History HarsherInHindsight / VideoGames

* The third stage of ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' involves a group of terrorists attempting a hijack at an airport. This also applies to the second stage of ''VideoGame/LockedNLoaded''.

::: There has been many memorial videos using modified versions of this line since, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAZB-RUmPYg this]].

* Much like the original ''Modern Warfare'' series below, quite a few plot elements in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'' became disturbingly prophetic recently:

* Tighnari's voice lines (at least the original ones done by Elliot Gindi, Tighnari's original voice actor) in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' (specifically, "What are they gonna do, lock me up?") sting very badly knowing that Gindi had been abusing minors with his status as a voice actor.

* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', you can buy and later deliver Cheat Tokens to unlock cheats or special messages. The very last Token (buyable in the Ocean Force Point Temple once Fox is on the way to put into place the final Spellstone and then proceed to the last part of the game) unlocks the following message upon being delivered in the Warpstone's maze in Thorntail Hollow: "There is sorrow ahead. A close friend does not have much time left. It will be hard to accept but you will grow". In-game, this message is foreshadowing the farewell between Fox and Tricky, but becomes doubly somber when you remember that this game, released in September 2002, was the final game released by Rareware before their departure from Nintendo after they were bought by Microsoft, finishing a succesful partnership that released many popular video games in the past. The only consolation is that, as far as the ''Star Fox'' universe goes, Fox and Tricky met again in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault''.

*** Many people in places Dhoulmagus attacks end up repeating his {{Catchphrase}}, "Such a pity". It turns out this is something much more sinister than just GotMeDoingIt...
*** [[TheHero Eight]] and his allies manage to save the Lord of Dragovians from himself after he took on a full dragon appearance at the expense of his people, with the leader thanking him for it. [[VideoGame/DragonQuestX 2 games later]], the God of the Dragon Race, Nadraga, wanted to have the Dragons rule over the other races, but would later try to destroy Astolia as well as his own race after being revived.

* Tighnari’s voice lines (at least the original ones done by Elliot Gindi, Tighnari’s original voice actor) in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact''(specifically, “What are they gonna do, lock me up?”) sting very badly knowing that Gindi had been abusing minors with his status as a voice actor.

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' contains a lot of sexual content, with several of these instances (e.g. [[TeacherStudentRomance Mida Rana attempting to seduce male students]]) being played for BlackComedy. Needless to say, after allegations of long-term predatory behavior towards minors against the game's developer [=YandereDev=] began to be made in TheNewTwenties, the sexual jokes have become a lot more controversial.

* Famed ComicBook/{{Batman}} voice actor Creator/KevinConroy voiced the titular character throughout the ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'', only for Batman to suffer SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome in ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague''. With this being Conroy's final performance before his passing along with the [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremonious]] death of such a beloved character that he lent his voice to, many DC fans felt that it was in poor taste.

* The ComicBook/{{Anarky}} subplot in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' sees a bunch of his followers express disdain for the corruption inside the Gotham City Police Department and stating that they'd be better off without them. Following the death of Michael Brown at the hands of cops in 2014 there were numerous debates about whether or not police were truly necessary as some citizens felt like they caused more problems then they solved.

* A joke about ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' is that rocket instabilities are caused by not enough struts. In June 28 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 disintegrated because of a failure of a strut. That being said, many landing in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ SpaceX Failure Video]] are all too familiar to players who tried to do SpaceX builds themselves.

* In ''VideoGame/GhostRecon1'', released in 2002 and set in 2008, a war between NATO and an Ultranationalist Russia starts off with the Russians backing Georgian separatists in an invasion of Georgia. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Osetia_war Fast forward to 2008 and]]...

* In the opening to ''VideoGame/TheCombatribes'' on the SNES, the center of all evil in New York is run by a group called Ground Zero. They became "Guilty Zero" in the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole version.

* The 1990 UsefulNotes/NeoGeo game ''The Super Spy'' ends with a warning on the increase in power of terrorism, complete with an image of the Twin Towers in the background. Come 9/11...

* The ending of ''VideoGame/AffordableSpaceAdventures'' has the player send a final desperate message to Uexplore informing them of their situation. [[spoiler:It turns out nobody is currently in the Uexplore building, and the message is left unread alongside numerous others, all sent by other players.]] Unfortunately, the act of sending the message (and retaining those of other players) employed the UsefulNotes/WiiU's Miiverse functionality, so once the service shut down in November 2017, the act of sending a final plea for help [[spoiler:became equally futile and unacknowledged in reality]].

* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'', a game where you play as several goddesses of Console anthromorphisms out to fight an AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Flashcarts and Custom Firmware]], was launched on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in February of 2011 (in North America at least). Just two months later, hackers broke into the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Network}}, forcing the service to shut down for months.

** This quote from Carlov in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', referring in-game to the loss of members in the Nintendo Gallery, but retroactively becoming meaningful for the controversial (even to this day) transition between the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, as well as between the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS:

* At E3 1995, Creator/SonyComputerEntertainment America's "brief presentation" about the UsefulNotes/PlayStation consisted of one word: "299," a TakeThat against the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn launch price of 399 USD. 11 years later, again at E3, the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 presentation touted it as costing [[MemeticMutation FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE U.S. DOLLARS]],[[note]]For the 60 GB model; the 20 GB model would cost 499 USD[[/note]] significantly more expensive than [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 other consoles]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} of its generation]] at their respective launch dates.

* The UsefulNotes/WonderSwan in 1999 does not have a headphone jack unlike many other portable entertainment devices of its time, instead requiring the user to use an adapter to use headphones. A little over 15 years later, Apple began dropping the headphone jack from its iOS devices, most notably the iPhone 7, a design decision with high enough publicity to warrant worldwide controversy.

** The ''WWF Raw'' video game for the SNES and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis (among others) allows wrestlers to perform over-the-top "mega moves" in order to finish a match. The video game guide demonstrates Diesel's mega move, in which he tosses his opponent fifty feet in the air and lets them crash back down onto the mat, by having him do it to Owen Hart, who would wind up dying at the WWF's ''Over the Edge'' event five years later by falling fifty feet and crashing onto the mat due to a malfunctioned harness.

* An in-universe example in ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaV''. Plutia mistaking a CPU Memory for candy? Amusing. [[spoiler:Blanc, Peashy, and Rei all making similar mistakes? One tragedy after the next.]] The world sucking outside of Lowee until Planeptune and Lastation came along? Interesting take on how things played out in real life. [[spoiler:That's not [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the only thing]] taken from real life.]]

** In the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} version of ''Tron Deadly Discs'', Mattel incorrectly made Tron an orange (evil-aligned) figure cutting down blue-colored (User-believer) {{Mooks}}. Simple color goof in 1982 - oddly prescient come 2010.

** And for more unfortunate moments in Film/{{Tron}} games, check out the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} games. In ''VideoGame/TronDeadlyDiscs'' Mattel got an early, incorrect draft of the script. They screwed up and made Tron an ''orange'' (bad guy colored) sprite, cutting through hordes of ''blue'' (good guy colored) enemies. A simple mix-up in 1982 gets ''much'' nastier when you factor in "Rinzler." The other one is from ''Maze-A-Tron.'' You're playing Flynn, trapped on a circuit board and trying to navigate the maze -- alone, [[EndlessGame with no way to win]]...

** Way back in the first game, released in the ''late Eighties'', Snake must reach Metal Gear by crossing an electric floor. All the other electric floors in the game have had panels which can be shot with missiles in order to prevent Snake getting zapped; this one had no such thing. In order to reach Metal Gear, Snake has to eat Rations to regain his draining health meter while he blinks in eight-bit damage. If you have played ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', this simple gameplay puzzle will likely bring you to tears, for its similarity to the [[spoiler:microwave tunnel scene]]. Only there, Snake can't restore his health with rations. This becomes even closer to BookEnds if you've played the NES ReformulatedGame which replaced Metal Gear with 'the supercomputer' -- in which case both ''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' end with a forced walk through a corridor that causes pain and Snake destroying a computer.

* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'', a game where you play as several goddesses of Console anthromorphisms out to fight Majiquone (an AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Flashcarts and Custom Firmware]]) was launched on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3. Just a month later, hackers broke into the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Network}}, forcing the service to shut down for months.