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Platform: Xbox 360

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The most expensive Xbox 360 Kinect sensor peripheral was inspired by pop singer Kylie Minogue and features over 6000 Swarovski crystals and worth $1,242 USD. Designed by PlayBling, it was given out as a prize as part of a promotion by Microsoft and Dance Central in celebration of Kylie Minogue's upcoming European tour.

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Pokémon Red Version

Pokémon Red Version (1996)

subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Blue Version (Game)

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After Shigeru Miyamoto became Satoshi Tajiri's mentor, Satoshi gave thanks to him by making the default rival name 'Shigeru'. Satoshi made himself the default name for the protagonist. This can be found in the Japanese Generation I Pokemon games.

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Franchise: Devil May Cry

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Dante's name comes from Dante Alighieri, who was a great Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, Divine Comedy, is often referenced or used as a background throughout the Devil May Cry series. While his brother's name comes from Publius Vergilius Maro, who was a classical Roman poet. Dante Alighieri made Virgil his guide through Hell and Purgatory in his Divine Comedy.

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Pokémon Black Version

Pokémon Black Version (2010)

subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon White Version (Game)

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The idea of having two rivals instead of one came from early concepts for the Pokemon series that went unused until Black & White.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000)

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The location of the level "Hangar" is based on Neversoft president Joel Jewett. Jewett had a mullet hairstyle during the game's development, and he is from Great Falls, Montana. Because of this, the level's location is jokingly named "Mullet Falls, Montana".

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)

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The in-game book "The Egg of Time" depicts a Dwarven figure in an image inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.

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Franchise: Guilty Gear

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Guilty Gear's main character, Sol Badguy, is considered to be series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari's alter ego. Ishiwatari even voiced the character up until Guilty Gear Xrd, where the character is voiced by Jouji Nakata.

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Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: Origins (2009)

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At one point in the game, The Warden can obtain a long sword named "Oathkeeper". The sword is described as a blessed blade commissioned by The Chantry and given to Templars as a reward for their deeds. It has been speculated that the sword is a homage to George R.R. Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire", as the sword shares the same name as the sword given to Jaime Lannister by his father Tywin, which Jaime later passes to Brienne of Tarth who then names the sword. It is known that the book series was an inspiration during game development.

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Company: Square Enix

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Besides sharing a few visual similarities, the characters Axel (Kingdom Hearts) and Reno (Final Fantasy VII) share the same voice actor in multiple languages. Tetsuya Nomura did this intentionally to experiment with putting a familiar character in a new environment and role. He also stated in an interview that the two are "different people, but subconsciously alike".

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Metal Gear

Metal Gear (1987)

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The game was designed as a stealth game involving avoiding confrontation due to the limitations of the MSX2 at the time. If there were a large number of character sprites on screen at one time there would be a lot of sprite flickering and slowdown. The game was instead changed to involve the player using stealth to avoid enemy confrontations.

"The company asked me to create a combat game. Actually, a senior associate had been in charge of it but he was stuck and I was asked to do it. You could not have more than four bullets with MSX, and that meant you could only have two to three enemies. You cannot make a combat game with that. So I came up with a game like 'The Great Escape' where the prisoner had to escape. it was an idea born from adverse situations." - Hideo Kojima speaking to Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 35, Page 74)

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Franchise: Assassin's Creed

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The Animus, which is used to read the genetic memory of a person, is named after Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, with the Animus being the masculine inner personality for females.

A few of the female characters in the series are even named after the levels of the anima (the feminine inner personality of males). These are Eve, Maria and Sofia, with Helen being the only one without a character.

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Pokémon Gold Version

Pokémon Gold Version (1999)

subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Silver Version (Game)

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Red's party in the Generation II games is based heavily on in-game events from the Generation I. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, and Pikachu are available in all iterations of the original Kanto plot. Espeon could have been obtained as an Eevee in Celadon City, and Eevee notably serves as Blue's starter in Pokemon Yellow. Lapras is given away by a Silph Co. employee, and two Snorlax are required to be caught or defeated in order to travel to Fuchsia City. Furthermore, in the Generation II games, only the Snorlax that was previously blocking Route 12 (now blocking the entrance to Diglett's Cave) is available to the player, suggesting that Red defeated it and caught the one blocking Route 16. His party in the Generation II games also matches that of Red in the Pokemon Adventures manga during his venture to Mt. Silver, although Pokemon Adventures' Red borrowed Charizard and Blastoise temporarily from the characters Blue and Green, as he didn't own those Pokemon.

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Divekick

Divekick (2013)

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The character Redacted is a likeness of Marvel's Wolverine; she shares his dive kick move from Marvel Vs. Capcom, smokes cigars and hails from British Columbia, Canada. She was even called Wolverine early in the game's development but had her name changed to avoid legal issues with Marvel.

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The Lion King

The Lion King (1994)

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Microsoft DirectX was created in response to the PC port of The Lion King. The Lion King was released on Christmas 1994, and many children tried playing the game, but it would crash when loading. A Wall Street Journal article was published about someone spending his entire Christmas evening trying to get The Lion King to work for his daughter. Even Disney's helplines were flooded with phone calls. Many developers became suspicious of Windows as a viable platform, and stuck with MS-DOS. In response, Microsoft quickly developed the first version of DirectX for the upcoming Windows 95.

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Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome

Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome (2005)

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Asagi was originally supposed to get the role of the main character in the planned sequel, Makai Wars. However, the game was indefinitely postponed, which has led to Asagi being a recurring character in many Nippon Ichi games, usually trying to steal the spot of the main character for herself.

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Cacodemon's general visual design is similar to that of the Beholder, a similarly one-eyed classic Dungeons & Dragons monster (with eye stalks instead of horns). In addition, the Cacodemon was created from a cropping of a creature that appears on the cover of Manual of the Planes, a Dungeons & Dragons expansion book. The creature itself is known as an Astral Dreadnought, and was created by Jeff Easley for that book.

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Franchise: Mega Man

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Keiji Inafune, who is often called the father of Mega Man, did not actually create him. Inafune's mentor at Capcom, who was the designer of the original Mega Man, gave Inafune a basic concept of what Mega Man was supposed to look like and he was tasked to clean up the concept for use in the game. Inafune didn't get to completely design a Mega Man protagonist from scratch until Mega Man X, where he created Zero.

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Assassin's Creed Revelations

Assassin's Creed Revelations (2011)

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Sofia, Ezio's love interest in the game, was based on the Albrecht Dürer painting "Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman," which Art Director Raphael Lacoste was very adamant about using as the basis of the character. The painting can be seen in the Memory "Portrait of a Lady," where you have to retrieve it.

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Hudson's Adventure Island

Hudson's Adventure Island (1986)

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The game started out as a port of the arcade game Wonder Boy. Although Escape had the rights to the game, Sega owned the rights to the main characters, bosses, and names, which meant that the NES version could not be a direct port. To get around the licensing issue, Hudson Soft changed the character sprites and names to create a brand new series.

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Divekick

Divekick (2013)

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The character S-Kill is modelled entirely after former Capcom community manager Seth Killian. His teleport move and kick are direct references to the character Seth from Super Street Fighter IV, who was also named after him.

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