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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During development, the team had made extra sprite animations, such as both characters walking onto the screen and bowing before the match. But the animations could not be used because of hardware limitations.
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Development, Early Idea
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Hyrule Warriors
Hyrule Warriors (2014)
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Attachment An earlier design of Link featured him wearing silver armor, similar to Zhao Yun's design from Dynasty Warriors 6.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Collection: Blinx
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Attachment The game's director, Naoto Ohshima, had initially designed the character of Blinx to have purple fur, later being changed to orange for unknown reasons.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Astral Chain
Astral Chain (2019)
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The game originally started out in a fantasy setting where the player used magic, but after the development team realised that there were lots of other games with a fantasy setting, it was changed into a cyberpunk setting based on animes favoured by the game's creator, Takahisa Taura, such as Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987)
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Attachment The zombies that appear in the towns during night were originally going to be 'Chinese Jiangshi' that could hop, due to their popularity at the time. The hopping move was removed after complaints that the enemies were too strong.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 4, 2020
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During the early stages of development, lead artist John Tobias had the idea to rotoscope over the motion captured footage of the characters, though the idea was dropped due to time constraints.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month April 4, 2020
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment Censored Gaming asked 'Martin Molls', the game's director, why the 'Hunting Knife' was removed from the Japanese localisation. He stated that it was related to the 'Kobe Child Murders', an incident in Japan, involving child murder and knives.

This change is believed to have affected Rare's later game 'Perfect Dark' for the same reason.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Mario Tennis Aces
Mario Tennis Aces (2018)
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Camelot president Hiroyuki Takahashi gave Luigi the main role in the story as a surprise to the player. Luigi had always been "stuck in his brother’s shadow ," and Takahashi wanted to give him a much larger role with as much prominence as Mario.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person GamerBen144 calendar_month March 30, 2020
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Pulseman
Pulseman (1994)
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In the early stages of development, Pulseman was originally meant to play similarly to Magical Taluluto (based on the Shonen Jump manga of the same name), the first game directed by Ken Sugimori who was also the director for Pulseman.
For example, he originally had the ability to turn into a fighter jet and fly by pressing the jump button twice, but this was scrapped, as it didn’t fit his character.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person HAZBOMi calendar_month March 29, 2020
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The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '97 (1997)
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Orochi was originally planned as "a buck-naked Chris" fighting with a shining energy ball. However, it was changed after developers were surveyed and only two votes in favor of the design were received. His design codename was "Chief", however, a lot of people were against giving him the name "Orochi".
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month March 28, 2020
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Franchise: Earthbound
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Attachment Monolith Soft, known for the Xeno series, had approached Nintendo in 2003 with a pitch for an EarthBound sequel, intended for the GameCube. The game was designed as if it were made of arts and crafts, similar to Kirby's Epic Yarn and Yoshi's Woolly World, and was supposed to be set in America during the 80's.

The meeting for this new EarthBound game was arranged by Nintendo's then-CEO Satoru Iwata without Shigesato Itoi (EarthBound's creator) knowing about it. Despite Itoi not knowing about this project, it's unclear what led to the cancellation of the game.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person GamerBen144 calendar_month March 28, 2020
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Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity (2004)
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Attachment According to writer Paul Gardner, there was originally going to be a character named Moronic the Plumber (a parody of Sonic and Mario) that took the role of a hero to reclaim stolen treasure from their dimension. Traveller's Tales rejected the idea, and Moronic was later replaced with a cameo from Spyro the Dragon.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person CLXcool calendar_month March 28, 2020
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Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country (1994)
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According to character designer Gregg Mayles on Twitter, after the announcement that King K. Rool would be in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a character that Gregg had named and designed the actions of, he revealed that the character was original called "KOMMANDER K. ROOL" and that Donkey Kong Country was originally to be called MONKEY MAYHEM. He also mentioned that the "K." in K. Rool does not actually stand for anything and the name itself is only intended to be a play on the word "cruel", though he joked that the initial could stand for something mundane and off-character, such as "Keith".

In addition, Gregg's brother Steve, who designed the look and visual design for the character, also revealed that the programmers thought King K. Rool was "too big" and too taxing on the game's memory, and thus several frames of the character's animation had to be dropped as a result.
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Development, Early Idea, Etymology, General, Inspiration, Name Change, Real Life, Unused Content
person PirateGoofy calendar_month March 27, 2020
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
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At one point during the process of drafting the characters, Blanka's skin color was pink. It was changed to green because lead planner Akira Nishitani did not like it.
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Development, Early Idea
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month March 27, 2020
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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Choi Bounge's original design was changed at the last minute to avoid distinct similarities with horror film character Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month March 27, 2020
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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The development team intended for Ralf and Clark to be shirtless, keeping them in line with their appearance in Ikari Warriors. However, the higher-ups ordered them to update their designs to look more modern.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month March 27, 2020
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Franchise: Castlevania
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Attachment In an interview with series producer Koji Igarashi, found within the Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow's official Japanese strategy guide, he was asked about the character's name Soma Cruz. He said that he wanted a name which would translate well for international players, and that "Cruz" was chosen as Penelope Cruz had just visited Japan, while the name also had associations with the word "Cross". Soma was taken from the name of the Indian ritual drink "soma", while it is also the name of director Murakami's son.

Aria of Sorrow direct Junishi Murakami said this was just a coincidence however, as the kanji of both names differs. When he first saw the name, he disagreed with the idea, but Igarashi simply couldn't think of anything else.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month March 27, 2020
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
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The reason for the game's sudden shift from a town to a deserted island was as a result of Animal Crossing's director Aya Kyogoku wanting to bring something completely new to the series. Kyogoku believed that players were "moving to a new location that already existed," and "wanted to giving them a new experience and thought a deserted island would be perfect."
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Development, Early Idea
person GamerBen144 calendar_month March 26, 2020
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SoulCalibur III
SoulCalibur III (2005)
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Within the games files exists four unused fighting styles. Two of them are prototype movesets for Lizardman and Revenant and the other two have no specific character attached to them. When hacked into the game, Lizardman's is only one that is usable, however it is incomplete and glitchy. The other three cannot be used and will cause the game to crash when the player is attacked.

One style has the character riding what appears to be an invisible horse. It is speculated that this style might have been meant for the Calvary unit in the Chronicle of Swords mode.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content
person ShyanVixen calendar_month March 26, 2020
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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According to Hideo Kojima in the documentary Metal Gear Saga Vol. 1, the game's original setting would have revolved around nuclear weapon inspections in Iraq and Iran. The plot of the game involved Solid Snake stopping the new Metal Gear while it was located on an aircraft carrier within a certain time limit. "Liquid Snake" and his group were supposed to be defeated by Snake, which would imply that Liquid would have faked his death from FOXDIE in "Metal Gear Solid (1998)". However, after working on the project for 6 months, tensions began to rise in the Middle East, so the team decided to scrap it in order to avoid controvesy. The final result of this original plot we relegated to the game's opening, involving "The Tanker".
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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