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The Simpsons Arcade Game
The Simpsons Arcade Game (1991)
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The Japanese version of the game has a much more dynamic scoring system. While every defeated enemy yields one point in international releases, the Japanese release has enemies vary in points, including bosses.
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Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
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Attachment In 2002, the alpha version of Doom 3 had been leaked online. In this alpha version, the logo used for Doom 3 looked markedly different from its final version, using stylized roman numerals like one of its predecessors Doom II: Hell on Earth.
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Street Fighter V
Street Fighter V (2016)
subdirectory_arrow_right Street Fighter 6 (Game), Street Fighter (Franchise)
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Attachment When Rashid was unveiled as a playable character in Street Fighter V, his specific nationality was unknown, with players only knowing that he was Middle Eastern. However, in 2022 when the entire playable base game roster and first wave of DLC of Street Fighter 6 was leaked, it revealed a more specific country he was from, with Rashid confirmed as being Saudi Arabian.
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Street Fighter 6 character art leak with Saudi Arabian flag:
https://www.gematsu.com/2022/06/street-fighter-6-artwork-of-22-playable-characters-leaked

Street Fighter Fandom wiki page:
https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Rashid
Annalynn
Annalynn (2021)
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The Mineshaft and High Score themes from the 2016 version of the game were remade for the 2021 release. While the Mineshaft theme is a near-identical conversion, the High Score theme is quite different.
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Annalynn
Annalynn (2021)
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Attachment During the development of the Nintendo Switch version, exclusive guest character Anton received a few scrapped sprites, including one with a closed mouth. A bottle of a red beverage and a red ball with eyebrows and a beard (presumably a reference to Antonball, Anton's debut appearance) were also planned to serve as Anton's life counter before being replaced with beets in the final release.
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Console Difference, Development, Release Difference, Unused Graphic
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Pac-Man
Pac-Man (1980)
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Attachment The board for Pac-Man contains a DIP switch titled "Alternate Ghost Names", which in the Japanese release contained early English names for the ghosts:

• Urchin "Macky" (Shadow "Blinky")
• Romp "Micky" (Speedy "Pinky")
• Stylist "Mucky" (Bashful "Inky")
• Crybaby "Mocky" (Pokey "Clyde")

In the US release, these names were dummied out and replaced with strings of the first 8 letters of the Latin alphabet.
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Platform: Nintendo GameCube
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Attachment At Spaceworld 2000, after Shigeru Miyamoto showed off a tech demo for a GameCube controller prototype he revealed another variant of the Gamecube controller called the "Wavebird". This Wavebird prototype design looked like a missing link between the design of the Virtual Boy controller and the GameCube controller, having long and slender handles like the Virtual Boy but being much bulkier everywhere else like the GameCube controller. It did end up matching the final design of the default GameCube controller.
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Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pikmin (Game), Nintendo GameCube (Platform)
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Attachment At Spaceworld 2000, Shigeru Miyamoto showed off a prototype for the GameCube controller. The most glaring difference between this controller and the final design are the color and shape of three buttons:
• The A button being blue, like the Z button rather than green, but keeping it's circular shape.
• The B button being green, like the final A button rather than red, and bean shaped like the X and Y buttons rather than circular.
• The start button being red like the final B button as well as being bulbous and protruding as compared to the final start button being flat, grey, and made of rubber.

An accompanying tech demo used assets from Luigi's Mansion including one of the basic ghosts which reacted differently depending on what button was used:
• Using the A, B, X, and Y buttons made it spit out the corresponding letter
• Stretching for the L button and squishing for the R button
• Emitting a slower version of Boo's laugh for the Z button
• Emitting a normal ghost noise for the control stick
• Changing orientation for the C-stick
• Emitting sounds similar to that of Pikmin for any of the D-pad directions

The inclusion of the Pikmin noises makes sense as Luigi's Mansion contained a trailer for Pikmin upon release.
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Controls, Development, Early Idea, Prototype, Release Difference, Trade Show
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Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok#t=625

Pikmin trailer in Luigi's Mansion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZuMIIwtYF0
Annalynn
Annalynn (2021)
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A spider enemy was originally set to appear if the player took too long in a level, but was cut since their mechanic would run contrary to the game's focus on enemy combos.

The spider, now named Gil, would appear in a 2023 remake of the 2016 version of Annalynn as an optional enemy.
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Early Idea, Release Difference, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Ultimate Custom Night Demo
Ultimate Custom Night Demo (2018)
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The Ultimate Custom Night Demo has a serious, non-troll version that was previously only available to well-known YouTube stars and was presented by Scott Cawthon. All characters are available for selection in the menu, making the demo essentially identical to the full game. When the player tried to start the night, a message would appear in the middle of the menu, preventing them from going any further if the chosen roster had more than 2,000 points.
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Demo, General, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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Attachment In the game's Japanese reveal trailer, Wonder Seed was spelled as "Wonderseed".
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Regional Difference, Release Difference
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Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Game)
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Attachment In Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, Alvis's necklace was changed from holding a key to holding a pendant shaped similarly to Pyra and Mythra's core crystal. This alludes to a major plot point in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, where Spoiler:Alvis's true nature is revealed to be Ontos, the third, missing core of the Trinity Processor.
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Xenoblade Chronicles Alvis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JVewD5CsI

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Alvis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssB_44MuAZQ
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 (2003)
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Attachment As Eighting also devloped the Blood Roar series, they reused some animations when developing the Clash Of Ninja/Gekitou Ninja Taisen series. The most notable asset involves Shikamaru's guard animation when not against the wall. When attacked away from a wall, Shikamaru will dodge instead of doing the standard guard animation. This is a reuse of the "Perfect Dodge" asset from Bloody Roar Primal Fury/Extreme.
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Development, General, Release Difference
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Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II (1993)
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In Episode 7 of the TV series adaptation of The Last of Us, Ellie and Riley are seen playing the arcade version of Mortal Kombat II. At one point, Riley uses Mileena's fatality on Ellie's character Raiden, with Riley being heard pressing four buttons to initiate the killing blow. Following the episode's release, a number of fans online claimed this was inaccurate, as one can simply just press and hold the Heavy Kick command during the "Finish Him!" prompt to initiate her Fatality. However, other Mortal Kombat players argued that the show's display of gameplay could possibly be correct, pointing out that there is an alternate way to do the fatality. Specifically, Mileena can perform the Fatality by standing close to the opponent, holding the Block button and tapping the Heavy Kick command.
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Street Fighter V
Street Fighter V (2016)
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Attachment In the Street Fighter 5 Climax Arts Plus Zero to 6 book, the game's director Nakayuki Nakayama stated that Juri Han didn't originally wear a black top underneath the catsuit, and that this was added after many people said the original design was too sexy. Juri's original design can be seen in Cammy's character story, which was included in the base game before the release of the cinematic story mode A Shadow Falls in June 2016 and Juri's inclusion as a season 1 DLC character in July 2016.
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Jak II
Jak II (2003)
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Attachment In the North American release, the cover art is reversible, with the back side featuring a map of Haven City. The front of the game's manual points this map out as a tip to players, but the Greatest Hits re-release of the game did not include this map, with the manual not being updated to reflect this change.
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Punch Club
Punch Club (2016)
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The game was originally known as VHS Story (Video Hero Super Story) as a reference of the movies of the era. According to the team at Lazy Bear Games, the name was changed because many people misunderstood the title, thinking that it's a game about the video format itself.
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Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (1998)
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Attachment In the Virtual Console release of the game, Jynx's sprite is altered to change her skin color from black to purple, keeping in line with the character's redesign since the international releases of Pokémon Gold & Silver in 2000, which was implemented following complaints from African-American writer Carole Boston Weatherford that the original design was evocative of blackface imagery.

While Game Boy and Game Boy Color sprites only allow for a maximum of three colors, the game's in-battle assets are composed of multiple 8x8 sprites composited together. Thus, the Virtual Console release was able to recolor Jynx's skin by only altering some of these tiles to replace black with purple. As no other Pokémon use this method, this makes Jynx's altered design the highest-detail Pokémon in any version of the Generation I games.
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991)
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The Japanese FM Towns release of Monkey Island 2 is completely missing the so-called "cliffside puzzle" (which involves stealing a fish from a chef, trading the fish to a fisherman for a rod, and casting your line over a cliff, so a seagull appears and snatches the piece of the treasure map away).

At first, it was speculated this was either a bug (with one person going so far as to officially submit it as a bug for the ScummVM emulator in 2006) or censorship. But looking at the game's source code, the change was seemingly intentional, with additional lines of code being added to tell the program to skip the correct sequence of events.

When asked about this, even former developers and play testers couldn't explain or remember why. Recent consensus is that this was most probably because of a technical issue involving vertical scrolling (where if the screen moved up and down you couldn't have objects or animations on the screen at the same time or the game's script would break - and the cliffside "room" is the only room in the game to feature vertical scrolling).
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WWF Attitude
WWF Attitude (1999)
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On May 23, 1999, wrestler Owen Hart passed away due to an equipment malfunction during his entrance into the wrestling ring, dropping him to his death. In light of this, the game was delayed from its original June 3, 1999 release date to August 5th that year, and they dedicated it to Hart in the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation versions.

The Dreamcast version, however, completely omits the dedication due to a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the WWE (then known as the WWF) from the Hart family. However, he is still a playable character in the game.
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