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| This character was originally an adult green dragon named Pete. But to avoid lawsuits from Disney, the developers aged him down and, of course, made him purple. | |
| The original plan for this game was to have a certain plumber shoot guns instead of fireballs. Satoru Iwata suggested that the player would have had a rifle or beam gun. | |
| This series was to debut on the Nintendo 64 and have 'Forest' in the title. Instead, you met your wild neighbors on the Gamecube with this title. | |
| Todd Howard said that Bethesda was in talks to make games based on A Song of Fire and Ice but that they turned it down to make this Elder Scrolls title instead. | |
| Link vs. aliens, Link in modern times with an electric guitar, and Link with a cyber arm were all ideas tossed around before Nintendo went with this open-world game instead. | |
| Valve admitted that they tried to finally create the third official game of this series during 2013-14. It was cancelled due to the Source 2 engine being unable to handle it. | |
| The creators of this game had always intended for a character to die, but it was originally going to be a choice between Aerith or Barret. They settled on just Aerith. | |
| There is concept art of a DIC animated show based on this series. The big change? Making the beloved space bounty hunter a MAN. | |
| Had the games stuck to their original mascot, most merchandise and the anime would have focused on Clefairy instead of... you know who. | |
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| This character was originally designed as a rabbit who grabbed things with his ears. But since 16-bit couldn't handle ear dynamics, Sega eventually went with something faster. | |
| The first game of this series was conceived as a real-time strategy game set in space. Bungie changed it to a first-person shooter, and the rest was Xbox history. | |
| If it weren't for time constraints, Marth from Fire Emblem would have made his American debut in the first game of this fighting series. He would debut in the SECOND game. | |
| At various points in this horror series' developments, the creators wanted to have the protagonist fight zombie wildcats, apes, and horses. | |
| It was revealed that Moana and Rogue One would have been included into this series had the game not been cancelled in May 2016. | |
| The original concept for this game was a sandbox world where players interacted with dinosaurs on the street. Thankfully, Rockstar went with the more criminal concept instead. | |
| Core Design first envisioned their lead of this adventure game series as an Indiana Jones-type man. Instead, the main character was made a woman. | |
| Rareware had created a game for Nintendo called Dinosaur Planet about two canines stranded on the title planet. However, it was reworked into a game for this furry space series. | |
| Allegedly, the first person considered to play President John Henry Eden in the third game of this series was none other than the 42nd President himself, Bill Clinton. | |
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