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→‎Trivia: There should probably be a whole section on this page dedicated to the Panel de Pon game mode, rather than just having a mention in the trivia section

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 ==Trivia==
 * Pokémon Puzzle Challenge had the tentative title '''Pokémon Attack'''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000303142420/http://nintendo.com/gb/gamelist.html Nintendo: Game Boy Color (archive)]</ref><ref>[http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/01/14/the-next-pokamon-game The Next Pokémon Game - IGN]</ref> This title was probably based on the title of {{smw|Tetris Attack}}.
-* Through a special button combination, one can get access to a nearly finished game of {{wp|Panel de Pon}} for the Game Boy.<ref>[http://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Puzzle_Challenge Pokémon Puzzle Challenge - The Cutting Room Floor]</ref>  This is probably due to the fact that Panel de Pon was originally going to be released on the Game Boy, but was scrapped in favor of a Pokémon variant.  This can be accessed on a Game Boy, there is also a separate button combination built specifically into the game to allow the Game Boy Color to access the Game Boy mode. Interestingly enough, these two button combinations went undiscovered until 2013, 13 years after the game's original release.
+* Through a special button combination, one can get access to a nearly finished game of {{wp|Panel de Pon}} for the Game Boy.<ref>[http://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Puzzle_Challenge Pokémon Puzzle Challenge - The Cutting Room Floor]</ref> This is probably due to the fact that Panel de Pon was originally going to be released on the Game Boy, but was scrapped in favor of a Pokémon variant. This can be accessed on a Game Boy or a Game Boy Color, but there is a separate button combination to allow the Game Boy Color to access the Game Boy mode.
+** Additionally, there are a number of sprites of characters from the {{wp|Panel de Pon}} series not used even in this mode, indicating that this game was originally intended to be a Panel de Pon game.
 * Getting a chain of 30 or higher will make the game show a question mark instead of a number.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAcZFvix3c</ref>
-* The internal files of this game reveal three unused songs. <ref>[https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Puzzle_Challenge#Unused_Music Three Unused Songs - The Cutting Room Floor]</ref>
+* There are three unused songs in the game's data.<ref>[https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Puzzle_Challenge#Unused_Music Three Unused Songs - The Cutting Room Floor]</ref>
-* The internal files contain leftovers from when the game was originally going to be a {{wp|Panel de Pon}} game as suggested by the numerous sprites of characters from the game series.
 * In the [[Virtual Console]] release, multiplayer options are disabled due to the emulator being unable to emulate the Game Link Cable function.