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Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot (1996)
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Attachment An early concept for Crash Bandicoot, back when he was originally known as Willy the Wombat, was to have the Cortex Vortex be a surplus of television sets used to brainwash the evolved animals into doing the bidding of Dr. Cortex. After being subjected to the Vortex's media barrage for 7 days and nights, Willy would've been given a tendency to speak and act in a series of bizarre nonsequiters that referenced classic literature, pop culture, or from radio, TV or movies. Some examples would've included "Loose lips, sink ships!", "But brushing with Best Toothpaste gives white, white, white teeth!", and "Don't fire boys, until you see the whites of their eyes!" His demeanor was similar to other hyperactive pop-culture referencing comedy characters from the late 80s and 90s, where he could be quoting from Rambo one moment before switching to Fred Astaire, to John Wayne, and then to Fred Flintstone.
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Gex
Gex (1994)
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Attachment The game's instruction manual features an extensive backstory for Gex, who lived in Maui with his mother and siblings, whilst his father was working at NASA. Due to an incident involving a band-aid floating in a fuel tank, Gex's father was killed, causing Gex to become a shut-in, sitting and watching TV all day.

After moving to California and his mother selling the TV away, Gex runs away from home and sleeps in the garage of a local punk he befriends. At his deteriorated state, Gex imagines an invisible friend known as "The Mayor." With another death in the family, this time being Gex's Uncle Charlie who was the original model for the Izod shirt logo, this leaves Gex's family with an inherited fortune of 20 billion dollars.

With his share of the money, Gex leaves his family behind, returns to Maui, and purchases a mansion with the largest TV set in the world and enough food to last him for decades, so that he'll never have to leave the television again.
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Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Conker: Live & Reloaded (Game)
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Attachment A promotional e-mail from Conker the Squirrel in 2004 to promote the release of Conker: Live & Reloaded has him talking about his career. When talking about his first appearance in 1997’s Diddy Kong Racing, he states:

"Things were different back then, you know, I was different - it goes without saying that you wouldn't catch me hanging out with any of those freaks these days. Last I heard at least one of 'em was in jail, anyway."

On May 18, 2012, a Q&A on the Rare Mini-Scribes answered a question about what their beloved characters do when their not in a new game, to which they responded "Where do the characters go between games? Well, they’re all off having crazy adventures too expensive and asset-heavy to adapt into game form … Except for Bumper the badger, who’s in jail."

On October 6, 2021, Rare's official Twitter account provided another update in response to this piece of trivia being headlined on the Super Mario Wiki, stating that Bumper is currently on parole and is "superficially sorry for all those bad things he did."
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 89 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, a savings deposit slip states that Conker lives at 12 Oak Tree Lane #4, 60329-1677.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 74 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker refers to Rodent as "Private Milquetoast". Whether this is Rodent's actual surname or not, Milquetoast is slang for a meek or timid person, which describes Rodent’s personality.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment On page 32 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker states "I am sooo scared. I just want to say to Berri’s mum…I'm sooo sorry. This was all my idea. This was my project." This is a reference to the 1999 film "The Blair Witch Project".

Also on this page is Conker's last will and testament, which includes giving his collection of Gor books (referencing the novels by John Norman), novelty pint glasses and "squirrely mags" to his friends at the Cock and Plucker. The rest of Conker's possessions are left to Berri, unless she takes up with another weasel.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 28 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker has owned his water wings (which he used up until taking confidence pills in order to swim in the Sloprano chapter of the game) since a hot tub party that Berri had once.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 17 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker's tab at the Cock & Plucker pub in the opening cutscene has the following information:

• The Cock and Plucker is addressed at 200 Squirrel Tail Road.
• The tab is dated for March 5, 2001. This is the original release date for the game.
• Conker's tab includes 3 Draft Beers, 20 Tequila Shots, 6 Gin & Tonic (with Water crossed out), 5 Whiskey Sours, and 2 Double Scotch, totaling to an amount of $173.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 16 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker's Wanted poster has the following information:
• Conker is 145 centimeters tall
• The Panther King lives at One Spooky Canyon Blvd. Windy
• Conker's bounty is $1000

The $1000 bounty is in reference to having the pay the toll to the Weasel Guards in order to progress to Uga Buga, the sixth chapter of the game. Conker’s mention of the locals not being familiar with zoology also references Conker passing off as an elephant and not a squirrel to the Weasel Guards.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 15 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, the concept of the Panther King being a mythical story apparently comes from a fictitious book called "The Little Book of Fairy Panther King Tales" by Mattias Fisherias.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 15 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker’s military dog tag identifies his rank as Private and the serial number as #842-D-899221-89E. However, in the game he wears a helmet that has two chevrons on it resembling the Corporal rank in the U.S. Army.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day official Nintendo Power Player's Guide (Page 15):
https://archive.org/details/conkersbadfurdaytheofficialnintendoplayersguidearchiveversion/page/n16/mode/1up#page/n14/mode/1up

Conker's Bad Fur Day - Chapter 8: It's War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuveBGIIniM
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 14 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker states that although things didn't work out between him and Jugga, she apparently gave her loincloth to him, which he uses as a sleeping bag.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment According to page 7 of the official Nintendo Power Player's Guide, Conker mentions that Banjo's stuffed head was bought by the owner of the tavern from "some witch". Not only does this reference Gruntilda from the Banjo-Kazooie series, but it also could be referencing the fact that Chris Seavor, the voice of Conker, is also the voice of Gruntilda.
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball (1993)
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Initially, Ian Flynn claimed the events of the game were non-canon. However, he later went back on this, claiming that the game was indeed canon.
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Street Fighter V
Street Fighter V (2016)
subdirectory_arrow_right Street Fighter 6 (Game), Street Fighter (Franchise)
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Attachment When Rashid was unveiled as a playable character in Street Fighter V, his specific nationality was unknown, with players only knowing that he was Middle Eastern. However, in 2022 when the entire playable base game roster and first wave of DLC of Street Fighter 6 was leaked, it revealed a more specific country he was from, with Rashid confirmed as being Saudi Arabian.
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Street Fighter 6 character art leak with Saudi Arabian flag:
https://www.gematsu.com/2022/06/street-fighter-6-artwork-of-22-playable-characters-leaked

Street Fighter Fandom wiki page:
https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Rashid
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted (2019)
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Attachment "The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience" was made by a fake company, Silver Parasol Games, which was originally going to have its own real-life website, but Scott Cawthon decided against it because he did not want to blur the lines between fact and fiction.
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Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment During development of the game, Peppino was stated to be a war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Following the release of the game, this character trait would be retconned by the game's creator McPig, who suggested that he probably merely imagined his participation in conflict.
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Ico
Ico (2001)
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Attachment In the Limited Edition ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Box Set for PS3, an art book titled 'Shinwa wo Tsumugu' is included. It features some interviews with members of Team ICO and among them is Junichi Hosono, who claims Ueda derived Yorda's name from the character of Hilda in the Toei film, "Horus: Prince of the Sun".

This is somewhat corroborated by the movie's presence on Ueda's shelf, which is shown in this same art book.

Hilda's character traits and arc are very different from that of Yorda, but her dynamic between the valiant Horus and the ice devil Grunwald seemed to serve as a heavy inspiration for ICO's narrative.
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Shinwa wo Tsumugu art book - The quote can be found on page 45 of 52 in this PDF, in the section labelled with the number 4. I have attached a picture as well, both in Japanese as there is no official translation:
https://mega.nz/file/RwdjGBJQ#7cI7fMueAwI24tYYjQZI4_LKBHCYPb_aPEqgTWykr9k

Ueda's shelf is on page 37 of 52 and 'Horus' can be seen near where the movies stop and the Xbox titles begin.
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Game)
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Attachment In Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, Alvis's necklace was changed from holding a key to holding a pendant shaped similarly to Pyra and Mythra's core crystal. This alludes to a major plot point in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, where Spoiler:Alvis's true nature is revealed to be Ontos, the third, missing core of the Trinity Processor.
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Xenoblade Chronicles Alvis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JVewD5CsI

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Alvis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssB_44MuAZQ
Franchise: Crash Bandicoot
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Attachment According to a later version of the "Project Wombat" developer bible for Crash Bandicoot (this version was given to a fan by the game's producer David Siller in 2015; an earlier version of it was officially published in 2018 in the book "The Crash Bandicoot Files: How Willy the Wombat Sparked Marsupial Mania"), Dr. Neo Cortex's backstory describes how he and Dr. Nitrus Brio when they were younger destroyed their high school by tampering with the physics department's test nuclear power plant. Afterwards, they traveled the world looking for a new home, but no matter where they went they were ridiculed and ostracized, and it is noted that soon after they left a location, that place was then met with "violent explosions and catastrophes". This culminates in one last account where the pair left the city of Chernobyl, drawing the attention of various international law organizations who connected the dots to their past incidents and soon added Cortex and Brio to the international most-wanted list. Feeling the heat, they finally settled down far away from humanity on the Australian island that he would soon name Cortex Island. This backstory heavily implies that Cortex and Brio were responsible for the real-life 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union.
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Reddit post of developer bible pages:
https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/c9v61m/just_a_reminder_that_canonically_dr_neo_cortex/

Later version of the "Project Wombat" developer bible:
https://imgur.com/a/NwNKi

Video evidence of this same later version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkG8HybBREY
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