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Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (1998)
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It is normally required to use HM05 to teach a Pokemon the move Flash which can then be used to light up dark caves. However, if Pikachu learns either Thunderbolt or Thunder, talking to it will cause it to spark and briefly light up the cave. While this technique does not keep dark caves lit until you exit them like Flash, it can be used repeatedly to traverse dark caves anyways.
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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda (1986)
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In a 1994 interview with the game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto, featured in the liner notes of "The Legend of Zelda: Sound and Drama" CD, Miyamoto revealed that his team started development on the game as a launch title for the 1984 Famicom Disk System. Shortly before that, they began working on Super Mario Bros., which led to a period of 5 to 7 months where they worked on both games simultaneously, consequently causing the design stage of development to be very busy.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Game)
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Attachment In the Super Mario 3D All-Stars port of the game for the Nintendo Switch, the game's cutscenes were re-rendered into HD. However, an error slipped through where Princess Peach can now be seen T-posing during the game's opening sequence just after Bowser's airships drop their anchors into Peach's Castle.
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General, Mistake
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Terminator: Resistance
Terminator: Resistance (2019)
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Censorship, Development, General, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Dying Light
Dying Light (2015)
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Company: Bandai Namco Entertainment
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In 2011, Bandai Namco created the "United Galaxy Space Force" series that retconned and merged many of their futuristic space games that were previously unrelated to each other into a single continuity. As of 2014, the timeline connects together the plots of numerous games and series including (in chronological order on the timeline) Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Cyber Sled & Cyber Commando, Burning Force, Galaxian, Bosconian, Bounty Hounds, Starblade, Dig Dug, Baraduke, Mr. Driller, Star Luster & Star Ixiom, Mizuiro Blood, the cancelled game "Starblade - Operation Blue Planet", Shin-Gun Destroy! Girl's Tank Battalion, the cancelled game "New Space Order", and Thunder Ceptor & 3-D Thunder Ceptor II.
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Backstory/Lore, Development, General, Retcon
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2004)
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In the Shadowlands expansion, the guards in Oribos use giant, mustached human models underneath their armor.
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Easter Egg, General, Secret, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Tales of Destiny
Tales of Destiny (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Tales of Destiny (Game)
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During the first fight with Leon, it is possible to defeat him either through cheating or by grinding to at least level 12 beforehand. Beating him will trigger a short cutscene showing a secret ending to the game where Spoiler:Rutee briefly lambasts Leon and then forcibly enlists an upset Stahn to join her and Mary in becoming an infamous trio of globe-trotting Lens hunters, before the game abruptly returns to the title screen. This ending is not featured in the game's PlayStation 2 remake, as Leon's fight is redesigned to be impossible to defeat.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, Ending, General, Secret
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017)
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Likely a leftover feature from debug testing, a code could be activated in earlier versions of the game that can instantly kill the characters by holding ZL/ZR/L/R/X/D-Pad Down for around 5 seconds. It could also be activated in the middle of cutscenes or while talking to NPCs. This code was removed in version 2.1.0 of the game.
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Debug, Development, General, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Creatures II: Torture Trouble
Creatures II: Torture Trouble (1992)
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Attachment During the title screen's credits, an infinite lives cheat code involving pressing several impossible button combinations at once can instead be activated by wetting your finger and rubbing against the empty Control Port One on a Commodore 64 keyboard, tricking the game into thinking these combinations are being performed. A large sprite of Maximus Mouse (from the games Summer Camp and Winter Camp) will appear, replacing the giant sprite of Fuzzy that is normally in the background, waving his arms as you rub your finger across the port until he turns grey and the fountain of Fuzzy sprites that normally launches in the foreground instead launch flashing rainbow-colored Fuzzys, indicating the cheat has been activated.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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In the Shivering Isles expansion, Sheogorath is the only character in the game to have a grown-out beard, and the player cannot grow one of their own. If you attack Sheogorath, he will teleport you far above an unmarked location on the map called "Punishment Point", where you will fall to your death among other corpses. If you make it to Punishment Point on your own, a corpse named "Sheogorath's Punished" can be found with the following Death Decree attached to him explaining the "heinous crime" that sealed his fate there:

"Sheogorath, Prince of Madness, Lord of the Never-There, Sovereign of the Shivering Isles, does, on this day, hence-forth make this decree:

Robert Wisnewski

Citizen of the Shivering Isles, Resident of Bliss, and Honored Madman
has broken the laws and covenants of the Shivering Isles and offended the austere personage of Our Lord, through the following actions:
Attempting the Growth of a Beard, an Action Deemed Unseemly in the Eyes of Our Lord
It is further decreed that the actions of this citizen merit the strictest of punishments to be meted out at the earliest possible hour, in a manner to be chosen according to the Whims and Fancies of Our Lord Sheogorath"

Robert Wisnewski is the name of a member of Bethesda's art team that worked on the Shivering Isles expansion, presumably suggesting this Easter egg was a light jab at him for trying to grow a beard during development.
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Golden Sun
Golden Sun (2001)
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According to game's planner/scenario writer Hiroyuki Takahashi & assistant producer from Nintendo Toshiharu Izuno in a 2001 Nintendo Dream magazine interview, when Hiroyuki read the scenario, he came to believe that if they included the full story then the full playtime would likely be over 100 hours. Hiroyuki had doubts about whether such an epic amount was appropriate for a handheld game, and thought 40 or 50 hours would be a better volume for one game.

Izuno added that there was no need for a fixation on having it all in one game, and that his team had the idea early in development to switch protagonists for the second half of the story. They planned for Jasmine, Garcia, and Sheba to be the leads in the second Golden Sun game, with Alex's fate left unstated until the game's release.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Game), Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Game), Professor Layton and the Last Specter (Game)
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Attachment The Nintendo DS Start menu icons for the first four games in the series feature Layton gradually smiling more with each game before ending by pointing at something.
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Console Difference, Easter Egg, General, Release Difference
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SimCity 2000
SimCity 2000 (1993)
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The "zzt" sound effect that plays when you plant a new power line was recorded by series creator Will Wright with his voice initially as a placeholder, but was left in the final game as the developers liked it more than other sound effects they tried.
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Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
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According to game's director Chihiro Fujioka in a 1995 Family Computer Magazine and Haou interview, he was asked if Nintendo shot down any of Square's ideas for the game, to which he responded:

"We had periodic meetings with [Shigeru] Miyamoto, and he thought the majority of our ideas were interesting. He would rarely say a certain idea was “bad”; rather, he would point out how if we changed this, or re-arranged that, it would be more interesting, and more “Mario”-like. He gave us a lot of advice like that, which we used to adjust things in the game."

"Another thing was that, before we even started making Mario RPG specifically, we had this pre-conception at Square that RPGs==weapons. As our conversations progressed with Miyamoto, however, it became clear that this would be weird for a Mario game, that it didn’t seem to fit. When we realized that, it was a huge change in the direction of the development. We had always imagined the enemies would have weapons though. One thing we did leave in was the hammer, which Miyamoto insisted on having. Personally, I think getting hit with a hammer is more painful than being cut by a sword, but… (laughs)"
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Mario Kart 7
Mario Kart 7 (2011)
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Attachment The icon used in the Download Play app when downloading data for the game is a cruder, early version of the icon used for the final game. For unknown reasons, this discrepancy was fixed only in the Chinese release of the game.
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WWF No Mercy
WWF No Mercy (2000)
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The "Raw is War" intro theme was used for Undertaker's entrance by default due to the World Wrestling Federation (now the World Wrestling Entertainment or the WWE) not owning the licensing to the song "American Badass" by Kid Rock during the game's development. Oddly enough, the "Original Theme 4" found in the Create-a-Superstar option is a generic remake of said song, and his bike entrances do not appear in the game.
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General, Music, Real Life
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Clockwork Knight
Clockwork Knight (1994)
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In a 1995 interview with the game's producer Noriyoshi Ooba, found within the Sega Saturn Magazine (JP), he stated that the opening CG cutscene took almost 6 months to make. His team then recorded and produced the song featured in the cutscene at Sega's in-house digital recording studio, stating:

"It’s kind of amazing, to be able to do that kind of professional music recording at Sega offices. (laughs) I thought the song was really good too. It matched the visuals quite well, and the country style evoked the suburban American landscape."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Music, Real Life
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Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
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In a prototype version of the game, the Underground theme was originally meant to be an updated version of the Underground theme from Super Mario Bros. with added kick percussion, but this was scrapped in the final release. A similar-sounding Underground theme to that of Super Mario Bros. 2's prototype would end up being used in Super Mario Bros. 3.
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General, Music, Similarities, Theory, Unused Audio, Unused Content
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect (2007)
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During the course of the game, a superfan by the name of Conrad Verner approaches Commander Shepherd looking for autographs, eventually leading to him just showing up to fawn over Shepherd. Eventually, this leads to a choice of either dismissing him peacefully or aggressively. Due to a glitch, the game would incorrectly log which decision the player makes as the Renegade decision and makes Conrad act aggressively towards Shepherd over the course of Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 ruining the chances of seeing the end of his story arc.

This was fixed in the Legendary Edition rerelease. While the decision still registers incorrectly, Conrad will apologize for his behavior in the later games and allow the player to either continue the Renegade route or shift to the Paragon route of his story.
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