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Sonic Labyrinth
Sonic Labyrinth (1995)
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In 2023, there was a brief debate regarding the game's canonicity to the overall Sonic franchise. Comic writer Ian Flynn initially stated that the game was non-canon, despite the fact that Sonic acknowledged the game's events in a Sonic Channel interview. However, this would later be revealed to be due to a change in the game's canonicity after he had been told it was non-canon. Flynn later firmly stated that the game had resumed being a canon entry in the series.
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General, Mistake, Real Life
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage
Security Breach: Fury's Rage (2021)
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage is a parody of arcade beat 'em up games, specifically Final Fight and Streets of Rage. This was the last game Scott Cawthon made before retiring from game development, which was only made to apologize to fans for delaying the next mainline game in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. Cawthon even states in the opening cutscene for the game:

"No. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna kill me. The fanbase. When they find out that I have to delay the game again. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna burn my house down. They're gonna- they're gonna- they're gonna tar and feather me. What am I gonna do? I know. I'll make a game for them. A game where I can help them. A game where I fight with them. That's it. Then I can be- then I can be the hero. Then they won't kill me. And what will I call the game? Hmm, something creative."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage Opening cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NWgC8Z3SU

Final Fight gameplay for comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymIQ1FywrA
Freddy in Space 2
Freddy in Space 2 (2019)
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For YouTube channel The Game Theorists' St. Jude Charity Livestream, the game Freddy in Space 2 was created. Scott Cawthon added a points counter to the game and pledged to donate money based on how many points were earned, up to a maximum of $500,000. Cawthon still donated the full $500,000 to the charity even though MatPat, with the aid of fellow YouTubers Dawko and Markiplier, would not be able to reach the goal in time before they needed to wrap up the stream.
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Charity, General, Livestreaming, Real Life, Social Media
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (2002)
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Despite the fact that Tom Kenny reprises his role as SpongeBob and Gary in this game, he does not reprise his role as the French Narrator from the show. This is unusual not only because the French Narrator has a prominent role in this game, but because the character sounds completely different to how he sounds in the show.
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Cameo, Credits, Development, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
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Sonic's Schoolhouse
Sonic's Schoolhouse (1996)
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Attachment According to writer and designer Britton Jackson, Sonic's Schoolhouse started development as an original edutainment title called "Answer Hunt", that was fully developed by BAP Interactive and had no association with Sonic. This changed when BAP's production partner, Motion Picture Corporation of America, approached Sega, who expressed interest in repackaging the game as a Sonic product.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Popgoes Evergreen
Popgoes Evergreen (TBA)
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On July 5, 2023, POPGOES Evergreen was featured on a Times Square billboard via the billboard advertising service PixelStar. The video used was a combined version of the teasers for False Balloon Boy and False Freddy, two of the unique animatronics being featured in the game.
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Advertisement/Commercial, General, Real Life, Teaser
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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In an interview with IGN, the game's director Shiro Mouri said that Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto was, at first, not a fan of Elephant Mario as he believed it "did not look like a Mario character." Miyamoto also believed the physics for the power-up wasn't realistic to an actual elephant. The popularity with fans after its reveal was what eventually changed Miyamoto's mind.
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Complaint, Development, General, Real Life
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Franchise: Mario
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo (Company)
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Lexibook, a company infamous for low-quality unlicensed NES-based consoles (or "Famiclones") featuring plagiarized content from a variety of sources including Nintendo games, entered an official agreement with Nintendo in 2020 to license various Nintendo IPs including Animal Crossing, The Legend of Zelda, and Mario.
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General, Merchandise, Plagiarism, Real Life
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Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker (1993)
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Though Sleepwalker was released in collaboration with Comic Relief, it was not originally intended as a tie-in with the charity. Rather, when Comic Relief approached Ocean about making a charity game, it was too close to the date of the Red Nose Day telethon for a quality game to be made in time. Comic Relief were instead given a selection from Ocean's development lineup to choose from, and decided on Sleepwalker due to its comedic animations and plot. Comic Relief contributed the design for the bonus stages and allowed them to get British comedian and Comic Relief co-founder Lenny Henry as the voice of Ralph the Dog.
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Charity, Development, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
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Beanotown Racing
Beanotown Racing (2009)
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Attachment Beanotown Racing was released in Russia under the title Бинотаун: Прикольные гонки (Beanotown: Cool Racing) with localized menus, despite the fact that the Beano and Dandy comics were never localized into non-English languages.
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General, Real Life, Regional Difference
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Carmageddon
Carmageddon (1997)
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Attachment Carmageddon was the subject of a major backlash from the British tabloid press for its violent content, with one issue of The Daily Mail running a large headline reading "BAN DEATH GAME NOW: POPE". If one was to read the smaller text below the headline, they would find out that the "Pope" in question was Greg Pope, Member of Parliament for Hyndburn, Lancs (1992 to 2010), and not Pope John Paul II as the headline would imply.
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Censorship, Complaint, General, Magazine, Real Life
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Zoo Tycoon 2
Zoo Tycoon 2 (2004)
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Attachment Even though the horns of female Bongos are shorter than male Bongos in real life, both genders' horns are the same size in the game's African Adventure expansion.
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Fact Animal page on the Bongo:
https://factanimal.com/bongo/

Footage of the Bongo in Zoo Tycoon 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AvLbWxXb8
Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever (2021)
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The main female character, Mallory, shares her name with her voice actress, Mallory Echelmeyer.
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General, Real Life
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Five Nights at Candy's
Five Nights at Candy's (TBA)
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According to Emil Macko, the remastered version of Five Nights at Candy's took the shortest amount of time to make among the original FNaC trilogy games, being made in a little under a month.
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Development, General, Real Life
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Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (2000)
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The name of Straynap's ice cream shop, 13 Ice, is a reference to the real-life ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins, who are not only famous for their "31 flavors" slogan, but are also known as "31 Ice Cream" in Japan.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
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Japanese Level Up article:
https://japaneselevelup.com/nobody-japan-knows-baskin-robbins-despite-1000-stores/

Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream soundtrack with store name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHTTZ5-zGl8
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment The inclusion of Hugh Neutron in the game as DLC, particularly instead of his son and series main protagonist Jimmy Neutron, was a response to an ironic internet campaign to get the character in the game known as "Hugh Nation", led by Hugh voice actor Mark DeCarlo and YouTubers The Superverse and Uncle Al, following Hugh trending on Twitter due to memes related to the game's reveal. When Hugh performs his strafe taunt in the game, he can say the voice lines "Hello internet!", "Thank you internet!" and "Hugh Nation!", referencing this push. The showcase for Hugh's moveset, which was aired at EVO 2022, mentions Hugh being included as a "thank you" to the devoted Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl community.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Meme, Real Life, Reference, Update Difference
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder marks the first game to not feature performances from long-time voice actor Charles Martinet, who voiced Mario and Luigi (and Wario and Waluigi in other games in the series) since 1990.

Nintendo announced that Martinet would retire from portraying the Mario Bros. permanently and become a "Mario Ambassador", nearly two months before the game's release.
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General, Real Life
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Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country (1994)
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Attachment In an interview, Steve Mayles recalled that during the development of Donkey Kong Country, "Rareware had the most Silicon Graphics machines in the world next to Boeing" with Kev Bayliss adding "I seem to remember we actually received a phone call from the Ministry of Defence asking why we'd got all of this powerful hardware and what were we actually doing with it".
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Page 406 of SNES/Super Famicom: A visual compendium by Bitmap Books. ISBN 978-0-9956586-2-2
Star Fox
Star Fox (1993)
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Star Fox Composer Hajime Hirasawa left Nintendo shortly after the game released and six years later founded Faith Co. Ltd, the company that developed the world's first downloadable ringtones.
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Credits, General, Music, Real Life, Technology
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Faith Co. Ltd company history:
https://www.faith-inc.com/corporate/faith/history/index.html

Faith Co. Ltd press release from 2007 verifying Hirasawa was still president:
https://www.faith-inc.com/press/doc/20070820desperado_nfrm.html

MobyGames listing:
https://www.mobygames.com/person/82535/hajime-hirasawa/

Multiple sources included above as no single valid English sources are available to correlate the founder of Faith Co. Ltd. as being the same man who composed Star Fox for SNES.
Dimahoo
Dimahoo (2000)
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In an 2000 interview with the game's composer Atsuhiro Motoyama published in the Great Mahō Daisakusen OST liner notes, he stated he had a great deal of personal affection for the first game in the Mahō Daisakusen series since he wrote the music for it. Before he started to compose Dimahoo, he chose to go back and listen to the old songs from Sorcer Striker for reference.

In Sorcer Striker, he stated that the approach he took to the songs was "melodious and colorful", but for Dimahoo he decided to try something else, not over-emphasizing the melodies and instead attempting to evoke a sense of atmosphere. In his mind, by contrasting these two approaches he was trying to explore the theme of what background music is supposed to be:

"When a video game composer writes melodic, busy pieces with tons of notes, and lots of progressive, complex chord structures, those songs make a good impression on the listener as songs, and they can also be quite effective in making the stages seem more exciting… but if you make a single misstep in this approach, it's very easy for the BGM to stand out too much (of course, if you can pull it off, the results can be spectacular). For Dimahoo I tried to do "both" (melody and atmosphere)… but how do you think it turned out?"

He also stated that he was not only plagued with technical difficulties with his sound equipment, but his air conditioner also broke. This made his working experience worse for a few days as Motoyama was "extremely sensitive to the heat":

"The sun would gradually heat the room up by midday, and on top of that, there was heat from the three computers and a rack full of music modules… I wasn't going to get through this with some dinky little table fan! The repair guy couldn't come for three days, and during that time I filled a bucket with ice water and put my feet inside while I worked (yes, I really did this). Damn! Now I can't use the damper pedal on my keyboard!"

He also thanked composer Manabu Namiki for assisting him with assembling the game's music data, saying he was "very indebted" to him. The way Namiki handled the music data for Dimahoo was different compared to the way he normally did it. Although he endeavored to keep his original data clean and simple to understand, it ended up being "idiosyncratic and confusing", and Namiki ended up spending many extra overtime hours dealing with it. So, he expressed his gratitude towards him by thanking him for cleaning all that up.
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