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Franchise: Yoshi

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According to Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, the inspiration for the show's background color palettes comes from the level aesthetics in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, due to its colorful atmosphere and also being one of her favorite video games at the time.

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Skullgirls

Skullgirls (2012)

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Valentine's design was officially changed on May 13th, 2014 via a patch update. The update changed all parts of her design that involve a red cross against a white background to be altered so the cross is colored pink instead. This was done in order to prevent legal action by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors (1997)

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Destiny of the Doctors featured Anthony Ainley's final performance as the Master, having played the role since the TV serial "The Keeper of Traken" in 1981. Ainley would die on May 3, 2004, almost six and a half years after the game's release.

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Thief: The Dark Project

Thief: The Dark Project (1998)

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When playing the game's tutorial "A Keeper's Training" on Expert mode, a secret room can be found after you finish the sword fight with the Sparring Partner. You must run to the table behind the sparring arena and pick up the key, and then follow the Sparring Partner into the hallway he walked out of. This must be done quickly as a set of bars will lower to prevent entry not long after he re-enters the hallway. Once in the hallway, continue past him to the right until you see a locked door. You can then either use the key to unlock it or bash the door open with the sword. Inside this room is a pair of crudely-modeled basketball hoops, complete with a basketball that can be equipped and thrown, and in the very back of the room, a Bedroll can be found containing a set of humorous quotes attributed to the developers during the making of the game.

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Celeste

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In a November 2020 Medium article, Maddy Thorson, who served as the game's writer and director, confirmed longstanding rumors that Madeline, the protagonist of Celeste, is a transgender woman. Thorson described the game's story as allegorical for her own process of coming to terms with her gender identity, and stated that while the idea didn't initially come to her during development, she "began to form a hunch" while working on the DLC chapter "Farewell", becoming certain of Madeline's transgender status after the chapter's release. Thorson came out as transgender herself in the same article.

Thorson additionally stated that although the possibility of Madeline being trans was discussed with the rest of the development team when making "Farewell", they ultimately decided not to include any overt statements past visual allusions in the chapter's ending, stating that it would be more in-character for Madeline to keep such information private. At the same time, however, Thorson stated that had she started development of Celeste already knowing that she was trans, she would've depicted Madeline differently.

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Franchise: Mario

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Yoshi's Island DS

Yoshi's Island DS (2006)

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had used music from Yoshi's Island DS for their Flash game "Recycle City Challenge." After it had been discovered in 2019, the EPA denied claims that they had stolen music from Nintendo claiming it had been made by a contractor, and that "we are looking into whether the contractor received permission to use the music, to the extent permission was necessary in this instance." Since then, the song has been removed from the game's soundtrack.

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Mario Kart 7

Mario Kart 7 (2011)

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According to environment artist Ted Anderson in an interview with YouTuber KIMI TALKZ, Retro Studios was apparently hesitant on working with Nintendo to create the game:

"Initially I think we were supposed to help them finish stuff out and help them get over the finish line. It ended up being where we ended up making more than that; we ended up making entire tracks from scratch. It was kind of funny, because I remember initially that a good deal of the team was kind of not super-duper excited about that, but I was stoked, I was thinking "this is gonna be awesome". Everybody else was kinda like "ok, I guess we're gonna do this", and I'm like "what are you talking about, we're gonna make a Mario Kart game for the 3DS - wow!"

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1999)

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In the 34th entry of the Anime News Network series Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga, Jason Thompson stated that Capcom USA was disatisfied with how Jojo's Venture was doing in arcades at the time, to the point that he was told by a Capcom USA employee that they wouldn't release the game on home consoles "unless CAPCOM Japan forced them to".

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Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64 (1999)

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According to composer Grant Kirkhope, the DK Rap was written as a joke song that ended up being interpreted by audiences as a serious attempt at writing hip-hop. Consequently, he expressed confusion at the tongue-in-cheek cult following the song picked up decades later, noting that "bizarrely, this became its own thing now."

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Sayonara Umihara Kawase

Sayonara Umihara Kawase (2013)

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In June 2013 interview with game's designer Toshinobu Kondo published in the Action Gameside magazine, he was asked what meaning there was in the game's title "Sayonara"? He responded:

"That title is a holdover from when we were thinking this would be a final fan service item for the Umihara Kawase series. It had a nice sense of impact so we kept it even as the concept of the game changed. The title conveys a sense of being ready for the end, along with the wish to return."

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Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (1997)

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In a 1997 interview with game's planner/designer Yoshiro Kimura published in the "Moon: Official Book", he stated that the team used pictures of the Love-de-Lic staff's cars and homes for the game's ending staff roll.

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The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead (2012)

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The game was originally pitched by Telltale as a spin-off of Valve's Left 4 Dead franchise, but Valve turned down the pitch leaving Telltale to go to Robert Kirkman to successfully pitch him a game based on his Walking Dead comic book series. The same unique choice-based story-driven style of gameplay was kept by Telltale developers between the canceled Left 4 Dead project and the greenlit Walking Dead project, which the devs thought was a better fit for Kirkman's universe than Valve's franchise anyway and which would also be a style that would be reused heavily by Telltale in their later licensed games.

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Track & Field

Track & Field (1983)

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In a 1987 interview with the Konami Development Staff published in the "TV Game: denshi yuugi taizen" book, they stated that after deciding to make a game based on track and field sports, they would spend each morning eating breakfast at a local college's track and field meeting to watch them compete and get a feel for how the events all work. They also researched and studied video footage from the Tokyo Olympics and other events featuring Olympic athletes. One of the developers adored the Finnish javelin thrower Tiina Lillak so much that he was able to successfully convince the team to include the event in the game.

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ChuChu Rocket!

ChuChu Rocket! (1999)

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In a 1999 interview with the game's producer Yuji Naka, character designer Sachiko Kawamura and main planner Takafumi Kaya, published in the Dreamcast Magazine vol. 35, Kawamura stated that there were several early ideas going around to pair up two different animals in a "cat-and-mouse" dynamic of "things to chase, and things that do the chasing". Pairings such as elephants chasing ants, lions chasing deer, and aliens chasing humans were suggested among others, but they eventually came to the conclusion that the most intuitive way to communicate this concept was through cats chasing mice in the first place.

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Track & Field

Track & Field (1983)

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In a 1987 interview with the Konami Development Staff published in the "TV Game: denshi yuugi taizen" book, they stated that they were influenced by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics held in 1983, and said to each other "yeah! let’s make a sports game like this!" as there was no track and field style athletic event game at the time. The team also wanted to see if they could make a game that wasn't Human vs. CPU, but rather Human vs. Human, instead.

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Track & Field

Track & Field (1983)

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In a 1987 interview with the Konami Development Staff published in the "TV Game: denshi yuugi taizen" book, they stated that the score points limit is up to 9,999,990 points.

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Track & Field

Track & Field (1983)

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In a 1987 interview with the Konami Development Staff published in the book "TV Game: denshi yuugi taizen", they stated that the voice for the announcer was originally in Japanese, but it was later considered weird and a bit lackluster, so they switched it over to an English voice midway through development.

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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)

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According to Hideo Kojima & Yoji Shinkawa in the documentary on the making of Metal Gear Solid 2 from the game's bonus disc, Shinkawa stated that Rosemary represents Kojima's ideal, classy and intellectual woman. Some of Raiden & Rosemary's conversation were influenced by Kojima's own life experience.
Kojima stated that the idea for April 30th stemmed from his relationship with his wife, where she kept reminding him about that date before they were married. One evening, he had a date with his wife, but he completely forgotten about it, which caused him a lot of crisis in their relationship.

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WWE 2K20

WWE 2K20 (2019)

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The WWE 2K20 SmackDown! 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition would normally come with a "Legend Autographed Plaque" of either Edge, Kurt Angle, or Rey Mysterio. However, many fans would receive a plaque without a autograph. While 2K had remained silent about the issue for days, Adam Copeland (Edge) would respond via Twitter about the issue telling fans they could mail their plaque's to his P.O. box, and he would sign each of them after returning from his movie shoot.

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