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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Echoes from the Past

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Echoes from the Past (1994)

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The game features a variety of crewman that are original characters not featured on the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation. These characters were named after and modeled in the likeness of the developers of the game. One character, Ed Semrad, is actually based on the Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine editor of the same name.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)

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Metal Gear Rising was originally developed as an open world game set in the time period between Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4. Hampered by their own preconceptions about what a Metal Gear game should be like, and given little direction by Hideo Kojima, the team assigned to the project was struggling to make a coherent game due to the different directions the developers thought they should take. Eventually, Kojima asked Platinum Games to develop the game. Platinum became the game's developer, but the game's cutscenes, story, and setting were still heavily supervised by Kojima Productions.

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Metro: Last Light

Metro: Last Light (2013)

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During the development of Metro: Last Light, the development team was forced to work without power, heat, or even proper furniture at times.

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Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen (1993)

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Yasumi Matsuno was driven to make Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, as he wanted to create a game that dealt with war and its effects in a realistic way by the 1990s civil war in Yugoslavia, which lasted for four years and introduced the term "ethnic cleansing" to the world.

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Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain (2010)

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In the "Covered Market" chapter, Norman Jayden's actor, Leon Ockenden, actually kicked over one of the motion capture cameras. This is only visible when failing to jump over some boxes in the chase scene.

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Platform: PlayStation 2

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In the year 2000, 4,000 PS2s had been bought in the US and shipped out to Iraq. Some US military experts believed that several PS2s could be linked together to form a "supercomputer", which could control a missile or an unmanned aircraft, and that Saddam's regime was doing just that with these consoles. This was before military intervention had occurred in Iraq, so it was not members of the US Army. This large purchase also exacerbated the shortage of Playstation 2s in America for the Christmas period of 2000.

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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999)

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In Summer Forest, the name Bryan can be seen on some of the walls, and in Winter Tundra, the name Brenda can be seen. Bryan and Brenda are the names of Spyro animator and character designer Oliver Wade's children.

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Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 (2007)

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The Ap-Sap, a sapper replacement for the Spy, is a reference to Wheatley, a main character in Portal 2, even having the same voice actor, Steven Merchant, voice the weapons sound files.

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Itoi has said that the difficulty of Mt. Itoi was due to his attitude towards the end of development. During the fine tuning phase of development, when it came to Mt. Itoi, he had enough.

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Collection: MediEvil

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Sir Daniel Fortesque's voice was originally performed by the game's lead designer, Jason Wilson, in MediEvil, after the developers auditioned several actors but could not find anyone they were happy with. In the end, Wilson stepped in to do the voice himself, allegedly reading the lines through gritted teeth while wearing a bucket on his head to get the right effect.

In MediEvil 2, Fortesque was played by British voice actor Marc Silk, with Jason Wilson reprising the role in the PSP reimagining MediEvil: Resurrection. French actor Stephane Cornicard portrayed Dan in his appearance in Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, who Wilson criticized as sounding "a little too much like the Swedish Chef for my liking".

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Gone Home

Gone Home (2013)

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The Fullbright Company built a prototype of the game in Frictional Games' HPL2 engine, and asked if they could use the engine in the final game. They were turned down as a matter of policy, and encouraged to use the Unity engine instead, which the game was eventually completed in.

After playing the final version, and being informed of its history, Thomas Grip of Frictional Games later asked to see the prototype, stating that he had "Mail Steve about Amnesia: Gone Home" written on his todo list for six months.

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Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII (1999)

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In April 2000, José Rabadán, a teenager from Murcia (Spain) killed both of his parents and his sister with a katana. The media accused Final Fantasy VIII of inducing Jos to do it, with one magazine stating, "he was just imitating his hero, Squall" who, in a moment of the story thinks that he must kill Spoiler: someone close to him: Rinoa.

However, José Rabadán hadn't finished the game, nor even reached the point in which this event occurs, proving the article to be jumping to conclusions. José was arrested and spent eight years in jail. He has since been known by the nickname of "El asesino de la Katana" (The Katana Killer).

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Path of Exile

Path of Exile (2013)

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The unique Decimation Bow "Infractem" is a reference to Minecraft, created by Minecraft creator Notch. The name "Infractem" is an anagram of Minecraft, and both his name, Notch, and his real name, Markus, are including in the flavor text;

Mark us with mercy, then press on with care,
Execute us steadily, notch away at our despair.

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Folklore

Folklore (2007)

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The sea-side town of Doolin is actually a real town in Ireland. It is a popular tourist destination for its traditional Irish music.

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Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)

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The game was never released in South Korea due to the country's fear of it straining the already tense situation between North and South Korea. This was due to the game's depiction of a war between the two countries.

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Franchise: Pokémon

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The whole franchise was banned in Saudi Arabia due to claims of it encouraging kids to gambling and Zionism. Despite the ban, the games are still being sold normally.

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Pokémon X

Pokémon X (2013)

subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Y (Game)

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If the player visits a Pokemon Center on their birthday, they will receive a special message wishing them a happy birthday.

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Space Invaders

Space Invaders (1978)

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Tomohiro Nishikado, the game's creator, wasn't too good at playing video games and was only able to balance the game based on other people's feedback. He admitted that he had trouble making it past the first level and that he would've made the game a lot easier had he balanced it only on his own experiences.

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One Piece: Unlimited World RED

One Piece: Unlimited World RED (2013)

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Patrick Redfield, Pato, and Yadoya were all personally designed by One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda.

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Heart of the Alien: Out of this World Parts I and II

Heart of the Alien: Out of this World Parts I and II (1994)

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Eric Chahi does not think highly of Heart of the Alien. He has gone on to say that he hopes that it "has been released only on Sega CD."

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