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Sonic Mania
Sonic Mania (2017)
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Attachment The background of Green Hill Zone Act 2 was inspired by an early prototype version of Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person HAZBOMi calendar_month July 19, 2017
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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata (2017)
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The main framework of the game is themed around "uneasy children without parents" represented as "machine life-forms that have lost their creator" and "androids that have lost the humankind they were supposed to protect."
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 19, 2017
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Mario Party 3
Mario Party 3 (2000)
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Attachment Unused story mode rankings exist in the game's data for ranks D, E and F. In the final game, the lowest anyone can get in Story Mode is C.
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Development, Early Idea
person SonicNicholas1995 calendar_month July 19, 2017
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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata (2017)
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The game was written by Yoko, Haha Kikuchi and Yoshiho Akabane. The team defined the game's central theme as "agaku", a Japanese word meaning to struggle out of a bad situation. Another theme for the game was "love", which was unusual given that all the central cast were robots, which were not normally associated with emotions.

According to Yoko, while the scenario of Nier was "wet" in its emotional content, for Nier: Automata he aimed for a "dry" narrative concerning the world's inherent unfairness and the prejudices the characters are forced to confront.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 16, 2017
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BioShock
BioShock (2007)
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The 2K Blog released a series called "Beyond the Sea", which in a 27th of July post explained that another Big Daddy was considered for the game. Dubbed the "Slug Bug", this Big Daddy had a amorphous slug-like parasite on its shoulders. Ultimately this design was scrapped and didn't go beyond the concept art stage.
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Development, Early Idea
person Innocence calendar_month July 16, 2017
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Senran Kagura: Shoujo-tachi no Shinei
Senran Kagura: Shoujo-tachi no Shinei (2011)
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The 3DS is the reason why almost every girl in the Senran Kagura series has large breasts. When series producer Kenichiro Takagi started to think of what people wanted to see in 3D the most, he thought of breasts in 30 seconds.
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Development, Inspiration
person raidramon0 calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Freedom Planet
Freedom Planet (2014)
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The Tankbot enemies found in Thermal Base were actually based off an early design concept for Syntax.
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Development, Early Idea
person HAZBOMi calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Platform: Nintendo Switch
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To avoid anyone from possibly swallowing Nintendo Switch game cartridges, Nintendo had them laced with Denatonium Benzoate, a non-toxic bittering agent, so they would taste horrible. The agent is also known to be used in animal repellent, nail-biting prevention, shampoos and soaps.
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Development, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Saints Row IV
Saints Row IV (2013)
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Due to the game's content, it was the first game to be banned for sale in Australia after the introduction of the R18+ classification. A censored version of the game was created, removing the content that was deemed inappropriate and later approved for release by the board.
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Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KidDivinegon calendar_month July 3, 2017
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Tales of Hearts: CG Movie Edition
Tales of Hearts: CG Movie Edition (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Game)
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A boss fight with a character called Incarose is only available via cheat devices. The fight includes scripted text throughout, suggesting that it was removed late into development.
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Development, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person KidDivinegon calendar_month June 24, 2017
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Collection: American McGee's Alice
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In 2000, Wes Craven (known for Nightmare on Elm Street) was originally tied on to direct a film based off of the game. However, he wasn't fully attached to the project. The project was then given to Jon and Erich Hoeber. After multiple changes in production companies trying to make the film (Dimension Films being the first, 20th century Fox being the second, and Universal being the third and last) the film was later put on hold in 2008.

In 2013, after getting the funding for Alice: Otherlands, American Mcgee stated that the film could possibly be kickstarted. Although, it was later revealed in 2015 that the development of the film had gone on hiatus.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Hiatus
person CLXcool calendar_month June 21, 2017
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
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Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix started out as a remake of Street Fighter Alpha 3. Lead designer David Sirlin felt that Alpha 3's large roster would make the development process more difficult. He also believed that the game's lack of approval by the hardcore community would harm the game's sales, so he pushed Capcom so that they could work on SF2 instead.

David Sirlin also confirmed that the development team scrapped 2,500 animation frames in development because they weren't satisfied with how they turned out.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month June 20, 2017
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Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
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According to former Square localizer Alexander O. Smith, the US localization team had to use a GameShark cheat device to view the game's text for easier translation. This was because Square's Japan headquarters didn't think to send them a copy of the game's text files.
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Development, General, Mistake, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month June 17, 2017
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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010)
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During early development the developers experimented with having each character have a different way of racing, with Sonic running, Dr. Eggman in the Eggpod, and Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe riding on top of a Chicken Leg. This idea was abandoned when they found that the gameplay just wasn't enjoyable, mostly due to the racers being different sizes, as well as problems getting characters on foot to drift the same as characters in cars.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month June 15, 2017
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Kirby Super Star
Kirby Super Star (1996)
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Attachment Kirby Super Star, despite being intended for a SNES release from the get-go, actually began development on the original NES. This unreleased prototype was used for internal purposes only, as a way of finalizing all the ideas that would go into the final product. This can be seen with the NES sprites for the Yo-Yo and Cutter abilities, which were released to the public over 20 years later in an issue of Famitsu: the sprites shown look nearly identical to their counterparts in the finished product, with the main exception being the lack of Super Star's signature ability hats. Director Masahiro Sakurai stated that this type of development style is beneficial to him, as the starting step of finalizing all of a game's ideas via an internal prototype makes the rest of development significantly easier.
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Development
person VinchVolt calendar_month June 13, 2017
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Cory in the House
Cory in the House (2008)
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Text within the game's data suggests a French version was considered, but never released.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Unused Content, Unused Text
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month June 12, 2017
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Overwatch
Overwatch (2016)
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Reinhardt was originally intended to be from Numbani instead of Germany, with early designs showing him with African-styled armor based on a wildebeest. Additionally, it was originally devised to have a little girl piloting Reinhardt's suit of armor. While these ideas weren't used in the final game, they did later influence the creation of Orisa.
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Development, Early Idea
person Kitsune Hawk calendar_month June 10, 2017
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
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The team originally wanted to introduce special KO animations depending on how the player finished off their opponent. The only remnants of this feature are a special KO if the player's character is defeated while guarding against a hadouken.
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Development, Early Idea
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month June 10, 2017
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Overwatch
Overwatch (2016)
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Attachment Soldier: 76 was originally created in the 1990's for a comic by Blizzard employee Chris Metzen. When the development team behind Overwatch sought to include a "fallen leader" character, Metzen gave the team full permission to use Soldier: 76 to fill in the role.
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Development, Inspiration
person Kitsune Hawk calendar_month June 10, 2017
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Final Fight
Final Fight (1989)
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Axl and Slash are named after the musicians Axl Rose and Saul "Slash" Hudson, both of which are menbers of the band Guns n' Roses.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month June 10, 2017
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