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*** In the PS3 version, new character Patty Fleur can summon Mieu with her Mystic Arte.

** And let's not forget [[VideoGame/{{Tales of Phantasia}} Dhaos]] and his aversion to the classic lightning spell, Indignation. Get him to half health and it's an instant kill in all his cameos.

* The 2009 ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' game includes tons of subtle references to the past movies -- for instance, you can find Vigo's painting and listen to him talk smack to you -- as well as other Ghostbusters-related media: If you look closely at the computer at the Ghostbusters' headquarters, you can see the infamous AWinnerIsYou ending screen from the Ghostbusters NES game on the monitor!

* Every game in the ''DragonQuest'' series contains some variation on either "No response. Looks like a corpse." (Translations for Dragon Quest VII and earlier), or "No reply. It's just a corpse." (Newer translations, because consistency in mythology gags is for losers) This is a call back to the original ''Dragon Quest'', where, during the now-traditional interactive ending sequence, you could visit a soldier who had been injured for the rest of the game and receive this response -- the one downer element of the HappilyEverAfter.

* While filming ''IndianaJones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark'' in Cairo, the producers had everyone take down their TV antennas so they wouldn't show up anachronistically in a rooftop scene. In the corresponding level of the ''[[LegoAdaptationGame Lego Indiana Jones]]'' video game, you can find a secret room filled wall-to-wall with satellite dishes.

** The ''{{Marathon}}'' logo is visible in many places, particularly in the first game.

** Any time an [[NonPlayerCharacter NPC]] in the game yells "They're everywhere!" or "Thank god it's you!" is a reference to the first ''Marathon'''s [[WelcomeToCorneria limited NPC reactions]].

** A part, necessary to complete one of the games strongest weapons is referred to as "A weapon of legendary hero". To get it you must ether pass through 100-question victorine or hand over 3 million Zenni. Getting Zetsaber is worth it due to almost Gamebreaker damage levels of Blade Arm.
* ''MegaManBattleNetwork'', like ''Legends'' before it, is actually rife with {{Mythology Gag}}s. Zero (the one from the X series) is featured on posters, there's a [=ServBot=] rug, a ShowWithinAShow (or game, as the case may be) whose main characters suspiciously resemble the Bonne clan, and countless others.

* In the Xbox 360/[=PS3=] version of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', you can buy chili dogs. Guess what was Sonic's favorite food in [[Series/SonicTheHedgehog the American cartoons]] of the 90's.

** Used as a BrickJoke in ''Generations'', where Sonic's special present is a chili dog, but he doesn't get to eat it before the BigBad attacks. At the end of the game, he returns to his time and catches the dog, which is still warm.

**** One is from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', and one debuted in MajorasMask. The former of which is kind of ironic - considering that the two games are generally accepted to be in separate timelines.

** The UpdatedRerelease of ''Original Generation 2'' has [[SuperRobotWarsAdvance Lemon Browning]] mention people other than Beowulf/Kyosuke Nanbu who use the "Wolf" moniker, [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]] the appearance of Hugo Medio and Albero Esto (members of a team called the "Cry Wolves") from ''[[SuperRobotWarsMX MX]]''. Sure enough, the Cry Wolves make appear in ''Original Generation Gaiden''.
** In ''Original Generation Gaiden'', Aqua Centrum appears and comments she'll never wear anything as {{Stripperific}} as Lamia Loveless, a nod to the fact that in her debut game ''MX'', she actually wears an outfit even '''more''' revealing. In the same game, the epilogue has [[spoiler:Axel Almer]] reference the Shadow-Mirror's "Project EF", a direct nod to the spinoff ''OG Saga: EndlessFrontier''.

** That's more of a ContinuityNod, actually. In the games, certain character elements have been brought over from the anime, along with other stuff. Brock asks for a Bonsly in the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Togepi cry whenever they enter Misty's Gym and you talk to them, Misty acts {{Tsundere}} in the Johto games, etc.
*** ''* YMMV but a Pokémon + NobunagasAmbition {{Crossover}} game was just announced! The fans went wild, particularly the Pokémon side due to potential for DarkerAndEdgier elements. The games have lots of recurring elements. There's the basic plot which revolves around getting eight badges and such, but there are also other minor elements, either straight from Gen I or from Gen II onwards:

* {{Transformers}}: War for Cybertron has some G1 nods. At one point, in the Kaon prison, an Autobot prisoner is pronounced guilty and thrown into a casket. He responds with "Spare me this mockery of justice!", the same quote from when the Quintessons sentenced Kranix the Lithone to Sharkticons in the original movie.

* In ''VideoGame/TrinityUniverse'' upon hearing that Lucius and Violet are not into anime, Flonne tries to introduce them into one. The series in question? {{Disgaea}}.

* [[DynastyWarriors Dynasty Warriors 5]] had a nod back to the previous installment during the Wu Zhang Plains stage: After seeing Zhuge Liang's star fall, Sima Yi gleefully rushes the Shu camp, but stops when he gets there, spooked at the sight of Zhuge Liang. [[spoiler: Unlike the last game, it's not just a ploy;]] he shakes his head, and realizes it's actually Jiang Wei, who has taken up Zhuge's mantle.
* In ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' game there is a character called the Trojan who gives you hits to carry out and then [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse vanishes without a trace]] after the last contract hit. In ''TheGodfather Part II'', the Trojan's name ([[NoNameGiven not his real one though]]) briefly appeared on a diagram of the Corleone family tree and he is listed as serving time in jail.

* The boss of the Tutorial in ''DarkSouls'' is the Asylum Demon, which bears a more than passing resemblance to the Vanguard that ended the tutorial in ''DemonsSouls''. In contrast to the HeadsIWinTailsYouLose near HopelessBossFight scenario of the Vanguard, after initially having to flee from the Asylum Demon, you come back with a proper weapon and a vantage point for a DynamicEntry and utterly destroy it -- this is ''hugely'' satisfying to anyone who played the earlier game.

* In the intro of ''[[SimCity Sim City 2000]]'' you'll see a UFO flying into the centre of a spiral galaxy. Fast forward to Spore, where you explore a galaxy in the last stage. If you manage to navigate to the centre of that galaxy, you'll find...

** Sonic's pose in the character select for ''[[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'' and one of Classic Sonic's level clear poses in ''SonicGenerations'' both look like Sonic's official render in ''Brawl''.

* In the Xbox 360/[=PS3=] version of ''SonicUnleashed'', you can buy chili dogs. Guess what was Sonic's favorite food in [[Series/SonicTheHedgehog the American cartoons]] of the 90's.

* The good endings' credit sequences in ''Bubble Memories'' has Bub and Bob using their parasols, which they've also used in ''Parasol Stars''. Both games are in the ''BubbleBobble'' series. Although both may be {{Non Linear Sequel}}s, ''Memories'' apparently takes place after ''Parasol Stars'' but before ''Bubble Symphony''.

** In the same game, Sakura Kasugano says she likes "street fighting" as compared to "sparring in {{rival schools}}". Sakura made a playable cameo appearance in the first ''VideoGame/RivalSchools''.

** In the same game, Sakura Kasugano says she likes "street fighting" as compared to "sparring in {{rival schools}}". Sakura made a playable cameo appearance in the first ''RivalSchools''.

* If you're a Japanese who's huge lover of classic ShootEmUps and {{Konami}}, you might claim ''{{Parodius}}'' to be actually the ''[[SuperSmashBros Smash Bros]]'' of Shoot Em Ups, with lots of Japanese craziness and LSD, and is also a huge tribute to Konami's Shoot Em Ups as well as its other famous game series. At first it was meant to parody {{Gradius}}, but as the series evolved on, characters like [[GanbareGoemon Goemon and Ebisumaru]], {{Twinbee}} and KidDracula started to show up, each equipped with weapon sets taken from many Shoot Em Ups of the time. The inclusion of some bosses and villains from other Konami games and [[PublicDomainSoundtrack classic music medleys]] along with Konami's music (mainly from Gradius) doesn't help.
** ''Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius'', particularly its ''[[UpdatedReRelease Forever With Me]]''-port for PS1 and Saturn, is full of Mythology Gags and references to other Konami games, like ''GanbareGoemon'', ''{{Twinbee}}'', ''Lethal Enforcers'' and ''TokimekiMemorial''. Sadly as it's Japan-only, many miss the references and parodying jokes poking fun at the games. One guy seemingly tries to cover them up with his own response to ''History Behind Smash Bros'' with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/KonaKonaKaabisteru#grid/user/CA247C0247B91796 History Behind Parodius.]]''

* The name of the ''BionicCommando'' podcast is a mythology gag -- it's called "Top Secret", which was the original Japanese name of the Arcade and NES games that started the franchise.

* ''FireEmblem''[='=]s arena themes are for the most part, remixes of the main battle themes of previous games. For example, the 11th game ([[FireEmblemAkaneia Shadow Dragon]]) uses the 9th game's ([[FireEmblemTellius Path of Radiance]]) while the 8th ([[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Sacred Stones]]) uses the 2nd's ([[FireEmblemAkaneia Gaiden]]).

** Another reference to Chun-Li being a news anchor is on the opening scene from ''Game/MegaMan [[{{Retraux}} 9]]'' when Chun-Li appears... as a [[http://neopancho.net/wii/rockman9/chunli.gif news anchor]]

* In ''MegaManLegends 2'', a TV in a bar displays a short looped animation with Guts Man, Proto Man, and the original Game/MegaMan. A poster in the same city displays Zero prominently.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKymeuwwtAk Final Transmission]] in BN 3 is a remixed version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XKjAwEs2RQ Wily Stage 2]] in Megaman 8.
** If you listen to [[http://blue-bomber.jvmwriter.org/media/music/BattleNetwork/ost_exe_exe4-5/1-48%20-%20EXE%204.5%20-%20Theme%20of%20Blues.mp3 Blues's theme]] in the GaidenGame ''Rockman.EXE 4.5: Real Operation'', the opening tones sound exactly like Blues/Protoman's whistle from the original ''Game/MegaMan'' series.
** The ''4.5'' PET theme of every Navi based on a Robot Master is a remix that Robot Master's original Empire Theme. Blues' is the Blues Whistle in its entirety, and Forte's BGM is the Forte riff from ''Game/MegaMan 7''.
** In a reference to the mistranslation of Dr. Light as Dr. Right in some early ''Game/MegaMan'' games, the equivalent doctor in Battle Network is named Tadashi Hikari, which means Right Light in Japanese.

* ''MegaManZX Advent'' is crawling with {{Mythology Gag}}s. Two items you can find are a manga starring Konroman, a camping stove robot master from the highly unpopular ''Game/MegaMan & Bass'' game for the Wonderswan, & a picture of the [[ContemptibleCover hated US boxart]] of ''Game/MegaMan 1''.

*** ''* YMMV but a Pokémon + NobunagasAmbition {{Crossover}} game was just announced! The fans went wild, particularly the Pokémon side due to potential for DarkerAndEdgier elements!'' games have lots of recurring elements. There's the basic plot which revolves around getting eight badges and such, but there are also other minor elements, either straight from Gen I or from Gen II onwards:

*** Pseudo-legendary Pokémon: they have specific stat sum - higher than other Pokémon, lower than all legendaries; they are catchable in any amounts but only in one location, they rely on MagikarpPower and evolving them takes ''long''.
*** Some of the older Pokémon, even the long forgotten ones like Aipom, suddenly getting new evolutions in later generations, is very explicitly a mythology gag as well.

* The ''TeamFortress2'' short "Meet the Sniper" begins with Sniper poking a bobblehead in his van. Many people mistake the bobblehead for [[HalfLife G-man]], but it's actually Civilian from ''TeamFortressClassic'', which had ten classes instead of nine.

* During the ending of ''{{Earthbound}}'', Ness' mother refers to [[BigBad Giygas]] using an incorrect name that bears resemblance to prototype names for Gyiyg/Giegue/Giygas for back when ''{{Mother}}'' was going to be officially released in English.
** In the sequel ''{{Mother 3}}'', if you look at a certain bookshelf you will find the Overcoming Shyness book from the first game.

** And let's not forget [[{{Tales of Phantasia}} Dhaos]] and his aversion to the classic lightning spell, Indignation. Get him to half health and it's an instant kill in all his cameos.

* If you get a chance to look closely at the back of one of the "Chocobites!" cereal boxes in ''Left4Dead'', you'll notice it advertises a six-inch ''TeamFortress2'' action figure inside. "Collect all 10!"

* In the [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Gen IV]] ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, you have the news report on a red Gyarados, as well as a reporter who claims he covered the story. Also, before Jasmine's cameo in the Gen IV games, you can see her in the audience of Pokémon Contests in [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Gen III]].

*** ''{{Pokemon}}'' games have lots of recurring elements. There's the basic plot which revolves around getting eight badges and such, but there are also other minor elements, either straight from Gen I or from Gen II onwards:

* ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}'' has a number of these. For example, in ''TwilightPrincess'', Link takes special lessons from a character known only as the Hero's Shade, a skeletal figure accessible in a sort of dream world. It's never stated, but it's heavily implied that this is the Hero of Time, the Link from ''Ocarina of Time''.

**** Which game has that? II or IV?

* ''MarvelVsCapcom3FateOfTwoWorlds'' has this in friggin' ''spades''. From CaptainAmerica and IronMan referring to ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', to [[SheHulk She-Hulk]] telling {{Deadpool}} that she'd be attacking him [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall with a health bar]] if the game was set in the right era, this game really gets its jollies off on continuity and mythology.

** In ''{{Tales of Vesperia}}'', there are enemies based on the characters Luke, Tear, and Mieu from the preceeding game, ''{{Tales of the Abyss}}''.

*** Tokunaga is also the butler/caretaker for Seles (Zelos' sister) in both TalesofSymphonia games.
** The Spirits -- Gnome, Undine, Luna, etc. -- from ''{{Tales of Phantasia}}'' recur in almost every game in some form, such as "Summon Spirits" in ''{{Tales of Symphonia}}'' and ''{{Tales of Legendia}}'', "aggregate sentiences" in ''{{Tales of the Abyss}}'', or simply "spirits" in several other games.

** One of the Gentleman bosses in ''{{Tales of Hearts}}'', himself a walking ShoutOut to ''KatamariDamacy'', will attack you with "Tales of Rollup", where he ''rolls a katamari of Tales references over you'', including Swordians, several common ''Tales'' items, Tokunaga, and Mieu.