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== Anime and Manga ==

** Many of Toei's initial film versions of their popular tokusatsu and anime franchises often got new titles when further film versions of the same franchises were made.

* The fighting style of Kenshiro's [[Token Motivational Nemesis|old nemesis]] Shin in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' was originally named Nanto Seiken. Subsequent stories after published after Shin was killed off introduced various branch styles of Nanto Seiken (Nanto Suichoken, Nanto Kokakuken, Nanto Hakuroken and Nanto Ho-oken), turning "Nanto Seiken" into an umbrella term for all these martial arts. When the ''Hokuto no Ken Special'' reference guide was published in 1986, Shin's style was officially declared to be "Nanto Koshuken" to distinguish it from the general term.

* [[Colossal Cave Adventure]] -- originally just called "Adventure"; called what it is now so as not to be confused with other games, inc. the Atari 2600 classic.

* The first ''[[Battletoads]]'' game for the [[Game Boy]] was not a port of the NES original, but an entirely new game. When the NES game was later ported to the Game Boy, it was retitled ''Battletoads in Ragnarok's World''.

* The canceled first version of ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' was retitled ''Resident Evil 1.5.'' to distinguish it from the actually released game.

* The PSP version of the first ''[[Star Ocean]]'' is known as ''Star Ocean 1: First Departure''.