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Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998)
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Doctor Nefarious Tropy was added to the game as the developers felt a time travelling boss was needed, as the game focused on time travel. His shortened name, N. Tropy, is a pun on entropy, a term used to measure randomness and disorder over time.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Franchise: The Legend of Zelda
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Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto has stated that inspiration for The Legend of Zelda series came from his experiences as a young boy exploring fields, lakes, woods, and caves around Kyoto Japan. Most prominently he mentions a certain small cave he would regularly explore with a lantern.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person SOGESNAKE calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Franchise: Pokémon
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Archeops' National Pokédex number, 567, is also the same as it's base stat total. It is the only Pokémon to do this. Also, in the Dewey Decimal system, 567 refers to fossil cold-blooded vertebrates, which is where the creatures the Pokémon resembles would be classified.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
person Takahashi2212 calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Pac-Man World
Pac-Man World (1999)
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In an interview with Scott Rogers, a designer of Pac-World, he revealed that Toc-Man's name was a nod to "Namcot," a short-lived Namco division created to handle console game releases.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person ThisGuyInTheSuit calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VI (1994)
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In the Japanese version of FF6, Setzer joins the party with a Bandana equipped, even though he cannot equip bandanas (if the Bandana is removed, he cannot re-equip it). This is not a bug, but was meant to be an inside joke showing Setzer's vanity does not allow him to wear the same things as Locke. In the GBA version Setzer does not come with a Bandana, as the porting team possibly thought it was a glitch.
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Console Difference, Development, Inspiration, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Cavery210 calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
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There are multiple cut game modes, as revealed by the existence of sound files for them within the game's data. Some of these modes can even be played by hacking. These include:

• Arena: A game mode with no respawning. The objective was to kill all of the players on the other team, but if there was only one person left alive on each team, a flag would randomly spawn and the first person to capture the flag wins.
• Arms Race: Unknown. Only sound files remain.
• Defcon: There would be 5 Defcon phases which would count down. Play is normal at five. At four, each player goes into "Last Stand" upon death. Three makes weapons deal more damage. Two reduces the requirements for a kill streak by one kill. Defcon one disables respawning. After another minute, if one side has not eliminated the other, a nuke detonates, bringing the game to a draw.
• Die Hard: Team Deathmatch with Last Stand available for all players.
• Global Thermonuclear War: Involved protecting a nuke from the enemy team until the match was over.
• One Flag: One team protects the flag, while the other team captures it.
• VIP: Like Capture The Flag, except protecting a random player on the same team.
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Bonus Content, Development, Early Idea, General, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person frankfrost2 calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Persona 3
Persona 3 (2006)
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A set of early development videos show that there were plans for battles to be conducted through a fluid transition in the game's field, rather than in a designated battle area. Enemies would rise from the ground as a battle began, rather than causing a screen transition.
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Development, Early Idea
person Outofmind23 calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)
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Attachment Early beta screenshots portray Salvatore Leone with a slightly different appearance from that seen in the released game.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month January 19, 2014
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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)
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While a lot isn't known about Mark Cerny's vision for this game, an animated video representing the proposed gameplay was made. Even though this is from long before the actual development began, the level in this video does strongly resemble the level "Crash and Burn".
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Development, Early Idea
person SpaceChimp calendar_month January 20, 2014
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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Attachment An unused character select screen exists in the game for a wi-fi mode named Slipspace. This mode is limited to "With Anyone", and unlike regular wi-fi modes, there is no space on the screen for additional players to join. In the settings bar, the player can set the number of minutes for the mode.

How this mode would have worked and whether it is operational in the game is unknown. The description text for the mode is:
"Set your time and leap into the battle slipspace!"
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Phantom Wings calendar_month January 20, 2014
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Epic Mickey
Epic Mickey (2010)
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Attachment In the original script, Oswald was going to be the main antagonist, but was replaced with the Blot in order to avoid hurting his reputation by portraying him as an unlikable character.
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Development, Early Idea
person RadSpyro calendar_month January 20, 2014
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South Park: The Stick of Truth
South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)
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When the game's original publisher, THQ, went bankrupt, South Park's creators didn't know about it until reading about it in the news. They were really excited when they heard that Ubisoft had picked up the rights to the game.
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Development, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month January 21, 2014
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Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
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Attachment One of the early art directions of the game was going to use 2D pixel-based graphics. There was one concept image early in the development featuring an isometric view in this style using Final Fantasy VI character designs, including Locke.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person VGSavvy calendar_month January 21, 2014
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Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt (1984)
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Attachment Duck Hunt is a remake of a home toy that Nintendo first produced in 1976 that involved players firing their Light Gun at ducks projected onto the wall of the user's home. The toy itself was a home system version of an Arcade style Light Gun system Nintendo called The Laser Clay Shooting System, first released in 1973.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month January 21, 2014
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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Attachment In an early beta version of the game, there was a place known as the "Unicorn Fountain". This was originally going to be where Link was to get the Triforce, and the ability to shoot beams from his sword. It is believed that it was to be accessed through the normally unreachable underwater cave in Zora's Domain.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Mr. Jellysquid calendar_month January 21, 2014
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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)
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Attachment During development it would appear that in part of the level "Crash & Burn", Crash would have had to save Coco from a hanging cage. Even though this task was removed from the final game, the cage is still present in the finished level, although Coco was replaced with a skeleton.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person SpaceChimp calendar_month January 21, 2014
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Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity (2004)
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The development team had plans for a sequel to Twinsanity, which would have involved Crash being transported into various TV shows via a device invented by Cortex. It never went past the brainstorming phase, due to the closure of Traveller's Tales Oxford.
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Development, Early Idea
person Spherix calendar_month January 21, 2014
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Super Mario World
Super Mario World (1990)
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Attachment The stage which is shown at the title screen is an unfinished version of the Special World level "Groovy".
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Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Content
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month January 22, 2014
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Franchise: Mass Effect
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The iconic Reaper roar from the Mass Effect series is the sound of a bear-proof trash can opening and closing. When the sound was played for Casey Hudson, the series' project director, he immediately said "that's the sound of the Reapers."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person t4br1s calendar_month January 23, 2014
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LEGO Racers
LEGO Racers (1999)
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Knightmare-Athon is the only map without a short cut. However, looking through the data of the PC version reveals two short cuts were planned, but never made accessible in the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person frankfrost2 calendar_month January 23, 2014
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