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Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Maker (2015)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Donkey (Game), Super Mario Maker (Collection)
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Attachment The reptilian puffs of smoke that emerge when Mario ground pounds inside a giant Goomba Shoe in the Super Mario Bros. 3 style of the Super Mario Maker series are updated sprites from an unreleased and highly experimental Super Nintendo prototype known as Super Donkey.
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Asset Reuse, Cancelled Release, Prototype, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 19, 2023
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)
subdirectory_arrow_right Yakuza 3 (Game)
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The character Andre Richardson from Yakuza 3 is notorious for speaking in poor English despite him being American, with one line especially where he says:

"If you're looking for Daigo, Mine's taken him up to the roof."

In saying the line, "roof" is pronounced more as "ruff". This meme was referenced with his return in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, where in the English dub, after Ichiban spends a night at the bar he runs, he says the line:

"If you ever need a roof over your head-"

And during this line he says the word roof in a similar matter.
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Asset Reuse, Backstory/Lore, Credits, Easter Egg, In-Joke, Reference
person Kirby Inhales Jotaro calendar_month November 18, 2023
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Doom
Doom (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Chex Quest (Game)
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Chex Quest was based on the engine of Doom - the engine could be officially licensed thanks to the game technically not making a profit of it's own as a free game, only profit for the Chex cereal, and the release of Quake rendering the old Doom engine obsolete.
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Asset Reuse, Copyright, Corporate Affairs, Sales
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 17, 2023
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Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!! (1984)
subdirectory_arrow_right Stargate (Game), Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Game), Punch-Out!! (Game)
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Attachment The game start theme from Punch-Out!!, both the arcade and NES versions, was reused from the NES version of Defender II. The original Defender II version ends with a pastiche of the Star Wars theme, something that was not retained in Punch-Out!!.
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Asset Reuse, Music, Plagiarism, Reference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 17, 2023
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PaRappa the Rapper 2
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right PaRappa the Rapper (Franchise)
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Despite retaining "the Rapper" in its title and its source material being a music game, PaRappa only ever raps once in the anime adaptation of the PaRappa the Rapper franchise - that being the penultimate scene of the final episode, with the song sung being a rendition of PaRappa the Rapper 2's final stage, Always Love.
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Asset Reuse, Multimedia Adaptation, Music
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 6, 2023
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Waterworld
Waterworld (1995)
subdirectory_arrow_right Green Lantern (Game)
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Attachment The map theme from Waterworld was originally written for an unreleased Green Lantern video game.
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Asset Reuse, Cancelled Release, Music
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 3, 2023
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Sqij!
Sqij! (1986)
subdirectory_arrow_right Obitus (Game)
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The mutant bird illustration on the box art for Sqij! and Obitus, drawn by speculative fiction artist Tim White, seems to have originated from the 1979 edition of the 1975 book Under a Calculating Star. It is unknown if either use was licensed.
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Asset Reuse, Box Art, Copyright, Unsolved Mystery
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 2, 2023
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Article mentioning the asset reuse:
https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/sqij/

Release date of bird cover Calculating Star:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7807719382
Looney Tunes World of Mayhem
Looney Tunes World of Mayhem (2018)
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Big Chungus is the only variant toon in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem to have variants of his own - those being Chungus Claus, Omega Chungus, and Zombie Chungus.
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Asset Reuse, Character Design, Meme
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 1, 2023
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Rocko's Modern Life: Match-Master
Rocko's Modern Life: Match-Master (1999)
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Attachment Several of the tiles in Rocko's Modern Life: Match-Master are based on different cropped areas of promotional images used on other tiles. There are two tile sets based on a promotional image showing Rocko and his friends on a couch watching TV - one that shows the entire image, while the other is zoomed in on Ed and Bev Bighead. The tile that shows the entire image does not crop out Ed and Bev, leading to what could be considered, by technicality, partially duplicate tile sets.
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Asset Reuse, General, Sprite/Graphical Animation
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 26, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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During the prerelease of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, a set of placeholder pages were found on the game's website relating to different characters. Most notable of these pages was one for Helga, a character who was in the first Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and hadn't been seen in All-Star Brawl 2 marketing materials or leaks at that point - this led a lot of fans to believe that Helga would be returning. Ultimately, she would only be a background cameo on the Aquarium stage.
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Asset Reuse, Cameo, Leak, Leftover, Removed Feature, Roster Speculation, Unused Character, Unused Content, Website
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 26, 2023
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Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!
Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! (1994)
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Attachment The manual for Wario Blast uses a single image of Wario, taken from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, multiple times in different contexts and no other images of Wario, not even modifying the image to create different poses or facial expressions, while Bomberman has multiple different poses used.
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Artwork/Illustration, Asset Reuse
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 25, 2023
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Pac-Land
Pac-Land (1984)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pac-Man (Franchise)
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Attachment "ZIP, CARTOON - FIJIT REWIND 02", a common cartoon sound effect originating from the Hanna-Barbera sound library, is a sped up and reversed version of the Pac-Man cartoon theme song, better known as the theme song to Pac-Land.
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Asset Reuse, Multimedia Adaptation, Music, Sound Effect
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 23, 2023
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Sound effect alterations to reveal source material:
https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Sound_Ideas,_ZIP,_CARTOON_-_FIJIT_REWIND_02

Pac-Man cartoon 1982 theme song:
https://youtu.be/t-Ex3Ce1KNU
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Game)
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In the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64, instead of the announcer and menu options being voiced by Mario they are instead voiced by the same VA who played the announcer in Wave Race 64: John Hulaton.

According to John in an interview with DidYouKnowGaming?, after recording his lines for Wave Race 64 he was handed a slip of paper and was then told to record the lines on it without being told what it was for. These lines ended up being for Mario Kart 64.

John's agent was reportedly very upset, as John was not paid for these lines and on top of that John's name was misspelled as 'John Huraton' in the credits.

The lines John recorded would then later be used in the Japanese and International versions of Mario Kart: Super Circuit, where John remained uncredited.
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Asset Reuse, Credits, Regional Difference, Voice Acting
person LegacyTag calendar_month October 13, 2023
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Nicktoons Racing
Nicktoons Racing (2000)
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The character voices in Nicktoons Racing are all existing clips from their shows as opposed to original voice work - however, multiple character voice lines, particularly those of Angelica, Darwin, and Stimpy, have background music or sound effects from the original scenes left intact instead of using the original masters or digitally removing the noise. Additionally, one of Arnold's voice lines is from Harold and one of Tommy's voice lines is from Chuckie.
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Asset Reuse, Music, Sound Effect, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 13, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
subdirectory_arrow_right Slap City (Game)
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Attachment The layout of the Traffic Jam stage in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, consisting of a bus driving along moving asphalt that players can fall onto and either ram into the bus or get conveyed off-screen, while cars appear to the left and right to stand on, is recycled from a stage from Ludosity's first platform fighter Slap City called Public Transit, with the main difference aside from the Hey Arnold! theming being the absence of an equivalent to the Apathetic Frog helicopter.

The background music for the Slap City stage is also called "Traffic Jam" on the game's song selector (though the official Bandcamp release and the internal file names call the song "Noisy City" instead) and a side-scrolling stage reusing assets from Public Transit in Slap City's story mode is called "Traffic Jam".
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Asset Reuse, Leftover, Music, Similarities
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 7, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl - Helga Pataki showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWTcs5SI6c

Slap City - Business Casual Man online match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAxq0gbpFgE

Slap City music:
https://slapcity.wiki.gg/wiki/Music
Wacky Races
Wacky Races (1991)
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The title theme of Wacky Races on NES is based on the theme song of the Japanese dubbed version of the cartoon, "Chiki Chiki Machine Mou Race". This song was retained for the US localization instead of being replaced with the original Wacky Races theme song.
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Asset Reuse, Music, Regional Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour (Game)
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The music track for Blizzard Beach in Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour was reused from the Holiday Broadcasting level from Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, with the Gex 3 motif being replaced with "Tis' the Season", and the minor key "Frosty the Snowman" segment replaced with a reprise of an earlier segment of the song.
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Asset Reuse, Music, Similarities
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dySWpjwEY

Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySOgyNm4JY
Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day
Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day (1994)
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Attachment Rocko's punching animation is directly traced from a sequence of animation in the Rocko's Modern Life pilot episode "Trash-O-Madness".
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Artwork/Illustration, Asset Reuse, Development, Reference, Similarities, Sprite/Graphical Animation
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Rocko's Modern Life Season 1 Episode 10B "Trash-O-Madness". Pilot version featured on the Rocko's Modern Life Season 2 DVD. The punching clip is featured in the pilot version of the intro, which can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQxnOMGZFg
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014)
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Attachment Jigglypuff's character model in the 3DS version is recycled from the model used for Jigglypuff in Pokemon X & Y.
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Asset Reuse, Development, Model
person Dazz calendar_month October 27, 2014
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