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Head swapping

Software concept

Characters who use the bodies of other characters with only the head swapped.

13
games
7
platforms
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (Amiga AGA)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
AGA 1995
Gothic 3 (Windows)
Gothic 3
WIN 2006-10-13
Risen 3: Titan Lords (Xbox 360)
Risen 3: Titan Lords
X360 2014-08-12
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Windows)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
WIN 2006-03-20
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (Windows)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
WIN 1995
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
X360 2006-03-24
Street Fighter Alpha (Windows)
Street Fighter Alpha
WIN 1998
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PlayStation 3)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
PS3 2007-04-27
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (MS-DOS)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
DOS 1995
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (3DO Interactive Multiplayer)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
3DO 1994-11-06
Risen 3: Titan Lords (Windows)
Risen 3: Titan Lords
WIN 2014-08-14
Super Street Fighter II Turbo (Arcade)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
ARCD 1994
See also: palette swapping
This is a software technique to limit the amount of resources needed for larger cast as the same body (type) is shared by multiple disparate characters. Not for literally swapping heads with other characters in-game.

Especially useful technique if the base body is modifiable via few parameters to make it appear more suited for multiple characters.

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Games by year

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The first Head swapping video game was released in 1994.

Deep Silver and GameTek published most of these games.

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows 5
PS3 2
X360 2
Arcade 1
MS-DOS 1
3DO 1
Amiga AGA 1

Most common companies

Deep Silver3
GameTek3