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Sonic Lost World
Sonic Lost World (2013)
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Attachment The design for Desert Ruins Zone 2 is based on a hornet's nest. However, this is only apparent when observing the level from an angle that is impossible within the game.
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Debug, Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person CosmykTheDolfyn calendar_month December 17, 2013
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
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Tails' full name was originally only going to be either "Miles Prower" or "Tails" but not both.

Yasushi Yamaguchi, who originally designed Tails for an internal competition, named him "Miles Prower" as a pun on the term "miles per hour" but the Sonic 2 development team changed his name to "Tails". As an act of rebellion, Yasushi snuck the Miles Prower name into various concept artwork and even in-game tiles. Eventually the developers reached a compromise: "Miles Prower" would be the fox's real name and "tails" would be the nickname he commonly goes by. Sonic 2 also features a cheat code that changes any in-game display of "Tails" into "Miles."
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Development, Early Idea
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Sonic Lost World
Sonic Lost World (2013)
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Early designs of the Casino stage had heavy quantities of blue. This was changed as the developers through that it may be difficult to see Sonic.
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Development, Early Idea
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BandFuse: Rock Legends
BandFuse: Rock Legends (2013)
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Harmonix, the developer of the Rock Band series, provided input to Realta Entertainment Group during development of Bandfuse. They also shared some of the Rock Band assets, such as the vocal interface design and instrument logos.
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Development, General, Real Life
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F-Zero GX
F-Zero GX (2003)
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Early E3 footage from 2003 shows a cut track that seems to be a recreation of the track "Silence" from F-Zero X.
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Development, Early Idea
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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
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Vanitas' name is derived from the Latin word for "Vanity" or "Emptiness". The name was chosen for its meaning, the similarity to the name "Ventus", and as it's a written pun on "Sora" in Japanese.

Tetsuya Nomura: I wanted to give him a name that meant "empty", and so I looked for something that would be appropriate. When I was searching I found a word that meant "emptiness" in Latin, "Vanitas". It looked a lot like Ventus's name, and in Japanese it has the kanji for "sora" in it, so I thought it was perfect. Of course in Vanitas's case it doesn't mean "sora [sky]" but "kara [empty]" [These two words are written with the same kanji, but are said differently and have different meanings.]
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Similarities, Theory
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The Beatles: Rock Band
The Beatles: Rock Band (2009)
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Plans for a Beatles themed Rock Band game happened before the first Rock Band game was ever released thanks to a meeting between Dhani Harrison (George Harrison's son) and MTV Executive Van Toffler at a Christmas Party in 2006.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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Attachment There is a sprite of Johnny Cage doing some sort of flip or flip kick left in the game. He does have a similar move in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance as part of his Karate fighting style, and in Mortal Kombat (2011) as a special move. It's possible this was meant as a special move or Fatality.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger (1995)
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Two soldiers called Vicks/Biggs and Wedge appear in Chrono Trigger, as employees in Norstein Bekkler's Tent of Horrors. This a reference to both Star Wars and Final Fantasy VI. A V-Jump issue in Japan humorously state that after Tritoch made them disappear in Final Fantasy VI, they ended up in the Chrono Trigger dimension and were found by Norstein, who gave them their new jobs.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Reference
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (2003)
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Attachment Early character design and concept art shows Nami with very unkempt, messy hair. This was changed to straight hair in game.
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Development, Early Idea
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Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
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It was originally intended for Daniel Cross Spoiler:to have a final set of dying words when Desmond assassinated him. His last words were for Desmond to kill him as the pain of the Bleeding Effect had overwhelmed him, and was driving him insane, claiming that he constantly hears voices asking to be released.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Text
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Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (1986)
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According to an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto in Family Computer Magazine, World 9 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, which is only accessible by playing the entire game without using Warp Zones, is based on a glitch in the original Super Mario Bros, which could allow the player to access 256 extra worlds.
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Bonus Content, Development, General, Inspiration
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Crash Bash
Crash Bash (2000)
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Attachment The Space Bash mini-game arena is a based on the levels "Future Frenzy" and "Gone Tomorrow" from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. The background music is also a remix of these two levels' themes.
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Bonus Content, Development, General, Inspiration, Music
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Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV (1991)
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Attachment It's possible for certain copies of Final Fantasy IV to freeze if the player goes back and forth between doors 64 times. Square's defunct newsletter, "Ogopogo Examiner" wrote this glitch off as a trap created by Zeromus.
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Development, General, Glitch, Inspiration
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NHL Breakaway 98
NHL Breakaway 98 (1998)
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Attachment The developers hid a secret slideshow of their families and friends in the game's code in order to fill up extra memory. This can only be accessed through a button combination, but nobody at the company could remembered the code. It can still be accessed through Gameshark codes.
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Bonus Content, Debug, Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Secret
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System Shock 2
System Shock 2 (1999)
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System Shock 2, according to its pitch document, was originally titled "Junction Point". It was intended to expand upon the role-playing element of the original System Shock, which itself was intended to bring the gameplay of another of their games, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, into a science fiction setting.

The first System Shock was generally perceived to be a Doom clone, and the developers blamed this for its limited commercial success. With Junction Point, their goal was to add significant role-playing elements and a persistent storyline so as to distance the game from Doom.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration, Pitch Bible/Proposal
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012)
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According to Omar Kendall (lead game designer of PSASBR), at one point during development, Cole MacGrath and Evil Cole MacGrath were going to be one character, who would start out neutral, and turn good or evil based on the player's actions. After this idea was dropped, they decided to just use the Hero version of the character.

However, "the IP holders felt really strongly that the way that the Cole character manifests, he really is two different guys, and they felt the character would be best served as two different and they really pushed for it."
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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An entry for a flamethrower exists in the game's WeaponInfo.xml file, but only the title "FTHROWER" remains, with no extra data to make it playable.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Items
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Metal Gear
Metal Gear (1987)
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Attachment The book cover for the novelization of the original Metal Gear removed the gun from Snake's hand. While Snake collects many weapons throughout the book, which describes him as a "walking arsenal", he never shoots anyone with them. Seth Godin, creator of the "Worlds of Power" book series, "wanted to minimize the death" seen in many of the NES games.
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Censorship, Development, General, Real Life
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Franchise: Command & Conquer
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Command & Conquer was originally going to be in a fantasy setting, but was changed to a modern setting to better fit the political climate of the nineties and to make it more accessible to the public.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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