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Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2001)
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Munch's Oddysee was originally going to be released for the PlayStation 2, with different level layouts, enemies, cutscenes, and areas, but was scrapped and put on the Xbox.

The idea to move the game to Xbox was based on the development team not only wanting to use a more powerful console, which would allow them to flesh out the world better, but also thinking it would be a better long term plan to publish the games on the console. Microsoft even worked with Oddworld Inhabitants to help make the Xbox better for them to work on it.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person Frazzle calendar_month July 4, 2013
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Loom
Loom (1990)
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Attachment The game is actually an interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. It even features many songs from the ballet.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Music, Reference
person Chronoblazer calendar_month July 4, 2013
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012)
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Attachment During early development, Isabelle didn't have a real name, but was instead referred to as simply "Secretary" (ひしょ, Hisho). In the Japanese final release, her name is Shizu (しずえ), likely as a reference to her breed of dog, a Shih Tzu.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
person Ghost calendar_month July 4, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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Attachment Early screenshots show that buses were originally supposed to appear in-game.
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Development, Early Idea
person ClaudX calendar_month July 4, 2013
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Back to the Future
Back to the Future (1989)
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According to Bob Gale, co-creator of the Back to the Future series, the game's publisher "LJN" didn't want any input from the film's creators, however promised to show it to them when it was ready. Gale disagreed with what was shown to him and wanted it changed but was told that it was too late. Gale later told fans to not purchase it because of how bad it was.
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Development, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month July 4, 2013
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Franchise: Pokémon
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The first 4 regions are based on real life Japan.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Funland47 calendar_month July 3, 2013
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Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)
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Looking through the code in EoSD reveals a third playable character who was scrapped due to time constraints. The character's name is "Rin Satsuki", who would have wielded Flower Sign (Type A) and Wind Sign (Type B) Spell Cards. The character was speculated to be a Kirin or a nurse. The only official artwork of this character that exists is from Comiket 62.
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Development, Early Idea, Rumor, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content
person TailsFiraga calendar_month July 3, 2013
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Metroid: Other M
Metroid: Other M (2010)
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Attachment The Head Quarantine Officer instructing Samus through her training sequence during the beginning is voice acted in English by Nate Bihldorf. Nate localized Metroid Zero Mission and contributed on Metroid Prime 2 & 3. In an interview by ShineSparkers, Nate explains his experience, "I thought I sounded like a nerd - but that's what Mr. Sakamoto was looking for, so I guess I'd call it a resounding success." The Quarantine Officer has an uncanny visual resemblance to Dan Owsen who narrated the opening of Super Metroid: "The last Metroid is in captivity. The Galaxy is at Peace...".
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Development, General, Real Life, Similarities, Theory
person Untitled1 calendar_month July 3, 2013
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime (2002)
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Attachment There is an unused scan image of what looks like a Shinesparking Samus. In an interview with Retro Studios, it was revealed that they were considering implementing the Speed Booster and Shinespark, but due to the difficulties implementing it, it was scrapped.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Outofmind23 calendar_month July 2, 2013
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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Raiden's look and moves were based on Lightning from the movie Big Trouble in Little China.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (2002)
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The main villain of the game, Mech Morphix, was planned to be Dr. Proton from the first Duke Nukem. However, he was planned to appear in Duke Nukem Forever and, unwilling to cause continuity clashes with both games, the developers decided to replace the character.
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Development, Early Idea
person gamemaster1991 calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 DS (2004)
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In the game's data, replacing a file called "0000_PLAYER" with another file spawns a clone of the player that follows his movements. It takes on the appearance of Mario, but will shift into a different character when hit (spawning with a Mario cap).
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Shadowmane calendar_month July 1, 2013
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League of Legends
League of Legends (2009)
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If Evelynn is seen by an enemy champion while in stealth, Evelynn will have an exclamation symbol as made famous by the Metal Gear Solid series.
The developer of the Stealth rework also claimed to get the idea of the rework from the Metal Gear Solid series.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person GladiatorGr calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2010)
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This game was supposed to use mugshots during dialogue scenes, as did Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, but they went unused. The final game uses full portraits instead, just like the original Japan-only Coded mobile game did.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Epic Mickey
Epic Mickey (2010)
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The Lonesome Manor is not based on any one Haunted Mansion Ride but all of them. Plus, there are three cameos from past Disney characters. A painting of Chernabog (the demon from Night of Bald Mountain from the movie Fantasia), Madam Leona (the head in the Crystal Ball), and The Lonesome Ghosts (from Mickey Mouse Cartoons).
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Cameo, Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Outofmind23 calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)
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Some unused 3D models and an image of the demo of Kingdom Hearts 3DS: Dream Drop Distance's logo can be found in the Japan-only Final Mix re-release, hinting that KH 3DS: DDD uses a modified Birth By Sleep graphical engine.
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Development, Suggested, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009)
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Tinker Bell was made mute, so she doesn't have spoken lines in this game. Hence, her face sprites went unused as well.
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Development, Early Idea
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo 64
subdirectory_arrow_right Nintendo 64DD (Platform)
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The Nintendo 64DD is a disc drive add-on for the Nintendo 64 that was announced on the Shoshinkai game show (Space World Today) in Japan, talked about by Shigeru Miyamoto and released in Japan in 1999. It was never available outside of Japan.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person Funland47 calendar_month July 1, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
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Attachment An early trailer reveals that Donald and Goofy's costumes were originally different.
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Development, Early Idea
person SiiGMA Viperz calendar_month June 30, 2013
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
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The original data and assets for Kingdom Hearts have been lost forever. This is the reason Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix is being made from the ground up.

"Kingdom Hearts was created a long, long time ago... ...The original data was missing already. It was lost so we had to research, to dig out the original game and recreate everything for HD. It was not that easy." - Tetsuya Nomura
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Development, General, Real Life
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month June 29, 2013
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