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subdirectory_arrow_right Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! (Game)
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The Pink Elephant mini-boss from Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! originated as a cut enemy from Crash Twinsanity's scrapped level, Gone a Bit Coco.
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! - Pink Elephant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTNACT9zaGk
Crash Twinsanity - Scrapped Boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZM7r7HK4Jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTNACT9zaGk
Crash Twinsanity - Scrapped Boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZM7r7HK4Jc
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The toothbrush model in Yandere Simulator, a background prop with no in-game use, at one point had 5,592 faces, making it the heaviest model in the game, including characters and entire interior rooms. It is theorized that the model was originally made for photorealistic CGI in commercials, and had its polygon count shoddily reduced, as each individual bristle on the brush is rendered. Eventually, the model would be replaced, giving it the much smaller - albeit still-ridiculously high - triangle count of 994.
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Unusued icons found within Star Fox Command curiously show ROB 64 with the original Great Fox as it appeared in previous installments such as Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Assault. This is odd, because the Great Fox was already shown to be completely destroyed in the climax for the previous game, Star Fox: Assault, which is why it was replaced with a small space carrier in the final version of Command. This indicates that this was either merely a placeholder, or at some point, the development team had considered bringing the original Great Fox model back as it was prior to Assault's ending.
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Leaked development files for Yoshi's Island show graphics of a razor blade hazard or weapon, possibly intended to be thrown by an enemy. This was likely removed from the game over concerns of violence and/or imitability.
subdirectory_arrow_right Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Game)
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The NES Punch-Out!! theme was plagiarized from the Gillette razors "Look Sharp, Be Sharp" jingle, which was used as the opening theme song for the American sports program Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, best known for its boxing programming, in the 1950s.
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The game start theme from Punch-Out!!, both the arcade and NES versions, was reused from the NES version of Defender II. The original Defender II version ends with a pastiche of the Star Wars theme, something that was not retained in Punch-Out!!.
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If you fly up to the height at which the ship spawns while protecting a human in Wave 25 of the Atari 2600 version of Defender, all enemy ships will transform into the letters "BP", standing for Defender creator Bob Polaro.
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If you enter OVINE as your name on Defender 2000's high score table, you will temporarily unlock "Flossy Mode", which features Jeff Minter's signature ruminants - specifically, the humans are replaced with pixel art llamas, while the ship is replaced with a photo of Minter's first pet sheep, Flossy.
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Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! contains two unused ROMs created to test the emulators used in the compilation. Interestingly, the .txt file that contains the descriptions of all the featured games also has explanations of what these ROMs are, suggesting that they may have at one point been planned to be included as bonus content on the compilation for regular players:
"[colours]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This ROM
was transferred into a genuine first generation
Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It cycles
through all the available colours in the Atari
2600 palette, displaying the colour's number as a
binary "bar code" at the top. The output of the
Atari 2600 was hooked up to a video capture card,
and each frame was digitised and its colour ID
determined by reading the bar code on the image.
All frames of the same colour were then averaged
together to get an average "RGB" colour value for
that number. This process was used to get accu-
rate colour matches with the original Atari 2600.
[sound]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This
ROM was transferred into a genuine first gener-
ation Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It plays
a sound sequence consisting of a one second low-
volume beep, 1 second of silence, and then 4
seconds of a particular Atari 2600 "voice",
followed by another 1 second of silence. Each of
the available voices is played in turn at a
preset frequency. (Once all voices were played,
the frequency would change and the process would
repeat.) The output was captured via a PC's
^G(more...)
Page 2
^G(...more)
sound card and a program found the sound's
fundamental pattern. These captures were used
to generate accurate sound matches with the
Atari 2600.
Note: The left difficulty must be in the B
position for the sounds to start."
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This ROM
was transferred into a genuine first generation
Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It cycles
through all the available colours in the Atari
2600 palette, displaying the colour's number as a
binary "bar code" at the top. The output of the
Atari 2600 was hooked up to a video capture card,
and each frame was digitised and its colour ID
determined by reading the bar code on the image.
All frames of the same colour were then averaged
together to get an average "RGB" colour value for
that number. This process was used to get accu-
rate colour matches with the original Atari 2600.
[sound]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This
ROM was transferred into a genuine first gener-
ation Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It plays
a sound sequence consisting of a one second low-
volume beep, 1 second of silence, and then 4
seconds of a particular Atari 2600 "voice",
followed by another 1 second of silence. Each of
the available voices is played in turn at a
preset frequency. (Once all voices were played,
the frequency would change and the process would
repeat.) The output was captured via a PC's
^G(more...)
Page 2
^G(...more)
sound card and a program found the sound's
fundamental pattern. These captures were used
to generate accurate sound matches with the
Atari 2600.
Note: The left difficulty must be in the B
position for the sounds to start."
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The combat robots known as the Shogun Troopers in Star Fox 64's Sector Y stage are called サルジャー (Sarujā) in the Japanese version of the game. This can be translated as "Sarger". It appears this name is meant to be a pun and mashup of サル (Saru) and ソルジャー (Sorujā), the Japanese words for Monkey and Soldier respectively.
User's English translation of official Japanese Star Fox 64 guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/y8cwc9/finally_got_around_to_doing_translations/
Atwiki page on the Sarger enemies:
https://w.atwiki.jp/nitendo/pages/9680.html
bab.la dictionary entry for Sorujā:
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-japanese/soldier
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/y8cwc9/finally_got_around_to_doing_translations/
Atwiki page on the Sarger enemies:
https://w.atwiki.jp/nitendo/pages/9680.html
bab.la dictionary entry for Sorujā:
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-japanese/soldier
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When Super Mario Bros. 35 and Super Mario 3D All-Stars were released, they were criticized for being preemptively planned to be pulled from digital storefronts on March 31, 2021. This, along with the DIC Mario cartoons coincidentally being moved from Netflix to Paramount+ on the same day, spawned an internet meme depicting Mario as receiving a medieval public execution by Nintendo on that date.
Article on March 31 meme:
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-internet-dubs-march-31-the-day-mario-dies
Article on Netflix removal of DIC Mario cartoons:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/03/netflix_joins_marios_doomsday_celebrations_will_remove_super_mario_bros_3_cartoon_on_31st_march
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-internet-dubs-march-31-the-day-mario-dies
Article on Netflix removal of DIC Mario cartoons:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/03/netflix_joins_marios_doomsday_celebrations_will_remove_super_mario_bros_3_cartoon_on_31st_march
subdirectory_arrow_right 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Platform)
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One commercial for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer line of systems shows a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System being thrown into a child's toy box, as to refer to the consoles as "baby toys". Ironically, the end of the B-roll in the commercial shows footage from Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, a game intended for a demographic of ages 3 to 8.
Company: THQ
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THQ stands for "Toy Head-Quarters", as THQ worked in the toy business from its founding in 1990 up until 1994.
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In the cutscenes for Kat & Ana's stage in WarioWare: Move It!, Cractus from Wario Land 4 appears. This is the first time a Wario Land character has appeared in the cutscenes of a WarioWare game.
In the Japanese version of Move It!, Cractus has a slightly different name from the Cractus that appeared in Wario Land 4.
The latter game's Cractus was called フラワナ, or Furawana, a pun on "flower" and「罠」(wana, trap). The former that appears in Move It! however is called フラワニ, or Furawani, a pun on "flower" and「鰐」(wani, crocodile). This name change could mean the character was renamed, or the Cractus in Move It! is meant to represent a different individual from the same species.
In the Japanese version of Move It!, Cractus has a slightly different name from the Cractus that appeared in Wario Land 4.
The latter game's Cractus was called フラワナ, or Furawana, a pun on "flower" and「罠」(wana, trap). The former that appears in Move It! however is called フラワニ, or Furawani, a pun on "flower" and「鰐」(wani, crocodile). This name change could mean the character was renamed, or the Cractus in Move It! is meant to represent a different individual from the same species.
Cractus in Move It:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9uY6boLd4#t=24
Move It's English character scroll, confirming that Cractus is in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al3aatW549w#t=562
Move It's Japanese character scroll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1vv47ZO38#t=1314
Wario Land 4 Japanese version Cractus boss fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWClYjpqt6Q#t=183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9uY6boLd4#t=24
Move It's English character scroll, confirming that Cractus is in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al3aatW549w#t=562
Move It's Japanese character scroll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1vv47ZO38#t=1314
Wario Land 4 Japanese version Cractus boss fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWClYjpqt6Q#t=183
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The final level of Wario Land 4, Golden Passage, begins with Wario touching the frog switch, causing the entire stage to play the generic hurry up theme - if a player pauses the game before landing on the switch (or alternatively hacks the game), a unique Golden Passage stage theme can be heard.
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Across PaRappa the Rapper, you can you posters of a human pop star named "Pony Pony" - this character was originally supposed to be a member of PaRappa's friend group, but never properly appeared.
Rodney Greenblatt article referencing Pony Pony:
http://whimsyload.com/character-club/parappa-the-rapper/
Pony Pony concept art:
https://www.facebook.com/ParappaFanClub/photos/-the-four-who-started-it-all-these-were-the-first-characters-developed-by-rodney/1006551762779680/
http://whimsyload.com/character-club/parappa-the-rapper/
Pony Pony concept art:
https://www.facebook.com/ParappaFanClub/photos/-the-four-who-started-it-all-these-were-the-first-characters-developed-by-rodney/1006551762779680/
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Lincoln Loud's neutral water gun move "The Splasher" had to be reworked during development; the original version of the move stunned opponents and could be cancelled into most actions in the game. This was a flawed move design however, as players could simply cancel the move into a waveland and then perform it again, making an infinite combo. If this move stayed in, Lincoln would have had to be banned from early competitive play, much as Michelangelo would end up being. In the final game, the water gun pushes opponents and cannot be cancelled.
Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Full story:
https://thankskenpenders.tumblr.com/post/668408799676252160/scourge-the-speed-demon-a-summary
Ian Flynn statement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKCfCR4Qojs&t=1651s
Licensing deal outline:
https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1430048623778144260
Example of Scourge-Surge comparisons:
https://www.tumblr.com/dootdootboopedsnoot/660612495212462080
Ian Flynn's original plans for Surge:
https://twitter.com/IanFlynnBKC/status/1461140967692677128
https://thankskenpenders.tumblr.com/post/668408799676252160/scourge-the-speed-demon-a-summary
Ian Flynn statement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKCfCR4Qojs&t=1651s
Licensing deal outline:
https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1430048623778144260
Example of Scourge-Surge comparisons:
https://www.tumblr.com/dootdootboopedsnoot/660612495212462080
Ian Flynn's original plans for Surge:
https://twitter.com/IanFlynnBKC/status/1461140967692677128
Platform: Sega Saturn
subdirectory_arrow_right PlayStation (Platform)
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In 1992, after the failure of a deal to create a CD-ROM drive for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sony approached Sega of America proposing that they collaborate on a next-generation CD-ROM console to compete with Nintendo. While Sega of America was open to the idea and even started testing the waters between the two companies by having each develop a handful of titles for the Sega CD, Sega of Japan shot down the concept. Consequently, Sony would reorient their efforts towards what would become the PlayStation, while Sega would develop their own next-gen console, the Sega Saturn, in-house. In an interview with Sega-16, Tom Kalinske cited the veto as a factor in his decision to step down as head of Sega of America.
Time Extension article:
https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-sega-and-sony-almost-joined-forces-to-battle-nintendo-in-the-90s
Time Extension interview with Kalinske:
https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-former-sega-president-tom-kalinske-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-16-bit-empire
Sega-16 interview with Kalinske:
https://www.sega-16.com/2006/07/interview-tom-kalinske/
https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-sega-and-sony-almost-joined-forces-to-battle-nintendo-in-the-90s
Time Extension interview with Kalinske:
https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-former-sega-president-tom-kalinske-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-16-bit-empire
Sega-16 interview with Kalinske:
https://www.sega-16.com/2006/07/interview-tom-kalinske/