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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
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 5, 2024
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Super Mario World
Super Mario World (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Hummer Team (Company)
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Hummer Team's bootleg version of Super Mario World for the Famicom took over a year to develop, and was supposedly the hardest project that they worked on.
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Development, Fan Works, General, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 26, 2023
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Alan Wake II
Alan Wake II (2023)
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Reportedly, Alan Wake II's budget stands at €70 million: €50 million was spent on development, while the remaining €20 million was spent on marketing. This makes the game one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland.
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person chocolatejr9 calendar_month December 12, 2023
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[Both sources are in Finnish.]

Budget:
https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000009952209.html

Most expensive cultural product statement:
https://yle.fi/a/74-20057197
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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A popular internet joke upon the release of Super Mario 64 was "What happened to Super Mario 4 through 63?" If one is to calculate every Mario game released before Super Mario 64, including outliers such as ports and titles not released on Nintendo hardware like Mario Teaches Typing, the game would be the 113th title on the series. However, if you were to only count games released on non-devoted Nintendo hardware and remove ports, the title would be, very anti-climactically, the 63rd Mario game.
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General, Meme, Social Media, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 9, 2023
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Article analysing the Mario numerical placement:
https://kemono.su/patreon/user/12809227/post/21844567

Note: the article concludes at Super Mario 64 being the 62nd game. However, this article's rules are "No games with the same name", not "No ports", which doesn't account for 1994's Donkey Kong on Game Boy, which was marketed as a remake, but in reality a completely unique game.
Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story
Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Toy Story Activity Center (Game), Toy Story (Franchise), Pixar (Collection), Disney's Animated Storybook (Collection)
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Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story and Toy Story Activity Center were developed by a devision of Pixar known as the Interactive Products Group, which exclusively made video game content. The division was closed down when the Toy Story 2 movie entered production, and merged into Pixar's main movie animation staff, as the animators behind the first film were working on A Bug's Life and the IPG had already proved itself by making as many frames of animation for their games as there was in the first Toy Story, with a near-identical quality. Due to the shuttering of the IPG, later Pixar PC games using pre-rendered graphics, such as A Bug's Life Activity Center and Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training, would have significantly lower quality animation than the movies, and Toy Story would be the only Pixar film to have an Animated Storybook based on it.
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Adaptation, Development, Model, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Statistics, Technology
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 2, 2023
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (Game)
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Pit was first depicted with blue eyes and a laurel crown in promotional artwork for Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, which was not released in Japan until 2012. If the eye color and crown of Pit's design in 2008's Super Smash Bros. Brawl was influenced by Of Myths and Monsters and wasn't simply a coincidence, that would make it the first and so far only instance of Super Smash Bros. referencing content from a game without any kind of Japanese release at the time within gameplay, and shared with a sticker originating from Of Myths and Monsters as the first representation of a game without a Japanese release whatsoever outside of the Chronicle (which is also technically tied with trophies in the same game from Elite Beat Agents, a heavily modified localization of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan).
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Character Design, Coincidence, Inspiration, Regional Difference, Similarities, Statistics, Theory
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 15, 2023
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Pit render:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/d/d0/Pit_SSBB.jpg

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Kid Icarus stickers:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_stickers_(Kid_Icarus_series)
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 (1998)
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Olympic Hockey Nagano ‘98 is the only game ever to receive a round 0 review score from IGN.
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Complaint, Reviews, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Jumping Flash! (Game), Continuum (Game), I, Robot (Game)
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Attachment The title of "first 3D platformer" is often erroneously given to either 1996's Super Mario 64 or 1995's Jumping Flash! - despite this, neither game can factually claim that title, with 1990's Alpha Waves being the true owner of the title according to Guinness World Records.

Additionally, 1984's I, Robot - while primarily a shooting game - did feature 3D platforming segments.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 10, 2023
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Guinness World Record for First 3D Platform Video Game:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/89373-first-3d-platform-videogame

Hardcore Gaming 101 I, Robot article:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/i-robot/
Save Mary
Save Mary (2005)
subdirectory_arrow_right Atari 2600 (Platform)
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Save Mary! supposedly took 2 years in development before being cancelled, giving it one of the longest development cycles for a game in the Atari 2600 library.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 4, 2023
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Fade to Black
Fade to Black (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right PlayStation (Platform)
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Attachment 104 of the first games on the PlayStation came in vertically-shaped boxes. While all of them shared a template with the square boxes that would eventually win out as the standard, there was not a standard make or material for the boxes with them potentially coming as jewel cases like the square boxes, plastic cases with cardboard wrapping, and cardboard boxes with foam to keep games from slipping - some games had multiple of these box types made. Fade to Black was the final long box PlayStation release.
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Box Art, Early Idea, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 2, 2023
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Catalog of PlayStation long boxes:
https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/marino/lists/playstation-long-boxes/359078/

PlayStation box type comparison:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ygnMM

Figured out last game with the long box by going through this list, searching up their respective boxes and finding a cut-off point, which was between Fade to Black and SimCity 2000:
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11540465#1994
Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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According to former Sega employee Del Walker, from his experience working for the company in Japan, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is not particularly popular to domestic audiences there as the character was designed to appeal to Westerners. He claimed this disconnect is so strong that many Japanese gamers do not understand why Sonic is so popular abroad.
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General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 28, 2023
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Article about Del's testimony on Sonic's popularity:
https://stealthoptional.com/news/sonic-is-kind-of-lame-in-japan/

Proof that Del is a real Sega employee:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deldrakewalker
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
subdirectory_arrow_right Punch-Out!! (Game), J.J. & Jeff (Game), Kato-chan & Ken-chan (Game), Quest for Camelot (Game), Transformers: Mystery of Comvoy (Game), Yume Koujou: Doki-doki Panic (Game), GoldenEye 007 (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Game), Wii (Platform), Nintendo Switch (Platform)
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As of 2023, only 4 licensed IP adapted games have been released on Nintendo's retro game digital download services: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES on Wii (which was later delisted on January 26, 2012), Transformers: Mystery of Convoy for NES on Wii, Quest for Camelot for Game Boy Color and GoldenEye 007 for N64, the latter two being on Switch.

Additionally, J.J. & Jeff, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, and Super Mario Bros. 2, all reskins of licensed titles, have been available in their license-less formats.
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Adaptation, Corporate Affairs, Reskin, Statistics
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Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition
Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition (2015)
subdirectory_arrow_right Just Dance (Franchise)
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Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version has a mere 10 songs, the least amount of songs of any Just Dance game.
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General, Music, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 23, 2023
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MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1
MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 (2004)
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Not counting cheat code utilities, MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 is the only unlicensed Nintendo GameCube game that is known to have been sold at retail.
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Anti-Piracy, Game Collecting, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 10, 2023
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Adventure
Adventure (1979)
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Despite Adventure being a highly ambitious title released before the discovery of bank switching, the game had enough free RAM space in its cartridge (15 out of 128 bytes) to fit 3 extra dragons - though Warren Robinett chose not to as he thought the gameplay was fine as is, something he compared to what is now known as game balancing.
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Balancing, Development, Statistics, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 7, 2023
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Platform: Nintendo 64
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Although the Nintendo 64 is one of the most popular video game consoles of all time in North America selling over 20 million units in that continent, it did not achieve a similar level of commercial success outside of North America. Selling 6.35 million units in Europe with only 6 games - all first party - cracking over a million copies sold (Banjo-Kazooie, Pokémon Stadium, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye 007, and Super Mario 64), and selling 5.54 million units in Japan, just barely being outsold by the Sega Saturn (which had a similarly regionally-disproportionate install base in Japan) and only managing to push more than a million units of 11 titles, also entirely first party (Mario Party 3, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Mario Tennis, Mario Party 2, Donkey Kong 64, the game released in the US and Europe as Pokémon Stadium 2, the Japan-exclusive Pocket Monsters Stadium, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Super Smash Bros., and Mario Kart 64.)
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Regional Difference, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 28, 2023
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Sneak King
Sneak King (2006)
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Attachment As of 2021, professional wrestler Leroy Patterson (stage name "The Human Tackboard" or "The Ring Crew Guy") owns 2,706 copies of Sneak King, which he keeps in a devoted room of his house known as the "Sneak Pit". According to him, he collected that many copies because: "If they are worth something someday, we are rich! If they are worth nothing, it’s a funny story and journey!… It had an unusual release through a fast food chain, it’s a funny game, and it makes me laugh!"

His collection has grown so large that it now includes rare Burger King video game content, such as a promotional DVD meant to sell franchise owners on the game promotion; the delivery boxes that Burger King games came in; and a 4-pack containing all 3 Burger King games and a DVD cleaner.
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General, Real Life, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 27, 2023
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PAC-MAN Doodle
PAC-MAN Doodle (2010)
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When Google launched their 2010 Pac-Man anniversary Doodle, the popularity of it was estimated to have cost 4,819,352 man hours and $120,483,800 in productivity.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 23, 2023
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Space Jam
Space Jam (1996)
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Space Jam's multiplayer mode is absurdly unbalanced, seeming to have a morality-based method of stat calculation, with the hero characters having very powerful stats (with Michael Jordan in particular being maxed out), while the Monstars and villainous Tune Squad members (such as Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck) generally have very poor stats (most egregiously in the case of Pound, the leader of the Nerdlucks, having merely 1 point speed and shooting, and 2 point rebounds). There is no way to have ditto matches between 2 Monstar teams or 2 Tune Squad teams.
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Complaint, General, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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Among Us
Among Us (2018)
subdirectory_arrow_right Rick and Morty (Franchise), McDonald's (Franchise), Rick and Morty (Collection), McDonald's (Collection)
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Attachment In 2021, an auction was put up on eBay for an "Among Us-shaped chicken nugget", supposedly obtained from the McDonald's promotional tie-in meal with the K-Pop boy band BTS. This played off of a then-recent meme depicting Among Us players as suffering from pareidolia and mistaking simple everyday objects for impostors, the general cultural distaste for boy bands like BTS, and a viral 2017 eBay listing of a Cheeto supposedly shaped like the deceased gorilla Harambe. The nugget would come alongside a packet of Szechuan Sauce, a McDonald's condiment that had received a controversial limited release provoked by a joke in an episode of the animated series Rick & Morty. The auction sold to user polizna for $99,997.00 USD, outclassing the price of the Harambe Cheeto by $97.00.
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Fan Works, Meme, Real Life, Statistics
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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