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TIL a group of developers spent 8 years recreating Streets Of Rage. The game had over 100 levels, 19 playable characters, and 76 remixed songs. Sega shut it down a week after it was released.

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GAY65 TIL that the popular manga/anime One Punch Man was inspired by the even more popular children's anime An Pan Man. The characters are a play on each other with their color schemes reversed and the play on names(One Punch Man pronounced Wan Pan Man in Japanese).
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