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4!!Games/franchises with their own pages:
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7* ''HilariousInHindsight/AnotherMetroid2Remake''
8* ''HilariousInHindsight/FateGrandOrder''
9* ''HilariousInHindsight/FinalFantasy''
10* ''HilariousInHindsight/FiveNightsAtFreddys''
11* ''Hilariousinhindsight/GrandTheftAutoIV''
12* ''HilariousInHindsight/MortalKombat''
13* ''HilariousInHindsight/{{Persona}}''
14** ''HilariousInHindsight/Persona4''
15** ''HilariousInHindsight/Persona5''
16* ''HilariousInHindsight/{{Pokemon}}''
17* ''HilariousInHindsight/PokemonUranium''
18* ''HilariousInHindsight/StarWarsLegends''
19* ''HilariousInHindsight/SuperSmashBros''
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23!!Individual examples:
24* One relating to video games in general: John Carmack (of Creator/IdSoftware fame) once said: "Story in video games is like story in a porn movie" (i.e., even if it's surprisingly good, it's not what people actually [[{{Pun}} come]] for). This quote was considered not to have aged well by the end of The2000s when the sixth generation of videogames brought forth critically acclaimed games with deep and elaborate storylines.
25** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. 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.
26** Even ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' itself has made a comeback with a story that clearly defines how the main character doesn't give a crap about any conversation or exposition, unless it's about killing more demons.
27* The UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker'' might be weird enough, but it just gets sillier ([[HarsherInHindsight or creepier]]) each year: You ''touch kids'' (in the video game sense, but the fact they are at the height of Michael's crotch does not help) to gain points and {{power ups}} (and in the home version, you cannot advance unless you get ''all'' the kids, who are sometimes... hiding), or touch Bubbles the Chimp to get a super {{cyborg}} transformation. And then there's the dance attack: Music/MichaelJackson randomly does one of three dances, and it wipes out all the enemies on the screen.
28** For a lighter example of this that appears only in the arcade Moonwalker game, there are three players, each with a [[ColorCodedMultiplayer different color]] of the Smooth Criminal getup. One is the classic white suit with blue shirt, another is red with a white shirt. The third player not only gets Michael wearing a black suit with a red shirt, very similar to the outfit from the much later released "You Rock My World" video... but also has a lighter skin tone than the other two, though not quite as light as it was in the video.
29* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
30** In the localization for the NES version of the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'', the manual stated that Commander South is your MissionControl, and Colonel Vermon [=CaTaffy=] is the BigBad, while in the actual game, both the commander and the villain were intended to be the same character, Big Boss. [[spoiler:Then ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' came along with a RetCon -- it turns out that the Big Boss you've been playing through the game as was a body double, and he was the one who faced Snake at the end of the original game, while the real Big Boss only serves as Snake's MissionControl. So, in the end, the commander and the villain were technically different characters after all.]] The fact that his name is '''V'''ermon makes this even funnier.
31** In 1990, Konami released an unofficial sequel (i.e. produced without Creator/HideoKojima's involvement) to ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' titled ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'' for the NES. The title of the game was pretty nonsensical, as it was really about Big Boss (the antagonist) seeking revenge on Solid Snake for foiling his plot in the original game. But then along comes ''[=MGS3=]'', a prequel set during the Cold War, which reveals that not only is Solid Snake a clone of Big Boss, but that Big Boss himself used to be called Snake in the past. And now we have ''The Phantom Pain'', which centers around Snake (Big Boss) going on a quest for revenge after receiving a cyborg arm.
32** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'':
33*** The plot, written long before Website/FourChan even crawled out of the memetic primordial soup, repeatedly refers to an evil [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] type only known as "Anonymous," upon whom [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Black Chamber]] have vowed vengeance. Clearly, they really ''don't'' forgive.
34*** Snake's insistance on calling the Delta Force operative Christine Jenner "Chris" now comes across like he's a big fan of [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians the Kardashians]]. (Another multi-generational dynasty of luminaries involved in 20th Century historical events, with ThemeNaming...)
35** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' is mostly notable for its ValuesResonance, but it does also include a scene where the President of the United States inexplicably decides to grab an agent (who [[DudeLooksLikeALady he thinks is a woman]]) by the crotch. Not that a man elected US President would ever famously claim that he is so famous that he can just grab women by that area, or anything.
36** ''Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser'' is an animated short from ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}: Subsistence'' centers around Raiden trying to regain the role of protagonist for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' after losing it to Solid Snake [[HostileShowTakeover by going back in time to kill Big Boss in order to prevent Snake from existing.]] At the end, he fails miserably and Rose tries to console him by saying, "there's going to be a ''5'', right?" Eventually, Raiden got to star in another Metal Gear, not in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain MGS5]]'', but in his own spinoff game: ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. And then ''Ground Zeroes'', the first part of ''V'', added an unlockable bonus mission, "Jamais Vu", that allows you to play as Raiden (though since it's a [[AlternateUniverse non-canon scenario]], it's not quite the same as ''starring'' in the game).
37** ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid'' came out in 2004 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).
38** [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong's]] MotiveRant from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' has suddenly become quite funny due to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's slogan for the 2016 American election.
39-->''BURN IT DOWN! And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! [[SocialDarwinist The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive]] -- free to live as they see fit, they'll'' '''[[MemeticMutation make America great again!]]'''
40* Creator/DaikiYamashita voices Karuraten in ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'', a WingedHumanoid with a mature adult voice deeper than the actor's known young boy range. Shortly after, he voices Zǐtuī Swallow in the Japanese dub of ''Tale of Food'', to whom both aforementioned attributes apply. For extra hilarity, these characters are ''polar opposites'' in both appearance and personality.
41* Late in ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', Lemeza gets a CrystalSkull. Lemeza already being a [[LawyerFriendlyCameo thinly-veiled copy]] of Franchise/IndianaJones, this was made all the more appropriate after the release of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''. In the remake, Xelpud alludes to a "lousy movie" when Lemeza shows the skull to him.
42** Speaking of ''La-Mulana'', Elder Xelpud has a habit of [[TakeThat badmouthing]] the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem. An UpdatedRerelease of the game was released on Platform/WiiWare, which is another Nintendo platform, several years after the original PC version came out.
43** The 8-bit version features dozens of MSX cartridges of Creator/{{Konami}} games to collect, and in and of itself is basically a SpiritualAdaptation of Konami's ''VideOGame/KnightmareIITheMazeOfGalious''. And now Konami is the publisher for the console ports of ''VideoGame/LaMulana2''.
44* ''Mike Tyson's VideoGame/PunchOut'': A guy called Little Mac takes down big brutal Iron Mike while he was in his prime. Later on, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_vs._Douglas Buster Douglas comes in...]]
45** In another example, when facing Creator/MikeTyson in ''Mike Tyson's Punch Out'', Little Mac needs to survive his power onslaught of uppercuts for a full minute and a half before he has a chance to beat him. Turns out this was TruthInTelevision. During the time of the game's release, Tyson seemed unbeatable. However, over time and after the upset lost to James "Buster" Douglas, it became clear to fight experts that Tyson was most dangerous during the first four rounds of a fight. If his opponent could survive until then, he had a chance to beat Tyson, as Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, and others would prove. Given that in-game time is faster than actual time in most games, that minute and a half in the game can easily equate to four rounds in real life. In short, one of the best boxing games ever made told people how to beat Mike Tyson before his upset loss and before boxing experts finally figured it out.
46* Playing ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' nowadays (a game possibly best known for its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic excellent soundtrack]]), you can't help but feel that the introduction to Robo's theme song [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sounds a lot like]] Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." In a LetsPlay of the game, the section where Robo first appears got quite a few comments accusing the player of pulling a JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} on them. This has been taken to [[http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/wa36kn/chrono-trigger-rick-robo-roll its logical conclusion.]]
47** ''Trigger'' also gives us Johnny, a robotic rival of the main character who challenges you to a jetbike/motorbike race. Twelve years later, ''VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure'' introduces... Johnny, a robotic rival of the main character who challenges you to a ''water'' bike race.
48** A headgear item that protects the user from the Stop and Slow statuses is called the Time Hat. In 2017, ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' was released.
49* On AprilFoolsDay 2006, [=GameSpot=] made a fake news post called [[http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146958.html Revolution will take lead in 2010]]. Even though the system continued Nintendo's struggles with third-party support from larger publishers, the Platform/{{Wii}} went on to become the market leader of that generation, selling more consoles than the competition by a wide margin.
50** "An overwhelming majority of industry analysts have stated that the favorite to win the next-gen console battle will be the Platform/PlayStation3, with the remaining experts saying that Microsoft's Platform/{{Xbox 360}} will take advantage of its head start to market, making it tough to beat." While the [=PS3=] did surpass the 360, it indeed took almost the entire console generation for the system to overcome Microsoft's head start and get that victory.
51** "The higher costs to develop for [the Platform/PlayStation3 and Xbox 360] will be passed on to consumers." -- This was ''before'' the price of the [=PS3=] was announced, which was [[MemeticMutation FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE US DOLLARS]].
52** "I've heard about the controller and some of the projects Nintendo is working on...and I heard from a source that there are already builds of the Revolution's handwriting technology. Gamers will eventually use the controller to 'write' answers..." -- [[Platform/WiiU GameSpot must have been giving Nintendo ideas.]]
53** Best of all: "Games are meant to be one thing -- fun." -- This "line" would be the one thing that Nintendo would [[BrokenRecord repeat]] for the coming years.
54** [[http://kotaku.com/5126435/barack-obama-backs-the-wii Yes Wii]] [[http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/08/the-first-wii-obama-brings-video-games-to-the-white-house/ Can!]]
55** Similarly, a later April Fools day Home Page said they had a "preview" for a PSP version of ''VideoGame/RockBand''. About a year later, Harmonix released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHI2BWGoLTM Rock Band Unplugged]].
56* Listen closely to the introductions to these 1980s walkthrough videos of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zwIoJuUsvM Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-pzdPLfy9Y E. T.]]'' for the Platform/{{Atari 2600}}. They're pretty funny given [[MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 their infamy]] since then.
57* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
58** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': Riku used to be a nice boy but after he gets amazing evil/dark/killing powers everything changes. Riku meets a dead guy who gives him those powers. Riku does evil things but thinks he's a good guy. Riku has a creepy evil laugh that causes players to fear. [[Creator/MamoruMiyano His voice actor]] voices another well-known Anti-hero, [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]].
59*** Also in this series, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse has been compared to Yoda from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series several times, as they are both short in stature, not to mention their similar fighting styles and agility. Since 2012, Disney has acquired the rights to [=LucasFilms=] (and therefore, ''Star Wars'') and it's quite possible to have both of them in a future ''Kingdom Hearts'' game.
60*** For ''KH'' fans, the ''Star Wars'' acquisition deal is the gift that keeps on giving. The first two games offered customizable [[CoolShip Gummi Ships]] that just ''begged'' to have X-Wings and TIE Fighters made out of them, and the order of keyblade knights that Terra, Ven, and Aqua belonged to in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth By Sleep]]'' was ''heavily'' influenced by the Jedi Order ({{Creator/Mark Hamill}} was even asked to voice the local Obi-Wan {{Expy}}).
61* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Pig Noise emblems are always green. This was two years before the much more renowned ''Franchise/AngryBirds'' would begin, featuring actual pigs themselves green, which itself was inspired by swine flu.
62* In ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'', consider the [[Creator/YuriLowenthal voice]] [[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch actors]] for Pixy and PJ and their roles... including ''Anime/CodeGeass''. [[spoiler:Pixy, flying a plane based on Arthurian legend, impales PJ's plane through the cockpit with a laser beam, right before the Mission ''Zero''.]] In most cases their viewpoints are reversed; PJ believes in fighting for peace, whereas a more cynical Pixy believes PJ to be naive.
63** ''VideoGame/AirforceDelta'' includes a mission where the player has to chase down a falling satellite, shooting off its solar panels to redirect it before it can [[ColonyDrop crash into a populated city]]. For a game that was [[FollowTheLeader a very blatant rip-off]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'', this was a surprising amount of originality. Where it gets funny is that ''Ace Combat'' decided to rip that one off themselves for the final mission of ''VideoGame/{{Ace Combat 5|TheUnsungWar}}''.
64** In ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'', one mission took place in January 2016 while navigating through Hurricane Alex along the East Coast of the United States. Apparently Project Aces had [[http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/01/14/hurricane-alex-azores/78785472/ extreme forecasting predictions]] back in ''2011''!
65* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'', your MissionControl is voiced by Creator/MaayaSakamoto. Not quite so in the very first game, where the predominant voice you'll hear is none other than...Creator/YukariTamura. This includes her voice in the "Standard" type Computer-equipped heads and as some operators in several missions. She even did a role as a disembodied voice stuck in a loop playing in a particularly creepy stage. Upon realizing the voice, it may or may not become a NightmareRetardant.
66* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVerdictDay'', the final boss has an OneWingedAngel phase where his HumongousMecha starts [[PowerGlows glowing red from excess generator heat]] and fighting with considerably more power. To borrow a term from a later {{Creator/From Software}} game, this is basically his [[VideoGame/DarkSouls3 Lord of Cinder]] form.
67* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'': The President of the United States in the first game is said to be [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama idealistic and relatively youthful. Oh, and he's black.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-34XIB8ztM And has an uncanny resemblance.]]
68* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', released August 2003, the best title to earn for one of the characters, Kratos, is "[[VideoGame/GodOfWar War God]]."
69** Additionally, there's one rare enemy called the Gentleman, which looks like [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos a very tall, long-armed man in a black suit with pale skin and no face]].
70* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: The Frozen Throne'', the VillainProtagonist Arthas runs into a bunch of dwarves who are pissed off about him killing their prince previously. Having thought the bunch of them are dead, he asks "[[WhyWontYouDie Doesn't anyone stay dead anymore]]?", kills the lot of them and moves onward. In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', [[StayingAlive not only are the angry dwarves brought back from the dead but so is the prince whose death made them angry in the first place]], making Arthas' line seem prophetic.
71** It goes back even further than that: In ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', when Arthas first meets Tichondrius, he says "What trickery is this? Mal'Ganis! I don't know how you survived, but I'll...", and then in ''World of Warcraft'' we learn that Mal'Ganis ''has indeed survived''. And managed to survive that encounter with the player to boot.
72** The Alliance head of the church is Archbishop Benedictus, he was there since ''World of Warcraft'' started (which means before the pope election), and it just happened that pope Benedict XVI had a similar name.
73** The undead boars in Borean Tundra can give you the Swine Flu debuff. When the outbreak hit the media, people started spamming a link to the in-game disease in chat channels across several servers.
74** Upon the completion of a certain now removed 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''. ([[GallowsHumor You can even get an achievement if he roasts you when he does it]]!)
75** Speaking of ''Cataclysm'', the epic-rarity sword known as [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=30902 Cataclysm's Edge]] was released back in The Burning Crusade expansion. Despite the fact, it bears the same striking appearance and color scheme as Deathwing himself, and its name alone should be enough to clue people in on the correlation.
76** The best ''Warcraft'' example goes all the way back to the original game, ''Orcs & Humans'', with its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn70R_UEZs intro narration]] saying "Welcome to the world of Warcraft." Foreshadowing at its finest!
77** By now, LeeroyJenkins have become a popular meme originating from ''World of Warcraft''. In ''Warcraft III'''s Orc Campaign's 3rd Chapter, there is a scenario of Grom Hellscream charging blindly into enemy human camps, disobeying Thrall's order. Now the campaign becomes hilarious, because you can easily imagine that Grom is being Leeroy, screaming his name off ("GROOOOMM!! HEEELLSCREEEAAAMM!!") while taking minimum forces to attack human camps and get obliterated all the time until you bring a bigger army... This is way before ''World of Warcraft'' where Leeroy originated came to existence.
78** The ''Legion'' expansion was released on August 30th. 8/30 corresponds with Luke 8:30 in the Bible, which is where Jesus casts out a demon that calls itself Legion. It's unknown if this was intentional, but it's a funny coincidence nonetheless.
79* The [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice third game]] in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series has a battle with Prism Red in which he says something about [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude recruitment and teens with attitude]] (followed by the usual response). This scene becomes much funnier in the US version when you realize that Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, the VA for Almaz, was also known as [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Ad]][[Series/PowerRangersZeo am]] [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Park]].
80** Almaz's comment about wanting to be Prism Blue becomes funnier due to Bosch playing Prism Blue in the [[VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten Fuka Desco Show]].
81** In a similar instance, the battle against Prism Red in the first ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'' is a bit ironic, as [[Creator/BarbaraGoodson Laharl's English VA]] is also known as the English voice of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa]].
82* In ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', Creator/JohnnyYongBosch voices [[VideoGame/MegamanX Zero]] while Creator/DanSouthworth voices [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Vergil]]. For those keeping track at home, that's two generations of Franchise/PowerRangers in the game ([[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the second Black Ranger]] and [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce the Quantum Ranger]], respectively). Bonus points for both of them voicing [[TheRival characters]].
83* 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 [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros a more famous Luigi]]. [[YouTubePoop Certain people]] [[VideoGame/HotelMario understandably]] [[MemeticMutation find this hilarious]].
84** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', Luigi takes the place of the "Mama" character from the game it was based off, ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic''. Punch [[YouTubePoop "Mama Luigi"]] into [=YouTube=] to see why this is funny.
85** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' opens with Mario arriving at Peach's castle, reminiscing on a letter he got from her: "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} I've baked a cake for you.]] Yours truly, Princess Toadstool Peach."
86*** Naturally, mocked exactly as one might expect in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=245 this VGCats comic]].
87*** [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG Zee cake's alive!]]
88*** [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii And then in 2009...]]
89*** On the subject of ''Super Mario 64'', Mario creator Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto once said, in a 1991 interview, "Who knows what Mario will look like in the future? Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!" ''Super Mario 64'' does indeed have [[ChromeChampion that]].
90** In one sequence of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the computer TEC convinces Peach to disguise herself as an X-Naut and ask Grodus a question for him. In the process, she learns the X-Nauts' true goal. The first two lines upon her return to the computer room:
91-->'''Peach''': TEC! You terrible machine! So your goal is to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]], is it?\
92'''TEC''': [[MemeticMutation Of]] [[Film/StreetFighter course]]. After all, I was built for that purpose.
93** There was some [[http://www.halolz.com/2010/07/25/the-video-game-community-lends-a-hand-with-the-gulf-oil-spill/ art]] about video game characters helping out with the BP oil spill cleanup, such as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]. Later, when the leak was fixed, ''Series/TheColbertReport'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtUkQY-O0pA mentioned]] that the design was submitted by an anonymous plumber (perhaps the one who has experience cleaning up such spills in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'').
94** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Rosalina, whose Japanese name is Rosetta, travels to a comet and establishes an observatory there. In 2014, a spacecraft named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft) Rosetta]] did exactly that. No little space creatures calling it "Mama" though.
95** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'':
96*** The Scarescraper has players controlling multiple different-colored Luigis. One of them is orange, which carries an uncanny resemblance to [[{{Webvideo/Vinesauce}} Sponge]].
97*** 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]].
98* In ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear X]]'', if you were to enable GG mode and then pick Ky, you'd get a more erratic and bizarre version of him instead, often acting like a robot (might have been the inspiration for [[RobotMe Robo Ky]] in later games). One theory over who he was was that he was a Gear version of him. There was also Kakusei Ky from ''Isuka'', who had similar abilities to Sol (a SuperPrototype Gear himself). [[spoiler:Come ''Xrd -SIGN-'' and we see that Ky has now become part-Gear, making both these versions hilariously (if eerily) prophetic.]]
99* In the supposedly tense opening cinematic of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', the US president grabs a red phone with "Moscow" on it next to one that says "Tokyo." This becomes excellent with the release of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', where time travel retcons in an Empire of the Rising Sun.
100* It's ''really'' funny to play through the Happy Happyists house in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' while thinking of Creator/SummerGlau in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. "Hands of blue, two by two..."
101** In the original ''Mother 2'', the mayor of Onett was named G.H. Pirkle, [[http://earthboundcentral.com/m2eb/onett/ or]] [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Herbert Walker Pirkle]]. To sever the connection, the English localization changed it to B.H. Pirkle -- which, ironically enough, makes him [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack Hussein Pirkle]] nowadays.
102** One added to the American version -- as Americans wouldn't find strawberry tofu a product of a CordonBleughChef like the Japanese would, the item was instead translated as "Trout Yogurt." Years later, [[Series/IronChef another Japanese import]] would demonstrate just how terrible of an idea that would be. What's more, Creator/ShigesatoItoi was a panelist on ''Iron Chef'' four times, after ''[=EarthBound=]'' was released.
103** Ness gets in contact with his dad by calling him by phone, and in the end credits, his family is represented by their in-game sprites...except for his dad, who is represented by a phone. Fast forward to the 2009 song [[Music/TheLonelyIsland "Threw It on the Ground"]]:
104---> "My dad's not a PHONE!!"
105** Orange Kid has been trying to invent a method to change boiled eggs back into raw eggs. [[http://phys.org/news/2015-01-chemists-unboil-eggs.html UC Irvine beat him to it.]]
106** The "chateau" in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' was actually a church, renamed to avoid a religious reference that would get the game blocked. The player's guide for ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', on the other hand, depicts an ''actual'' chateau on the bottom of [[https://archive.org/details/earthboundnintendoplayersguide1995/page/n15/mode/2up page 14]].
107** The game itself was marketed in America as [[GrossoutShow "the first RPG with B.O."]] That title would rightly belong to ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', released 19 years later.
108** ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'' was originally completed in 1989 as the original ''Mother'' for the Famicom, was slated for release for North America as the original ''Earthbound'', but was cancelled as Nintendo of America shifted focus to the [=Super NES=]. Just a few years later, another [=Famicom/NES=] game, known in the works as ''Arc Hound'', would face an inversion, being completed in Japan but released ''only'' in North America as ''[[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Contra Force]]'' as Nintendo of Japan shifted its own focus to the Super Famicom.
109** ''[[Manga/PuellaMagiTartMagica What would you get if you switched around "Magic Tart"?]]
110** Ghosts in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' look almost like the emblem for Snapchat.
111* The roster of an Platform/{{Amiga}} fighting game ''Shadow Fighter'' (released in 1994) featured a black basketballer and a faqir. These guys might as well be Film/{{Kazaam}}'s parents.
112* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''
113** A rather serious speech by Van ("[[FanNickname Master Bad Touch]]") about people consulting fortune-tellers to decide what to eat for breakfast becomes retroactively funny when watching the fortune-telling episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Guess what Katara does?
114** Jade asking Luke, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tcFERQ3LY why so serious?]]
115* Might be intentional on the creators' part: ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' featured an unlockable {{minigame}}, ''Mega Man a'', all in 8-bit, styled after the original series of games. A few months later, ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' was released[[note]]developed by [=intiCreates=] who also developed the two ''Mega Man ZX'' games[[/note]], in all its {{retraux}} glory.
116** From the same game, the BigBad is called Albert, and he tried to conquer the world with "Uroboros", while the protagonists are a [[TheGunslinger gunslinging]] male and female, in which at one point in the game, they have to fight the protagonist from a previous game. Cue ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''...
117** Another one, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRXBnNRS5g this scene]] from ''Super Adventure Rockman'' has [[spoiler:Quick Man save the life of Mega Man from Shadow Man, who throws shurikens at Mega Man]], predating Naruto by a few years, where ''almost the exact same thing'' happens in the first chapter.
118** Speaking of the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' games, for a series developed in 2001, had disturbingly accurate predictions of a lot of 21st-century technology. In a time where 600MHz was a decent processor speed, 40GB was a decent hard drive size for a desktop, most data was stored inside your computer, most laptops didn't have built-in Wi-Fi, and when they did, {{the Internet}}'s speed was hardly impressive, the series had all computers in the world connected to each other via the Internet (Internet becoming viable for regular people, and wireless outside the home); applications mainly being run by accessing them from the Internet (Cloud computing); computers in everything, most of which can access the Internet; giant, paper-thin [=TVs=] you can mount on the wall (flatscreens); handheld touch-screen devices that, despite being pocketable, could easily access the Internet, check your email, receive phone calls, get messages, run programs, and generally act like a miniature computer (Modern smartphones); and cyberterrorism actually being able to do more than inconvenience tech support for a few hours (modern cyberterrorism). The later handheld devices [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture even looked like Apple products]].
119** ''Mega Man 3'' for DOS features Robot Masters called [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 Wave Man]], [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Shark Man]], [[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior Torch Man]], [[VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp Oil Man]], and [[VideoGame/MegaMan10 Blade Man]].
120** [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/98742 Mega Man Next]] on Platform/{{Newgrounds}} has a Robot Master called [[VideoGame/MegaMan9 Tornado Man]].
121** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan8BitDeathmatch'', in the single-player campaign, just before fighting [[spoiler:Gamma]], Dr. Wily makes you fight through all of the Robot Masters of ''Mega Man 1-6'' one by one. In the ''Mega Man Legacy Collection'', one of the challenges is a huge BossRush against every Robot Master from those six games one by one.
122** The Mechanical Arena from ''VideoGame/Rockman4MinusInfinity'' is supposed to be a reference to the Arenas in the ''Kirby'' games. However, the first arena is in a fixed order (Robot Masters by DWN, Fortress Bosses, Dr. Wily), while the Arena in the ''Kirby'' games were in random order with the exception of the final bosses. However, ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' has a mechanical theme and its Arena is not only mechanically themed itself, but every single boss fight (including the True Arena) are in a fixed order. Therefore, it is literally a Mechanical Arena.
123** The ''Rockman New Years'' series of ROM hacks have you fighting a specific boss that's selected based on the Analysis/EasternZodiac of the retrospective year. The 2017 installment [[note]]the year of the Rooster[[/note]] has you fighting [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 Storm Eagle]] in a multi-phase battle... until [[spoiler:Chill Penguin]] shows up, and then the [[DualBoss both of them eventually fight you together]]. Come the ''Mega Man X Legacy Collections'', there's a new challenge mode that pairs you up against two Mavericks at the same time.
124* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', during your final battle with Albert Wesker, he at one point shouts, "'''[[LargeHam THE HUMAN RACE]] [[AGodAmI REQUIRES JUDGEMENT!!!!]]'''" Chris replies, "And you're gonna judge us? Did you get all your ideas from comic book villains?" Two years later, ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' came out, both Chris and Wesker are in, and according to the game's ExcusePlot, Wesker is [[VillainTeamUp teaming up]] with Doctor Doom, who is, of course, a comic book villain.
125** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilGaiden'', a non-canon game in the franchise, introduced a character with super healing and enhanced senses due to a parasite B.O.W. that was within her body. This was back in the year 2000. Jump ahead 12 years later and [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has Sherry Berkin with super healing due to a parasite that was forced into her body back in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' but was then forced into a dormant state due to the vaccine given to her by Claire Redfield.]]
126* In ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', the intro music is called "Across The Border". With so many characters on the Tatsunoko side unknown to most Western audiences, hardly anyone expected it to [[NoExportForYou leave Japan]].
127* One of the pages quotes on this wiki describes a {{munchkin}} as one who, on being told that this is a game about politics and intrigue in [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance 17th century]] UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, asks to play a {{ninja}}. Then came ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''. Of course, Assassin's Creed II actually takes place in the late 15th/early 16th century.
128* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'''s Dan Hibiki was based on [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia]]. More than a decade later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3MgPCm8a-g&fmt=18#t=4m40s this happens]].
129** Brazilian people have always interpreted Guile's Sonic Boom special move as [[FanNickname Alex Full.]] Then in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', a character named Alex was created, and he likes military fashion. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot He can't shoot any Alex Fulls, though.]]
130** Guile usually has his "Go home and be a family man." VictoryQuote. His voice actor Creator/TravisWillingham later got married to Creator/LauraBailey (Chun-Li's voice actress in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''), making ''him'' a family man.
131** [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath To a lesser extent,]] so is Creator/HirokiYasumoto.
132** In the 90's, Capcom famously took Creator/DataEast to court for alleged similarities between ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' and ''VideoGame/FightersHistory''. Years later, Capcom's ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series would popularize the AssistCharacter feature, an innovation that first appeared in Data East's fighting game ''Avengers in Galactic Storm''.
133* In one level of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'', Max is assisted by a fat, balding, bearded old hobo who claims to be an ex-cop. In 2009, teaser images of ''Max Payne 3'' showed the title character as fat, balding, bearded, and he is no longer a cop.
134* One of the Heavenly Rewards that can appear in ''VideoGame/Afterlife1996'' is [[VideoGame/SimCity Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim]], described as the opportunity for a blessed soul to control a galaxy from the smallest microbe to the largest space races. The building is a hand holding a orb containing a spiral galaxy. Cue ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}''...
135* If you're going for the bad ending in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', just try to fall victim to Richter's Hydro Storm today [[WebAnimation/ADayInDraculasLife without laughing]].
136** Another good one in the same game: The best cloak you can equip in the game has the simple description: "Black cape for vampires." Its name? Literature/{{Twilight}} Cloak.
137* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', fish get a relatively bad treatment, being food and the basis of a fishing minigame, as it turns out, [[spoiler:the final boss is a fish in a mecha, a really ''dangerous'' mecha.]]
138** [[spoiler:A fish in a mecha,]] [[Manga/{{Gyo}} you say?]]
139** [[spoiler:What about a mechanical [[VideoGame/CaveStory fish?]]]]
140* In perhaps what is better called a TakeThat in Hindsight moment; two NPCS in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', [[UsefulNotes/SarahPalin Palin and Sarah]], debate which local gang to join: a gang of thugs who rob & murder for money, or a group of ultra-capitalists who want to take over the world.
141* [[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 fanonical ACupAngst. [[https://www.apple.com/ipad/ Two and a half years later...]]
142** [[http://touhou.pl/dl/flash/anim/w/wryyyyy_pc_mac.swf This parody]] says that Sakuya is on the PC side... Is Apple specifically courting her as a customer?
143** "''VideoGame/{{Space|Megaforce}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2CxzfwXoQ Megaforce]]''! Presented by [[SpellMyNameWithAnS To(u)ho(u)]]."
144*** And in the Japanese version, the hardest difficulty is called Lunatic. We're talking about a game that precedes ''Touhou'' by four years.
145** There was [[https://cru03.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/zun-teaches-drawing.jpg this picture]], which mocks ZUN's hilariously bad artwork (especially at the time), that dates from around 2007. One year later, [[https://en.touhouwiki.net/images/0/00/Th11Satori.png Satori Komeiji]].
146** ZUN established Team Shanghai Alice in 2002. The very next year, Alice Margatroid appeared, controlling a doll called "Shanghai".
147** 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!!!".
148** As an in-game example, there's [[{{Karakasa}} Kogasa Tatara]]. She's the Stage 2 boss of ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', and as such appears early enough to be part of the demo. She's seen to be rather weak and has an [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway apparently worthless power]] of "surprising people". And she's not even very good at it. Play all the way through the game, though, and you discover that [[spoiler:she's also the [[BonusDungeon EX Stage]] MidBoss]]. Surprise!
149** The story of Primeus. In the game engine VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}, there was a JokeCharacter named Primeus. The intro to the character would be of Touhou's Yukari Yakumo walking into the screen... and then a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Fish From Nowhere]] suddenly knocks her out from behind. Though this was funny in itself, it became even funnier when a giant fish ''did'' appear in a canon Touhou fighting game.
150** Remember Youmu's theme? It's called "Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till when?" and is based on a Japanese epic. That strange bird was a nue, a shapeshifter. Cue Nue Houjuu later appearing.
151** Similarly, in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', [[{{Superboss}} EX Boss]] Ran Yakumo's final spell card is ''Illusion God "Descent of Izuna-Gongen"''. Not very remarkable at the time, especially since Yukari's counterpart spell in the Phantasm stage is far more well-known. 18 years later however, the Stage 5 boss of ''Unconnected Marketeers'' is the legendary Iizuna Gongen herself, Megumu Iizunamaru.
152** In the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwwTDanD_iM EWI 23]], Kogasa appeared next to Myouren's grave, then Ten Desires was released.
153** ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX 6th Style'' (2001) has a song called "Take It Easy" by an artist named Aya. Fast forward to later in the decade, and we have a ''Touhou'' character named Aya and the {{memetic|Mutation}} catchphrase "Take it easy!" Even more hilariously, this was also before the big BEMANI [[https://remywiki.com/BEMANI_x_TOHO_project_REITAISAI_2015 crossover event]] with ''Touhou'' arrange artists.
154* 4 years before doing the "more cowbell" sketch for ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', Creator/ChristopherWalken appeared in an FMV adventure game titled ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', which featured the Music/BlueOysterCult song "Don't Fear The Reaper" as its theme music. The bit with the cowbell even plays just as Walken's name appears on the opening credits.
155* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kaUzLCKz0k#t=4m40s At one point]] during agentjr's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty 4|ModernWarfare}}'', 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 ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2 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 quote is agentjr talking about what would happen if Khaled Al-Asad was [[TheMole 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''.]]
156* From a different Let's Play: The third video of baldurk and co.'s LP of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' had Baldurk, playing as Bill, get ambushed and killed by zombies before he could make it into the safe room at the very end. The last words of the video are [=EthanSteele=] commenting "Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices." ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' had just come out as this video was posted, and fans of the game [[HeroicSacrifice all know what happened to Bill]] (again) in its DownloadableContent.
157* Yet another Let's Play example: Cooked Auto's LP of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'', during the "Delta Halo" level, has him discussing the SPARTAN-III project. He expresses interest in a game focused on them, but then notes that this would be almost impossible without courting a ton of controversy, because of the fact that most of the Spartan-[=IIIs=] are ChildSoldiers, and [[WeHaveReserves highly-expendable ones]] at that. Cue ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' a year and a half later, where you play as part of a team of [=Spartan-IIIs=] and [[spoiler:all but one of them are dead by the end of the game]].
158** 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. It took almost a decade, but it eventually did receive a port with the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Definitive Edition]]''.
159* The ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series has "Legendary" as the highest difficulty level. In the Italian version of the game, the difficulty name is, naturally, translated to "Leggendaria". Then came ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX''[='=]s addition of "✝[[HarderThanHard LEGGENDARIA]]" charts in 2014, as well as the [[Memes/{{BEMANI}} resulting memes]].
160* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
161** At one point in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', Ashley, when seeing the Destiny Ascension says, "Look at that monster! Its main gun could rip through any ship in the Alliance fleet!" Then [[spoiler:the Alliance has to save it later on]].
162** Combining the two {{meme|ticMutation}}s of "Ah, yes, ''Reapers''," with [[VideoGame/JustCause "My name is Bolo Santosi."]] gives us "My name is Bolo Santosi. I am the leader of the immortal race of sentient starships known as the Reapers."
163** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', you learn from Legion that the true geth's purpose is to build a DysonSphere to upload themselves onto. Considering that Legion is voiced by Creator/DCDouglas, a.k.a. [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert Wesker]], the geth are essentially planning '''[[MemeticMutation COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION]].'''
164** The DLC for game 2 causes an amusing moment because, if you play them after completing the main storyline, you are being helped by the Illusive Man after, depending on your choices during the game, you've [[spoiler:essentially ''stolen'' the ''Normandy 2'', caused the defection of a large chunk of Cerberus personnel including one of his top lieutenants to you, and blew up the Collector base he desperately wanted.]] He's obviously not one to hold a grudge.
165** There's an amusing EasterEgg in ''Mass Effect 2'' when you launch probes at [[UranusIsShowing a certain planet.]] [[http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/planetary/missions/uranus/ Guess what NASA is planning on doing.]]
166** Each of the three background options for Commander Shepard has an associated [[SideQuest assignment]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. The Earthborn assignment involves Finch, a member of a gang Shepard used to run with, trying to {{b|ullyingADragon}}lackmail him/her into getting another member of the gang released from turian custody. If you choose to warn the guard about the gang, and then choose the right conversation options with Finch -- for example, not just shooting him -- he calls Shepard out for being "in bed" with the turians. For extra potential hilarity, Garrus (the turian squad member) can be brought along for the assignment. Guess which [[BoldlyComing non-human squad member]] gets [[RelationshipUpgrade upgraded to a potential love interest]] in the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 second game?]]
167** Back in the first game, when Ashley asks Shepard which side of the cheek to kiss a turian, if Shepard told her that wouldn't be necessary, Ashley will then jokingly reply "You never know, Commander." Cue the RelationshipUpgrade with Garrus in ''2'', and TheBigDamnKiss in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' if Shepard chooses to continue the relationship with Garrus (for the record, it's the ''right'' cheek, Ashley).
168** One for ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Carth and Kaidan often acted as the "voice of conscience" in the party, arguing for light-side / Paragon actions. Now, their mutual voice actor is playing in Series/OnceUponATime... as one of the ultimate "voices of conscience," Jiminy Cricket!
169** In game Kasumi wrote an entry on Shepard for Badass Weekly. She's likely grinning like a banshee now that she was the inspiration for WebOriginal/BadassOfTheWeek writing such an article.
170** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', a male Shepard and Kaidan can joke about a mutual attraction to Liara and Shepard only "winning" because he saw her first by a few minutes. In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Shepard and Kaidan, if the player is so inclined, can opt to forget about Liara because they're more interested in each other, even if Shepard did get together with Liara in the previous games. Amusing enough on its own, but a few years later, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' famously resolved its LoveTriangle by [[spoiler:having Korra and Asami leave their mutual ex-boyfriend Mako behind because they had become more interested in each other. [[PortmanteauCoupleName MShenko]] did it before Korrasami]].
171** Back in 2014 or thereabouts, EA and Creator/LegendaryPictures announced a deal for the latter to produce a LiveActionAdaptation of the first game. While said deal obviously lapsed without any results, May of 2021 saw the release of ''Mass Effect: Legendary Edition'', the 4K remaster of the "[[{{FanNickname}} Shepard/Milky Way Trilogy]]". And then there are the rumors surrounding Creator/PrimeVideo making a ''Mass Effect'' TV series...
172* A double whammy for this one: The [[FollowTheLeader Pokémon-like]] games ''[[VideoGame/{{Telefang}} Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Power Version and Speed Version]]'' was often sold misleadingly by counterfeiters as a ''Pokémon'' game under the names ''Pokémon Diamond'' and ''Pokémon Jade''. The former name was eventually used for a [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl real Pokémon game]]. Also, the box art of ''Jade'' contained a picture of the [[http://ghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Forest_Spirit?file=Skogsande.png Shishigami]], or Forest Spirit, from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. Along comes ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', and one of the Legendaries looks [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Xerneas_(Pokémon) a bit familiar...]]
173* There's a bootleg game for the Platform/GameBoyColor called ''[[http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_3D_Blast_5_(Game_Boy)#Pok.C3.A9mon_Adventure Pokémon Adventure]]'' which is a hack of an earlier bootleg game called ''Sonic 3D Blast 5'' which replaces Sonic with Pikachu but has him retain all of Sonic's abilities. It's the closest thing we'll ever get to a ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' game. It also came out in 2000, the same year the Sonichu character was originally created.
174* ''The Games Machine'', an Italian PC gaming magazine, has made several faux reviews as April Fool jokes in the 1990s and 2000s, only for similar games to actually come out some time later.
175** 1993: ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland 3''. Four years later, ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' came out.
176** 1995: Monolith, a sequel to ''The Sentinel''. Three years later, ''Sentinel Returns'' came out. Additionally, a fanmade game called ''Monolith'', created with the intention to turn that joke into an actual game, came out in 2020.
177** 1996: ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins 96'', a remake of ''Ghosts 'n' Goblins'' with improved graphics. Two years later, a ''Ghosts 'n' Goblins'' emulator with interpolated graphics came out. Moreover, in [[VideoGame/MaximoGhostsToGlory 2001]] and [[VideoGame/MaximoVsArmyOfZin 2003]], '''two''' sequels came out for the Platform/PlayStation2.
178** 1997: a ''Franchise/TombRaider'' patch to show Lara Croft naked. Not even a year later, such a mod came out for real.
179** 1998: a PC version of ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'', with native [=Voodoo2=] support, improved graphics and the ability to send cars to other people through email. Merely four months later, a Platform/PlayStation emulator called [=PSEmuPro=] came out and actually allowed to do all that.
180** 1999: ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun 3D'', a 3D game set in the world of ''Command & Conquer''. Cue 2002 and ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'', then 2003 and the fully-3D ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals''. Even better was in 2004, where work began on a GameMod for ''Renegade'' that was based on ''Tiberian Sun''.
181** 2007: ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: World Online'', an MMORPG set in all the fictional cities that appeared in ''Grand Theft Auto''. Something similar was actually implemented in 2013 as ''Grand Theft Auto Online'', the multiplayer component to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
182* In the Sega Platform/GameGear version of ''Winter Olympic Games: Lillehammer '94'', one of the American athletes is named "H.Montana". Face it, the only "H.Montana" you can think of nowadays is Series/{{Hannah|Montana}}.
183* In [[http://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/334237 this post]] in a VideoGame/{{Doom}}world forum thread about the ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' demo way back in 2003, the poster, responding to another poster stating that ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' would be an "astronomical failure" if it were ever released, says that ''Duke Nukem Forever'' is fully funded by 3D Realms, who reaped quite a profit from ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', and goes on to say that although it's questionable whether they would recoup the costs of developing the game, "3D Realms will not go bankrupt if DNF doesn't sell well when it's released in 2009." The poster immediately following him replies to the assumption that it would be out in 2009 with, "Looks like we have ourselves an optimist." Today, the second poster seems [[http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1127 quite prescient]]. Notice the irony is not lost on the first poster, who bumped the thread in 2010 ''specifically'' to [[LampshadeHanging call attention to it]].
184** As an added bonus; Creator/GearboxSoftware ended up finishing and releasing the game, and now holds the rights to the Duke Nukem franchise. The company was founded by Randy Pitchford, a former 3D Realms employee who worked on ''Duke 3D''.
185** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFA5IYiF0Q This fan song about Duke Nukem Forever]], written in 2000 but released in 2007, contains the verse "Duke Nukem or Max Payne, no wonder who's last", originally referring to how much more likely it was to see ''Max Payne 1'' released than ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''. In 2011, when an actual release date of ''Duke Nukem Forever'' had been announced and ''Max Payne 3'' had been delayed again, the same verse acquired a whole new meaning.
186** Speaking of ''Deus Ex: Invisible War'', the game's intro features Chicago destroyed in a GreyGoo attack by a member of a [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar fanatical cult]] and Seattle is featured as one of the levels in the first half of the game. Then, exactly a decade later, ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'' comes out, featuring Seattle as its main setting and Chicago being ravaged by [[spoiler:insectoid spirits from a dark occult-like ritual perpetrated by a seemingly innocuous Happyology-esque organization]]. Notice a pattern here?
187* In the game ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'', there were three agents which you could recruit, one of them is the Assassin who, in its European incarnation wears a hoodie and, if you order him to kill UsefulNotes/ThePope, will do so with a crossbow; flash-forward to ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''.
188* The plot of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' bears a lot of similarities to ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', despite predating it. Both feature a MagnificentBastard [[TheHeavy Heavy]] armed with the knowledge of Batman's secret identity who cordons off a large part of Gotham [[spoiler:with the intention of destroying it to fulfill the Knight Templar legacy of villain Ra's Al Ghul]]. Catwoman appears as a {{Heel Face Revolving|Door}} FemmeFatale who is ultimately [[spoiler:faced with a choice between abandoning Gotham and staying behind and aiding Batman]]. Batman himself is shown in both stories being pushed to his physical limits by the machinations of a villain before [[spoiler:being outwitted by a BigBad in the climax]]. Ironically, [[spoiler:Batman realizes the Joker outwitted him after Talia stabs Joker]] in ''Arkham City'', while in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' [[spoiler:he realizes he has been outwitted by Talia after SHE stabs HIM]].
189* In ''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam: Icon]]'', developed and published by EA Chicago, one of your men will proceed to get a hankering for "those fly-ass EA games" and you will have the option to shill out thousands in order to buy them in bulk and keep him happy. ''Icon's'' lack of success proceeded to [[CreatorKiller shut down EA Chicago]].
190* To promote the game ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'', Sony produced a [[{{Defictionalization}} CD of]] [[FakeBand MilkCan's]] music. [[VocalEvolution Then came]] ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper 2''...
191* The cover for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tiger_Woods_10_xbox360.jpg Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10]]. Shortly afterward, it was revealed he cheated on his wife and lost most of his endorsement deals. For extra hilarity points, the tagline on the back of the box was "Feel the Drama."
192* In [[spoiler:Garcia and Dozla's]] support from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', [[spoiler:Dozla]] accidentally hit [[spoiler:Garcia's]] head while training with a staff. He was originally using an axe, in other words he was training to be a staff-wielding axeman. Then comes ''Awakening'' with the MemeticMutation NUNSWITHAXES and MONKSWITHAXES. Guess which 2 weapons they can use?
193* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}: Brood War'', one of Artanis' [[StopPokingMe "pissed" quotes]] was "This is '''not''' ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' [[RecycledInSPACE in space!]] It's much more ''sophisticated!''" A few years later, ''Warcraft 3'' came out with a verrrry ''familiar'' storyline if you take out the orc campaign.
194** Even better, Artanis follows up with "I know it's not 3D!" ''Warcraft 3'', of course, ''is''.
195** ''Starcraft: Ghost'''s title has become even more hilarious since it's become VaporWare.
196** A 2010 post from [[http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/540956387#16 this Starcraft II forum]] practically prophecies the Purifiers.
197---> "If the Protoss really wanted to win they would just create a self-replicating army of sentient robots programmed to do the exact opposite of the Zerg: to protect and preserve all life except for the Zerg."
198* In the ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' Dark Crusade expansion, when the Word Bearers attack the [[SuperSoldier Blood Raven]] stronghold, one way Eliphas mocks Davian Thule is saying perhaps the he would mount his corpse on golden chair and make an idol of him. In Dawn of War II, something like that happens as Thule is nearly killed by the Tyranids and becomes a dreadnought, so his corpse is indeed mounted in a golden sarcophagus that serves as an inspiring idol to the Blood Ravens (assuming you have the right Dreadnaught plating equipped).
199* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0DlcxyY5M WE ARE NINTENDO. WE CHALLENGE ALL PLAYERS. YOU CANNOT BEAT US.]]" Indeed, you cannot beat them at NintendoHard games... or, as of May 2010, at '''[[http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html the top 3 game ratings of ALL TIME]]!'''
200* ''VideoGame/NBAJam'' featured UsefulNotes/BillClinton as a secret character, quite a while before the US had [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a president with a noted interest in basketball]].
201* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
202** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'':
203*** The original Creator/ShotaroIshinomori ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992 comic adaptation]] is practically ''prophetic'' when you look back on it now. Link has [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime a fairy]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask companion]], the magic of the Dark World transforms him into [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess a wolf]] (instead of a rabbit), and ''Zelda'' is the one [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker to kill Ganon by]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks shooting him with the Silver Arrow]].
204*** A meta example: In the backstory of the instruction manual, it is said that there were multiple rumors about the sacred realm's entrance, specifically in the context of how to obtain the Triforce, with most of these rumors being false. Six years later, the backstory is [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime fully explored]], and [[UrbanLegendOfZelda guess what kind of rumors the fans start throwing around?]]
205** Phantom Zelda is seen in most pictures with regular Zelda nearby, leading to it being referred to as Zelda's [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand.]] This would end up becoming one of the characters moves in the ''Smash Bros.'' series starting in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', where she summons said Phantom as if it was a Stand.
206** A trailer for a supposed Platform/WiiU VideoGameRemake of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' was revealed to be an April Fools' joke... but nine months later in January 2013, it was revealed that Nintendo actually ''was'' working on a Wii U remake of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker a different Zelda game]]. And then an ''actual Majora's Mask'' remake was announced for 2015 for the 3DS.
207** One of many hoaxes about an upcoming ''Zelda'' game was one taking place in a cyberpunk future instead of the vague past, in which Link's primary mode of transportation would be a [[CoolBike motorcycle]]. Far-fetched at the time, but then it turned out that this legtimately was one of the potential directions played out with for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', and the motorcycle in question would appearing in the game's "Champion's Ballad" DLC for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where the primary reward for completing all of the new quests is a {{magitek}} motorbike.
208** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtoTKed5Cc This]] [=GameSpot=] April Fools video from 2017 gives a fake tutorial on how to create (via cooking) a key that lets you pilot Guardians in ''Breath of the Wild''. A little over four years later, the "Pulse of the Ancients" DLC was released for related game ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', which includes new Royal Ancient Lab challenges that ultimately unlock the Battle-Tested Guardian as a playble character.
209* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', Pit of ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' got an updated character design that, to many, looked remarkably like Sora from the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series. Fast forward to E3 2010, which we learn of a [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising new game]], featuring the same design for Pit, being made by Masahiro Sakurai's (the creator of ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'') development team, which is called "Project ''Sora'''. And years later, Sora himself would end up joining ''Smash's'' roster at the tail end of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'''s DLC run.
210* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
211** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'': 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?
212** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations'': As the Bherna Gal 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 - ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' and ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' both make a point of skipping such busywork quests by making them a separate mechanic.
213* While all the endings of the ''WWF [=WrestleMania=]'' arcade game are pretty ridiculous, the one for Razor Ramon[=/=]Wrestling/ScottHall's [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/c/wwfraz.htm oddly echoes the man's continual real life problems that have consumed him in the years since the game was released.]]
214** In the [=SmackDown=] vs Raw series, there were constant references on commentary to Wrestling/MichaelCole "never stepping foot in a ring". Come 2011, Cole would wrestle several matches (including one at [=WrestleMania=]), making these lines hilarious.
215** One of unlockable entrances in ''WWF [=SmackDown!=] Just Bring It'' features the player enter using a motorcycle (based on Wrestling/TheUndertaker's American Badass gimmick at the time), but with the motorcycle stalling and going the ramp by itself, before the player rides it again. Undertaker's motorcycle actually suffered this problem at the 2003 edition of the {{Wrestling/Vengeance}} pay-per-view.
216* In April 2007, Game Informer released their annual April Fool's issue-within-an-issue, Game Infarcer. The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091106182061/metroid/images/5/5d/Metroidteamninja_1.jpg cover]] claims that a new ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' game was going to be developed by [[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Team Ninja]], giving it a ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Xtreme'' look. 2 years later, at E3 2009, ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' was being made by Team Ninja, but without all the intentional {{Fanservice}}.
217** Ridley has his own stage in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'', with a Samus cameo.
218** Around the time ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' was released, Creator/YoshioSakamoto did an [[http://www.metroid-database.com/sm/interview.php interview]] about the game. There's a gem at the end that only gets funnier every time you see a negative review of ''Other M'' about the voice acting.
219-->'''Sakamoto''': From the beginning, it was decided that when the game begins, we wouldn't tell the whole story using text. The story had to be told in a minimal way. However, it wouldn't convey the atmosphere. I thought the game's atmosphere was done completely through sound. I thought it would be good if we could do it like a silent movie.
220** Nintendo eventually declared that the word "Metroid" is a Chozo word meaning "ultimate warrior". So all those people who [[IAmNotShazam mistakenly referred to Samus as Metroid]] are now technically correct.
221*** Even more true as of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' in which no living metroids appear and the only thing stopping the game from having an ArtifactTitle is Samus' metroid DNA.
222** One of the more contentious moments in ''Other M'' is a section where Samus runs through a heated area, taking damage the whole way because despite having it, Adam hasn't authorized her to activate her heat shielding. This makes a couple of lines in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' unintentionally hilarious, [[spoiler:especially since these come out of the mouth of the same character that didn't authorize Samus to turn on her heat shielding in ''Other M''.]]
223-->'''Ship's Computer''': And avoid the ultra-heated areas: your suit can't take such high temperatures yet, but we're working on it.\
224'''Ship's Computer''': There are no ultra-heated areas on this route, so turn back if you enter one.
225** ''Other M'''s GameplayAndStoryIntegration of Samus being denied use of suit features unless Adam explicitly authorized them (and her going along with this until fairly late in the game, often to her own detriment) makes the ''Metroid Fusion'' Ship's Computer even more retroactively hilarious. [=MeccaPrime's=] LetsPlay hangs a lampshade on this:
226-->'''Ship's Computer''': Did this "Adam" care for you? Would he sit in a safe Command Room and order you to die?\
227'''[=MeccaPrime=] (via subtitles)''': (Yes)
228* Speaking of Game Infarcer, they once made a parody where they claimed ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' will travel further back in time for Snake to battle dinosaurs. Big Boss essentially does that in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' in a series of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''-themed bonus missions.
229* 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/Cars1'' comes out, and the main character is a red race car.
230* The single player in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' contained phrases like "I can't believe you made it here this quickly" (and several other variations of it), "We don't go to Ravenholm", "Follow Freeman", "Doctor Freeman, you really shouldn't be out there", "...but things would go so much faster if we had more people with your training" and many others. Then a SpeedRun of that game was released...
231* One of ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'''s announcer messages [[ShoutOut is]] "{{Flawless|Victory}} [[Franchise/MortalKombat Victory]]," which you obtain by winning a match without being fragged, giving up a flag capture, or what have you. It's pretty funny, since the two following games, ''VideoGame/UnrealChampionship2TheLiandriConflict'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'', were published by Midway Games, and in the former, Raiden was featured as a GuestFighter.
232* The plot of ''VideoGame/GodzillaUnleashed'' revolves around an alien race coming to Earth and interfering with various [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]]. The San Francisco level has the Golden Gate Bridge destroyed. [[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens Guess which later movie has a monster in San Francisco destroying the Golden Gate Bridge?]]
233** [[Film/PacificRim And this one too]]. [[Film/{{Godzilla 2014}} And the new Godzilla movie]].
234* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'', there is a news report about an app for the "iFruit" where you pee on it and it tells you if you're pregnant. Funny then, funnier after something very similar actually did come out later, as a companion app for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
235* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
236** The Japanese [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0nHaksVcc commercial]] for ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' featured a world partly made of yarn, and Kirby and the enemies are made of yarn. [[VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn 17 years later]]...
237** In the cutscene that kicks off the TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', Kirby summons a Warp Star via a pink cell phone. Just a few 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).
238** The North American [[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]].
239* One of the puzzles in ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max: Situation: Comedy]]'' involved Sam winning ''[[Series/AmericanIdol Embarrassing]] [[ShowWithinAShow Idol]]'' by using a '[[HeliumSpeech Voice Modulator]]'. Mildly amusing in 2006. ''Hilarious'' after the 2010 UK media scandal about [[Series/TheXFactor talent shows]] using AutoTune on their singers.
240* In ''VideoGame/BenThereDanThat'', a {{Pastiche}} of Creator/LucasArts point-and-click {{Adventure Game}}s, Dan idolises Franchise/IndianaJones, and Ben idolises Marty [=McFly=], of ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' (both of whom are Lucas-related characters). Creator/TelltaleGames, a company formed from what Yahtzee called [=LucasArts=]'s 'cleverness division', made a ''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'' PointAndClickGame, making the reference be to ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' and the ''Back to the Future'' game, instead, which makes a lot more sense as most of the other {{Shout Out}}s in the game are to Point And Clicks.
241* The intro to ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage'' brings up Lady Dahlia, followed by the line, "Well, Luke, a true gentleman never refuses the request of a beautiful lady." Then they announced ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney''. Guess [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney who else]] has experience being "gentlemanly" toward a beautiful woman named Dahlia.
242** The concept of a Layton/AA crossover has been around as early as [[https://www.deviantart.com/lilythescorpio/art/Wright-vs-Layton-127871713 2009]].
243** Another ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' related one, though nothing happened ''after'' seeing the scene in question, aside from being reminded of old episodes of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. Phoenix reactions, during ''JFA'', upon hearing Maya say [[spoiler:Edgeworth's name]] reminded people of Brock during the early episodes of the Johto saga/late Orange Islands: [[spoiler:"Don't say that name!"]]
244** 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). And it's unusually planted by the killer.
245** In case 1-5, while cross-examining a certain witness, Edgeworth will note: "Staring at the witness will do you no good, Wright." Two years later, "staring at the witness" became a gameplay mechanic in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''.
246** 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 in English.
247** In 3-3, the victim Glen Elg worked for a computer company and wore a head-mounted display as part of his work. In 2004, the idea of a company where its employees run around with these sorts of displays seemed impractical at the time. Come 2013 and we have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass Google Glass]]. Again, the game takes place in 2014.
248** The voice actors from the ''Phoenix Wright'' trilogy 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.''
249** A reversed instance of this ([[AnachronicOrder for the audience]]; [[HarsherInHindsight for the characters, it's played straight]]) occurs in [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Case 5-4]]. The Judge asks about the bomb transport case, a crucial piece of evidence in 5-1 and 5-4, and Blackquill [[BlackComedy jokingly]] tells him that it's his coffin. One of the final revelations of 5-1 is that [[spoiler:the body of the murdered detective, Candice Arme, was hidden inside the transport case ''during the very trial'' Blackquill made the joke in. Of course, none of them knew this at the time]].
250* Episodes 275 and 277 of ''Webcomic/SecretOfManaTheater'' featured an army of flower enemies beating/chasing various enemies in a fortress, zombies included. Two years later, Creator/PopCapGames came out with ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies''. You make the call.
251* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' related: The infamous '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA MAHVEL BAYBEE]]''' video acquires a whole new meaning, aside from the already {{ascended meme}}s, when you consider that [[http://marvel.com/news/story/15148/marvel_teams_up_with_the_nba Marvel struck a deal with the NBA]]. Now Sentinel ''will'' remind you of the New York Knicks.
252* In [[HilariousInHindsight/LiveActionTV the H.I.H. Live Action page]], it's mentioned that anti-radiation medicine by the name of Ex-Rad has recently been developed. Players of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' franchise should remember a similar drug called Rad-X quite well, first introduced over ten years prior.
253** Also, within the game, Arcade's quote about Agave and Mesquite Oh. If agave and mesquite were that miraculous, the locals would have figured it out a few thousand years ago. Cue Honest Hearts and the ability to introduce Nuka Cola and Sasparila back to the wasteland.
254* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
255** ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry 1]]'':
256*** After retrieving the amulet of Nelo Angelo, Dante recalls a moment where he and Vergil fought over chocolate on their birthday. Although it's PlayedForDrama in this game, the later games reveal that the brothers fight over little things so often, and those had a bigger impact on Vergil. In ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening DMC3]]'', Vergil still tries to take the amulet of Dante even when they're in the demon world, but Dante just jokingly responds "No way, you got your own." And as revealed by the in-game "Old Man's Diary" document in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'', it got to the point where Vergil developed a habit of writing his name on things to make them "truly his".
257*** In the finale, Dante mocks Mundus's vow to return to the human world someday with the retort "Goodbye! And when you do come back, give my regards to my son, will ya?". This statement becomes hilarious when taken literally, as [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 later]] [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 installments]] reveal that not only is Dante [[CelibateHero still single after several years]] in canon, [[spoiler:his brother Vergil is the first to have a son, Nero]].
258*** In Dante and Trish's first encounter, she attacks him by [[CarFu throwing a bike at him]], which he blasts apart easily. In [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 fifth game]], Dante acquires a pair of chainsaw Devil Arms which can transform into a bike after defeating the demon Cavaliere Angelo. [[spoiler:And the cherry on top is that Trish was being used as a LivingBattery for Cavaliere when Dante defeated it]].
259** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'':
260*** Arius's corporation is named [[{{Ouroboros}} Uroboros]]. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Sound familiar?]] Remember that the series [[DivorcedInstallment was birthed from a discarded concept]] for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. The hilarity only magnifies if you consider how Arius's international enterprise resembles Wesker's dealings with Tricell, never mind [[spoiler:Possessed Arius sporting some very Ouroboros-esque tentacles along with a core on his chest that resembles Wesker's [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak points]] in the final battle of ''[=RE5=]'']].
261*** The prequel novel has Dante teaming up with a woman named Beryl who, after their adventure is concluded, gives Dante her anti-tank rifle as collateral. The [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening very next game]] introduces Lady who has a lot of similarities to Beryl (including having a large gun) and would become infamous for constantly hounding Dante for how money he owes her in the anime. And while Beryl shows obvious attraction to Dante throughout their time together, Lady reacts to the idea of dating Dante with disgust twice. The hilarity becomes magnified when you consider that timeline-wise, Dante meets Lady ''before'' Beryl comes into his life.
262** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'':
263*** ([[LightEmUp Beowulf]], the final Devil Arm Dante receives in this game, is a set of [[PowerFist gauntlets]] and [[ArmedLegs greaves]]) allows him to whip out a string of [[BareFistedMonk physical combos]] that pay homage to several famous martial artists (both real and fictitious), with many of these moves being evocative of the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' characters; he even uses variants of the {{Shoryuken}} (Rising Dragon), Shin Shoryuken (Real Impact), and Shinkuu [[HurricaneKick Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku]] (Tornado). Dante's personality and sense of style (such as his preference for the color red) has had many fans likening him to a more Awesome version of Ken Masters. In ''Devil May Cry 3'', ''Devil May Cry 4'', and [[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries the anime]], Dante is voiced by Creator/ReubenLangdon, the voice actor of Ken Masters in the dub of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''.
264*** In a similar instance, Ryu's English VA in ''SFIV'' is none other than Creator/KyleHebert, best known as [[Anime/DragonBallZ Adult Gohan]]. Can you say, "KamehameHadoken"?
265*** When Lady tells Dante to take her [[{{BFG}} Kalina Ann]], he asks her how much she's going to charge him for it. She only asks for his name in exchange, but [[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries later]] [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 works]] would actually depict her as a major source of Dante's constant debt.
266*** In the [[UpdatedRerelease Special Edition]] of this game, Vergil's campaign begins with him reading a book in a library. Arkham then appears and thinks Vergil might be looking for the history of his father, Sparda. However, Vergil says that it's not what he's looking for. Years later, ''Devil May Cry 5'' and its ''Visions of V'' tie-in manga reveal that Vergil loves poetry, creating the retroactive implication that he might have been reading a poetry book in that cutscene.
267*** Vergil shouts "Why isn't this working?!" in a [[NotSoStoic frustrated tone]] when the ritual to fully unseal the Temen-ni-gru fails. When playing as Vergil in the ''Special Edition'', he will also [[PercussiveMaintenance kick the ornamental spear to activate a machine]] after being slightly annoyed beforehand. Although the game simply reuses Dante's animation in this part of Mission 5, it amusingly depicts Vergil being frustrated on smaller issues.
268*** The end of Mission 14 has Dante riding Lady's motorcycle to rapidly climb up the Temen-ni-gru tower while killing some demons along the way [[CarFu using the bike itself]]. Unfortunately, the bike explodes towards the end of the cutscene due to Dante overloading the engine. ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' would later return to this concept and implement it in actual gameplay with the Cavaliere Devil Arm, a motorcycle that has the added bonus of being able to [[BifurcatedWeapon split into]] [[ChainsawGood two chainsaws]].
269*** Arkham at one point makes an offhand comment that "A storm is approaching" while going off to deal with Lady while Vergil is glancing after him. [[spoiler:Vergil's]] theme song in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' includes the lyrics "I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!", creating the hilarious implication that [[spoiler:Vergil really did like that line]].
270*** It's more hilarious in a BlackComedy sort of way, but there was a hurricane titled "Virgil" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Virgil_(1992) in 1992]].
271*** Vergil's "Give that to me." line in the FinalBoss battle implied that he's a greedy sibling who still wants to take his brother's amulet no matter the circumstances. This also evoked a laugh from the fans, which resulted into the [[Memes/DevilMayCry memetic "Greedy Vergil" image macro]]. More than a decade later, it turns out this is actually an intended characterization for Vergil and not just a one-time moment PlayedForLaughs. The in-game "Old Man's Diary" document in ''[=DMC5=]'' reveals Vergil having a tendency to write his name on things to make them "truly his" because he and Dante fought over things so often.
272*** This game features a villain named [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Arkham]] and introduces his daughter Lady. ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' featured a villain named '''Lady Arkham''' who was also out to avenge a dead loved one, albeit through much more ruthless means.
273** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'': One of the game's most memorable and [[Funny/DevilMayCry4 hilariously]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bizarre]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfdzyIrd89U scenes]] is Dante and Agnus going at it in full-on HamToHamCombat, quoting [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare the Bard himself]] before their fight begins. Years later, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiS75oRxKI a developer's diary]] for ''[[VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry DmC]]'' had Lilith's VA describing the game's narrative and cast as "almost Shakespearean." [[MemeticMutation Fans knew a gift horse when they saw it]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSgQzIs3Zk and they never]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpH0jVERNxI looked back.]]
274--->'''[[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Hades]]''': ''[[Creator/TheAutarch "Ah, yes...]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-XSc9bgpg 'to fuck you, or not to fuck you... that is the question'."]]''
275* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'':
276** One of the announcements made at Microsoft's E3 2014 press conference was ''VideoGame/{{Scalebound}}'', a now-cancelled game that was developed by Creator/PlatinumGames and featured a protagonist named Drew who was more or less inspired by Nero. Fast-forward to E3 2018, and not only does ''5'' get announced at the same company's conference, but the game features Nero with a new appearance and hairstyle that resembles that of Drew.
277** Parts of this game are downright hysterical when viewed in the context of [[VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry the 2013 reboot]]:
278*** ''[=DmC=]: Devil May Cry''[='=]s Dante has some of Nero's characteristics; being a young, rebellious, hotheaded devil hunter who gets CharacterDevelopment throughout his game and even has some of his moves. Here, Nero looks like a recolored version of him fitted with a mechanical right arm, a possibly well-intended [[MythologyGag nod]] to the reboot.
279*** Because the reboot had been controversial among fans of the classic continuity since its trailers were released in 2010, said fans have been hoping for a true sequel to the numbered series. This caused a long-running hype in the Internet. In light of ''5's'' existence, some even wondered if releasing ''[=DmC=]'' was a business strategy or "publicity stunt" by Creator/{{Capcom}} to increase the hype not only for this game, but the [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity online exposure]] of the whole ''Devil May Cry'' franchise as well.
280*** At the infamous ''[=DmC=]'' presentation event at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Pz8WiEW4U?t=103 GDC 2013]], the art director for the game, Alessandro Taini, in the midst of the topic of his belief that the original Dante was "too flamboyant", said he tried to imagine the original Dante in a Western movie, and the result was ''Film/BrokebackMountain''. Five years later at NYCC 2018, one of Dante's new weapons revealed at the event is Dr. Faust, a demonic cowboy hat that uses Red Orbs as ammo. Fast forward to this game's release, and cue Dante performing a very flamboyant, Music/MichaelJackson-esque dance in Dr. Faust's introduction cutscene.
281*** Remember the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] ClusterFBomb exchange between Dante and Poison in ''[=DmC=]''? Well, not only does Nero look like him in this game, [[spoiler:but when Nero says it, [[PrecisionFStrike it activates his Devil Trigger in his fight against Vergil and signifies that Nero means business]]!]]
282*** The reboot began with [[spoiler:Dante and Vergil reforging the brotherly bond that had been missing since they were kids and working together to stop the BigBad through much of the game's story, only to end with the two becoming enemies due to the tragic results of Vergil's resentment and ambition]]. Here, [[spoiler:Dante and Vergil both start off the game as enemies and work together to stop the BigBad through much of the game's story simultaneously due to the tragic results of Vergil's resentment and ambition, and end the game reforging the brotherly bond that had been missing since they were kids]]. In general, the whole idea that the utterly divisive attempt at a ContinuityReboot [[spoiler:concluded with ''Vergil's Downfall'']] and the [[WinBackTheCrowd much-beloved return of the original series]] [[spoiler:ends with the course-correction of Vergil's character]]. Come the ''Special Edition'', the chorus of "[[{{Leitmotif}} Bury the Light]]" sums it up best:
283----> ''"I am reclaimer of my name!"''
284** In ''4'', Dante calls Sanctus an "old fart" during the latter's orchestrated demon invasion to be Fortuna's "savior" and makes fun of his old age during their encounter. In ''5'', he has aged radically and fans are making fun of it.
285** One of the most [[MemeticMutation memetic]] and [[NarmCharm narmy]] cutscenes in ''4'' is "Agnus Redux", where Agnus and Dante do an over-the-top [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEBAukcHaU Shakespearean performance]] by exchanging [[LargeHam hammy theatrical quotes]] in the style of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', accompanied by [[DramaticThunder dramatic lighting effects]]. 11 years later, Dante performs a Michael Jackson-style performance in front of Nico, with colorful stage lighting. He just entertained the father and the daughter with a "classic" and a "modern" performance, respectively.
286** ''5'' was developed with the RE Engine, the same game engine that was used for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' which was released before this game. Now remember when the whole ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series [[DivorcedInstallment was born from]] ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''[='=]s first prototype? It even gets hilarious as in ''[=RE7=]'' one of the bosses, Jack Baker, wields a pair of chainsaws modified into a pair of chainsaw shears. Here, CoolOldGuy Dante has Cavaliere, a motorcycle Devil Arm that can be split into a pair of giant chainsaws.
287** The fact that Nero [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqyRfVVFK_I can use the Mega Buster]] becomes this when one remembers his [[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch voice actor]] provides the voice of [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]]. Even more hilarious is that Zero also had an arm cannon but forewent using it to make him distinct from a gameplay standpoint until ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'', where he used a sword and gun interchangeably, and that the [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 first game]] Bosch voiced Zero in had him visit the world of ''Mega Man Zero'' and quip (albeit without any voice clips) "I'm Zero, not Mega Man Zero." In addition, Zero's DLC costume in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' is Mega Man X.
288** The Mega Buster is even funny outside of a ''Mega Man'' context; [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra one of Dante's biggest influences]] is famous for having an ArmCannon, yet it's Dante's protege Nero who gets one instead. [[spoiler:Even funnier, when Nero regrows his arm, Nico redesigns her Devil Breaker to fit over his new arm, which is essentially the inverse of what Cobra does (a prosthetic left arm that hides his Psychogun).]]
289** Before he was officially revealed, the only indicator of V's appearance was his enigmatic back shot from the poster with dark hair and longcoat, leading many to compare him with Noctis from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV''. When V's appearance was officially revealed in the TGS trailer, many were disappointed that he did not resemble Noct at all, but instead bizarrely, [[Characters/StarWarsKyloRen Kylo Ren]]. However, V's playstyle showcased later in the TGA trailer turned out to be startlingly reminiscent of Noctis's, making use of summons of both creatures and weapons, mixed with in some TeleportSpam to get sneak attacks in.
290** When "Subhuman" was released, it was criticised, among other things, for being advertised and considered more fitting for [[VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry the reboot Dante]] more than the classic Dante whom it was made for. Upon release, it's been noted that the song once again fits another character, this time being [[spoiler:Vergil]], with the focus on "Omega" as [[spoiler:Vergil's title is "The Alpha and the Omega"]], being "Subhuman" reflecting [[spoiler:how he always considered his humanity to be a weakness and would be proud of being less than human]], and "You cannot kill me" reflecting the character's JokerImmunity. This led to further jokes that the composer had no idea who they were writing a theme for.
291** In the [[UpdatedRerelease Special Edition]] of ''4'', Trish has a move called "V Divider". In ''5'', V and Urizen are [[spoiler: [[LiteralSplitPersonality revealed to be the human and demon halves of Vergil]]]]. In other words, [[spoiler: Vergil is divided in two.]]
292** One of the more famous parody images for ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' was [[https://pics.me.me/twas-the-fight-before-christmas-devil-may-cry-a-game-10232648.png an edit]] of the poster for ''Film/TheSantaClause 3'' with Creator/MartinShort's Jack Frost in Vergil's position. Come the announcement trailer for this game, and many have joked about Nero looking like Jack Frost from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''. [[spoiler:Like father, like son]].
293** This is [[https://imdb.com/title/tt1189432/ not the first time]] a protagonist played by Bosch had as his final opponent a villain played by [[spoiler:Southworth]]. Fans were even joking that the final duel between Bosch and [[spoiler:Southworth's]] characters was basically [[spoiler:Nero vs Vergil long before Nero and Vergil faced off for real in ''5''.]]
294** Way back in the day, during the playthrough of the ''DMC'' series on LetsPlay/YoVideogames, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euazFJ3IChs&feature=youtu.be Max jokes that Kyrie's gift to Nero]] is going to begin vibrating due to the box having a mysterious length. As it turns out, Max accidentally predicted the Sweet Surrender arm.
295** For most of the series, despite being voiced by a former Power Ranger, [[spoiler: Vergil behaved more like the [[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Japanese counterpart]] of his actor's [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce previous character]], who [[AdaptationalNiceGuy did not have as much redeeming qualities]] as [[SixthRanger Eric]] and was more blatantly opportunistic and power-hungry]]. And then [[spoiler: after he's beaten and travels to the underworld with Dante, he gains a friendly rivalry and dynamic not unlike Eric has with his former bitter rival [[TheHero Wes]] at the end of the show and beyond]].
296** Before this game came out, a death metal band named ''Bury the Light'' made a song called [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXm2wtYuHs "Deadweight"]].
297* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheWorld: Radiant Mythology'' had a pre-order bonus disc called ''Lemon Gummi'' with several of the ''VideoGame/{{Tales|Series}}'' series heroes talking. At one point, they were asking for more spin-off ideas and a Dating Sim was suggested. [[VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss Jade]] saw his role as that of the physics teacher and asked [[VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss Luke]] to hand out some prints. Luke complained, saying he was the student council president and too high a position to do it. Jade voiced [[HotForTeacher Himuro Reiichi]] in ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide'' in 2002 and Luke voiced [[StudentCouncilPresident Hikami Itaru]] in ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2nd Kiss'' in 2006.
298* In [[http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=637281&forum=123&sp=15 one]] ''Franchise/MassEffect'' discussion, a person said: ''I could come up with some ties to Mass Effect from Norse myth if I had to lol. How about the Rainbow Bridge (Bifrost) connecting Earth with Asgard being a metaphor for the Mass Relay?'' Now, nearly three years later, the ''Film/{{Thor}}'' movie came out, and there is quite a bit of similarity between the devices.
299** Both even end up [[spoiler:destroyed by the actions of the protagonist at the end of the series/movie.]]
300* Starting in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 4'', resident loudmouth Taekwondoka Hwoarang has a win pose where he sits down on his downed opponent's back and (with much boredom) tells them to shut up. From ''5'' onward, however, he instead asks, [[GenreSavvy "Don't you have any special moves or something?"]] This is most likely a ShoutOut[=/=]TakeThat to ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', as ''Tekken'' is, relatively speaking, more realistically grounded in what its fighters can and cannot do. A few years later, Hwoarang was confirmed to be on the roster of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''. [[TemptingFate Should've kept your mouth shut, dude.]]
301** In the ''SF'' fandom, [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Sagat]] was occasionally referred to as '''[[WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy BOB]] "[[{{Pun}} SAGAT]]"''' (as in [[Series/FullHouse Bob Saget]]). Now, in ''[=SFxT=]'', you can play as Sagat alongside Bob from ''Tekken 6'', meaning that [[FanNickname Bob Sagat]] lives on.
302* The voice sets for the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Dwarven Warden]] and their respective voices for the [[Franchise/MassEffect Reapers]], many regard Sovereign as cold and calculating while Harbinger is a well of silly memes. Well Peter Jessop voices the cocky dwarf voice set while Creator/KeithSzarabajka voices the smart dwarf voice set.
303* From ''Webcomic/NerfNow'', [[http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/534 Strip 534,]] which was released about a day or two after the Uber Update. Now, have a look at one specific [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Stately_Steel_Toe item]] that Valve added into ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' on the first of July, about a week after the Uber Update.
304** [[http://www.halolz.com/2010/09/01/pirate-fortress-2/#IDComment96459454 One comment]] on a pirate themed Team Fortress 2 cover art was about the Demoman getting a stump leg. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Bootlegger Later ...]]
305** Pyro is know for being AmbiguousGender and TheFaceless. Quite fittingly, there's a 1964 thriller film called ''Pyro: The Thing Without a Face''.
306** In May of 2012, {{WebVideo/STAR}} released an April Fool's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfYKHyMvAIQ video]] that pretended to show the workings of a few new weapons, like he regularly would. One of them was a melee weapon for the Pyro that increased movement speed while active, at the cost of taking increased damage from enemies. A little over a year later, the Pyro's Powerjack was reworked to do just that (though not to the ridiculous degree seen in the video).
307* In 2004, ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' introduced us to the Galactic President and his daughter Sasha, a pair of dark-furred Cezares. In 2008, the [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama first black US president]] and ''his'' daughter Sasha entered the Whitehouse. [[http://i52.tinypic.com/2ij5dsg.png Insomniac was on to something...]]
308* In UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica, a toy store chain called Reggie's once sold a [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famiclone]] under the name [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq5rH4LESDo Reggie's Entertainment System]]. Several years later, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Fils-Aime man]] by the name of Reggie Fils-Aimé would become president of Nintendo of America.
309* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'''s timeline places UsefulNotes/{{North Korea}}n leader Kim Jung-il's death in mid-2012 of a sudden stroke. In RealLife, he would be dead due to a sudden stroke with less than two weeks left in 2011.
310* In ''[[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Tokimeki Memorial 2]]'', [[OtakuSurrogate Homura]] [[GamerChick Akai's]] favorite anime is a SuperRobot series named [[ThisIsADrill GoDriller]]. She wears a piece of merchandise from it -- a [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann drill]] [[http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/181/tokimemo2homuragamerchi.jpg necklace]]. And this from a game that came out in [[OlderThanTheyThink 1999]].
311* The quality of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' is hotly debated among fans, but the most common criticism in terms of the game's overall difficulty and the bugs/glitches is that Creator/{{Valve}} hired horrible play testers and that the players themselves would do a better job finding all the flaws and fixing them. Nearly 2 years later, Valve decides to release a custom campaign and all the ''Left 4 Dead 1'' maps for ''Left 4 Dead 2'' in the beta stages so that they can improve maps and squash bugs based on player feedback so the Cold Stream DLC is polished.
312** It also doubles as BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor since the same people that claimed they can be better testers are now complaining how buggy and glitchy the ported maps are and are screaming at Valve to work faster in fixing the bugs while also forgetting that Valve is very infamous for their Valve Time.
313** Creator/{{Nintendo}} also went through a similar event. When Nintendo dominated the gaming market in the 1980s and 1990s, they had the Nintendo Seal of Quality slapped onto every game they approved, which meant that the game didn't have a single GameBreakingBug (or at least ones not easily found) and that the game would not break your console. It wasn't exactly proven whether or not the seal of quality was also a part of Nintendo's then draconic polices on censorship, but Nintendo had eased up on restrictions when they released the Wii and made the console appealing for new and smaller game studios to develop games on. This in turn caused a slew of poorly made games to be released on the console, including those with game breaking bugs. People then demanded that Nintendo should clamp down on poorly made games and enforce quality control, despite the fact that the same people wanted Nintendo to stop enforcing policies on game studios with an iron fist.
314* Related to Valve, the ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'' expansion pack featured a sniper rifle referred to as the [=M40A1=], which in-game reloaded with a detachable magazine not present in the real-world gun. Fast-forward to 2009, and the USMC rolls out the [=M40A5=], a later variant of that rifle that ''does'' load from detachable magazines.
315** For that matter, every other game in which reloading is necessary which features a version of the M40 before the A5 came out (except ''Call of Duty 4'') falls into this for the same reason -- nobody wanted to code one-round-at-a-time reloading for a weapon that was not a shotgun, until then.
316** Another one related to Valve and ''Left 4 Dead 2'' -- the German version of the game, to make up for the [[{{Bowdlerise}} content-cuts for violence]], included four extra weapons taken directly from ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Source''. At the same time, most of the in-game posters for the campaigns had the characters holding what appeared to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Quarters_Battle_Receiver Mk 18 CQBR rifles]] rather than a weapon that actually appears in the game. Three years later came ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', which reused ''Left 4 Dead 2'' models for some of its weapons and replaced the old [=M4A1=] with the Mk 18.
317** 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'', ''VVideoGame/GhostReconFutureSoldier'', 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.
318* The name of ''Videogame/{{Doom}} 3'' antagonist Dr. Betruger can also read as "a Doctor who committed a fraud" in German. The name is funny because in 2011, many famous Germans lost their doctor's degrees because they committed fraud in their doctoral theses.
319* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'':
320** Part of the reason the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' arcade game was created was because Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto was a big fan of ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, but he couldn't get the rights to make a game based on it. In 1982, Nintendo got the rights from King Features Syndicate to create a ''VideoGame/{{Popeye}}'' arcade game (though the game is played differently than ''Donkey Kong'').
321** 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]] [[AudienceAlienatingEra 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''.
322** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'':
323*** Pointed out in [[https://youtu.be/RXU1UBUdx2c?t=353 this video]]. Turns out this isn't the first time the Kongs had to deal with "foreigners" freezing their homeland over.
324*** [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa This isn't the first time a Nintendo protagonist has had to deal with evil penguins freezing their homeland over.]]
325* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' featured the ability to call down a guided missile launched from a Predator UAV. ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' featured the similar Reaper Drone, which allowed the player to watch from the perspective of said drone while launching either dumb-fire missiles or guided ones similar to the Predator. Around the same time, ''Modern Warfare 3'' also features a Reaper UAV, which works like a combination of the ''Saints Row'' version's firing modes (missiles guided via laser without the ArrowCam).
326** Concerning the FandomRivalry between ''Call of Duty'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'', it's rather funny that one of the default names for singleplayer bots in ''Battlefield 2'', released two years before ''Call of Duty 4'', was "J. Price". Moreso when the ''Battlefield 2: Special Forces'' expansion added the British SAS as a playable faction.
327* As a joke, someone [[http://www.alex-lim.com/1785 created a fake]] ''National Geographic Magazine'' cover, featuring a cardinal photoshopped to look like the iconic Red Bird from ''VideoGame/AngryBirds''. Later in 2012, ''National Geographic'' released a tie-in book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Angry-Birds-Feathered/dp/1426209967 Angry Birds: Fed Up, Feathered, and Furious]]'' -- and none other than a cardinal is featured on the cover!
328* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has a meme in which Lilly asks "Who's there? ... No answer, must be that deaf bitch", in reference to her rivalry with Shizune[[note]]Lilly can't see Shizune, and Shizune can neither hear nor respond to "Who's there?"[[/note]]. Late in her route, she asks Misha for some papers, then thanks her when she gets them. Lilly receives no reply, causing her to realize after a moment that it is Shizune, [[spoiler:leading to a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} as the two set aside their differences]].
329* After over 10 years of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee's'' release, in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler:the imposter who claims to be Marth is revealed to be the Chrom's future daughter Lucina, who resembles Marth eerily well, but is a female.]] Compare to the known conception that many people [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros who met Marth in Melee]] were very caught off by his feminine appearance and thought he was a woman.
330** ''Awakening'' gave us another one: the character [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Nagi Nagi]] from ''Shadow Dragon'' is commonly thought to be the reincarnation of the Divine Dragon Naga, but the second most popular theory had her as an older Tiki from the future. The former is most likely true, but [[spoiler:''Awakening'', set 2000 years after Marth's games, does indeed feature a FutureBadass [[http://www.serenesforest.net/fe13/img/site/chara26.jpg Tiki]] as a playable character.]]
331*** And it gets ''even funnier'' with certain reveals in the DLC chapters, namely that [[spoiler:Naga is a LegacyCharacter of sorts via DeityOfHumanOrigin. In ''Awakening's'' BadFuture timeline, Tiki ends up becoming the next Naga. This means that the "Nagi is Future!Tiki" theory from Shadow Dragon was closer to the mark than people thought... In fact for all we know, in at least one continuity ''it could actually be true!'']]
332** A popular pairing in ''Awakening'' is Miriel and Ricken, as they are both mages (and grants Miriel's son, Laurent, very good stats in-game). With the English release of this game, Miriel and Ricken are voiced by Creator/TaraPlatt and Creator/YuriLowenthal respectively, who are married in real life.
333** On a meta level, [[MemeticMutation Marth and Roy ARE in this game]], at least if you count Spotpass and DLC.
334* There's an Platform/{{Intellivision}} game called ''Space Spartans''. When the game came out, this would just have been one of the many games with "space" in the title that came out in the early 80s, albeit a strange one ([[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd "What's that? A Spartan in space? Was Marvin the Martian a Space Spartan?"]]), but gamers today hearing the title would probably think of [[Franchise/{{Halo}} something else.]]
335* Iori Yagami in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' was speculated by various fans to have sexual tension with Kyo Kusanagi, TheHero, due to the nature of their rivalry. In a rare case of both HilariousInHindsight and HarsherInHindsight, Iori's Japanese voice actor, Creator/KunihikoYasui, ends up playing [[CampGay Rospark the Floroid]] in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'', whose lines definitively have a heaping of hints of being attracted to Grey.
336* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMY9VlMIEJk Grand Theft Auto: Lego City]]'' has been made real. Say hello to ''[[http://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/nintendo-show-of-lego-city-undercover/ Lego City Undercover]]''.
337* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
338** Dremoras, one of the lesser Daedra in service to Mehrunes Dagon, appear as grey-skinned, yellow-eyed {{Horned Humanoid}}s with shaggy black hair. They're a ProudWarriorRace, and every single one of them is trained as a warrior, with their culture revolving around combat. Their society is based around a FantasticCasteSystem, with multiple levels of castes, each containing its own hierarchy of sub-castes. They even come from a parallel universe outside of the one the games take place in. So essentially, Mehrunes Dagon has the trolls from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' in his service. This is actually hilarious from ''both'' perspectives -- not only are the Dremora very similar to trolls, Andrew Hussie based the Alternian alphabet on the Daedric alphabet from the games, which is used by -- you guessed it -- the Dremora. And, seeing as he picked it at random from a website hosting fonts for various fictional alphabets, he had no idea that the one he chose was used by a civilization with a lot in common with his own. And if that wasn't enough, wearing Daedric armour (particularly [[http://www.gamemunition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Elder-Scrolls-IV-Daedric-Armor.jpg the version]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'') -- which, of course, is worn by Dremora -- makes your character look a lot like an Imperial Drone!
339** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', you can find a book titled "The Lusty Argonian Maid". A LizardFolk being a maid? [[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid What a ridiculous premise, right?]]
340* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': At one time in the confrontation scene in the long stairway, Fritz kills Lance by [[FlayingAlive scalping him]] with his HookHand and ''[[GenuineHumanHide using said scalp as a hat]]!'' It's pretty gross, but believe us, Fritz is no VideoGame/{{Kirby|SuperStar}}.
341** Also, earlier in said scene, during Fritz's long trip down the stairs, he loses many things from his trenchcoat, among them a [[PornStash porno magazine with a picture of Vivi's clothed breasts on the cover]]. A vampiress in a porno magazine... somehow it kinda predates dhampyr Rayne of the ''VideoGame/{{BloodRayne}}'' series [[http://www.actiontrip.com/features/atstop10videogamechicks.phtml appearing in the "Gaming Grows Up" page of the October 2004 issue of]] ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' by nine years... and at least Vivi wasn't topless unlike Rayne.
342* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog was explicitly created by Creator/{{Sega}} to compete with Nintendo and their [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros iconic mascot]] in the 16-bit MediaNotes/ConsoleWars. Fast-forward to 2008, and you'll find that [[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames they officially co-stared in the same game]], [[CueTheFlyingPigs wherein they presumably snowboard over Hell's now-frozen landscape]].
343** Sonic games are often on Nintendo consoles, several are even Nintendo exclusives. This was unthinkable back in TheNineties, when references from Nintendo towards Sega or vice versa would be {{Take That}}s at best ("Genesis Does What Nintendon't").
344** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' has one that happens within the game itself, depending on the version. The main boss theme in the Japanese and European versions of the original version as well as all versions of the 2011 remake of the game when the Japanese soundtrack is chosen over the American one has a sample from the song "Work That Sucker to Death" by Xavier looped as part of the lyrics played in an upbeat manner. A boss in the middle of the game has Sonic having to defeat Dr. Eggman by running quickly to make a conveyor belt wear down his current device until it explodes. In other words, for that boss Sonic really does have to "work that sucker to death".
345** For its original release, ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' (A.K.A. ''Sonic Championship'') saw a limited release in American arcades because Sega of America's executives found the cartoonish slapstick "too violent" and that it would tarnish Sonic's image. Nine years later, [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Shadow got his own spin-off game]], and it was far more violent and intense than ''Fighters'', and yet Sega of America heavily promoted it. And also, ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' had lots of cartoonish slapstick just like ''Fighters'', and [=SoA=] was fine with that too.
346** Also, Fang the Sniper was actually going to use a sniper rifle, but Sega wouldn't allow realistic firearms in the series. Later [=3D=] titles had no such problem with those.
347** Also, the main reason Gamma was put into ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' was to satisfy fan demand for the ability to shoot up enemies in a ''Sonic'' game, as SEGA couldn't possibly imagine a regular ''Sonic'' character wielding a real gun. [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Yeah, 2005 says hello.]]
348** [[VideoGame/SonicTripleTrouble Robotnik Winter Zone]] was called that even in Japan, years before "Robotnik" was canonized there as Eggman's actual surname, something [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 reinforced by two deceased relatives of his]].
349* On the subject of Sega, they also published a Gamecube game known as ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline''. This game was one of the few games to take advantage of the Gamecube's optional networking accessories, which most Nintendo games completely ignored. Even when working with Nintendo hardware, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7nsBoqJ6s8 Sega still does what Nintendon't]].
350* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', one skit has Estelle and Karol discussing whether Yuri looks cooler with a sword or an axe. Judith actually suggested that he [[DualWielding use one in each hand]], which is funny, because that's exactly what Richter would later do in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld''.
351* [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna]]'s [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes fear of ghosts]] and his Gag Reel in ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'' (particularly his interactions with Nu, who can't decide [[ValleyGirl what accent]] [[TalkLikeAPirate she should have]]) might garner a chuckle or two when you realize that his [[Creator/PatrickSeitz English VA]] voices Cervantes in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur V]]''. Cervantes, a character who spent the last four games as a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost pirate zombie]].
352* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
353** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': In the NES version at least, you see a lone soldier escaping Moonbrooke which seems to have been built in the middle of a poisonous swamp. Now who in the world would think that [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail building a castle in a swamp would be a good idea?]]
354** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', the world map looks like the real world's map. On April Fool's Day of 2012, Website/{{Google}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg made the world map look like]] ''Dragon Quest''.
355** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'':
356*** Someone complains about Prince Harry's mischief. Now go fast forward about the RealLife Prince Harry's escapades.
357*** One of the nuns in the Heaven's Above Abbey tells the player "I'm sure there will never again come a time when you are forced to submit to the will of another." Marry [[{{Tsundere}} Debora]], and that is exactly what will happen.
358*** In the 1997 manga adaptation, the Hero's daughter is named Sora (or "Sky"). This is five years before fellow Square Enix property ''Kingdom Hearts'' was released, where that name belonged not to a girl, but rather to a boy with the Keyblade. Furthermore, both are eventually revealed to be The Unchosen Ones of their respective destinies. Do note that the manga was created over a decade before the DS remake, where she and her brother Ten (or "Heaven") had their Canon Names changed to "Madchen" and "Parry".
359* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' was created to be the Sony Platform/PlayStation mascot. Fast-foward ten years and the series has several games that are Creator/{{Nintendo}} console exclusives.
360* Several in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''. Some examples include:
361** [[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Both Haken and Kaguya]] were [[{{Expy}} expies]] of [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Sanger]] (Haken Browning has Sanger's white hair and his color scheme while Kaguya has Sanger's {{BFS}}, and the {{Kiai}} "CHESTO!"). And now, all three show up; it will be amusing to see how Sanger will react to both of his expies.
362*** Not to mention, Two 'different' Zankantous in one game (by Sanger and Kaguya)
363*** And that they have the same family names of two of his former subordinates. And he's going to meet [[VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom two people]] [[{{Expy}} based on said subordinates]].
364** 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]]).
365** Also [[Videogame/FightersMegamix this is not the first time Bahn met Akira and Pai]].
366** During the days of Platform/SegaSaturn, to promote the ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' game, there's a commercial where Advertising/SegataSanshiro is playing with the main heroine, Sakura Shinguuji, under a park of cherry blossom trees. Sakura returns in ''Project X Zone 2'', which just happens to also feature Segata. Any wonders if they're going to refer to the aforementioned commercial? [[spoiler:The answer is a big resounding '''YES'''.]]
367* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' was released in 1999. The shopkeeper of the Curiosity Shop in Clerk's Ward: an alu-fiend named [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Vrischika.]] Oh, and she has blue skin and yellow eyes. And you can sell your party members into slavery to her.
368* In the first two ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' games, X could find secret capsules that taught him the Hadoken and Shoryuken techniques from the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series. On December 17, 2012, the [[MilestoneCelebration 25th anniversary]] of [[VideoGame/MegaMan the Blue Bomber's]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan1 first adventure]], Creator/{{Capcom}} green-lit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=61-OMrOxyso an officially supported fan project]] called ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXMegaMan'', where instead of Dr. Wily's normal cadre of eight Robot Masters, Mega Man squares off against a handful of characters from across the ''SF'' universe.
369** For bonus points, Capcom also released NES-style premium avatars of the cast of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' (which includes all of the original eight ''SFII'' fighters) in the [[Platform/PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Store]] at least a year before the announcement.
370* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana''
371** Two of the villains in the Kevin/Charlotte path are a MonsterClown named Goremand (Deathjester in the FanTranslation) and a man named Heath. A villain from a rival faction in the same game is called "Darkshine Knight." [[Film/TheDarkKnight Then rolls in 2008]].
372** [[VillainousHarlequin Goremand]]'s official name and his name in the FanTranslation, Deathjester, are {{Woolseyism}}s -- a more literal translation of his name would be "Death-Eating Man". [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hmmm....]].
373* ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}}'':
374** ''beatmania IIDX 12 Happy Sky'', released in 2006, introduces a song called "Mei", whose [[HarderThanHard Ano]][[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels ther]] chart is one of the most infamously difficult charts in the entire series. Fast forward to 2009, and there is a novel and anime series called '''Literature/{{Another}}''', which featues a protagonist named '''Mei'''.
375** [[https://youtu.be/vXzaglpNfyI "Salamander Beat Crush mix"]], which samples "Starfield" from ''[[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Salamander]]'' / ''Life Force'' and then [[BaitAndSwitch segues into a completely different track]], was produced for ''beatmania [=2ndMIX=]'' from 1998, 18 years before Music/SiIvaGunner's "high-quality rips".
376* When ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' was released, moral guardians had concerns regarding Doom like games and Virtual Reality devices. Later, a version of its successor, ''Doom 3'', was one of the first games which were announced for the VR headset Oculus Rift.
377* [[http://gallery.abyssalchronicles.com/displayimage.php?album=496&pos=188 A drama CD]] for ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' shows Milla dressed up as a nurse. This becomes hilarious when you learn that Minae Noji, Milla's voice actress, is a regular cast member of ''Series/GeneralHospital''.
378* People that were not impressed by the visuals of the Wii demanded that Nintendo should make an add-on or a new console that would make the Wii have HD graphics. The Platform/WiiU comes along several years later and is pretty much an upgraded Wii.
379* A ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' reference appeared in ''VideoGame/{{Madworld}}'', which was released beforehand, and was a Wii exclusive, while ''Bayonetta'' was a 360/[=PS3=] exclusive. But as of ''Bayonetta 2'', all further games of the series are going to be Nintendo-exclusive.
380* ''VideoGame/SyobonAction'' is a PlatformHell version of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' more commonly known as "Cat Mario" due to its protagonist being a cat. Then ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' gave Mario and company a cat suit...
381* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' [[{{Retraux}} demake]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashLand'' features Franchise/MegaMan as the {{final boss}}. Some three years later, the Blue Bomber (using the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic classic design]]) became confirmed for the fourth ''Smash'' game as a playable character.
382* In the American manual of the 1989 game ''VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHydeNES'', one of the adversaries is named Luna the Cat. Just barely three years later, a [[Franchise/SailorMoon certain manga and anime series]] would have a character named Luna, who is a cat.
383* ''Music/{{Brentalfloss}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEgzRtKC5o "Ducktales WITH LYRICS"]] (aka the [[VideoGame/DuckTales NES game's]] moon level theme with lyrics) includes the lines, "This oughta be the ending credits theme ... but it was used as a level tune." Four years later, ''Ducktales: Remastered'' [[spoiler:has the moon level theme playing during the credits after the show's theme, in two formats!]]
384* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', Creator/KaoriNazuka voiced [[BitchInSheepsClothing Caterina Sforza]]. The hilarity came with the fact she voiced [[Anime/CodeGeass Nunally]], who in the ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'' manga has has a [[AlphaBitch (very bitchy) school friend]] named ''Khaterina Sforza''.
385** Another layer of hilarity in this version is the fact [[Creator/TomokazuSeki Ezio]], [[Creator/AyakoKawasumi Lucrezia]] and [[Creator/JunichiSuwabe Cesare]]'s Japanese voice actors voiced [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh, Saber and Archer respectively]]. In ACB, Gilgamesh is the ''hero'' and Saber and Archer are now the '''bad guys''' here.
386* In one of Vert's bonus voice files in ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'', the Leanbox goddess mentions about wishing to have her own younger sister. Then comes Creator/{{Microsoft}}'s acquisition of Nokia's phone division in September 2013, which technically makes Nokia's hybrid handheld console and phone, the N-Gage, a Microsoft-branded handheld console (even though it was discontinued long before the acquisition).
387** A running gag in the Neptunia series is about Noire, the Playstation character, being a loner and having no friends... years later, Platform/Playstation4 games refuse to support crossplay with other consoles and PC.
388* A terabyte disc is a plot device used in visual novels ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Remember 11}}''. It has been predicted that terabyte discs will be on sale around 2015. A little late for ''[=Remember11=]'', but just in time for ''[=Ever17=]''. Even the original writers got a chuckle out of that.
389* Due to the rising popularity of the anime SleeperHit ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' in 2012, fans of ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' have been churning out [[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGpS6_KbBw game mods]] based on the tanks used in the show. [[http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/423/42302.html Fast forward to 2013]], and we have the game's developers coordinating with [[Creator/{{Actas}} Studio Actas]] with in-game exclusive content in celebration of the opening of the game's Japanese server cluster.
390** Even better when you consider that ''Girls und Panzer'' has occasionally been described as ''World of Tanks'' as an anime.
391* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX'':
392** Jin Haganeya, the writer for ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'', admitted on his Twitter feed his first use of that name was naming the Grungust when playing ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars4'' as a kid.
393--->Man, I can't even begin to imagine what expression I'd have had if I'd heard about this when I was a kid.
394** Prior to ''UX'', Creator/HikaruMidorikawa was a big proponent of wanting to see ''Demonbane'' in ''Super Robot Wars''. It helps he's the voice actor for Master Therion. Seems like someone at Banpresto listened...
395** [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] being included, in some form, alongside the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross franchise]] that inspired her creation.
396* ''VideoGame/GrimGrimoire'': NaiveEverygirl gets stuck in GroundhogDayLoop, aiming to [[LesYay save something dear to her]] (admittedly, everyone, but still....), and end up screws the BigBad by a [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu logic-defying]] [[{{Wishplosion}} wish]]? Did [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Kaname]] base this on her experiences?
397* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'', though some came from the game's toyline, heroic gorilla leading a group of animals, which includes a deinonychus, against an evil group led by an evil ''Tyrannosaurus rex''? Sounds a lot like ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.
398* ''VideoGame/DragonballXenoverse'' features Curtis Arnott as a voice for custom characters. If that name doesn't ring a bell, maybe "[[Creator/TeamFourStar Takahata101]]" will: he was Nappa in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', who once said "[[FountainOfMemes I am hilarious and you will quote everything I say.]]"
399* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', characters communicate by using Platform/NintendoDS lookalikes that can send and receive mail. One generation of video game platforms later, the Platform/Nintendo3DS introduced the [=SwapNote=] feature...and then this became HarsherInHindsight instead when [=SwapNote=]'s online message exchange feature was wiped due to child safety concerns.
400* In ''VideoGame/RecordOfAgarestWar2'', players can opt to marry the third generation protagonist to Fiona who's voiced by Creator/KanaAsumi. Cue a few years later and said voice actress is now a married woman.
401* [[http://animated-shark.deviantart.com/art/The-Koopalings-206798545 This]] fan art showing the Koopalings in ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', created in 2011. They would go on to become officially playable characters in [[VideoGame/MarioKart8 the eighth installment]] for the Platform/WiiU (though not all in one kart as seen in the pic).
402** On a related note, there existed fanart of [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} the Inklings]] in the same situation shortly after their debut game released. CrackFic back then, not so much after the release of ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''.
403** ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'':
404*** According to ''VideoGame/WiiSports Resort'', only electric cars are permitted on Wuhu Island. That's apparently not the case anymore, according to ''7'', which features two tracks on Wuhu Island (one loop around the island, and another that goes up the mountain). [[ExactWords Apparently the restriction doesn't apply to karts, just "cars"?]]
405*** ''7'' features Rosalina's Ice World, an [[SlippySlideyIceWorld icy course]] hosted by a blonde "princess" in a blue dress. Two years after ''7'' was released, ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'' came out in theatres, and it was quick for some to point out the parallels between Elsa and Rosalina.
406* The 2006 arcade racing game ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast And The Furious: Drift]]'' features a Ford GT and a '67 Mustang Fastback among the cars. It also allows you to customize those cars with various "RiceBurner" modifications, including neon lights. Five years later came the release of ''Fast Five'' which features among its cars a Ford [=GT40=], the inspiration for the GT and a contemporary of the Mustang Fastback. When Hobbs finds the car has been outfitted with an aftermarket stereo system, he criticizes it saying "might as well put neons on it."
407* The very title of ''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}} II: The Revenge of [=DoH=]'' given that "D'oh" has since entered public consciousness as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson's]] favorite expletive.
408* In 2007, WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd gave his review of ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' and its two sequels, and one of the major criticism he had with the original was the lack of story despite its premise. Fast-forward to 2010, Derek got what he ask for when a re-imagining of the game was released that had a much bigger narrative than the original, and then some.
409* Upon the announcement of ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' the UK edition of PC Gamer ran a joke page in a throwaway attempt to predict the upcoming title's inevitable PlotTwist. It included such silly suggestions as "The player character is really a dog" and "The bad guy is his own sister." One of their predictions actually turned out to be true: [[spoiler:"The player character and the bad guy are really the same person."]]
410* ''Top Fighter 2000 MK VIII'', a bootleg fighting game on the Genesis, features Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan as playable characters. Then came an episode of ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' where Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan battled each other, this time with words.
411* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' {{Deuteragonist}} Ellie [[ComicBookFantasyCasting used to look a lot]] like Canadian actor Creator/ElliotPage [[http://kotaku.com/5911064/my-my-you-certainly-look-different-ellie before her appearance was changed]] after complaints from the actor. On February 14, 2014, Elliot Page [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hlCEIUATzg came out of the closet.]] ''On the very same day'' the Ellie-centric DLC "Left Behind" was released, where Ellie [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU0qz-dJna8#t=2m18s did the same.]]]]
412** On the same theme, when in Bill's Church he suspects that Ellie has stolen something from him, but she denies it. A later cut-scene show us that she stole, amongst other things, a gay male porn magazine from Bill. [[spoiler:And the later revelation of Ellies sexuality proved that, no, she wasn't lying.]]
413--->'''Bill:''' I swear to God, if you took anything... \
414'''Ellie:''' Hey man, I don't need any of your shit. ''Trust me.''
415* In 2009, a ''Franchise/MegaMan'' fan game called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvJZ2eRzJA Mega Man Scramble]]'' was produced by Tech Wing for Capcom-Unity's ''Mega Man ''Tribute Contest, winning at #6. The game is about VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}} being pursued by an AdvancingBossOfDoom and occasionally being assisted by cameo appearances of VideoGame/MegaManX, [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork MegaMan.EXE]], [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Mega Man Volnutt]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Geo Stelar and Omega-Xis]], culminating with all of the heroes finishing off the boss with a CombinationAttack. Five years later, the original Mega Man appears as a playable character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' for Platform/Nintendo3DS and Platform/WiiU, and his Final Smash involves Mega Man [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZszrtCIDxU summoning his other four incarnations.]]
416** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' bemoaning ''VideoGame/PacMan'' 's invitation to Felix's party seems prophetic of the yellow icon's inclusion in the latest ''Smash Bros.'' gifs with the heads of other popular characters that have, at the time of the aforementioned's reveal, yet to be confirmed to return themselves replacing Ralph's are growing popular.
417* ''VideoGame/XuanDouZhiWang'' is to ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' as ''VideoGame/FightersHistory'' was to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'': a clear example of "if you can't beat them, [[FollowTheLeader copy]] [[SincerestFormOfFlattery them]]." Then it was announced that ''KOF'' alums [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry Bogard]] and Benimaru Nikaido [[GuestFighter would be added to the roster in a future update]]. The source of ''XD''[='s=] inspiration is bound to be all the more ironic for it.
418* After all the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''-esque imagery in ''VideoGame/EYEDivineCybermancy'', it is oddly fitting that Streum On ended up developing ''VideoGame/SpaceHulkDeathwing''. The image quotes on ''E.Y.E.'''s page said "''[[{{Expy}} Not a Space Marine Chaplain]]. Honestly. Really.''" in reference to the pictured character's armor, a full year before the ''Spacehulk'' trailer debuted starring a space marine Librarian.
419* Around the time ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', an indie horror game involving killer animatronics at a [[SuckECheeses Chuck E. Cheese's knock-off]], started becoming popular, a preview of season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' aired at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, hinting at an episode featuring... killer animatronics at a Chuck E. Cheese's knock-off. Though the episode in question, "Soos and the Real Girl", didn't air until late September, it was an amusing coincidence nevertheless.
420* One of the splashes added to ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' was "Absolutely dragon-free!". Later, the game added The Enderdragon, the FinalBoss. The splash was changed to "Mostly dragon-free!".
421* Around the end of WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd's review of the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' Game Boy games, he expressed that the franchise needed a spiritual successor after discussing his thoughts on franchise's direction. In May 2015, Koji Igarashi unveiled ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', a spiritual successor to the Metroidvania-style ''Castlevania'' games.
422* ''VideoGame/TIEFighter'': The seventh campaign culminates with Maarek Stele flying alongside Darth Vader to save an abducted Emperor Palpatine aboard an enemy capital ship. ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' starts with Anakin Skywalker (the future Vader) and Obi-Wan Kenobi on a starfighter mission to save the abducted Chancellor (future Emperor) Palpatine aboard an enemy capital ship, so you can imagine Vader thinking "Not again..." in the mission.
423* Crossing over with HeartwarmingInHindsight, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' announced [[GayOption same-sex marriage]] for the player's Avatar. Roughly a week later, the Supreme Court of the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates declared same-sex marriage legal in all states.
424* One initial impression some ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fans had with ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' was the lack of a canine companion. [[spoiler:Turns out you have [[GodWasMyCopilot the Dread Wolf]] tagging along with you for the entire game.]]
425* Doubling as a HarsherInHindsight, one of the missions in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes]]'' has you erase the logos of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games from helicopters. After doing this, you get the message: "You might be able to erase the markings, but the memories will never disappear." Later on, Kojima would leave Konami, and Konami removed his name and the Kojima Productions logo from the boxart. Of course, knowing [[TrollingCreator Kojima]], this might very well have been Foreshadowing...
426* One of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'''s endings has this. [[spoiler:The "Childhood's Beginning" ending can be accurately described as [[{{Franchise/Splatoon}} "you're a kid now, you're a squid now"]].]]
427** Possibly an AscendedMeme now -- [[spoiler:the item you get for beating ''The Old Hunters'' DLC lets you turn into a squid-person]].
428* In ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'', when Guy and Dekar rejoin Maxim and Selan, Dekar criticizes Guy for neglecting his girlfriend, while Guy points out that Dekar doesn't even have a girlfriend. Dekar proclaims, "My love is my sword!" By this time in [[VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals the remake,]] [[spoiler:he's already hooked up with Tia]].
429* In the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' ROMHack ''[[VideoGame/VanillaLevelDesignContest VLDC #8]]'', [[BagOfSpilling Mario inexplicably reverts to his Small Mario form and loses Yoshi]] when he leaves a stage and returns to the map. This exact same mechanic would later come into play in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'', particularly noticeable in the 10 Mario or 100 Mario challenges where levels are played one after another.
430* The box art for EA Sports' ''UFC 2'' prominently features Ronda Rousey and Conor [=McGregor=]... both of whom were subsequently knocked out in the ring in humiliating upset defeats. Rousey's loss (and the breaking of her undefeated streak) came ''the day after'' the cover was unveiled, while [=McGregor=]'s (his first loss in six years) came just a week and a half before the game was to come out. After [=McGregor=]'s defeat, Kotaku referred to the cover as [[http://kotaku.com/ufc-2s-cover-is-pretty-funny-about-now-1763139418 "a monument to sadness"]] and compared it to the [[PopCultureUrbanLegends Madden Curse]].
431* In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' when Junpei and June are discussing what relation their location has to the Titanic, picking to say that they're on a replica of the Titanic prompts Junpei into a quip somewhat jokingly about how "crazy Titanic fans" might have built an exact replica of the Titanic, and begun advertising to people about the chance of riding on an exact recreation of a ship where 1500 people died. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II It's now become an actual thing that's being built]].
432* ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden 4'' includes a bow-wielding girl named Puella in its roster. Come 2011, out comes an unrelated anime titled ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', in which the eponymous character wields a bow as a MagicalGirl.
433** Speaking of Puella, her stage theme could easily be a Battle Frontier facility theme in ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' ([[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite the Battle Subway]] seems arguably suitable). Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ql6q6Tgyg the bell notes]], and then listen to [[https://youtu.be/NiDUh-LHrDU?t=4s the original Battle Frontier theme]] from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Emerald]]'' and its subsequent remixes for the Battle [[https://youtu.be/5TVqyPjAspQ?si=NIRo2T3DAmgRxqhe&t=17 Factory]], [[https://youtu.be/_8dlGQVQY8M?si=XRR4gkmRFm6sZW28&t=22 Arcade]], [[https://youtu.be/99_xThaDllI?si=N9o3-11ffiiTCFMM&t=23 Hall]], and [[https://youtu.be/IHR8-F3z3XI?si=p_EP94kXp7am6JpF&t=26 Castle]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Platinum]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold/SoulSilver]]''.
434* 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 Website/ThisVeryWiki.
435* Part of the reason for the Saturn game adaptation of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' [[DevelopmentHell taking forever to reach the states]] had to do with a conflict about what to rename the protagonists. In the end, the names were left as is, and Creator/WorkingDesigns unwittingly did the right thing before the practice of renaming characters itself even became such a hot-button issue and for the most part ceased altogether.
436* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'':
437** The Creator/DCComics Pack has a lot of fancy new things: The Hero Cape and its gliding ability, wall jumping, and a fancy hub-area that expands as you continue the story. All of these things also appear in ''[=LittleBigPlanet 3=]'' (which was announced about 5 months later at E3 2014); Swoop can glide like the cape power, [=OddSock=] can wall jump, and similar hubs appeared in the story mode.
438** It may have been unintentional, but there's a trophy in the first game called "Sackbird." Then [=LittleBigPlanet=] 3 came along and Swoop became a character.
439* A meta example; when ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' (and ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' to a lesser degree) was released, there was a backlash among fans for what was perceived as the series becoming easier and more "casual" compared to the original. It turns out that this was deliberate; in a pre-release interview for the third game, [[WordOfGod Miyazaki admitted]] that he thought the original ''Dark Souls'' and ''Demon Souls'' were too unfairly difficult, and he wanted to make the newer games somewhat more accessible.
440* {{Creator/Sierra}}'s ''Mixed-up Fairy Tales'' features a character named Bookwyrm, a dragon who dresses up as Sherlock Holmes. Guess which two characters Creator/BenedictCumberbatch [[{{Series/Sherlock}} would become]] [[Film/TheHobbit famous for playing?]] Bookwyrm even goes OneWingedAngel at the end, taking on a form not dissimilar from Smaug.
441* ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'':
442** Aimi is implied to be Sunfire's daughter. When {{Creator/Disney}} decided to [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 adapt another team Sunfire was a part of]], Aimi's voice actress Jamie Chung was cast as one of his teammates.
443** 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/MarvelAnimeWolverine'' and ''Anime/MarvelAnimeXMen'' anime and ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes''.
444* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'':
445** The [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2 second game]] has a document that references people named [[VideoGame/BioShockInfinite Commstock and [=DeWitt=].]] To add to that even further, TheDragon of the game is Elizabeth.
446** After the 2008 reboot, [[VideoGame/MaxPayne James McCaffrey]] would then be in another [[VideoGame/AlanWake video game]] that's also a psychological, episodic thriller where the main gameplay mechanic involves light.
447* ''VideoGame/SuperFighter'': This is a Taiwanese made VideoGame/StreetFighterII [[TheMockbuster knockoff]] that very blatantly lifted from Creator/{{Capcom}}'s aforementioned game. However, some of the Super Fighter cast have some similarities to characters that would be introduced in later iterations and sequels of Street Fighter Games.
448** Red Man, the resident Blanka (and maybe T. Hawk) ersatz[[note]](He has most of the moveset of the former and his savage nature (minus [[NobleSavage the noble aspects]]) and the latter's Native American ethnicity.)[[/note]] is someone who has delusions of being a divine being (even claiming to be the reincarnation of {{Satan}}) and killed his former master in the past once he believed himself to have surpassed him. The next year (1994), ''Super VideoGame/{{Street Fighter II}}: Turbo'' would introduce the fighter Gouki who believes himself "superior to all men" because of his mastery of the Satsui no Hadou (and also murdered his master, Goutetsu, as a demonstration of his power), goes by the alias "Akuma" (translating from Japanese into English as "Demon"), and due to being HadesShaded is a literal red man.
449** Bullet is a blonde athlete (a boxer more specifically) from Brooklyn. Several years later, ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' would introduce another blonde athlete (though a wrestler in this case) who has some BrooklynRage in the person of Alex. In addition, Onimaru has some degree of similarity with Necro in that they are people who have been modified by technological/bio-genetic engineering means (though involuntarily in the latter's case) and [[RubberMan can stretch their limbs further than any normal person could]].
450** Let's see: An obnoxious obese fighter who has a braided ponytail, are we talking about this game's Joker [[note]](who is already an ersatz of E. Honda, though if he was evil rather just being an [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Sumo Guy]])[[/note]] or Rufus from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''?
451* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'': The real form of the sorcerer Neff, the one who taunts the player at the end of every level, is a creepy pale bald man in a black tunic who looks similar to [[Franchise/HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]]. However, the game came out in 1988 and the first Harry Potter book was published about 10 years later, while the film series began in 2001.
452* ''Guxt'' has a fidget spinner-shaped enemy.
453* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fgg1t_pnR4 This]] ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' commercial says that it has "Two speeds: fast and WAY too fast!". Ever since ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' got a 200cc setting, it really has become way too fast for some.
454* ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' came out in 2003 and was thrown into CanonDiscontinuity due to ''Film/TronLegacy,'' meaning some aspects are this, HarsherInHindsight, or some of both.
455** The Sequencer weapon splits a DeadlyDisc into multiple copies and throw them at enemies. So, yes... Yes, it ''is'' legal.
456** Another one is where Jet is shown how to turn a lightcycle rod into a crude, but effective, melee weapon. Sam had the right idea, but not the right implementation.
457** The [[LifeDrain Energy Claw]] subroutine is very similar, in appearance and function, to a [[Franchise/StarWars Sith-style]] [[PsychicStrangle Force Choke.]] Appropriately, it's a User-only weapon.
458** Alan and Jet's rocky relationship and banter can seem oddly familiar to viewers of ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'', as Tron and his apprentice Beck have a very similar relationship. [[note]] Which has led to some jokes and speculation about Beck's origins. [[/note]]
459** The fact there is a part of the game where Jet is sent to get something called the Tron Legacy code. Even better when I-No remarks "Tron legacy? It's some kind of upgrade to the original Tron program..." [[spoiler:[[ReforgedIntoAMinion What happened to the poor fellow in that continuity]] ''probably'' shouldn't be called an "upgrade."]]
460* In ''VideoGame/StarFox64''[='=]s [[LethalLavaLand Solar]] stage, Slippy remarks that the Arwing can "take temperatures of up to 9,000 degrees." [[Memes/DragonBall WHAT? NINE THOUSAND?!]]
461* The combined soundtrack for ''[[VideoGame/LandingSeries Landing Gear]]'' and ''Side by Side'', released in 1997, has an [[https://imgur.com/T6LYy0l album jacket]] that shows a road sign for a fork, with the straight path marked with an airplane icon and the right path marked with a car icon. One of the memes to gain popularity in 2018 [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/left-exit-12-off-ramp revolves around an image of a car drifting onto an on-ramp]], with the labels for the thru-traffic and off-ramp paths replaced accordingly.
462* A tie-in video game of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' featured the Gaang fighting [[MugglePower anti-bending revolutionaries]] with a thing for {{Steampunk}}. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Due to a number of gameplay issues, the game isn't remembered very fondly.]] Cue ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', where the main antagonists of the first season are [[AntiMagicalFaction anti-bending revolutionaries]] with a thing for {{Steampunk}}.
463* The ''Glorious Trainwrecks 371-in-1 Klik-n-Play Pirate Kart'' contained, amongst many of its [[StylisticSuck intentionally]] near-gibberish entries, a game called ''[[https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/771 Melville Gear Solid]]'', a ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' parody in which the entirety of ''Literature/MobyDick'' is recited. In 2015, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' uses heavy reference to ''Moby Dick'', featuring whales, Ahab and an Ishmael.
464* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2EnterElectro'':
465** Early in the game, Peter quips that [[Franchise/{{Batman}} he doesn't need a cape and cowl]] to figure out what's going on. Spidey's voice actor, Creator/RinoRomano, would voice Bruce Wayne himself in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
466** ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' would repeat this game in having Electro as the main villain.
467* The [=PS2=] game ''Literature/{{Franklin}}: A Birthday Surprise'' has Franklin finding things to throw a SurpriseParty for his best friend Bear. This sounds very similar to a previous LicensedGame of [[VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsSuperSponge a children's cartoon that involved the protagonist exploring the world to find things to throw a surprise party for his best friend.]]
468* A scrapped concept for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' would have involved Bowser using a cap of his own to [[BodySnatcher Capture Princess Peach]], transforming into a CuteMonsterGirl in the process. By the time the artbook revealing this came out, however, it had already become '''widely''' popular to depict Bowser in a Peach-like form called JustForFun/{{Bowsette}}... and it was inspired by Toadette's "Peachette" transformation from ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU [[UpdatedRerelease Deluxe]]'', of all things.
469* During a time when Nintendo and Sony were going to be partners, there was a console planned where it could play [=CDs=] and Sony would make games for it. Fast forward to the present, people who hacked the SNES Classic were able to play Playstation games on it.
470* There was a particular episode in ''VisualNovel/TheyAreMyNobleMasters'' where [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama two characters]] [[Creator/TomokazuSeki who were butlers]] were dueling against one another with a [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Shining Finger]] VS a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar "Hikari Ni Nare!"]] that ends with the [[Creator/YosukeAkimoto head butler]] stopping them. It was just a hilarious ShoutOut back then but years later, both anime series that were given shout outs got in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT'' (prior to ''T'', both series didn't get to join together).
471* The online service for digital-purchase-and-download games on the Xbox family of consoles is known as Xbox Live Arcade. In 2018, ''VideoGame/HaloFireteamRaven'' was released as an arcade game and features integration with Xbox Live accounts. In other words, an Xbox Live ''literal arcade'' game.
472* An educational game called ''[[https://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html Power Proofreading]]'', which was created in 2001, [[http://i63.tinypic.com/2d854bm.jpg has a script for a show called]] ''[[Series/JudgeJudy Judge Moody]]''. One of the characters involved in the problem is named [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lucy Loud]].
473* Arcade and NES hockey game ''Blades of Steel'''s teams had names in the Japanese version. The Minnesota team was called the Wilds. This is 13 years before the Minnesota Wild would play hockey in the NHL.
474* The IGN April Fool's Joke for 2019 was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpOkr0bTSwQ "Everything Coming to Switch"]], a parody of a Nintendo Direct presentation that begins with few tells that it is a joke, but progressively becomes increasingly bizarre. Three of the games claimed to be ported to Switch were ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PCBuildingSimulator PC Building Simulator]]''. Fast forward just five months and Switch ports for all three games have been announced!
475* Before they choose Creator/SquareEnix as the publisher, Creator/DONTNODEntertainment was told by other publishers that they should change the gender of the protagonist of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', Max, to male but DONTNOD wanted to keep the queer theme since a male and female story is quite typical. [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 The sequel]] shows that they took the suggestion a try. Quite literally in fact, since the protagonist went from a bisexual female to a bisexual male (of color), making Sean, the protagonist in question, even more atypical of a protagonist than Max.
476** When retrieving a soda can from the vending machine in Episode 3, Max says "Release the kra-can!" While fairly unremarkable at the time, in 2021 Seattle (where Max lives) would finally get an NHL team... the Seattle Kraken, which uses "Release the kraken!" as a chant.
477* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Ingrid and Ignatz's "C" support involves Ignatz painting a picture of Saint Seiros, and Ingrid convincing him to give her a [[{{BFS}} bigger sword]] to make her look more knightly and badass. When Ignatz makes the suggested changes, Ingrid remarks that Seiros looks less like a knight and "more like a maniacal demigod". On one of the routes, if Ingrid and Ignatz are in your party, they eventually get to fight said maniacal demigod up close and personal: [[spoiler:Archbishop Rhea (who is really the warrior goddess Seiros), who [[FreakOut freaks the hell out]] knowing that you, the vessel for the soul of her dead mother, betrayed her to side with TheEmpire]].
478* In ''Videogame/HitmanBloodMoney'' Agent 47 is given the opportunity to disguise himself as a clown to infiltrate the target's house and eliminate him. In 2013, a hitman in clown attire shot and killed Francisco Arellano, the leader of the Tijuana drug cartel, during a party.
479* In 1987, Creator/{{Sega}} released an arcade ShootEmUp called ''Sonic Boom''. Not only does the game involve you shooting down enemies in a fighter jet, but four years later, Sega would create their future mascot, ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', and the American opening theme for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' would be called "Sonic Boom". Also in 1991 marked the debut of Guile from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', who was not only an Air Force pilot, but his signature move was called "Sonic Boom". And then came the ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' trilogy much later in 2014.
480* [[VideoGame/XMenOriginsWolverine The tie-in game for]] ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' sees one of the few times outside of movies where Creator/SteveBlum ''isn't'' voicing Wolverine, but rather the film's InNameOnly version of Deadpool's alter ego, Wade Wilson, pre-[[FanNickname pre-Barakapool]]. Starting with ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Blum would voice the real Baraka.
481* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has a few:
482** [[https://d2ofqe7l47306o.cloudfront.net/games/1280x800/batman-arkham-asylum-20.jpg The high security henchman]], between his mask and prison clothes, easily resembles the villain of a later Batman movie, Bane from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
483** With the release of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', this particular line, given you encounter the first as a sidequest, the second as part of the main plot and the last in DLC (and [[Anime/BatmanNinja a time-travel plot involving feudal Japan]]).
484---> '''Oracle:''' ''(exasperated)'' What now? Riddler? Two-Face? Some kind of giant Joker robot?
485*** Also another laugh from this line is "Some kind of giant Joker robot?". In [[VideoGame/LegoBatman Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes]], Joker's plan hinges on using a giant robot version of himself to take over Gotham.
486** When Batman talks to the Joker on a monitor early on, he quips "You were expecting Two-Face?" Not only would Two-Face appear in ''Arkham City'', as stated above, but his voice actor in that game, Creator/TroyBaker, would go on to also voice the Joker several times, including in the prequel, ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''.
487** Also, [[spoiler:in the Scarecrow's final MindScrew, the roles of the beginning of the game are reversed, and [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent you get to control the Joker for a very short time]] as he walks through the asylum with Batman in tow. In ''Origins'', you get to control him again in his {{multiple choice|Past}} "flashback", this time as the Red Hood, the "supervillain" he used to be, in reference to ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''.]]
488** Right before that, [[spoiler:the PA announcer asks if "anyone caught the game last night". Cut three years later, where Bane [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises crashes a football game...explosively.]]]]
489*** In addition, the [=PlayStation=] 3-exclusive Joker DLC has the Melee Challenge Maps in which the Clown Prince of Crime you control has lethal laughing gas, a revolver handgun, and the joy buzzer as special attacks, while he uses his impressive hand-to-hand abilities to punch, slap, kick, and poke out eyes. In ''Origins'', [[spoiler:you get to do the same hand-to-hand abilities as in ''Asylum'''s Melee Challenge Maps while you fight as the Joker in the Comedy Club flashback.]]
490** When Batman first meets Poison Ivy, she asks him to release her so she can help him combat the BigBad and save her plants. Come ''Arkham Knight'', [[spoiler: Batman has her released from prison, works with her to fight the main villain, and he ends up saving her plants.]]
491** The final Scarecrow hallucination has your game seemingly crash before restarting. Fast forward to ''Arkham Knight'', where the Scarecrow is the main vilain, and the game is ''extremely'' buggy, especially on PC.
492** At one point, Harley suggests Gordon to dye his hair. Come ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', it seems that Gordon didn't hate the idea.
493** A riddle that references Penguin: "A top hat and tails is the only dress code for this party in the North". Considering [[Creator/NolanNorth who voices him]] in the sequels...
494** Many people have pointed out that Scarecrow using a glove with syringes in this game makes him look like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Krueger himself, Creator/RobertEnglund, would voice Scarecrow in ''Videogame/Injustice2'' eight years later.
495* In ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends 2'', Teisel Bonne maintains that he and his family are pirates, not barbarians; by not taking the toilet paper from hapless citizens. At the start of the lockdowns associated with the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic in the US, some people were hoarding toilet paper; and Teisel already knows too well what to call them.
496* ''VideoGame/ClamMan'': The octopus bartender in the first game, released in 2019, threatens to punch Clam Man for annoying him at least twice. Research in late 2020 showed that [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/science/octopus-punch-fish.html octopuses in the wild really do punch fish with their tentacles]], apparently just to get the fish to back off. No word on whether they do it to clams too, though.
497* ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'':
498** This moment from the end of the Kickstarter video becomes a bit funnier, considering how the Kickstarter campaign met its funding goal in ''under an hour''.
499---> '''Laylee:''' Can we get out yet, Yooka? We've been in here for ages!
500---> '''Yooka:''' Not until we reach our stretch goals, Laylee! Sit tight!
501** In an interview with Kirkhope, the main reason for ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts''' major genre shift was because a Microsoft executive said that people wouldn't be interested in 3-D platformers any longer and wanted something different. Taking a look at how the Kickstarter took off, while ''Nuts & Bolts'' tanked in sales, that executive [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail could not have been any more wrong]].
502*** Gets even funnier when the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=329VH0WW4_k alpha build shown at E3 2015]] makes a jab at ''Nuts & Bolts''.
503----> '''Sign:''' I'd love to offer directions but unfortunately I can't see behind my own head. If only I had a pair of wheels... Maybe the final game will have a fun vehicle building mechanic?
504** One of the loading screen messages states that "If cartridges were still popular, this level would've loaded by now!" Good thing there's [[Platform/NintendoSwitch a cartridge-based system]] among the platforms this game is being released on!
505** In the first game, released in 2017, one of Yooka's abilities is [[ToiletHumor farting out a large bubble that encompasses him and Laylee]] so they can walk and breathe underwater. Scientific research in 2021 found that the anolis lizard actually does blow bubbles to help it breathe underwater. The bubbles come from its mouth or nose, though.
506* ''VideoGame/SuperSolvers'':
507** Outnumbered and Midnight Rescue are about being by yourself inside an abandoned building at night with robots out to get you. [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys At least you're not a security guard, right?]]
508** Morty Maxwell, who debuted in ''Midnight Rescue'' in 1989, is a brown-haired MadScientist. ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', released in 2013, is about a brown-haired boy named Morty who goes on adventures with a MadScientist. Now comparisons between this series' Morty and ''Rick and Morty'''s Morty are pretty common nowadays, with people making jokes like "Looks like Morty grew up to be just like Rick."
509** As seen [[https://youtu.be/EI4nB4Kv4_U?t=9m26s here]], it is possible for the AI in ''Spellbound'' to misspell "bench" as "binch". Little did the creators realize that a decade or two later, "binch" would become a slang word, [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Binch usually defined as]] a sillier form of "bitch".
510** The RunningGag of Morty telling his robots about the projectiles they can throw at the Super Solver, only for the robots to throw them at Morty, brings to mind a line from "We Are Number One", a ''Series/LazyTown'' song that debuted in 2014:
511---> "Throw it at ''him'', not me!"
512* ''VideoGame/{{Ketsui}}'' was released in 2003 and the title officially translates to "Determination". ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', a game with BulletHell elements too, was released in 2015 and "determination" is one of its ArcWords.
513* In 1988, a small video game developing team known as Creator/ArcSystemWorks, developed a port of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' for the Master System. In 2015, ASW acquires all of Technos assets via Million.
514* Early Creator/{{CAVE}} games were published by Creator/{{Atlus}}, most notably the first two ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series and ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe''. CAVE would later develop a game for an Atlus franchise, ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIMAGINE''.
515* ''Cosmic Carnage'', an obscure fighting game released in 1994, features [[{{Franchise/Naruto}} a ninja named Naruto]] as one of its playable characters.
516* The premise of the DOS flight simulator ''Corncob 3D'' takes place in an AlternateHistory in 1938 when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII never happened following UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's death in childhood and aliens take over the planet, with an [=F4U=] Corsair the only fighter able to defeat them. It's very similar to that of ''Manga/StrikeWitches'', which also took place in a World War II alternate history involving aliens.
517* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQAYWF9Dxs Mission Craft]], a top-down shooter fangame based on and using sprites and assets from ''Videogame/{{Starcraft}}'' predates the top-down shooter minigame "The Lost Viking" featured in ''Videogame/StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty'' by many years.
518* The 1987 arcade game ''VideoGame/SkullAndCrossbones'' featured a stage set in a Japanese castle, leading to probably the first recorded instance of [[CoolVersusAwesome pirates versus ninjas]], decades before it became an Internet meme.
519* ''VideoGame/PrzygodyReksia'':
520** ''UFO'' features road robots warning about group wanting to separate Pluto from the rest of the solar system. This was done before Pluto lost its status as a planet.
521** The ''Wizzards'' 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. It’s is oddly similar to ''VideoGame/AmongUs''. In the Romanian dub, the traitor even uses the word "sus".
522** In ''Captain Nemo'' is minigame where you need to swim through a tight tunnels which touch means instant death with only option to go up while constantly going ahead. [[VideoGame/FlappyBird Sounds familiar]]?
523* ''VideoGame/AstralChain'': 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.
524* In the early 80's, Creator/{{Bandai}} develops a LCD handheld rip-off of ''VideoGame/PacMan'' called ''Packri Monster''. Then 2005 comes and they merge with [[Creator/{{Namco}} the company that created the original game]].
525* One of the fictional animals in ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsMagicalAlbum'' (1998) is a yellow ladybug with blue dots connected by lines. ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' (2019) would later introduce Dottler, a Pokémon who looks like a yellow ladybug whose dots turn blue when it uses its powers and which are connected by lines.
526* ''VideoGame/KnuckleHeads'': Gregory Darrell is a guy dressed as a Viking and the music accompanying his stage ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTPakfC0LCE Link here]] for those interested) has some techno beats to it. So, would it be fair to say that Darrell was a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/technoviking technoviking]] before [[MemeticMutation the meme]] came into existence in 2006?
527* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', the Far Future chapter has the player wandering around (and [[AirVentPassageway through the air vents]] of) a spaceship where [[DwindlingParty the crewmembers keep getting killed off one by one]], and at one point the player character has to defend himself against an accusation of being an impostor. By the time the VideoGameRemake was released, this reminded quite a few players of ''VideoGame/AmongUs''.
528* There's a series of UsefulNotes/FormulaOne [=PS1=] games from the late 1990s that start at ''Formula 1'' then go up to ''Formula One 97'', then ''Formula One 98'', then ''Formula One 99''...which the 2023 game ''VideoGame/FZero99'' has nothing to do with.
529* ''VideoGame/FlowerKnightGirl'': The ''[[Creator/AliceSoft Rance]]'' collaboration event in April 25th 2020, "Hanny Hanny Panic", would feature the titular Rance [[ToyTransmutation turned into a plush toy]] upon his arrival to Spring Garden. This event started a month before the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-turn-me-into-marketable-plushies "Please Don't Turn Me Into a Marketable Plushie"]] meme would be introduced and subsequently go widespread.
530* [[https://youtu.be/-r-CU7BQDTA?si=UvLp9ghKFV9h1eXy This video]] for the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' LicensedGame "Take the Crown" has the final 4 consisting of Wayne, Priya, Caleb, and Zee, with Wayne as the winner. The game and the video itself were released during the break between the first half and the second half of the 2023 series. In the second half, [[spoiler:the final 4 is the same if you replace Zee with Julia and the winner is indeed Wayne. Furthermore, Priya and Caleb, who are sitting next to each other in the video, become an OfficialCouple.]]
531* ''VideoGame/PrehistoricKingdom'': Prior to the launch of Early Access, the devs confirmed there would be three skins for ''Tyrannosaurus'', as well as a fourth skin representing ''Tarbosaurus''. Around the time the game finally went into Early Access, a paper was written that suggested that ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' should actually be split into three seperate species -- ''T. rex'', ''T. regina'', and ''T. imperator''.

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