Defictionalization / Video Games

• You can buy generic mana potions, and yes, these are energy drinks. They're not asking gold pieces for it, though. (But they seem to be a bit cheaper at ThinkGeek anyway.)
• In South Korea, Kwangdong Pharmaceutical sells HP and MP drinks.
• In A3, the website of the Mankai Company was noted to be quite the design-mess, with rainbows and lazy editing by the wharf. As from November 8, 2019, the actual domain name is registered, and the site is just like it's described in the game. This is to such an extent that the term 'Kazunari Miyoshi' ^note  the character who reformed the web page into a decent-looking, modern homepage became trending topic on Twitter in Japan.
• Animal Crossing:
  • A rather unusual case, which defictionalized an NPC. Stitches, a lazy patchwork teddy bear, was made into a... guess what?
  • Similar to Splatoon's live concerts, K.K. Slider has hosted a few live hologram concerts as well, performing music from the Animal Crossing series in both techno fashion (in his DJ K.K. persona) and his signature solo guitar and vocal style.
• There are fan projects that try recreating the cards in Balatro as real-life playing cards, including every possible enhancement, seal, and edition combination for each one. One such project has instructions on how to print your own set.
• Bendy and the Ink Machine is a horror game surrounding a studio which created in-universe cartoons with the title character, but some of these cartoons have been turned into real animated shorts, all of which are family-friendly and can be enjoyed without knowing the game's context. The "Illusion of Life" quest item from Chapter 1 has also become a real-life novel.
• BioShock:
  • There are 1/1 scale Eve Hypos for sale if you know where to look.
  • Also the handmade Big Daddy dolls held by the Little Sisters.
• The Saw Cleaver from Bloodborne is now a thing.
• Borderlands 2:
  • Project Triforce are selling replicas of Miss Moxie's Bad Touch as well as a New York Comic Con production of replicas of the Good Touch.
  • Bunkers and Badasses was a DnD parallel from the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep. Gearbox has teamed up with Nerdvana to release a real life BnB sourcebook.
• Copies of Ryu's "Dragon Tear" in Breath of Fire IV (in this case, a Magatama) were given out by Capcom as promotional items for the game.
• Italian cowboy gun manufacturer Chiappa is making a real life version of the black synthetic 1887 shotgun from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
• Global Defense Initiatives is not the real-life version of the United Nations GDI featured in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series. They are a maker of "mount interface devices for use with optical, laser aiming, illumination, night vision, and thermal imaging systems".
  "Today’s focus of GDI’s mission is to provide the weapon system / aiming-imaging-illumination device industries and military / government operational communities, with viable outsourcing solutions that meet their respective mission essential needs."

  —https://www.gdiengineering.com/about-gdi/
• GameTim's "Cooking With Cooking Mama" series attempts to recreate the recipes seen in the series Cooking Mama.
• Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online is based on the in-universe MMORPG 4 Goddesses Online, and is most likely the closest we'll ever get to a Real Life equivalent. The game's story has the characters being recruited as beta testers, so you're playing the characters playing the game.
• Cyberpunk 2077: Brendan the AI vending machine who has a secret in that he's not an AI. When the video game was created, chatbots were far less common or advanced. Now, it's not unreasonable for a program like Brendan to exist with the same sort of cheery personality and unusual personal information.
• To promote Dawn of War 2, the chaps at THQ UK built a real life METAL BOX Rhino from Warhammer 40,000.
• You can buy a 1:1 replica of Dead Space's Plasma Cutter. Comes in both Dead Space 1 and Dead Space 2 flavors.
• One game in the .hack series, .hack//Fragment, is an online-multiplayer version of the original games. This, in essence, turned the series's fictional MMO, The World, into a real-world MMO.
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins: Somehow, a slightly altered version of Morrigan's Navel-Deep Neckline outfit made it onto the cover of the January 2011 issue of Marie Claire.
  • In Dragon Age II, Varric becomes well-known as the author of the popular crime novel Hard in Hightown. It also gets mentioned (along with some of his other stories) in Dragon Age: Inquisition, where it can be found as a series of codex entries. Mary Kirby, Varric's writer, released the codex entries, with expanded scenes and illustrations, in summer 2018. According to the cover, Merrill has even reviewed it already:
    "So many people get shivved!"
    • Mary Kirby has also arranged for copies of the book to be "autographed" by Varric, addressing the recipient by a unique nickname, which reflects Varric's in-universe role as The Nicknamer. Some of these went to her fellow Bioware employees, including Patrick and Karin Weekes, who shared images of their autographs on Twitter; at least one went to a Dragon Age fan fiction author.
• Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is the latest game in the storied history of the title character (who is also an Animated Actor). But there are no previous games... or at least, there weren't. One of his "previous" games is reportedly being re-released on Xbox Live and Play Station Network.
• CCP, makers of EVE Online, used to sell Quafe soft drinks.
• The special Edition version of Fallout 3 came in a lunchbox designed like the one in the game (An item that in-game is used to build land mines), and came packaged with 1 limited edition bobblehead, which can be collected in meatspace as well as in the game world.
  • Another special edition came with a pip-boy alarm clock that could actually be worn. (for those wishing to emulate the Vault Dweller)
  • The card game Caravan is an invention of the Fallout: New Vegas developers, but can also be played in real life since it uses a standard deck of 52 playing cards.
  • The special edition of New Vegas comes with, among other things, poker chips branded for each of the casinos on the Strip, as well as a replica of the game's central Plot Device, the Platinum Chip.
  • ED-E's alert jingle is available as a cellphone ringtone.
  • The special edition of Fallout 4 includes a defictionalized Pip-Boy. If you install the Pip-Boy app on your phone, sync it to your game, and slot your phone into the Pip-Boy, you can actually access your in-game Pip-Boy from outside the game!
  • After release they made a mini fridge patterned after the games distinctive Nuka-Cola machines.
  • Since the original game, the Fallout-games have had have featured an anti-radiation drug called Rad-X. Much later, when a real anti-radiation drug was invented by Onconova Therapeutics, they dubbed it Ex-Rad.
  • While not commercially available, Forgotten Weapons did an april fools joke featuring a working replica Type 93 "Chinese Assault Rifle" from Fallout 3. Naturally, the entire thing was presenting the fictional history of the rifle in character as a wastelander within the Fallout world.
• From Far Cry 5, a real version of the Book of Joseph, a book containing the teachings of Joseph Seed and frequently brandished by him, was created by Ubisoft and distributed in very rare quantities to people who attended an event to promote the game. It can be read here.
• Fate/strange Fake was originally a gag blurb in a magazine. But a year later, the game is actually being made.
• Final Fantasy:
  • A few Japanese online shops sell drinkable potions from the series. No guarantee it will actually heal bodily damage, though.
  • Thinkgeek sells both health and mana potions.
  • The Final Fantasy VII edition actually worked as a fairly decent energy drink during conventions. There are tales though of the legendary medicine taste of the Final Fantasy XII edition still floating around the internet. The Dissidia version tastes like flat Dr Pepper (23!) with a strong aftertaste of persimmon.
  • Final Fantasy VIII:
    • Triple Triad cards were sold in stores shortly after the game was released.
    • For a very brief time after the game released, you could buy Squall's entire outfit—pants, jacket, and Griever necklace.
  • Yuna's guns from Final Fantasy X-2 were available in Japan for a while after the game released. They both function as set-piece and game controller.
  • Ever wanted to represent your job in Final Fantasy XIV? Loot Cave Co. has you covered with the game's Soul Crystals and the Astrologian's arcana cards.
  • For a weird example, a standalone version of the pinball mini-game from Final Fantasy XV was released nearly two months before FFXV proper.
• Five Nights at Freddy's:
  • Full-fledged walking, talking animatronics were constructed by the Jim Henson's Creature Shop for The Movie.
  • Sanshee.com has released real versions of the plushies that first appeared in the iOS port of the first game, then went on to appear in the sequels. So far, Foxy, Freddy and Bonnie have been made, with Chica, Golden Freddy and "Possessed Fredbear" not far behind.
  • In Ultimate Custom Night, Toy Freddy is shown to be playing a Game Within a Game, called "Five Nights with Mr. Hugs", with him jumpscaring you if you won't help him beat it. Fans eventually made the game he played into a full-fledged fangame, called Five Nights With Mr. Hugs (& Friends).
• If you need an impossibly impractical (but awesome) weapon to take into battle, there are Gears of War-style Chainsaw bayonets, as seen here.
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game: Ever since the game came out in 2009, a few enterprising fans have figured out various ways of making their Proton Pack replicas actually do the things which the packs in the game do (pop a slime canister out of the top of the pack, eject the "fuel rods" when the pack shuts down, etc.). Granted, the effects aren't as exaggerated as they are in the game, but it's still quite impressive.
• God of War (PS4): God of War: Lore and Legends is a recreation of Atreus' diary, which was the Lore Codex of the game and provided information about missions, enemies, and lore markers from Atreus' perspective. It also has additional illustrations and expanded information about events from both before and after the events of the story made in collaboration with the video game's writing team, told from Atreus' point of view.
• Goodbye Volcano High: Fang's "They/Them" pronoun patch, which is sewn on the front flap of their schoolbag, was made into official merchandise on TheYetee.
• Gourmet Gaming is a blog dedicated for this, defictionalizing food from various video games, with varying (but well-presented) results.
• To promote Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar Games partnered with West Coast Customs of Pimp My Ride fame to build a one-off real-world version of the Banshee sports car.
• Halo: In 2014, Microsoft actually unveiled a digital assistant program for the Windows Phone (and later for Windows 10) called "Cortana", and even got Cortana's voice actress, Jen Taylor, to record its American English voice. Since the program includes a function that lets the user choose a name for Cortana to call them, quite a few Halo fans have gone the extra mile and set it up so that Cortana calls them "Master Chief". She also has several unique responses if she's being asked "Where's Master Chief?".
• The "Feelies" included in Infocom's Interactive Fiction were often replicas of items found in the games themselves, such as a glow-in-the-dark wishing stone, or a Lucky Palm Tree Swizzle Stick. Feelies.org custom-makes these for more recent IF amateur releases.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: A physical version of the card-matching minigame is available, albeit with modified rules.
• Kirby: In this video, Masked Dedede's mask and hammer are brought to life.
• League of Legends:
  • Ever want to hear Pentakill's music? Now you can with their three albums, Smite and Ignite, Grasp of the Undying and Lost Chapter. As a bonus, all of their songs are named after items or terms from the game.
  • Blitzcrank, the Great Steam Golem, runs a dating agency in-universe known as Blitzcrank's Fleshling Compatibility Service. A simplified version is available on the game's website. (It's a good thing it was simplified, because apparently the original version used a 748-entry questionnaire and full thermal body scanning. It was still deemed worth it in-universe to avoid hooking up with a psychotic necromancer, which in Valoran is a very real possibility.)
• Plush Mishy toys are thing within Erebonia in the The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel games. If you purchased the "Thors Academy Edition" of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steeel III, then now you have one too.
• Songbird Ocarinas sells ocarinas based on The Legend of Zelda. They sell the Ocarina of Time of course, as well as the Fairy Ocarina and Majora's Mask.
  • The red, blue and green potions sell at Fry's Electronics. The guitar used in Majora's Mask exists, and works. It's called the Zoraxe. They didn't make that many, if more than one, and you'll probably pay more than you did for your house.
  • Hylian exists as a full-fledged language.
  • Link's scarf from Hyrule Warriors was made as a pre-order bonus in Japan, Europe, and the Nintendo World store in New York. Level Up Studios also has one, produced by Ruffneck Scarves.
  • Many retailers sell replicas of the iconic Master Sword and Hylian Shield, of varying qualities.
• To mark the release of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Nintendo released papercraft figures of Mario, Luigi, and a Goomba as seen in the game.
• Apparently, BioWare rejected a proposal to include Commander Shepard's pistol in the collector's edition of Mass Effect 2.
  • The in-world xenophilia porn magazine Fornax can actually be found on various hentai sites around the internet now. Rule 34 in action, folks.
  • Inverted with the N7 hoodie, a real-life outfit based on Shepard's armor, which is available for Shepard him/herself in the Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 3.
• Mega Man 9:
  • Capcom of Japan has released an official E-tank energy drink. See this article.
  • There are also toy PETs, one of MegaMan.EXE and one of ProtoMan.EXE, as well as Transers, one for each of the first games.
• Back on March 31, 2014, Capcom announced a 4/1 scale model kit of◊ Mega Man X in a badass high-tech redesign by Mizuno Keisuke known as "Rockman X Ver. Ke"◊. If you couldn't tell, it was an April Fools' Day gag by Capcom and Rockman Unity. But on January 21, 2015, a toy company called TruForce Collectibles went to Kickstarter to launch a campaign for a legit, officially-licensed action figure based on the exact same design Capcom used; it was successfully funded.
• Metal Gear:
  • Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, the game for the Game Boy Color, featured a bonus story called "Idea Spy 2.5," which is presented as audio drama that is played on the Codec. It was adapted into a real audio drama starring Hideo Kojima in the title role and Yumi Kikuchi as his "special friend," Call Now. The song "Oishii Two-Han Seikatsu" that is on Snake's iPod in Metal Gear Solid 4 is actually supposed to be Call Now's Image Song, although that was mostly lost on Western players who hadn't been able to listen to the radio drama (or if they were North American, likely didn't know it existed).
  • Special edition copies of The Phantom Pain came with a replica of Snake's bionic arm. Unfortunately, only the Japanese version is scaled to real life.
• The central building of "The Shard" in Mirror's Edge is slightly similar in design and exactly the same in name to "The Shard" that now stands in the middle of London.
• For the Japanese release of MOTHER 2 (and later the Mother 3 Deluxe Box), a promotional item based on the Franklin Badge was made. As there are no item sprites in the games, an all new design had to be made. The design later appeared unmodified in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a usable item.
  • Someone actually made strawberry tofu and Shigesato Itoi tried it. He wasn't fond of the end result.
  • At one point of the game, Orange Kid mentions an invention he's creating that will turn boiled eggs back into raw eggs. This is a real thing now.
• Many of the food in Nancy Drew games are real items - such as sundaes, shave ice, fruit salads, breakfast plates, but plenty of fans have taken to themselves to try and replicate the recipes in real life - such as this channel on Youtube which would give instructions on how to do it.
• The Nintendo World Championships are a real-life version of the game tournament from The Wizard. The revival 2015 and 2017 tournaments makes the connection especially strong, with both events featuring as their climax a sneak preview of a then-upcoming, heavily anticipated game in the Super Mario Bros. series (Super Mario Bros. 3 in The Wizard, Super Mario Maker in 2015, and Super Mario Odyssey in 2017).
• Overwatch hero Lúcio is Famed In-Story as a musician and has some merchandice, including a breakfast cereal called "Lúcio-oh's". It is now a real food. Vanilla flavored. The cereal also promotes a download of "Synaesthesia Auditiva", Lúcio's debut album.
• Papa Louie Arcade:
  • Papa Louie Arcade has real-life "Flipdecks", which were online cards available for viewing on Flipline Studios' website for a number of years.
  • Flipline Studios announced in 2014 that they were building a real-life Papa's Taco Mia!, like the one in their 2011 game. Later it was revealed that it was an April Fools' joke.
• Persona:
  • Fan-made and official Tarot cards can be found, with the official ones being pre-order bonuses for Persona 4: Arena Ultimax and Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (both games came with one half of the Tarot Deck).
  • There even exists replicas of the Evoker carried by SEES members. If you're willing to splurge, there's also an officially made one too. (It's a water gun!)
• If you've ever been to a convention, expect to find fan-made lawyer pins from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, live-size props from Yuffie's giant shuriken, Cloud's Buster Sword, the Masamune, to your own Keyblade.
• Pikmin: In order to promote the games, Nintendo sold flowers that were selectively bred to resemble the titular Pikmin. The flowers were based on a species called Chaenostoma cordatum.
• Pokémon:
  • Several apps for Apple's iOS devices turn it into a functional Pokédex, and do just about everything but talk. And in fact, even that problem was removed when Wolfram Alpha, an information search engine used by the iOS's Siri, added in Pokédex data to its database. So you can indeed ask Siri how tall Xerneas is, and get an answer.
    • Two official versions were released by Nintendo for the 3DS: the original Pokédex 3D (Unova Dex), and the Pokédex 3D Pro (all 649 at the time).
  • Every version of the Pokédex has been made into a real life plastic toy with a digital screen in both Japan and the West; capable of displaying its respective region's Pokémon along with key attributes. The Pokédex for Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon can actually be used with the game. Not only that, but Rotom Phone and Arc Phone cases exist for iOS and one could essentially convert their real phone into either of those.
  • Additionally, toys of the Pokégear, PokéNav, and Pokétch have been in Japan.
  • There are several real life animal species names after Pokémon, including:
    • A pterosaur discovered in 2013 was named Aerodactylus after the pterosaur Pokémon Aerodactyl. It helps that Aerodactyl's name follows the scientific naming scheme and means "wind finger" in Latin.
    • Similarly, a dicynodont (small, squat quadruped that looks like a mix between a mammal and a reptile) was discovered in 2017 that was named Bulbasaurus. While it's a subversion because it actually wasn't named after Bulbasaur (it was actually named because it has a bulbous nose), it does look an awful lot like the little grass-type and one of its describers even admitted that "similarities between this species and certain other squat, tusked quadrupeds may not be entirely coincidental." For bonus points, its species name, phylloxyron, translates to "leaf razor"—similar to "Razor Leaf", a move in the games—though again, the similarities are claimed to be mostly coincidental^note apparently, it's because the animal would've cut leaves with its beak. Allegedly.
    • In March 2023, a recently discovered cockroach species was named Nocticola Pheromosa. The entomologists who discovered it were Pokémon fans and named it after Pheromosa from Sun and Moon.
  • In a sense, Pokémon GO is a defictionalization of the entire Pokémon world. Several people have reported finding entire groups of people playing Go together and socializing, remarking that it felt exactly like being on a route in one of the main series games.
  • The Mega Ring from Pokémon X and Y and the Z-Ring from Pokémon Sun and Moon were made into real devices when the games first released. The latter could activate Z-Moves in the games with the press of a button.
  • A real version of the bag that Lillie uses has also been made available online.
  • The Squirt Bottle, the item that awakens Sudowoodo in Pokémon Gold and Silver, exists.
• Polybius is an internet urban legend of an early 80s arcade game that is tied to rumors of government mind control, Satanic possession, and forced suicide. Various indie developers have made games based on Polybius, including elements of its gameplay descriptions (but without the mind control, possession, or suicides).
• Resident Evil:
  • Japanese airsoft company Tokyo Marui (which is partnered with Capcom themselves) has released several Airsoft copies of guns seen in the series, including both versions of the "Samurai Edge" Beretta 92 and Leon's Desert Eagle.
  • You can buy T-Virus Antidote in the form of a (foul-tasting) energy drink.
• Some food from RuneScape, such as "crunchies" and "battas," were sold as real food during RuneFest, a fan event organized by Jagex.
• Saints Row: The Third features the Penetrator dildo bat, a meter-long purple latex dildo with a hard wooden staff for its core and a sword-like hilt. Epic Weapons picked this up. It became one of their most popular items, thanks in large part to its frequent appearances as a prop on the YouTube series The Jimquisition.
• Scribblenauts had Maxwell's "Rooster Hat" as a preorder bonus.
• While the initial run from Insert Coin was unfortunately a one-and-done deal before being discontinued, other sites have since popped up selling replicas of James Sunderland's field jacket from Silent Hill 2, which sets itself apart from a standard M-65 military coat with its unique forest-green hue and custom patches on the chest and sleeves.
• Splatoon:
  • The Splattershot exists in real life. They shoot water rather than ink, but they're basically glorified water guns anyway.
  • The idols of each game have all performed live concerts using a similar projection technique to Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz.
  • Japanese online store KOG has an entire section dedicated to recreations of gear from the franchise!
• Card Fighters Project is a fan-made, real-life version of SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash.
• In Sonic Adventure, there's ads across Station Square and various zones attached to it about a movie called "Chao in Space" with Sonic Adventure 2 giving us the sequel "Chao in Space 2". In 2019 for Christmas, Sega released a short revealing what the movie was about.
• This blog is dedicated to recipes inspired by the various food items you can prepare in Stardew Valley.
• An interesting in-universe example occurs in Star Trek: Armada, where the Corbomite Reflector, originally just a bluff by Kirk in The Original Series is an available special weapon for Sovereign - class starships, with the in-game lore stating that it was invented by Geordi LaForge, being inspired by Kirk's bluff. Either due to the limitations of technology (or just for reasons of game balance), the 'real' version is much less powerful than what Kirk claimed, only being able to reflect one type of weapon (torpedoes) and only for a limited time, but it can still turn the tides of battles.
• Sheng Long, the character EGM cooked up for its infamous Street Fighter II April Fool's gag in 1992 and whose name was based on a mistranslation of Ryu's win quote, became a reality in 2008, when Capcom announced that Gouken (the legendary master of Ryu and Ken and the brother of Akuma) would be a hidden character in Street Fighter IV, and later a member of the Super Street Fighter IV roster since the very start. What makes this even better? Gouken resembles the original Sheng Long images EGM made for the gag and (in one way or another) has every move that EGM listed Sheng Long as having.
• Every over the top element from the American cover of the original Streets of Rage was implemented in the ambitious fan remake — from the hockey mask wearing, machine gun wielding mook on up to the sniper in the second story window.
• Digibutter.nerr, the forum to which Francis the nerd chameleon in Super Paper Mario subscribed, is a real forum about the Super Mario Bros. games. As with many examples, it is unofficial.
• Super Smash Bros. games since Melee have featured trophy collecting. Now, those trophies have come to reality in the form of "amiibo" figures based on the cast of the Wii U and 3DS games, which can be used to interact with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.
• Enforced with the search engine SHODAN, which was intentionally named after the infamous antagonist of the System Shock series. Especially hilarious (or terrifying) when you consider that it's been called "the most dangerous search engine in existence."
• Tales Series: You can buy pendant versions of Yuri and Flynn's blastia as well as Zelos Wilder's Cruxius Crystal, as seen here.
• Terraria 1.3 features the new yo-yo class of weapons with many of them being counterparts of real yo-yos produced by One Drop with their icon in the tooltip, this includes the Terrarian. One Drop later produced the Terrarian in various colors mimicking the various biomes.
• Touhou Project:
  • There are several fan groups selling items inspired by the game. One group went a bit further and is now selling Suika Ibuki-branded sake, in a replica of her trademark gourd. Here's the page — photos of the bottle are about 2/3 way down.
  • You can also buy Hecatia Lapislazuli's infamous t-shirt, in both men's and women's.
• The Ultima IV intro features Tarot cards based on the eight virtues. The Ultima IX Dragon Edition includes physical Tarot cards based on the eight virtues.
• Undertale:
  • A number of fans have tried to reproduce the many healing foods found in the game, from Toriel's butterscotch-cinnamon pie to the Glamburgers and Starfaits served at the MTT Burger Emporium.
  • In the epilogue of the game, Mettaton mentions making buttons, posters and shirts with his face on them. Then he says making Toriel plushes. Guess what happened... Unfortunately, they don't have Mettaton's face on them like he said, but they come with a paper bag with his likeness on it, which you can put over their heads.
• Valve video games have a tendency to inspire fanatical demands for related merchandise. After Half-Life 2 and Portal, there was a huge outcry for Valve to produce Headcrab Hats and plushie Companion Cubes, respectively, which they did. They also have the movie posters from Left 4 Dead, as well as mugs and bumper stickers one might expect to find in the possession of a scientist working at Black Mesa or Aperture Labs.
  • Team Fortress 2 merchandise includes Plushie Stickybombs, recreations of the Mann Co and RED Team Ellis Caps, the Sandvich poster seen in Meet the Sandvich and BONK! shirts that parody the common Mountain Dew/Coca Cola shirt. And now they have a fully-mobile Level 1 Sentry prop in their building though they (thankfully) don't have enough metal to reload or upgrade it.
  • Dummied Out content for Portal 2 co-op involves a Garfield-like comic strip called Dorfeldt. The changes to the strip GLaDOS mentions were made into Square Root of Minus Garfield #1659.
• There is a Warhammer 40,000 Fan Game called Chapter Master that began as a hoax perpetrated by trolls on 4chan. When it was discovered that the game didn't actually exist, some people decided to get together and make it real.
• Pyoro from the WarioWare series was always a mini game, but now with the DSi and DSiWare, the game has been released standalone as a downloadable purchase from said channel (and yes, it counts because in story, the game was the one that actually inspired Wario to start the WarioWare Inc. company in the first game).
• Fan-made The World Ends with You pins are available if you look for them. Springing forward to Final Remix's release, Mr. Mew, Shiki's cat plush, can be purchased straight from Square Enix's online store. He's even poseable!

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