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Anton was originally supposed to be an alcoholic in Antonball Deluxe, but the publisher forced the developers to remove that element, and he would drink sodas and floats instead. Anton would be made a drunkard in Antonblast, and the plot of the new game would revolve around rescuing his collection of "spirits".
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Anton was originally created as series creator Tony Grayson's profile picture for a forum when he was 9 years old in 2007, under the name "Red Guy". Because the first Antonball was black and white, Red Guy was renamed to Anton. One of the Anton variant characters in Antonball Deluxe is named after Red Guy.
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Inside the code of Antonball Deluxe are two graphics related to "Big Chungus", a popular screenshot from the 1941 Looney Tunes cartoon "Wabbit Twouble" - one of Big Chungus himself in the Antonball art style, and another depicting Anton with the body proportions of Big Chungus. These sprites were used for a placeholder object that no longer exists in the final game.
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According to creator Tony Grayson, possibly in a joking manner, the Anton characters are all multicoloured as a result of a nuclear war that left only Japan and their home country of the Backburner Peninsula, and are not meant to be any real-world enthicity. Grayson jokingly compared the skin colors of the Anton characters to The Groovenians, a 2002 Cartoon Network pilot that was not picked up for a series.
subdirectory_arrow_right Summitsphere (Company)
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Developers at Summitsphere are known to use Fixed Rilla Roo from Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as a personal in-joke, referring to anything in an in-development game that is revised, even if it's simply an improvement and not a fix, as "FIXED (blank)". This is most likely the inspiration for Fixed Gold Evil Baby Paul (Shiny)'s name in Antonball Deluxe.
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The online mode of Antonball Deluxe was originally called "Antonline", this was changed due to the name already being taken by an online retailer.
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The music track "Super Gangston!" in Antonball Deluxe is a highly distorted early version of "Dynamite Man" from Antonblast, which had not been officially revealed at the time of the game's launch.
Antonblast Deluxe - Super Gangston!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0teJ5aMkXNY
Antonblast - Dynamite Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9GWa8r37M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0teJ5aMkXNY
Antonblast - Dynamite Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9GWa8r37M
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Paul's walking sound effect in Antonball Deluxe is sampled from CrazyBus, a homebrew game for the Sega Genesis.
Antonball Deluxe - Paul sound effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AypVyCNm2eI
Crazy Bus - Title Screen music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0cvwnG0Ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AypVyCNm2eI
Crazy Bus - Title Screen music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0cvwnG0Ik
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Inside the code of Antonball Deluxe is a small, barely-legible image file simply called "hi", depicting former US president Donald Trump riding a Green Shell in a fan-made remake of Super Mario 64. Tony Grayson, the creator of Antonball, posted a high resolution rendition of the image on Twitter a year before the game's launch.
The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Antonball_Deluxe/Unused_Sprites
Tony Grayson tweet:
https://twitter.com/graysonZ80/status/1237008900483952640
https://tcrf.net/Antonball_Deluxe/Unused_Sprites
Tony Grayson tweet:
https://twitter.com/graysonZ80/status/1237008900483952640
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