Let’s-A Go Another Direction! World History

Here is a list of events that have happened in the world, and how they're different in the world of "Let’s-A Go Another Direction!" to OTL. Some listed changes were incurred by the POD, while others weren't.
==The POD==
On a quiet day in 1977, Nintendo was analyzing the sales of the Color TV-Game in Japan. Things are going very fine for the Big N. Then, one of the employees of Nintendo approached the then-CEO of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, about something.
“Mr. Hiroshi, the sales of the Color TV-Game systems are so high right now that there should be something we can do to come up with something big.” Said the aforementioned employee as he showed the sales chart of the Color TV-Game systems in Japan to Hiroshi Yamauchi. Mr. Yamauchi looked at the sales chart in a quizzical manner, but was very aware of it as he answered in a curt manner, “Sales seem to be very high right now, what do you think you should do next?”
The employee, thinking about saying things that Mr. Yamauchi knows they are ready for the company to handle, says out a sentence with four little words, followed by a new plan.
“Let’s go another direction! Yeah, there is one thing I have to mention, we are going to release the Color TV-Game systems outside Japan. How does it sound?”
Hiroshi Yamauchi, now aware of this idea, says “Well, that sounds a bit unusual compared to our other exploits, but let's go ahead and do it!”
And thus, Nintendo’s going to go another direction to their plans.
==The Changes That Occur ITTL==
===Bandai Namco Atari Studios===
===Capcom===
====Mega Man series====
The Mega Man series gets some differences from OTL's Mega Man series.: ￼
*The Mega Man ZX and Star Force series become part of the Mega Man Zero and Mega Man Battle Network series respectively.
*The Gunvolt series and Mighty No. 9 become part of the Mega Man series with titles being "Mega Man Gunvolt" and "Mega Man Mighty Heroes" respectively.
===Nintendo===
Everything involving Nintendo has seen major changes from OTL:
====Color TV-Game====
Nintendo struck a deal with Sound of Music (which’ll later go on to be called Best Buy) to release their Color TV-Game systems outside of Japan, and Sound of Music accepted the offer Nintendo has made for them. In turn, Sound of Music releases the “Color Gamevision” in Autumn 1977, where it’s based around the Color TV-Game 6, albeit with a different color scheme, making it have the colors of the Sound of Music logo. There’s also another version known as the “Color Gamevision Pro”, which is based around the Color TV-Game 15, albeit with a color scheme resembling that of a spacecraft.
Not only that, but there’s also the “Color Gamevision Racer” and the “Color Gamevision Blockbuster”, and they are respectively based off of the Color TV Game Racing 112 and the Color TV Game Block Kuzushi, and they came out in 1978 and 1979 respectively. No equivalent to the Computer TV-Game, though.
However, after six years, Nintendo’s deal with Sound of Music came to a close in 1983, due to the end of the Color TV-Game’s lifespan, Sound of Music renaming itself to Best Buy, and also Nintendo’s arcade game business.
====Collaboration with Atari====
====Super Mario series====
The Super Mario series gets some differences from OTL's Super Mario series.: ￼
* There's a new spin-off series never seen IOTL called "BowserQuest", which stars Bowser himself. The BowserQuest series started in 1988.
* The Sonic the Hedgehog series, Banjo-Kazooie series, and Conker series is part of the Super Mario series in 2002.
* The Super Mario RPG series is developed by AlphaDream as of 2003.
*Ideas are more creative and experimental, and Nintendo developers have more creative freedom.
**Miyamoto never forced in his mandates for Mario, including the RPGs or any spin-offs.
***Tanabe is completely removed from all Mario-related projects.
**Lack of repetitive, safe, bland, and restrictions.
*More original stories are created, rather than reusing the "rescue Princess Peach" plot.
*The characters have more personality.
*Wario and Waluigi debuted in Super Mario Land 2.
*Because Bowser is the protagonist of his own video game spin off, there's a new major villain in every mainline Mario game, aside from a few reused ones here and there. However, some of the more well-known ones are Josh the Bounty Hunter, Prince Haru/Havoc, Cobalt, Tyrano, Wart, Duchess Zaffiro, Fungüse, Tatanga, and Madame Broode.
*The Algorithmics were introduced in the Mario series via an acquisition of Rnengade Animation, meaning LeapFrog Enterprises didnt create the characters in this timeline.
*"Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!" gets to be released outside of Japan and is successful enough to be part of the Super Mario lore. As for the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993 IOTL? It's butterflied away, as there's no need for it anyway.
*Yoshiaki Koizumi was put in charge of the Super Mario series after Shigeru Miyamoto retired.
*Nintendo accepted Archie Comics' proposal to do a Super Mario comic series. It has run since 2016.
======Gallery======
Mario LAGAD.png|Mario
Luigi LAGAD.png|Luigi
Princess Peach LAGAD.png|Princess Peach
King Toadstool LAGAD.png|King Toadstool
Kibidango LAGAD.png|Kibidango
Toad LAGAD.png|Toad
Bowser LAGAD.png|Bowser
Boom Boom LAGAD.png|Boom Boom
Koopalings LAGAD.png|the Koopalings
Glenda G Koopa LAGAD.png|Glenda G Koopa
Master M Koopa LAGAD.png|Master M Koopa the 2nd
Cobalt LAGAD.png|Cobalt
Prince Haru LAGAD.png|Prince Haru
Napoleon Knight LAGAD.png|Napoloeon Knight
Princess Onyx LAGAD.png|Princess Onyx 
Pauline LAGAD.png|Pauline
Stanley the Bugman LAGAD.png|Stanley the Bugman
Imajin LAGAD.png|Imajin
Lina LAGAD.png|Lina
Mama LAGAD.png|Mama
Papa LAGAD.png|Papa
Wart LAGAD.png|Wart
Birdo LAGAD.png|Birdo
Mouser and Whitey LAGAD.png|Mouser and Whitey
Tryclyde LAGAD.png|Tryclyde
Clawgrip LAGAD.png|Clawgrip
Princess Daisy LAGAD.png|Princess Daisy
Tatanga LAGAD.png|Tatanga
Yoshi LAGAD.png|Yoshi
Tyrano LAGAD.png|Tyrano
Spinosis LAGAD.png|Spinosis
Pteresa LAGAD.png|Pteresa
Trident LAGAD.png|Trident
Reznor LAGAD.png|Reznor
Kamek LAGAD.png|Kamek
King Boo LAGAD.png|King Boo
Professor E Gadd LAGAD.png|Professor E. Gadd
Nise A Zure LAGAD.png|Nise A. Zure
Volcanard Vast LAGAD.png|Volcanard Vast
Pyronica Doragon LAGAD.png|Pyronica Doragon
Infernmenace LAGAD.png|Infernmenace
Wario LAGAD.png|Wario
Waluigi LAGAD.png|Waluigi
Sven LAGAD.png|Sven
Lizardon LAGAD.png|Lizardon
Sam Spook LAGAD.png|Sam Spook
Harley Q and Harry H LAGAD.png|Harley Q and Harry H
Aqualea LAGAD.png|Aqualea
Donkey Kong LAGAD.png|Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong LAGAD.png|Diddy Kong
Dixie Kong LAGAD.png|Dixie Kong
Cranky Kong LAGAD.png|Cranky Kong
Funguse Whi LAGAD.png|Fungüse Whi
Metage Whi LAGAD.png|Metage Whi
Duchess Zaffiro LAGAD.png|Duchess Zaffiro
Princess Shroomla LAGAD.png|Princess Shroomla
Paratoad LAGAD.png|Paratoad
Toadette LAGAD.png|Toadette
Bowser Jr LAGAD.png|Bowser Jr.
Ursus the Eagle LAGAD.png|Ursus the Eagle
Rosalina LAGAD.png|Rosalina
Luma LAGAD.png|Luma
Plessie LAGAD.png|Plessie
Captain Toad LAGAD.png|Captain Toad
Cappy LAGAD.png|Cappy
Tiara LAGAD.png|Tiara
Madame Broode LAGAD.png|Madame Broode
Broodals LAGAD.png|the Broodals
Algorithmics LAGAD.png|The Algorithmics
Josh the Bounty Hunter LAGAD.png|Josh the Bounty Hunter
Melusine LAGAD.png|Melusine
====The Legend of Zelda series====
====Metroid series====
====Kirby series====
====Star Fox series====
====Pokémon series====
The Pokémon series gets some differences from OTL's Pokémon series.:
*Game Freak would be far more competent ITTL.
* Jynx has a purple face from the get go ITTL.
* Characters have more personality.
* The writing and humor are more refined.
*The Pokémon anime is closer to the Pokémon Adventures manga, but different enough so that they both stand on their own.
*The mainline games are still 2D instead of 3D.
*Ideas are more creative, original, and experimental, and Nintendo & Game Freak developers have more creative freedom.
**Lack of repetitive, safe, bland, and restrictions.
==== Kid Icarus series ====
The Kid Icarus series gets some differences from OTL's Kid Icarus series.:
* Masahiro Sakurai is no longer the director of the Super Smash Bros. series after the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl due to having him and his team work on more games for the Kid Icarus series, but he can still leave some ideas for the person who’s now the director of the Super Smash Bros. series.
* Ideas are more creative, original, and experimental, and Nintendo & HAL developers have more creative freedom.
** Lack of repetitive, safe, bland, and restrictions.
====Super Smash Bros. series====
A new Super Smash Bros. game is released every five years.
====Sega====
Nintendo bought Sega in 2000. With that, there’s some new changes to Sega ITTL:
*Sonic Team is far more competent ITTL.
*Because Yuji Naka is still working at Sega (as well as a better person), Balan Wonderland was released by Nintendo and Sega instead of Square Enix, and is markedly different.
*Many of Sega’s former staff members never quit.
=====Sonic the Hedgehog series=====
The Sonic the Hedgehog series gets some differences from OTL’s Sonic the Hedgehog series.: 
*Sonic X-Treme would have never been cancelled as Gazebo and Tiara Boobowski would become recurring Sonic characters.
*Sonic X-Treme is released with a more peaceful development. (also the game is made in Japan by other developer that isn't Sonic Team).
*Shadow the Hedgehog stays dead after the events of Sonic Energized (the Sonic Adventure 2 analogue of LAGAD and surprisingly the first Modern Sonic game in LAGAD), just like Sega has planned. This was done because Sega thought it made no sense to have Shadow come back from the dead without any explanation.
*The series' setting is always referred to as Mobius.
* The games keep the Zones gimmick.
* Ideas are more creative, original, and experimental, and Nintendo & Sega developers have more creative freedom.
** Lack of repetitive, safe, bland, and restrictions.
*Characters have more personality like 1998-2009 and not flanderized them.
*The core cast would still consist of Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna and Amy Rose, although with some tweaks to their personalities.
**Tails is slightly aged up, although still younger than the others, as he shows more maturity and intelligence.
**Amy is rather more mature since she would act more professional towards Sonic, and she would be more protective towards her friends.
** A few ages are slightly tweaked: Tails is 12, Amy is 14, Cream and Marine are both 11 and Silver is about 1000 years old (while physcially appearing to be 15 or so).
**The games considered abysmal would never exist.
**An original character named "Portal the Mink" is made and takes OTL Silver the Hedgehog's place, personality and all. TTL's Silver the Hedgehog will be a time lord who makes his debut in Sonic Generations.
*Since Nintendo & Sega owns the video game developing rights for the Olympic Games, the OTL’s Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series would feature more various Nintendo & Sega IPs than Mario and Sonic as a way to express their love for games and in order to be published for Nintendo.
*Christian Whitehead handles Classic; Sonic Team handles Modern. Modern Sonic is just Sonic. Two Worlds is no longer canon, Shiro Maekawa, Kiyoko Yoshimura, and Ian Flynn are the perfect trio writers for Sonic Team and Sonic beings to momentum-based gameplay & level designs and completely rewritten to remove all traces of Ken Pontac and Warren Graff's writing.
*Ken Pontac and Warren Graff would no longer work on 2010-current Sonic games.
*Don't make the development's deadline.
======Gallery======
Sonic the Hedgehog LAGAD.png|Sonic the Hedgehog
Mighty the Armadillo LAGAD.png|Mighty the Armadillo
Ray the Flying Squirrel LAGAD.png|Ray the Flying Squirrel
Dr Eggman LAGAD.png|Dr. Eggman
Flicky LAGAD.png|Flicky
Max the Monkey LAGAD.png|Max the Monkey
Sharps the Parakeet LAGAD.png|Sharps the Parakeet
Mach the Rabbit LAGAD.png|Mach the Rabbit
Miles Tails Prower LAGAD.png|Miles "Tails" Prower
Amy Rose LAGAD.png|Amy Rose
Metal Sonic LAGAD.png|Metal Sonic
Knuckles the Echidna LAGAD.png|Knuckles the Echidna
Eggrobo LAGAD.png|Eggrobo
Fang the Sniper LAGAD.png|Fang the Sniper
Dexstar LAGAD.png|Dexstar
Kaiser Greedy LAGAD.png|Kaiser Greedy
Vector the Crocodile LAGAD.png|Vector the Crocodile
Espio the Chameleon LAGAD.png|Espio the Chameleon
Charmy Bee LAGAD.png|Charmy Bee
Julie Su LAGAD.png|Julie-Su
Metal Knuckles LAGAD.png|Metal Knuckles
Bean the Dynamite LAGAD.png|Bean the Dynamite
Bark the Polar Bear LAGAD.png|Bark the Polar Bear
Honey the Cat LAGAD.png|Honey the Cat
Tails Doll LAGAD.png|Tails Doll
Big the Cat LAGAD.png|Big the Cat
Rouge the Bat LAGAD.png|Rouge the Bat
Cream the Rabbit LAGAD.png|Cream the Rabbit
Ally Rose LAGAD.png|Ally Rose
Blaze the Cat LAGAD.png|Blaze the Cat
Marine the Raccoon LAGAD.png|Marine the Raccoon
Portal the Mink LAGAD.png|Portal the Mink
Silver the Hedgehog LAGAD.png|Silver the Hedgehog
=====Feelz the Wonder Rabbit series=====
=====Puyo Puyo series=====
The Puyo Puyo series gets released outside of Japan without any localization changes in the 1990s.
=====Super Monkey Ball series=====
====Rareware====
Nintendo bought Rareware in 2000. With that, there’s some new changes to Rareware ITTL.:
* After Nintendo acquired Rareware, this timeline would be whole different.
* Yooka, Laylee and the other characters from OTL’s Yooka-Laylee series become part of the Banjo-Kazooie series ITTL.
* Don't make the development's deadline.
* More creative freedom and no restrictions.
* Have more creative, weird, charm, experimental, and unique ideas instead of repetitive, rehashed nostalgia pandering, safe, and bland ones.
====Platinum Games====
Nintendo bought Platinum Games in 2008. With that, there's new changes to Platinum Games ITTL.
* Don't make the development's deadline.
* Don't focus on the live service games.
* Voice acting controversy wouldn't happen.
** Hellena Taylor wouldn't screwed over by Platinum Games ITTL.
*Have more creative, weird, charm, experimental, and unique ideas instead of repetitive, rehashed nostalgia pandering, safe, and bland ones.
*More creative freedom and no restrictions.
===Rovio===
===Walt Disney Studios===
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