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Factual error: When changing clothes, CJ always does an animation where he inspects the clothing put on him, a different animation depending on where the clothes is. If you change his watch, he holds up his arm and rotates his wrist. But the watch does not rotate with it, despite a wrist rotation also rotating any person's full forearm.

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Factual error: Go to Cinnabar Island and go to the lab. There are people there who wants to trade Pokemon. Talk to one of them who wants a Raichu. Have a Raichu with you, and trade. After all the trading animation, talk to the man again. He'll say "The Raichu you traded to me went and evolved!". However, in fact, Raichu doesn't evolve into anything.

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Factual error: After the last verse of "Smoke on the Water," there is a guitar solo that's not present in the master track.

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Factual error: When you investigate the seven rumors in twilight town, the word "bag" is spelled wrong after you let the dog out of the bag.

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Factual error: In spite of its description calling it "one of a kind," there are two Elegant Headdresses in the game.

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Factual error: During his interview on K-Chat, B.J. Smith says "Like the song says, 'don't call it a comeback.'" The song he's quoting is "Mama Said Knock You Out" by L.L. Cool J, which wasn't released until four years after the game takes place.

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Factual error: In the level St. Francis' Folly, which plays in Greece, there are 4 rooms that are supposed to be connected to Greek mythology. The rooms are called 'Neptune', 'Atlas', 'Damocles' and 'Thor'. However, Thor is actually a Nordic God and Neptune is a Roman God.

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Factual error: In Jabba's Palace in both Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War you con see Han Solo frozen in carbonite on the wall. But he wasn't up there until the Galactic Civil War, not the Clone Wars, which was about 20 so years before that.

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Factual error: Many areas feature two Chinese lion statues. However, both lions are the same, when one should be male and the other female: the female one has a lion cub under her paw, while the male one has a small globe.

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Factual error: The design of Hammersmith Bridge is completely wrong as one tower is taller than the other - they should both be the same height.

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Factual error: Notwithstanding their common use as explosives, gun powder, dynamite and TNT are basically unrelated substances, even though the barrels and dynamite sticks are often referred to as TNT in the game.

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Factual error: When scanned, some women say "I'm afraid of Virginia Wolf", as a homage to the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The play was first performed in 1962 and the film was released in 1966. The game is set in 1957.

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Suggested correction: Virginia Woolf was a well-known author years before the game takes place; although the title is referenced, it was meant as a joke and thus cannot be considered an anachronism.

zendaddy621

It is not a joke as the entry pertains to the play itself. The phrase "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" was never spoken until after the play came out.

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Factual error: With the special key, Claire can alter her clothes to a costume that is equipped with a Colt Single Action Army. But still she can fill it with 9mm parabellum which would be impossible.

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Factual error: Civ IV includes the famous quote from Henry T. Ford about the Model T being only available in black, this is false on two accounts; First Henry T Ford never said it or anything like it and Second the first Model T was actually green, followed by blue and orange, in fact black wasn't introduced until some years later.

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Factual error: In the scene where Snake is ambushed by the M1 tank we see a view from inside the barrel and that it is rifled; the Abrams has a smoothbore cannon, not rifled.

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Factual error: The CZ 75, ASP 9, MAC-11, MP5K Prototype, Spectre M4, PM-63 RAK, OTs-02 Kiparis, FAMAS F1 FELIN, AKS-74U, IMI Galil ARM, Steyr AUG, G11K2, Enfield XL64, SPAS-12, KS-23, L96A1, WA 2000, PSG-1, SA-14 Gremlin, M202 FLASH, BGM-71 TOW missile, AGS-30, M203,GP-30, Masterkey, and GSN-19 Kanarejka were not around in the game's time frame.

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Suggested correction: Wrong game, you're thinking of the game released in 2009.

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Factual error: In the fourth floor of the Celadon Department Store, there's a guy who says that he's getting a Poke Doll for the Copycat of Cerulean City. Too bad that the Copycat actually is from Saffron City.

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