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Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV
Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV (2002)
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Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV has secret codes and maps that went undiscovered until 20 years after its release due to a glitch making them inaccessible. The codes include the "daScore" code, which shows a counter of how many ghosts you've zapped, and the "mirage" code, which expands the game map infinitely and allows access to the secret maps. On one of these maps, you can acquire a pair of glasses as an unused item, and another map containing an oasis in the Middle of Nowhere that also has a sign simply reading Eustace's catchphrase, "STUPID DOG!". However, if you use the glasses to read the sign, it will instead say "Wee...amazing! You found it! GOOD DOG!"
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Bonus Content, Cheat, Easter Egg, Glitch, Hidden Message, Inaccessible Area, Mistake, Removed Feature, Secret, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items, Unused Text
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Judgment
Judgment (2018)
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Attachment In the game files exists a beta version of protagonist Takayuki Yagami's design. This design was presumably an alternate plan in case the licensing agreement with Takura Kimura, the actor whose face inspired Yagami's design, runs out, or he gets involved in any kind of controversy.
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Character Design, Development, Early Idea, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Kirby Inhales Jotaro calendar_month September 17, 2023
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JumpStart Baby
JumpStart Baby (1998)
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Attachment Inside the files of the 1998 version of JumpStart Baby is a military-themed mission select graphic titled "DEFCON 4: THE ALISA FILES". The origin of this file and how it ended up in a game like JumpStart Baby is unknown.
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Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 16, 2023
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amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits
amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits (2015)
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amiibo Tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits contains two unused ROMs in its code: Mario Bros. for NES and Super Mario All-Stars for SNES. Notably, Super Mario All-Stars never had a Wii U Virtual Console release. (though it was playable on the console through the Wii disc, Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition)
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Removed Feature, Unreleased Content, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 15, 2023
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Disney's DuckTales
Disney's DuckTales (1989)
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The reason Scrooge McDuck wears his red cloak from the Carl Barks comics (which would later be used in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) instead of the blue cloak from the original DuckTales TV series is because the blue cloak didn't stand out enough alongside blue and black level backgrounds.
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Character Design, Removed Feature, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 15, 2023
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Equinox
Equinox (1993)
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Alan Smithee, a now-discontinued pseudonym used by the Screenwriter's Guild of America for film staff who want to disown a project, has seen use in the gaming industry - the earliest documented use of the name in a video game can be found for the director of Equinox for SNES. The game's real director, John Pickford, explained in 2023 that he went credited as Alan Smithee because he was "pissed" about the large volume of content removed from the final game.
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Credits, Development, General, Hidden Credit, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 11, 2023
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Chicken Run
Chicken Run (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Chicken Run (Game)
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Hidden Message, Secret, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 11, 2023
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Q*bert
Q*bert (1982)
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Q*Bert was originally able to shoot projectiles out of his nose, but this was scrapped in the final game. Co-creator Jeff Lee has said that, while he's unsure if this change enhanced the gameplay or not, he likes how the lack of offensive capabilities gives the character the personality of a "sympathetic plucky noser" who survives "by his wits and dexterity", particularly with the hindsight of how violent video games would become in the decades since.
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General, Real Life, Suggested, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 11, 2023
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Hitman 2
Hitman 2 (2018)
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An unused outfit for a "High-Profile DJ" can be found in the files for the Mumbai mission "Chasing a Ghost". It's speculated that a DJ may have been a part of Dawood Rangan's film shoot, but was cut from the final game for unknown reasons.

Interestingly, the outfit also has unique dialogue attached to it (i.e. when civilians go past 47 and comment on his clothes), which were later reincorporated for Berlin's DJ Disguise in Hitman 3.
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Unused Audio, Unused Character, Unused Content
person Dribbleondo calendar_month September 10, 2023
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$!
The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$! (1993)
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Attachment In the SNES version of The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$!, there is an unused sprite of the character George Liquor in his appearance as the Sheriff of Dodge City from the episode "Robin Höek". Around the time the game was being made, show creator John Kricfalusi was fired from Nickelodeon for inserting inappropriate content and missing deadlines while producing episodes, and was allowed to retain the rights to the George Liquor character, who he would continue to feature in cartoons for the rest of his career, meaning that he could not be used in Ren & Stimpy media from that point onward. Liquor would still appear in the NES version of Buckeroo$! however.
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Cameo, Unused Character, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 9, 2023
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Sonic Mars
Sonic Mars (TBA)
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Sonic Mars was a concept game that was cancelled for unknown reasons (though it likely had something to do with the limitations and ultimate failure of the Sega 32X), before eventually being reworked into what eventually became Sonic X-treme.

In 2007, two different scripts were leaked for the cancelled game. The first, written by Michael Kosaka, focused on the 3D graphics and notably included elements from the 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog television series (referred to by fans as "Sonic SatAM"), which was airing at the time. The second, written by Don Goddard, focused more on how the game combined 3D graphics with 2D sprites, and dropped the SatAM elements.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Unused Content
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 10, 2023
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Eek! The Cat
Eek! The Cat (1994)
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Attachment Eek! the Cat has been noted for having an unusually dark color palette that makes the graphics hard to read. This is not the result of a faulty brightness register, but simply how the game's palettes are stored in the code. Marketing materials for the game show screenshots that are much brighter in palette and closer to both the game's original form as Sleepwalker and its cartoon source material, meaning that the palette error was likely a mistake made late in the game's development.
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Development, Glitch, Mistake, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
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ROM hack that brightens up the game's color palette:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6336/

Eek! the Cat marketing materials:
https://twitter.com/VGArtAndTidbits/status/1581404327679123456
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (2005)
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Attachment Stranger was originally intended to have a type of live ammo from critters known as Surge Bugs, but they were dropped for unknown reasons.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Items
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month September 9, 2023
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The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mickey Mouse IV: Mahou no Labyrinth (Game), Garfield Labyrinth (Game)
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Attachment The game's data contains sprites depicting Kid Klown and Princess Honey from Kid Klown in Night Mayor World, with them filling the roles of the protagonist and damsel in distress, respectively. This indicates that the game was originally devised as a Kid Klown title before being retooled around the Mickey Mouse, Garfield, and Ghostbusters franchises (depending on the region) midway through development. Ironically, Kid Klown in Night Mayor World was itself a retooled English localization of a Mickey Mouse game.
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Development, Early Idea, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Character, Unused Graphic
person VinchVolt calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (1988)
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Attachment The first NES rendition of Wheel of Fortune contains unused graphics of the Coca-Cola logo. This is because Coca-Cola owned Merv Griffin Enterprises, the company that created Wheel of Fortune, but sold the studio to Columbia Pictures during development of the game.
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Credits, Real Life, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Bubsy 3D
Bubsy 3D (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Coconuts Japan Entertaiment (Company)
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Attachment Bubsy 3D contains an unused copyright screen for a Japanese release, licensed to Coconuts Japan.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Hidden Credit, Regional Difference, Unused Graphic
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Super Bubsy
Super Bubsy (1995)
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There exists 27 loading screen messages in the code of Super Bubsy, but only 12 are known to be used in-game.
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Console Difference, Unused Code, Unused Content, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (2012)
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Attachment Inside the files of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a model of Ed Euromaus, the mascot of the Europa-Park theme park in Germany. When development studio Black Forest Games was asked why the file was in the game, they responded "We were young and needed the money."
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Cameo, Unused Character, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy (Game), Xbox (Platform)
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Attachment The design for the Xbox BIOS was pitched by freelance graphic design artist Seton Kim. Although he was fired from the job for the imagery of "Hello Kitty trapped in an alien pod" in a mock up of a memory card screen featuring the PlayStation games Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy and Metal Gear Solid, the final BIOS would be very close to his designs.
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Credits, Development, Similarities, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (2006)
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Attachment Doctor was originally meant to wear overalls. His early design was shared by the official Super Monkey Ball YouTube account in 2023.
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Unreleased Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 8, 2023
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