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Franchise: Pokémon
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Attachment The Pokemon Jynx went through a slight redesign due to allegations of racism. The effects were first implemented in the international version of Pokemon Crystal, and can even be seen in the virtual console re-release of Pokemon Snap.
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Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
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Attachment Nintendo once planned to release a knitting add-on for the NES. The slogan was 'Now you're knitting with power.'
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Development, Early Idea
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Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro (2001)
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Attachment When you put an incorrect phrase into the cheat menu it will simply reset. However, when you input a foul word as a cheat, Spider-Man will appear and change it into something nice like flower, puppy, or spice.
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Censorship, Development, General
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2004)
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Various screen-shots you take in the game have a secret watermark that contains data for your account ID, the time the screenshot was taken, and the IP and data of the server you were playing on. It's speculated that this was mainly used to identify and punish internal leaking of images during development.
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Development, General, Real Life, Suggested, Theory
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man (2002)
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Attachment If you put in the cheat code "girlnextdoor" you can play the game as Mary Jane Watson. At the end of the game, where Spider-Man and Mary Jane usually kiss, Mary Jane will kiss herself. This code was removed from later versions of the game, presumably because of the lesbian kiss in an E-rated game.
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Censorship, Development, LGBTQ+, Male/Female Gender, Regulatory Content Rating
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Franchise: Earthbound
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Attachment Shigesato Itoi first founded Ape Inc., the company that worked on EarthBound's predecessor Mother / EarthBound: Beginnings. Ape Inc. later reformed as Creatures Inc. with the help of Satoru Iwata. Ape Inc. worked on EarthBound, and later helped Game Freak develop the Pokémon series as the reformed Creatures Inc. Their influence can be seen in Pokémon. The main villain in Mother, Giygas, has a battle sprite that resembles Mewtwo. He also has a mental power called PSI. Additionally, there's an item in EarthBound called "Bag of Dragonite." There is also a Pokémon named Dragonite.
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Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
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The Minnesota state lottery was considering using the NES to let people play the lottery. The player would use a game cartridge made by the company to play the lottery, and a modem that would allow them to communicate with the central computer. The plan eventually fell through due to concerns that minors would illegally purchase tickets.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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Hideo Kojima had requested that Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake be in the game, but due to time constraints he couldn't be added to the game's roster. Sonic the Hedgehog also nearly made it into the game. Sonic's creator Yuji Naka stated that Sonic was going to be in Melee, but he also was cut due to time constraints. Both characters later made it into the sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
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Attachment The box art for the game shows images from earlier stages of the game's development. The image of word 1 has different paths when compared to the final version, and the second image doesn't represent anything seen in the game's final build.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
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It was once planned for Mario to have a power up that turned him into a Centaur. This isn't as outlandish as it seems; the Tanooki suit was also inspired by the legendary Tanuki.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment Solid Snake's design in Metal Gear Solid was inspired by the body of Jean Claude Van-Damme and the face of Christopher Walken.
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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Sonic's shoes were inspired by Michael Jackson's boots and the color scheme of Santa Claus. Sonic's personality was inspired by Bill Clinton.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
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Platform: Dreamcast
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There was a motion controller planned to release for the Sega Dreamcast. It would have been used for 'Air Nights' a sequel to 'Nights into Dreams' and was also rumored to have involved with the creation of the Sega's Super Monkey Ball series. The motion Sensing technology was eventually used for the maracas in Samba De Amigo.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
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Miyamoto had originally planned for "A Link to the Past" to have a party system where you could switch between three characters and utilize their individual abilities. The characters would have been a mix between an elf and a fighter, a magic user, and a girl.
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Franchise: Kirby
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When Donkey Kong became popular, Nintendo was sued by Universal. Universal claimed Donkey Kong was a rip-off of King Kong. Lawyer John Kirby proved that Universal didn't even have trademark rights to "King Kong", and so they lost the case. Nintendo gave Kirby a boat named Donkey Kong and exclusive rights to the name Donkey Kong for sail-boats as a strange way of thanking him.

in a 2011 interview with Game Informer, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that "Kirby" was one of many candidates on a list of names that were proposed for the characters, and upon seeing it, he recalled John Kirby and felt that a connection between the two would be amusing. However, the name was picked not as a tribute to the lawyer, but rather because the harsh-sounding nature of the name was a comedic contrast to the character's soft, cute design.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
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Attachment Part of the trading sidequest involves returning a fishook to a fisherman in exchange for a mermaid's necklace. The player then returns the necklace to the mermaid who gives Link a scale from her tail in return. In the Japanese and some European versions of the game however, Link receives a pink bra instead of a necklace. This explains the mermaid's shy and anxious behavior around Link. The pink bra, most likely deemed inappropriate, was changed to the necklace in the American version and later European versions of the game.
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Bonus Content, Censorship, Development, General, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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EarthBound
EarthBound (1994)
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Attachment In Mother 2 (the Japanese version of EarthBound), the cultists of Happy Happyism appear with the letters HH on their forehead (for Happy Happyism). In EarthBound, a pom pom was added and the HH was removed, presumably to try to make the cultists look less like members of the Klu Klux Klan. Also, possibly because HH on an already Klan-like sprite could be construed to mean "Heil Hitler". The city "Threek" was renamed "Threed" in EarthBound. Like the cultists, this may also be to avoid any link to the Klan, as Threek could be seen as Three K's, or KKK.
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Censorship, Development, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Similarities, Theory, Version Difference
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Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
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The weapon Fat Man and its mod Little Boy are named after two atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9th) in Japan during the end of the World War II. In the Japanese version, the name Fat Man is changed to "Nuka Launcher," yet the Little Boy Kit kept its name. The changes were made to avoid offending the people of Japan, though Japanese gamers generally didn't approve of the change.
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Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007)
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Angeal's hair is a remnant of an initial design for Cloud. Cloud was originally planned to have slicked back black hair in Final Fantasy VII to contrast Sephiroph's long white hair.
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Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
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Cloud's hair was originally supposed to be black and slicked back to contrast with Sephiroth's long white hair. The developers also thought it would be a good way to render less polygons on screen. The idea was eventually ditched for his iconic spiky hair. The idea was later used for Angeal, the original wielder of the Buster Sword and Sephiroph's close friend in Crisis Core.
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