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Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land (2011)
subdirectory_arrow_right Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Game)
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Attachment Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe redesigns Wing Kirby's costume, changing the pattern on the headband to a series of straight lines, adding a red jewel on the front (similar to the kind seen on other Copy Ability hats), and replacing the rows of feathers on the back with arrangements that more closely resemble a bird's wings. As the original design was based on a Native American warbonnet, the redesign was likely to avoid cultural appropriation, as real-life warbonnets are regarded as sacred in tribal cultures and consequently can only be worn by those who have earned the right to do so.
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YouTube video highlighting various changes made in the Nintendo Switch remake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLRSBsOiFA

Indian Country Today article on cultural appropriation of warbonnets:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170706114746/https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/sports/houska-i-didnt-know-doesnt-cut-it-anymore/

Native Appropriations article on why wearing warbonnets as generic headgear is considered offensive among Native Americans:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160513074733/http://nativeappropriations.com/2010/04/but-why-cant-i-wear-a-hipster-headdress.html

Texas Law Review paper on Native American perspectives on cultural appropriation:
https://texaslawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/RileyCarpenter.FinalPDF.pdf
The Bombing Islands
The Bombing Islands (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Charlie Blasts Territory (Game)
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The Bombing Islands was re-developed into Charlie Blast's Territory (originally known as "Charlie Blast's Challenge") for the Nintendo 64 by Realtime Associates and game designer Scott Kim. Aside from the graphics being changed, the game notably added a four-player versus mode, complete with multiple different characters and bomb types not seen in the game's single player mode (i.e. a Freeze Bomb and a Rainbow Bomb).
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Development, General, Name Change, Real Life, Reskin, Version Difference
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Hard 'n' Heavy
Hard 'n' Heavy (1989)
subdirectory_arrow_right Giana Sisters (Collection)
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Attachment Hard 'n' Heavy was originally conceived as a sequel to The Great Giana Sisters titled Giana 2 - Arthur and Martha in Future World, but was changed due to the threats the developers had received from Nintendo over the previous Giana game. Screenshots and a box art for Giana 2 exist, and show that seemingly only the character of Giana was removed in the transition to Hard 'n' Heavy, but the version of the game with Giana is not known to exist.
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Box Art, Cancelled Release, Reskin, Unreleased Content, Unused Character
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Tetris Attack
Tetris Attack (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Panel de Pon (Game), Killer Instinct (Collection)
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According to the British magazine Nintendo Magazine System, before settling on Yoshi's Island characters for Tetris Attack, Nintendo reportedly asked Rare to replace Panel de Pon's fairies with characters from the Killer Instinct series.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Regional Difference, Reskin, Unreleased Content, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Alex Kidd: High-Tech World
Alex Kidd: High-Tech World (1989)
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Alex Kidd: High-Tech World revolves around Alex going to a new Sega arcade called "High-Tech World", which seems to be a strange and arguably counter-intuitive product placement for Sega's Hi-Tech Land arcades that only existed in Japan and have a slightly different name from the one given in the game. The game was originally released in Japan as Anmitsu Hime, and revolved around finding a cake shop instead of an arcade, meaning that the audience that could actually have a Hi-Tech Land in close proximity would not be able to play the game under normal means.
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The Sega Retro article for Hi-Tech Land (https://segaretro.org/Hi-Tech_Land_Sega) claims the name to have originated after High Tech World's release in 1989, but the wiki itself has two contradicting pieces of evidence:

1990 flyer showing a listing for a Hi-Tech Land arcade that opened in 1978 (page 5):
https://segaretro.org/images/9/9b/SegaEnJoint_JP_Flyer.pdf

A photograph of a Hi-Tech Land in Sapporo, Japan, dated to 1987, with the name visible:
https://segaretro.org/File:HiTechLandSega_Japan_Kotoni_1987.jpg

Longplay of Alex Kidd: High-Tech World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDMNEBv-4Hw

Longplay of Anmitsu Hime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13UH4tUFZ38
Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!
Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! (1994)
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According to designer Norio Okubo, Wario Blast was originally going to feature Mario instead of Wario - this was changed due to cultural sensitivity regarding bombs in certain regions, where it was decided that having a villain like Wario plant bombs would be seen as more appropriate than if a hero like Mario were to do so.
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Development, Early Idea, Regional Difference, Reskin, Unused Character
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Blue Ninja: Superhero Game
Blue Ninja: Superhero Game (2020)
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As stated in the game's official app store description, Blue Ninja is intended to be a parody of superheroes and "the best of ninja trained spider games". Based on the initial teaser trailer (when it was known as "Superhero Game 2021") featuring a different red and black design from the final game, using music from the film "Spider-Man 3", and the game description's numerous references to "spider heroes", it's very obvious that this game is meant to specifically be a parody of the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The visual similarities to Spider-Man in Blue Ninja's early design were most likely changed for the final game to avoid copyright disputes.
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Copyright, Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reskin
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dragon Ball (Franchise)
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Similarly to Donkey Kong's origins as a Popeye game, Alex Kidd in Miracle World was originally intended as a Dragon Ball game. Alex's creator, Kotaro Hayashida, said in an interview:

"Sega were planning on making a Dragon Ball game... I guess this happened long enough ago that it's okay for me to talk about this! The project began as a Dragon Ball title, not as a direct competitor to Super Mario Bros.

But when we were told we could not use the Dragon Ball licence any more, we were forced to come up with our own ideas instead. For example, when it was Dragon Ball, Goku fought with his Power Pole, but we changed that to a punch attack. It was only after we came up with the plan to restart the project as Alex Kidd in Miracle World that we starting thinking about Mario, and looking for ways in which to differentiate the title from it."

A classic Dragon Ball influence can be observed in the final game, such as Alex's laser bracelet resembling a kamehameha and the use of Janken (Rock, Paper, Scissors) in boss battles, as well as certain character and object designs with resemblance to those from Dragon Ball, and shared influences from the public domain Japanese story Journey to the West.
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Adaptation, Cancelled Release, Corporate Affairs, Early Idea, Reskin, Similarities, Unused Character
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Pac-Man
Pac-Man (2002)
subdirectory_arrow_right Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise)
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Attachment The Neave Interactive port of Pac-Man was reskinned and packaged as a new game by many Flash websites. Most of these were amateur jobs, and among those cheap ports existed a reskin of the game on the official 4Kids TV website to promote the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, titled Mutant Munchies.
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Adaptation, Plagiarism, Reskin, Website
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Trivia about Pac-Man Neave Interactive port:
https://twitter.com/DailyPacMan/status/1705597897382002733

Mutant Munchies gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SDUAy4GtQ
Mecarobot Golf
Mecarobot Golf (1993)
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Mecarobot Golf is a partial reskin of Birdie Try, a generic, non-robot-themed golf game starring Japanese professional golfer Nobuo Serizawa. Only the characters were changed, and the only sci-fi element in the US version is Eagle, the titular Mecarobot. Otherwise, the game remains a generic golf game, and the other three introduced characters are two white women and one white man, replacing the Japanese version's three Asian men.
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General, Regional Difference, Reskin, Version Difference
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Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School
Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Paint by DS (Game)
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Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School is a reskin of Paint by DS, a game that has multiple different reskins. Of all of the Paint by DS variations, Crazy Frog Collectables has the most images to paint at 38.
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General, Reskin, Statistics
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Bust-A-Move
Bust-A-Move (1994)
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Attachment A prototype exists for a US version of the original Japan-exclusive Puzzle Bobble known as Bubble Buster which removes the Bubble Bobble elements outright, as it was a very common practice for puzzle games at the time. This is somewhat unusual, because no replacement characters were provided, unlike localisations such as Tetris Attack, and Bubble Bobble had already proven itself to be a popular brand in the American market at the time. The logo for Bubble Buster would serve as the basis for the logo of the Neo Geo arcade remake's US release, Bust-A-Move, though that did not remove the Bubble Bobble characters.
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Name Change, Prototype, Regional Difference, Reskin, Unreleased Content
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Pac & Pal
Pac & Pal (1983)
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Attachment In Europe, Pac & Pal was released under the title Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp, with Miru swapped for Pac-Man's dog from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Chomp Chomp. Only about 300 Chomp Chomp machines are known to have been manufactured, and while the ROM is avaliable online, only one blurry, black-and-white image of the cabinet exists, using artwork done in the same style as the cabinet art of Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man.
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Regional Difference, Reskin
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (1984)
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Ghostbusters is a modified version of an unreleased game called Car Wars. According to the game's developer David Crane in a 2010 interview, Car Wars was "a game about buying cars, tricking them out, and dueling them against other cars around a fictional city." After one month of development, Activision co-founder Gary Kitchen called and met with him to discuss making a game based on the then-upcoming Ghostbusters film to release on the same day as the film, and Crane immediately devised a way to change Car Wars into a Ghostbusters game with only minor changes and additions.
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Adaptation, Cancelled Release, Development, Reskin
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Titenic
Titenic (1998)
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Titenic was finished an indeterminately long time before its release in 2003 (presumably back when the 1997 film "Titanic" was recent), but was temporarily shelved due to declining interest in the Taiwanese Famicom market. Although not stated by any official sources, it could also be incurred that it may have had difficulty releasing due to the film's target audience being very distant from those that video games were marketed to in the 1990s, as it was released with the more pre-teen-boy-targeting reskin, Harry's Legend in 2001, prior to the release of the original Titenic.
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Development, Real Life, Reskin, Theory, Unreleased Content, Unsolved Mystery
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Fury of the Furries
Fury of the Furries (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac-In-Time (Game), Pac-In-Time (Game)
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The DOS and Game Boy versions of Pac-In-Time are reskins of an Amiga game called Fury of the Furries. The SNES version of Pac-In-Time is a completely different game with some similar gameplay elements.
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Console Difference, General, Reskin
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Crush Crush
Crush Crush (2016)
subdirectory_arrow_right Yandere Simulator (Game), Ayano's Lovesick Labyrinth (Game), Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals (Game), YandereDev (Company)
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Artwork/Illustration, Cancelled Release, Character Design, Complaint, Corporate Affairs, Crossover, Delisted, Downloadable Content (DLC), General, Name Change, Press Release, Real Life, Removed Feature, Reskin, Update Difference, Voice Acting
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (1981)
subdirectory_arrow_right Crazy Kong (Game)
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Crazy Kong was an officially licensed clone of Donkey Kong released by Falcon Inc. to compensate for Nintendo's inability to make enough Donkey Kong machines as there was demand for. However, Crazy Kong was only allowed to be distributed in Japan, but Falcon released the game abroad anyway with Elcron Industries, leading to a lawsuit where Nintendo won.
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Corporate Affairs, General, Legal Affairs, Reskin
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 13, 2023
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Pokémon Puzzle League
Pokémon Puzzle League (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo Puzzle Collection (Game), Panel de Pon (Game)
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The version of Panel de Pon included on Nintendo Puzzle Collection was originally intended to be released on the Nintendo 64 in Japan, and a prototype featuring the Panel de Pon fairy characters is known to exist. It did see release on the console in other regions as Pokémon Puzzle League, however.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Regional Difference, Reskin, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 27, 2023
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Snoopy's Magic Show
Snoopy's Magic Show (1990)
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Attachment Based on evidence from the book Video Game Quest and unused graphics within the game's code, Snoopy's Magic Show was likely originally going to be an original IP, with the title of either Death Ball or Heart Attack.
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Cancelled Release, Reskin, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
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