History DummiedOut / AdventureGames

* During Season 2, Episode 5 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', there originally was an option to [[spoiler:shoot Mike, should you not decide to drop your weapon or alert Kenny or Jane, which would end up killing him.]] While not accessible in the PC or the Xbox 360 versions, this option was available for a short period of time in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version, until it was eventually patched via hotfix. However, the choice could still be retrieved via game files, meaning it's still there, just inaccessible.

* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' has an unused screen showing the small checkerboard in Sirrus' room in the Mechanical Age opened to show a music box mechanism. This was finally implemented in 2014 in ''[[VideoGameRemake realMyst: Masterpiece Edition]]''.

* Initial plans for the Haven portion of ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'' included a puzzle with animal tracks, noises and food preferences, but it fell through due to time and budget constraints. Some of the clues for this vanished puzzle are still to be found within the game, but aren't any use, aside from confirming that Achenar's got sloppy handwriting.
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' has several items and locations that are either largely modified from the versions shown in packaging and screenshots or inaccessible but still present in the game files, which can be seen [[http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/indyfoa.html here]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'', there used to be a book press on one of the islands. However, it was dummied out of the final cut of the game because the developers had no time to implement it before the holidays. If you snoop around in the game's files, you can find movie files of this press moving up and down (presumably when clicked upon), and there's actually still one screen in the game where you can still see the very top of the press (the editors didn't even notice it, so it never got dummied out of that screen), but it's barely noticeable unless you're specifically looking for it.

* The Creator/HumongousEntertainment {{Adventure Game}}s had some dummied out content that could be accessed in several ways. These included some [[CutSong unused music]], unused cut scenes, and unused in-house {{Level Editor}}s the developers would use in the arcade styled spinoffs. Some of the cut scenes, however, you'd have to wonder [[WhatWereYouThinking why the heck they even exist.]] One of the unused ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'' cut scenes had Luther '''being violently eaten by a PsychoElectricEel.'''
* In Creator/LucasArts' ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'', an early screenshot showed a room in the Glassmakers' City with three giant sandglasses, two of which had run out and were sealed up; the last one was open at the top and a worker was pouring sand into it to keep it running. The three sandglasses of course represent [[spoiler:the three Shadows, of which the first two have long since passed, and the third is imminent]]. The room was ultimately cut to save disk space. The sandglasses can still be glimpsed in the 16-color version, in the wide shot of the city (though they were painted out in the VGA upgrade).
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' also had some content removed before release. For instance, after Guybrush blows up [=LeChuck's=] fortress, he and Wally were going to land on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Wally loses his monocle and falls into the sea. The scene was cut because even in a game chock-full of sociopathically cruel yet [[CrossesTheLineTwice absurdly hilarious]] puzzle solutions, this was felt to be beyond the pale. The background which was to feature the raft was entirely redrawn and reused for another scene, but the game files still refer to it as the "raft" room.
** Also of note are several rooms cut from [=LeChuck's=] Fortress, which presumably contained extra puzzles, including a voodoo shrine/potions laboratory, closeups of the desk and throne in [=LeChuck's=] office, and a closeup shot of Zombie [=LeChuck=] in all his g(l)ory. There was also a much more elaborate alternate version of the underground tunnels beneath Phatt Island. The filenames of these unused rooms were embedded in a pre-release demo of [=MI2=], but their art assets were not revealed until the 2010 UpdatedRerelease included some of this cut material in its concept art gallery.

* ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' features a parody of this with the now-legendary "stump joke", where the player character can find a stump in the woods with a hole underneath it that will lead into what he describes as "a tunnel that leads onto a system of catacombs". It's impossible to enter, though, because the game will ask for several disks (with absurdly high disk numbers) that didn't ship with the game, and the player character just gives up and assumes he can't get to that part of the game. Many players didn't get the joke, though, and called Creator/LucasArts about their missing disks, so they eventually removed it in the Amiga and CD versions of the game, making the stump joke a gag about dummied out content that in itself became dummied out. References to the stump joke can still be found in other games, such as ''[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge Monkey Island 2]]'' (where you can call [=LucasArts=]' hint line and ask about the stump), ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' (where you finally get to see the other side of the stump) ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' and ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.

* The HumongousEntertainment {{Adventure Game}}s had some dummied out content that could be accessed in several ways. These included some [[CutSong unused music]], unused cut scenes, and unused in-house {{Level Editor}}s the developers would use in the arcade styled spinoffs. Some of the cut scenes, however, you'd have to wonder [[WhatWereYouThinking why the heck they even exist.]] One of the unused ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'' cut scenes had Luther '''being violently eaten by a PsychoElectricEel.'''

** Two games are dummied out in the Software Excess bin -- the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' spoof ''Dacron Danny Does Dirty Deeds in the Dark Wearing Drip-dry Duds'', and ''Stunt Flyer'', a possible reference to ''Stunt Driver''.

* In the CD version of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers'', the Room Removed For Legal Reasons is a showcase of graphics that may have caused legal trouble for Creator/{{Sierra}} at one point. The room is inaccessible without a fan made patch, and refers to the original ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'' logo, ''Hero's Quest'', [[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} Earl Sinclair]]'s cameo in the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'', ZZ Top, appearing in the first releases of ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter Space Quest I]]'' EGA and VGA versions, the Droids R Us logo from ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter Space Quest I]]'' before becoming Droids-B-Us, the Radioshock store logo from previous versions of ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers Space Quest IV]]'' before being changed to Hz. So Good, and the Slime Chow and Slug Chow icons from two death sequences from earlier versions of ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers Space Quest IV]]'', featuring a red and white checkered pattern resembling the Purina logo.

* ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' features a parody of this with the now-legendary "stump joke", where the player character can find a stump in the woods with a hole underneath it that will lead into what he describes as "a tunnel that leads onto a system of catacombs". It's impossible to enter, though, because the game will ask for several disks (with absurdly high disk numbers) that didn't ship with the game, and the player character just gives up and assumes he can't get to that part of the game. Many players didn't get the joke, though, and called LucasArts about their missing disks, so they eventually removed it in the Amiga and CD versions of the game, making the stump joke a gag about dummied out content that in itself became dummied out. References to the stump joke can still be found in other games, such as ''[[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge Monkey Island 2]]'' (where you can call LucasArts' hint line and ask about the stump), ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' (where you finally get to see the other side of the stump) ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' and ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.

* In LucasArts' ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'', an early screenshot showed a room in the Glassmakers' City with three giant sandglasses, two of which had run out and were sealed up; the last one was open at the top and a worker was pouring sand into it to keep it running. The three sandglasses of course represent [[spoiler:the three Shadows, of which the first two have long since passed, and the third is imminent]]. The room was ultimately cut to save disk space. The sandglasses can still be glimpsed in the 16-color version, in the wide shot of the city (though they were painted out in the VGA upgrade).

* During Season 2, Episode 5 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', there originally was an option to [[spoiler:shoot Mike, should you not decide to drop your weapon or alert Kenny or Jane, which would end up killing him.]] While not accessible in the PC or the Xbox 360 versions, this option was available for a short period of time in the PlayStation 3 version, until it was eventually patched via hotfix. However, the choice could still be retrieved via game files, meaning it's still there, just inaccessible.

* Initial plans for the Haven portion of ''VideoGame/{{Myst}} IV Revelation'' included a puzzle with animal tracks, noises and food preferences, but it fell through due to time and budget constraints. Some of the clues for this vanished puzzle are still to be found within the game, but aren't any use, aside from confirming that Achenar's got sloppy handwriting.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Riven]]'', there used to be a book press on one of the islands. However, it was dummied out of the final cut of the game because the developers had no time to implement it before the holidays. If you snoop around in the game's files, you can find movie files of this press moving up and down (presumably when clicked upon), and there's actually still one screen in the game where you can still see the very top of the press (the editors didn't even notice it, so it never got dummied out of that screen), but it's barely noticeable unless you're specifically looking for it.

* [[http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/features/374/ This]] article details some things that have been dummied out of Creator/{{Sierra}}'s adventure games.

* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' also had some content removed before release. For instance, after Guybrush blows up [=LeChuck's=] fortress, he and Wally were going to land on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Wally loses his monocle and falls into the sea. The scene was cut because even in a game chock-full of [[RefugeInAudacity sociopathically cruel]] yet [[CrossesTheLineTwice absurdly hilarious]] puzzle solutions, this was felt to be beyond the pale. The background which was to feature the raft was entirely redrawn and reused for another scene, but the game files still refer to it as the "raft" room.