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Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening (1998)
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J. Langston III's original name during development was J. Langston Popsicle III, or "Popsicle" for short, but had to be changed due to Popsicle being trademarked by Unilever. Multiple lines were spliced to remove "Popsicle", though one was removed and one was re-recorded.
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Copyright, Development, Legal Affairs, Name Change, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Unused Text, Voice Acting
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Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon
Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (1993)
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Attachment There are four unused voice clips intended for the Newscaster on Putt Putt's radio that appears to be a developer in-joke. When put together they read:

"A criminal suit was filed against Mr. Firebird. He is accused of purposeful wrong-doing and criminal neglect. It is believed that Mr. Firebird's negligence caused Putt-Putt's unfortunate accident earlier today."
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In-Joke, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Unused Text, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 17, 2023
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Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo (1995)
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In-Joke, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
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Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds
Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right Humongous Entertainment (Company)
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Attachment The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds was the first Humongous Entertainment game to use cel animation instead of computer-designed sprites. This was a last second choice that required all existing visuals and much of the game's code to be thrown away, and was done without a delay nor much in the way of cel animation knowledge from the team, requiring unpaid overtime. Despite this story's surface-level similarities to crunch practices, the challenge of remaking the game on such short notice was chosen and consented to by the Freddi Fish team, and developers of the game have reminisced on this period fondly.
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Crunch/Overwork, Development, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Disney Emoji Blitz
Disney Emoji Blitz (2016)
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Swampy, the protagonist of the Disney mobile game Where's My Water?, was added to the game data for Disney Emoji Blitz as part of the 1.11.5 update, released on May 10, 2017. Despite this, however, he has not been added to the game as an obtainable emoji and no design for him exists in the game's data, with the inactive code still being present in later versions.
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General, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (1990)
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Attachment Kabuto, the first boss of Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, is a parody of Ken-O, a recurring first boss in the Shinobi series - in prerelease screenshots, he is shown to be a composite parody of both Ken-O and Nintendo's Mario, known as Mari-Oh. While his appearance would lose its Mario-esque qualities in the final game, two elements of this parody would remain: Kabuto shooting fireballs, and Kabuto becoming small on his final hit point.
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Console Wars, Early Idea, Parody, Reference, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast
Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast (2000)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dexter's Laboratory (Franchise)
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Attachment Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast contains a fully functional unused character in the form of a duo of Dexter and Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that was still airing at the time. It is unknown if this is a remnant of a scrapped Dexter's Laboratory version of Pop'n Pop, much like Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage was for Elevator Action EX, or a scrapped plan to make the game a Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network crossover game.
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Regional Difference, Reskin, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 16, 2023
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Sonic Classic Collection
Sonic Classic Collection (2010)
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When Sonic Classic Collection was rated by the British Board of Film Classification, they rated three pieces of content not present in the final game:
•A trailer for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
•A "history of Sonic" documentary video
•An unknown item titled "GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE", which was most likely a video. However, all other non-interactive elements in the game such as the credits and aforementioned videos have a runtime, which GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE does not.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Regulatory Content Rating, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 16, 2023
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M&M's Kart Racing
M&M's Kart Racing (2007)
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Attachment Inside the files of M&M's Kart Racing is a placeholder loading screen image showing what appears to be a 3D render of a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 photoshopped over the Red M&M driving his kart copied and pasted over and over erratically.
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Loading, Placeholder, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 16, 2023
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Pokémon Pokédex Organizer
Pokémon Pokédex Organizer (1998)
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The Tiger Electronics electronic Pokédex toy received major pushback from Nintendo HQ in Japan, which did not want the toy to have any kind of game function as to avoid cannibalizing sales of Pokémon Red & Blue. When two-frame animations of each Pokémon were implemented, they had to be scrapped as Nintendo thought they were "too close to the Game Boy game", despite animated sprites not being introduced until Pokémon Crystal in 2000. Despite this, both Nintendo of America and 4Kids were in favor of the animations.
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Corporate Affairs, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 15, 2023
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Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt
Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt (1993)
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Attachment On the HUD of Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt!, there is a portrait of Awesome that will go from happy to agitated as he takes more damage - in prototype versions of the game, this instead has Awesome's skin slowly chip off to reveal his skull. Additionally, after dying in the prototype, he will turn into a skeleton, and when his last life is lost the screen will cut to red instead of teal. The final game's Game Over screen, which shows unspecified tombstones covered in trash and rats, could be considered a leftover from this darker direction for the game.
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Censorship, Game Over, Prototype, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Adventures (2002)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dinosaur Planet (Game)
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Attachment Contrary to popular belief, General Scales was never actually intended to be the primary antagonist and final boss of Dinosaur Planet, even before the transition to Star Fox Adventures, which jammed in Andross in the climax. That role would belong to Drakor, who appears in the final Star Fox Adventures as a turret boss in Dragon Rock.

Drakor's original backstory was that he belonged to an ancient race of alien dragons known as the Kamerians, that existed in the early days of the universe along with another race known as the Krazoa. The two races had a big intergalactic war with each other that nearly destroyed the galaxy and it ended above orbit of what would eventually be known as Sauria, the Dinosaur Planet, with the Krazoa narrowingly winning. One of the last great war dragons was killed in battle and its body fell onto the planet's surface, and it became something of a god figure to Sauria's dinosaur inhabitants who spawned right around the same time.

Drakor, recently banished by his people who deemed him a threat to their society, became aware that the Kamerian dragon, now reduced into a heart, was on Sauria, so he invaded and helped General Scales and the SharpClaw by providing them advanced weapons and technology so that they could take over the planet and also its Force Point Temples, as they planned on channeling all of Sauria's magical energies and pumping it into the Kamerian heart within Dragon Rock, which would revive it and allow Drakor to destroy the planet and gain ultimate revenge on the Krazoa, who still dwelled there in stasis lock.

The twist was that, despite obviously his methods involving genocide and conquest, Drakor was actually trying to save the galaxy in his own way: The Krazoa themselves were also revealed to be actually extremely evil. As they go back in time to the time of the Great War in Krazoa Palace, Krystal and Kyte discover that the Krazoa were the ones who started the Great War against the Kamerians, because the latter didn't wish to be ruled by them and their god, the "Quan Ata Lachu". They manipulated Sabre and Krystal into finding each of the Quan Ata Lachu spirits hidden away in their shrines/test and depositing them at Warlock Mountain, planning on aligning the Majestic Eight planets their home world Animus and Dinosaur Planet belong to, promising that it will bring "peace" to the universe, when in reality they want nothing more than to set it into flames and remold it into their image/liking, spreading disease, terror and chaos as they please.

The final Star Fox Adventures game saw all of this scrapped in favor of Andross as the main antagonist. Drakor would be repurposed as a subordinate of General Scales, a mutant bioweapon that dwells within Dragon Rock as the guardian of the one of the SpellStones Fox (who similarly replaced both Sabre and Krystal as the main playable character) must collect. The Krazoa were more or less condensed into the Quan Ata Lachu spirits Fox must also collect, and also essentially replaced the Kamerian Heart as the deities the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet worship.

As mentioned before, Andross' spirit would fulfill Drakor's original role as the manipulator behind General Scales and the SharpClaw's uprising, and would also fill in for the Krazoa's role, posing as one as he manipulates Fox into finding the Krazoa Spirits in promise of rescuing Krystal from her prison atop of Krazoa Palace (which was reworked from DP's Warlock Mountain), all of which results in his resurrection as the game's final boss.
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Backstory/Lore, Development, Early Idea, Unused Content
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RareThief Dinosaur Planet archival material:
https://rarethief.com/dinosaur-planet/

Dinosaur Planet - Drakor Appears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymZZvlEAKw

Dinosaur Planet - Drakor Appears in the Volcano Force Point Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKq4JSK_Vw

Dinosaur Planet - Quan Ata Lachu cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpDKgmjko4Q

Dinosaur Planet - Krazoa voice lines:
https://youtu.be/1-xAld46K8c?t=12

Dinosaur Planet - Krazoa Palace dialogue:
https://youtu.be/4wmNWvwkgfk?t=505

Dinosaur Planet - The Countdown of the Majestic fan reconstruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJvQRkes3I#t=10

Star Fox Adventures - Drakor boss fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAH9JiNRLQE?t=10

Star Fox Adventures - Moon Mountain Pass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2lwNn3z10Q?t=167

Star Fox Adventures - General Scales and Andross boss fights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeDs2f-6N8
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom (2003)
subdirectory_arrow_right Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (Game)
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Inside the files of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, you can find a video from Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, an earlier game by the same studio, Heavy Iron. It is unknown if this is a leftover from building Bikini Bottom off of 100 Frights' engine, or a cross-promotion that was veto'd by either Warner Bros. or Nickelodeon.

What some may find more interesting, however, is a now-deleted YouTube upload of the unused cutscene colloquially known as the "Cursed YouTube Video" which was based on a corrupted video file and as such featured disorientating, lagging sound; an inaccurate timer for video length; visuals that cut out; and a buffer that would begin at an exact point and continually play regardless of the viewer's internet speed.
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Glitch, Leftover, Meme, Social Media, Technology, Unused Audio, Unused Content
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Article on the "cursed" upload:
https://boingboing.net/2019/06/13/cursed-youtube-video.html

Replica video, albeit with multiple glitches fixed:
https://youtu.be/ieP4C6BkphY
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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Attachment Patrick's Super move was originally going to feature a unique squashed model for each character. These were ultimately scrapped for unknown reasons, with Patrick simply slamming down his rock on the opponent without any transformations or unique animations attached.
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Model, Removed Feature, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic
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Zoop
Zoop (1995)
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The DOS version of Zoop has unused text from a scrapped online multiplayer mode.
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Online Play, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet (Game), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Game)
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Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet has unused graphics from Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, which can be activated by a Game Genie code, allowing one to play SMB1 levels with The Lost Levels graphics, albeit with some glitched tiles in different parts of the game.
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Cheat, Glitch, Release Difference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Cheggers' Party Quiz
Cheggers' Party Quiz (2007)
subdirectory_arrow_right Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge (Game)
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Inside the code of Cheggers' Party Quiz and Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge, there are two unused test videos, unusually taken from the 2006 direct-to-DVD movie Bratz: Passion 4 Fashion Diamondz.
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Placeholder, Test, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Warbirds (Game)
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Attachment Warbirds was intended to be included in the base version Atari 50, but was cut at the last second - physical Switch releases of the compilation include Warbirds on the cartridge, but a day one update removed the game. Warbirds has since been reinstated.
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Emulation, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 10, 2023
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Sonic and the Secret Rings
Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007)
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An unused voice clip has Sonic wishing the player happy birthday based on the Wii's birthday data.
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Unused Audio, Unused Content
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Yoshi
Yoshi (1991)
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Attachment The Game Boy version of Yoshi has an unused Bullet Bill piece. It is not present in the NES version.
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Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Items, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 9, 2023
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