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Everybody 1-2-Switch
Everybody 1-2-Switch (2023)
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The Great Giana Sisters
The Great Giana Sisters (1987)
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Attachment It is often rumored that Nintendo filed a lawsuit or sent a C&D to Rainbow Arts over The Great Giana Sisters' resemblance to Super Mario Bros. - however, according to the game's music composer Chris Hülsbeck, this is not true, Nintendo only sent Rainbow Arts an "angry letter" over the UK release's cover art containing the phrase "the brothers are history!", leading to the game being pulled.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Complaint, Plagiarism, Rumor
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Q*bert
Q*bert (1982)
subdirectory_arrow_right Q*bert: Rebooted (Game), Wreck-It Ralph (Franchise), Q*Bert (Collection)
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Q*Bert co-creator Warren Davis, although highly grateful for the character's continued longevity, dislikes that modern portrayals of the character, such as those in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, Adam Sandler's Pixels, and the Q*Bert: Rebooted game make his nose "flaccid".
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Character Design, Complaint, Credits, Real Life
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Cookie's Bustle
Cookie's Bustle (1999)
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In 2023, an unknown person by the name of Brandon White bought the UK rights to Cookie's Bustle under the fake company name of "Graceware" and began filing DMCA takedowns against any website or video with documentation of the game, in some cases fraudulently using the name of Nintendo, believed to be in an act of copyright trolling. This led to an uptick in interest in the game, with many content creators streaming, making fan works based on, and reviewing the game in retaliation.
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Anti-Piracy, Censorship, Complaint, Copyright, Fan Works, Real Life, Reviews, Secret
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Franchise: Five Nights at Freddy's
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person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 12, 2023
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Raid: Shadow Legends
Raid: Shadow Legends (2018)
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Raid: Shadow Legends was criticized for its aggressive marketing campaign through sponsorships with YouTube channels, usually ones that lack demographic overlap with a high-fantasy Western RPG to the point where adverts for the game are considered "inescapable". Developers Plarium Games have tried to claim that they don't actually sponsor content creators, and that content creators are simply shouting out the game unpaid because of how much they like it, which is easily disproved by watching any of the sponsor segments, where the legal clarity precautions for sponsorships are consistently followed.
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Platform: BBC Microcomputer System
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Following the release of the BBC Micro, independent branches of rival free-to-air channel ITV initiated plans to brand a microcomputer by Transam Computers with the ITV name, selling at the same price as the BBC Micro. This was ultimately vetoed by the Independent Television Companies Association due to ITV being prohibited from sponsoring products at the time, alongside potential conflicts of interest with ITV's own advertisers, which included other microcomputer manufacturers.
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Popular Computing Weekly Vol. 2 No. 49 - December 8-14, 1984 (Page 1):
https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1983-12-08/mode/1up

Personal Computer News No. #42 - December 22-January 4, 1984 (Page 4):
https://archive.org/details/mag_PersonalComputerNews042-04Jan1984/page/n5/mode/1up
Mr. Gimmick
Mr. Gimmick (1992)
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Attachment The original Japanese version of Gimmick contains a unique anti-piracy response where, if the opening cutscene is tampered with, the player will not be able to access the secret final level and it will instead cut to a black screen saying "BLACK HOLE" in reference to the game Atlantis no Nazo. Contrary to popular belief, this was not intended as an anti-piracy method, but rather a failed attempt by game designer Tomomi Sakae to prevent his name from being removed from the opening credits. This trigger was neatly edited around its intended purpose, and was eventually removed in the Scandinavian release of the game, though Sakae's name was reinstated as an unused line of intro text.
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Anti-Piracy, Complaint, Credits, Unused Text, Unwinnable
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 14, 2023
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James Pond 2: Codename - RoboCod
James Pond 2: Codename - RoboCod (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right James Pond: Codename Robocod (Game), James Pond: Codename Robocod (Game)
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James Pond creator Chris Sorrel has expressed disdain at the steady stream of ports that Codename: RoboCod has received in 21st century, citing changes in level design and graphics, a lack of consent or payment, and the Switch port in particular's timing aligning with his Kickstarter for a James Pond reboot.

When asked about the matter by Time Extension, he claimed:

"There are clearly businessmen who see no shame in porting an old game to a modern platform and pretending it has some timeless magic making it worth a modern gamer's time and money, but it sure embarrasses the hell out of me even when I have no part in it."
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 15, 2023
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Mario Party 8
Mario Party 8 (2007)
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Attachment The game is designed for a 4:3 display, with 16:9 support being limited to the title screen, menus, and credits. Because of this, the original North American and European releases feature colorful custom borders which occupy the unused screen space during 4:3 segments when playing on a 16:9 display. However, this attracted complaints from players, as the static nature of the borders risked causing screen burn-in after prolonged periods of play. Consequently, later revisions remove the borders, instead using standard black bars.
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Complaint, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Version Difference
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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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Pooplers
Pooplers (2020)
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Upon its initial release, Pooplers was, despite its young target audience, given an M rating by the ESRB for "blood", likely because one of the selectable poop colors in the game is red. Despite this M rating being featured in the game's trailer, the game would eventually be re-evaluated to an E10+ rating for merely "mild blood".
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Platform: Atari Jaguar
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The Atari Jaguar, despite being marketed as a 64-bit platform, was only a 32-bit platform. Specifically, it used two 32-bit processors (named "Tom" and "Jerry") in parallel, with the marketing adding up those two processors as if they could be mathematically combined.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (1993)
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Sonic Superstars
Sonic Superstars (2023)
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Attachment In June 2023, the character models for the game received complaints on Twitter by fan artist Rafa Knight, who noted that they resembled her own models of the characters that had been used for merchandise, even having the same minor imperfections as the toys. She claimed she had not been credited for her work either, instead being ignored by Sega and other related figures. In response, Katie Chrzanowski, the social media manager for Sega of America, apologized for the misunderstanding and explained that the models were custom-made for Sonic Superstars, and promised to privately email Knight with more details later on. It's unknown if any more developments in this controversy happened since.
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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (2019)
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Attachment Upon the release of Rilla Roo as a DLC character in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, the model of the character was heavily criticized for how far it strayed from his original model in Crash Bash, particularly the presence of a large beard and chin on his face, with many fans editing mockups of a more faithful Rilla Roo. In the game's final DLC update, a "fixed" version of Rilla Roo would be provided - however, rather than serving as a skin for, or replacing the original, Rilla Roo, this new Rilla Roo would be made a separate character titled "Fixed Rilla Roo", with his own animations and exotic skins. His victory podium animation has him stop to check his face, and then sigh in relief as a meta-joke.
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Rilla Roo original model complaint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBQAfm1O70

Rilla Roo model comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTB98sQT7-0
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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Five Nights at Freddy's Plus
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Fazbear Fanverse Initiative (Franchise), Phisnom (Company)
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In August 2023, several days following a controversy, Phisnom announced that he had been terminated from the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative and would no longer be developing Five Nights at Freddy's Plus. Prior to this, he had been banned from the game's Steam forums and removed as a developer. The day after he announced his removal, the game's Steam page was removed from the public, and on November 10th, all videos and posts related to the game on both Twitter and YouTube were made private, leading to the belief that the game had been cancelled entirely.
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person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 23, 2023
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Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom Hearts III (2019)
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Attachment Grand Chef, the Ratatouille keyblade in Kingdom Hearts III, has two bottles of champagne attached to its handles. While the artwork on these bottles originates from a poster briefly seen in the movie, it is more commonly associated with a controversial cancelled Ratatouille-branded wine that was intended to be sold in Costco in 2007, but was pulled before it could hit shelves due to concerns relating to underaged drinking. While the iteration in the movie shows red wine, the iteration on the wine bottle shows an olive tone of wine. The Grand Chef keyblade features both colors for the wine.
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Censorship, Complaint, Early Idea, Merchandise, Real Life, Reference, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 25, 2023
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Drill Dozer
Drill Dozer (2005)
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The choice of a young girl protagonist in Drill Dozer was decided by Ken Sugimori as he felt the juxtaposition would be more interesting than the sort of masculine character that would typically be depicted in mech-suit and vehicle-themed media.

Character designer Hironobu Yoshida was opposed to this decision because he found women to be hard to draw, and added thick, boyish eyebrows to Jill's design as a subtle form of protest.
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