Trivia / Slave Zero

• Creator Backlash: The game's art director, Ken Capelli, is rather bitter about the final design of the titular mech, stating it was a clear case of design-by-committee and that it failed to convey the theme of "becoming a monster to fight the monsters".
• He Also Did: Sanguinar and the Old One are voiced by Charles Martinet, much better known as the voice of Mario.
• Sequel Gap: Slave Zero X was unveiled nearly 23 years after the original's release.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game's evolved out of a pitch titled MindF%ck, which was a pedestrian TPS starring a female hacker.
  • The original idea for the game featured mechs that were much more alien in design, with the titular Slave Zero being equally monstrous to convey the theme of a human "becoming a monster to fight the monsters" and had the pilot having a much more involved internal struggle over having sacrificed his humanity. Unfortunately, the higher-ups rejected the direction of both the story and the art, wanting a less bleak narrative and more conventional militaristic mechs. The borderline Excuse Plot of the final game and Slave Zero's final design were the compromise. Slave Zero X would re-implement the more monstrous designs for the Slaves.