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Um Jammer Lammy
Um Jammer Lammy (1999)
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When asked where he got the inspiration for the game's surreal plotlines, Gabin Ito, the chief writer and editor of Um Jammer Lammy, stated that the team of the game did not do drugs, but rather got their ideas from a combination of a lack of sleep making them spacey and a limited development time not providing the time-frame to fine-tune concepts.
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Development, Inspiration, Real Life
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Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day
Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day (1994)
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Attachment Rocko's punching animation is directly traced from a sequence of animation in the Rocko's Modern Life pilot episode "Trash-O-Madness".
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Artwork/Illustration, Asset Reuse, Development, Reference, Similarities, Sprite/Graphical Animation
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Rocko's Modern Life Season 1 Episode 10B "Trash-O-Madness". Pilot version featured on the Rocko's Modern Life Season 2 DVD. The punching clip is featured in the pilot version of the intro, which can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQxnOMGZFg
Hotel Mario
Hotel Mario (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right Luigi's Mansion 3 (Game), Mario (Franchise)
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The lead technical character artist for Luigi's Mansion 3, Jeffrey Zoern, previously worked as the art director for Hotel Mario, another Mario series game themed around hotels that Nintendo has historically been reluctant to acknowledge.
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Credits, Development, Real Life
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Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures (1991)
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Attachment As discovered on the French blog UPSILANDRE RETROGAMING, the movement code for the NES version of Tiny Toon Adventures by Konami was directly plagiarized from Super Mario Bros. 3, giving the two games near-identical play-feels.
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Controls, Development, Inspiration, Plagiarism, Secret, Similarities
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)
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Prior to deciding on what the new civilizations for the existing architectural styles would be (Spanish, Koreans and Huns) in the Conquerors Expansion of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, previously considered civilizations had been:

• Western European: Italians.
• Eastern Asian: Khmers and Tibetans.
• Central European: Swiss, Magyars, Slavs and Hasburgs.
In addition, the new architectural style was chosen to be for new world civilizations because the developers found the Aztecs to be cool, had name recognition, and had been defeated by a concatenation of lucky flukes.

Many of these scrapped civilization ideas would later be added into the HD Expansions of Age of Empires II.
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Development, Early Idea
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Garten of Banban
Garten of Banban (2023)
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Originally, Stinger Flynn was intended to be the main antagonist of Garten of Banban, but was replaced with the Opila Bird, as the devs felt she would be a better fit.
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Development, Early Idea
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Elden Ring
Elden Ring (2022)
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Attachment The Grafted Blade Greatsword, which can be obtained by killing the Leonine Misbegotten boss at the end of Castle Morne in the Weeping Peninsula, is a reference to the Iron Throne from the book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin, as well as its television adaptation "Game of Thrones." The sword was likely included in the game as tribute to George R.R. Martin's work as he worked with Hidetaka Miyazaki to create the lore of Elden Ring's world.
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Development, Easter Egg, Real Life, Reference
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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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Street Fighter 6
Street Fighter 6 (2023)
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On a Street Fighter 6 developer Q&A stream, the team confirmed that the idea of having JP using Bartitsu (mistakenly referred to as Baritsu) was inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Said martial art's appearances in Sherlock Holmes stories inspired the staff to create a character that fought using a cane.
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Character Design, Development, General, Inspiration, Livestreaming
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Bubsy 2
Bubsy 2 (1994)
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The late Michael Berlyn, who created Bubsy, has claimed that the designer of Bubsy 2, Cyndi Kirkpatrick, vehemently hated Bubsy to the point of sticking pencils through the heads of rare promotional Bubsy dolls, hanging them from nooses and covering them in fake blood. Berlyn claimed this hatred affected the quality of the final game for him in that "the art wasn't quite right, the feeling wasn't quite right, and they did some weird things with the secondary characters, and the biplanes, you know, nothing really worked for me."
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Complaint, Development, Real Life
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment At one point in the game's development, SpongeBob's strong dash attack was intended to involve him running with scissors. This was vetoed by Nickelodeon, with community manager Thaddeus Crews suggesting that Nickelodeon may not have wanted a character many children view as a role model partaking in an easily-imitable dangerous activity. The scissors exist in the game files, attached to SpongeBob's model, but in an untextured form with no bones for snipping.

In the final game, SpongeBob's strong dash attack was a slip and fall based on a single frame from the episode "Krabs à la Mode" that became a meme.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Meme, Reference, Removed Feature, Unused Graphic
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Sqij!
Sqij! (1986)
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The ZX Spectrum release of Sqij! has been cited as one of the worst games ever made, sometimes even being referred to as the single worst video game ever made, due to a bug that renders Sqij uncontrollable unless the game is modified with the POKE button (a button on the ZX Spectrum that allowed users to modify code of software, somewhat like a built-in Game Genie). The conversion was handled by a 15-year-old named Jason Creighton, who intentionally created a lackluster version of the game expecting it to be rejected, in protest against being mistreated during development, with a particular point of contention being that he wasn't provided with the original Commodore 64 version of Sqij! to study. However, the infamous bug that rendered the game unplayable was not an intentional inclusion.
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Console Difference, Development, Glitch, Mistake, Version Difference
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The Flintstones
The Flintstones (1995)
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Attachment The Flintstones on SNES contains a music track titled "Unused Song 2", a somber and atmospheric track known for being completely inappropriate for the game's tone and source material that was only accessible through the sound test. The song was not originally written for The Flintstones, but rather as a test track for Ocean's MEdit software by composer Dean Evans. It ended up in the game as filler for the sake of using up excess cartridge space, and was not at any point supposed to be used in game as anything other than a sound test track.
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Bonus Content, Development, Meme, Music, Secret, Unused Content
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Hitman 3
Hitman 3 (2021)
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Attachment Hitman 3's budget was estimated to be 155 million kr (Danish Krones), or $22 million USD, according to IO Interactive's 2021/2022 annual revenue report.
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Development, General
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Hitman
Hitman (2016)
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In the Bonus Mission "The Icon", there are two civilians talking by the entrance about how they want Icon to be replaced by someone else, namely Dave Bateson, instead of Dino Bosco (the target of the mission). This is in reference to the development of Hitman: Absolution and the subsequent fan backlash the casting change caused, where 47, normally voiced by David Bateson, was going to be replaced by William Mapother; the voice actor for Dino Bosco in "The Icon".

This initial casting change was at the request of Square Enix, and IO Interactive had recorded some lines in secret with Bateson to show Square Enix, and once they heard them, they relented and Bateson was brought back to play 47 in Hitman: Absolution at the very last minute.
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Development, Easter Egg, Real Life, Reference
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Ico
Ico (2001)
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Attachment In the Limited Edition ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Box Set for PS3, an art book titled 'Shinwa wo Tsumugu' is included. It features some interviews with members of Team ICO and among them is Junichi Hosono, who claims Ueda derived Yorda's name from the character of Hilda in the Toei film, "Horus: Prince of the Sun".

This is somewhat corroborated by the movie's presence on Ueda's shelf, which is shown in this same art book.

Hilda's character traits and arc are very different from that of Yorda, but her dynamic between the valiant Horus and the ice devil Grunwald seemed to serve as a heavy inspiration for ICO's narrative.
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Artwork/Illustration, Backstory/Lore, Development, Inspiration, Reference
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Shinwa wo Tsumugu art book - The quote can be found on page 45 of 52 in this PDF, in the section labelled with the number 4. I have attached a picture as well, both in Japanese as there is no official translation:
https://mega.nz/file/RwdjGBJQ#7cI7fMueAwI24tYYjQZI4_LKBHCYPb_aPEqgTWykr9k

Ueda's shelf is on page 37 of 52 and 'Horus' can be seen near where the movies stop and the Xbox titles begin.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Attachment At the end of the level, "Pelennor Fields", there is a cutscene depicting the battle between the Witch King of Angmar and Eowyn where the armor and weapon of the Witch King does not match his film counterpart. His weapon being a large mace rather than a flail and his helmet having a different design entirely. This was an early alternate design that went unused in the Return of the King film. Because this game was being produced alongside the film the developers presumably had no time to change it to his final film design before launch.
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Development, Early Idea, Mistake, Theory
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Witch King of Angmar's game design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNxhhB2DoU

BTS of Alternate Witch King design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CxqTBTAeBQ?t=3627
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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The idea for the Wonder Flower came from an effort to introduce surprising elements that would challenge the player. Originally, the idea was to introduce items that would warp players to a new area, but the game's producer Takashi Tezuka didn't find it interesting, saying: "If you're still just going to warp to a different area, it's still the same. Why don’t you just change where you are right now?"
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Development, Early Idea
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019)
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According to director Toshiyuki Kusakihara, he wrote out an extensive history for the continent of Fódlan from the beginning and containing "probably a good ten-thousand years' worth of material" just to use as reference materials for development. However, he has stated that he would not release it, and expected more inquisitive players to analyze the story and fill in the holes themselves as the developers gradually forget the material over time.
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Development, Unused Content, Unused Text
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
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This game marks the first time that Princess Daisy is playable in a mainline Mario game on a Nintendo console after her first playable appearance in the mobile game Super Mario Run. According to Super Mario Bros. Wonder's director Shiro Mouri in a 2023 interview with Eurogamer, Daisy's inclusion was spurred from a personal family anecdote:

"[...] I have two daughters myself and when they played previous Mario titles, they would always fight over who gets to play Peach. Including Daisy will help resolve fights within my own household, and also I thought that having Daisy would be something that a lot of Mario fans would be happy with!"
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Development, Inspiration, Real Life
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