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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
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In the German version, the Snow World is called "Großfrostheim" which translates into "Great Frost Home". This, however, is a reference to the German city "Großostheim", which is where the Nintendo of Europe headquarters are located, and where the game was localized.
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Easter Egg, Reference, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012)
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Attachment The boss "Polygon Man" was actually the Playstation's original mascot from 1995. He was meant to demonstrate the power of the Playstation, but was dropped shortly after the Playstation was announced.
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General, Real Life
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Pokémon Stadium 2
Pokémon Stadium 2 (2000)
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Attachment Electabuzz mistakenly has six fingers on each hand. This error was carried over from Pokemon Stadium.
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General, Mistake
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Pokémon Stadium
Pokémon Stadium (1999)
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Attachment Electabuzz mistakenly has six fingers on each hand. This error was not corrected in Pokemon Stadium 2.
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General, Mistake
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The New Tetris
The New Tetris (1999)
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Hidden in the code are several rants and pieces of text-art by multiple developers who worked on the game, with one rant by programmer David Pridie, who would leave H20 Entertainment after this game's release to work at The 3DO Company and passed away in 2001. The rants are mainly about the incompetence of his co-workers, and the text art is of several logos, a Canadian flag, a cannabis leaf, and (possibly) some psychoactive psilocybin mushrooms.
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Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
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Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure (1998)
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Dred Foxx, who voices Parappa in Parappa the Rapper, rapped the lyrics for "Unknown from M.E." (Knuckles' Theme).
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General, Real Life
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Franchise: PaRappa the Rapper
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Dred Foxx, who voices Parappa, rapped the lyrics for "Unknown from M.E." (Knuckles' Theme) in Sonic Adventure.
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General, Music
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Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion (2001)
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If Luigi confronts King Boo before capturing all of the portrait ghosts, he will say "I will not give up my favorite decoration, I like Mario just where he is." This is a reference to Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. When Han Solo is trapped in carbonite, Jabba the Hutt says: "I will not give up my favorite decoration. I like captain Solo where he is." Both Mario and Solo being sealed away seems to reinforce this connection.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Message, Reference
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Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (1998)
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Attachment When playing on a mono-sound TV, or the audio is set to mono in the settings, calling Colonel Campbell a few times during the Hind battle will cause Snake's team to playfully mock him about not having a stereo TV.
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Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Real Life, Secret
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Hitman: Absolution
Hitman: Absolution (2012)
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Attachment The video reveal trailer ends by displaying a barcode. The numbers on the barcode teased a date (June 7th, 2011) when more about the game would be revealed. However, the company who made the trailer seem to have overlooked the barcode itself, as scanning the barcode takes viewers to an Amazon listing for a bag specifically designed to store sex toys.
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General, Mistake, Real Life
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Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations (2011)
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Jaleel White, known for his acting as Steve Urkel in the 90's sitcom "Family Matters", was considered by SEGA to be the voice of Classic Sonic. Jaleel was considered because he had previously voiced Sonic in "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", "Sonic the Hedgehog" (1993), and "Sonic Underground". Sega ultimately decided against casting Jaleel, resulting in a mute Sonic.
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General, Real Life
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Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)
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Attachment In the City Escape stage, there's a hidden message in one of the posters. "Anti XXXX XX2 Association". Since there is a 2 at the end of the XX, and the number of letters matches up, it was thought to stand for "Anti Sony PS2 Association". At the time, the Dreamcast was being dominated by the PlayStation 2 in sales.
The text was removed from later versions of the game.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Message, Release Difference, Version Difference
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Franchise: Spyro the Dragon
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Stewart Copeland, drummer of famed rock group "The Police", compased the soundtracks of the first four Spyro the Dragon games. The music for the level "Jacques" in Spyro the Dragon appears on his greatest hits album, "The Stewart Copeland Anthology".
(The music of the level Jacques is titled "Rain".)
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General, Music
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Metroid
Metroid (1986)
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Yoshio Sakamoto, co-creator of the Metroid series, has stated that Metroid was influenced by the 1979 sci-fi movie "Alien". This is evident when considering the following:
• Both Metroid and Alien feature a female lead protagonist.
• The Nostromo's computer is referred to as "Mother" and the antagonist of Metroid is Mother Brain.
• The Xenomorph aliens and Metroids both have multiple stages of development, and the first stage of both species latch on to other creatures.
• The boss "Ridley" is likely named after Alien's director Ridley Scott.
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Development, Inspiration
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)
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Attachment The character portraits were copied from famous films and icons.
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Development, Inspiration
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
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In Vilemyr Inn, Ivarstead, you'll find a woman by the name of Temba Wide-Arm. Her name is a subtle reference to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Darkmok', in which Picard and his crew encounter a race of aliens called the 'Tamaraians'. At one point, Picard is stuck on a planet's surface. He attempts to make a fire, but fails. A Tamarian named Dathon takes a branch from his own fire and throws it to Picard, saying "Temba, his arms wide", to make it clear the fire was a gift.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Franchise: Wario
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It's easy to assume that Wario's name was based on turning the M in Mario's name upside down, but this isn't entirely the case. The Japanese word for 'bad' is 'warui', so Wario is actually a shortened version of 'Warui Mario' (Bad Mario). This is also the case for Waluigi (Bad Luigi), and works even better in Japan, where his name is pronounced 'Waruigi'.
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General, Real Life
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Game Boy Camera
Game Boy Camera (1998)
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At the time of its release, the Game Boy Camera was the world's smallest digital camera.
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General, Real Life
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The Sims 3
The Sims 3 (2009)
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Attachment There is a reference to the Mass Effect series in the ambitions expansion. When using the time machine to travel to the future, your Sim appears in a crowd of people cheering about how a shepherd saved the galaxy from a 'huge ancient machine God threat.' Additionally, the futuristic outfits that can be obtained from the future highly resemble the Spectre armor found in Mass Effect.
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
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Attachment During the opening, you are shown inkblots in order to test your mental health. Fans thought that one of the inkblots looked like two bears high-fiving, but this was not an option in the game. A fan decided to make a mod for the game which made 'Two Bears High-Fiving' an option. Obsidian referenced the fan reaction and the mod by putting a character called 'Two-Bears-High-Fiving' in the game's Honest Hearts DLC.
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Easter Egg, Reference
person Psychospacecow calendar_month February 25, 2013
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