History VideoGame / GameDevStory

** You can have your team (perhaps the same team mentioned above) create a ''Music Pirate'' game that has an ultra-vulgar expletive-laden TakeThat against the RIAA for its title. On the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. No one will care and it will even sell well!

An UpdatedRerelease of the game, ''Game Dev Story +'', is exclusive to Apple Arcade. This version has several quality of life features like the ability to theme the office, added.

* EightPointEight: In-universe. Averted if you don't put enough effort into a game.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Getting hit by a blackout followed immediately by [[FromBadToWorse equipment failure]], '''[[UpToEleven and then]]''' with a competitor putting out a product similar to yours when you're nearing the end of the development cycle and think that things couldn't get any worse. It's especially prone to happening in NewGamePlus mode.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Chimpan Z Force, an unlockable character. He is also the only one who starts with a Hardware Engineer role by default, which is needed to create a game console.

* AllOrNothing: Any game deemed as "Hall Of Fame" are qualfied to have sequels. This trope comes into play because the sequel must be considered "Hall of Fame" material as well to have its own sequel.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Some players have tried playing with an extra condition that renders them forfeit if they managed to get to the point where their assistant have to sell off her valuables to fund the company. Invariably, this means trying to '''not''' dip below $50k in cash (it feels disgraceful because your assistant is selling ''her'' valuables to fund ''your'' company).

** The requirements for Game of the Year aren't very intuitive. Basically, each of the game's stats must be over 150 (200 is preferred). The only way to do that is to hire the crème de la crème of developers. Sequels are a good way to win GOTY, since you begin with a massive stat boost before development even starts. Having a suitable genre/type combo helps out, as well.

** The requirements for Game of the Year aren't very intuitive. Basically, each of the game's stats must be over 150 (200 is preferred). The only way to do that is to hire the crème de la crème of developers. Sequels are a good way to win GOTY, since you begin with a massive stat boost before development even starts. Having a suitable genre/type combo helps out, as well.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Chimpan Z Force, an unlockable character.

* JackOfAllTrades: In order to unlock the Hardware Engineer role, one character you want to give it to must have all 5 previous roles at level 5, which requires a lot of research data and increases their salary.

* MasterOfAll: Hackers have high stats all around, but they have high salaries to go with them.

* TheRedMage: Directors have high Program and Scenerio stats, while Producers have high Graphics and Sound stats. They also have higher initial salaries than Coders, Writers, Sound Engineers, and Desingers.

** If you're feeling like a complete monster, you can create a high-school shooter (yes, these two are not mutually exclusive) and call it ''Columbine'', and even though the staff acknowledges that it's an odd combo, no angry mobs appear in-game to raid your company and it will sell pretty well. Heck, you may even get a letter praising the game!

** If you're a complete monster, you can create a high-school shooter (yes, these two are not mutually exclusive) and call it ''Columbine'', and even though the staff acknowledges that it's an odd combo, no angry mobs appear in-game to raid your company and it will sell pretty well. Heck, you may even get a letter praising the game!

** You can have Lady Gaga, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Shigeru Miyamoto, Maria Sharapova, a monkey, and a robot working on an Architectural First Person Shooter for the Dreamcast. For added hilarity, substitute Maria Sharapova for Steve Jobs.

** You can have Lady Gaga, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, and Shigeru Miyamoto, Maria Sharapova, a monkey, and a robot working on an Architectural First Person Shooter for the Dreamcast.

* TakeThat: The imitator to the Wii in-game is named the "Whoops".

** The requirements for Game of the Year aren't very intuitive. Basically, each of the game's stats must be over 150 (200 is preferred). The only way to do that is to hire the crème de la crème of developers. Sequels are a good way to win GOTY, since you begin with a massive stat boost before development even starts.

* GuideDangIt: Have fun trying to figure out how to get a Hardware Engineer without some help from the Internet. Or how some of the more advanced mechanics work.

** Also, said unlockable potato chip CPU and punch card media console. As silly as it sounds, it's a LethalJokeItem of a money maker since it's so novel it sells well. But then it wraps back to AwesomeButImpractical in that you need ''six hardware engineers'' to unlock it, and to get to a hardware engineer, the employee must have maxed out ''all four primary'' (coder, writer, designer and sound engineer) and ''both secondary'' (producer and director) levels. By the time you get that far, it's likely that the 20 years are already over. Also, hardware engineers have lousy design and sound skills...

* CreatorCameo: In the game awards ceremony, games by Kairosoft are often nominated.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Kairobot, an unlockable character and the mascot of Kairosoft. He can also be hired to appear at the game's equivalent of E3.