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* DC comics would still retcon Parallax as an entity that possessed Hal Jordon. However, this idea has precedence ITTL due to the Green Lantern movies [[AdaptedOut removing]] Hal Jordon and making Parallax a whole new character that devastated the Green Lanterns.
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* DC comics would still retcon Parallax as an entity that possessed Hal Jordon. Jordon in 2002’s ''Green Lantern: Recharged''.
. However, this idea has precedence ITTL due to the Green Lantern movies [[AdaptedOut removing]] Hal Jordon and making Parallax a whole newcharacter villain that devastated the Green Lanterns.
. However, this idea has precedence ITTL due to the Green Lantern movies [[AdaptedOut removing]] Hal Jordon and making Parallax a whole new
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** A ComicBook/GreenLantern trilogy starring Billy Zane as Kyle Rayner and Joe Morton as John Stewart. Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin make the first film in the series in 1998, while the second film, ''Green Lantern: Recharged'', comes out in 2002.
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** A ComicBook/GreenLantern trilogy starring Billy Zane as Kyle Rayner and Joe Morton as John Stewart. Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin make the first film in the series in 1998, while the second film, ''Green Lantern: Recharged'', comes out in 2002.partly adapting from ''Emerald Twilight''.
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* TrilogyCreep: The fifth Zelda game, ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Dreams'' for the SNES-CD, would be the direct sequel to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', forming what would be called the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link to the Past Trilogy]]'' Not only that, ''Link's Awakening'' serves to setup the events of ''Ocarina of Dreams'', where in OTL ''Link's Awakening'' was a filler story within the series' mythology.
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* TrilogyCreep: The fifth Zelda game, ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Dreams'' for the SNES-CD, would be the direct sequel to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', forming what would be called the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link to the Past Trilogy]]'' Trilogy]]''. Not only that, ''Link's Awakening'' serves to setup the events of ''Ocarina of Dreams'', where in OTL contrast to OTL's ''Link's Awakening'' where it was a filler story within the series' mythology.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pushing back harder against Creator/WarnerBros' ExecutiveMeddling. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995. Billy Dee Williams is also retained as Harvey Dent/Two-Face while Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio is cast as Dick Grayson/Robin.
** After the above film is successful, Creator/WarnerBros would push for more films based on DC comic superheroes, including a Superman reboot w/ sequel, a Green Lantern trilogy, and a Wonder Woman movie, which would end up being tied together into a "DC Movie-verse".
** After the above film is successful, Creator/WarnerBros would push for more films based on DC comic superheroes, including a Superman reboot w/ sequel, a Green Lantern trilogy, and a Wonder Woman movie, which would end up being tied together into a "DC Movie-verse".
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pushing back harder against Creator/WarnerBros' ExecutiveMeddling. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995. Billy Dee Williams is also retained as Harvey Dent/Two-Face Dent/Two-Face, while Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio is cast as Dick Grayson/Robin.
** After the aboveGrayson/Robin. The film is successful, far more successful than OTL's film, leading Creator/WarnerBros would to push for more films based on DC comic superheroes, including eventually leading to the emergence of a DC cinematic universe in the late '90s. These films include:
** ''Superman: Last Son of Krypton'', a reboot of the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' films starring Creator/BruceCampbell as Superman, Creator/KevinSpacey as an especially [[LargeHam hammy]] ComicBook/LexLuthor, Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Brainiac, and Dana Delany as Lois Lane (reprising her role from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''). The plot revolves around Supermanreboot w/ and Lex Luthor being forced to put aside their differences and [[EnemyMine work together]] to stop Brainiac from turning Metropolis into a bottled city for his collection. It becomes the third highest-grossing film of 1996, receiving a sequel, a Green Lantern trilogy, ''Man of Tomorrow'', in 1999.
** A ComicBook/GreenLantern trilogy starring Billy Zane as Kyle Rayner anda Wonder Woman movie, which would end up being tied together into a "DC Movie-verse".Joe Morton as John Stewart. Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin make the first film in the series in 1998, while the second film, ''Green Lantern: Recharged'', comes out in 2002.
** A ComicBook/WonderWoman movie starring Creator/CatherineZetaJones as the title character, written by Creator/JossWhedon as an adaptation of the "Gods and Mortals" arc.
** After the above
** ''Superman: Last Son of Krypton'', a reboot of the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' films starring Creator/BruceCampbell as Superman, Creator/KevinSpacey as an especially [[LargeHam hammy]] ComicBook/LexLuthor, Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Brainiac, and Dana Delany as Lois Lane (reprising her role from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''). The plot revolves around Superman
** A ComicBook/GreenLantern trilogy starring Billy Zane as Kyle Rayner and
** A ComicBook/WonderWoman movie starring Creator/CatherineZetaJones as the title character, written by Creator/JossWhedon as an adaptation of the "Gods and Mortals" arc.
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* Creator/ChristopherReeve never has the horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed IOTL. Instead, he stars on a Creator/{{CBS}} sitcom called ''Extracurricular''.
* Creator/{{Marvel}} gets bought up by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox News Corp.]] after its bankruptcy.
* Creator/{{Marvel}} gets bought up by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox News Corp.]] after its bankruptcy.
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* Creator/ChristopherReeve never has the horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed IOTL. Instead, he stars on a Creator/{{CBS}} sitcom called ''Extracurricular''.
''Extracurricular'' with Jane Kaczmarek and Heather Locklear.
* Creator/{{Marvel}} gets bought up by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox News Corp.]] after its bankruptcy. Its foray into film happens slightly earlier thanks to their being no ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' to briefly [[GenreKiller discredit comic-book movies]]; Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMen'' is released in 1998, while Creator/ChrisColumbus directs a ComicBook/FantasticFour movie in 1999.
* Creator/{{Marvel}} gets bought up by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox News Corp.]] after its bankruptcy. Its foray into film happens slightly earlier thanks to their being no ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' to briefly [[GenreKiller discredit comic-book movies]]; Creator/BryanSinger's ''Film/XMen'' is released in 1998, while Creator/ChrisColumbus directs a ComicBook/FantasticFour movie in 1999.
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** During the 1993 holidays, Sega positioned ''[[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} Ultima Underworld II]]'' for the Sega CD against ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' for the SNES-CD, hedging their bets on Ultima actually being a long running IP.
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** During the 1993 holidays, Sega positioned ''[[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} ''[[VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld Ultima Underworld II]]'' for the Sega CD against ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' for the SNES-CD, hedging their bets on Ultima actually ''Ultima'' being a long running IP.recognizable name in the RPG world versus an unknown like ''Secret of Mana''.
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* CanonWelding: ''VideoGame/StarFox'', ''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 shared universe, but it wouldn't be till the '00s that the series officially crossover.
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* DuelingGames: [[invoked]] ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally there were comparisons made due to their similarities.
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* DuelingGames: [[invoked]] ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally there were comparisons made due to their similarities.similarities.
** During the 1993 holidays, Sega positioned ''[[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} Ultima Underworld II]]'' for the Sega CD against ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' for the SNES-CD, hedging their bets on Ultima actually being a long running IP.
** During the 1993 holidays, Sega positioned ''[[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} Ultima Underworld II]]'' for the Sega CD against ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' for the SNES-CD, hedging their bets on Ultima actually being a long running IP.
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** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest Final Fantasy: New Generation]]'' are this for the SNES-CD at launch. Later killer apps for it include ''Super Mario World 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'', ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', ''Squad Four''[[note]]A sci-fi shooter that's described as a mix of OTL's ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'', and ''Star Fox''[[/note]], and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.
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** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest Final Fantasy: New Generation]]'' are this for the SNES-CD at launch. Later killer apps for it include ''Super Mario World 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'', ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', ''Squad Four''[[note]]A sci-fi shooter that's described as a mix of OTL's ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'', and ''Star Fox''[[/note]], ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Dreams''.
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* Creator/{{Marvel}} gets bought up by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox News Corp.]] after its bankruptcy.
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* DC comics would still retcon Parallax as an entity that possessed Hal Jordon. However, this idea has precedence ITTL due to the Green Lantern movies [[AdaptedOut removing]] Hal Jordon and making Parallax a whole new character that devastated the Green Lanterns.
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* With no deal with Philips, the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi is just a footnote in gaming history. The [[VideoGame/HotelMario Mario]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda]] CDi games never get made, and never get used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop parodies.
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* With no deal with Philips, the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi is just a footnote in gaming history. The [[VideoGame/HotelMario Mario]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda]] CDi games of OTL never get made, and never get used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop parodies.parodies. Instead ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' gets [[DivorcedInstallment all the Mario elements removed]] and is released as a SNES-CD game called ''Hotel Havoc''.
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** With the above sale of VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}, the ''Franchise/Digimon'' franchise is never created.
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is brought to America with less {{Bowdleris|e}}ation, thanks to Toei rejecting Creator/DiCEntertainment's bid on account of how many Japanese video games were being brought over with little censorship. Instead, it's adapted by Creator/SabanEntertainment and Creator/TheOceanGroup. It premieres in 1995, winning acclaim as a DistaffCounterpart to ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', but only the first two seasons are brought over due to fears of controversy over Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune's romantic relationship (especially as it would've been right after Creator/EllenDeGeneres came out as a lesbian).
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is brought to America with less {{Bowdleris|e}}ation, thanks to Toei rejecting Creator/DiCEntertainment's bid on account of how many Japanese video games were being brought over with little censorship. Instead, it's adapted by Creator/SabanEntertainment and Creator/TheOceanGroup. It premieres in 1995, 1995 on Creator/FoxKids, winning acclaim as a DistaffCounterpart to ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', but only the first two seasons are brought over due to fears of controversy over Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune's romantic relationship (especially as it would've been right after Creator/EllenDeGeneres came out as a lesbian).
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pushing back harder against Creator/WarnerBros' ExecutiveMeddling. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pushing back harder against Creator/WarnerBros' ExecutiveMeddling. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995. Billy Dee Williams is also retained as Harvey Dent/Two-Face while Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio is cast as Dick Grayson/Robin.
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* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Linda Hamilton]] plays Captain Janeway (whose first name is Nicole rather than Kathryn) on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' instead of Kate Mulgrew.
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* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Linda Hamilton]] plays Captain Janeway (whose first name is Nicole rather than Kathryn) on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' instead of Kate Mulgrew. The show also starts airing Fall season 1995, instead of January 1995.
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* James Jordan, father of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan, lives when the criminals that killed him in our history instead target a truck full of video game consoles. With him alive, Michael would stay on the Chicago Bulls for at least the 1993-94 season instead of his one-year retirement to play baseball.
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived.
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived.
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* James Jordan, father of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan, lives when the criminals that killed him in our history instead target a truck full of video game consoles. With him alive, Michael would stay on the Chicago Bulls for at least the 1993-94 season instead of his one-year retirement to play baseball.
baseball, Michael would stay on the Chicago Bulls through at least the 1994-95 season, winning the 1995 NBA Finals for the Bulls in a clean sweep against the Houston Rockets.
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived. A later appearance on ''The Montel Williams Show'' reveals that she and her family are moving to [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Littleton, Colorado]]...
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived. A later appearance on ''The Montel Williams Show'' reveals that she and her family are moving to [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Littleton, Colorado]]...
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* Ray Combs' work on the ''Series/FamilyFeud'' FMV game butterflies away his suicide in 1996, and he in turn helps Creator/MaryKayBergman back from the brink as well. Furthermore, a domestic dispute between Music/CourtneyLove and Music/KurtCobain over the latter playing too many video games leads to Cobain getting sent to rehab and eventually getting clean, preventing his suicide.
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* Ray Combs' work on the ''Series/FamilyFeud'' FMV game butterflies away his suicide in 1996, and he in turn helps Creator/MaryKayBergman back from the brink as well. Furthermore, a well.
* A domestic dispute between Music/CourtneyLove and Music/KurtCobain over the latter playing too many video games leads to Cobain getting sent to rehab and eventually getting clean, preventing hissuicide.suicide. He and the rest of Music/{{Nirvana}} release the band's fourth album, ''Stains'', in August 1995.
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* A clip from the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards reveals that ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]'' is a Nicktoon ITTL (which butterflies ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeyArnold]]'' unfortunately).
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* A clip from the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is a Creator/{{Nick|elodeon}}toon ITTL, premiering in 1995 Kids' Choice Awards reveals that ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]'' is a Nicktoon ITTL (which butterflies ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeyArnold]]'' unfortunately).when Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh were fresh off the success of ''Series/RockosModernLife'' and running until 2001. Its voice cast includes Courtland Mead as Phineas, [[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Danny Tamberelli]] as Ferb, Creator/JenniferMorrison as Candace, Creator/JeffBennett and Creator/KathSoucie as Lawrence and Linda, and [[Series/HeyArnold Anndi McAfee]] as Isabella.
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* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Linda Hamilton]] plays Captain Janeway (whose first name is Nicole rather than Kathryn) on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' instead of Kate Mulgrew.
* Creator/ChristopherReeve never has the horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed IOTL. Instead, he stars on a Creator/{{CBS}} sitcom called ''Extracurricular''.
* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Linda Hamilton]] plays Captain Janeway (whose first name is Nicole rather than Kathryn) on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' instead of Kate Mulgrew.
* Creator/ChristopherReeve never has the horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed IOTL. Instead, he stars on a Creator/{{CBS}} sitcom called ''Extracurricular''.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pressuring Creator/WarnerBros to allow him to go in a darker direction. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a darker tone compared to OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Creator/JoelSchumacher playing ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline, and pressuring Creator/WarnerBros to allow him to go in a darker direction.pushing back harder against Creator/WarnerBros' ExecutiveMeddling. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' in this timeline has a more darker tone compared to the OTL version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns''), due to Joel Schumacher playing Snatcher and seeing the value of a mature storyline.
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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' in this timeline has a more darker tone compared to the OTL OTL's version (but not to the extent of ''Film/BatmanReturns''), ''Film/BatmanReturns'') due to Joel Schumacher Creator/JoelSchumacher playing Snatcher and ''Snatcher'', seeing the value of a more mature storyline.storyline, and pressuring Creator/WarnerBros to allow him to go in a darker direction. The aforementioned Selena also contributes a song to the film's soundtrack, performing it at [=E3=] 1995.
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** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which becomes the first major multi-CD game for the SNES-CD (2 CDs), and also the first Squaresoft game to feature spoken dialogue and [[FullMotionVideo FMVs]] (45 minutes of animation from Creator/AkiraToriyama)
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** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which becomes the first major multi-CD game for the SNES-CD (2 CDs), discs in total), and also the first Squaresoft game to feature spoken dialogue and [[FullMotionVideo FMVs]] (45 minutes of animation from Creator/AkiraToriyama)
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** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which becomes the first major multi-CD game for the SNES-CD (2 CDs), and also the first Squaresoft game to feature spoken dialogue and FMVs (45 minutes of animation from Creator/AkiraToriyama)
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** 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 lead to a disastrous launch.
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** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', or rather, ''Tale Phantasia'' also ends up a SNES-CD game. More notably however, it's Nintendo that helps finances the game's development instead of [[Creator/NamcoBandai Namco]] in OTL.[[note]]Namco's involvement in OTL was seen as ExecutiveMeddling, leading to the game's creator and some of the staff to form Creator/TriAce.[[/note]]
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** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', or rather, ''Tale Phantasia'' also ends up a SNES-CD game. More notably however, it's Nintendo that helps finances the game's development (and later its localization) instead of [[Creator/NamcoBandai Namco]] in OTL.[[note]]Namco's involvement in OTL was seen as ExecutiveMeddling, leading to the game's creator and some of the staff to form Creator/TriAce.[[/note]][[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which becomes the first major multi-CD game for the SNES-CD (2 CDs), and also the first Squaresoft game to feature spoken dialogue and FMVs (45 minutes of animation from Creator/AkiraToriyama)
** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which becomes the first major multi-CD game for the SNES-CD (2 CDs), and also the first Squaresoft game to feature spoken dialogue and FMVs (45 minutes of animation from Creator/AkiraToriyama)
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* BaitAndSwitch: 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.
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* As part of the Mega Charger push, Sega insists on a port of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' for it. A lot of content is lost in the transition, resulting in a substandard port that bombs in the market. This incredibly sours Sega's relations with Creator/WorkingDesigns, which get worse when Sega reveals they can't finance the localization of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue''. As a result, Creator/WorkingDesigns outright leaves Sega's camp, eventually joining Nintendo's.
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* As part of the Mega Charger push, Sega insists on a port of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' for it. A lot of content is lost in the transition, resulting in a substandard port that bombs in the market. This incredibly sours Sega's relations with Creator/WorkingDesigns, which get worse when Sega reveals they can't finance the localization of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue''. As a result, Creator/WorkingDesigns outright leaves Sega's camp, eventually joining Nintendo's.Nintendo's with a localization of ''Tale Phantasia''.
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* ContinuityReboot: The ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' series gets a reboot for the SNES-CD. Three games are made for that system before doing a VideoGame3DLeap with ''[[SuperTitle64Advance 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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* ContinuityReboot: The ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' series gets a reboot for the SNES-CD. Three games are made for that system before doing a VideoGame3DLeap with ''[[SuperTitle64Advance 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, Creator/TelenetJapan, as a second party for Nintendo.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is purely developed for the SNES-CD instead of being a ported cartridge game. The game is the first in the series to feature lyrical music during the game's classic opera scene (with Celes' part performed by then-unknown singer Kristin Chenoweth). The World of Ruin arc is made more linear, and certain sidequests integrated to the story. ITTL, it is the first game to keep its numbering in Western localizations.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is purely developed for the SNES-CD instead of being a ported cartridge game. The game is the first in the series to feature lyrical music during the game's classic opera scene (with Celes' part performed by then-unknown singer Kristin Chenoweth). The World of Ruin arc is made more linear, and certain sidequests integrated to the story. ITTL, it is the first game to keep its numbering in Western localizations.localizations, as well as use the updated localized names for spells and attacks introduced in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' in OTL.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', or rather, ''Tale Phantasia'' also ends up a SNES-CD game. More notably however, it's Nintendo that helps finances the game's development instead of [[Creator/NamcoBandai Namco]] in OTL.[[note]]Namco's involvement in OTL was seen as ExecutiveMeddling, leading to the game's creator and some of the staff to form Creator/TriAce.[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', or rather, ''Tale Phantasia'' also ends up a SNES-CD game. More notably however, it's Nintendo that helps finances the game's development instead of [[Creator/NamcoBandai Namco]] in OTL.[[note]]Namco's involvement in OTL was seen as ExecutiveMeddling, leading to the game's creator and some of the staff to form Creator/TriAce.[[/note]]
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* Timothy [=McVeigh=], instead of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, assassinates Attorney General Janet Reno. His two co-conspirators, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, attempt to carry out the bombing, but they get stopped by security and arrested before they can pull it off.
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* Timothy [=McVeigh=], instead of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, assassinates Attorney General Janet Reno. His Reno while his two co-conspirators, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, attempt to carry out the bombing, but they get bombing. Ironically, Reno's murder would lead to the failure of the bombing as all federal buildings would be immediately placed on alert afterwards. The duo would end up getting stopped by a security guard and arrested before they can pull it off.
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* A clip from the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards reveals that ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]'' is a Nicktoon ITTL (which butterflies [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeyArnold]] unfortunately).
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* A clip from the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards reveals that ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]'' is a Nicktoon ITTL (which butterflies [[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeyArnold]] ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/HeyArnold]]'' unfortunately).
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** In fact, ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' is so popular ITTL, it wins the "Favorite Video Game" award in the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards (which ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' won IOTL).
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** From a clip of [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=10421634&postcount=469 the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards]], we get an... interesting announcement:
-->Announcer: Coming up next, the award for Favorite Male Athlete of the year! And remember to stick around after the Kids Choice Awards for a special preview episode of our newest Nicktoon, ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]''!
** From a clip of [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=10421634&postcount=469 the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards]], we get an... interesting announcement:
-->Announcer: Coming up next, the award for Favorite Male Athlete of the year! And remember to stick around after the Kids Choice Awards for a special preview episode of our newest Nicktoon, ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb]]''!
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* Creator/{{MTV}} creates a successful video game program reminiscent of OTL's ''Series/XPlay'', titled ''[=GameTV=]'', that runs from 1995 to 2000.
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* [[Music/{{Selena}} Selena Quintanilla-Pérez]] survives the attempt on her life that killed her in OTL thanks to butterflies from her husband, Chris Pérez being childhood friends with a successful video game developer. When the success of this friend's game ''Frederico'' prompts him to call Chris to remind him of a SideBet the two made, the timing of the call wakes Chris up in time to accompany his wife to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldívar, stopping Saldívar when she pulls a gun on Selena.
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* [[Music/{{Selena}} Selena Quintanilla-Pérez]] survives the attempt on her life that killed her in OTL thanks to butterflies from her husband, Chris Pérez Pérez, being childhood friends with a successful video game developer. When the success of this friend's game ''Frederico'' prompts him to call Chris to remind him of a SideBet the two made, the timing of the call wakes Chris up in time to accompany his wife to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldívar, stopping Saldívar when she pulls a gun on Selena.Selena.
* Timothy [=McVeigh=], instead of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, assassinates Attorney General Janet Reno. His two co-conspirators, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, attempt to carry out the bombing, but they get stopped by security and arrested before they can pull it off.
* Timothy [=McVeigh=], instead of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, assassinates Attorney General Janet Reno. His two co-conspirators, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, attempt to carry out the bombing, but they get stopped by security and arrested before they can pull it off.
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* DuelingGames: ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally there were comparisons made due to their similarities.
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* [[SoMyKidsCanWatch So My Kids Can Play]]: The reason why Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske commissions ''[=MagiQuest=]'' as a KillerApp for the Saturn. His daughter wanted an SNES-CD so that she could play ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', 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''.
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An AlternateHistory work by [=RySenkari=] and Nivek on WebSite/AlternateHistoryDotCom, ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280151 Player Two Start]]'' is a pop culture timeline that focuses on the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars with one signficant 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, Creator/{{Nintendo}} partnered with Creator/{{Sony}} to release a [[UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDROM}} CD add-on]] for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, 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 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}, causing Nintendo to struggle to stay relevant in the console space, but would also contribute to Creator/{{Sega}} leaving the hardware market and becoming a Third Party developer. 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, decides the technology offered by Sony is too good to pass up, and decides to renegotiate Nintendo's contract with Sony, using the on-going talks with Philips as a bargaining chip...
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* With no deal with Philips, the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi is just a footnote in gaming history. The [[VideoGame/HotelMario Mario]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda]] CDi games never get made, and never get used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop parodies.
* In general, with the existence of the SNES-CD, games that originally released on the Super Nintendo (and, in some cases, the Genesis/Sega CD) become SNES-CD games instead.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' becomes a SNES-CD launch game when the original Mario platformer for the add-on, ''Super Mario World 2'', is delayed in development, resulting in ''Kart'' being made for the SNES-CD (with a much-touted four-player mode) instead of the Super Nintendo just so there is a ''Mario'' game of some sort at launch.
** OTL's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' becomes ITTL ''Final Fantasy: New Generation'' for the SNES-CD. It does well enough that Square decides to localize the [[UpdatedRerelease SNES-CD version]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.[[note]]It's released as ''III'', but after ''Origins'' is released, reprints would restore the original number.[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/StarFox'' becomes a SNES-CD game -- with live-action cutscenes by the [[Creator/JimHenson Jim Henson Company]]. The first game to utilize the [=SuperFX=] chip is ''Super Squadron X'', a sequel to ''X'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoy.
** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' was in fact originally planned to be a SNES-CD game. With no retooling needed to fit the limits of a Super Nintendo cartridge, this means a more fleshed out game than OTL, with MultipleEndings and a better localization.
** ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Hard Corps]]'' for OTL's Genesis becomes ''Contra IV: Hard Corps'' for the SNES-CD. The Genesis would get instead ''Contra: Probotector'', a game that had a RobotWar plot instead of an AlienInvasion, introducing the Probotector concept outside of Europe.[[note]]The Probotectors were the protagonists in all European versions of Contra games at the time, replacing the human characters. This was due to the CensorshipBureau in Germany looking down on depictions of violence on humans.[[/note]]
** Instead of a port to the Sega CD, ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'' is ported to the SNES-CD under the helm of Creator/MasahiroSakurai at HAL Labratories. With the SNES-CD way more successful than the Sega CD in the our timeline, the game reaches around 400,000 copies, even with an M rating.[[note]]The Sega CD version in our timeline? Only a couple thousand copies. And it was rated T.[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' was planned for the vanilla SNES as OTL, but Nintendo asked Rare to make it for the SNES-CD instead, signifying that even Nintendo was moving away from developing SNES cartridge games.
** ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' is developed for the SNES-CD instead and published by Sony, along with Western releases. (OTL Pulseman only made a North American release via the Sega Channel before made available via the VirtualConsole.) It would be the basis of a relationship between Sony and the game's developer, Creator/GameFreak.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is purely developed for the SNES-CD instead of being a ported cartridge game. The game is the first in the series to feature lyrical music during the game's classic opera scene (with Celes' part performed by then-unknown singer Kristin Chenoweth). The World of Ruin arc is made more linear, and certain sidequests integrated to the story. ITTL, it is the first game to keep its numbering in Western localizations.
* Nintendo's new deal with Sony includes provisions that Nintendo of America will not [[CensorshipBureau censor]] games for the CD add-on. As a result, ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 Mortal Kombat]]'' is released uncut on the SNES-CD. This gets Nintendo in as much hot water as Sega with Congress on the subject of video game violence, the hearings taking place September 1993 instead of December 1993. Following that, Nintendo heavily markets ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' during the 1993 holiday season as a way to combat the controversy, boosting the game's profile considerably.
* With the early success of the SNES-CD, Sega of America's president Tom Kalinske convinces his bosses in Japan to work with Silicon Graphics. Result? The UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn now has the guts of our timeline's UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}.
* In response to the SNES-CD's big 1993 holiday sales, Sega reorganizes their pre-Saturn plans. The 32X add-on is dropped, and instead comes up with the Mega Charger, which is similar but, at only $50, is much cheaper. It combines the lock-on technology used in OTL's ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic & Knuckles]]'' with processing chips from Silicon Graphics. 30% of the eventual Genesis library would take advantage of it, with a dozen or so titles outright requiring it. Among those games: ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'', which ITTL includes the ''Sonic & Knuckles'' content and becomes a KillerApp for the Mega Charger.
* As part of the Mega Charger push, Sega insists on a port of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' for it. A lot of content is lost in the transition, resulting in a substandard port that bombs in the market. This incredibly sours Sega's relations with Creator/WorkingDesigns, which get worse when Sega reveals they can't finance the localization of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue''. As a result, Creator/WorkingDesigns outright leaves Sega's camp, eventually joining Nintendo's.
* [[invoked]] Games that were [[NoExportForYou never released outside of Japan]] during the 16-bit era in OTL get localized or RemadeForTheExport. This includes:
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII The second]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII third]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV fifth]] games in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, all receiving SNES-CD releases. The former two games are released together (along with the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI the first game]]) as ''Final Fantasy Origins'' under their original titles, sorting out the problem of {{Market Based Title}}s early on before confusion started to really set in; later reprints of the American ''Final Fantasy II'' and ''III'' are done under their proper names, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and ''V'' (ITTL, it was ''V'' and not ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI VI]]'' that got released as ''III'' initially).
** A Super Nintendo remake of ''[[VideoGame/{{Mother1}} Mother]]'', becoming this timeline's ''[=EarthBound=]'', the game's promotion not using any ToiletHumor. As for the sequel (OTL's ''VideoGame/EarthBound''), it heads for the SNES-CD instead.
** ''Super Detective Club'', a remake of two Famicom Disk System mystery games from Nintendo.
** ''Franchise/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Mystery of the Emblem]]'' gets localized as ''Fire Emblem''.
** Enix, seeing an opening for a since Square was focusing on the SNES-CD instead of the Super Nintendo, localizes ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' (still a cartridge game) as ''Dragon Warrior V''.
** ''VideoGame/{{Shin Megami Tensei|I}}'' gets localized, and practically gives [[MoralGuardians Jerry Falwell]] a heart attack when he finds out about its subject matter. Despite Falwell's attempts to whip up controversy, it goes mostly ignored in the West, selling around 20,000 copies.
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' is made for the SNES-CD and no pared down version for the SNES is made.
* When Apple pulls out of development of the game console they were working on with [[Creator/NamcoBandai Bandai]], Bandai is left to shoulder the full weight of the failure of the Solaris (TTL's name for the UsefulNotes/{{Pippin}}). The company nearly goes bankrupt, saved only by ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' merchandise, and to stay afloat, they're forced to sell the VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} to Creator/{{Hasbro}} (who turns it into a smash hit). Ultimately, Sega buys out what's left of the company for a song in 1998, liquidating it and taking control of its [=IPs=].
* ''[[Creator/SquareEnix Square]]'' doesn't develop ''VideoGame/SecretOfEvermore''. As a result, Music/JeremySoule starts his career with Sega instead, with the latter having Jeremy work on the ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' series.
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* James Jordan, father of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan, lives when the criminals that killed him in our history instead target a truck full of video game consoles. With him alive, Michael would stay on the Chicago Bulls for at least the 1993-94 season instead of his one-year retirement to play baseball.
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived.
* A 21-year-old [[Music/{{Eminem}} Marshall Mathers]] gets gunned down in a dispute over a stolen game console.
* Tonya Harding's plan to take Nancy Kerrigan out of contention in the Olympics is foiled when the man she hired to break her knee slacks off on the job because he was playing too many video games.
* Ray Combs' work on the ''Series/FamilyFeud'' FMV game butterflies away his suicide in 1996, and he in turn helps Creator/MaryKayBergman back from the brink as well. Furthermore, a domestic dispute between Music/CourtneyLove and Music/KurtCobain over the latter playing too many video games leads to Cobain getting sent to rehab and eventually getting clean, preventing his suicide.
* Katey Segal's pregnancy is butterflied away, and with it, the Wanker County arc on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
* Butterflies from the success of the video game adaptation of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan: Power and Responsibility'' lead to Ben Reilly permanently becoming Spider-Man in the comics, as the game, which features Ben as the main character, causes him to develop many fans. Peter Parker, meanwhile, retires from being Spider-Man so that he can be with Mary Jane. On one hand, most of the widely-derided [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] is averted, but on the other, a BrokenBase develops between Peter Parker fans and Ben Reilly fans.
* DC Comics delays ComicBook/ZeroHour to February 1995 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths and becomes a different product altogether. Hal Jordan is still ostensibly the villain as Parallax, who wants to restore the TheMultiverse and Coast City along with it but is instead a pawn of the [[ComicBook/{{LegionOfSuper-Heroes}} Time Trapper]] as part of his plan to use the chronological instability to reshape the universe.
** Hal Jordan performs a HeroicSacrifice to restart the universe and thus vindicates the character after Emerald Twilight.
** Fan backlash after a leaked memo saves the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica from decimation and are given retirement instead.
** PowerGirl dies in a similar fashion to her previous Earth-1 counterpart.
** Franchise/WonderWoman and the Silver Age [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawks]] have their timelines adjusted and their places on the Justice League of America restored.
* The OJ Simpson case is instead a MurderSuicide, with both OJ and Nicole found dead by Ron Goldman.
* The spat between [[Music/{{TLC}} Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes]] and Andre Rison in 1994 that, in OTL, ended with her burning down his house ends here with him killing her. The resulting distraction and controversy leads to Rison spending eight years in prison, and Rison's San Francisco 49ers losing the NFC Championship to the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys then defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers (who themselves beat the Chargers who won that year's AFC Championship IOTL) in UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XXIX, making them the first NFL team to win three straight Super Bowls. Lopes' death (coming so soon after the aforementioned OJ Simpson MurderSuicide) became the climax of a massive controversy over domestic violence among NFL players, which would eventually lead then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue to resign.
* [[Music/{{Selena}} Selena Quintanilla-Pérez]] survives the attempt on her life that killed her in OTL thanks to butterflies from her husband, Chris Pérez being childhood friends with a successful video game developer. When the success of this friend's game ''Frederico'' prompts him to call Chris to remind him of a SideBet the two made, the timing of the call wakes Chris up in time to accompany his wife to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldívar, stopping Saldívar when she pulls a gun on Selena.
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* Nintendo still starts using the "Play It Loud" slogan mid-1994.
* Despite the availibity of the more powerful Super Nintendo CD, ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' is still a [=SuperFX=] enhanced cartridge game.
* Nintendo will still undo their DubNameChange for Princess Peach.
* The Houston Rockets still become champions of the 1993-1994 NBA season. The only difference is that their opponents were the Chicago Bulls (with Michael Jordan still playing for them) instead of the New York Knicks.
* Television shows ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''Series/OnceUponATime'', among others, still exist in this timeline, with the latter still starring Creator/JenniferMorrison to boot (even with her personal life taking a drastic turn).
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* AdaptationExpansion: ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' is ported to the SNES-CD with additional puzzles, locations, and songs. [[AdaptationDisplacement It is considered more well known than the original PC version]].
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** ''Super Mario World 2'' is similar to both ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' in terms of ExcusePlot. It starts at Princess Peach's castle with a party like ''Wii'', only it's for her return. Bowser and the Koopalings than come in and capture the castle, kicking the Mario Bros. and Yoshi out, ala ''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.
** Creator/JoeQuesada joked that he would [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay have Peter sell his soul to Mephisto]] in order to make him Spider-Man again.
* CelebrityEndorsement: UsefulNote/AlGore mentions in an interview that he saw the redeeming value of video games after trying out ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', and hopes there would more games like it rather than ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}''.
* CompilationRerelease: Square decides to do [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] of the three NES ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games for the SNES-CD. The collection gets localized as ''Final Fantasy Origins'' and is released before ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', meaning that game is the first in the series to retain its original numbering.
* UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars:
** The Fourth-And-A-Half Generation becomes more important in the grand scheme of things, as both the SNES-CD and the Sega CD become major players. By the end of 1994, it's clear that Nintendo's won this one, with Sega in a comfortable (if distant) second, while the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]], the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi (this time without its licensed Mario and Zelda games), and the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar all bomb like they did in OTL. When it comes to the Fourth Generation "base" consoles, though, Sega is able to close the gap between the Genesis and the Super NES towards the end, thanks to price cuts, focusing on people who can't afford a SNES-CD (even if it means all but giving up on the Sega CD), and extending the Genesis' life with the inexpensive Mega Charger peripheral (with ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'' as its KillerApp) to keep it competitive. Even then, though, the SNES-CD eventually starts taking over by 1995.
** As of the start of 1995, the Fifth Generation is shaping up with Sega prepping the [[UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn Saturn]] for its Western release (it's already out in Japan) and Nintendo and Sony still working on a deal for their next console, only coming to an agreement in March. An early also-ran was the [[Creator/NamcoBandai Bandai]] Solaris, TTL's version of the UsefulNotes/{{Pippin}} (Apple wisely pulled out of its development), which attempted to beat Nintendo to market but became just as big a white elephant as OTL's machine, nearly bankrupting Bandai (which was only saved by ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' merchandise) and leading to their getting bought out by Sega in 1998.
* ContinuityReboot: The ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' series gets a reboot for the SNES-CD. Three games are made for that system before doing a VideoGame3DLeap with ''[[SuperTitle64Advance 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.
* DeathByAdaptation: Aunt May peacefully passes away in this timeline's version of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', and has stayed that way ever since.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: With the Super Nintendo CD on the market, brand new franchises have come into being, as well as different sequels to existing games.
* DomesticAbuse: An [[MurderSuicide alternate version]] of the OJ Simpson case, combined with Andre Rison accidentally killing [[Music/{{TLC}} 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.
* DreamTeam:
** The entire story is based on a classic WhatIf dream team in gaming history: Sony and Nintendo working together to make the CD peripheral for the Super NES, instead of Nintendo pulling out of the deal.
** Nintendo enlisted the [[Creator/JimHenson Jim Henson Company]] to create FMV cutscenes for this timeline's version of ''VideoGame/StarFox''.
* DuelingGames: ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally there were comparisons made due to their similarities.
* FollowTheLeader: Not only is ''Secret of Mana'' more successful and more notable, it got the attention of one of Tom Kalinske's daughters. The Sega of America president, not wanting to buy a competitor's product for his daughter, pushes for the creation of a similar game, ''[=MagiQuest=]'', for the Saturn.
* FromBadToWorse: Despite Sega promoting ''VideoGame/SonicCD'', the game fails to be a KillerApp 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.
* FullMotionVideo: 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 ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'' made as a collaboration between Nintendo and the Creator/JimHenson Company that leads to further partnerships down the road (including a popular FMV [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] game in 1995). That said, there is still quite a bit of notorious crap; some games that only exist in TTL are bad enough to give [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the Nerd]] nightmares.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The timeline is scattered with interviews and comments made in the future by various people. Notably, one of them is from Bill Gates of Microsoft, who notes he considered suing to break up one of the major players like how Microsoft was sued, hinting that Microsoft was a bigger underdog when entering the console market.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: 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.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[invoked]] A number of FMV games released for the SNES-CD and the Sega CD feature actors who went on to bigger and better things.
** One early title, a medieval fantasy game called ''Nightfall'', is notable for having featured a pre-fame Kelly Hu as a HotWitch, and for having come up in the debates over adult content in games not just for its violence, but also for the {{stripperiffic}} outfits her character wore.
** A well-received space shooter called ''Meteora'' features Creator/GiancarloEsposito and Creator/MillaJovovich.
** For his 91st episode, WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd dumps on an [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible utterly wretched]] 1994 game called ''Oops!'', described as a [[LighterAndSofter family-friendly]] ripoff of ''VideoGame/NightTrap''. One of the more noticeably bad elements of the game is the "acting" by the young actress playing the main character, who the Nerd calls "a no-talent hack". That actress? [[spoiler:A 15-year-old Creator/JenniferMorrison... who shows up (''a la'' Creator/MaraWilson with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic) to [[SelfDeprecation mock the]] [[OldShame game herself]]. The Nerd then forces her to help him review a whole slew of bad fairy-tale games, what with her being the star of ''Series/OnceUponATime''. (The kicker is that, in TTL, Creator/JamesRolfe is married to Morrison, with WordOfGod stating that they'll get to the story of how they met eventually.)]]
** While she didn't appear in an FMV game, a pre-Broadway Creator/KristinChenoweth is featured in ''Final Fantasy VI'' as the singing voice of Celes during "Aria di Mezzo Carraterre" in the famous opera scene.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[invoked]] The careers of a number of voice actors also go quite differently.
** The game ''Squad Four'' has Creator/CharlesMartinet, in a big break from voicing Mario, doing the voice of the main character Shad. Former Mouseketeer (and later [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Crystal Gem]]) Deedee Magno voices the ActionGirl Rebecca, while Michael Reisz and Creator/TomKenny voice the other two heroes, Marcus and Lane.
** Instead of starting her video game voice acting career with Claire in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', Creator/AlysonCourt does her first video game four years earlier by voicing the little girl protagonist in the action-adventure game ''Jewels of the Realm''.
* KillerApp:
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest Final Fantasy: New Generation]]'' are this for the SNES-CD at launch. Later killer apps for it include ''Super Mario World 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'', ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', ''Squad Four''[[note]]A sci-fi shooter that's described as a mix of OTL's ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'', and ''Star Fox''[[/note]], and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.
** 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 ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD 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: ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles 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 [[ExpansionPack 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 ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' turned out to be fairly sloppy and rushed.
** In Japan, ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' proves to be a minor killer app for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.
* LegacyCharacter: ComicBook/SpiderMan was made into this, with Peter Parker retiring to focus on his marriage to Mary Jane and Ben Reilly taking over the role.
* MoralGuardians: Jerry Falwell's reaction to ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' 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.
* MultipleEndings: This timeline's version of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' has three of them.
* MurderSimulators: The Senate hearings over video game violence still happen, three months earlier than OTL thanks to the uncensored release of ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'' on the SNES-CD.
* MurderSuicide: O.J. Simpson kills Nicole Brown before killing himself. Ron Goldman in this timeline would discover the bodies.
* TheNineties: So far, the entire timeline takes place here, though there are occasional references to future events.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: 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.
* PortingDisaster: [[invoked]] The SNES-CD port of ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'', and the Mega Charger version of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar''.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: A number of figures from OTL go on different career paths.
** Voice actress Jennifer Stigile wins the first season of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' instead of Music/KellyClarkson.
** Creator/AlexHirsch, instead of [[WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack going]] [[WesternAnimation/FishHooks into]] [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls animation]], becomes an indie game developer -- together with his twin sister Ariel.
** Joseph Lieberman is mentioned to be Vice President of the United States in 2006.
* [[SoMyKidsCanWatch So My Kids Can Play]]: The reason why Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske commissions ''[=MagiQuest=]'' as a KillerApp for the Saturn. His daughter wanted an SNES-CD so that she could play ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', 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''.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: ''Valis: Rebirth'', the SNES-CD retelling of the first ''VideoGame/{{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''.
* SpiritualLicensee: [[invoked]] The Creator/{{Ubisoft}} RPG ''The Darkest Ritual'' is described as being heavily influenced by the ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie. (It came out in 1995, so [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the TV series]] is still two years away.)
* {{Tuckerization}}: The protagonists of ''[=MagiQuest=]'' are named after Tom Kalinske's daughters.
* UpdatedRerelease: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' get released for SNES-CD with improved graphics and sounds (and in the case of ''IV'', improved localization).
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Sega so far avoids the conflict between their American and Japanese branches that plagued them in the original timeline. 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.
* WhatAnIdiot: Discussed InUniverse, Bandai choosing to market the Pippin hardware after Apple decided to drop the whole Pippin initative.
--> They ended up making the same mistake that Phillips, Pioneer, Atari, and 3DO had made before them: the combined juggernaut of Nintendo, Sony, and Sega was just too tough of a nut to crack.
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!! Tropes Impacted by the Timeline
* [[invoked]]MarthDebutedInSmashBros: As ''[[FireEmblemAkaneia Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem]]'' is actually localized [[InUniverse in this timeline]], this trivia trope cannot apply to Marth anymore, much less be named after him.
As everyone well versed in the gaming world knows, Creator/{{Nintendo}} partnered with Creator/{{Sony}} to release a [[UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDROM}} CD add-on]] for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, 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 UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}, causing Nintendo to struggle to stay relevant in the console space, but would also contribute to Creator/{{Sega}} leaving the hardware market and becoming a Third Party developer. 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, decides the technology offered by Sony is too good to pass up, and decides to renegotiate Nintendo's contract with Sony, using the on-going talks with Philips as a bargaining chip...
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* With no deal with Philips, the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi is just a footnote in gaming history. The [[VideoGame/HotelMario Mario]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda]] CDi games never get made, and never get used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop parodies.
* In general, with the existence of the SNES-CD, games that originally released on the Super Nintendo (and, in some cases, the Genesis/Sega CD) become SNES-CD games instead.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' becomes a SNES-CD launch game when the original Mario platformer for the add-on, ''Super Mario World 2'', is delayed in development, resulting in ''Kart'' being made for the SNES-CD (with a much-touted four-player mode) instead of the Super Nintendo just so there is a ''Mario'' game of some sort at launch.
** OTL's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' becomes ITTL ''Final Fantasy: New Generation'' for the SNES-CD. It does well enough that Square decides to localize the [[UpdatedRerelease SNES-CD version]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.[[note]]It's released as ''III'', but after ''Origins'' is released, reprints would restore the original number.[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/StarFox'' becomes a SNES-CD game -- with live-action cutscenes by the [[Creator/JimHenson Jim Henson Company]]. The first game to utilize the [=SuperFX=] chip is ''Super Squadron X'', a sequel to ''X'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoy.
** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' was in fact originally planned to be a SNES-CD game. With no retooling needed to fit the limits of a Super Nintendo cartridge, this means a more fleshed out game than OTL, with MultipleEndings and a better localization.
** ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra: Hard Corps]]'' for OTL's Genesis becomes ''Contra IV: Hard Corps'' for the SNES-CD. The Genesis would get instead ''Contra: Probotector'', a game that had a RobotWar plot instead of an AlienInvasion, introducing the Probotector concept outside of Europe.[[note]]The Probotectors were the protagonists in all European versions of Contra games at the time, replacing the human characters. This was due to the CensorshipBureau in Germany looking down on depictions of violence on humans.[[/note]]
** Instead of a port to the Sega CD, ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'' is ported to the SNES-CD under the helm of Creator/MasahiroSakurai at HAL Labratories. With the SNES-CD way more successful than the Sega CD in the our timeline, the game reaches around 400,000 copies, even with an M rating.[[note]]The Sega CD version in our timeline? Only a couple thousand copies. And it was rated T.[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' was planned for the vanilla SNES as OTL, but Nintendo asked Rare to make it for the SNES-CD instead, signifying that even Nintendo was moving away from developing SNES cartridge games.
** ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' is developed for the SNES-CD instead and published by Sony, along with Western releases. (OTL Pulseman only made a North American release via the Sega Channel before made available via the VirtualConsole.) It would be the basis of a relationship between Sony and the game's developer, Creator/GameFreak.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is purely developed for the SNES-CD instead of being a ported cartridge game. The game is the first in the series to feature lyrical music during the game's classic opera scene (with Celes' part performed by then-unknown singer Kristin Chenoweth). The World of Ruin arc is made more linear, and certain sidequests integrated to the story. ITTL, it is the first game to keep its numbering in Western localizations.
* Nintendo's new deal with Sony includes provisions that Nintendo of America will not [[CensorshipBureau censor]] games for the CD add-on. As a result, ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 Mortal Kombat]]'' is released uncut on the SNES-CD. This gets Nintendo in as much hot water as Sega with Congress on the subject of video game violence, the hearings taking place September 1993 instead of December 1993. Following that, Nintendo heavily markets ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' during the 1993 holiday season as a way to combat the controversy, boosting the game's profile considerably.
* With the early success of the SNES-CD, Sega of America's president Tom Kalinske convinces his bosses in Japan to work with Silicon Graphics. Result? The UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn now has the guts of our timeline's UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}.
* In response to the SNES-CD's big 1993 holiday sales, Sega reorganizes their pre-Saturn plans. The 32X add-on is dropped, and instead comes up with the Mega Charger, which is similar but, at only $50, is much cheaper. It combines the lock-on technology used in OTL's ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic & Knuckles]]'' with processing chips from Silicon Graphics. 30% of the eventual Genesis library would take advantage of it, with a dozen or so titles outright requiring it. Among those games: ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'', which ITTL includes the ''Sonic & Knuckles'' content and becomes a KillerApp for the Mega Charger.
* As part of the Mega Charger push, Sega insists on a port of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' for it. A lot of content is lost in the transition, resulting in a substandard port that bombs in the market. This incredibly sours Sega's relations with Creator/WorkingDesigns, which get worse when Sega reveals they can't finance the localization of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue''. As a result, Creator/WorkingDesigns outright leaves Sega's camp, eventually joining Nintendo's.
* [[invoked]] Games that were [[NoExportForYou never released outside of Japan]] during the 16-bit era in OTL get localized or RemadeForTheExport. This includes:
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII The second]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII third]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV fifth]] games in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, all receiving SNES-CD releases. The former two games are released together (along with the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI the first game]]) as ''Final Fantasy Origins'' under their original titles, sorting out the problem of {{Market Based Title}}s early on before confusion started to really set in; later reprints of the American ''Final Fantasy II'' and ''III'' are done under their proper names, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and ''V'' (ITTL, it was ''V'' and not ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI VI]]'' that got released as ''III'' initially).
** A Super Nintendo remake of ''[[VideoGame/{{Mother1}} Mother]]'', becoming this timeline's ''[=EarthBound=]'', the game's promotion not using any ToiletHumor. As for the sequel (OTL's ''VideoGame/EarthBound''), it heads for the SNES-CD instead.
** ''Super Detective Club'', a remake of two Famicom Disk System mystery games from Nintendo.
** ''Franchise/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Mystery of the Emblem]]'' gets localized as ''Fire Emblem''.
** Enix, seeing an opening for a since Square was focusing on the SNES-CD instead of the Super Nintendo, localizes ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' (still a cartridge game) as ''Dragon Warrior V''.
** ''VideoGame/{{Shin Megami Tensei|I}}'' gets localized, and practically gives [[MoralGuardians Jerry Falwell]] a heart attack when he finds out about its subject matter. Despite Falwell's attempts to whip up controversy, it goes mostly ignored in the West, selling around 20,000 copies.
** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' is made for the SNES-CD and no pared down version for the SNES is made.
* When Apple pulls out of development of the game console they were working on with [[Creator/NamcoBandai Bandai]], Bandai is left to shoulder the full weight of the failure of the Solaris (TTL's name for the UsefulNotes/{{Pippin}}). The company nearly goes bankrupt, saved only by ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' merchandise, and to stay afloat, they're forced to sell the VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} to Creator/{{Hasbro}} (who turns it into a smash hit). Ultimately, Sega buys out what's left of the company for a song in 1998, liquidating it and taking control of its [=IPs=].
* ''[[Creator/SquareEnix Square]]'' doesn't develop ''VideoGame/SecretOfEvermore''. As a result, Music/JeremySoule starts his career with Sega instead, with the latter having Jeremy work on the ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' series.
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* James Jordan, father of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan, lives when the criminals that killed him in our history instead target a truck full of video game consoles. With him alive, Michael would stay on the Chicago Bulls for at least the 1993-94 season instead of his one-year retirement to play baseball.
* Polly Klaas is never murdered because her would-be kidnapper tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father time to catch and subdue him until police arrived.
* A 21-year-old [[Music/{{Eminem}} Marshall Mathers]] gets gunned down in a dispute over a stolen game console.
* Tonya Harding's plan to take Nancy Kerrigan out of contention in the Olympics is foiled when the man she hired to break her knee slacks off on the job because he was playing too many video games.
* Ray Combs' work on the ''Series/FamilyFeud'' FMV game butterflies away his suicide in 1996, and he in turn helps Creator/MaryKayBergman back from the brink as well. Furthermore, a domestic dispute between Music/CourtneyLove and Music/KurtCobain over the latter playing too many video games leads to Cobain getting sent to rehab and eventually getting clean, preventing his suicide.
* Katey Segal's pregnancy is butterflied away, and with it, the Wanker County arc on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
* Butterflies from the success of the video game adaptation of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan: Power and Responsibility'' lead to Ben Reilly permanently becoming Spider-Man in the comics, as the game, which features Ben as the main character, causes him to develop many fans. Peter Parker, meanwhile, retires from being Spider-Man so that he can be with Mary Jane. On one hand, most of the widely-derided [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] is averted, but on the other, a BrokenBase develops between Peter Parker fans and Ben Reilly fans.
* DC Comics delays ComicBook/ZeroHour to February 1995 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths and becomes a different product altogether. Hal Jordan is still ostensibly the villain as Parallax, who wants to restore the TheMultiverse and Coast City along with it but is instead a pawn of the [[ComicBook/{{LegionOfSuper-Heroes}} Time Trapper]] as part of his plan to use the chronological instability to reshape the universe.
** Hal Jordan performs a HeroicSacrifice to restart the universe and thus vindicates the character after Emerald Twilight.
** Fan backlash after a leaked memo saves the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica from decimation and are given retirement instead.
** PowerGirl dies in a similar fashion to her previous Earth-1 counterpart.
** Franchise/WonderWoman and the Silver Age [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawks]] have their timelines adjusted and their places on the Justice League of America restored.
* The OJ Simpson case is instead a MurderSuicide, with both OJ and Nicole found dead by Ron Goldman.
* The spat between [[Music/{{TLC}} Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes]] and Andre Rison in 1994 that, in OTL, ended with her burning down his house ends here with him killing her. The resulting distraction and controversy leads to Rison spending eight years in prison, and Rison's San Francisco 49ers losing the NFC Championship to the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys then defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers (who themselves beat the Chargers who won that year's AFC Championship IOTL) in UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XXIX, making them the first NFL team to win three straight Super Bowls. Lopes' death (coming so soon after the aforementioned OJ Simpson MurderSuicide) became the climax of a massive controversy over domestic violence among NFL players, which would eventually lead then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue to resign.
* [[Music/{{Selena}} Selena Quintanilla-Pérez]] survives the attempt on her life that killed her in OTL thanks to butterflies from her husband, Chris Pérez being childhood friends with a successful video game developer. When the success of this friend's game ''Frederico'' prompts him to call Chris to remind him of a SideBet the two made, the timing of the call wakes Chris up in time to accompany his wife to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldívar, stopping Saldívar when she pulls a gun on Selena.
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[[folder:In Spite Of A Nail]]
* Nintendo still starts using the "Play It Loud" slogan mid-1994.
* Despite the availibity of the more powerful Super Nintendo CD, ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' is still a [=SuperFX=] enhanced cartridge game.
* Nintendo will still undo their DubNameChange for Princess Peach.
* The Houston Rockets still become champions of the 1993-1994 NBA season. The only difference is that their opponents were the Chicago Bulls (with Michael Jordan still playing for them) instead of the New York Knicks.
* Television shows ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''Series/OnceUponATime'', among others, still exist in this timeline, with the latter still starring Creator/JenniferMorrison to boot (even with her personal life taking a drastic turn).
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* AdaptationExpansion: ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' is ported to the SNES-CD with additional puzzles, locations, and songs. [[AdaptationDisplacement It is considered more well known than the original PC version]].
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** ''Super Mario World 2'' is similar to both ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' in terms of ExcusePlot. It starts at Princess Peach's castle with a party like ''Wii'', only it's for her return. Bowser and the Koopalings than come in and capture the castle, kicking the Mario Bros. and Yoshi out, ala ''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.
** Creator/JoeQuesada joked that he would [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay have Peter sell his soul to Mephisto]] in order to make him Spider-Man again.
* CelebrityEndorsement: UsefulNote/AlGore mentions in an interview that he saw the redeeming value of video games after trying out ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', and hopes there would more games like it rather than ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}''.
* CompilationRerelease: Square decides to do [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] of the three NES ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games for the SNES-CD. The collection gets localized as ''Final Fantasy Origins'' and is released before ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', meaning that game is the first in the series to retain its original numbering.
* UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars:
** The Fourth-And-A-Half Generation becomes more important in the grand scheme of things, as both the SNES-CD and the Sega CD become major players. By the end of 1994, it's clear that Nintendo's won this one, with Sega in a comfortable (if distant) second, while the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]], the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi (this time without its licensed Mario and Zelda games), and the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar all bomb like they did in OTL. When it comes to the Fourth Generation "base" consoles, though, Sega is able to close the gap between the Genesis and the Super NES towards the end, thanks to price cuts, focusing on people who can't afford a SNES-CD (even if it means all but giving up on the Sega CD), and extending the Genesis' life with the inexpensive Mega Charger peripheral (with ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'' as its KillerApp) to keep it competitive. Even then, though, the SNES-CD eventually starts taking over by 1995.
** As of the start of 1995, the Fifth Generation is shaping up with Sega prepping the [[UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn Saturn]] for its Western release (it's already out in Japan) and Nintendo and Sony still working on a deal for their next console, only coming to an agreement in March. An early also-ran was the [[Creator/NamcoBandai Bandai]] Solaris, TTL's version of the UsefulNotes/{{Pippin}} (Apple wisely pulled out of its development), which attempted to beat Nintendo to market but became just as big a white elephant as OTL's machine, nearly bankrupting Bandai (which was only saved by ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' merchandise) and leading to their getting bought out by Sega in 1998.
* ContinuityReboot: The ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' series gets a reboot for the SNES-CD. Three games are made for that system before doing a VideoGame3DLeap with ''[[SuperTitle64Advance 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.
* DeathByAdaptation: Aunt May peacefully passes away in this timeline's version of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', and has stayed that way ever since.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: With the Super Nintendo CD on the market, brand new franchises have come into being, as well as different sequels to existing games.
* DomesticAbuse: An [[MurderSuicide alternate version]] of the OJ Simpson case, combined with Andre Rison accidentally killing [[Music/{{TLC}} 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.
* DreamTeam:
** The entire story is based on a classic WhatIf dream team in gaming history: Sony and Nintendo working together to make the CD peripheral for the Super NES, instead of Nintendo pulling out of the deal.
** Nintendo enlisted the [[Creator/JimHenson Jim Henson Company]] to create FMV cutscenes for this timeline's version of ''VideoGame/StarFox''.
* DuelingGames: ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pulseman}}'' had North American launches in January 1995, so naturally there were comparisons made due to their similarities.
* FollowTheLeader: Not only is ''Secret of Mana'' more successful and more notable, it got the attention of one of Tom Kalinske's daughters. The Sega of America president, not wanting to buy a competitor's product for his daughter, pushes for the creation of a similar game, ''[=MagiQuest=]'', for the Saturn.
* FromBadToWorse: Despite Sega promoting ''VideoGame/SonicCD'', the game fails to be a KillerApp 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.
* FullMotionVideo: 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 ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'' made as a collaboration between Nintendo and the Creator/JimHenson Company that leads to further partnerships down the road (including a popular FMV [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] game in 1995). That said, there is still quite a bit of notorious crap; some games that only exist in TTL are bad enough to give [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the Nerd]] nightmares.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The timeline is scattered with interviews and comments made in the future by various people. Notably, one of them is from Bill Gates of Microsoft, who notes he considered suing to break up one of the major players like how Microsoft was sued, hinting that Microsoft was a bigger underdog when entering the console market.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: 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.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[invoked]] A number of FMV games released for the SNES-CD and the Sega CD feature actors who went on to bigger and better things.
** One early title, a medieval fantasy game called ''Nightfall'', is notable for having featured a pre-fame Kelly Hu as a HotWitch, and for having come up in the debates over adult content in games not just for its violence, but also for the {{stripperiffic}} outfits her character wore.
** A well-received space shooter called ''Meteora'' features Creator/GiancarloEsposito and Creator/MillaJovovich.
** For his 91st episode, WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd dumps on an [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible utterly wretched]] 1994 game called ''Oops!'', described as a [[LighterAndSofter family-friendly]] ripoff of ''VideoGame/NightTrap''. One of the more noticeably bad elements of the game is the "acting" by the young actress playing the main character, who the Nerd calls "a no-talent hack". That actress? [[spoiler:A 15-year-old Creator/JenniferMorrison... who shows up (''a la'' Creator/MaraWilson with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic) to [[SelfDeprecation mock the]] [[OldShame game herself]]. The Nerd then forces her to help him review a whole slew of bad fairy-tale games, what with her being the star of ''Series/OnceUponATime''. (The kicker is that, in TTL, Creator/JamesRolfe is married to Morrison, with WordOfGod stating that they'll get to the story of how they met eventually.)]]
** While she didn't appear in an FMV game, a pre-Broadway Creator/KristinChenoweth is featured in ''Final Fantasy VI'' as the singing voice of Celes during "Aria di Mezzo Carraterre" in the famous opera scene.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[invoked]] The careers of a number of voice actors also go quite differently.
** The game ''Squad Four'' has Creator/CharlesMartinet, in a big break from voicing Mario, doing the voice of the main character Shad. Former Mouseketeer (and later [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Crystal Gem]]) Deedee Magno voices the ActionGirl Rebecca, while Michael Reisz and Creator/TomKenny voice the other two heroes, Marcus and Lane.
** Instead of starting her video game voice acting career with Claire in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', Creator/AlysonCourt does her first video game four years earlier by voicing the little girl protagonist in the action-adventure game ''Jewels of the Realm''.
* KillerApp:
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest Final Fantasy: New Generation]]'' are this for the SNES-CD at launch. Later killer apps for it include ''Super Mario World 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'', ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', ''Squad Four''[[note]]A sci-fi shooter that's described as a mix of OTL's ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'', and ''Star Fox''[[/note]], and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.
** 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 ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD 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: ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles 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 [[ExpansionPack 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 ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' turned out to be fairly sloppy and rushed.
** In Japan, ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' proves to be a minor killer app for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.
* LegacyCharacter: ComicBook/SpiderMan was made into this, with Peter Parker retiring to focus on his marriage to Mary Jane and Ben Reilly taking over the role.
* MoralGuardians: Jerry Falwell's reaction to ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' 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.
* MultipleEndings: This timeline's version of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' has three of them.
* MurderSimulators: The Senate hearings over video game violence still happen, three months earlier than OTL thanks to the uncensored release of ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'' on the SNES-CD.
* MurderSuicide: O.J. Simpson kills Nicole Brown before killing himself. Ron Goldman in this timeline would discover the bodies.
* TheNineties: So far, the entire timeline takes place here, though there are occasional references to future events.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: 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.
* PortingDisaster: [[invoked]] The SNES-CD port of ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'', and the Mega Charger version of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar''.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: A number of figures from OTL go on different career paths.
** Voice actress Jennifer Stigile wins the first season of ''Series/AmericanIdol'' instead of Music/KellyClarkson.
** Creator/AlexHirsch, instead of [[WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack going]] [[WesternAnimation/FishHooks into]] [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls animation]], becomes an indie game developer -- together with his twin sister Ariel.
** Joseph Lieberman is mentioned to be Vice President of the United States in 2006.
* [[SoMyKidsCanWatch So My Kids Can Play]]: The reason why Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske commissions ''[=MagiQuest=]'' as a KillerApp for the Saturn. His daughter wanted an SNES-CD so that she could play ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', 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''.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: ''Valis: Rebirth'', the SNES-CD retelling of the first ''VideoGame/{{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''.
* SpiritualLicensee: [[invoked]] The Creator/{{Ubisoft}} RPG ''The Darkest Ritual'' is described as being heavily influenced by the ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie. (It came out in 1995, so [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the TV series]] is still two years away.)
* {{Tuckerization}}: The protagonists of ''[=MagiQuest=]'' are named after Tom Kalinske's daughters.
* UpdatedRerelease: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' get released for SNES-CD with improved graphics and sounds (and in the case of ''IV'', improved localization).
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Sega so far avoids the conflict between their American and Japanese branches that plagued them in the original timeline. 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.
* WhatAnIdiot: Discussed InUniverse, Bandai choosing to market the Pippin hardware after Apple decided to drop the whole Pippin initative.
--> They ended up making the same mistake that Phillips, Pioneer, Atari, and 3DO had made before them: the combined juggernaut of Nintendo, Sony, and Sega was just too tough of a nut to crack.
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!! Tropes Impacted by the Timeline
* [[invoked]]MarthDebutedInSmashBros: As ''[[FireEmblemAkaneia Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem]]'' is actually localized [[InUniverse in this timeline]], this trivia trope cannot apply to Marth anymore, much less be named after him.
