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Super Metroid
Super Metroid (1994)
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Attachment According to a Game Shokunin Vol. 1 interview, with game's enemy programmer Yasuhiko Fujii, before the boss fight against Draygon, the player will encounter a group of Evir enemies that do a little “dance”. Their movements actually spell out the words “Keiko Love” in English. This idea came from a girlfriend he dated, name Keiko. Fuiji was busy with work, and couldn't make time for Keiko, so when everyone in the office was asleep at night, he snuck this Easter egg into the game. There were never little Evir dance written in the game's planning documents, so he remembered his heart racing fast as he coded it. However, the team's staff had no knowledge about it and never discovered Yasuhiko's code in the game.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Real Life, Secret
person ProtoSnake calendar_month June 1, 2020
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Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown
Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown (2001)
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The ROM for the game contains hidden credits. At the end of the credits is a very brief, but firm message about people who plan to pirate the game: Pirates leave no footprints.
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Anti-Piracy, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Credit, Secret, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Text
person GamerBen144 calendar_month June 2, 2020
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
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Attachment There is an item in the game that was originally called "Switch". This item had it's name changed to "Light Switch" in a version 1.2.0. It's possible the name change came about so that players would not confuse the aforementioned item with the "Nintendo Switch" which is another obtainable item in the game.
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General, Update Difference, Version Difference
person PirateGoofy calendar_month May 26, 2020
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Postal III
Postal III (2011)
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Rick Hunter, who played the Postal Dude in the previous two Postal games, dropped out from voicing him in the third installment. This was due to personal reasons at the time as Hunter was going through a "major" break-up with a girl. Despite the developers hoping to have him back, they cast Corey Cruise, who had provided voice work for other Postal content and was also good friends with Hunter.
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General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 20, 2020
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Bad ass babes
Bad ass babes (2016)
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In 2020, the game was removed from the digital distribution service Steam due to featuring "photos or videos of human actors." with a public notice stating that it was removed by the publisher which was untrue. Despite Valve allowing adult video games onto the service as of June of 2018, this apparently doesn't mean the inclusion of actual footage of real-actors in adult-oriented titles, though no mention of this is stated anywhere in the Steamworks Documentation.
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General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 16, 2020
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NBA Live 2003
NBA Live 2003 (2002)
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The soundtrack became the first in video gaming history to become certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), selling over 1,300,000 copies worldwide.
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General, Real Life
person GamerBen144 calendar_month April 6, 2020
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Devil May Cry 5
Devil May Cry 5 (2019)
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Though difficult, it is possible to defeat Urizen boss fight during the prologue. Doing so will unlock a secret text ending which states that Nero saved the world and that a new legend was born.
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Easter Egg, General, Hidden Credit
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month April 6, 2020
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Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight (2014)
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According to Sean Velasco and David D'Angelo, as of November 2019, the Nintendo Switch port of Shovel Knight accounts for 25% of sales of the game, despite being released several years later.
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General
person PirateGoofy calendar_month April 6, 2020
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The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '97 (1997)
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In order to decide who would become the members of the '97 Special Team, three polls were conducted by the video game journals Famitsu, Gamest, and Neo Geo Freak, in which readers voted who was the Fatal Fury characters they wanted to see in the team.
• Neo Geo Freak's winner was Billy Kane
• Famitsu's winner was Ryuji Yamazaki
• Gamest's winner was Blue Mary, barely beating Duck King via a few mere votes.
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Development, General, Real Life
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month April 5, 2020
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Collection: Blinx
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Attachment The game's director, Naoto Ohshima, had initially designed the character of Blinx to have purple fur, later being changed to orange for unknown reasons.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Yoshi's Crafted World
Yoshi's Crafted World (2019)
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In an interview with Nintendo Everything, the game's director, Masahiro Yamamoto, confirmed that the game takes place in a Kindergarten class within the Mario universe.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person GamerBen144 calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)
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It took the team 22 months to develop the game, with 6 months of that time spent just in pre-production.
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Development, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987)
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Attachment The zombies that appear in the towns during night were originally going to be 'Chinese Jiangshi' that could hop, due to their popularity at the time. The hopping move was removed after complaints that the enemies were too strong.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 4, 2020
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John Madden Football '93
John Madden Football '93 (1992)
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A spinning EASN logo appeared in early builds of the game, though this was changed to a single spinning EA Sports logo instead. This was because of a lawsuit between ESPN and EA, whose fictional EASN branding sounded similar to ESPN.
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Development, General, Real Life, Release Difference, Update Difference, Version Difference
person GamerBen144 calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Blades of Steel
Blades of Steel (1987)
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According to former game's illustrator Tom duBois in 'My Life in Gaming', he was fined $15,000 by 'Sports Illustrated' for using their photo and position of Wayne Gretzky & Billy Smith from 1983 as a reference for the game's front cover without their consent. The charges were later dropped to $10,000.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment Censored Gaming asked 'Martin Molls', the game's director, why the 'Hunting Knife' was removed from the Japanese localisation. He stated that it was related to the 'Kobe Child Murders', an incident in Japan, involving child murder and knives.

This change is believed to have affected Rare's later game 'Perfect Dark' for the same reason.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Snake's Revenge
Snake's Revenge (1990)
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According to former game's illustrator Tom duBois in 'My Life in Gaming', the appearance of 'Jennifer (Operation 747)' on the game's front cover was based on his wife 'Victoria duBois'.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Madden NFL 06
Madden NFL 06 (2005)
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Brock Lesnar from WWE and UFC appears in the game as a playable character. This marks the first time a real-life person from a different sport appears in the series game.
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General, Real Life
person GamerBen144 calendar_month April 2, 2020
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Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
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General, Real Life, Similarities, Suggested, Theory
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 2, 2020
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Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
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Attachment Despite the game's cover artwork depicting Sherlock Holmes wearing his signature deerstalker cap and tweed Inverness cape, throughout the game he's actually never shown wearing it. In fact, when Holmes asks Watson to retrieve the cap for use in solving a puzzle, he describes it as "the one I never wear but everyone seems to think I wear day and night."

In the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes is never explicitly described in text as ever wearing a deerstalker. The first time Holmes had ever been depicted wearing one was in the illustrations for the short The Boscombe Valley Mystery drawn by Sidney Paget and published in The Strand Magazine in 1891, though written by Doyle.
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General, Mistake, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month April 2, 2020
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