History ThrowItIn / VideoGames

** The Spy class from the original ''VideoGame/{{Team Fortress|Classic}} VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' mod, and his ability to disguise as members of the enemy team, arose from a glitch that sometimes caused players to show up as the wrong team color.
*** The Soldier's ability to rocket jump also stems from this trope.
** One such example that's not an AscendedGlitch but a ShoutOut: ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' has a bug that makes it possible to skip [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Kraid]][[VideoGame/StreetFighterII gief's]] second phase before he rises up, which would also make the rest of the battle a total pushover since he would be at a much lower height and thus much easier to shoot. WordOfGod says it was kept in "since it works just like Kraid from VideoGame/SuperMetroid", where it's possible to kill him before he rises up to his full height and breaks the ceiling if you shoot multiple Super Missiles in his mouth in rapid succession.

* ''VideoGame/PowerBomberman'' originally had the Path of Glory stage and the Item Help area look the same, but when the former was given a visual revamp on version 0.7.5, the latter wasn't changed to match due to an oversight. The devs thought that having the old design be exclusive to the Item Help area looked nice, so they never fixed it.

* The ''{{VideoGame/ZZT}}'' game ''[[https://museumofzzt.com/file/w/window/ Window Fragments]]'' [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants was made entirely on a flight from Minnesota to Washington in about two hours in a "stream of consciousness" fashion]]. While the author was creating [[https://museumofzzt.com/file/w/window/?file=window.zzt&board=4 the last section of the game]], the passenger in front of him reclined their seat, cramping up his space, and so he wrote a complaint about it on the top of the screen, where it would remain in the completed game.

* Y'know [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MZdrJZo_ig the lines Dante uses]] when he gains Lucifer in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 4''? Creator/ReubenLangdon apparently improvised them.

* In ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', There's a point in the game where somebody insults the Chowder Man by calling him 'Choder Man'. According to Jay Tholen, this was a legitimate typo, but it worked way too well in context for him to take it out.

* Much of the sidequest data from ''VideoGame/SepterraCore'' was this.

** One such example that's not an AscendedGlitch but a ShoutOut: ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' has a bug that makes it possible to skip [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Kraid]][[VideoGame/StreetFighterII gief's]] second phase before he rises up, which would also make the rest of the battle a total pushover since he would be at a much lower height and thus much easier to shoot. WordOfGod says it was kept in "since it works just like Kraid from VideoGame/SuperMetroid", where it's possible to kill him before he rises up to his full height and breaks the ceiling if you shoot multiple Super Missiles in his mouth in rapid succession.

* When the heroine of ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' was being conceived, the artist drew a flower in her eye (literally [[BodyHorror growing out of its socket]]) to give her a more feminine appearance. [[Creator/TaroYoko The director]] said 'okay', and wrote an entire plot around what the flower was and why it was there.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' had its key actors perform many cutscenes with motion capture suits on and delivering dialogue live (leading to the realism of the CGI). In one sequence, the actor playing Trevor was supposed to vault over a low fence, but he goofed and tripped over instead, causing the actor playing Franklin to break into laughter. Rather than cutting the scene, the actor playing Trevor proceeded to deliver an epic (and somewhat scary) angry rant, in character, that was considered so good (along with Franklin's actor wisely also staying in character) that it was incorporated into the cutscene as it appeared in the game.[[note]]Only a tiny part hints that it's improv; Trevor says "motherfucker" which he normally doesn't as he takes insults involving his mother [[BerserkButton VERY seriously.]][[/note]] As a bonus, Trevor's ad-libbed rant actually worked towards the continuity of the game because [[spoiler: at this point in the game, Trevor had just left his friend Michael to, he thinks, be killed by Chinese mobsters, and his rant ties into the guilt the character is feeling about this.]] The scene ended up being one of the funniest in the game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQ093vh3FM Watch it here]].

* Oddjob in ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' had an infamous case of HitboxDissonance, dubbed [[FanNickname "Oddjob is cheating!"]]. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_25867_one-gamingE28099s-oldest-arguments-was-just-settled-good.html This issue was known to the developers during testing, but they considered it so funny they left it in.]]

* The ''ending'' of ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'' arose from a glitch making it seem like the game had finished [[spoiler: after you die in the storm]] during one playtester's test. The playtester was apprently moved to tears by how profoundly moving it was, and as a result thatgamecompany went [[DoingItForTheArt almost a year and a half over budget and into bankruptcy just to achieve that satisfactory ending]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' is best known for having an [[ClusterFBomb oversaturation of swear words]] (including modified swear words that sound like they came out of a maternity ward for schizophrenics). This wasn't intentional by any stretch; because the swearing was in English and the developers of the game were Polish, they believed were using more mild, muttering swears like "damn" or "crap". Seeing as how one half of the game is about making insulting, violent kills, this plethora of insulting, violent swearing ends up as the other half of the game. The devs were reportedly horrified when the dialogue was translated back into Polish.

*** The ability to cover your mouth to stop Alyx from coughing was inspired by playtesters. "Jeff" is a level where you must navigate around the titular mutant PlantPerson, who is blind but attracted to sound. The addition of spore clouds that make Alyx uncontrollably cough was a relatively late addition as a means of introducing another environmental hazard to the level. The developers then observed players trying to cover their mouthes to protect Alyx, and this was made an actual feature shortly afterwards. This turned out to be an excellent addition to the level's horror atmosphere; as covering your mouth requires using one of your hands, carrying items become much more tense as a result.

* The ''ending'' of ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'' arose from a glitch making it seem like the game had finished [[spoiler: after you die in the storm]] during one playtester's test. The playtester was apprently moved to tears by how profoundly moving it was, and as a result thatgamecompany went [[DoingItForTheArt almost a year and a half over budget and into bankrupcy just to achieve that satisfactory ending]].

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' had its key actors perform many cutscenes with motion capture suits on and delivering dialogue live (leading to the realism of the CGI). In one sequence, the actor playing Trevor was supposed to hop over a low fence, but he goofed and fell over instead, causing the actor playing Franklin to break into laughter. Rather than cutting the scene, the actor playing Trevor proceeded to deliver an epic (and somewhat scary) angry rant, in character, that was considered so good (along with Franklin's actor wisely also staying in character) that it was incorporated into the cutscene as it appeared in the game.[[note]]Only a tiny part hints that it's improv; Trevor says "motherfucker" which he normally doesn't as he takes insults involving his mother [[BerserkButton VERY seriously.]][[/note]] As a bonus, Trevor's ad-libbed rant actually worked towards the continuity of the game because [[spoiler: at this point in the game, Trevor had just left his friend Michael to, he thinks, be killed by Chinese mobsters, and his rant ties into the guilt the character is feeling about this.]] The scene ended up being one of the funniest in the game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQ093vh3FM Watch it here]].

* When the heroine of ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' was being conceived, the artist drew a flower in her eye (literally [[BodyHorror growing out of its socket]]) to give her a more feminine appearance. The director said 'okay', and wrote an entire plot around what the flower was and why it was there.

* ''VideoGame/PowerBomberman'' originally had the Path of Glory stage and the Item Help area look the same, but when the former was given a visual revamp on version 0.7.5, the latter wasn't changed to match. The devs thought that having the old design be exclusive to the Item Help area looked nice, so they never fixed it.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', [[GoodBadBugs Wavedashing]] was noticed early on. It wasn't so much thrown in as it was ignored because it was seen as harmless. Then, its [[TournamentPlay real potential]] was discovered, and Nintendo started to see it as [[CreatorBacklash not-so-harmless]] because of that. It was [[ObviousRulePatch ripped out]] of ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' as soon as possible.

** Ordon Village was developed for the [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3 2006]] demo of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' and wasn't originally meant to be in the actual game, but Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/twilight_princess/0/1 put it in the game with a three-day prologue to introduce the game's mechanics.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' has a [[ClusterFBomb saturation of swear words]] (including modified swear words that sound like they came out of a maternity ward for schizophrenics) because the swearing was in English and the developers of the game were Polish, so they added in what they thought were regular muttering swears and got the unholy result. Seeing as how one half of the game is about making insulting, violent kills, this plethora of insulting, violent swearing ends up as the other half of the game. The devs were reportedly horrified when the dialogue was translated back into Polish.

* Similarly, [[http://www.lostlevels.org/200407/200407-earthbound2.shtml the running feature]] in the English version of ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' was originally added in for debugging purposes, but localization director and English script writer Phil Sandhop convinced the development team to leave it in the final game, and it was included in both ''[[CompilationRerelease MOTHER 1+2]]'' and ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}''.

** The iconic {{Miko}} heroine was originally a knockoff of ''Pocky and Rocky'', but ZUN admitted in the manual for ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' that he hadn't intended her to stay that way -- the popularity of Touhou as "the shrine maiden shooter series" convinced him otherwise.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' has a [[ClusterFBomb saturation of swear words]] (including modified swear words that sound like they came out of a maternity ward for schizophrenics) because the swearing was in English and the developers of the game were Polish, so they added in what they thought were regular muttering swears and got the unholy result. Seeing as how one half of the game is about making insulting, violent kills, this plethora of insulting, violent swearing ends up as the other half of the game.

* [[https://screenrant.com/facts-you-did-not-know-bioshock-franchise/ Apparently]], Sheryl Lee of [[Series/TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] fame ended up in the recording studio for ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'' due to a scheduling mishap (likely due to confusion with Sheryl Lee Ralph, the voice of Grace Holloway). She was given a role as a Baby Jane splicer in the Atlantic Express, discussing Jack's whereabouts.

** As it turns out, Link's upgrade to {{Bishonen}} status between ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' was the result of an [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/1/7 offhand comment made by the wife of one of the developers]].

** The Fishing Hole in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/2/3 originally came from someone goofing off while coding the Water Temple, making a fish in an isolated room and trying out a coded fishing rod.]] It was later put in to the actual game as a sidequest and even got a massive expansion in the Nintendo [=3DS=] remake of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' had its key actors perform many cutscenes with motion capture suits on and delivering dialogue live (leading to the realism of the CGI). In one sequence, the actor playing Trevor was supposed to hop over a low fence, but he goofed and fell over instead, causing the actor playing Franklin to break into laughter. Rather can cutting the scene, the actor playing Trevor proceeded to deliver an epic (and somewhat scary) angry rant, in character, that was considered so good (along with Franklin's actor wisely also staying in character) that it was incorporated into the cutscene as it appeared in the game.[[note]]Only a tiny part hints that it's improv; Trevor says "motherfucker" which he normally doesn't as he takes insults involving his mother [[BerserkButton VERY seriously.]][[/note]] As a bonus, Trevor's ad-libbed rant actually worked towards the continuity of the game because [[spoiler: at this point in the game, Trevor had just left his friend Michael to, he thinks, be killed by Chinese mobsters, and his rant ties into the guilt the character is feeling about this.]] The scene ended up being one of the funniest in the game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQ093vh3FM Watch it here]].