Do you remember a game which had a name change?

Ah yeah there's a couple in the Shin Megami Tensei series as a whole

On the Gameboy there was:
Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible in JP
Revelations: The Demon Slayer in US

Revelations title was transported over when they were Localizing Persona
Which became Revelations: Persona
Though as a quickie, It's best to play a Translated version of Persona rather than the original localization.

There's also a very interesting one with Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne
As in Europe it was called "Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's call" due to some copyright name thing going on over there lol.
 
I don't really remember where I read this, but I heard that Project: Snowblind was originally going to be a Deus Ex game and the developers backed down at the last minute. It probably didn't even get an official "DX" name, but it looks like it was going to.
 
Gaia Gensouki (J), Illusion of Gaia (U), Illusion of Time (E).
Also Terranigma (Samurai Shodown levels of bad here) is Tenchi Souzou in Japan (Restoration of Heaven and Earth I believe).
 

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Street Fighter Zero - Street Fighter Alpha
Bloody Roar - Beastorizer (Only in Arcades)
Mother - Earthbound
Contra - Probotector
Hot Shots Golf - Everybodys Golf
Jet Set Radio - Jet Grind Radio
 
Mystaria on the Saturn was also sold as Blazing Heroes. Both in the US, at some point they changed the name, no idea why.
 
Devil Kings in the west of Sengoku Basara.
Tales of Destiny 2 over Tales of Eternia, caused confusion for a lot of people later when the real Tales of Destiny 2 was out.
Final Fantasy II and III of the SNES that was actually IV and VI.
 

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My turn.

We've got; Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, also known as River City Ransom, also known as Street Gangs
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Star Fox, also known as StarWing, and Star Fox 64 known simply as Lylat Wars
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Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, or just, Bad Dudes
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Final Mission, why it was changed to this I'll never know.
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Personally, I kinda like the 80s coolguy more than the Mecha suit..
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The whole 'no using the word Ninja' thing.
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I don't get it
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This weird anomaly..
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This is more to point out the unnecessary lengths they went. It was apparently okay to say Demon later on? I don't understand Nintendo's weird 90s censorship logic.
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Valkyria Revolution in Japan is known as Valkyria: Azure Revolution. Also I know a funny game name change, there's a PSX game called Hogs Of War, in Europe they adapted the name as: "Marranos en guerra". altough is a similar name to the English one is funny to see what they did to the cover
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Chorizo Peleón 🗣️🔥
 
This weird anomaly..
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the original name probably conflicted with this game since its owned by Disney
thats my guess anyway

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Thunder Force IV for the Mega Drive.

Note I say "Mega Drive" here, since "Genesis" was the system's NA name. It's title on the Genesis?

"Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar".
 

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