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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)
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Attachment The character portraits were copied from famous films and icons.
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds (2009)
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During development, Rovio got the idea to make the enemies pigs because of the Swine Flu epidemic. The pig's sickly green color is a reference to this.
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Development, Inspiration
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)
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The art style of Yoshi's Island is said to be a result of Shigeru Miyamoto rebelling against Nintendo's internal evaluation committee. The committee wanted the game to feature pre-rendered visuals like Donkey Kong Country, but Miyamoto disagreed. Instead, Miyamoto reworked the original art assets so they looked as if they'd been drawn with crayons.
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Company: Capcom
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The word "Capcom" was created from taking the first 3 letters from each word in "Capsule Computers" (from the subsidiary Japan Capsule Computer Co).
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Company: Sega
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The word "SEGA" was created by taking the first two letters from each word in "Service Games", SEGA's original name.
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Franchise: The Legend of Zelda
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Princess Zelda was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

When asked about the name, Miyamoto said, "Zelda was the name of the wife of the famous novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald. She was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts, and I liked the sound of her name. So I took the liberty of using her name for the very first Zelda title."
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person Petie calendar_month February 24, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
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Throughout Old Snake's character development, Hideo Kojima and his crew did extensive research to find out which mustache would work best for Old Snake. They settled for the mustache of Lee Van Cleef from the 1966 film "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Additionally, ever since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the team played around with the idea of Snake's facial hair growing in real time.
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Company: Nintendo
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HAL Laboratory, Inc. (a second-party developer known for creating Nintendo's Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series) named themselves "HAL" because each letter in "HAL" is one place ahead of each letter in "IBM", as if to say HAL were one step ahead of their competition.
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Super Metroid
Super Metroid (1994)
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Samus Aran's appearance in Super Metroid was based on the actress Kim Basinger.
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Character Design, Development, Inspiration, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 24, 2013
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L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (2011)
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Many of the cases in the game are inspired by real-life crimes that occurred in L.A. around 1947.
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Development, Inspiration
person Dazz calendar_month February 22, 2013
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L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire (2011)
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Attachment To create a realistic post-war Los Angeles, the developers of the game studied photographs taken from a biplane by Robert Spence in the 1920s.
The developers used the photographs to create traffic patterns and public transport routes in the game, as well as the location and condition of buildings
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person Dazz calendar_month February 22, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo DS
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Attachment The white Nintendo DS Lite bears a striking resemblance to the Zelda Game & Watch released by Nintendo in 1989.
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person Dazz calendar_month February 13, 2013
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