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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During development, the team had made extra sprite animations, such as both characters walking onto the screen and bowing before the match. But the animations could not be used because of hardware limitations.
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Development, Early Idea
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Dead or Alive 2
Dead or Alive 2 (1999)
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In Ayane's Story Mode, if the player beats Kasumi with an attack that launches her across the area, the ending cutscene will show Ayane finishing her opponent off with a ninpo attack.
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Easter Egg
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Hyrule Warriors
Hyrule Warriors (2014)
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The five songs Sheik plays while doing a strong attack is the "Serenade of Water", "Bolero of Fire", "Song of Storm", "Nocturne of Shadows", and "Prelude of Light" from Orarina of Time.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Hyrule Warriors
Hyrule Warriors (2014)
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Attachment An earlier design of Link featured him wearing silver armor, similar to Zhao Yun's design from Dynasty Warriors 6.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (2014)
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Touching Ultra Greed while carrying Midas Touch will greatly reduce his armor and will make him take extra damage on top of the usual effects, in reference to the fictional story of king Midas.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Secret
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Resident Evil
Resident Evil (2002)
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Attachment In the Arklay Laboratory, the 'MO disk reader' is actually the GameCube console, as at the time the game was exclusive to the GameCube. However, for the HD Remastered version, the 'MO disk reader' was altered on all platforms to avoid using a console related to Nintendo, even on Nintendo Switch.
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Cameo, Console Difference, Easter Egg, Reference, Secret, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Collection: Blinx
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Attachment The game's director, Naoto Ohshima, had initially designed the character of Blinx to have purple fur, later being changed to orange for unknown reasons.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Yoshi's Crafted World
Yoshi's Crafted World (2019)
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In an interview with Nintendo Everything, the game's director, Masahiro Yamamoto, confirmed that the game takes place in a Kindergarten class within the Mario universe.
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Development, General, Inspiration
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Astral Chain
Astral Chain (2019)
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The game originally started out in a fantasy setting where the player used magic, but after the development team realised that there were lots of other games with a fantasy setting, it was changed into a cyberpunk setting based on animes favoured by the game's creator, Takahisa Taura, such as Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)
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It took the team 22 months to develop the game, with 6 months of that time spent just in pre-production.
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Development, General, Real Life
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Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dust: An Elysian Tail (2012)
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Attachment After collecting all of the Resonance Gems, it's possible to unlock Bastion, with the player having to walk on paths that appear in front of them in the air. This is a reference to the game Bastion itself, as the world builds itself with platforms.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987)
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Attachment The zombies that appear in the towns during night were originally going to be 'Chinese Jiangshi' that could hop, due to their popularity at the time. The hopping move was removed after complaints that the enemies were too strong.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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Sub-Zero's Fatality was inspired by the scene in Predator (1987) in which the Predator rips out the spine of his victim.
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Development, Inspiration
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During the early stages of development, lead artist John Tobias had the idea to rotoscope over the motion captured footage of the characters, though the idea was dropped due to time constraints.
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Development, Early Idea
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Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat 11 (2019)
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An intro conversation between Liu Kang and Sub-Zero references the Mortal Kombat movie, after the latter asks "What did Kitana tell you?", Liu Kang replies "All I need is a pail of water", the method in which Liu Kang defeated Sub-Zero in the film.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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John Madden Football '93
John Madden Football '93 (1992)
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A spinning EASN logo appeared in early builds of the game, though this was changed to a single spinning EA Sports logo instead. This was because of a lawsuit between ESPN and EA, whose fictional EASN branding sounded similar to ESPN.
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Development, General, Real Life, Release Difference, Update Difference, Version Difference
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NHL Blades of Steel '99
NHL Blades of Steel '99 (1999)
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Attachment The game was released as "NHL Pro '99" in Europe.
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Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Blades of Steel
Blades of Steel (1987)
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According to former game's illustrator Tom duBois in 'My Life in Gaming', he was fined $15,000 by 'Sports Illustrated' for using their photo and position of Wayne Gretzky & Billy Smith from 1983 as a reference for the game's front cover without their consent. The charges were later dropped to $10,000.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment Censored Gaming asked 'Martin Molls', the game's director, why the 'Hunting Knife' was removed from the Japanese localisation. He stated that it was related to the 'Kobe Child Murders', an incident in Japan, involving child murder and knives.

This change is believed to have affected Rare's later game 'Perfect Dark' for the same reason.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Snake's Revenge
Snake's Revenge (1990)
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According to former game's illustrator Tom duBois in 'My Life in Gaming', the appearance of 'Jennifer (Operation 747)' on the game's front cover was based on his wife 'Victoria duBois'.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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