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Midnight Mutants
Midnight Mutants (1990)
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Attachment The box art of the game uses an image based on Al Lewis' portrayal of Grandpa Munster in the 1964 The Munsters sitcom and claims the game to be "Featuring... 'GRAMPA'". Despite this, neither Al Lewis nor The Munsters are mentioned on the game's copyright disclaimers and credits, and 'GRAMPA' is not the player character.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Cameo, Credits, Inspiration, Plagiarism
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Wabbit
Wabbit (1982)
subdirectory_arrow_right Solar Fox (Game)
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Efforts had been made to contact the programmer of Wabbit, referred to as "Ban Tran" by her former coworkers. Her real name was discovered to be Van Tran in 2022, and she was interviewed by the Video Game History Foundation in May of that year.

Wabbit was the only game Tran developed for Apollo, as they went bankrupt in November 1982. She later went on to work on the Atari 2600 port of Solar Fox before retiring from the video games industry.
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment Starting with Super Mario 64, the Koopa Troopa's voice is an incredibly short snippet of "HUMAN, YELL - YELL: FEMALE", a sound effect of a woman gleefully screaming from the Best Service Voice Spectral Volume 1 sound pack, modified into different pitches and speeds. In some games, a different snippet from the sound effect is used to represent Koopa Troopas screaming or being frustrated.
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Best Service Voice Spectral Volume 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCEgbkTJTY#t=89

Koopa Troopa voice clips from different games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbecF6Kn4U4?t=56
Q*bert
Q*bert (1982)
subdirectory_arrow_right Q*bert: Rebooted (Game), Wreck-It Ralph (Franchise), Q*Bert (Collection)
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Q*Bert co-creator Warren Davis, although highly grateful for the character's continued longevity, dislikes that modern portrayals of the character, such as those in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, Adam Sandler's Pixels, and the Q*Bert: Rebooted game make his nose "flaccid".
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Character Design, Complaint, Credits, Real Life
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Equinox
Equinox (1993)
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Alan Smithee, a now-discontinued pseudonym used by the Screenwriter's Guild of America for film staff who want to disown a project, has seen use in the gaming industry - the earliest documented use of the name in a video game can be found for the director of Equinox for SNES. The game's real director, John Pickford, explained in 2023 that he went credited as Alan Smithee because he was "pissed" about the large volume of content removed from the final game.
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Credits, Development, General, Hidden Credit, Unused Content
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Mr. Gimmick
Mr. Gimmick (1992)
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Attachment The original Japanese version of Gimmick contains a unique anti-piracy response where, if the opening cutscene is tampered with, the player will not be able to access the secret final level and it will instead cut to a black screen saying "BLACK HOLE" in reference to the game Atlantis no Nazo. Contrary to popular belief, this was not intended as an anti-piracy method, but rather a failed attempt by game designer Tomomi Sakae to prevent his name from being removed from the opening credits. This trigger was neatly edited around its intended purpose, and was eventually removed in the Scandinavian release of the game, though Sakae's name was reinstated as an unused line of intro text.
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Anti-Piracy, Complaint, Credits, Unused Text, Unwinnable
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Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996)
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This game is notable for featuring several well-known actors, such as Adam Wylie, Eric Lloyd, Isabella Rossellini, and Jeff Goldblum. It was also directed by Lawrence Guterman, who would later go on to direct films such as "Cats & Dogs" and "Son of the Mask".
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Game credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtKx5Q5pOGk?t=4933

Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland - Making of / Behind the Scenes / EPK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoK5dffwtU
Angry Birds
Angry Birds (2009)
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Attachment Level 8-3 was designed by a 5-year old fan named Ethan, whose mother sent Rovio his concept art for an Angry Birds stage through an email.
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Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant
Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (1997)
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The Galloping Gazelle and the Masked Mutant are both portrayed by famous actors Adam West and Jim Belushi, respectively. In the case of the former, he's also reprising his role from the Goosebumps TV series episode "Attack of the Mutant", with the Galloping Gazelle being modelled after West's portrayal of Batman in the 1966 live-action TV series.
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Credits, Inspiration, Real Life
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Action Girlz Racing
Action Girlz Racing (2005)
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Action Girlz Racing claims on its box to be made "for girls, by girls". However, the credits of the game show that many of the developer names are simply female versions of the names of developers credited on other Data Design Interactive games, such as Karl White becoming "Karla White", Julien Alden-Salter becoming "Julia Alden-Salter", and Teoman Irmak becoming "Teowoman Hermark".
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Advertisement/Commercial, Credits, Development, False Advertising, In-Joke, Male/Female Gender
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Driving Theory Training
Driving Theory Training (2008)
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Attachment Driving Theory Training contains a credit for "QUARK COMPRESSION", credited to Frédéric Bautista. It is unknown what this means.
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Credits, Unsolved Mystery
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Garten of Banban 4
Garten of Banban 4 (2023)
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Sheriff Toadster is the first male English-speaking character in the Garten of Banban series to not be voiced by one of the Euphoric Brothers (Faris and Ghepo), instead being voiced by Paul Hikari.
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Credits, Voice Acting
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Pop'n Music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume
Pop'n Music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume (2016)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sound Voltex IV: Heavenly Haven (Game), Bemani (Franchise)
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The Pop'n Music songs "Dance to Blue (Respect Style)" and "Mychronicle", along with the Sound Voltex song "GERBERA" were all initially credited to "BEMANI Sound Team" (Or "伊藤賢治 Remixed by BEMANI Sound Team" in the case of "Dance to Blue (Respect Style)"). These songs marked the first usages of such a moniker in BEMANI games. It wouldn't be until December 2017 that these songs received the altered credits "伊藤賢治 Remixed by BEMANI Sound Team 'PON'", "BEMANI Sound Team 'positive MAD-crew'", and "BEMANI Sound Team 'TAG'" respectively. Since then, all in-house BEMANI songs have been credited as BEMANI Sound Team "Artist Name". Though no official breakdown for the BEMANI Sound Team moniker has been given, some theorize the change was either to distinguish in-house composers from commissioned artists (i.e. kors k and Ryu☆), or due to policies from a pachinko company merger with Konami, mandating reduced visibility of staff.
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RemyWiki page on BEMANI Sound Team:
https://remywiki.com/BEMANI_Sound_Team

RemyWiki page on Dance to Blue (Respect Style):
https://remywiki.com/Dance_to_Blue_(Respect_Style)

Pop'n Music footage of Dance to Blue (Respect Styel) with BEMANI Sound Team credit:
https://youtu.be/5ttNrmlyApU

RemyWiki page on Mychronicle:
https://remywiki.com/Mychronicle

Pop'n Music footage of Mychronicle:
https://youtu.be/lPAyl856a8g

RemyWiki page on GERBERA:
https://remywiki.com/GERBERA

Sound Voltex footage of GERBERA:
https://youtu.be/-10mmR24P_0
WarioWare: Touched!
WarioWare: Touched! (2004)
subdirectory_arrow_right WarioWare (Collection)
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Nintendo Treehouse did not expect the WarioWare series to receive more installments after WarioWare: Touched!. They also did not believe that the character Ashley would not make any further appearances in the Wario franchise as a whole, so they cast a random localization employee named Christine Peyser to play Ashley in the English version of the game instead of a professional voice actress. This would become problematic as the WarioWare series proved its longevity, with Peyser being forced to abandon projects to record Ashley's lines. Ashley, alongside the entire WarioWare cast sans Wario, would eventually be recast in WarioWare Gold.
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Part-Time Gamers - Episode 76 (from 46:30):
https://web.archive.org/web/20151021014958/http://www.chaingangmedia.com/ptg76/

WarioWare Inc., Mega MicroGame$! end credits:
https://youtu.be/fZTIWgG6IO0?t=175
Dance Dance Revolution A
Dance Dance Revolution A (2016)
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Attachment The song "First Time", despite being credited as "BEMANI Sound Team 'Metal Stepper'", does not reflect this in the song's jacket, simply referring to the composer as "Metal Stepper".
This suggests that the song's jacket was created prior to the BEMANI Sound Team rebranding.
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Credits, General, Music, Theory
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Sonic and the Black Knight
Sonic and the Black Knight (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Black Dawn (Game), Adrenix (Game), Sonic The Hedgehog (Franchise), Tommy Tallarico Studios (Company)
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Tommy Tallarico, credited composer for the "Molten Mine", "The Cauldron", and "Great Megalith" music tracks in Sonic and the Black Knight claimed in 2022 to have been the first American to work on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. Even if one refuses to count external work such as localization, marketing, and multimedia adaptations, this is not true, as Americans have worked on art, programming, and music for Sonic titles as far back as the 16-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Tallarico having previously shown awareness in 2014 of American pop star Michael Jackson's involvement in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. In 2023, his involvement in writing the three tracks came into question when it was discovered that they contained similarities to several demos originally credited to Todd Dennis, a composer at Tommy Tallerico Studios in the 1990's, and originally written for the games Black Dawn and Adrenix.
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Credits, Development, Hoax, Music, Plagiarism, Similarities
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Tallerico's original claim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP5uOMZoGRo

Tallerico acknowledging Jackson's work on Sonic 3 & Knuckles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF8XeZdh2Jc

Article questioning Tallerico's involvement in writing Sonic and the Black Knight tracks:
https://www.sonicstadium.org/news/games/sonic-and-the-black-knight-composers-contributions-questioned-r1810/
Bob the Builder
Bob the Builder (2007)
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A video of the Bethesda Softworks logo can be found in the files of Bob the Builder for PlayStation 2. Bethesda is not known to have had any involvement in Bob the Builder, so it unknown why the video is in the code.
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Credits, Hidden Credit, Meme, Opening Logo, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic
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Pac-Man Championship Edition
Pac-Man Championship Edition (2020)
subdirectory_arrow_right Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 (Game)
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The NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, featured in 2020's Namco Museum Archives Volume 1, was originally created as an unauthorized fan project by homebrew developer coke774 in 2008.
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Console Difference, Credits, Remake, Similarities, Unreleased Content, Version Difference
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Code Name S.T.E.A.M.
Code Name S.T.E.A.M. (2015)
subdirectory_arrow_right Fire Emblem (Franchise)
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Code Name S.T.E.A.M. marks the debut of Yuri Lowenthal as the English voice of Marth from the Fire Emblem series. He would go on to reprise this role for all subsequent English-speaking appearances.
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Credits, General, Voice Acting
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Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Game)
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In the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64, instead of the announcer and menu options being voiced by Mario they are instead voiced by the same VA who played the announcer in Wave Race 64: John Hulaton.

According to John in an interview with DidYouKnowGaming?, after recording his lines for Wave Race 64 he was handed a slip of paper and was then told to record the lines on it without being told what it was for. These lines ended up being for Mario Kart 64.

John's agent was reportedly very upset, as John was not paid for these lines and on top of that John's name was misspelled as 'John Huraton' in the credits.

The lines John recorded would then later be used in the Japanese and International versions of Mario Kart: Super Circuit, where John remained uncredited.
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Asset Reuse, Credits, Regional Difference, Voice Acting
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