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LSD: Dream Emulator

LSD: Dream Emulator (1998)

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The game's concept is based on a dream journal of which Hiroko Nishikawa, a staff member at Asmik Ace Entertainment, had been keeping for a decade (1987-1997). It was later adapted as a collector's book for limited edition copies of LSD, containing excerpts from her dream journal entitled "Lovely Sweet Dream".

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Wild Arms 2

Wild Arms 2 (1999)

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Vash the Stampede, the protagonist of the anime and manga series Trigun, makes a cameo appearance on a poster in Marina's bedroom. The creators of Wild Arms have cited Trigun as a direct inspiration for the setting of Wild Arms.

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Kirby's Adventure

Kirby's Adventure (1993)

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The original Japanese commercial for Kirby's Adventure depicted the game's characters made of yarn. This is thought to have inspired the art style of Kirby's Epic Yarn.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)

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According to director Hideo Kojima, Kaz's design in Peace Walker was partly based on the captain from the film, "Westworld", although the development team had never heard of the film.

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)

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According to Hideo Kojima, during the filming of The Boss' fight with Naked Snake at Dremuchij North during Operation Snake Eater, Eriko Hirata, The Boss' motion capture actress, started breaking into tears, as she had read the script and thus already knew about The Boss' ultimate fate.

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Divekick

Divekick (2013)

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The character 'The Baz' is based on a scrapped Street Fighter II fighter, and was further developed by a series of events involving Matt and Woolie from the popular YouTube show Two best Friends Play.

"Jefailey and The Baz are in the game based on Keits honoring kickstarter pledges from Matt and myself for The Baz, and Alex Jebailey's pledge for Jefailey. The character that you see here, is the result of my concept submitted to Keits, from his lines, his palette, to the backstory, and his moves, and the entire concept of him being "The Storm" and having electricity based powers and such, etc; which Keits then finalized mechanically for balance. I decided to request him based on the running character gag we had with Fighterpedia.

Fun Fact, the character from the old artbook wasn't even named Zubaz - the katakana next to him said 'Bullfighter'. Zubaz is just the clothing line they used because that design was based on the Legion of Doom from the WWE, and they often wore Zubaz clothing. We just started calling him Zubaz during Fighterpedia and the name stuck with the fans." - Woolie Madden

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Burnout

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The original working title for the game was 'Shiny Red Car', and the game itself was mostly influenced by the arcade game Thrill Drive.

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Metroid II: Return of Samus

Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991)

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The signature large shoulders of Samus' Varia Suit debuted here and were born out of necessity. In the previous game, the Varia suit was shown as a pink palette swap of the normal suit.

Because of the Game Boy's limited color palette however (it could only display around 4 different shades of black and white) drastic visual changes had to be implemented to let the players tell the Varia Suit from the normal suit. The Varia Suit was thus given larger shoulders which have since become the most defining feature of Samus' armor throughout the series.

This also affected Samus' Arm Cannon's missile launcher function. In the previous game, Samus' Arm Cannon turned blue when its Missile launcher was active. However, because of the limited color palette, in Metroid II, Missile mode is shown as the tip of the Arm Cannon opening and extending outward which has also been featured in later games.

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Half-Life

Half-Life (1998)

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The premise for this game was inspired by the Steven King book, The Mist, which is about how a slew of monsters ravages a city after a test in a secret military base goes awry. The code name of the project, Quiver, is a reference to the name of the military base, Arrowhead.

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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (2013)

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Two books were big references in the development of the game. The first book was "The General History of Pyrates," which provided a solid historical foundation for the game to use, as well using a German style of capitalizing all nouns, which Ubisoft used in the game's subtitles. The second book was "The Republic of Pirates," which helped the team establish the hub town, real life Nassau, which was a famous stopping point for pirates. The book's author, Colin Woodard, was so much of a influence that he was asked to join the development team to make the game more accurate.

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Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas (2010)

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Most of the Honest Hearts Tribals speak a creole language.

The Dead Horses' language is based on German, English, and Navajo, although the morphology of the Navajo is unrecognizable.

The White Legs speak a combination of languages from tourists and locals in a place called Res.

The Sorrows language seems to be a combination of broken English, German, Spanish, and hints of Japanese.

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Franchise: Lemmings

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The Lemmings series were the inspiration for the Red Clay Army, an army of golems controlled by an icon-driven interface who would climb, dig and march when commanded to, in the 1994 Discworld novel "Interesting Times" by Terry Pratchett.

When asked about the Red Clay Army's connection to the Lemmings series, Pratchett said,

"What? Lemmings? Merely because the red army can fight, dig, march and climb and is controlled by little icons? Can't imagine how anyone thought that...

Not only did I wipe Lemmings from my hard disc, I overwrote it so's I couldn't get it back."

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Pikmin

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Bulbie, Olimar's dog (Or at least a Hocotatian form of one), was the inspiration for the Bulborbs' names because of their resemblance to Bulbie. The Grub-dog family (Which includes Bulborbs among other creatures) was also named after him, due to Bulbie being a dog.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed & Battle

Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed & Battle (1998)

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This was the first game in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series and was based on a game in the original manga series called "Capsule Monster Chess", as opposed to Duel Monsters which the series is known for and continues to be based on to this day.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)

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Luigi's partner, Screamy, is based on the original design of the Smorgs.

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Dead Island

Dead Island (2011)

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The unlockable skill "Gender Wars" for the character Purna was referred to during development as "Feminist Whore". The original name along with alternate names for some of her other skills, which were "TeamSpirit1Purna", "SharpApprenticePurna" and "FeministWhorePurna", were found in the game's code of the non-retail version which had been accidentally released onto Steam. Techland came out to apologize over the incident and told that the developer responsible for the inappropriate names would "face professional consequences for violating the professional standards and beliefs Techland stands for."

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)

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Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov's character is meant to mock MGS2's effeminate protagonist Raiden, who was met with mixed-to-negative criticism among Metal Gear Solid's western fanbase for replacing Solid Snake as the star. Although it isn't explicitly stated, the game heavily implies that Raikov is Colonol Volgin's gay lover.

This plays an important part during a particular scene when Snake is disguised as Raikov in order to infiltrate the Shagohod testing facility. Snake's cover is blown by Volgin who states that he was "waiting for Raikov in his room." Volgin grabs Snakes' crotch twice, thus revealing his identity. Volgin then exclaims "I know the Major better than anyone else." Volgin later beats Naked Snake to a pulp in retribution for Snake "hurting" Raikov.

Several other small hints at Raikov's sexual orientation are present in the game. If the player attempts to distract Raikov with a pornographic magazine, he will only give a brief glance at it and walk away instead of reading through it. Raikov also wears black underwear with a lightning bolt monogrammed on them (seen after stealing his uniform), a reference to Volgin's powers. EVA also drops hints about his homosexuality during a codec call.

MGS3: Subsistence later dropped more clues about Raikov. In the online mode of Subsistence, players can play Raikov, who's special move is a massive crotch grab that renders his opponent stunned. The Secret Theatre film 'Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser' also jokes about Raikov's homosexuality and his purposeful resemblance to Raiden.

Despite being Volgin's male lover, Volgin himself appears to be bisexual, having an abusive relationship with Tatyana. He is a sadist, however, and treats her rather harshly compared to Raikov, whom he adores.

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Double Dragon

Double Dragon (1987)

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The game was originally planned to be a sequel to Renegade (Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun in Japan). The game was given a new art style and a new story to appeal to a more international audience instead of the Japanese one that Kunio-kun was known for.

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Clock Tower (1995)

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According to Hifumi Kouno, the inspiration for Scissorman and his signature blades came from the disfigured killer Cropsy in the horror movie "The Burning," which scared him as child.

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Platform: Xbox 360

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The most expensive Xbox 360 Kinect sensor peripheral was inspired by pop singer Kylie Minogue and features over 6000 Swarovski crystals and worth $1,242 USD. Designed by PlayBling, it was given out as a prize as part of a promotion by Microsoft and Dance Central in celebration of Kylie Minogue's upcoming European tour.

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