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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment Most of the voice actors were credited under pseudonyms since they did not know if the project was supported by the Screen Actors Guild. The only ones who used their real names were David Hayter (Solid Snake) and Doug Stone (Psycho Mantis).
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Credits, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
person Teller calendar_month February 13, 2013
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NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC
NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC (1999)
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The Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast versions of NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC contain secret text in their code that some may find to humorously juxtapose one another.

•The Nintendo 64 version contains the text "An Alan Smithee Game", referring to a pseudonym used by filmmakers to disown a project they don't want to be associated with.
•The Dreamcast version contains the text "Joe Rules", likely a signature referring to either programmer Joe Barnes, artist Joe Williamson, or both.
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Coincidence, Console Difference, Credits, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Unused Content, Unused Text, Version Difference
person GamerBen144 calendar_month September 9, 2019
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Bubsy 3D
Bubsy 3D (1996)
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In a promotional article published by Gamefan magazine, the game's art style was stated to have been heavily influenced by the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes shorts directed by Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones. On top of this, he was credited in promotional materials for overseeing some of the game's art direction and for choosing the game's flat-shaded, polygonal graphics, but was not credited in the final product.
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Artwork/Illustration, Credits, Development, General, Inspiration, Model, Real Life
person CLXcool calendar_month August 31, 2021
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The Misadventures of Tron Bonne
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne (1999)
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Attachment In the end credits of the Japanese release, three additional images with captions underneath them are shown during the montage of official artwork. These images appear to be drawings and fan mail sent by young Japanese fans to Capcom that influenced the game's development:

• The first image shown in the credits, submitted by 14-year-old Masahiro Onuma from Osaka, reads:

"Kobun Mole
It comes out of the land on the ground, and comes out of anywhere in the cave. You can hit the body with a drill and crush the scattered soil and stones!"

This drawing appears to be the first design for the Servbot Borer that was later simplified for the final game and later modified again in Mega Man Legends 2.

• The second image, submitted by 11-year-old Takumi Miyayoshi from the Ishikawa Prefecture, reads:

"Kobun's Bomb
Dummy dolls are passing one after another from right to left. (It's a bomb)"

This drawing may be the first design for the Servbot training minigame in the Gym, where a Servbot has to dodge and catch bombs volleyed at it by two other Servbots and then throw them back at targets behind them.

• The third image, submitted by 10-year-old Masashi Kaga from Tokyo, reads:

"Bonne Rocket Bazooka
There is a roller under the trigger, so you can move while doing something!!"

This drawing appears to be the first design for the Bonne Bazooka, a weapon used by the Gustaff that can be developed by Servbot #31 after he obtains his skill and the Pipe from the Nakkai Ruins.

The text featured on the fan drawings themselves have been left untranslated in this submission as the pictures were scaled down to fit in the credits and thus appear smaller, grainier and more difficult to read.
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Artwork/Illustration, Credits, Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Suggested, Theory, Version Difference
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Radical Dreamers: Le Trésor Interdit
Radical Dreamers: Le Trésor Interdit (1996)
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If you play the scenario "SuperXtreme Alphacosmos Police Case EX Ultra", the end credits screen will feature Spoiler:UFOs in place of the pink birds that normally fly by.
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Credits, Ending
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Mighty No. 9
Mighty No. 9 (2016)
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Attachment In the game's Backer Credits, backer Mighty No. 5040 is listed with the name "Kamiya was right". This is in reference to comments made by Capcom alumn Hideki Kamiya on Twitter about Mighty No. 9 and its producer Keiji Inafune before its release, calling the game a copy of Mega Man and "an insult to their old home", in addition to comments about Inafune not actually creating Mega Man (Inafune's design for Mega Man that would define the series' art style was based on sprite work and a basic concept originally created by Akira Kitamura) and calling him a business man.
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Credits, Crowdfunding Campaign, Easter Egg, Real Life, Reference
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Bug Too!
Bug Too! (1996)
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Comedian Adam Carolla provided the voice of Bug's "Agent", but was credited under the pen name "Mr. Birchum". Carolla would later voice the character Dick Birchum on Comedy Central's puppet TV series "Crank Yankers".
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Credits, General, Rumor, Secret
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Adam Carolla's voice and credit in Bug Too!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7jkmDL4Iiw?t=12382

Carolla as Birchum on Crank Yankers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQn1bttbyU
Star Fox
Star Fox (1993)
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Star Fox Composer Hajime Hirasawa left Nintendo shortly after the game released and six years later founded Faith Co. Ltd, the company that developed the world's first downloadable ringtones.
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Credits, General, Music, Real Life, Technology
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Faith Co. Ltd company history:
https://www.faith-inc.com/corporate/faith/history/index.html

Faith Co. Ltd press release from 2007 verifying Hirasawa was still president:
https://www.faith-inc.com/press/doc/20070820desperado_nfrm.html

MobyGames listing:
https://www.mobygames.com/person/82535/hajime-hirasawa/

Multiple sources included above as no single valid English sources are available to correlate the founder of Faith Co. Ltd. as being the same man who composed Star Fox for SNES.
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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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/
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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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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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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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
person PirateGoofy calendar_month September 4, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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