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Ring your bell and raise your song!

Been a while since I've done a pointless trivia, hasn't it? This time, I'll be covering everyone's favourite limbless wonder, Rayman. The original concept for Rayman was that he was a ten-year-old boy named Jimmy, who got sucked into Hereitscool, a world he created in his computer. It was probably a good thing they didn't go ahead with that idea. Despite his iconic limbless nature, Rayman was originally designed with proper limbs. They were removed to make the character easier to animate, and the design just stuck from then on. The main reason for the first game's infamous difficulty was that it was never playtested. Luckily, Ubisoft learned from their mistakes, and the next games in the series (as well as the first game's remake of sorts, Rayman Origins ) were more balanced in terms of difficulty. In the original version of the first game on the Atari Jaguar, the two mosquito bosses, Bzzit and Moskito, had an identical appearance, leaving many playe...