer as a spokesperson of the Fazbear Funtime Service. It is currently unknown, including to Markiplier himself, if his inclusion in the trailer is considered canon as part of the series.
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person Violett calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Popgoes Evergreen
Popgoes Evergreen (TBA)
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On July 5, 2023, POPGOES Evergreen was featured on a Times Square billboard via the billboard advertising service PixelStar. The video used was a combined version of the teasers for False Balloon Boy and False Freddy, two of the unique animatronics being featured in the game.
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person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Drill Dozer
Drill Dozer (2005)
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The protagonist of Drill Dozer, Jill, is a heroic burglar who breaks into museums and fights against police officers. This detail is not mentioned in any of the game's US promotional materials, with a press release for the game simply calling Jill "not a bad girl" and claiming she destroys so many things because "she just has some issues", likely to avoid controversy.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Censorship, General, Press Release, Regional Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 3, 2023
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NASCAR 06: Total Team Control
NASCAR 06: Total Team Control (2005)
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Attachment A UPS postal delivery truck is an unlockable car for use in the "Race Now" mode in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. This is a reference to a long-running ad campaign which featured NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett accompanied with the slogan "We want to race the truck". Dale Jarrett drove cars sponsored by the parcel service in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2001 to 2008 for Robert Yates Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing.
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person Ship calendar_month September 2, 2023
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NASCAR 06: Total Team Control UPS win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzS1OwzCHc

2001 Dale Jarrett UPS Commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq5wuIxwh2k
Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
subdirectory_arrow_right Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (Platform)
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"Blast processing" is a marketing term coined by Sega of America to promote the Sega Genesis as the cooler and more powerful console compared to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was such an effective campaign that it caused Nintendo to spend millions of dollars to ramp up their own smear campaign to rebut the claims, helping to create the textbook example of a "console war" between two rivaling video game companies through aggressive marketing and advertising. It is true that Blast processing as presented in advertisements at the time does not exist in any released Genesis game, but its creation was based on a real, low-level progressive processing method that ultimately went unused by developers in their games.

The basic idea is that the hardware's video processor is "blasted" continuously, with the Genesis' 68000 processor working flat-out to change the color of every individual pixel during an active scan, a process where the "guns" on a CRT screen move from left to right and then down to the next line and so on. It was believed at the time that this function could be used to increase the Genesis' somewhat constrained color palette to showcase 256 color static images if timed right (this number would be exceeded by other developers like Jon Burton from Traveller's Tales who later discovered the trick).

Sega of America senior producer Scott Bayless claimed that technical director Marty Franz first discovered the trick by "hooking the scan line interrupt and firing off a DMA [direct memory access] at just the right time", as firing it off at the wrong time would result in the scan lines appearing out of phase. This timing/synchronization issue, on top of the more pressing issue of the feature using all of the 68000's CPU time (meaning that while you could run the feature, you couldn't actually play the games that use it), effectively made it useless for cartridge games, and no shipped Genesis games ever used it. It’s speculated that it could have been used for Sega CD games, as the add-on had its own CPU that could run the feature, but this also did not come to pass.

The people responsible for the name "Blast processing" are Bayless and Sega of America's PR team. They interviewed him about the specs of the console, and he described to them how the feature could "blast data into the DAC's [digital-to-audio converters]". When talking about how the name came about, Bayless assumed the PR team just liked the word "blast" without understanding what he was explaining, and Blast processing was invented by them to more easily and vaguely sum up the technical capabilities of the Genesis when marketing it. Bayless later expressed reservations about the phrase, calling it "ghastly".

It should also be noted that this feature was apparently not exclusive to the Genesis. In 2020, former Sculptured Software programmer Jeff Peters claimed that they discovered a similar technical trick on the SNES before Sega started using the phrase, but it was focused on audio rather than graphics. He claims that when porting Mortal Kombat to the SNES, Sculptured Software encountered an issue where the amount of graphics data being put onto the cartridge meant that sound had to be cut back drastically. To overcome this problem, Peters and his team used a homegrown system which allowed them to read sounds from the cartridge one at a time and blast them directly to a buffer in the sound memory. While the two tricks were achieving different things, it's interesting to note that both were possible on either console, despite Sega's insistence that only the Genesis could achieve Blast processing.
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MadWorld
MadWorld (2009)
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The second verse of the song "Ain't That Funny" features the line "Jack, Jack, he's a psycho maniac", a reference to a 1980's LEGO marketing campaign centering on "Zack the LEGO Maniac", a character who was also once named Jack.
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MadWorld - "Ain't That Funny":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gre-o_tsumk#t=66

Zack the LEGO Maniac commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDH3AoOQzE0

Jack the LEGO Maniac commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC5q66LGANo
Fighting Vipers
Fighting Vipers (1996)
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In the Japanese Saturn port of the game, it is possible to play as Pepsiman, the mascot for the Pepsi Company in Japan, by losing the first match in Arcade Mode. Then the player must defeat him to unlock him as a playable character.

In addition, the Pepsi brand can be seen advertised during the game's second attract mode with Tokio, on Picky's skateboard, and on both a truck and a billboard in Picky's Diner stage. However, they are not present in the US and PAL versions of the game as the Pepsi advertising was instead replaced with generic advertising.
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Franchise: Tomb Raider
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Attachment In 2002, actress Sofia Vergara portrayed Lara Croft for a live-action Visa Monster Chase commercial. In the ad she was handed a PlayStation 2 version of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", a game that doesn't exist, but uses the the same artwork as Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.
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person CLXcool calendar_month August 27, 2015
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (1982)
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An ad for the original Donkey Kong Game & Watch named the damsel in distress "Louise" instead of Pauline.
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person Kakariko Kid calendar_month March 11, 2015
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Sneak King
Sneak King (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Big Bumpin' (Game), Pocket Bike Racer (Game), Burger King (Franchise), Xbox 360 (Platform), Xbox (Platform)
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The Burger King Xbox 360 trilogy are the only Xbox 360 titles which were backwards compatible with the original Xbox; a previous console generation. This decision was made due to the original Xbox having a bigger install base than the Xbox 360 at the time, but Microsoft only wanting to promote the 360 and not original Xbox on TV.
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Tomodachi Life
Tomodachi Life (2013)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (Game)
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Nintendo of Europe made a commercial using Tomodachi Life's Concert Hall feature to celebrate the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D in 2014.
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person Psychospacecow calendar_month November 14, 2014
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
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The song used in the Japanese commercials for the game is a remix of an infamous song used in the Japanese A Link to the Past commercials.
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person Takahashi2212 calendar_month October 12, 2014
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Kirby's Adventure
Kirby's Adventure (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Kirby's Epic Yarn (Game)
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The original Japanese commercial for Kirby's Adventure depicted the game's characters made of yarn. This is thought to have inspired the art style of Kirby's Epic Yarn.
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SoulCalibur II
SoulCalibur II (2002)
subdirectory_arrow_right SoulCalibur II (Game), SoulCalibur II (Game), SoulCalibur II (Game)
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Attachment SoulCalibur II was the first game in the series to be a sponsor of a wrestling event, WWE Unforgiven 2003.
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person GorgonBull35 calendar_month June 22, 2013
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PaRappa the Rapper 2
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pipo Saru 2001 (Game), McDonald's Original: Happy Disc (Game)
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In Japan, McDonald's once sold demo discs of PaRappa the Rapper 2 and Ape Escape 2001 to promote the games in Japan. The PaRappa demo reskinned the Toasty Buns stage to take place in a McDonald's, while the Ape Escape demo included the first 2 and a half stages, added McDonald's buildings and blimps to the level backgrounds, and added McDonald's food as collectible items - it also included a bonus video of Japanese celebrity Papaya Suzuki exploring New York with a man in a Pipo Monkey mascot costume.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month May 12, 2013
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Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (1997)
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Attachment There is an advertisement for the game where Croc encounters the shadows of several iconic video game characters, and then is seen picking his teeth with a toothpick next to their items, indicating that he has eaten them. These items are Lara Croft's pistols, Mario's hat and Crash Bandicoot's shoes.
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person GuineaHog calendar_month May 1, 2013
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