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Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
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Attachment A sword kit named "The Stonecutter" can be obtained at the Zasho River Pillar of Honor. Its description reads: "Humble, but more powerful than a prince". The sword name and description are possibly a reference to a story by the same name contained in Andrew Langs' The Crimson Fairy Book. In the story, a humble stonecutter wishes to be turned into many things that hold power by a mountain spirit, the first of which being a prince. In the end, he wishes to be changed back to his original form realizing that he is satisfied living as a humble stonecutter.
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Easter Egg, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference, Theory
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Five Nights at Freddy's Plus
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus (TBA)
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Attachment The animatronics' design in Five Nights at Freddy's Plus were inspired by the old, neglected or in-disrepair animatronics from abandoned locations, such as the animatronics from the West Virginia restaurant Billy Bob's Wonderland.
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Character Design, Development, Inspiration, Real Life
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The creator, Phisnom, included this in the FAQ on his Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/3wTC9Mvm
https://twitter.com/phisnom/status/1489722432793419777
Missile Command
Missile Command (1980)
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The originally planned title for Missile Command was "Armageddon", but this name was vetoed by upper management due to issues that children would have with spelling and pronouncing the name. It's also suggested that various members of Atari's upper management didn't know what the word actually meant. As such, the alternative title of "Missile Command" came about.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Development, Early Idea, Name Change, Real Life, Removed Feature, Title, Unused Text
person Lem0nDem0n calendar_month September 5, 2023
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MyPopgoes
MyPopgoes (2023)
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MyPOPGOES was entirely hand-drawn and developed in less than one month.
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Artwork/Illustration, Development, General
person Violett calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Sonic Superstars
Sonic Superstars (2023)
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Sonic Team was surprised by the excitement towards the return of obscure characters Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel in Sonic Mania Plus, leading them to decide to bring back another obscure character for Sonic Superstars. They ultimately went with Fang the Hunter (then known as Nack the Weasel or Fang the Sniper), one of the main antagonists of Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble.
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Development, General
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Windows Solitaire
Windows Solitaire (1990)
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Windows Solitaire was originally going to feature a "Boss Key" that would switch the game to a fake spreadsheet to fool bosses of workers playing the game. This was removed at Microsoft's request.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots (2007)
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Attachment While the Nicktoons Unite! game franchise exclusively featured characters from Nickelodeon cartoons, concept art for the Fairy Harvester stage from Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots shows Parker from the live-action puppet series Mr. Meaty on a sign for a fake restaurant made to lure fairies.
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Artwork/Illustration, Cameo, Development, Unused Character
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment In Sports mode, the Arnold football has an indicator above it to inform players that it must be grabbed and not hit. This graphic, however, is a crude placeholder graphic that appears to have slipped into the final game.
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Development, Leftover, Mistake, Placeholder
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Every character in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl has an internal codename used instead of their name. These are:

• Orb - Garfield (Garfield is fat)
• Moon - Leonardo (Unknown, but possibly a reference to the opening shot of the '87 TMNT cartoon's theme song being the moon)
• Pizza - Michelangelo (The Ninja Turtles are known to love pizza, with Michelangelo being the biggest fan of the food among his brothers)
• Cheese - Shredder (Shredder's character design was based on a cheese grater)
• Reporter - April (April is a news reporter)
• Mascot - Reptar (Reptar is a fictional character within the Rugrats universe who appears on a variety of products, particularly toys and food)
• Duo - Ren & Stimpy (Ren & Stimpy are two characters who fight as one unit)
• Hero - Powdered Toast Man (Powdered Toast Man is a parody of superheroes)
• Squirrel - Rocko (A running gag in Rocko's Modern Life involves Rocko being mistaken for other animals, such as kangaroos, beavers, and squirrels, instead of a wallaby)
• Snake - Oblina (Oblina has a thin, somewhat curved shape akin to a snake)
• Rival - Helga (Helga has a love-hate relationship with series protagonist Arnold)
• Narrator - Nigel (Nigel hosts his own nature show-within-a-show called Nigel Thornberry's Animal World)
• Chimera - CatDog (CatDog is two animals with a single body)
• Apple - SpongeBob (SpongeBob lives in a pineapple)
• Star - Patrick (Patrick is a starfish)
• Diver - Sandy Cheeks (Sandy is a land mammal who lives underwater)
• Alien - Zim (Zim is an alien invader)
• Pie - Hugh (Hugh loves pie, and his home stage is a giant pie)
• Neo - Jenny (Jenny is a futuristic robot, and quite young, being a teenager mentally and having been built 3 years ago in the show)
• Plasma - Danny Phantom (Danny's main method of attack is shooting ghost plasma rays.)
• Kite - Aang (Aang travels using a glider, which he uses as an attack in NASB)
• Clay - Toph (Toph forms clay structures out of ground)
• Athlete - Korra (Korra partakes in a sport known as Pro-Bending)
• Rascal - Lincoln Loud (Lincoln is a mischievous child)
• Goth - Lucy Loud (Lucy is a goth)
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Development, Filename, Unused Text
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Peppa Pig: World Adventures
Peppa Pig: World Adventures (2023)
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Peppa Pig: World Adventures' character creator allows players to make same-sex parents and families comprised of multiple animal species. Developer David Moral claimed that it would've been significantly easier during development to simply have a default player family instead of a character creator, but that it was not an option to anyone on the development team and striving for representation was "super worth it".
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Customization, Development, LGBTQ+
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Atari (Company)
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According to accounts from multiple 1970s-era Atari developers in interviews for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, drugs were used heavily at the offices of Atari, and contributed to brainstorming for game ideas.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
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In September of 2020, a typhoon toppled a torii gate at the Shinto Shrine of Watatsumi on the Island of Tsushima. A few months later in November of 2020, a priest from the shrine, Yuichi Hirayama, created a fundraising campaign page to help rebuild said torii gate. Fans of Ghost of Tsushima flooded the campaign page and smashed the goal amount of ¥ 5 million Yen (about $48,000 USD) eventually hitting over 20 million Yen by the end of December 2020. As of now it is unknown whether the gate has been fully rebuilt or not, as updates on the crowdfunding page were only viewable to supporters, although it appears to have gotten far enough that the last supporter update headlines in 2022 concerned the construction of a memorial monument and nameplate.
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Crowdfunding Campaign, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
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In response to Ghost of Tsushima's popularity, Nagasaki Prefecture of which the island of Tsushima is governed under, created a website to help encourage tourism to the island. It explores historical sites that show up in the game, local foods, and activities to partake in on the island that also involve locations depicted in the game.
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General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
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Attachment A sword kit named, "Ōmukade's Revenge", can be obtained by completing the mythic tale "The Spirit of Yarikawa's Vengeance". The design on the sword wrap depicts a coiling giant centipede. This is possibly a reference to the Japanese folktale of Tawara Tōda Monogatari in which a giant centipede (mukade or Ōmukade in Japanese) yokai terrorizes a kingdom.
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Ghost of Tsushima - Omukade's Revenge sword guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1THLIOtw0U

Wikipedia article for Tawara Tōda Monogatari:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawara_Tōda_Monogatari

Depiction of Omukade from Tawara Toda Monogatari at Seta no Karahashi Bridge:
https://photoguide.jp/pix/displayimage.php?album=451&pid=11197#top_display_media

Same bridge as above but different depiction:
https://photoguide.jp/pix/displayimage.php?album=451&pid=11196#top_display_media

My Lord Bag of Rice English translation articles:
https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/bag-of-rice.html?m=1
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/72/japanese-fairy-tales/4846/my-lord-bag-of-rice/
Starfield
Starfield (2023)
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All of the celestial bodies of the Alpha Centauri system (the star and star system that both in real life and the game is the closest to The Sun and the Solar System) are named after real-life humans who had or have a hand in space travel and cosmic studies. This includes the following:

• Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin - A Soviet Cosmonaut who is known the world over to be the first man and human in space.

• Bondar - Roberta Bondar - First female Astronaut from Canada.

• Jemison - Mae C. Jemison - The first African-American woman to visit outer space.

• Olivas - John D. Olivas - NASA Astronaut and Engineer who helped out with the STS-117 and STS-128

• Curbeam - Robert Curbeam - The NASA Astronaut who holds the record for most Space Walks in a single space flight.

• Grissom - Gus Grissom - an esteemed NASA astronaut that became one of the first Americans in space.

• Kurtz - Michael J. Kurtz - a Harvard University astrophysicist known for his work on NASA's Astrophysics Data System, and for studying the distribution of different galaxies throughout space.

• Chawla - Kalpana Chawla - First woman of Indian descent to go on a space flight and also sadly one of the victims of the 2003 space shuttle Columbia explosion.

• Hawley - Steven Hawley - American Astronaut who flew on five US space shuttle flights.

• Lovell - Jim Lovell - The man who piloted the command module of the Apollo 8 vessel that was successful in orbiting the Moon.

• Voss - James Voss - An Astronaut who has visited the International Space Station 5 times.

• Zamka - George David Zamka - Pilot of the space shuttle Discovery and visitor to the ISS.
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Cameo, General, Hidden Credit, Inspiration, Real Life, Secret, Similarities
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My Friendly Neighborhood
My Friendly Neighborhood (2023)
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Prior to its release, Ducky Dev posted a clip on Twitter showing off a glitch he discovered where rather than being eliminated, a Norman would instead spawn out into dozens of Normans. The clip in question went viral, leading to several wishlists on Steam; Ducky Dev ultimately chose to make the glitch a part of the final game, albeit limiting it to one room.
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Development, Glitch, Inspiration, Real Life
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Original tweet showcasing the glitch:
https://twitter.com/Ducky_Szymanski/status/1431655313929740293

YouTube video by Ducky Dev explaining the glitch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsIjfpcI7Co

YouTube video by Vinesauce Vinny showing the multi-Normal sequence in the final game (at 9:48):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAoRq-XfJIg
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery (2024)
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FNaF AR was Illumix's first game, which was revealed in YouTuber Dawko's interview with Illumix CEO, Kirin Sinha.
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Development, General
person Violett calendar_month September 5, 2023
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage
Security Breach: Fury's Rage (2021)
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage is a parody of arcade beat 'em up games, specifically Final Fight and Streets of Rage. This was the last game Scott Cawthon made before retiring from game development, which was only made to apologize to fans for delaying the next mainline game in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. Cawthon even states in the opening cutscene for the game:

"No. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna kill me. The fanbase. When they find out that I have to delay the game again. They're gonna kill me. They're gonna burn my house down. They're gonna- they're gonna- they're gonna tar and feather me. What am I gonna do? I know. I'll make a game for them. A game where I can help them. A game where I fight with them. That's it. Then I can be- then I can be the hero. Then they won't kill me. And what will I call the game? Hmm, something creative."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Security Breach: Fury's Rage Opening cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NWgC8Z3SU

Final Fight gameplay for comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymIQ1FywrA
SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (2002)
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Despite the fact that Tom Kenny reprises his role as SpongeBob and Gary in this game, he does not reprise his role as the French Narrator from the show. This is unusual not only because the French Narrator has a prominent role in this game, but because the character sounds completely different to how he sounds in the show.
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Cameo, Credits, Development, General, Real Life, Voice Acting
person PirateGoofy calendar_month September 4, 2023
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Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl (2001)
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During developement, devs were already creating partial assets for RC versions of two classic Twisted Metal characters: Grasshopper and Warthog. However, because developement was rushed, they could not completely finish either in time, so they came up with an idea to combine the two: they would use Grasshopper's car shape/design, stats and everything else from Warthog (including his name and cutscenes), complete with a camouflage coloration for the car and its flag. This character even became known as "Warthopper" among the devs because of this. One particular dev on the GoodrichGames YouTube channel even stated that he was disappointed with Warthog's final Special in the game (which was modified from both Specter's and Crimson Fury's) and said that if they had more time it would be fixed mechanically and also unique with each missile doing something different.
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Complaint, Development, Early Idea, Inspiration, Mistake, Real Life, Secret, Similarities, Unused Character
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