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Player Two Start

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Player Two Start	comment	An Alternate History work by RySenkari and Nivek on AlternateHistory.com, Player Two Start is a pop culture timeline that focuses on the Console Wars with one significant change, a change that promises to not only impact the landscape of gaming, but all of pop culture and beyond.As everyone well versed in the gaming world knows, Nintendo partnered with Sony to release a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, only to break off the deal after Nintendo discovered a clause in the contract that would have given Sony's 100% of the software royalties for every CD game sold. Sony would eventually launch the PlayStation, causing Nintendo to struggle to stay relevant in the console space, but would also contribute to Sega leaving the hardware market and becoming a third-party developer, and lead to the rise of Xbox. Now many have wondered what if Nintendo decided to continue working with Sony and made the Super Nintendo CD a reality?In this timeline, Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, made the fateful decision that the technology offered by Sony was simply too good to pass up, and ultimately decides to renegotiate Nintendo's contract with Sony, using the on-going talks with Philips as a bargaining chip.From there, countless things change.As of February 2016, the timeline is finished, covering a timespan from June 1991 to May 2000. A sequel, Massively Multiplayer (covering May 2000 to October 2012), began in August 2016 and ended in December 2019. The second sequel, Battle Royale began in the same month and ended in November 2021.A recap of all the changes to gaming, culture, and the broader world featured in the game can be found here.
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Player Two Start / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: Columbine still happens, except that with Polly Klaas's influence and Dylan Klebold refusing to participate, Eric Harris's attempt fizzles out with only two deaths, one of them being himself. A far deadlier school shooting occurs later on in the timeline, during February 2001; it takes place at Manchester High School and its culprit is none other than Chris-Chan.
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Player Two Start / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Player Two Start / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of the bosses in Naughty Dog's Dog Dash was a evil game show host that was seen as a parody of Bob Barker. More specially, one of the main characters is a dog, and the boss is obsessed with having said dog neutered, referencing Bob Barker constantly telling the public to have their pets spayed or neutered. Needless to say, the real Bob Barker didn't find it funny.
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Player Two Start / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
Player Two Start / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: invoked In spite of Call of Duty: Domination becoming notorious for its toxic and racist playerbase with the latter surged by the events of the Pakistani War, not being helped by Activision still getting hit with various lawsuits, it still manages to make insane profits.
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Player Two Start / int_196a2a76	type	Polished Port
Player Two Start / int_196a2a76	comment	Polished Port: invoked The Director's Cut version of Resident Evil released for the Ultra Nintendo, which has new music, graphics vastly improved over the original Saturn version, and an epilogue chapter leading into Resident Evil 2 that details the beginnings of the Raccoon City outbreak. (The Saturn also got the Director's Cut, which contained a demo for RE2, but lacked the visual improvements, the new music, and the bonus chapter.)
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Player Two Start / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Player Two Start / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: Bandai decides to go all in as a competitor to Nintendo/Sony and Sega, using the Pippin technology from Apple. The Bandai Solaris becomes a massive money sink for Bandai, ultimately failing in 1996, and would later lead to the company's liquidation.
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Player Two Start / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Player Two Start / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: This timeline's version of Secret of Mana has three of them, depending if the player decides to side with humanity, the guardians of Mana, or seek a balance between the two. Inspired by the above game and Elements of Mana, this timeline's version of Final Fantasy VII has three endings, dependent on Cloud's Relationship Values with Aeris, Tifa, and Barret. The character with the highest affinity to Cloud is the one who gets killed (with Aeris's death following the OTL storyline and is considered the canon path ITTL) which dictates how the threat of Meteor plays out in the ending.
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Player Two Start / int_1c7a10ec	type	Pirates vs. Ninjas
Player Two Start / int_1c7a10ec	comment	Pirates vs. Ninjas: Due to the combination of the mini-pirate boom in 1995 popular culture and Power Rangers running a ninja-themed arc that year to coincide with the movie, this trope winds up intact ITTL... albeit with the trope-naming meme starting up a decade earlier.
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Player Two Start / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Player Two Start / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Howard Lincoln eventually bows down to this in the aftermath of Christian Weston Chandler's rampage, as he has to go to a Congressional hearing in regards to violent video games and the backlash over Chandler's video game habit.
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Player Two Start / int_20a18a93	type	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
Player Two Start / int_20a18a93	comment	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: There is considerable skepticism to the trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Hero Eternal on account of it being transitioned to Urban Fantasy in the modern day, with former GameTV host Alex Stansfield as one of the skeptics. Then it comes out in 2004 and blows him and everyone away (not dissimilar to what The Wind Waker went through OTL). Alex's first impressions say it all:
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Player Two Start / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Player Two Start / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The fifth Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Dreams for the SNES-CD, would be the direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, forming what would be called the Link to the Past Trilogy. Not only that, Link's Awakening serves to setup the events of Ocarina of Dreams, in contrast to OTL's Link's Awakening where it was a filler story within the series' mythology.
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Player Two Start / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Player Two Start / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The Secret of Monkey Island is ported to the SNES-CD with additional puzzles, locations, and songs. invokedIt's considered to be more well-known than its original PC version, and the success of the port would inspire other computer game developers to port their software to the Super Nintendo CD, and inspired Naughty Dog to create Tales of the Seven Seas.
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Player Two Start / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
Player Two Start / int_2536f695	comment	Game-Breaker: An In-Universe example with the First-Person Shooter game The Pact and its so-called "Rambo mode" (which pits one overpowered player against several others), which is so skewed in favour of the one-man-army that if a half-decent player is controlling him, it's impossible for him to lose no matter how good the other players are. To illustrate in his review, Alex Stansfield says he managed to get all nine GameTV hosts together in a 9 vs. 1 match against Brittany's husband Chris Hardwick, who is fair at FPS but not compared to his wife... and they could not beat him once. No wonder the game was a disappointment.
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Player Two Start / int_258a5cfe	type	Different World, Different Movies
Player Two Start / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: With the Super Nintendo CD on the market, brand new franchises have come into being, as well as different sequels to existing games. There are cases of games that existed OTL that don't even have an equivalent in this timeline. Due to Tale Phantasia lacking the invokedExecutive Meddling of OTL, Star Ocean is butterflied away, as its creators didn't leave Wolf Team. The Tales Series goes outright in a different direction as well. With Squaresoft still a Nintendo-aligned developer, Nintendo teams up with them again for a Super Mario RPG sequel instead of doing the Spiritual Successor Paper Mario with Intelligent Systems. Fullmetal Alchemist is an Action RPG for the Nintendo Wave, and developed by Quintet with a gameplay style very similar to Terranigma. It features 2 hours of anime cutscenes. Outside of video games, superhero films — Warner Bros./DC and 20th Century Fox/Marvel — have been popular since the mid-90s (since TTL's Batman & Robin never discredits superhero films, like it did IOTL.) Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez collaborate to make the 1998 Godzilla film, which becomes a critical and commercial hit. 20th Century Fox continues to make Star Wars movies, but Steven Spielberg becomes the director for the prequel and sequel trilogies with George Lucas in the role of producer/writer. After Titanic (1997), James Cameron returns to the Terminator franchise with a film that's nowhere near as base breaking as OTL's Terminator sequels, and one that wraps up the franchise. James Cameron directs the film adaptation of Metroid, which becomes a massive critical and commercial hit and a game-changer for cinematic adaptations of video games. Phineas and Ferb, premiered in 1995 as a Nicktoon. Larry & Steve takes the place of Family Guy and became a major hit on Cartoon Network, and Avatar: The Last Airbender is a Toonami staple ITTL. The Legend of Zelda has an animated series adaptation from Disney. Toy Story 3 is released in 2009, a year earlier than OTL with a few minor changes. Drew Barrymore is the host of Late Night. Thomas & Friends gets a CGI re-adaptation that's more faithful to the original Railway Series and airs on Cartoon Network. The development of the internet also changed ITTL; for example, Reddit is instead known as Rootalk (with "roots" instead of subreddits), while Tumblr is known as Skywave. Disney buys WildStorm in 1998. Both Miraculous Ladybug and Star Wars: The Clone Wars make their debut in TTL's pop culture as smash-hit video games.
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Player Two Start / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Player Two Start / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Everything about Christian Weston Chandler's rampage has references to the life of OTL's Chris Chandler, such as the fact that Chris won a contest tied to the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and the fact that Chris drew a story with Sonichu in a custom-made Nintendo Power issue. Chris is referred to here as "Christopher" here, which was indeed Chris-Chan's birth name.
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Player Two Start / int_29984ee9	type	Dueling Products
Player Two Start / int_29984ee9	comment	Dueling Products: invoked Mega Man X2 and Pulseman had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally, there were comparisons made due to their similarities. During the 1993 holidays, Sega positioned Ultima Underworld II for the Sega CD against Secret of Mana for the SNES-CD, hedging their bets on Ultima being a recognizable name in the RPG world versus an unknown like Secret of Mana. Midway had the confidence to launch Mortal Kombat 3 against Killer Instinct in the month of September 1995. Killer Instinct would outsell the former while Mortal Kombat 3 would not live up to the sales of the previous games. Several role-playing games get released on the SNES-CD as part of Nintendo's "Year of the RPG" campaign of 1996. These games included Chrono Trigger, Tale Phantasia, Super Mario RPG, Fire Emblem: The Holy War, and Elements of Mana. Of these games, Chrono Trigger and Tale Phantasia are the highest acclaimed for the year, with Tale Phantasia being the best-selling game for the year and Chrono Trigger being second best. Tale outselling Chrono is significant as it was released in the summer while Chrono dropped in March, and Tale was from the lesser known Telenet Japan while Chrono was from Squaresoft. Arguably, Nintendo publishing Tale helped it in its favor. Superhero movies become big about a decade earlier than in OTL, and as such, the DC and Marvel cinematic universes — and their respective film studios, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox (News Corporation bought out Marvel after its bankruptcy ITTL) — become bitter rivals. While Vintage Speed Series on the Saturn and Gran Turismo 2 on the Ultra Nintendo were conceived independently of one another, the circumstances — two racing sims exclusive to competing consoles — inevitably leads to comparisons.
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Player Two Start / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
Player Two Start / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: Super Mario World 2 is similar to both New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U in terms of its plot. It starts at Princess Peach's castle with a party (like in Wii), but it's for her return. Bowser and the Koopalings then come in, seize the castle, and kick the Mario Bros. and Yoshi out (á la U). In our history, Sega and Bandai considered merging. In this timeline, Sega buys up Bandai in 1998 when the latter is put up for sale. Joe Quesada joked that he would have Peter Parker sell his soul to Mephisto in order to make him Spider-Man again. Sega of America's president notes in an interview that the higher-ups in Japan wanted a May 1995 release of the Saturn to coincide with E3, which in his opinion would've led to a disastrous launch. Avril Lavigne never becomes a pop singer, and instead becomes a professional skateboarder, even being featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. In other words, "she was a Sk8er Girl, he said 'see you later, girl!'" Warner Bros./DC and 20th Century Fox/Marvel are engaged in the "Superhero Wars" in movie theaters. Scarlett Johansson portrays a red-haired Marvel character... who is not Black Widow. Instead, it's Mary Jane Watson. Likewise, Johansson's co-star Chris Evans played a Spider-Man character instead of Captain America. A very dark one comes up with Christian Weston Chandler's mass murder spree. Many of the facets of the OTL Chandler's life, including an alternate version of Sonichu and the infamous "love quest", are reflected here — and take on much darker overtones in light of the fact that he killed 21 people at his high school. Furthermore, the real Chandler was notorious for using autism as an excuse in order to deflect criticism and responsibility for her own mistakes and misdeeds; here, it's concluded that Chandler wasn't autistic, but incorrect early reports that he was lead to a wave of stigmatization against people with autism in the early '00s (similar to OTL's anti-goth backlash post-Columbine). When Steve Jobs hears that the Nintendo Reality will have VR capabilities, he takes it seriously because "in what reality would Nintendo ever willingly release a bad VR product?" The COVID-19 Pandemic inspired an update about a computer virus known as the Corona virus, so named because it apparently originated from pirated copies of Corona del Sol. In January 2019, when discussing the could-have-been merger between Disney and 20th Century Fox, an insider stated that "Fox couldn't imagine a world in which Disney and itself ever joined forces, according to one prominent executive in the company". One of the epilogue scenes is President John F. Kennedy Jr. and Diana, former Princess of Wales talking in the Oval Office, talking about feeling like they're not supposed to be here, with Diana mentioning car chases and Elton's song "Candle in the Wind", and John talking about flying airplanes and his family curse.
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Player Two Start / int_2b7ec38e	type	The Scrappy
Player Two Start / int_2b7ec38e	comment	The Scrappy: invokedSteve Horton, a new host added to the GameTV lineup in 1999, comes to be fairly unpopular with the show's fans. While he was just as passionate a gamer as the other hosts, his crass, party-hard demeanor was seen as a clash with the show's style and emblematic of the "new MTV" of the late '90s and early '00s.
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Player Two Start / int_3033b958	type	Giant Enemy Crab
Player Two Start / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab
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Player Two Start / int_313598b7	type	Millennium Bug
Player Two Start / int_313598b7	comment	Millennium Bug: Tom Kalinske makes a joke about Y2K while watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve 1999. Given that Sega, by that point, was a clear second to Nintendo, and that he was probably going to lose his job as a result, he quips to his wife that he was hoping the Y2K bug was real just so there would be something to slow Nintendo's momentum.
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Player Two Start / int_31f344c7	type	In Memoriam
Player Two Start / int_31f344c7	comment	In Memoriam: invoked Some In-Universe examples: An episode of GameTV and the E3 2000 show had tributes to Shigeru Miyamoto, who died unexpectedly in early May 2000. Summer 2014 brings the passing of someone foretold all the way back in April 1995 - the death of GameTV host and Gamer Chick icon Brittany Saldita to ovarian cancer. An outpouring of support follows from friends and celebrities alike.
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Player Two Start / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Player Two Start / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: TMZ gets an exclusive video of Lyssa Fielding having an on-set meltdown. Considering that she was just told that her best friend Brittany Saldita had just passed away, her sorrow is perfectly understandable.
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Player Two Start / int_34a029a2	type	Creative Differences
Player Two Start / int_34a029a2	comment	invoked Creative Differences: What almost splits the Nintendo/Sony alliance, due to Sony wanting to make the next Nintendo system backwards compatible. Yamauchi ends up accepting that condition as he figures Sony needs Nintendo more than Nintendo needs Sony, and backwards compatibility wasn't really that much of a concession. Enix, feeling their games weren't given proper treatment by Nintendo, opted to develop for the Sega Saturn for the fifth generation. Working Designs left Sega's camp for Nintendo's after the debacle surrounding the Mega Charger version of Lunar: The Silver Star.
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Player Two Start / int_372a75a0	type	Bile Fascination
Player Two Start / int_372a75a0	comment	invokedChris Chandler, creator of the infamously bad webcomic Sonichu in OTL, here becomes a spree killer, responsible for TTL's equivalent of Columbine (the actual Columbine massacre wound up fizzling out ITTL).
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Player Two Start / int_3b4bc951	type	Killer App
Player Two Start / int_3b4bc951	comment	Killer App: invoked Super Mario Kart and Final Fantasy: New Generation are this for the SNES-CD at launch. Later killer apps for it include Super Mario World 2, Mortal Kombat, Star Fox, Secret of Mana, Squad Fournote A sci-fi shooter that's described as a mix of OTL's Jet Force Gemini, Sin and Punishment, and Star Fox, Donkey Kong Country and 2, Ballistic Limitnote An alien invasion action/first-person shooter game that plays somewhat like a more linear, level-based Metroid: Other M, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Dreams. Sega doesn't have a killer app for the Sega CD, which plays second fiddle to the SNES-CD for its entire lifespan; they hoped that Sonic CD would be that game, but while it got rave reviews, it didn't sell many consoles. They did, however, have a big one for the Mega Charger: Sonic the Hedgehog 3. While it also released on the Genesis (where it became the first game in history to sell a million copies in one day), the Mega Charger version featured a massive amount of new levels and bosses and pushed more Mega Chargers than any other game. Later attempts at killer apps for it failed, however, as the ports of both Star Wars Arcade and Doom turned out to be fairly sloppy and rushed. At launch, the Sega Saturn's killer apps are the so-called "Virtua Trio" of Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, and Virtua Cop, with the latter two games also helping to sell the Saturn's steering wheel and light-gun peripherals respectively. (A bundle of the Saturn, all three Virtua games, and both peripherals is a top seller around Christmas '95.) To a lesser extent, Ridge Racer is also a killer app, though its greatest legacy is in helping to build a working relationship between Sega and Bandai Namco Entertainment. But it wouldn't be until the April 1996 release of Resident Evil, combined with a price cut a month earlier, that the Saturn would begin to outsell the Genesis in North America and get closer to the SNES-CD in sales. Following that is the late August 1996 release of Virtua Fighter 2, where for the first time the Saturn beats the SNES-CD in weekly sales, and the release of Tomb Raider in October. Finally, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is released in November, at which point the Saturn consistently outsells the SNES-CD on a monthly basis. Other killer apps include Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Fighters Megamix, and Vintage Speed Series (a racing sim revolving around classic cars). The Ring, a peripheral designed to boost the power of the Saturn to compete with the Ultra Nintendo, has Shenmue and the platformer Spare Parts as its killer apps at launch. The Game Boy Color's killer app is a puzzle game called World of Color. When the Ultra Nintendo is launched, its killer app is Super Mario Dimensions, TTL's version of Super Mario 64 that leaves a similar impact on gaming. Later killer apps include Final Fantasy VII, the Gran Turismo games, GoldenEye (released here in 1998 instead of '97), The Legend of Zelda: Temple of Time (TTL's version of Ocarina of Time), Squad Four: Rebellion, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Metroid: Darkness, and Velvet Dark (TTL's version of Perfect Dark). The killer app for the Game Boy Nova is Pokémon Sun and Moon, TTL's version of Pokémon Gold and Silver. The Nintendo Wave's killer applications are Killer Instinct 3, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Ken Griffey: Hall of Fame, Thrillseekersnote An extreme sports series published by Activision from TTL, spearheaded by Avril Lavigne (yes, that one). It revolves around six teenage girls who enjoy a variety of extreme sports, and featuring a story mode worked on by professional film and TV writers, Beyond Good & Evil, Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Final Fantasy X (A substantially different game from OTL's Final Fantasy X), Squad Four: Upheaval, Metroid: Homecoming, Big Bad Heronote A Nintendo IP original to TTL, following an evil sorcerer (voiced by Henry Rollins) who is reawakened by a child and decides to save the world from an alien invasion, Kingdom Hearts, The Legend of Zelda: Hero Eternal note A Zelda game taking place in a Hyrule inspired by modern-day cities, born out of Eiji Aonuma's grief following Shigeru Miyamoto's death., Metal Gear Solid II: Children of the Patriotsnote A combination of OTL's Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater, featuring flashback sequences to Naked Snake's mission mixed with contemporary sequences following Solid Snake, Super Mario Shadesnote A Mario platformer where Mario utilizes sunglasses. No, seriously., Final Fantasy Onlinenote TTL's equivalent of Final Fantasy XI, Lash Outnote A Nintendo IP original to TTL and directed by David Jaffe, making it TTL's answer to God of War, Velvet Dark: Conspiracy, and Star Fox: Heroic Universe.
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Player Two Start / int_3bb7e553	type	Interactive Movie
Player Two Start / int_3bb7e553	comment	Interactive Movie: Having two major optical-disc consoles in the early '90s leads to a larger boom in the FMV industry. Unlike OTL, where "FMV" became a byword for shovelware, some of these games are actually pretty good, most notably Star Fox made as a collaboration between Nintendo and the Jim Henson Company that leads to further partnerships down the road (including a popular FMV Muppets game in 1995). The popularity of FMV also produces an entire genre of "detective games" that are known for their sharp writing and crafty puzzles, and which outlasts the medium of FMV, enjoying a renaissance in the '00s. The novelty wears off by the end of the Fourth Generation, with the 1996 detective game Dark City: A Death In The Family considered the last great FMV game as pre-rendered cutscenes took over, though it doesn't become invokedCondemned by History like it did in OTL. That said, there is still quite a bit of notorious crap; some games that only exist in TTL are bad enough to give the Nerd nightmares.
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Player Two Start / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Player Two Start / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Summer 2014 brings the passing of someone foretold all the way back in April 1995 - the death of GameTV host and Gamer Chick icon Brittany Saldita to ovarian cancer. An outpouring of support follows from friends and celebrities alike.
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Player Two Start / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Player Two Start / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: This timeline's version of Dylan Klebold decides not to go through with the Columbine shooting.
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Player Two Start / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Player Two Start / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Becomes "Garg Rush" after the mooks from Commander Keen, specifically the final part of "The Universe is Toast".
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Player Two Start / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Player Two Start / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Eric Harris had one on Polly Klaas, with some of his actions driven by his crush on her.
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Player Two Start / int_4526b7c8	type	Player Punch
Player Two Start / int_4526b7c8	comment	invoked Player Punch: In the Dog Mode difficulty of Ninja Gaiden IV, Ryu only gets to fight the first stage of the Final Boss, which is followed by the villain beating Ryu into submission, and then killing Ryu's love Irene Lew right in front of him.
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Player Two Start / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Player Two Start / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. Due to Megumi Hayashibara's death after a plane crash, her roles had to be recast. Kotono Mitsuishi would become Faye Valentine's new voice in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Yuri Shiratori would take over as the new voice of Ai Haibara in Case Closed.
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Player Two Start / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Player Two Start / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Of fictional characters with different storylines: Aunt May peacefully passes away in this timeline's version of The Clone Saga, and has stayed that way ever since. This timeline's version of Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie has Blue Zeo Ranger Rocky pull a Heroic Sacrifice, saving the rest of his team from Divatox midway through the film. Downplayed in the case of Final Fantasy VII: while it is possible for either Tifa Lockhart or Barret Wallace to die in the Multiple Endings, the canon ending is the one with Aerith Gainsborough dying just like in OTL. Darkseid and most of the New Gods were killed off in a 1995 DC Comics Universe storyline called Fall of the New Gods. The direct sequel to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Castlevania: Second Symphony ends with Alucard pulling off an Heroic Sacrifice. Resident Evil 5 culminates in Chris Redfield mutating, forcing his sister Claire to put him out of his misery. TTL's version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has Luna and Hagrid die in the Battle of Hogwarts.
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Player Two Start / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
Player Two Start / int_48da376b	comment	Game Changer: With Shigeru Miyamoto's sudden death, Nintendo now founds themselves dealing with an unexpected challenge. It would eventually result in Nintendo's creative direction changing dramatically.
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Player Two Start / int_4a046338	type	Banned Episode
Player Two Start / int_4a046338	comment	Banned Episode: In-Universe example. The Arthur episode "Attack of the Turbo Tibbles" got ire from parents due to the scene where Timmy Tibbles uses a swing and ends up hitting D.W, with blood and her wound clearly shown. Many parents criticized the scene and the episode ended up pulled from the broadcast rotation.
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Player Two Start / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Player Two Start / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Although it's not clear if this was intentional or not, in the wake of several forum members assuming Nirvana were among the casualties of TTL's Olympic Pipeline explosion, the 1999 pop culture update opens with a continuation of the Wolf Blitzer report of the explosion (which ended the previous post)... where Blitzer repeatedly tells the viewers that "all three members of the band Nirvana are in good condition".
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Player Two Start / int_4a932556	type	Compilation Re-release
Player Two Start / int_4a932556	comment	Compilation Rerelease: Square decides to do remakes of the three NES Final Fantasy games for the SNES-CD. The collection gets localized as Final Fantasy Origins and is released before Final Fantasy VI, meaning that game is the first in the series to retain its original numbering. Later on the SNES-CD versions of the first six games will be put together on the Ultra as the Final Fantasy Collection in 1999. Early 1996 will see Konami release a compilation of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the SNES-CD. Sonic Jam as in OTL, except it also includes Sonic CD, considering the wider audience of this timeline's Saturn vs the Sega CD. Super Mario All-Stars is ported to the Game Boy Nova, also including Super Mario World.
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Player Two Start / int_4ad522e2	type	Super Title 64 Advance
Player Two Start / int_4ad522e2	comment	Super Title 64 Advance: Nintendo's follow-up consoles are the Ultra Nintendo and the Game Boy Nova instead of the Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy Advance, so this naming trope would be named differently (more than likely becoming "Super Title Ultra Nova").
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Player Two Start / int_4b8fae12	type	Creator Killer
Player Two Start / int_4b8fae12	comment	invokedCreator Killer: The failure of Witchrider results in the closing of its dev studio. The Son of Beast disaster kills 22 people, leading to the permanent closure of Kings Island, Cedar Fair going bankrupt from the ensuing lawsuits, and the sale of their other theme parks to Six Flags. The Michael Vick dogfighting scandal being covered up by the Cleveland police leads to a major downward spiral that bankrupts the Cleveland Browns.
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Player Two Start / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Player Two Start / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During September 17, 1993 we get this line: August 24 1997 has this line: From a clip of the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards, we get an... interesting announcement: A look at the Central Texas Tornado Outbreak of 1997 reveals an interesting casualty to the list: Behold. The most ominous ending to date: Exactly how bad was Woodstock 1999 ITTL? It convinced Kurt Cobain to retire from music. Kurt charged from the stage to prevent a gang rape, and got his nose broken by one of the would-be rapists as a result. The end of the October 1999 update as the Sega execs discuss who to target as Tom Kalinske's replacement as head of Sega of America: The Manticore update ends on this: The May 2020 update provides a surprising inclusion to the timeline. August 2020 has one of the most shocking ones in the entire trilogy.
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Player Two Start / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Player Two Start / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Even if one were to cut out the sequels, the timeline is huge with over 171 individual chapters spanning the 1990s and 2000s. In fact, it's so extensive that the TV Tropes page of Player Two Start has its own Recap section to keep track of every major trend and change affected by Nintendo not reneging on the deal with Sony.
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Player Two Start / int_55f62ad4	type	Sleeper Hit
Player Two Start / int_55f62ad4	comment	Sleeper Hit: invoked Tales of the Seven Seas, a Pirate game by Naughty Dog released in 1995 for the SNES-CD, gets such a great word-of-mouth reception that it manages to outsell the home version of Killer Instinct in the long run (despite that game's better first-day sales) and eventually becomes a Cash-Cow Franchise. And it was originally a side project while they attempted to come up with what would become Crash Bandicoot (1996). invoked Road Storm, a motorcycle racing game on the SNES-CD, has only moderate sales but soon becomes a Cult Classic thanks to the twelve characters you can play as, each of whom has their own strange, quirky personality. It does well enough to get a sequel on the Ultra Nintendo and Saturn, as well as an animated series and a comic book. The 1997 sequel to Sam & Max Hit the Road, Sam and Max: Freelance Police, for the SNES-CD. The port of Hit the Road did underwhelming numbers in comparison to the Monkey Island SNES-CD ports. And yet Freelance Police which was originally developed exclusively for the SNES-CD, gets more than double the sales of Hit the Road. This would lead to a PC version in 1998 and a third installment in 2001.
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Player Two Start / int_56c1e239	type	This Index Hits for Massive Damage
Player Two Start / int_56c1e239	comment	This Index Hits for Massive Damage
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Player Two Start / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Player Two Start / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Sega is working on averting this, namely the conflict between their American and Japanese branches that contributed to their troubles in OTL. With the Sega CD not even being a niche success in the US, Sega of Japan is convinced not to push the 32X as a stopgap for the Saturn, and instead develop the Mega Charger as a cheap cartridge-based accessory for the Genesis. It also helps there's no true fifth-gen competitor for the Saturn to release against during 1995. To aid in mending their differences, a corporate retreat is held in April 1995.
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Player Two Start / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Player Two Start / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: An alternate version of the OJ Simpson case, combined with Andre Rison accidentally killing Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes when a dispute crossed the line into a fistfight, leads to a much earlier controversy over off-the-field domestic violence among NFL players, twenty years before the Ray Rice scandal did the same in our world.
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Player Two Start / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Player Two Start / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: At the turn of the new millennium, Tom Kalinske is replaced by Reggie Fils-Aime as head of Sega of America, after a pretty poor year on Sega's part. As the year changes, this is Reggie's thought.
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Player Two Start / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Player Two Start / int_617f0563	comment	The biggest example of this trope in Player Two Start would have to be Polly Klaas. She is never kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis since he tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father enough time to catch and subdue him until police arrive. Her survival in this timeline has massive implications for a certain infamous mass shooting (see Heel–Face Turn above).
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Player Two Start / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Player Two Start / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Well, it's a story whose Point of Divergence is in '90s gaming, so it was inevitable that this would come up. Ninja Gaiden IV: Escape From the Forbidden City. The entire section describing it is about how ridiculously difficult it is, complete with a painful instance of Easy-Mode Mockery and a Harder Than Hard difficulty that unlocks a secret ending (which also requires beating the game without dying). Elements of Mana spawns an argument between Alex and Brittany on GameTV over whether its invokedDifficulty Spike towards the end was a legitimate challenge or just plain cheap.
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Player Two Start / int_673125a8	type	Renamed to Avoid Association
Player Two Start / int_673125a8	comment	Renamed to Avoid Association: In-Universe. This is the reason why Rebecca Chambers in Resident Evil is renamed Abigail (or Abby) — Squad Four already featured a popular character named Rebecca. This is also the reason for the renaming of Ash Ketchum in Pokémon: The Series, named Satoshi 'Sato' Ketchum in ITTL, to prevent confusion with the Ballistic Limitnote An original Sony developed title protagonist, Ash Beckland.
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Player Two Start / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Player Two Start / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: Star Fox, Super Squadron X, and Squad Four would be established to be taking place in the same galaxy. Super Squadron X: Critical Dawn for the SNES-CD would hint at a shared universe, but it wouldn't be until the '00s that the series officially cross over (in 2006's Star Fox: Heroic Universe).
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Player Two Start / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Player Two Start / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: "Mr. Hiller" from Commander Keen: Mars' Most Wanted is a thinly-veiled parody of Adolf Hitler.
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Player Two Start / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
Player Two Start / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: Mitsuko Ariyama, introduced as one of the co-creators of blockchain ITTL, and the fourth-richest person on Earth, is gunned down by Nasim Aghdam, who ITTL, blames blockchain for ruining her life.
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Player Two Start / int_6e9277c	type	Real-Time Weapon Change
Player Two Start / int_6e9277c	comment	Real-Time Weapon Change
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Player Two Start / int_70321789	type	Video Game Remake
Player Two Start / int_70321789	comment	Square decides to do remakes of the three NES Final Fantasy games for the SNES-CD. The collection gets localized as Final Fantasy Origins and is released before Final Fantasy VI, meaning that game is the first in the series to retain its original numbering. Later on the SNES-CD versions of the first six games will be put together on the Ultra as the Final Fantasy Collection in 1999.
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Player Two Start / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Player Two Start / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Fictional character examples: Valis: Rebirth, the SNES-CD retelling of the first Valis game, had Reiko, friend of the game's protagonist Yuko, survive at the end. Reiko would become a playable character in the sequel to Rebirth. Schala can actually be rescued in an optional sidequest in this timeline's version of Chrono Trigger, which includes being the game's 8th playable character. TTL's version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has Remus and Tonks survive. Non-fictional examples: Chris Farley, Tupac Shakur, Jonathan Brandis, Kurt Cobain, Owen Hart, Robin Williams, Princess Diana, Miyu Matsuki, John F. Kennedy Jr, and George Floyd avoid their historical deaths. The biggest example of this trope in Player Two Start would have to be Polly Klaas. She is never kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis since he tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father enough time to catch and subdue him until police arrive. Her survival in this timeline has massive implications for a certain infamous mass shooting (see Heel–Face Turn above). Christina Grimmie is another, averting her early death IOTL and instead going onto being one of the hosts of the revived GameTV, and eventually plays the part of Saria in Ang Lee's adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. Stanley Kubrick survives the heart attack that killed him in OTL, following up Eyes Wide Shut with AI. 2005 marks the release of Kubrick's biopic on Napoléon Bonaparte. Franchise examples: video game franchises such as F-Zero, Legacy of Kain, Perfect Dark, True Crime, and Beyond Good & Evil are far more active ITTL than they are IOTL, managing to avoid cancellation due to low sales, bad reception, or both.
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Player Two Start / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Player Two Start / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: invoked An in-universe retrospective review of Sonic 4 in 2010, while acknowledging the game's impact and recognizing that it's still a good game, makes the daring claim that this trope is the only reason why it's still considered a classic. He argues that it hadn't age well, especially in comparison to Super Mario Dimensions, and that it was too dependent on level designs and gameplay from past games in the series.
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Player Two Start / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Player Two Start / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Certain companies in this timeline become more prevalent thanks to butterflies: Acclaim Entertainment goes from licensing mediocre games before becoming defunct in 2004 to a massive multimedia corporation. Apple goes from simply developing the iOS system to a full-fledged video game console maker thanks to the buyout of Sega in this timeline. Downplayed with Digital Homicide. While their games are merely average ITTL, they are far from the asset-flipping company who sued Jim Sterling for criticism.
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Player Two Start / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Player Two Start / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Despite Sega promoting Sonic CD on its November 1993 release, the game fails to be a invokedKiller App for the Sega CD, selling to mostly existing Sega CD owners. A week later, Nintendo announces pre-Thanksgiving price cuts of the Super Nintendo CD and PlayStation combo set, killing whatever remaining interest anyone had in Sega's CD add-on.
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Player Two Start / int_797d994f	type	Dirty Bomb
Player Two Start / int_797d994f	comment	The year 2020 ends with a bang: Bombs going off at midnight on New Year's Eve in Times Square and in New Delhi. And not just bombs; Dirty Bombs. When it's discovered that Pakistani terrorists are responsible, and the Pakistani government refuses to hand them over immediately, things escalate into the Pakistan War, with tactical nukes used on both sides (though none by the US).
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Player Two Start / int_7f287346	type	Most Gamers Are Male
Player Two Start / int_7f287346	comment	Most Gamers Are Male: An attitude that's slowly butterflied away over the course of the story. With gaming's emergence in the mainstream happening roughly five years ahead of schedule, the mass influx of women and girls into gaming begins in the mid-'90s. As such, instead of the White Male Lead becoming the default video game protagonist and gaining the strength of inertia behind it, developers begin adding more prominent female characters into their games, initially as a case of The Smurfette Principle to appeal to girls but later evolving into a trend in its own right. One of the major themes of the story is that the aggressively masculine video game culture that took off in the late '90s and early '00s in OTL (or, as some readers have called it, the "dudebro-ification" of gaming), with all the associated problems concerning the general portrayal of women in video games, never takes root, and the idea of women as gamers is something that's seen as perfectly normal, having never been particularly unique or strange.
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Player Two Start / int_80ef74c3	type	Fictionalized Death Account
Player Two Start / int_80ef74c3	comment	Fictionalized Death Account: Osama bin Laden dies in a gunfight with American and Pakistani forces 9 years before his OTL death.
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Player Two Start / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: The television version of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the show that indirectly named the trope, ends up having a more straight-forward and Bittersweet Ending in this timeline, thanks to the extra funding from Sega and their invokedExecutive Meddling.
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Player Two Start / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Player Two Start / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: This becomes "I Know Street Fighter" due to "Passing of the Torch" having Ashley spout the memetic/trope-naming line.
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Player Two Start / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Player Two Start / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Reading the timeline chronologically up to February 1995 leads the reader to think that Nintendo and Sony are going to split. Then March 1995 comes along, revealing that Yamauchi accepted Sony's condition of backwards compatibility, meaning they're staying together for the fifth generation. On a GameTV episode, Lyssa Fielding reads yet another request to show her boobs, and finally decides to do it. She goes over, points at fellow co-hosts Ted and Alex, and calls them both her boobs.
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Player Two Start / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: O.J. Simpson kills Nicole Brown before killing himself. Ron Goldman in this timeline would discover the bodies. Later on in TTL, after shooting dead 21 people in the Valentine Day's Massacre, Christian Weston Chandler turns the gun upon himself. Kensaka Haku, the culprit of the Kadokawa Massacre, takes his own life after being surrounded by police.
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Player Two Start / int_89422f95	type	Valentine's Day Violence
Player Two Start / int_89422f95	comment	Valentine's Day Violence: The Valentine's Day Massacre in Massively Multiplayer, the timeline's equivalent to Columbine, has 21 people shot dead at school as part of a Murder-Suicide.
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Player Two Start / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Player Two Start / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: The SNES-CD add on so thoroughly overshadows the original SNES that Nintendo eventually drops the requirement that publishers must release a SNES cartridge game for every SNES-CD game they plan to release, and eventually releases a stand-alone version in November 1995.
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Player Two Start / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: A Sega Venus owner remarks on how he kept changing batteries on his Sega Venus without thinking on how much they cost. He ended up using 40 of them in one sitting, causing his mom to take the handheld away and sell it. Nickelodeon's 1998 revival of their Nick Arcade game show had a change to their bonus round: the Nick Arcade Colosseum, where the kids had to beat Gladiators to win the grand prize. Said Gladiators? Ted Crosley, Alex Stansfield and Brittany Saldita from MTV's GameTV (Viacom owned both Nickelodeon and MTV), avid gamers in their own right who've been playing video games longer than these kids have been alive. This resulted in the grand prize not being won in 49 out of 52 episodes of the first season, with Brittany (who was chosen by the kids to be the Gladiator opponent the most often on account of her being a girl) having a perfect 23-0 win record. The resulting ratings drop meant that the second season instead used other Gladiators who weren't as skilled, resulting in a much more reasonable win-loss spread.
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Player Two Start / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The May 2000 update ends with a major gaming figure dying early. Shigeru Miyamoto was riding his bike home after picking up a copy of Dragon Quest VII, when a speeding car suddenly struck him. Christian Weston Chandler's killing spree, and especially the stigma against autistic people that emerged from it, wound up hitting very close to home for a large number of readers, many of whom were themselves on the autism spectrum and were children or teenagers around the time that this incident happens ITTL. A frequent point raised was that their childhoods likely would've been destroyed overnight if they lived in this world, their lives turning out for the worse. To quote one reader: The Spring 2006 update features the Son of Beast roller coaster at Paramount King's Island crashing due to a catastrophic structural failure, killing 22 people and injuring a further 6, due to shoddy, negligent maintenance. King's Island is closed down after the incident, with Cedar Fair going bankrupt from the resultant lawsuits and selling its remaining parks to Six Flags. The November 2017 update. Also known as "The Day Anime Died", this event features Kensaka Haku being disillusioned by the state of anime, particularly those associated with Kadokawa, and as a result, instigated a massacre that would take the lives of 215 people, most notably Hayao Miyazaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Risa Taneda, Kenji Nojima, Kenichi Suzumura, Maaya Sakamoto, Yuu Kobayashi, Takuma Terashima, and Tite Kubo. The aftermath would see multiple anime and manga delayed or cancelled and saw the complete downfall of Japan's youth movement, with the Japanese Prime Minister Akira Nagatsuma losing popularity and nearly losing the position of Prime Minister and the conservative side landsliding through Japanese Politics. The year 2020 ends with a bang: Bombs going off at midnight on New Year's Eve in Times Square and in New Delhi. And not just bombs; Dirty Bombs. When it's discovered that Pakistani terrorists are responsible, and the Pakistani government refuses to hand them over immediately, things escalate into the Pakistan War, with tactical nukes used on both sides (though none by the US).
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Player Two Start / int_8e69fee0	type	Double-Blind What-If
Player Two Start / int_8e69fee0	comment	Double-Blind What-If: OTL is a pop culture timeline on TTL's version of AlternateHistory.com.
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Player Two Start / int_8f2ee52b	type	Contested Sequel
Player Two Start / int_8f2ee52b	comment	Contested Sequel: invoked Seiken Densetsu 3, which gets localized in the US as Elements of Mana, is acclaimed as a very good game, but fans will argue over whether it or its predecessor, Secret of Mana, was better for years to come.
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Player Two Start / int_93c74ab3	type	Cult Classic
Player Two Start / int_93c74ab3	comment	invoked Road Storm, a motorcycle racing game on the SNES-CD, has only moderate sales but soon becomes a Cult Classic thanks to the twelve characters you can play as, each of whom has their own strange, quirky personality. It does well enough to get a sequel on the Ultra Nintendo and Saturn, as well as an animated series and a comic book.
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Player Two Start / int_94163031	type	Short Run in Peru
Player Two Start / int_94163031	comment	Short Run in Peru: invoked ITTL's version of Bayonetta 3 has its released delayed in Japan due to "The Day Anime Died" and as a result, releases early in North America and Europe.
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Player Two Start / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Player Two Start / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The protagonists of MagiQuest are named after Tom Kalinske's daughters.
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Player Two Start / int_96776279	type	Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros."
Player Two Start / int_96776279	comment	invokedMarth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": As In-Universe, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem is actually localized in this timeline, this trivia trope cannot apply to Marth anymore, much less be named after him.
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Player Two Start / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Player Two Start / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Jerry Falwell's reaction to Shin Megami Tensei is to call it "the most insidiously devilish thing I've ever seen." Unfortunately, since it only sold 20,000 copies in North America, he couldn't whip up a good moral panic over it. He tries again with Superman: Man of Tomorrow by attacking Magog's origins in the Book of Revelations and attacking the Man of Steel as a false messiah. It backfires spectacularly as a critical quip from Jerry Seinfeld inspires the meme "What Would Superman Do" to mock evangelical Christians and makes DC Comics even more money through merchandising. Eric Rudolph, who bombed the Atlanta Olympics in both OTL and TTL, tries to bomb a Sonic the Hedgehog 4 launch party in Los Angeles due to the Saturn having Devil Summoner available on it. Afterwards, the Parents Television Council finds itself in hot water over comments seen as defending Rudolph, and winds up falling apart within a year due to the backlash. Jack Thompson also enters the Moral Guardian arena in a shocking fashion, as he files a mega lawsuit against both Nintendo and Sega for violent video games in the wake of Christian Weston Chandler's school shooting rampage.
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Player Two Start / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Player Two Start / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: The Valis series gets a reboot for the SNES-CD. Three games are made for that system before doing a Video Game 3D Leap with Ultra Valis: Knight Of Light for Nintendo's SNES-CD successor, the Ultra Nintendo. The success of the reboot series would establish its developer, Telenet Japan, as a second party for Nintendo.
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Player Two Start / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Player Two Start / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: In this timeline's version of Final Fantasy VII, if Tifa goes on a date with Cloud on the Golden Saucer, she will sacrifice her life by jumping in front of Aeris, protecting her from Sephiroth at the cost of her life.
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Player Two Start / int_9ebc36bc	type	It's the Same, Now It Sucks!
Player Two Start / int_9ebc36bc	comment	It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: invoked The general reaction to Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, especially in comparison to the Saturn's brand-new Sonic 4.
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Player Two Start / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Player Two Start / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Valentine's Day 2001 has Christian Weston Chandler shooting 21 people dead at Manchester High School, then shooting himself.
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Player Two Start / int_a04ec6cb	type	Overshadowed by Controversy
Player Two Start / int_a04ec6cb	comment	invoked Overshadowed by Controversy: Following the fallout from the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, the Cleveland Browns are described as "mired in infamy".
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Player Two Start / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Player Two Start / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Higher ups at Nintendo felt conflicted after the Mortal Kombat controversy exploded and led to Congressional hearings, wondering if allowing an uncensored release was the right thing to do.
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Player Two Start / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The November 2017 update goes from a funny headline involving the legalization of marijuana and Snoop Dogg posting his reaction towards it to one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in Japanese history.
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Player Two Start / int_a5d817b0	comment	Celebrity Endorsement: Al Gore mentions in an interview that he saw the redeeming value of video games after trying out Secret of Mana, and hopes there would more games like it rather than Mortal Kombat.
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Player Two Start / int_a81e810b	type	Actor Existence Limbo
Player Two Start / int_a81e810b	comment	Actor Existence Limbo: In-Universe, After Nicole Sullivan dies on board American Airlines Flight 11, her character in Sam & Kira becomes permanently mute after getting into a car accident.
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Player Two Start / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Player Two Start / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Rafael Perez's assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy Jr. would wound up heavily increasing his approval ratings for the upcoming 2020 election.
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Player Two Start / int_ad755915	type	That One Achievement
Player Two Start / int_ad755915	comment	invoked That One Achievement: Getting the Secret Ending in Ninja Gaiden IV involves beating the game's unlockable Harder Than Hard difficulty while losing no lives.
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Player Two Start / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Player Two Start / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Lyssa Fielding, the sexy host of MTV's Singled Out, gets brought over to host GameTV in 1997 to serve as this. MTV executives wanted someone who could bring more male viewers into the show, as it was noticed that the show's lone female host up to that point, the fiery and opinionated Brittany Saldita, was more popular with the girls. It backfired, though, as Lyssa turned out to have a lot in common with Brittany in terms of being an actual gamer who knew her stuff. The moment when many fans felt that she invokedreally came into her own was with her impassioned defense of Syrielle, giving it a perfect score and getting into a fierce argument with Ted Crosley over its merits. Lyssa soon became close friends with her fellow hosts, who backed her up in her opposition to MTV's attempts to make her into this trope. That being said, she does occasionally enjoy doing sexy things on the show, such as allowing Brittany to blast her with a water gun while wearing a tight wetsuit during their Wave Race review, and wearing a French maid outfit during one of the skits.
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Player Two Start / int_b23a7eee	type	Celebrity Casualty
Player Two Start / int_b23a7eee	comment	Celebrity Casualty: Of the Death by Adaptation examples: Marshall Mathers is shot in 1994 in an altercation over a video game console. Shigeru Miyamoto is killed in the year 2000 after he's hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Megumi Hayashibara is killed in a plane crash. Céline Dion is killed in a car crash caused by careless pursuing paparazzi, effectively taking the place of Princess Diana. Shonda Rhimes is one of the victims of Chris Chandler's shooting spree, who later committed suicide. Angelina Jolie is killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami while doing humanitarian work. Gordon Ramsay dies in a fire at Las Vegas's Caesar's Palace. The Kadokawa Massacre claims several lives, including Hayao Miyazaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Risa Taneda, Kenji Nojima, Kenichi Suzumura, Maaya Sakamoto, Yuu Kobayashi, Takuma Terashima, and Tite Kubo. Hideo Kojima dies of a stroke on August 20, 2020.
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Player Two Start / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Player Two Start / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Before the 2008 presidential debates begin, Jon Huntsman explicitly apologizes to his Jewish opponent Paul Wellstone for all the antisemitic attacks leveled against Wellstone from all over and condemns all the comments made as such, and then hugs Wellstone on stage.
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Player Two Start / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Player Two Start / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: After Shigeru Miyamoto died, even Sega acknowledged the designer's contributions to gaming at their E3 2000 Press Conference.
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Player Two Start / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Player Two Start / int_b4eff8a8	comment	He tries again with Superman: Man of Tomorrow by attacking Magog's origins in the Book of Revelations and attacking the Man of Steel as a false messiah. It backfires spectacularly as a critical quip from Jerry Seinfeld inspires the meme "What Would Superman Do" to mock evangelical Christians and makes DC Comics even more money through merchandising.
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Player Two Start / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Player Two Start / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In-Universe. After Gary won the Celebrity Deathmatch GameTV special, here's what Johnny and Nick had to say about it:
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Player Two Start / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Player Two Start / int_b6de94d1	comment	Due to Tale Phantasia lacking the invokedExecutive Meddling of OTL, Star Ocean is butterflied away, as its creators didn't leave Wolf Team.
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Player Two Start / int_b8e4684a	type	Demand Overload
Player Two Start / int_b8e4684a	comment	invoked Demand Overload: The launch of the Ultra Nintendo in the US is the first console mentioned in this timeline to sell out at launch, even with 2 million consoles available on launch day. Nintendo had to apologize and explain that they weren't artificially limiting the number of available consoles on sale but they could only manufacture so many at a time. Just like the Wii in OTL, there is still considerable demand the following year.
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Player Two Start / int_bae5513d	comment	Porting Disaster: invoked The SNES-CD port of Alone in the Dark (1992). Ads for the Sega Saturn show footage of the SNES-CD version of Alone in the Dark side-by-side with the gorgeous Saturn exclusive Resident Evil in order to highlight the SNES-CD's perceived lack of power. The Mega Charger version of Lunar: The Silver Star, which leads to a falling out between Sega and Working Designs. The SNES-CD port of Phantasmagoria. Porting a game that spanned seven CDs on PC over to the SNES-CD (where, up to that point, there had been only three games that spanned even two discs) proved to be an impossible task without making huge changes. While the plot was kept fully intact, the FMV cutscenes were replaced with in-game rendered graphics that really didn't have the same impact, and the game became one of the SNES-CD's biggest disappointments. The Saturn port, on the other hand, survived intact, as players there had more patience for the six discs the game used.
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Player Two Start / int_bb7916c	type	Ship-to-Ship Combat
Player Two Start / int_bb7916c	comment	Ship-to-Ship Combat: In-Universe, the fandom of the hit Cartoon Network show Spy School note described as a fusion of OTL's Totally Spies and Codename: Kids Next Door set in an Academy of Adventure has rabid shipping wars between fans of pairs involving the 6 main characters in different combinations.
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Player Two Start / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Player Two Start / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Used twice, both by the President of Sega of America and just the singular word. Tom Kalinske does one in 1993 when Nintendo undecut the Sega CD by a Thanksgiving price cut and killed any remaining interest in the device, throwing a piece of paper in his office at the wall in response. Later, Reggie Fils-Aime (who replaced Kalinske as President) does this also when he realized that Christian Weston Chandler was a superfan of Sega, played Arbiter of Sin 2 and purchased the aforementioned game before he committed the Manchester High School shooting.
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Player Two Start / int_bfb6663d	type	Spiritual Adaptation
Player Two Start / int_bfb6663d	comment	invoked Spiritual Adaptation: The Ubisoft RPG The Darkest Ritual is described as being heavily influenced by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. In turn, when the TV series premieres two years later, Joss Whedon mentions having been inspired by The Darkest Ritual. Planetary Probe, an RPG on the Saturn, gets compared by Alex and Ted of GameTV to Star Trek: The Next Generation, which makes them long for a proper Star Trek RPG.
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Player Two Start / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
Player Two Start / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies from a stroke in August 2010, ten years before her actual death in OTL. Philip Seymour Hoffman dies four years early.
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Player Two Start / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
Player Two Start / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: Defied with the Kennedy Curse: John F. Kennedy Jr. managed to barely survive an assassination attempt by Rafael Perez on November 22, 2019.
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Player Two Start / int_c6ae4c86	comment	Elements of Mana spawns an argument between Alex and Brittany on GameTV over whether its invokedDifficulty Spike towards the end was a legitimate challenge or just plain cheap.
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Player Two Start / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The June 1999 update ends with a news report on the Olympic Pipeline explosion, with the fates of the members of Nirvana, whose tour bus was knocked to its side by the explosion, unknown. This was followed by the 1999 Pop Culture post, which begins with a follow-up news report that the band members only suffered minor bruising while the equipment crew had more serious injuries.
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Player Two Start / int_c765c999	comment	So My Kids Can Watch: invoked The reason why Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske commissions MagiQuest as a Killer App for the Saturn. His daughter wanted an SNES-CD so that she could play Secret of Mana, but her father, what with his job, couldn't have any Nintendo products in the house. To make it up for her, he promised her that the Saturn would have an RPG even better than Mana. The result? Kalinske's eldest daughter appreciated the gesture, but she still preferred Secret of Mana.
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Player Two Start / int_c9ca4e7f	comment	Kung-Fu Jesus: Divine Wrath 4 (think SMITE if it was a Fighting Game) has God (yes, that God) as a playable character, in all his old-man, Old Testament glory. Needless to say, the game series is controversial.
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Player Two Start / int_cfd5cbd3	comment	Unexpected Character: In-Universe example, although its more like Unexpected Localization, as in this timeline, Konami actually chooses to bring over the first Tokimeki Memorial game to North America (under its subtitle Forever With You) on December 1995.
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Player Two Start / int_d394829d	comment	Downplayed with Digital Homicide. While their games are merely average ITTL, they are far from the asset-flipping company who sued Jim Sterling for criticism.
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Player Two Start / int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: A number of figures from OTL go on different career paths. Voice actress Jennifer Stigile wins the first season of American Idol instead of Kelly Clarkson. Alex Hirsch, instead of going into animation, becomes an indie game developer — together with his twin sister Ariel. Gravity Falls is a video game ITTL, as is The Owl House (titled The Boiling Isles ITTL) Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are elected President and Vice President in 2000. Gore also wins a second term over John Kasich. Avril Lavigne becomes a professional skateboarder instead of a pop star... in other words, a Sk8er Girl. invokedChris Chandler, creator of the infamously bad webcomic Sonichu in OTL, here becomes a spree killer, responsible for TTL's equivalent of Columbine (the actual Columbine massacre wound up fizzling out ITTL). Christina Grimmie is mentioned in passing as being one of the hosts of the relaunched GameTV in 2017. Later on we have Nevada senator Penn Jillette and Georgia congressman Jonathan Smith. Sonny Bono becomes Vice President to President Jon Huntsman Jr. in 2008. Tommy Wiseau is an author who wrote several bad novels, including The Room, which is a novel ITTL. George W. Bush is the commissioner of Major League Baseball in 2015. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a journalist for the political website Cressida Lane.
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Player Two Start / int_d7d588c8	comment	Lethal Lava Land: Interestingly, the trope is named due to the Commander Keen game "Into the Inferno"'s volcanic mining world, Savarrg, despite TTL's "Super Mario 64" equivalent still having the original trope naming world...
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Player Two Start / int_e13b799	comment	A Dick in Name: Abound in the 2002 Ultra Nintendo 3-D platformer game about a Hardboiled Detective and full of innuendo, where "Dick" is the video game's title, the name of the main character, the name of his profession, and the description of his overall personality.
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Player Two Start / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: In our timeline, Chris Chandler is a controversial webcomic creator. This timeline's Christian Weston Chandler is a school shooter.
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Player Two Start / int_e7f67516	comment	Point of Divergence: There are many changes to the world's timeline over the simple deal made by Nintendo and Sony and the creation of the Super Nintendo CD. But the video game console itself changes several lives: James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan, is spared his fatal mugging when the muggers that would've gone after him instead target a delivery truck full of game consoles. Polly Klaas's kidnapping is foiled by her kidnapper tripping over her Super Nintendo CD console and knocking himself out. Tonya Harding's sabotage of Nancy Kerrigan falls through when the attacker Harding's ex-husband hired to cripple Kerrigan forgets to carry it out, because he was too busy playing video games. The creator of the SNES-CD game Frederico, Carlos Delgado, calls his friend Chris Perez about a Side Bet they had on Frederico's success, meaning that Chris is awake when his wife Selena tries to go to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldivar. He tags along for her safety and is able to stop Yolanda from shooting Selena.
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Player Two Start / int_e86cf1cf	comment	Gunman with Three Names: TTL uses this to horrifying effect, turning a real-life person commonly known by their full name into a spree killer.
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Player Two Start / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: How Gary ultimately won the Celebrity Deathmatch GameTV special: when it was down to him, Ted, and Brittany, he pretended to hang himselfnote "after Ted forced him to play that godawful Osmond Brothers game", waited until Ted killed Brittany, and then blew him away with a bad video game bazooka.
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