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** On the subject of Final Fantasy, there's Chocobo's Dungeon 2, an iteration in the Mystery Dungeon series. The US got 2 first, but it ''wasn't re-numbered.''
* ''Growlanser Generations'' is a compilation of second and third game in the ''Growlanser'' series. ''Growlanser: Heritage of War'' is the fifth.
* ''Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken'' (''The Sword of Flame'') was the first ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game officially released in English, leading to the confusing retitling of the game to simply ''Fire Emblem'' (no subtitle) only to retcon it back to being ''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade'' in ''[[Fire Emblem Heroes]]'' over a decade afterwards. This is noteworthy considering the original game for the Famicom, ''Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Ken'' (''The Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light''), was released in 1990, 13 years before the series' English debut in 2003. ''The Sword of Flame'' is actually the second GBA game in the series and the seventh installment overall. Adding further confusion, ''The Sword of Flame'' is actually a prequel to the previous GBA game, ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'' (''The Sword of Seal''), which was never released internationally (despite the appearance of that game's protagonist, Roy, in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee'').
* ''[[Cosmic Fantasy]] 2'' was the first of the series of four games to be released outside Japan, and also the last, as it turned out.
* ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' was the first game in that series to be released in PAL territories as well, and they dropped the numbers to hide that fact.
* The first ''[[Pokémon]] Stadium'' game released internationally was actually the second released in Japan. The first was skipped over entirely because it actually did not have the full roster of Pokémon at the time.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', although that's for a very good reason (specifically, straightening up all the licencing rights for the games which aren't [[Original Generation]] would be a nightmare).
* Europe never got ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere]]'' ([[Macekre|not that anyone outside Japan has ever gotten the original game]]), so installments ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies|04]]'', ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War|5]]'', and ''[[Ace Combat Zero]]'' had the numbers dropped from the PAL release. ''4'' and ''5'' also [[Publisher Chosen Title|had their subtitles changed]] into absolutely awful ones for no apparent reason.
* The ''[[Front Mission]]'' series debuted internationally with its third game (which remains the only one ever released in Europe).
* ''Advance Wars'', released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, is actually part of the [[Nintendo Wars|long-running series]] which dates back to 1988 with the release of ''Famicom Wars''. Ironically enough, the Japanese version of ''Advance Wars'', ''Game Boy Wars Advance'', was not released in Japan until 2004 when it was included in a two-in-one cartridge with its sequel.
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* The ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' NES game was actually a localization of ''Hokuto no Ken 2'' for the Famicom.
* The game released internationally by Maxis under the title ''A-Train'' was actually the third game of the long-running series. The original game was Japan-exclusive, but the second game had previously been released in the US as ''Railroad Empire''.
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