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Sonic the Fighters
Sonic the Fighters (1996)
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The January 2024 IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comic mini series based on Fang the Hunter revolves around him, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear searching for the mysterious “eighth” Chaos Emerald. This is a reference to the 1996 arcade game Sonic the Fighters (Bean and Bark’s debut game), which erroneously featured eight Chaos Emeralds, each one owned by the eight playable characters.
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In-Joke, Mistake, Multimedia Adaptation
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Discworld
Discworld (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Slider (Game), Explosive Fighter Patton (Game), Psychosis (Game), The Orion Conspiracy (Game), Llamatron: 2112 (Game)
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Attachment On March 17, 2019, in response to a post on the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account celebrating St. Patrick's Day, YouTuber Jacksepticeye jokingly asked if he could voice "Irish the Hedgehog", to which the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account responded:

"Absolutely.

(We just need to create him first.)"

A year later, they made good on this promise, releasing a video titled "Irish the Hedgehog" on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel. According to Sega, the character was designed by artist Mark Hughes, and the video included a "folksy" remix of the song "Escape from the City" from Sonic Adventure 2 made by Hyper Potions and Jun Senoue.

A few years afterwards, Jacksepticeye would return to the Sonic franchise to voice another character: the appropriately-named Jack from the "Sonic Prime" episode "It Takes One to No Place".
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Celebrity, Credits, Easter Egg, Fan Works, General, In-Joke, Inspiration, Parody, Real Life, Reference, Social Media, Voice Acting
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Game & Watch Gallery 3
Game & Watch Gallery 3 (1999)
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Attachment Game & Watch Gallery 3 has a crude unused placeholder title screen with Wiggler on it. This already unused piece of content itself has unused sprites of its own that don't show up when the screen is activated - including Fly Guys, flowers, a crocodile, sleeping men, and - very morbidly - Mario and Luigi roasting a whole rotisserie Pikachu.
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In-Joke, Leftover, Placeholder, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game (2019)
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Shortly after the game's release, some of the game's fans began speculating on the political leanings of the human characters, who the goose antagonizes. As many of the game's fans were left-of-center, the most common theory posited that the humans were all conservatives who voted in favor of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. After a Twitter user sent a tweet to the game's developer House House asking if this was the case, they denied the theory, instead stating that the game took place in an alternate timeline where Britain underwent a Marxist revolution after conservative and Euroskeptic prime minister Margaret Thatcher was chased out of office by a goose, causing the Conservative Party's "irreparable decline".

In a 2019 interview with Vulture, developers Jacob Strasser and Michael McMaster stated that this story was "a joke canonical version of the world of the game," noting that many fans responded to the explanation by expressing sympathy with the human cast. The pair additionally described the goose as "chaotic neutral" (an alignment from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise) and expressed flattered amusement with fans' political interpretations of the title, stating that "Anything the left can take joy in and pride in and have a bit of fun with, we love. And if it pisses off some alt-right people, then great."
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Franchise: Crash Bandicoot
subdirectory_arrow_right Animaniacs (Franchise)
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In the episode “WARnerGAMES” of the 2020 reboot of Animaniacs, Wakko laments about only getting a spin attack like that “orange marsupial guy”, then acknowledges how he does sound like him. This is a reference to the Crash Bandicoot series, as the voice of Wakko, Jess Harnell, has been the voice of Crash Bandicoot since 2004.
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In-Joke, Reference, Voice Acting
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Shaq-Fu
Shaq-Fu (1994)
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Shaq-Fu's notoriously low quality resulted in the creation of a website known as shaqfu.com in 2001, devoted to the mission statement of destroying as many copies of Shaq-Fu as possible, with their "Reasons for LIBERATING" being listed as

•You prevent other generations from feeling the corruption of this game and its evil.
•You clear up the enormous copies of Shaq-Fu lying on the shelves in used console game stores. By doing so, you remove it from public display so that people will not be reminded of the game's existence.
•Purchasing many copies of the game shifts the demand schedule, consequently raising the price. Even though it costs you more money, it reduces the incentive for a non-liberator to buy the game; a worthwhile sacrifice.
•By getting it from another person, you remove the burden and embarrassment they feel.

The website contains stories, told through photographs, of site users visiting second-hand game shops to aqcuire copies of Shaq-Fu, a page with links to other anti-Shaq-Fu content, an archive of hate mail circa 2008, and was even updated to coincide with the announcement of Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn, announcing protest against the new title.

The popularity of shaqfu.com would result in the creation of a response site, www.saveshaqfu.com, devoted to purchasing and protecting copies of Shaq-Fu from the users of shaqfu.com, containing anthropomorphized bios of "rescued" Shaq-Fu cartridges.
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Complaint, Game Collecting, In-Joke, Meme, Real Life
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Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Final Fantasy IV (Game), Final Fantasy IV Advance (Game)
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Attachment In all versions of the game there is a secret passage in Cafe HOWDY!/Pub Lali-Ho in the Dwarven Castle of the Underworld that leads to a place called the "Developer's Room". In it are recolored sprites that are meant to be the developers of the game. In the DS release, it has the developers of the DS remake instead. This area was cut in "Final Fantasy 4 Easy-Type" and "Final Fantasy 2 (US)" because it's possible to find a pornographic magazine in the room, called Lustful Lali-Ho.
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Censorship, Development, Easter Egg, In-Joke, Regional Difference, Secret, Version Difference
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Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales
Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales (1994)
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In the source code for Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales, a string of text can be found reading "no smutty comments please", suggesting there were previously inappropriate developer comments in the code thet were deleted.
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Development, In-Joke, Source Code, Suggested, Unused Code, Unused Text
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Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales
Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales (1994)
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The developers of Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales got very agitated with having to listen to Bubsy's catchphrases on loop, and would repeat them to one another mockingly. For one of producer Faran Thomason's co-workers, Bubsy's catchphrase "What could possibly go wrong?" became a 20-year long in-joke with other developers of the game (in spite of said catchphrase not even being said in Fractured Furry Tales outside of the ending text scroll).
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Complaint, Credits, Development, General, In-Joke, Real Life
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Holocure: Save the Fans!
Holocure: Save the Fans! (2022)
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HoloCure Wiki Page on Bounce Ball:
https://holocure.fandom.com/wiki/Bounce_Ball

HoloCure Wiki Page on Cutting Board:
https://holocure.fandom.com/wiki/Cutting_Board

Video of Rushia insisting she is "boing boing":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSiN5uKZfhs
Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit!
Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit! (1994)
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Attachment The manual for Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit! is a bait and switch, as it is only 6 pages long and has a giant sticker obscuring the detailed text on pages 4 and 5 reading "REAL MEN DON'T NEED INSTRUCTIONS", intended as a joke in theme with the original TV series. This manual has been posted around on the internet frequently over the years, but often without the context that the game did come with a poster, stylized as a blueprint, containing game hints. The last two sentences in the bottom-right corner of the manual do reference this poster:

"Although it's frowned upon by the most macho of the breed, some real men actually refer to blue prints for help. If you find yourself in need of - dare we say it? - instructions, you can refer to the enclosed poster blue prints for hints."
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Manual:
https://archive.org/details/home-improvement-usa/page/n1/mode/2up

Blue print poster (photos of front and back of poster included in the file contents of the above Internet Archive link):
https://ia903200.us.archive.org/5/items/home-improvement-usa/Home%20Improvement%20Poster%20Back.jpg
Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red Version (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Blue Version (Game)
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In a 1997 interview with Famimaga 64, Satoshi Tajiri said that the Pokémon Porygon was made due to people saying that he should develop a 3D game instead of a sprite-based game on the Game Boy:

"I wanted to add something real into the world of Pokémon, and thought it’d be interesting if the game had an artificial Pokémon. I made that decision specifically because it’s on Game Boy. Everyone kept telling me 'Tajiri, you need to start making polygon games for next generation consoles.' But I was designing Pokémon for Game Boy, where it’s impossible to use polygonal 3D graphics. But people kept hounding me about it, so I thought it would be ironic to include a Pokémon called Porygon."
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Artwork/Illustration, Character Design, Complaint, Development, General, In-Joke, Inspiration, Model, Parody, Real Life
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Palworld
Palworld (2024)
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River City Girls
River City Girls (2019)
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In the original release of the game, the hidden ending that follows the optional final boss battle against Hasebe and Mami reveals that Spoiler:Kyoko and Misako are not actually Kunio and Riki's girlfriends, but rather are simply delusional stalkers, with Hasebe and Mami being the boys' real partners; Kyoko and Misako then angrily punch Kunio and Riki into the sky after being reminded of this. This was written as an inside joke regarding the Kunio-kun franchise's convoluted localization history, specifically the fact that River City Girls Zero (the only prior game where Spoiler:Kunio and Riki actually dated Kyoko and Misako) had not yet received an English localization at the time of this game's release. As River City Girls was developed with Western audiences in mind, the joke was thus meant to be that Spoiler:Kunio and Riki have no memory of a title that wasn't officially available for this game's target audience.

However, the esoteric nature of the gag and the plot holes it opened regarding the game's premise resulted in it generating backlash from players who were not in on it. Because of this, the game was updated on January 18, 2020, changing the secret ending so that Spoiler:Kunio and Riki go out for food with Kyoko and Misako, implying that the latter two actually are their partners.
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario (Franchise)
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Attachment In the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, Sonic’s disdain of mushrooms could be a jab at his rivalry with Mario in the 90s. This is reinforced in the Thai dub of the film, where the joke about Tom saying that Sonic won’t be the only “fungi” on the mushroom planet is replaced with “at least you can have a mushroom forever,” to which Sonic replies with “No. I’m not Mario”.

Nintendo possibly “returned the favor” in 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing advertisement features a map with one of the landmarks listed as “Mushroom Planet”.
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Adaptation, In-Joke, Reference, Suggested, Theory
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Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Counter-Strike 1.6 - DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqB1uoDTdKM

Pizza Tower - "Peppino's Sauce Machine":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34Cls1Vmd8

Mr. Sauceman - "Peppino's Door Problem":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZUqNGcpro
Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment During development of Pizza Tower, multiple demo builds were released - among these was a build known as the "Peter Griffin Experience", built off of the 2018 "early test build". This demo replaced every single sprite of Peppino with a highly compressed edit of a stock image of Peter Griffin from Family Guy made to resemble Peppino, and replaced one of the game's musical tracks with a fan-made Family Guy remix.

After this build, the Peter Griffin "arms resting" pose would appear in some builds as a taunt, albeit as an actual sprite and not an edit, and a video would be posted by developer McPig showcasing the taunt, accompanied by the first note of the Family Guy theme song, under the name "family", likely referencing a a meme video that plays the first note and ends. This taunt was removed for unknown reasons in the final game.
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Demo, In-Joke, Meme, Parody, Prototype, Reference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Bio Force Ape
Bio Force Ape (TBA)
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Attachment Bio Force Ape is a game that was never released - it did, before it's cancellation, get a spotlight in Nintendo Power, creating a level of curiosity surrounding it within NES fan communities. Capitalizing off of this curiosity, a post would be made on the Digital Press forum in 2005 claiming to show screenshots of a leaked prototype. While the first post appeared legitimate, the hoax would eventually be unraveled starting with a screenshot of a glitched super move that was "so powerful [that] it messes up the game's graphics", which humorously made it appear that Bio Force Ape was unleashing a powerful fart attack, as a set of glitched graphics appeared next to a crouching animation. The poster, going under the username PaulB812, would refuse to dump the game and refer to anybody who asked for it to be released as either "communists" or "butter-slathered... hoarding fatties", before finally unveiling the prank with a game screenshot of a cutscene where a fat butter monster points out that the ape is "worth 2K monies[sic]", before the ape punches him while saying "EAT COMMUNISM!" A real prototype would be leaked in 2010.
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Cancelled Release, Hoax, In-Joke, Magazine, Meme, Politics, Prototype, Unreleased Content
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Iji
Iji (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Ludosity (Company)
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"Reallyjoel's Dad" is a name for a secret difficulty present in Ludosity games, introduced in an update to Iji, that makes games absurdly hard and sometimes even unbeatable. This originates from an in-joke based on a comment made by Ludosity developer reallyjoel on a YouTube video of Iji's final boss being beaten on the previously maximum "Ultimortal" difficulty, uploaded by Daniel Remar, another developer on Iji, saying "Bah, you're a noob. My dad can beat this on a much harder setting, no sweat."
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Bonus Content, Difficulty, In-Joke, Real Life, Secret, Unwinnable
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