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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
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The idea for Super Mario Galaxy simply came from the game's producer, Shigeru Miyamoto, saying to the game's director, Yoshiaki Koizumi "Hey, can you make something with spherical worlds?" This idea became defined over a long period of time and would eventually turn into Super Mario Galaxy.

Miyamoto was known to provide vague comments and feedback that not many workers at Nintendo could completely understand and that only Koizumi was able to figure out the context for.
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Development, Inspiration
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 22, 2014
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Super Mario Spikers
Super Mario Spikers (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment After the launch of Mario Strikers Charged, Next Level Games had pitched to Nintendo a Mario volleyball game titled Super Mario Spikers. Referred to during development as simply Mario Volleyball, it was to be a mix of volleyball and wrestling mechanics, and was presented with hints of a TV game show. It was intended for the Wii and work began on it around the end of 2006. Development was canceled in 2007 after the pitch had failed with Nintendo. The game was financed as a reward from the studio's previous work on the Strikers games, and the volleyball mechanic was thought to have been reused for Mario Sports Mix.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Pitch Bible/Proposal
person Boyobmas calendar_month September 19, 2014
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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When the game was revealed during E3 2001, the game's introduction sequence was played, followed by gameplay footage demonstrating each character's movesets. The only changes made when adding this into the game was to the gameplay footage.
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Development, Early Idea
person Takahashi2212 calendar_month September 19, 2014
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WCW/nWo Revenge
WCW/nWo Revenge (1998)
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The EWF group all had different names in the game's beta and were changed in the game's final release. The characters represented real life non-WCW wrestlers at the time and were likely changed to avoid paying royalties to the wrestlers.
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Development, Early Idea
person TheTrueBoss997 calendar_month September 18, 2014
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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Masahiro Sakurai stated that the Villager from Animal Crossing was removed from Brawl during the planning stages because "he wasn't suited for battle".
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month September 17, 2014
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Adventure
Adventure (1979)
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Adventure was heavily inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure, a text-based game for many early personal computers.
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Development, Inspiration
person NintendoMaster1985 calendar_month September 16, 2014
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011)
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In early trailers of the game, Fi was not implemented. Link also seems to have the Master Sword and Hylian Shield, which the player can get later in the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Shiny Blazeikin calendar_month September 16, 2014
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Worms
Worms (1995)
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Attachment Worms first appeared under the title "Total Wormage" at a computer expo in England. The name was parodying another popular game at the time called Total Carnage. Even the title font was similar.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Mass Distraction calendar_month September 16, 2014
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Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Kart (1992)
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Development of the game began with the idea of making a two-player racing game following F-Zero, which only had a single player mode. The game's prototype originally only had a generic "guy in overalls". The decision to include Mario characters was made roughly three to four months into development after the developers decided to add Mario driving one of the karts because they were curious about how the game would look. They ultimately decided the game looked better, and thus made the game a Mario series title.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person GamerBen144 calendar_month September 12, 2014
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Franchise: Guilty Gear
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Paracelsus, the key-like weapon that A.B.A. wields, is voiced by Toshimichi Mori, the designer of BlazBlue.
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Development, General, Real Life
person TailsFiraga calendar_month September 12, 2014
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Guilty Gear
Guilty Gear (1998)
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Guilty Gear was originally meant to use 3D models instead of the hand-drawn sprites the final version used.
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Development, Early Idea
person TailsFiraga calendar_month September 12, 2014
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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Attachment The track "Castle / Boss Fortress (Super Mario World / SMB 3)" was originally going to be in the Delfino Plaza stage, but was later moved to the Luigi's Mansion stage instead.
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Development, Early Idea
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month September 12, 2014
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Guitar Hero: Metallica
Guitar Hero: Metallica (2009)
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The song "Angel of Death" by Slayer was originally cleared to be included in the game, but was removed because of the song's controversial lyrics. Metallica pressed on for Slayer to be in the game and "War Ensemble" was cleared at the last minute.

"Slayer's got to be part of any heavy metal video game. There had been some issues with their lyrics. That gets into a whole slew of stuff like, 'Microsoft won't do it if this lyrical content is in there.' There's all this bullshit you have to deal with, but we stood up for Slayer, and we finally got Slayer cleared like a week ago." - Lars Ulrich, Metallica Drummer
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Development, Unused Audio, Unused Content
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month September 11, 2014
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999)
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Attachment While the characters of Resident Evil 2 and 3 crossing paths was cut from the game, it was ultimately written into the manhua (Chinese comic) adaptation of Resident Evil 3.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content
person Mass Distraction calendar_month September 11, 2014
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Guitar Hero: Metallica
Guitar Hero: Metallica (2009)
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The Career storyline about a band following Metallica on tour as an opening act is based off of a true story.

"There were some guys in a beat-up old van and they were following Metallica all over Europe, everywhere they went on tour. And then they wound up hanging out with the crew and the crew would feed them. And then eventually Metallica let them get up and open for them."
- Alan Flores, Lead Designer
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month September 11, 2014
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Pokémon Black Version
Pokémon Black Version (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon White Version (Game)
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Attachment Darumaka is designed after a Daruma doll, both having similar markings and neither being able to be laid out on their sides.
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Development, Inspiration
person lobomalo12 calendar_month September 10, 2014
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Full Throttle
Full Throttle (1995)
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Attachment One of the cars that can be found in the junkyard is modeled after a 1969 Pontiac Le Mans, a car that Tim Schafer owned during the development of Full Throttle. When Tim Schafer went out to lunch one day, the engine exploded and the car caught on fire. Later, when Schafer returned to the office, he found that Peter Chan, Lead Artist for Full Throttle, had painted the car into the game.

When the player looks at the car, Ben will say "Fire Damage. Forget about it."
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
person usyboroda calendar_month September 10, 2014
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Monster Monpiece
Monster Monpiece (2013)
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In the American release of the game, 40 cards out of approximately 350 were censored, as they were deemed "too sexual".

When asked about the reasoning behind it, Idea Factory responded, "Western society is not as lenient as that of Japan when sexual images are involved - especially images of humanoids that appear to be younger than a socially acceptable age."
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Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person SOGESNAKE calendar_month September 7, 2014
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Guilty Gear
Guilty Gear (1998)
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The prototype version of Guilty Gear featured many differences in the characters' appearances and weapons. Most notably, May and Potemkin are shown to be wielding large axes.

In the final version, May uses a ship's anchor, and Potemkin fights hand-to-hand.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person TailsFiraga calendar_month September 7, 2014
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Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart DS (2005)
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Proffesor E. Gadd was planned to be a playable character in the game, but was replaced with Dry Bones.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
person noobheadz calendar_month September 6, 2014
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