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Video Game: Jetpack Joyride

Well, this is some nice music... HOLY CRAP SOMEBODY JUST BLASTED THROUGH THE WALL AND STOLE THE JETPACK THAT WAS LYING THERE!

From the guys that brought us Fruit Ninja, we have Jetpack Joyride: An interesting and addicting little game for the iOS and free for download on PlayStation Network and Windows 8 that stars Barry Steakfries. The goal is to travel as far as you can.

At least, it was initially.

After several updates, the game now has coins, outfits and jetpacks, various upgrades and gadgets, and even achievements.

This game provides examples of:

Awesome McCoolname: Barry Steakfries.
Awesome, yet Impractical: Pretty much all of the vechicles, especially the Crazy Freaking Teleporter.
Bling of War: The gold vehicle upgrades make the vehicles look pretty and shiny. Also, they slightly increase the value of collected coins.
Canine Companion / Robot Buddy: Flash the robot dog.
Cool Bike: The Bad As Hog.
Dissimile: The flavor text for the Golden Gravity Suit.
"Just like a gold bar, except it's a gravity-manipulating cyber suit."
Fluffy the Terrible: Mr. Cuddles the Giant Fire-breathing Robot Dragon.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Achievement "Tee Hee Two"- Collect 69 coins.
Joke Item: The Nerd Repellent. It makes all the scientists disappear, leaving cobwebs and tumbleweeds in their place, and offers no direct gameplay benefits. However, it can come in handy if you have a mission that requires you to not harm scientists.
Power-Up Mount: Barry has six to choose from.
Shout Out: Several of the purchasable items and their flavor text deliver these.
- The Powered Up Hair and the Super Suit. The Flavor Text for the first is "We're not sure what the Power Level of this hair is. It's probably a lot," and it even costs 9001 coins.
  - Best when riding Mr. Cuddles.
- One head/body pair makes a Barry-Terminator. (not to mention riding the Bad As Hog makes you blast nearby scientists with a shotgun).
- The Sensei's Threads and the accompanying headband serve as a reference to Fruit Ninja, also by Halfbrick.
"Now take good care of this suit. It took forever to get the fruit stains out, and no way are we cleaning it again."
- The Profit Bird sure looks like the red Angry Bird. Even better, it spews out money from the back when the wings flap, referencing how much money Angry Birds has made.
  - And it even makes sounds similar to the ones the Birds make.
  - There's even an achievement that just says "Angry Birds"
- One of the achievement portraits just happens to have the logo for Aperture Science acting as a border.
- The Gravity Suit references a game called Gravity Guy.
Tempting Fate: There's a sign by the selected jetpack that states quite clearly, "Do Not Steal." Guess how every single Jetpack Joyride run starts.
Universal Driver's License: Barry takes this to utterly ridiculous extremes. He can competently pilot a jetpack, a Cool Bike, a mechanical super stomper, a gravity-manipulating cyber suit, a flying, firebreathing, robotic hybrid dragon, a teleporter and a coin-eating robot bird.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The Profit Bird.