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Floigan Bros.
Floigan Bros. (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dreamcast (Platform)
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Despite Floigan Bros. being initially developed prior to the Dreamcast's release in 1999 (of which the main characters Moigle and Hoigle made cameos in the Dreamcast advertising campaign "It's Thinking"), and then-President of SEGA's American division Bernie Stolar saying that "Floigan will do for SEGA what Mario did for Nintendo", the game would go through developmental setbacks until finally releasing on July 30, 2001, months after SEGA ceased production on SEGA Dreamcast.

Because of this late release window, several pieces of monthly on-disc DLC for the game, as well as the concept of exchanging Moigles through the Dreamcast VMU, were left on the cutting room floor.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Cancelled Release, Development, Unreleased Content, Unused Content
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Pac-Man Championship Edition
Pac-Man Championship Edition (2020)
subdirectory_arrow_right Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 (Game)
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The NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, featured in 2020's Namco Museum Archives Volume 1, was originally created as an unauthorized fan project by homebrew developer coke774 in 2008.
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Console Difference, Credits, Remake, Similarities, Unreleased Content, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 7, 2023
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Adventure
Adventure (1979)
subdirectory_arrow_right Superman (Franchise)
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During the development of Adventure, Atari higher-ups were initially cautious of such an ambitious project - when they saw the prototype, they unsuccessfully tried to persuade Warren Robinett to rework the game into a tie-in game for the Superman II movie.
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Adaptation, Cancelled Release, Reskin, Unreleased Content, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 7, 2023
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Platform: PC (Microsoft Windows)
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo 64 (Platform), Nintendo (Company)
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Attachment The NJS-3D1 was a PC flight stick made by Laral Group LLC - unusually, the flight stick bears the name and official quality seal of Nintendo on its packaging, along with a Nintendo 64 logo on the controller itself, despite not being compatible with any of Nintendo's hardware. The controller was made in a short-lived deal to manufacture PC accessories with Nintendo branding, with the only other product to come out of the line being a set of headphones.
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Cancelled Release, Controls, Unreleased Content, Unreleased Hardware
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 5, 2023
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Platform: PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Attachment The KFConsole was a satirical computer announced in 2020 by Intel, Cooler Master, and Kentucky Fried Chicken that would have been shaped like a chicken bucket and have an oven for reheating KFC chicken. Despite Mark Walton of Intel claiming it to be a real product, the computer having a page on Cooler Master's website, official stats being available for the hardware, and similarly outlandish KFC marketing stunts eventually being released as products, it has not emerged in the years since and is believed to be vaporware.
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Cancelled Release, Unreleased Content, Unreleased Hardware
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Muppet Monster Adventure
Muppet Monster Adventure (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Muppets (Franchise)
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Muppet Monster Adventure was adapted from an unproduced script for a Muppets movie titled The Muppets' Haunted House.
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Adaptation, Cancelled Release, Early Idea, Real Life, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 4, 2023
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The Nerd Lys - Episode 134 - Kirk R. Thatcher (Timestamp: 0:47:19):
https://thenerdlys.com/2018/08/13/episode-134-kirk-r-thatcher/
EastEnders
EastEnders (1987)
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Macsen Software had intended to release a second game using the EastEnders license, but went into voluntary liquidation before it could be completed.
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Cancelled Release, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 29, 2023
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Collection: Pajama Sam
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A pilot was made for a Pajama Sam television series that was pitched to PBS Kids, where Sam was aged up but inexplicably retained his onesie pajamas, and had a generic school bully as a nemesis. It supposedly had a high budget, and Humongous animator John Michaud, who revealed its existence, claims that it was fortunate it wasn't picked up.
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Cancelled Release, Multimedia Adaptation, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 27, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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In an interview with competitive Super Smash Bros. player Hungrybox, the developers of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl claimed that the game would feature cross-play in a future update. Cross-play was eventually finished for the game, but was not able to be released due to Nintendo's strict guidelines on cross-play. On March 3, 2023, the game was released on the Epic Games Store, and cross-play between PC and Switch was accidentally added without announcement, but was removed shortly after, though cross-play between Epic Games and Steam players would continue to exist in the game. Cross-play would eventually be included in the base game of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 for all consoles and generations.
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Competitive, Complaint, Online Play, Removed Feature, Unreleased Content, Unused Code
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 27, 2023
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Drill Dozer
Drill Dozer (2005)
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An internal "last updated" date in the files of Drill Dozer shows that the European localizations of the game were finished in 2006, 10 years before their first release on the Wii U Virtual Console.
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Development, Regional Difference, Unreleased Content, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 25, 2023
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Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom Hearts III (2019)
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Attachment Grand Chef, the Ratatouille keyblade in Kingdom Hearts III, has two bottles of champagne attached to its handles. While the artwork on these bottles originates from a poster briefly seen in the movie, it is more commonly associated with a controversial cancelled Ratatouille-branded wine that was intended to be sold in Costco in 2007, but was pulled before it could hit shelves due to concerns relating to underaged drinking. While the iteration in the movie shows red wine, the iteration on the wine bottle shows an olive tone of wine. The Grand Chef keyblade features both colors for the wine.
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Censorship, Complaint, Early Idea, Merchandise, Real Life, Reference, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 25, 2023
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Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals (2020)
subdirectory_arrow_right Catherine: Full Body (Game)
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On September 18, 2023, it was revealed on the Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals Twitter account that a pitch had been made for a DLC pack based on Catherine: Full Body by Atlus, but that said plans never materialized. A mockup trailer was also released, suggesting that said pack would have featured Vincent Brooks as a playable character and would have released in 2021, had it been accepted.
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Development, Early Idea, Real Life, Unreleased Content
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 23, 2023
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Bad Piggies
Bad Piggies (2012)
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Bad Piggies was originally conceived as a level editor for standard Angry Birds levels, before being reworked into a vehicle-building game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 18, 2023
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Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment The Weenie and Burger Golfer enemies are based on Peter and Mac, the protagonists of an unmade Pizza Tower predecessor called Weenie Cop.
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Cameo, Cancelled Release, Character Design, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Unreleased Content, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 18, 2023
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Franchise: Donkey Kong
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Attachment Dutch electronics company Philips planned to release a Donkey Kong game for the CD-i as part of the deal with Nintendo that led to the release of Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda's Adventure. The Donkey Kong game's existence was alluded to in two "Gaming Gossip" articles by Electronic Gaming Monthly as well as a trade ad which depicted Donkey Kong exiting a limousine alongside Mario, Link, and Zelda. However, more concrete evidence for the game's existence didn't emerge until former Riedel Software Productions employee Adrian Jackson-Jones included a post on his LinkedIn page stating that he programmed the engine for it (the LinkedIn post incorrectly cites Australian visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures due to them sharing initials). This information was then brought to public attention in 2022 by the LostMediaWiki, a website which documents searches for lost or otherwise publicly unavailable works.

An investigation by Time Extension led to writer John Szczepaniak getting in contact with both Jackson-Jones and Riedel Software Productions owner Michael J. Riedel. Both parties have little memory of the Donkey Kong game due to the amount of time that passed and the company's habit of erasing their data for cancelled projects. Additionally, Jackson-Jones revealed that due to a memory disorder, he recalls little about the game other than his direct experiences programming it. Despite this, Jackson-Jones was able to confirm his involvement with the Donkey Kong game, stating that one of the biggest difficulties during development was the CD-i's memory limitations, which were circumvented by only loading in assets that would be visible on-screen, using the player's movement to determine what to put into memory.

Additional investigations by DidYouKnowGaming further revealed that the Donkey Kong CD-i game was intended to be a side-scrolling title similar to the later Donkey Kong Country series. According to an anonymous Riedel Software Productions employee who served as a lead animator for the game, development quickly stalled before June 1993, never making it past initial storyboards due to the CD-i's technical limitations and Philips' inexperience with the video game industry (contrary to Electronic Gaming Monthly's claims that it would be a sequel to the original arcade game and that it would be ready by 1994).
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Magazine, Misconception, Real Life, Rumor, Unreleased Content
person VinchVolt calendar_month September 17, 2023
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amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits
amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits (2015)
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amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits contains two unused ROMs in its code: Mario Bros. for NES and Super Mario All-Stars for SNES. Notably, Super Mario All-Stars never had a Wii U Virtual Console release. (though it was playable on the console through the Wii disc, Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition)
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Removed Feature, Unreleased Content, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 15, 2023
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Platform: BBC Microcomputer System
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Following the release of the BBC Micro, independent branches of rival free-to-air channel ITV initiated plans to brand a microcomputer by Transam Computers with the ITV name, selling at the same price as the BBC Micro. This was ultimately vetoed by the Independent Television Companies Association due to ITV being prohibited from sponsoring products at the time, alongside potential conflicts of interest with ITV's own advertisers, which included other microcomputer manufacturers.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 12, 2023
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Popular Computing Weekly Vol. 2 No. 49 - December 8-14, 1984 (Page 1):
https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1983-12-08/mode/1up

Personal Computer News No. #42 - December 22-January 4, 1984 (Page 4):
https://archive.org/details/mag_PersonalComputerNews042-04Jan1984/page/n5/mode/1up
Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
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In late 2018, a trailer for the film's sequel "Ralph Breaks the Internet" premiered on TV as part of Disney Channel's "Movie Surfers" series. The first half of the trailer used almost 40 seconds of cutscenes from the 2012 Wii game based on the first movie, and used unreleased higher quality renders of these cutscenes rather than the compressed footage released in the game. This trailer also features a noticeably bad, ad-libbed narration from an unknown actor portraying Ralph; this actor does not sound like the original film's actor John C. Reilly, nor the soundalike actor used in the Wii game and commercials Brian T. Delaney. Considering the overall confusing cheapness of the trailer, it's not known why the show's producers chose to use unreleased HD renders of these cutscenes instead of footage from the first film, which they had to have had access to and would have matched the visual quality of the film's sequel better.
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Advertisement/Commercial, General, Real Life, Theory, Unreleased Content
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month September 11, 2023
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Bubsy 2
Bubsy 2 (1994)
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The working titles for Bubsy 2 were "Bubsy 2: Still No Pants!" and "Bubsy 2: Lost in the Amazatorium".
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Advertisement/Commercial, Development, Early Idea, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 9, 2023
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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (2006)
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Attachment Doctor was originally meant to wear overalls. His early design was shared by the official Super Monkey Ball YouTube account in 2023.
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Unreleased Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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