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Metroid Fusion
Metroid Fusion (2002)
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In the Chozo language, the word "Metroid" roughly translates to mean "ultimate warrior."

It is possible this name was chosen because the Chozo created the Metroids to fight the highly dangerous X parasite on SR388.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person JoeOdranDoran calendar_month March 23, 2013
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Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Unleashed (2008)
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Attachment In Eggmanland, there are three robots whose names represent a console and a year that a Sonic game came out. These are EF-MD1991 (Mega Drive/Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog), EF-DC1998 (Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure), and EF-XB2006 (Xbox and Sonic the Hedgehog 2006). To further cement this idea, MD1991 was made first while XB2006 is the youngest and is apparently clumsy, glitchy, and can't do anything right.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference, Similarities, Theory
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month March 22, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009)
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Attachment Near the end of the game, Spoiler:Roxas has to fight Xion, who wants to absorb him. During the 3rd phase of the battle, Xion transforms into a form that looks a lot like Kurt Zisa. This makes sense since Xion is using Sora's memories as a weapon and they are fighting in Agrabah, where Sora previously fought Kurt Zisa in the first Kingdom Hearts.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Suggested, Theory
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month March 22, 2013
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
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Attachment It's possible that the popular phrase, "I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow in the knee" was put into the game because Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game to not include greaves (knee armor).
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Development, General, Inspiration, Suggested, Theory
person Hessian calendar_month March 21, 2013
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Bakugan Battle Brawlers (2009)
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Attachment Each guardian Bakugan that is buyable by the player has something missing. Drago and Delta Dragonoid II are missing their horns, Delta Dragonoid II is also missing the blades on his tail, Tigrerra is missing her blades and the diamond on her forehead, Skyress is missing her horns, Gorem and Hammer Gorem are missing their shield and horns respectively, Preyas and Preyas II Diablo are missing their collar, Preyas II Angelo has differently shaped eyes and missing half of his hair, and Hydranoid is missing his horn. These edits were probably made so these Bakugan would not look like the owners' guardian Bakugan from the Anime.
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General, Mistake, Suggested, Theory
person beat_that_potato calendar_month March 21, 2013
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)
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Attachment In the beginning of Shiverburn Galaxy, you can see odd, alien figures in the backgound. The name of the image in the game's files is "HellValleySkyTree."
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person pyoro64 calendar_month March 21, 2013
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Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red Version (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon LeafGreen Version (Game), Pokémon FireRed Version (Game), Pokémon Blue Version (Game), Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (Game)
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Attachment In Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, as well as their remakes FireRed and LeafGreen, a truck was placed in the S.S. Anne's port. The truck seems to serve no purpose. Its presence in the remakes could be a reference to the original rumors that Mew could be found under the truck.
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General, Rumor, Theory
person AussieYak calendar_month March 19, 2013
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Halo 2
Halo 2 (2004)
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Attachment A Soccer Ball is found in the Halo 2 Campaign level Metropolis, hidden in the rooftops. There is speculation that it was used by Bungie to test the physics engine of the game, and that they left it in the level instead of deleting it. It also appears as a Forge item available to place on certain maps in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4.
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Easter Egg, Rumor, Secret, Theory
person FUS RO DAH calendar_month March 19, 2013
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Sweet Home
Sweet Home (1989)
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Nobuko "Nokko" Yamada, who plays the youngest character, Emi, in the original Sweet Home movie was the lead singer in a band called Rebecca. What makes this interesting is that the game that was Sweet Home's eventual successor, Resident Evil, had its youngest character named Rebecca.
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person Mass Distraction calendar_month March 19, 2013
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment In the Dam level, there is a blue metal trapdoor on the floor in a guardhouse that serves no purpose in the final game. Many believe it was part of an older objective that was taken out of the game. Some speculate that Bond previously had to retrieve his tracker bug for the mission in this hatch, since the message "Picked up a bug" can be found in the game's memory but is never used in the game. Others speculate Bond previously picked up explosives here for a lost objective requiring players to blow up the truck. Still others believe it was merely a quicker way to the comms room below the dam, since it is almost directly above it. It's true purpose remains a mystery.
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General, Suggested, Theory
person Matthew Neuteboom calendar_month March 19, 2013
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect (2007)
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On several explorable locations in the game, namely Altahe, Nepmos, Nodacrux, Rayingri, Eletania, Xawin and even Luna (Earth's moon,) strange sounds can be heard when the player exits the Mako and stands in a specific point of the map.

Although never confirmed by BioWare, the Mass Effect community has speculated that these peculiar noises are 'songs' from the insectoid and believed extinct race the Rachni.
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person abigstupidjellyfish calendar_month March 19, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)
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Attachment In the Astral Observatory, there is a picture of a dolphin hidden under a small pot. It's thought to be a reference to Dolphin, the Gamecube's code name at the time.
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Easter Egg, Secret, Suggested, Theory
person ecylisis calendar_month March 19, 2013
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
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Attachment The enemy character Red Bones' name in Japanese is "Buraddi Honenoko", which translates to "Bloody Son of Bone" (or "Bloody Dull Bones"), which could hint to a Koopa Troopa having met a gory demise, then being resurrected as a Dry Bones, but still had a stained shell.
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General, Regional Difference, Suggested, Theory, Version Difference
person mushroom578 calendar_month March 19, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002)
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There's an item hidden in the game's code called the "Water Boots." They have no effect, but putting them on uses the same animation and sound as the Iron Boots. It's speculated that they may have been used for underwater swimming, or sinking underwater like the Iron Boots from Ocarina of Time.
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Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items
person ecylisis calendar_month March 18, 2013
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
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Attachment A popular long-standing fan theory about Super Mario Bros. 3 was that it was actually an elaborate stage play.

The commonly cited evidence that supports this theory include:
•The game's title screen starts with the rise of curtains, and the game ends with the fall of curtains, as well as curtain calls for each World and several characters during the end credits
•Some platforms are hanging down from the "sky" by wires implying it's scenery being hung from the ceiling
•Some platforms are bolted to the wall and cast shadows against the "sky" suggesting it's a backdrop
•If Mario/Luigi kneels on white block platforms for six seconds, he will fall behind them and can walk behind the scenery
•Some platforms are sticking out through carved-out slots in the backdrop suggesting they are being controlled by hidden machines behind the set
•Each regular stage ends by exiting stage left and going "backstage" into the dark goal area
•Every injury or death in a stage is Mario/Luigi messing up the scene (the "Mario was never once in any real danger" part in the attached image is not necessarily true as unintended injuries and deaths can happen in theatre)

One overlooked piece of circumstantial evidence that supports this theory concerns the fact that the Kings of each World that are transformed into different creatures by the Koopalings are never actually seen being transformed into creatures, or transforming back into humans after Mario defeats a Koopaling. The way every Koopaling defeat plays out shows Mario falling from the airship holding the King's magic wand, the scene fades to black, and then the lights come back up inside the castle showing the King already transformed back into a human before either the wand or Mario return to the castle. This suggests that the Kings were never transformed in the first place, because they were all actors waiting to get into place for their scenes, and the transformations are the suspension of disbelief. It should be noted that the Game Boy Advance version of the game partially discredits this by adding cutscenes showing each King being turned into creatures by the Koopalings, but they are still are not seen being transformed back into humans.

In a Q&A interview to promote the release of Super Mario Maker in 2015, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed the theory, that the game was all a performance.
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person Powerstars calendar_month March 18, 2013
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Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
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Attachment There is a hidden "Red Man" in the Corel Prison. The model is hidden from view in normal gameplay. There are no other models like this in the game, and it is thought to be a signature from one of the designers.
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person Wolfcat calendar_month March 18, 2013
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Platform: Wii
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Attachment In the console's BIOS, there is a unused disk graphic which represents a DVD Video. It's possible that there were plans for support of DVD Videos.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Ghost calendar_month March 17, 2013
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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (1993)
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Attachment In Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, there is an unused graphic in the game with the name "Sarah". This may have been Cammy's early name.
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person Ghost calendar_month March 17, 2013
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Franchise: Pokémon
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Despite looking black-faced, Jynx wasn't meant to be racist. It is actually based off the Japanese Myth, Yama-Uba. Yama-Uba was described as having bright blond hair and a torn red kimono much similar to the design of Jynx.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Similarities, Theory
person DotWaffler calendar_month March 16, 2013
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Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 (2012)
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The targets of the mission "Splinter Group" are four mutated raiders named Mick, Lee, Ralph, and Dan. This is a play off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles named Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello. The other similarities include their hideout being in the sewers, their name "Splinter Group" after the rat master "Splinter", their surfer-like language ("dude", "brah") and their craving for pizza used to lure them out.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Similarities, Theory
person RayMonkay calendar_month March 16, 2013
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