The Cutting Room Floor
The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games. From debug menus, to unused music, graphics, enemies, or levels, many games have content never meant to be seen by anybody but the developers — or even meant for everybody, but cut due to time/budget constraints.
Feel free to browse our collection of games and start reading. Up for research? Try looking at some stubs and see if you can help us out. Just have some faint memory of some unused menu/level you saw years ago but can't remember how to access it? Feel free to start a page with what you saw and we'll take a look. If you want to help keep this site running and help further research into games, feel free to donate.
Featured Article
Developer: DMA Design/Rockstar North
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Released: 2001, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Windows
Grand Theft Auto III moved on from the top-down action for a 3D-based view, which was well-received by critics and eventually revolutionized the genre of open-world games to a whole new standard.
It has also undergone a wealth of stylistic changes during its development, as evidenced by some leftovers and prerelease media. Many features also got the cut, such as a first-person shooter mode, code for flyable aircraft and even a scrapped multiplayer mode!
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Myth Makers: Super Kart GP started as a Nickelodeon racing game?
- ...that Lethal Enforcers I & II has its own entire source code hidden inside?
- ...that the Bionic Commando could originally shoot his arm in a downwards direction?
- ...that The Simpsons Game was planned to support multiplayer with 3 or 4 players?
- ...that Deus Ex: Invisible War contains an early script with a cut museum level?
- ...that Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98 has a song about violent fish?
- ...that at least 27 games released on today's date have articles?
Contributing
Want to contribute? Not sure where to begin? Visit the Help page for everything you need to get started, including...
- Instructions for creating and editing articles
- Guides that will help you find debug modes, unused graphics, hidden levels, and more
- A list of what needs to be done
- Common things that can be found in hundreds of different games
We also have a sizable list of games that either don't have pages yet, or whose pages are in serious need of expansion. Check it out!
Featured File
Plants vs. Zombies sees the player planting an armada of sentient plants firing a variety of weapons to halt waves of zombies from storming the player's yard.
When the game was originally released, the Dancing Zombie and Backup Dancer Zombie resembled Michael Jackson and a backup singer from the Thriller music video. In an eery coincidence, Jackson would die a month later. About a year afterwards, Michael Jackson's estate objected to its inclusion. PopCap subsequently changed the designs of the Dancing Zombie and Backup Dancer Zombie out of respect to Jackson, with replacements being a stereotypical disco dancer and more casual dancer wearing pink shirts with a mustache respectively. The textures for the original designs still remain in the data unused.
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