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* Many games on pirate NES multicarts [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|have their titles changed or removed]].
* Occasionally when franchise stores close down and are bought up by smaller businesses, the new store ends up with a suspiciously similar name, especially if they're selling a similar product. This seems to be as much about saving money by only making minor alterations to a sign as it is [[Shoddy Knockoff Product|momentarily confusing people into stopping in]]. [http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/ Not Fooling Anybody] offers up such examples as a Mister Donut becoming Master Donut, A Texaco becoming Exaco (yes, they actually just ripped the T off of the signs), and most nonsensically, a Baskin Robbins becoming Basket Rabbit.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110425115343/http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x519268681/New-Ulm-store-deemed-unsanitary/print Zen Rfanklib.]
* Exidy (early arcade game developer) => Exide (battery brand)
* [[Stuart Ashen]] comes across these all the time. The most notorious examples are the POP Station, which later got a spiritual successor in the PCP Station, the Neo Double Games (DS) and the "Chintendo" Vii, a bland redesign of the Wii.
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