History Trivia / Oddworld

*** Microsoft originally wanted Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee to be named "Abe and Munch's Fun Adventures" to appeal to a family friendly audience. This was obviously averted.

** Microsoft originally wanted Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee to be named "Abe and Munch's Fun Adventures" to appeal to a family friendly audience. This was obviously averted.

*** Munch's Oddysee was going to be a MUCH bigger game, but limited time and not advanced enough technology prevented it from being so. This isn't even getting into the games put on hold while ''Soulstorm'' is in development, such as SligStorm and Hand of Odd.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason Abe lost a finger between the first and second games. (And by executive, we mean the {{Yakuza}}, who claimed to have the Japanese equivalent of a copyright on any [[{{Yubitsume}} characters with four fingers]]. Seriously).

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Lorne Lanning based the games on his experiences seeing the homeless crisis in America and how people were starving and scrounging for scraps while living next to a waste processing plant where perfectly edible food was being destroyed.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://oddworld.wikia.com/wiki/Oddworld_Wiki The Oddworld Wiki]].

*** Meeches were originally going to have been an enemy in the first game, with an early FMV of Abe getting chased by them. However, due to time constraints, they were omitted and written as extinct.

*** As mentioned in AbortedArc, ''Munch's Oddysee'' would have had Abe reuniting with his mother, Queen Sam, who would have been kept at Vyykers Labs. There would have also been a subplot of Molluck being held on trial for letting Rupture Farms fall.

* OldShame: Lorne Lanning regretted the final version of "Munch's Oddysee".

*** Munch's Oddysee was going to be a MUCH bigger game, but limited time and not advanced enough technology prevented it from being so. This isn't even getting into the games put on hold while ''New 'n' Tasty'' is in development, such as SligStorm and Hand of Odd.

*** There were three unused vending machines in ''Munch's Oddysee:'' Climb (which did appear in a demo), Super Zap (which, as the name suggested, would have given Munch a stronger Zap), and Hurl-A-Whirl (which would have presumably would have given the player a stronger throw).

*** The post for DebutQueue and AlwaysChaoticEvil imply that either Abe's Exoddus and the cancelled fifth game were meant to be about Squeek and Nod, or that Sligstorm was meant to close the franchise.

** The Oddworld series was originally going to be 5 games long, each one focusing on a new main character. This changed after Oddworld Inhabitants decided to make a second game focusing on Abe before moving on to the next character.
** Munch's Oddysee was going to be a MUCH bigger game, but limited time and not advanced enough technology prevented it from being so. This isn't even getting into the games put on hold while ''New 'n' Tasty'' is in development, such as SligStorm and Hand of Odd.
** The post for DebutQueue and AlwaysChaoticEvil imply that either Abe's Exoddus and the cancelled fifth game were meant to be about Squeek and Nod, or that Sligstorm was meant to close the franchise.
** The WorkingTitle for ''Abe's Oddysee'' was Soulstorm. While said title didn't stick, it was used for the brew that the Glukkons make in ''Exoddus'', and, in an example of things coming full-circle, became the name for the latter game's remake.
** ''Abe's Exoddus'' was originally going to be a darker, deeper and more sinister story, but due to time constraints forcing the team to make the game in nine months, Lorne Lanning wasn't able to alter his script in any meaningful way. Part of the reason why ''Oddworld: Soulstorm'' was developed is to tell the story as Lanning originally intended.
** Meeches were originally going to have been an enemy in the first game, with an early FMV of Abe getting chased by them. However, due to time constraints, they were omitted and written as extinct.
** There were three unused vending machines in ''Munch's Oddysee:'' Climb (which did appear in a demo), Super Zap (which, as the name suggested, would have given Munch a stronger Zap), and Hurl-A-Whirl (which would have presumably would have given the player a stronger throw).

** ''Abe's Exoddus'' was originally going to be a darker, deeper and more sinister story, but due to time constraints forcing the team to make the game in nine months, Lorne Lanning wasn't able to alter his script in any meaningful way. Part of the reason why ''Oddworld: Soulstorm'' was developed is to tell the story as Lanning originally intended.

** The post for DebutQueue and AlwaysChaoticEvil imply that either Abe's Exoddus and the cancelled fifth game were meant to be about Squeek and Nod, or that Sligstorm was meant to close the franchise.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Munch's Oddysee was going to be a MUCH bigger game, but limited time and not advanced enough technology prevented it from being so. This isn't even getting into the games put on hold while ''New 'n' Tasty'' is in development, such as SligStorm and Hand of Odd.

* TalkingToHimself: around 80% of all of the characters are voiced by Lorne Lanning, the co-founder of Oddworld Inhabitants

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Munch's Oddysee was going to be a MUCH bigger game, but limited time and not advanced enough technology prevented it from being so. This isn't even getting into the canceled games like SligStorm and Hand of Odd.

** The post for Debut Queue and Always Chaotic Evil imply that either Abe's Exoddus and the cancelled fifth game were meant to be about Squeek and Nod, or that Sligstorm was meant to close the franchise.