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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
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Attachment At the main menu screen, the mounted head of Banjo and the Kazooie umbrella weren't just references to the characters from the Banjo-Kazooie series, but statements made by the developers about their rivalry between the development teams at Rare. The developers would see each other's work and become jealous over the progress that they'd seen.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 4, 2013
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Platform: Xbox 360
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Attachment The most expensive Xbox 360 Kinect sensor peripheral was inspired by pop singer Kylie Minogue and features over 6000 Swarovski crystals and worth $1,242 USD. Designed by PlayBling, it was given out as a prize as part of a promotion by Microsoft and Dance Central in celebration of Kylie Minogue's upcoming European tour.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 4, 2013
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Bayonetta
Bayonetta (2009)
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Attachment The weapon Shuraba was intended to have an animation where the sword's pulsing heart would show on the hilt of the sword when the weapon was fully charged. During development, the developers forgot to put the animation on the weapon, so the animation does not appear in the game, but the code still exists.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)
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A large number of unused items in the game's code suggests that the ninja characters were originally planned to appear in the game. These include an animality animation for Ermac, a friendship animation for Classic Sub-Zero, unused win text for Scorpion, and a debug menu with references to Sub-Zero and Smoke.
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Debug, Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Dazz calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Pinball Challenge Deluxe
Pinball Challenge Deluxe (2002)
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The game fails to save any data once turned off, even though a save feature was coded into the game. According to Stewart Gilray, director of development at the time of the game's release, hardware issues stopped this feature from working.

"We created the game to allow saves etc, but for some reason, I'm guessing budgetary, Ubisoft at the last minute decided to NOT manufacture the game with EEPROM save memory."

Stewart Gilray also went on to state that saving the game does work when using a flash cart or playing the game through emulation, and that he would "encourage people that play it to play it on a backup cart just so to allow saving."
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Development, General, Glitch, Mistake, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Dazz calendar_month September 2, 2013
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
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Attachment In the DOS version of the game, there are hidden credits in the Dam level to two people named Dean and Mike, accessed only by using cheats. These people are Mike Smith and Dean Grifiths, graphics artists who worked on the DOS port.
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Console Difference, Debug, Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Credit, Version Difference
person DeerBoarDude calendar_month September 2, 2013
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)
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The game was based on the 1967 science-fiction short story of the same name. Harlan Ellison, the short story's author, also worked on this game. Despite not being a fan of computer games and not owning a personal computer at the time, he co-authored the expanded storyline and wrote much of the game's dialogue, all on a mechanical typewriter, provided artwork of himself used for a mousepad within the game, and voiced "AM" the supercomputer.
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Adaptation, Development, General, Real Life
person pAroxizm calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic 3D Blast (1997)
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The Saturn version was ported in only two months, and was released on the same day as the Genesis version in North America to make up for the cancellation of Sonic X-treme.
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Development, General, Real Life
person SonicManEXE calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Warlocked
Warlocked (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Wizards (Game)
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Attachment There was a sequel planned for the game to be released on the Game Boy Advance titled Wizards. However, the game was continually postponed until it was dropped.
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Cancelled Release, Development
person ClaudX calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red Version (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Blue Version (Game)
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After Shigeru Miyamoto became Satoshi Tajiri's mentor, Satoshi gave thanks to him by making the default rival name 'Shigeru'. Satoshi made himself the default name for the protagonist. This can be found in the Japanese Generation I Pokemon games.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Funland47 calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Franchise: Devil May Cry
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Attachment Dante's name comes from Dante Alighieri, who was a great Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, Divine Comedy, is often referenced or used as a background throughout the Devil May Cry series. While his brother's name comes from Publius Vergilius Maro, who was a classical Roman poet. Dante Alighieri made Virgil his guide through Hell and Purgatory in his Divine Comedy.
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Development, Inspiration
person Funland47 calendar_month September 1, 2013
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The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us Part I (2022)
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An enemy which had been scrapped from the final game was an infected elephant which had tendrils of fungus extending from its legs and blooming mushrooms on its head. An encounter with the creature would have Joel, the game's protagonist, scrambling away from it.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 1, 2013
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The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us Part I (2022)
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Before deciding on the fungal infected enemies, early designs of the zombie-like creatures looked like bald, fanged beasts with stringy fungus growing off their back.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Journey to Silius
Journey to Silius (1990)
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Attachment Journey to Silius was originally a game based on the 1984 film The Terminator, however the deal had fell through resulting in the story and graphics being altered. It was intended to be released in 1989, the same year as Sunsoft's game based on the Batman film was to be released.
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Development, Early Idea
person SonicManEXE calendar_month September 1, 2013
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Pokémon Black Version
Pokémon Black Version (2010)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon White Version (Game)
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The idea of having two rivals instead of one came from early concepts for the Pokemon series that went unused until Black & White.
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Development, Inspiration
person Funland47 calendar_month August 31, 2013
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000)
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Attachment The location of the level "Hangar" is based on Neversoft president Joel Jewett. Jewett had a mullet hairstyle during the game's development, and he is from Great Falls, Montana. Because of this, the level's location is jokingly named "Mullet Falls, Montana".
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person mrlenny94 calendar_month August 30, 2013
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Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
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Originally, Conner was going to have a Chain Blade, which, according to concept art, was going to act as a long-ranged hidden blade. The weapon was not used as the teams "felt it to be heading down too much of a fantasy route." The chain blade was replaced with the real life Sheng Biao/Rope Dart.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Unused Content, Unused Items
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 30, 2013
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F-Zero X
F-Zero X (1998)
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F-Zero X was the first racing game to run at 60 frames per second. To achieve this however, the polygon counts of the vehicles and the detail of the tracks had to be limited.
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Development, General
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 30, 2013
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Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
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Connor was originally going to be able to scalp his opponents, possibly similar to how he skinned animals he caught. This was removed when they found out that the Mohawks rarely (if ever) did this, coupled with the fact that the mechanic was too brutal for Connor's character and the game.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month August 30, 2013
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)
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Attachment The in-game book "The Egg of Time" depicts a Dwarven figure in an image inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
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Development, Inspiration
person Tarhiel calendar_month August 30, 2013
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