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Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (2001)
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In an interview with game's design Tetsu Takayashiki, he was asked why the team chose to develop for the Game Boy Color instead of more powerful hardware. He responded: "After Star Ocean and Star Ocean 2nd Story, it was decided that we would make Star Ocean 3 for the PS2. The question then became how to fill in the gap while we waited for that project to begin. From the beginning, our plans were to make a compact game."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1988)
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In an interview with game's designer Tokurou Fujiwara, he was asked how the developers began making the game. He responded: "I’ve been wanting to make this game for a very long time. Then when the CP System PCBs came out, it felt like the timing was finally right. The CPS boards have a lot of memory, but the plans we drew up for Daimakaimura called for a game even larger than that. There was so much stuff in there—twice as much as what’s been added to the game right now. Even when it’s completed, I think it will only be about half of what we originally planned. And still, compared with the original Makaimura it’s a massive increase in content."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Battlefield 1
Battlefield 1 (2016)
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The reason for the game being set during World War 1 was the result of DICE producer Alexs Grondal wanting to bring a brand new experience to the series. Grondal said the team had been thinking of this idea for about a decade, since a lot of the games in the series had been focusing on the “modern era.” The game taking place during World War 1 was also the reason why it was called “Battlefield 1.” The team thought that World War 1 was “the genesis of modern warfare.”
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)
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In The PlayStation (JP) Magazine interview, the game's director Lorne Lanning was asked where the idea for the GameSpeak action system came from. He responded: "The GameSpeak interactions came from us trying to figure out what kind of actions or movements Abe could have that would be funny, humorous, or kind of suggest to players that he was this weird guy, in a light-hearted way. How could we make players feel more intimately connected with the world and characters? GameSpeak was our answer to that. When players see other characters talking with Abe and interacting with him, it provokes a feeling of cuteness and affection for those characters, and the player then empathizes more closely with what’s happening on-screen. It helps bring them to life as characters, you could say."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 2 (1992)
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In the Marukatsu Megadrive interview, the game's composer Yuzo Koshiro was asked about what music influenced the game. He responded: "I started writing the music last Spring, which was right around the time The Orb was coming to Japan, and everyone (myself included) was super excited about that. I was listening to Prodigy and Eon too, stuff with weird lyrics."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life
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Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter (1993)
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Akira Yuki was modeled after real-life martial artist Masaaki Satake. His choice of fighting style, Bajiquan (Hakkyouken), was inspired by the main martial art from the Kenji manga. According to an interview with the series creator Seiichi Ishii, the game was heavily influenced by the manga, to the point that one of the game's preliminary titles was Virtua Fighter Hakkyouken.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter (1993)
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The initial idea behind the game wasn't a fighting game. According to series creator Yu Suzuki, after finding ways to have human polygonal models in Virtua Racing, they looked into making a sports game. However, due to technical limitations they could not animate a full sports team and settled for a game that only required two characters onscreen.
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Development, Early Idea
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Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (2015)
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Boo was almost going to be a scrapped character sometime during development. Nintendo didn’t feel like Boo holding a tennis racquet in his hand was going to fit. However, Boo was kept in the game because, according to Famitsu, “they wanted to make a game that’s both a Mario game and a tennis game at the same time.”
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Development, Early Idea
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Franchise: Street Fighter
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The game's developers wanted Makoto's moves to be based on 'Ikken Hissatsu': simple, direct, and powerful. They wanted her karate moves to have a more Japanese style, rather than Ryu & Ken's American style of Karate.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Franchise: Metroid
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Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi revealed in an interview, where he talked about F-Zero GX, that Sega had also pitched a Metroid game to Nintendo. However, Nintendo had obviously turned down Sega's pitch.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe (2003)
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In an interview, Hideki Kamiya discussed the origins of how Dante from the Devil May Cry series became a playable character in the PlayStation 2 version of the game:

"As for Dante, we had a talk about adding him, and two days later someone went and made a model of him on their own. It was someone from the Okami team, who wasn’t even related to this project. (laughs) After that we to create his big gun, and of course it wouldn’t be Dante without his sword. Creating the very specific animations for him was really difficult. But thanks to those efforts, players can now experience the game in a whole new way."
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Bonus Content, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Ōkami
Ōkami (2006)
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In an interview, Hideki Kamiya admitted that early in the development, the team wanted to use the power slash move on the torii gates. However, the team removed the idea, as they all thought to themselves “should a goddess really be doing that?”
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
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The development team's first idea for the game was to use the story and setting of Vampire Killer, and make the final Belmont vampire hunter the enemy. Another idea was to make Quincy Morris the person who defeated Dracula. They were also ordered by the "section chief" to make the “Ultimate Dracula” game. No one really knew what “ultimate” meant, but all the developers had talked it over, and the result was Symphony of the Night.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Unused Content
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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Attachment A city named "Sutch" was cut from the final game. The only remnants are the existence of a "Fort Sutch" in the final game. Sutch is mentioned in lore throughout the series, and the E3 2005 demo of Oblivion featured Sutch on the world map.
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Development, Early Idea
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Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 2 (1992)
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Ayano Koshiro stated that she and her team love reading various of "Weekly Shounen Champion" manga, mainly "Baki" and "Apocalypse Zero" manga series. They were a big influence to the game and there were lots of mangas referenced in the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference
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Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
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Six of the game's cars (Audi, Cadillac, Mazda, and Volkswagen, and two Porsches) were planned to be usable in the game, but were cut due to time constraints. However, data can be found for said cars in the PlayStation 2 version.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Code, Unused Content
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The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling
The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling (2000)
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The game was originally called "The Flintstones: Quarry Jam" as evident by an unused video in the PC version's files.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Audio, Unused Content
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Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt
Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt (1999)
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Unused text in the European version of the game regarding the Nintendo 64's Rumble Pak feature suggests the game was originally planned to utilize the rumble feature in some way.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Code, Unused Content
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Hooters Road Trip
Hooters Road Trip (2002)
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Attachment The game was originally to be released as Free Wheelin' USA, but it was later changed to Hooters Road Trip featuring the Hooters license. The PC version however retained the original title with the Hooters brand completely absent.

Artwork for the original PlayStation version of Free Wheelin' USA can be found in the game's files.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, Version Difference
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Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury
Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury (2004)
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The game was originally called Legacy of Goku 3: Buu's Fury, but the Legacy of Goku part was dropped by Atari for what appeared to be marketing reasons.
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Development, Early Idea
person wormyg calendar_month May 23, 2020
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