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Company: Team EKS
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The "EKS" in the team's name are the first initials of each of the members' names:

• E = Emil Macko, known for being the creator of the fangame and official Five Nights at Freddy's spin-off series Five Nights at Candy's.

• K = Kane Carter, known for being the creator of the fangame and official Five Nights at Freddy's spin-off series POPGOES.

• S = Sian Mewburn (also known as "Turntail"), known for producing fan art and official artwork for the Five Nights at Freddy's series.
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Artwork/Illustration, Fan Works, General, Title
person Violett calendar_month April 21, 2024
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Street Fighter 6
Street Fighter 6 (2023)
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Attachment When Street Fighter 6's preliminary logo was revealed, it was mocked for a variety of reasons, particularly a disconnect from previous series logos and aligning with a widely criticized trend of generic, minimalist or "oversimplified" logos. Some fans noted that the logo strongly resembled an $80 design for an "SF" logo posted on the Adobe Stock Image store by user xcoolee, which had previously been used for a sci-fi convention in France. xcoolee did offer to sell exclusive rights to the logo to Capcom, but was seemingly denied. It was also discovered that a Taiwanese electronics and appliances retailer, Sunfar, had a similar hexagonal logo. On the day after Street Fighter 6's logo reveal, the front page of their website displayed an advertisement with the logo featuring a paint splatter reading the number 6 promoting gaming products, most likely as a promotional parody. It is unknown if either resemblance was a coincidence on Capcom's part, and xcoolee did not state if they knew whether Capcom bought anything from their store or not. The logo of Street Fighter 6 would be updated to appear more stylized before the game's launch in response to the negative reception, although the fan reception to the new logo was not much more positive.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Asset Reuse, Complaint, Development, General, Plagiarism, Reference, Title, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month April 11, 2024
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The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection
The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Joy of Creation: Classic (Game)
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On March 25, 2024, Nikson revealed that the game's title was being changed from "The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection" to "THE JOY OF CREATION". This meant the game was no longer a bundle, but drawing inspiration from the original Story Mode and Reborn titles to make THE JOY OF CREATION its own game in the series. Nikson claimed that the first title never fully resonated with him after deciding against including the Classic mode as a part of the games to remake. He made the change to emphasize that it was an entirely new project re-imagining elements of earlier games in the series instead of a remaster or update, which he felt did not quite capture the essence of the game.
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Bundled/Pack-In Game, Development, General, Name Change, Title
person Violett calendar_month March 28, 2024
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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003)
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Attachment This game had two working titles before the final Operation Genesis subtitle was instated: "Jurassic Park: Project Genesis" and "Jurassic Park: The Game".
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Development, Early Idea, Title
person Dinoman96 calendar_month March 25, 2024
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JPOG development timeline:
https://lucca2951.wixsite.com/jp-genesis-archives/timeline

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis E3 trailer where it's simply called "Jurassic Park The Game":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKyXW99GNcw

JPOG developer interview from when it was still called "Jurassic Park: Project Genesis":
https://web.archive.org/web/20020619170926/http://www.gamerspulse.com/interviews/5063/index.shtml
Reynatis
Reynatis (2024)
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In an interview with the game's director Takumi Isobe published in Famitsu on February 22, 2024, Isobe explained that the game's title "Reynatis" holds deep significance to the game's story and is derived from two words. The first is "renatus", which means "birth" or "rebirth" in Latin. The second word is "rey" which means "king" in Spanish; additionally, "renatus" on its own can also refer to a "born king" in Spanish.
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Development, Etymology, General, Real Life, Title
person ProtoSnake calendar_month February 26, 2024
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Checkered Flag
Checkered Flag (1994)
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Checkered Flag was originally called Checkered Flag 2 (referring the previous game with the title on Atari Lynx), before being changed to Redline Racing and finally Checkered Flag, positioning it as a remake/port instead of a sequel.
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General, Name Change, Remake, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 17, 2024
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Yo! Noid 2
Yo! Noid 2 (2017)
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Yo! Noid 2 was made for a game jam called New Jam City, hosted by the Vice Waypoint community. One of the rules of the game jam was that its name had to be derived from an episode of the Waypoint Radio podcast, with "Yo! Noid was Ahead of Its Time" being chosen for the game, and the Noid himself being used as the protagonist. The name itself is not actually used in-game, but is used on its Itch.io page. The inclusion of dabbing in this game was in reference to this, with the joke being that the Noid would be so "ahead of his time" that he would dab in a late-1990s video game.
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Fan Works, Game Jam, Meme, Reference, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 7, 2024
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Barkley: Shut Up and Jam 2
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam 2 (1995)
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Attachment A prototype for Barkley: Shut Up & Jam 2 shows that, instead of the photo used in the final game, the title screen was going to show a cartoon illustration of Charles Barkley.
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Prototype, Title, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 7, 2024
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Sonic X Shadow Generations
Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024)
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Sonic X Shadow Generations' title was leaked a day prior to its reveal by notable leakers and a URL registration. Following the leaks, some fans and gaming news websites jokingly noted that the term "Sonic X Shadow" had previously also been used on the internet since the 2000s to refer to fan art, fan-fiction and slash fiction depicting the hedgehogs as a romantic couple.
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Coincidence, Fan Works, Leak, LGBTQ+, Meme, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 7, 2024
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Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2001)
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Attachment When the game's logo is shown in the intro of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, the word "BATTLE" has a shining effect, which is another video file overlaid over the 3D logo. There are two versions of this video, one with Japanese kanji and another with Latin script, however due to an oversight, the shining effect will only show Japanese kanji overlaid upon the English text. This would be fixed in the 2012 rerelease, but only for the English language, so other languages with an English logo still experience the error.
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Console Difference, Mistake, Name Change, Opening Logo, Regional Difference, Title, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 7, 2024
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Adventures of Tron
Adventures of Tron (1983)
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Adventures of Tron was released in Europe as Adventures on GX-12 without the Tron license. The only difference between the two versions is that the title screen was removed.
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Adaptation, General, Name Change, Regional Difference, Title, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 5, 2024
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Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance: Fall of Man (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Resistance (Franchise)
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During the 2006 Game Developers Conference (GDC) where Sony Computer Entertainment showcased a new demo for Resistance, the game previously known as "I-8". The demo showed the game in a much more complete form than the simple FPS that was shown at E3 2005. The gameplay was shown with new weapons very much like the Ratchet & Clank series, only now with a more realistic slant. The demo also showed off effects such as smoke trails on grenades, tactical troop movements, and enemies that came from the ceilings as the lead character ran down a devastated corridor.
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Demo, Early Build, Early Idea, General, Prototype, Real Life, Title
person ProtoSnake calendar_month February 4, 2024
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Platform: Xbox One
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"Xbox 720", a popular preliminary name given by fans and the press to the hypothetical Xbox 360 successor that would eventually become the Xbox One, was the official working title of the hardware according to a leaked Microsoft corporate slideshow from 2012, a year prior to the console's announcement.
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Coincidence, General, Leak, Name Change, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 29, 2024
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Color a Dinosaur
Color a Dinosaur (1993)
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Attachment A prototype for Color a Dinosaur shows that the game was originally called Paint Me! and used black backgrounds instead of white. Despite the title not signifying that the game features dinosaurs, there is nothing to suggest that the game was ever going to feature any pages other than dinosaurs, as all the pages on the prototype are also dinosaurs.
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Development, Early Build, Name Change, Prototype, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 24, 2024
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Mortal Kombat 1
Mortal Kombat 1 (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mortal Kombat 1 (Game)
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According to series co-creator Ed Boon in a video/interview on Mortal Kombat's YouTube channel on May 19, 2023, Mortal Kombat 1's name was chosen because the developers consider it the beginning of a new universe and not a continuation of the Mortal Kombat 11 story. The characters have completely different roles in this new timeline, and the title is meant to emphasize that.
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Backstory/Lore, Development, General, Real Life, Retcon, Title
person ProtoSnake calendar_month January 24, 2024
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Disney's The Lion King 1 1/2
Disney's The Lion King 1 1/2 (2003)
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Attachment The Lion King 1 1/2 for Game Boy Advance was released in European territories not as as the movie's European title The Lion King 3, but rather simply The Lion King, with a large image of cub Simba added to the box art, despite not being playable in-game. The blurb does specify that the game is based on The Lion King 3 and alludes towards only Timon and Pumbaa being playable however.

The original US box art could also be considered misleading to a much lesser degree. While being open about what movie it is an adaptation of and having a giant Timon and Pumbaa ripping through the paper at the top, it uses a modified version of the first film's promo art, featuring Mufasa's spirit head, with cub Simba also present in silhouette (albeit significantly smaller relative to Timon and Pumbaa than on the European box art). This imagery that was not used to market The Lion King 1 1/2 anywhere else. Both boxes' blurbs also feature a screenshot where Simba, as an NPC, is in the center.
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Adaptation, Box Art, False Advertising, General, Name Change, Regional Difference, Title
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Longplay of European version using altered box art as the thumbnail:
https://youtu.be/9dQEzwzaBVo

Both regional boxes:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/918712-disneys-the-lion-king-1-1-2/boxes/53260

European cartridge, sourced from a UK retro gaming store:
https://www.fullyretro.com/product/disneys-the-lion-king,83964390

European blurb, sourced from an eBay listing:
https://postimg.cc/f33HD2b0
Darkstalkers 3
Darkstalkers 3 (1998)
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Attachment The game was originally meant to be renamed to Darkstalkers: Jedah's Damnation for the international release, as seen in an official English-language strategy guide. However, the game retained it's Japanese name of Vampire Savior for the arcade release for reasons unknown. Eventually the game would be renamed Darkstalkers 3 for the console ports. The original name and logo can still be found within the game's files.
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Console Difference, Early Idea, Regional Difference, Title, Unused Graphic
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month January 8, 2024
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New Rally-X
New Rally-X (1981)
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Attachment In the early Korean gaming scene, importers would create original titles for imported games. Humorously, New Rally-X would gain the title of Banggucha, or in English, Fart Car, owing to a literal interpretation of the smoke attack in the game. This title is also a reference to a juvenile Korean slang term for mosquito repellant trucks in the 1970s, which children and some adults would dangerously chase due to their visual and audible resemblance to farting, as well as false assumptions of the mosquito repellant cleaning germs in humans, in a game Americans called "chasing the mosquito man" but Koreans would call "fart car".
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Name Change, Real Life, Reference, Regional Difference, Title
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 8, 2024
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Hardcore Gaming 101 Korean gaming history:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/korea1-older.htm

Korean Source on Rally-X:
https://www.gametoc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20593

Article about the general concept of a "fart car":
https://www.civilreporter.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=79867

Korean wiki article referencing "chasing the fart car":
https://namu.wiki/w/소독차

1980s footage of Korean children chasing the "farts":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=natmPbAxxic
Gyromite
Gyromite (1985)
subdirectory_arrow_right Stack-up (Game)
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Attachment The US versions of Gyromite and Stack-Up did not have their title screens localized, so they retain the games' Japanese titles of Robot Gyro and Robot Block respectively.
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General, Mistake, Name Change, Regional Difference, Title
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US Gyromite in action - epilepsy warning for the ROB light sensor triggers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrTkuPMmvI

US Stack-Up in action. Note that the ROB being used here is somewhat yellowed from sun exposure, so some may mistake him for a yellow JP Robot - observe the sticker on his base and you will see that he is NTSC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da0_OgCCLJA
Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
Pokémon Puzzle Challenge (2000)
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Attachment Pokémon Puzzle Challenge has an unused title screen reading Pokémon Puzzle League, implying that it once shared a name with its Nintendo 64 counterpart.
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Console Difference, Title, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 27, 2023
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