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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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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
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 20, 2023
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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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Credits, Development, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 15, 2023
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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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Celebrity, Credits, General, Real Life
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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
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
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 14, 2023
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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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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
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 11, 2023
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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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Credits, General, Sound Effect, Voice Acting
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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
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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Credits, General, Real Life
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 10, 2023
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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
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 9, 2023
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! (1988)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mavis Beacon (Collection)
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Despite the product line being marketed as if Mavis Beacon is a real person who endorsed the software, Mavis Beacon is a fictional character. The first version of Mavis was portrayed by Renée L'Esperance.
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Credits, Rumor
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 10, 2023
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Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (1988)
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Attachment The first NES rendition of Wheel of Fortune contains unused graphics of the Coca-Cola logo. This is because Coca-Cola owned Merv Griffin Enterprises, the company that created Wheel of Fortune, but sold the studio to Columbia Pictures during development of the game.
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Credits, Real Life, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993)
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The password for Level 4: Fair Conditioning is "MKBRLN", short for Mike Berlyn, the creator of Bubsy.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Reference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy (Game), Xbox (Platform)
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Attachment The design for the Xbox BIOS was pitched by freelance graphic design artist Seton Kim. Although he was fired from the job for the imagery of "Hello Kitty trapped in an alien pod" in a mock up of a memory card screen featuring the PlayStation games Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy and Metal Gear Solid, the final BIOS would be very close to his designs.
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Credits, Development, Similarities, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Missile Command
Missile Command (1981)
subdirectory_arrow_right Imagic (Company), Atari (Company)
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Attachment When the Atari 2600 conversion of Missile Command released, the conversion's developer, Rob Fulop, was not paid in money by Atari, but rather a coupon for one free turkey at the American supermarket chain Safeway. Rob Fulop left to co-found Imagic as a result of this.
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Credits, Financial Affairs, General, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (2002)
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Despite the fact that Tom Kenny reprises his role as SpongeBob and Gary in this game, he does not reprise his role as the French Narrator from the show. This is unusual not only because the French Narrator has a prominent role in this game, but because the character sounds completely different to how he sounds in the show.
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Cameo, Credits, Development, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
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Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment Two background characters featured in the Pizzascare level, a pink-clothed Peppino and a dark-skinned blue-clothed heterochromatic Noise, are fan characters known as Peddito and the Doise created by a fan named Robbie1scool. The Doise would be included as The Noise's exclusive boss in the Noise Update.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Fan Works, Real Life, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Hotel Mario
Hotel Mario (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right Luigi's Mansion 3 (Game), Mario (Franchise)
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The lead technical character artist for Luigi's Mansion 3, Jeffrey Zoern, previously worked as the art director for Hotel Mario, another Mario series game themed around hotels that Nintendo has historically been reluctant to acknowledge.
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Credits, Development, Real Life
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CarnEvil
CarnEvil (1998)
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Attachment In the game’s "Freak Show" level, the player enters the "Museum of the Slightly Curious", which features odd antiques like "Salty Jack" (a reference to the mascot for the snack food Cracker Jack) and the "Horse With No Mane" (a pun referencing the 1971 song "A Horse with No Name" by folk rock band America). One of these antiques on display right below a health power-up is a caveman "Frozen in Time!".

The cartoonish, one-eyed Caveman is actually the titular enemy character from the 1991 Midway arcade game Trog. The inclusion was a reference to CarnEvil's Director and Lead Designer Jack E. Haeger also serving as the artist for Trog.
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Cameo, Credits, Easter Egg, Music, Reference
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Mario's Game Gallery
Mario's Game Gallery (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Teaches Typing (Game), Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Mario from 1990 to 2023, first officially voiced the character as part of a motion-capture Silicon Graphics interactive exhibition used at Nintendo trade shows (with the role at the time sometimes split between him and musician Steve Coyle). The first commercially-released product to feature his voice acting is purported to be the Super Mario Bros. pinball machine released in 1992 and produced by Gottlieb. According to Martinet when asked by a fan in 2018, Gottlieb "stole" his voice clips and did not credit or pay him for his acting. While the 1995 PC game Mario's Game Gallery is often cited as Martinet's first official role as Mario in a video game, the actual first credited video game to feature him as Mario is the 1994 PC educational title Mario Teaches Typing, where he replaced the DOS version's voice actor, Ronald B. Ruben.
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Credits, General, Voice Acting
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Gottlieb pinball machine voice clips and demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUdCd5x9Hrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aLaj10XfxE

Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1992 demonstration of Nintendo interactive exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1t6iNG28zI

Charles Martinet 2018 question:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/nintendo-pinball-mystery-solved-voice-of-mario-in-super-mario-bros-/

[Below additional links were contributed by VinchVolt]

TheGamer article naming the CD-ROM version of Mario Teaches Typing as Martinet's first time voicing Mario in a video game:
https://www.thegamer.com/charles-martinet-how-long-voiced-mario/

Kiro 7 article:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/marios-voice-charles-martinet-steps-down/KM6ZTKNXI5FHNKBZKSWJ4EA3QA/

Destructoid gallery incorrectly listing Mario's Game Gallery as Martinet's first time voicing Mario in a video game; an update is provided at the start of the article stating that it was actually the CD-ROM version of Mario Teaches Typing (though the update misdates it to 1995):
https://www.destructoid.com/behold-the-first-mario-game-voiced-by-charles-martinet/

Behind the Voice Actors page for the MS-DOS version of Mario Teaches Typing:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Mario-Teaches-Typing/
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