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Deus Ex
Deus Ex (2000)
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Deus Ex was released on June 26 2000 and is set in the year 2052. It has sections of the game where New York's skyline is visible, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are missing.

The Twin Towers exist in the game's data files, but were simply left out by mistake.

During development, the game's developers justified the lack of the towers by stating terrorists had destroyed the World Trade Center earlier in the game's storyline. This was over a year prior to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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General, Real Life, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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SimCopter
SimCopter (1996)
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Attachment In Maxis' 1996 SimCopter, there is an easter egg that causes half naked men to crowd around the player's helicopter and make out during certain days of the year. Upon learning of the easter egg, Maxis fired the coder, Jacques Servin, for inserting "subversive content" into the games' code. Thousands of copies of the game were recalled from store shelves and the easter egg was removed from later versions of the game.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life
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EarthBound
EarthBound (1994)
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The main antagonist of EarthBound, an alien known as "Giygas", was made by Shigesato Itoi and described as "a living being that deserves love." While the character first debuted with a different design as the final boss of Mother, Giygas' appearance in EarthBound was inspired by a childhood incident where Itoi accidentally walked into the wrong movie at a theatre and watched the 1957 Japanese horror film "Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin". Itoi was traumatized by the film, where he confused a lovemaking scene that ends in murder as a rape scene. He says it had a "sense of terror having atrocity and eroticism side-by-side, and that's what Giygas's lines at the end are":

Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness Ness, Ness...
I...feel..g..o..o..d...
It hurts... It hurts...
I'm so sad, Ness...
Friends...
You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!
Go b..a..c..k
I am...H...a...p...p...y...
It's not right, not right...
Ness!
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Character Design, Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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April 18, 2003 interview with Shigesato Itoi:
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/03.html

April 24, 2003 interview with Shigesato Itoi:
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER/07.html

DidYouKnowGaming blog post:
http://didyouknowgaming.com/post/35853816334/earthbound-mother-2
Franchise: Pokémon
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Attachment Magikarp and Gyarados are based on a Chinese mythological story where a "Dragon's Gate" is located at the top of a waterfall cascading from a legendary mountain. The few carp that manage to leap over th gate are transformed into powerful dragons. This legend is directly referenced in Pokemon Snap when the player must knock Magikarp into a waterfall to evolve it into a Gyarados.
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Franchise: Mario
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Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro (2001)
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Attachment Spider-Man 2 was recalled to rework anything related to the World Trade Center. Activision and Vicarious Visions feared backlash from releasing a New York-centric game featuring the Twin Towers so close to the attacks. This included renaming a level, changing dialogue, and heavily editing entire structures at key points in the game.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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The Announcer (who also voices crazy hand and master hand) is Pat Cashman, who was the announcer for "Bill Nye, The Science Guy". He even acted in some scenes in the show.
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Company: Sony Computer Entertainment
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SEGA was the second company (after Nintendo) to be in negotiation with Sony to make a new console, but the idea was eventually rejected by SEGA. It was confirmed by Tom Kalinske (an employee of SEGA) that the console specs SEGA had proposed were used for the PlayStation. It was also the technical achievements of SEGA's "Virtua Fighter" that made Sony focus on 3D rather than 2D. SEGA essentially sealed their own fate in the console market by rejecting the plans and inspiring Sony to focus on 3D.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (1998)
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Attachment In the English version of Lunar 2, there's an Easter egg in place of a glitch seen in the Japanese version. In the first boss fight, if Hiro and Gwyn die at a point that prevents the boss from reaching Lucia, the fight will never end, as the boss cannot kill the last party member. If the same conditions are met in the English version, a cute and tiny character called Ruby that mostly just flies around in the background , will one hit kill the boss.
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Easter Egg, General, Glitch, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
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During Halo's first European press tour, the demo computer blew up (there was literally smoke). Joe staten, lead writer and cinematics director, remembers it well:
"Having no computer made our first demo go, er, poorly. 'Imagine if you will, there's this green guy called Master Chief, and he's fighting against some purple space aliens called the Covenant.' Cool, huh?"
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General, Real Life
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Company: Sega
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SEGA was the second company (after Nintendo) to be in negotiation with Sony to make a new console, but the idea was eventually rejected by SEGA. It was confirmed by Tom Kalinske (an employee of SEGA) that the console specs SEGA had proposed were used for the PlayStation. It was also the technical achievements of SEGA's "Virtua Fighter" that made Sony focus on 3D rather than 2D. SEGA essentially sealed their own fate in the console market by rejecting the plans and inspiring Sony to focus on 3D.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
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If the player names their character "ZELDA" in all capital letters ("LOLO" in the French release; "ぜるだ" in the Japanese release) they are treated to a salsa remix of the game's main theme. This could also be a nod to the original The Legend of Zelda on the NES, where entering the name "ZELDA" on the second save slot results in the game starting on the second quest immediately.
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Easter Egg, General, Music, Reference, Secret
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Attachment There are at least two cases of art plagiarized from deviantart.com appearing in Sonic games. A piece of art of Sonia was mistakenly added to Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and some fanart that was made for a Sonic and the Black Knight contest turned out to be a replica of someone else's artwork. Sega apologized both times.
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Development, General, Mistake, Real Life
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Franchise: Pokémon
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There's an old Japanese idiom that says, "A duck comes along carrying a leek". It means a happy convenience, as duck with leek is a popular meal. The Pokemon Farfetch'd is based on this saying. The anime also states they are rare due to them being delicious. It seems that Farfetch'd were designed to be eaten from the very beginning. Any notion of them being used as food was later toned down or dropped. Along with the word "leek", which is now called a stick or a stalk.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Suggested, Theory
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011)
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Attachment The drop ship used to get around has the call letters "B-EE 008" on the side, but in the prerendered cutscenes (That were presumably made earlier in the game's development) the designation is "800 B-EE". It seems this was changed due to the fairly strong representation of the number 8 as a "B", meaning 800 B-EE would be pronounced "Boobie".
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Development, General, Mistake
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Mega Man 7
Mega Man 7 (1995)
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Attachment During the intro sequence, Dr. Wily is mostly covered by other graphics. Extracting his sprite from the game will show that he has distinct breasts. The orientation of his shoulders and arms means they couldn't be pectoral muscles. This could simple be poor rendering by the artist but given the precise nature of pixel art, it is more likely be intentional or possibly a joke by the developers.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Mistake, Secret
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Donkey Kong Country Returns
Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
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In 2010, UK video game retailers "Game" and "Gamestation" created a promotional offer for the release of the game, where the first 20 customers at select stores could trade in actual bananas for a copy of the game.
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General, Real Life
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Franchise: Animal Crossing
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K.K. Slider is based on the game's sound designer Kazumi Totaka. K.K. Slider's Japanese name "Totakeke" is taken from the fact that in Japan, last names are written first, so it would be Totaka Kazumi. That can be shortened to "Totaka K" very similar to "Totakeke". Totaka has also hidden music in every Animal Crossing game, and at least twelve other games. People now search for the hidden music in his games, which is known as "Totaka's Song".
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life, Reference, Secret
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Company: Epic Games
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Attachment Former Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski, was in the first issue of Nintendo Power. His name (misspelled as Blezinski) appeared at the top of a list of high scores in Super Mario Bros., with a score of 9,999,950.
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General, Mistake, Real Life
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
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If you let a Chain Chomp tug on its chain 49 times, it will actually break free.
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General
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