History HilariousInHindsight / VideoGames

* [[VideoGame/AstralChain Astral Chain]]: The FinalBoss is an EldritchAbomination named [[spoiler:[[TomTheDarkLord Noah]]. He is named after [[Literature/TheBible the Biblical Figure of the same name]].]] A few years later, and out comes a different [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} Nintendo]] [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 game]] where this main hero has the exact same name for the exact same reason.

* There was apparently a PC game released in Europe in the early 1990s called ''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/luigi-spaghetti Luigi & Spaghetti]]''. The latter is a weird looking rainbow-colored worm, the former a mustached man who bears a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros a more famous Luigi]]. [[YouTubePoop Certain people]] [[VideoGame/HotelMario understandably]] [[MemeticMutation find this hilarious]].

* The age-verification questions for ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'', released in 1987, include:
-->UsefulNotes/OJSimpson is\\
a. an R & B singer.\\
b. under indictment.[[note]]he was indicted in 1994 for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case the murder]] of his wife and her friend[[/note]]\\
c. embarrassed by his first name (Olivia).\\
d. no one to fool with.\\
''(The correct answer is d.)''

* There was apparently a PC game released in Europe in the early 1990s called ''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/luigi-spaghetti Luigi & Spaghetti]]''. The latter is a weird looking rainbow-colored worm, the former a mustached man who bears a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros a more famous Luigi]]. [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop Certain people]] [[VideoGame/HotelMario understandably]] [[MemeticMutation find this hilarious]].
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', Luigi takes the place of the "Mama" character from the game it was based off, ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic''. Punch [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop "Mama Luigi"]] into [=YouTube=] to see why this is funny.

* In 1999, ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher 2'' came out. One monster, the Radial Niton, looks like a bright red race car. It has a description that says, "In the ancient era, there was said to be a play called 'Cars.'" In 2006, an actual movie called ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' comes out, and the main character is a red race car.

** To overlap with RelationshipVoiceActor; Reiji and Xiaomu, along with Haken and Kaguya, after [[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier the latter two debutted]], are featured in games where the protagonists are a male character voiced by a Seki-surnamed seiyuu ([[Creator/TomokazuSeki Alady]] and [[Creator/ToshihikoSeki Kogoro]]) paired with a buxom lady voiced by one of the two stars of Franchise/LyricalNanoha series ([[Creator/NanaMizuki Neige]] and [[Creator/YukariTamura Mii]]).

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'':
** The Scarescraper has players controlling multiple different-colored Luigis. One of them is orange, which carries an uncanny resemblance to [[{{Webvideo/Vinesauce}} Sponge]].
** With her chalk white face, blue eyes, lipstick, and reddish dress, the main CreepyDoll in the Rumpus Room looks disturbingly similar to [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Circus Baby]]. They both even have two reddish pigtails curved in almost the exact same shape. Technically, they both even have their insides removed, since [[spoiler:Luigi removes a gem from inside the doll, and Baby gets her robotic endoskeleton removed by the Scooper machine]].

** In addition to reprising his ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' role as Cyclops, Creator/NolanNorth also voiced Adrian's father. Adrian's voice actor, Creator/ScottPorter, would voice Cyclops himself in the ''Anime/{{Wolverine}}'' and ''Anime/XMen'' anime and ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes''.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid'' came out in 2005 and is set during the American Presidential race of 2016. Over the course of the game it slowly comes to light that the establishment Presidential candidate, their aides, and various other prominent government figures and celebrities had been conspiring to kidnap children from all over the world, lock them in a basement, sexually abuse them, and force them to participate in occult Satanic murder rituals. In retrospect, this now seems like a WholePlotReference to the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory (made extra funny by how unprecedentedly absurd the Pizzagate theory was).

* The 1987 arcade game ''VideoGame/SkullAndCrossbones'' featured probably the first recorded instance of [[CoolVersusAwesome pirates versus ninjas]], decades before it became an Internet meme.

** ''Tri'' has a bit of one. The Guild Sweetheart occasionally says "You know, some hunters wish we'd get rid of the Quest Fee. Like the hunters who suck at their jobs. If they didn't mess up all the time, we wouldn't have to charge! Sheesh!" Guess what one of the things [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben Croshaw]] complains about in his Extra Punctuation article?
** As the Bherna Gal of ''Generations'' describes some early tutorial quests, she mentions "And there's got to be one collect-the-unique-mushrooms quest. We don't mess with tradition here at the guild!" This was the last time such a quest was ever issued - ''World'' and ''Rise'' both make a point of skipping such busywork quests by making them a separate mechanic.

** At the ranking screen when completing ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'', you can see [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], and [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi]] as the top three heroes, while [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic's shoes]] and [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Jim's gun]] are lying near a trash can labeled [[TakeThat "No Hopers"]]. The jab at Sega after the company's jab at Nintendo with their infamous "Sega does what Nintendont" advertisements is funny enough, but it becomes cruelly funnier seeing this after knowing how much the ''Sonic'' franchise [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 has]] [[DorkAge suffered]] [[BrokenBase/SonicTheHedgehog in its]] later years. And once Sega went third-party, Sonic would end up in official Nintendo games such as ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.

** Upon the completion of a certain quest, an NPC in Stormwind delivers this line: "The Defias Brotherhood, you say? Well, you're certainly the bearer of wonderful news, aren't you? Next you're going to tell me that Deathwing is still alive and attacking the city." As it turns out, Deathwing ''is'' still alive, and attacking Stormwind is one of the first things he does after his return in ''Cataclysm''.
** A now-removed quest-chain in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a character in Stormwind sarcastically utter the phrase "Next you're going to tell me that Deathwing is still alive and attacking the city." Guess what happened when the Cataclysm expansion was released... ([[GallowsHumor and you can even get an achievement if he roasts you when he does it]]!)

* ''VideoGame/PrzygodyReksia'': The third game centers around a group of wizards who suspect there is a traitor among them and said traitor is different every time a new game is started. Its is oddly similar to ''VideoGame/AmongUs''. In the Romanian dub, the traitor even uses the word "sus".

** ''Trigger'' also gives us Johnny, a robotic rival of the main character who challenges you to a jetbike/motorbike race. Twelve years later, ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' introduces... [[NamesTheSame Johnny]], a robotic rival of the main character who challenges you to a ''water'' bike race.

*** Not to mention, [[NamesTheSame Two 'different' Zankantous]] in one game (by Sanger and Kaguya)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kaUzLCKz0k#t=4m40s At one point]] during agentjr's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty}} [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare 4]]'', agentjr's ramblings include the quote "And that's why you're gonna get betrayed one day... I promise you that -- it might not be me, but it better be ''someone''." [[ItMakesSenseInContext It made sense in context,]] but 3 months later ''Modern Warfare 2'' was released, and [[CavalryBetrayal you all]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ought to know]] [[UriahGambit what happens next.]]
** Making his rant ''even funnier'', the context of the above quote is agentjr talking about what would happen if Khaled Al-Asad was part of the task force hunting him. A similar situation happens in Modern Warfare 2: [[spoiler:TF 141 spends the greater part of the game hunting Makarov and being directed by Shepherd -- and it is implied at the end that Shepherd and Makarov have been working together ''for the whole game''.]]

** Later on in the "Quarantine Zone" level, after a summary of the plot of ''VideoGame/HaloWars'', he expresses a wish for the game to be ported to PC rather than remaining a 360 exclusive, though similarly to before, noting how unlikely this would be considering its developers [[CreatorKiller went bust]] right after the game came out. Sure enough, almost a full decade later, it finally got ported over as a ''[[UpdatedRerelease Definitive Edition]]''.

** The Japanese [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0nHaksVcc commercial]] for ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' (''Hoshi no Kirby: Yume no Izumi no Monogatari'' in Japan) featured a world partly made of yarn, and Kirby and the enemies are made of yarn. [[VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn 17 years later]]...
** In the cutscene that kicks off the TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', Kirby summons a Warp Star via a pink cell phone. Years later in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'', the cell phone became a central mechanic (complete with the ability to summon a Warp Star to take you back to the HubLevel).
** The US [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=paP177p1RVQ commercial]] for ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' pit "Dashing Super Guy", an [[TestosteronePoisoning uber-manly]] fake game character, against the puffball. Kirby himself was portrayed as the small, unassuming character with the hidden potential he is in canon -- a far cry from the [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore infamous advertising methods]] he starred in starting not even a game later. Interestingly, the part at the end where Kirby poses with Dashing Super Guy's hair and shades predates both the concept of Copy Abilities by [[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure a year]] and their individualized appearances by [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar four]]. The series would also eventually feature everything Kirby didn't have in the comparison: Copy Abilities gave him weapons and (sometimes) big hair, and while Kirby himself never got big muscles, his adversary King Dedede did gain them on a [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa couple]] [[VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies occasions]].

** Video games with a focus on guns in general seem to have a good chance of predicting future models. ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' included a weapon labeled as an [=M1911A2=] six years before a project was undertaken in the US military to create M1911 variants with that name. ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|Wii}} Reloaded'', ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'', and ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' all sequentially featured an [=MP7=] with an underbarrel rail instead of an integrated folding foregrip, respectively three, two, and then one year before H&K released an [=MP7A2=] model which replaced the folding grip with a rail.

** Two iterations of Princess Zelda have disguised themselves as both a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ninja]] and a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Pirate]]. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' Zelda can [[AnimatedArmor possess suits of armour]]. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Hmm...]] does that make the Zelda family lifelong members of the [[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing NPZR clan]]?

* [[http://animated-shark.deviantart.com/art/The-Koopalings-206798545 This]] fan art showing the Koopalings in ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', created in 2011. Now they are officially playable characters in [[VideoGame/MarioKart8 the eighth installment]] for the UsefulNotes/WiiU (though not all in one kart as seen in the pic).
** On a related note, there exists fanart of [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} the Inklings]] in the same situation. CrackFic back then, not so much now that they've also been confirmed for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch rerelease of Mario Kart 8.

* One of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'''s endings has this. [[spoiler:The "Childhood's Beginning" ending can be accurately described as [[{{VideoGame/Splatoon}} "you're a kid now, you're a squid now"]].]]

* Meta example, but Papyrus the [[DemBones Skeleton]] from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is presented as an utter loser who is, in his own words, "pretty popular [on the Internet]" since he is "twelve followers away from a double digit count", and doesn't even realizes how utterly unpopular he is. In RealLife, Papyrus has legions of fans thanks to his AwesomeEgo and generally being fodder for the Funny page for Undertale on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki.

* [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/184164 This 2007 piece]] was whipped up by a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fan artist to parody Apple [=iPod=] ads, in reference to Sakuya's memetic ACupAngst. [[https://www.apple.com/ipad/ Two and a half years later...]]

** Also there's [[http://i54.tinypic.com/23jlfns.jpg this picture]], which mocks ZUN's hilariously bad artwork, that dates from around 2007. One year later, [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=13379 the character on the right was introduced]].
** There's also the matter of Alice Margatroid controlling a doll called "Shanghai". "Team Shanghai Alice"???
** One fan theory for [[AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling]] is that she's of dragon ancestry. In her fighting game appearance, one of her standard attacks is a burst of blue aura, which is a Qi attack normally accompanied by her saying "JAOOOOOO!!!". Did we mention that she's a gate guard and often abused by a resident maid, Sakuya, who's known to throw said knives by WilliamTelling? [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Yeah]], [[MemeticMutation she apparently has taken a knife to the knee at one point]].

** The concept of a Layton/AA crossover has been around as early as [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Wright-vs-Layton-127871713 2009]].

** In case 1-2 (Turnabout Sisters) Phoenix can press Gumshoe by asking him if murder victims ''usually'' have time to write the name of their killer. Obviously this was a rhetorical question, used to make a point, but Gumshoe's reaction [[note]]"Sure! It happens all the time in books and the movies!"[[/note]] becomes hilarious as finding information written in blood is a RunningGag now -- it happens in 2-1 (The Lost Turnabout), 3-5 (Bridge to the Turnabout), 4-3 (Turnabout Serenade), 5-1 (Turnabout Countdown), and I-1 (Turnabout Visitor).

** Case 3-1 (Turnabout Memories) has Grossberg frequently making references to his hemorrhoids. One of his lines is that they feel like they're doing the 'Harlem Shake'. There was a dance called the Harlem Shake invented in 1981, and it's most likely a reference to that. However, the internet meme from 2013 is far, far, ''far'' more famous. The case takes place in 2014. The game came out in 2007.

** The voice actors from the VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightTrilogy get [[TheOtherDarrin mostly replaced]] for ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', not to mention they had to get a new one for Simon Blackquill. So, Phoenix Wright is now played by Creator/SamRiegel, and Creator/TroyBaker does Blackquill's voice. The two of them share a big opening speech about justice, and at that point anyone who's played ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' should be getting [[Creator/SamRiegel Flynn]] and [[Creator/TroyBaker Yuri]] flashbacks. It gets even better once you realize [[spoiler:Blackquill is serving a false jail sentence to protect someone, which is exactly what Yuri briefly does ''for Flynn'' in ''Tales of Vesperia.'']] The two pairs even have similar colour schemes. And the cherry on top? Flynn's second Mystic Arte is called ''Divine Rising Phoenix.''

** ZigZagged. While narrative games do continue to receive mass acclaim, games with more emphasis on gameplay than plot (or lacking plot altogether) made a comeback in TheNewTens and remain some of the most consistently commercially successful titles in the medium well into TheNewTwenties, from CompetitiveMultiplayer to SurvivalSandbox to HeroShooter to BattleRoyaleGame. To say nothing of how Creator/{{Nintendo}} is still one of the biggest companies in the business, and they explictly follow a "gameplay first" approach to all their flagship titles.