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Franchise: Pokémon
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The Flygon evolutionary family is based on the Antlion.
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Franchise: Pokémon
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The Pokemon Metagross seems to be heavily based on the number 12. It has 12 "toes", and the X on the center of his face has 12 sides. In addition, its name contains "gross" which means 144, or a 12 dozen. It also weighs 1212.5 pounds. .5 can be written as 1/2.
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General
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Franchise: Pokémon
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The Lileep-Cradily evolutionary line of Pokemon are based on crinoids, also known as sea lilies.

Fossil evidence shows us that creatures such as sea urchins began to view the stationary sea lilies as an easy meal: many crinoid fossils from the Triassic period show evidence of teeth-marks! It seems that this is why some crinoids became motile again. Some, such as the feather stars, have become reasonably adept swimmers: not especially quick or graceful, but enough to make a break for it if things seem to be getting dangerous. Other species have been seen to slowly walk along the sea floor using their multiple arms. This gradual progression towards motility seems to be referenced in the Pokédex entries of Lileep and Cradily, too... while Lileep is stated to be immobile, numerous references are made to Cradily moving around (albeit inelegantly).
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Franchise: Pokémon
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Charmander may be based on a 1000+ year old misconception about the salamander.

Both Aristotle and Pliny the Elder believed that the salamander was capable of withstanding the heat of flames, and even had the ability to extinguish them. In Pliny's Natural History, the oldest surviving encyclopedia, a fairly accurate description of the salamander is followed up by claims that "This animal is so intensely cold as to extinguish fire by its contact, in the same way as ice does" (Book 10, Chapter 86). Later in the same work, though, he seems to view these supposed properties with more skepticism, claiming that "if it had been true, it would have been made trial of at Rome long before this" (Book 29, Chapter 23).

The connection between salamanders and fire persisted, however, and we can also find it in the Talmud, which briefly mentions the salamander as a creature actually produced by flames, whose blood could protect anybody smeared in it from fire. Even Leonardo da Vinci, one of history's greatest scientific minds, seemed content to echo the received wisdom on the subject, mentioning in his notebooks that the salamander "has no digestive organs, and gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin."
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Development, Inspiration, Similarities, Theory
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DLC Quest
DLC Quest (2011)
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In the add-on "Live Freemium or Die", before you fight the final boss he says, "You think microtransactions are your ally. But you merely adopted the freemium. I was born in it. Molded by it." This is a reference to the character 'Bane' in the movie The Dark Knight Rises.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Metroid Prime Hunters
Metroid Prime Hunters (2006)
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Attachment Despite this game not featuring Metroids, in the demo version (Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt) the primary enemy is the Mochtroid. Mochtroids are failed Metroid clones which previously had only appeared in Super Metroid. They are distinguishable from Metroids as they have fewer nuclei, are far easier to kill, have an all around more sickly look (they are not as spherical or well developed as a true Metroid) and have trouble latching onto their victims (you can walk out of them, whereas to unlatch a Metroid you must use a bomb).
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General, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Metroid
Metroid (1986)
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Before being changed to Metroid, the game was going to be named Space Hunter. Also, Space Hunter was used as Samus' title instead of Bounty Hunter in the original game manual. There wasn't enough time left in development to change the occupation, so Space Hunter was left in the original Instruction Manual.
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Development, Early Idea
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Franchise: Metroid
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Attachment According to Hiroji Kiyotake, the Metroid's home planet, SR388, was named after a popular Yamaha SR 400 Series Motorcycle engine.

"...while it was called 400cc, you didn't have any choice but 388cc, but it was written like that for the time being, and that's how it came out!"
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Development, Inspiration
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Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
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The game broke 7 world records in less than one month of its release.
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General, Real Life
person Funland47 calendar_month October 9, 2013
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Action 52
Action 52 (1991)
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In Cheetahmen, each character has its own introductory cutscene. However, the cutscene for Apollo appears to have no text accompanied with the obligatory image. This is because Active forgot to put the alphabet characters next to the image tiles in the ROM. The unused text can be found in a memory viewer during the cutscene and Levels 5 and 6 of Cheetahmen, and reads:

"APOLLO IS THE MASTER OF THE CROSSBOW. USE THE CROSSBOW TO DEFEAT THE ENEMIES ON THE LAST TWO LEVELS AND GET DR. MORBIS"
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Bundled/Pack-In Game, Unused Content, Unused Text
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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (2005)
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Attachment Munchlax and Bonsly, Generation IV Pokémon, make an appearance in Pokémon XD, despite it being a Generation III game.
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General
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Franchise: Metroid
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In an interview, Metroid character designer Hiroji Kiyotake said that the name "Metroid" came from combining the words "android" and "metro subway."

"There was one more staff member, and the two of us decided on it. We attached 'android' to the "metro subway" and that's how we got 'Metroid'."
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Development, General, Real Life
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Muteki-Ou Tri-Zenon
Muteki-Ou Tri-Zenon (2001)
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For some reason, there is an unused list of all the playable skaters in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 in the game's code.
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Unused Content, Unused Text
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Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade (2013)
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Attachment One of Toyosatomimi no Miko's palettes in the game resembles Sanae Kochiya, a boss/playable character debuting in Mountain of Faith. Another one of Miko's palettes also resembles Neku Sakuraba, a character from the game The World Ends With You
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Franchise: Touhou Project
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The four fighting games of the Touhou Project are co-developed by doujin circle Twilight Frontier/Tasogare Frontier, who have also developed several fangames for Touhou Project.
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General, Real Life
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Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing (2001)
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There are numerous unused items in the game's code, all of which can be accessed with cheats. These include:
• A blue fish, possibly used to test the fishing function.
• DUMMY, a glitch item appearing as a white triangle with Japanese text on it reading "ダミー", which translates to "DUMMY", hence the name. Once in an Igloo, you obtain the item in a similar way to other furniture. The animal might want to play a game where he or she will ask you to pick two cards. One card you have to buy something and one card you will get a free prize. The prize card may sometimes be a DUMMY card.
• A glowing yellow box that moves back and forth, can push the player around (sometimes making them float), and can modify the spread of Paper Airplanes.
• A tool labeled "Sickle", which makes the player function as if they had nothing in their hands. Strangely, it appears as a toolbox when dropped, a feature that only appeared in Wild World and New Leaf.
• An "Unknown Item" that appears in the player's inventory as a box with a question mark, and appears in homes as a clone of the DUMMY item.
• Paper Airplanes, which, if you place on the ground, walk off screen, and come back, will duplicate itself. Pressing the A button while on top of the paper airplane will make it disappear visibly, but will still exist in the system's memory. Letting the airplane multiply too much can crash the game.
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Debug, General, Glitch, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items
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Injustice: Gods Among Us
Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013)
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Attachment Deathstroke's pose when activating his super-move is based on the cover of New 52 Deathstroke #1.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 (2004)
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Attachment The faces of the characters in Half Life 2 are actually based on real life people. Eli's face is based on a beggar Valve found on the street.
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Development, Inspiration
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Diablo
Diablo (1996)
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Character Classes were late additions to the game. Originally, there was only a single class, represented by the warrior's model. Players could distribute their experience points between their stats to make the character to their liking.
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Development, Early Idea
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
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The PSG-1 semi automatic sniper is labeled as the "PSG-1" only in the PS2 Version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; all other versions label it .308 Sniper
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Console Difference, Version Difference
person Psychospacecow calendar_month October 7, 2013
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