The Nintari game system on The Adventures of Willy Beamish has a Super Mario Bros clone called Monster Squad Willy practices on for the national Nintari competition/Nintari championship. The Sega CD version has the Nintari game system's playable Monster Squad game subtitled Super Space K'Noidtrix, combining elements of Space Invaders, Tetris and Arkanoid. There's also the Game Buddy handheld game system.
In An Aspie Life, Shoot Man is found at the arcade, and an SNES style console plays games like CR Drive.
In the GameCube version of Animal Crossing, which included real NES games, the mayor, Tortimer, would give players the fictional NES game Super Tortimer as a present on April Fool's Day. Unfortunately, it can't be played; attempting to only results in a message that says it's an April Fool's Day joke.
In Azur Lane, the Lunar New Year/Spring Festival story "Fu Shun's Great Adventure" introduces a handheld game system where the objective is to defeat the Nian Beast. Fu Shun discovers the game while cleaning an old warehouse, and discovers the game once belonged to An Shan.
The NES-esque Tranoid, from the song of the same name in beatmania IIDX 14. note The stage seen in the video mirrors the song's Normal-level chart. Turn your monitor to the left and play along!
In Bitcoin Billionaire, the player can own an arcade cabinet that accepts bitcoins, or a War Stars arcade machine. The ticker mentions Frogger Kong. The video game industry achievements mention a Cheesy Superhero Game, Gritty FPS, Italian Plumbing Sim, Grand Theft Vehicle, War of Worldcraft, and a video game franchise from EAA combining elements of an FPS with microtransactions, starring Lana Craft and Dunk Nukem. There is an eSports industry, formerly played by eSports celebrity watc4d0gg, a VR industry, and a Social Network industry with a Farmcity social game.
One of the bios of Completing the Mission mentions a game called Between Us 2. Among Us 2 had been announced before the release of The Henry Stickmin Collection but was cancelled after its release following the explosion of popularity Among Us received, resulting in Innersloth cancelling its planned sequel to refocus its efforts on the game.
There is Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 by Nabcon, with graphics based on Ultimate Doom's graphics, and interface and logos based on Capcom and Street Fighter Alpha 3. One of UAC Research Team Leader Andrew Chin's e-mails mention Uanet's DracoWyzard, an online RPG available for 29 credits per month, featuring a quest for the Chalice of Sanguine Drak in the lands of Nozgath, fighting legions of Wyldwulves, Berserkotrolls, and the evil Vloxomire.
Resurrection of Evil has Sarge's Big Game Hunt, another arcade game by Nabcon.
Doom (2016) includes a different version of the arcade game Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3.
The World from the .hack// franchise. (Yes, it's a videogame, where you play as a character playing a fictional videogame. Defictionalized, possibly, but certainly a hint meta and loving it.)
In Duke Nukem 3D, the player can find a "Balls of Steel" pinball machine, but can't actually play it. Later defictionalized as one of the tables in the Balls of Steel collection.
"Balls of Steel" returns in Duke Nukem Forever as a fully-playable game-within-a-game, though it's not related to the "Duke Nukem" table in Balls of Steel.
In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, pinball machines can be found with the visible words "White Star" in the title, a possible reference to the WhiteStar Board System by Sega Pinball and Stern Pinball.
The premise of Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted is that the game you're playing is a VR game developed by Fazbear Entertainment as a way to cash in on their unpleasant reputation, and you're a beta tester. One of the hidden tapes you find scattered throughout the game implies that all the previous games might also fit this trope in-universe.
The core plot of Gamer 2 involves Hailey being trapped in a virtual-reality machine.
In Gone Home, there are the SNES games Adventurous The Cat Returns, the sequel to Adventurous The Cat, JRPG Journey of Crystal, the sequel to Secret of Time Crystal, and the Star Fox style space shooter Super Spitfire, by CMP. The Fullbright website provides some details.
Grand Theft Auto III has ads for Pogo the Monkey, the best Spring and Simian game since Bouncing Bananas. Referenced by a Pogo the Monkey arcade machine in the cab firm in Vice City.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has GTA Radio station commercials for the Degenatron game system, which features such titles as Defender of the Faith, "Where you save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!," Monkey's Paradise, and Penetrator. The Rockstar Games site used to have a promotional page with defictionalized versions of these games, but it has since been deleted. However, these games can nowadays be played on arcade machines in GTA Online.
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, there are playable arcade games, including Duality, based on Asteroids, Go Go Space Monkey, Let's Get Ready to Bumble, aka Bee Bee Gone, and They Crawled from Uranus, based on Gyruss.
The Space Monkey series continues with Space Monkey 3D and Space Monkey 7.
The EXsorbeo is a Game Boy style handheld, with Brown EXsorbeo SImulator, Pink EXsorbeo Vibrate, and Yellow EXsorbeo variants. Games include Free the Hostages, Morning Missile Crisis, Mortal Sin, One Eyed Monster War (Defictionalized on the EXsorbeo site), Pocket Pool, Squirt, Tonsil Hockey, and ZIF.
The EXsorbeo 720 is the latest generation EXsorbeo console, featuring first person shooters like Pride not Prejudice, and Righteous Slaughter 7: The Art of Contemporary Killing, released only three months after Righteous Slaughter 6.
QUB3D is an arcade puzzle game appearing in the HD continuity.
In Gunslugs, there is a Donkey Kong clone arcade game next to two broken arcade machines, and a Super Mario Land clone played on a large Game Boy-shaped Game Gadget console.
In Industry Giant, there is the Game Girl handheld console.
inFAMOUS: Second Son: One of the Conduits turns out to be Eugene, a computer nerd with Video-based powers who uses them to bring to life monsters from Heaven's Hellfire, his favorite fantasy MMORPG.
In Kid Chameleon, there is the WildSide VR holographic arcade game.
Kingdom Hearts III has Verum Rex, a game that exists in the Toy Box world, and provides a mini-game that can be played after visiting the Video Game store in that particular location. Verum Rex itself serves as a deliberate Mythology Gag on Final Fantasy XV (formerly known as Final Fantasy Versus XIII) which Tetsuya Nomura had worked on concurrently alongside KH III before he was removed from the former project and replaced by Hajime Tabata.
The description of the Kung Fury: Street RageMobile Phone Game claims that the game is an "upgraded HT-3000 cartridge" with "all the good stuff you loved in the first game."
Let It Dieis a video game about a video game called Let It Die. It is played on the Death Drive 128, a video game console with games published on vinyl records and projects holographic visuals from a dung beetle.
In Little Big Planet 2, there is the Cosmos Invasion arcade game, Finest Parmesan arcade game, and the Pong-like game Science Diner.
Maniac Mansion has an arcade full of these - Video Fever, Disco Crazy, Alien Slime, Meteor Mess. In the NES port, Die! Enemy Die! and Kill Thrill are replaced with Tuna Diver. Unfortunately, the game averts Game Within a Game and none of them are playable. (Or fortunately since the characters label each of the games, except for Meteor Mess, as "Pretty boring".)
The Matrix: Path of Neo mentions, in passing, during the kung-fu/ninja training level how Neo had the high-score for a, likely arcade, game called Ninja Crisis.
No More Heroes has the SHMUP "Pure White Giant Glastonbury" game, and the sequel has "Bizzare Jelly 5", both of which you can play on Travis' TV. The spin-off Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is centered around Travis and Badman's journey to clear six games for the Death Drive Mk.II. (a predecessor to the Death Drive 128 from the aforementioned Let It Die), a console with left-handed gloves for controllers, games published on spherical cartridges, and rumored side effects that sound like Polybius.
In Senran Kagura: New Wave, on an S Rare card, Karasu, a guitarist on the band A.R.C. Angels, is playing a PlayStation 4 style console with a purple LED light. The console has a gamepad with a circular purple D-pad, select and start buttons, a center button similar to an Xbox controller, and purple buttons similar to an SNES controller. The game is possibly a fighting game: the screen says, "You Win!".
The Simpsons arcade game has an Aliens arcade cabinet, but it is not an Aliens arcade cabinet — the alien on the screen is a green alien with three eyes.
In The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield, Noiseland Arcade has the return of Larry the Looter, Nuclear Winter, and Super Slugfest from the show, and the exclusive appearance of Dance Fever '97, Dougie Houser: The Game (the correct spelling is Howser), Krusty's Carnival of Kash, and Smite of the Bumble Bee.
In The Simpsons Hit & Run, there is Bonestorm II. Level 1 has Homer assisting Marge in intercepting a van carrying copies of the game, causing the events of level 2 in which Bart attempts to track a copy of the game for himself.
In The Simpsons Game, there is Escape From Krusty Island, Grand Theft Scratchy, Krusty's Stop & Go, Sim Kitty, Sim Sandwich, Calamari Damacy, Commando and Conquer, Mega Moleman X, Metal Gear Soiled 4: Subminimum, Moral Kombat: Deceptions, Need for Speedo: Sexy Time, Project Shelbyville Racing, Sitar Hero, Snore, Toast Recon: Cinnamon Force, Zero-Life, and EA Sports games Bite Night, Maddening 06, Maddening 07, Maddening 08, and Maddening 09. After beating God in Dance Dance Revelations on The PrayStation, Xodus Box and I am/Hii, God reveals The Simpsons are characters in a video game, The Simpsons Game, in a larger video game called The Planet Earth, making The Simpsons Game a mini game within that game.
In The Sims 2, there is Pimp Viking, SimStation Dance, SimStation Sports, and Sweet Tooth Survivor.
In Siren 2, there is Kunitoris, or Country Tetris, a 1982 strategy puzzle game for the SN-AG1999 AGE MANIAC from overseas manufacturer 3G MANIAX. The game console had a great 3D graphics chip but a poor sound chip, leading to its demise. Several games are sought after by collectors.
In Siren: Blood Curse, there is the JOYLiNK Network King and its updated successor, JOYLiNK Ultra Network King, a portable LCD game system supporting cartridges that must be soldered in place. Games include Tsuchinoko, Jackalopeman, and Skyfish.
In Skyborg: Into the Vortex, there is Virtual PongQuest.
In Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, the Galaxy Galleria's Software Excess has such bargain bin gems as ScumSoft's Checkerboard Construction Set (mentioning Tic-Tac-Toe Construction Set) and Cluck Egger's Advanced Chicken Simulator, Enemaware's It Came For Dessert (mentioning Defender of the Crown Rib Roast), Roberta Williams III's King's Quest XXXXVIII - Quest for Disk Space, Morrie Brianarty's Boom, Broaderbuns' Where In The World Is Hymie Lipschitz? (And Who Really Cares), and Max This! Software's Sim Sim. Two Dummied Out games include Sahara Off-Ramp's Dacron Danny Does Dirty Deeds in the Dark Wearing Drip-dry Duds, and Stunt Flyer by Sierra. Buckazoid Bill's Arcade and Sushi Bar has Ms. Astro Chicken: Flight of the Pullet (sequel to Astro Chicken from Space Quest III), and arcade games Cap'n Zappo, Ghetto Blaster, Slime Flyer, Dweeb Hunter, Choke and Croak and Monaco Princess Stunt Drivin'. Roger remembers playing Blazin' Paddles as a youth. The Timepod can access Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros, Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II, and mentions Space Quest XIV. The Xenon Supercomputer has Leisure Suit Larry 4 and King's Quest XLVIII already installed.
In Space Quest V: The Next Mutation, Molly's Chug & Glug Space Bar on Nova Space Station has ScumSoft's Battle Cruiser, a space-themed version of Battleship. On the Eureka, the computer is "running a highly complex virtual reality program" resembling Pong.
In Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, the Dismembers Only arcade features Beat the Crap Out of Urkel, the hot new game replacing last year's Beat the Crap out of the Encyclopedia Britannica Kid, MBA Toejam, Mixed-Up Mother Teresa, Secret Recipes of the Luftwaffe, More Dull Kombat, More Dull Kombat 2, Virtual Amtrak, and Stooge Fighter III, the goriest, most violent arcade game since Disemboweling for Dollars. The ComPost Database mentions "outer space strategy simulation games" designed by the Vulgars. The SCS DeepShip 86's Command Center, which has an SNES/Gravis Gamepad style controller, can allegedly play a game called Super Nunzio World. Cyberspace mentions Space Quest 7: The Musical.
The first game features four simple NES-style minigames that can be played while waiting in the lobby for a match: Squid Jump, Squid Racer, Squidball, and Squid Beatz. While playing mini-games in the lobby didn't return in future games, Splatoon 2 would have the game Squid Beatz 2, with both Squid Beatz being rhythm minigames that double as their respective game's Sound Test.
During Splatoon 2's Kinghts vs. Wizards Splatfest, Pearl and Marina make reference to a new game featuring the in-universe mascot Fresh Fish. From the information that was mentioned, it seems to be a Role-Playing Game, contains a Character Class System and Skill Tree, and features the eponymous Fresh Fish as the player's Fairy Companion.
In Homestar Ruiner, the Snake Boxer series of Videlectrix games on the FunMachine includes Snake Boxer, Snake Boxer 2: The Biting of Boxer Joe, Snake Boxer 3: Solving Problems Through Diplomacy, Snake Boxer 4: Lady Snake Parade, and the playable Snake Boxer V, aka Snake Boxer 5. The crossover game Poker Night at the Inventory mentions Snake Boxer 6: Now The Snakes Have Fists Too.
In 8-Bit is Enough, there are the games Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder, Halfathlon, and Space Circus Catastrophe.
In System Shock 2, there is the GamePig Entertainment Device, an MFD Game Player that can play an MFD Game Cartridge or be hacked to display all the games available, most of which star Grunty the Gaming Pig. This includes Corporate Swine, Golf, OverWorld Zero, Swine Hunter, Swinekeeper, Street Hog, and Tic-Tac-Triop.
TOME takes place in an alternate universe version of the video game world known as the Terrain of Magical Expertise.
In Valkyrie Crusade, the Game Master, wearing headphones, is playing a console with a PlayStation style gamepad with shoulder buttons. The Ultimate Rare shows a white gamepad with a D-Pad on the left, and Super Famicom style buttons on the right, and the High Ultimate Rare shows a black gamepad, flipped to a D-Pad on the right, and buttons on the left.
The WarioWare series is about Wario's game company developing a series of microgames after Wario is inspired by the runaway success of also-fictional Pyoro. The companies Diamond Software and Wario-Man Software also appear.
In Wayne's World (Gray Matter), Wayne and Garth list the week's worst games at Noah's arcade: Regarding Henry: the Video Game, Bick's World of Goop, Adventures of the Potato People: Where's Our Stuff?, Toxic Timmy the Nuclear Knob, Sputnik the Bowl Weevil, Gord's Funtime Checkers, Supersonic the Lyme Tick, Toxic Timmy 2: I'll Waste You All!, Slob and Goober, and Zantar the Gelatinous Cube from the film, only Garth mentions saving medieval villagers instead of eating them. Zantar comes to life from inside the machine and traps Wayne and Garth inside a video game reality, based on Kramer's Music Store, Stan Mikita's Donut Shop, the Gasworks nightclub, and Suburbia. In the video game reality, there are many arcade cabinets. Zantar's purple tentacle captures Garth, keeping him imprisoned within the gelatinous cube form until freed by Wayne. Recounting the incident on the show, Wayne suspects Zantar was keeping them from winning the game Zantar and pursuing their geo-political goals of world peace and a stabilized international currency market. Garth warns the audience to be careful the next time they are at the arcade, as they too could become trapped inside of a game.
The Wing Commander III manual mentions the game Hover-Chopper Assault IX.
Nasu from Yume Nikki. It is a depressingly repetitive Endless Game, and it helps with the ambience. When Madotsuki falls asleep she appears on her balcony, but when she enters her room her console and controller are gone. Many have made WMGs about this.
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