History ShoutOut / Konami

* Statues of giant mecha from one of Kojima's other games adorn a table in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', and in ''[=MGS1=]'' a ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' poster is on Otacon's lab wall. In the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube version of that game, there are action figures of Mario and Yoshi.

* Really obscure in the DDR Hottest Party games on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, since you have to be failing to hear it, but sometimes when you're in danger, the announcer will say "[[WizardNeedsFoodBadly Dancer needs groove badly]]".

* Astute Konamiophiles will note, though, that the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game is the king of this trope, with cards designed after characters from games like ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'', ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', ''Goemon'', ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and even ''Sexy VideoGame/{{Parodius}}''. Also, a strong rumor among the TCG fandom has the translated name for the card Sky Dragon - Osiris (Slifer the Sky Dragon) as a ShoutOut to 4Kids employee Roger Slifer. Added to this in a recent Deck release was the card that translates to "Different Dimension Revival" however, the card in Japanese has the English letters DDR as the primary name for it, a direct reference to Konami's dancing game ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' contains a sequence in which the main character sneaks into a bar called [[VideoGame/MetalGear Outer Heaven]]. It's the masquerade night, and everyone is dressed as a character from a previous Konami game - [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Goemon]], [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont and Dracula]], [[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Bill and Lance]], and Mr. Wu from ''Lethal Enforcers'', to name just a handful. The main character can even dress up as an Easter Island head, which show up a lot in Konami games as a shout out to an employee who apparently greatly resembled one. It's {{hand wave}}d as a current fashion for worshiping old pop culture, and is incredibly blatant when the main character starts complaining to his RobotBuddy about how he hated not being able to jump on the stairs in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', to which the robot responds, "The suicide rate amongst teenagers tripled that year." Let's not forget that the Robot Buddy is named ''Franchise/MetalGear''...

* Talking about ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Dawn of Sorrow]]'''s boss Bat Company took the shape of a giant bat, a giant hand and [[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} an Easter Island head shooting ripple lasers from his "mouth"]].

* At one point in VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance, Doktor says "[[SherlockHolmes Elementary, my dear Raiden!]]"

* In the turned based RPG Suikoden, one of the characters, Phan, has a rune attack that looks JUST like [[VideoGame/{{StreetsOfRage}} Axel Stone's]] movment "A" attack

* Interestingly, Solid Snake worked for FOXHOUND early in the series. Snake Plissken was played by Creator/KurtRussell, who actually voiced one of the title characters in a Disney movie titled ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound''. Coincidence?

* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' contains a sequence in which the main character sneaks into a bar called [[VideoGame/MetalGear Outer Heaven]]. It's the masquerade night, and everyone is dressed as a character from a previous Konami game - [[MysticalNinja Goemon]], [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont and Dracula]], [[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Bill and Lance]], and Mr. Wu from ''Lethal Enforcers'', to name just a handful. The main character can even dress up as an Easter Island head, which show up a lot in Konami games as a shout out to an employee who apparently greatly resembled one. It's {{hand wave}}d as a current fashion for worshiping old pop culture, and is incredibly blatant when the main character starts complaining to his RobotBuddy about how he hated not being able to jump on the stairs in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', to which the robot responds, "The suicide rate amongst teenagers tripled that year." Let's not forget that the Robot Buddy is named ''Franchise/MetalGear''...

* The Bemani series (''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', ''{{beatmania}}'', and so on) has featured numerous remixes of classic Konami games' music. One such tune, "Twinbee Generation X", even includes an [[ClassicCheatCode up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right]] sequence in its step chart.

** ''Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius'', particularly its ''[[UpdatedReRelease Forever With Me]]''-port for [=PlayStation=] and Saturn, is full of Mythology Gags and references to other Konami games, like ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'', ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'', ''Lethal Enforcers'' and ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial''. Sadly as it's Japan-only, many miss the references and parodying jokes poking fun at the games. One guy seemingly tries to cover them up with his own response to ''History Behind Smash Bros'' with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA247C0247B91796 History Behind Parodius.]]''

* [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Yae's]] "[[Franchise/TokimekiMemorial Kirameki High school uniform" outfit.]]

* One of the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' bosses is [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a robot named Arnold]] and another is called [[Comicbook/HowardTheDuck Coward Duck]]. Not to mention the names of many of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' bosses, e.g. Black Color (after ''Literature/{{Blackcollar}}'', a TimothyZahn novel), [[Film/TheRunningMan Running Man]], Franchise/{{Predator}}, (both Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger movies), and Ultra Box (Ultravox).

* {{Konami}} makes multiple references to their past games, the most memorable being in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', where Psycho Mantis will comment on your love of Konami (or Nintendo games, if playing on the [=GameCube=]) games by name as a show of his powers before the big fight with him. He's reading your memory card: for more details, a guide about the Konami games detection mechanics for the Japanese [=PS1=] version of ''Metal Gear Solid'' [[http://acenoctali.free.fr/f-fe4/mgs1_psycho_mantis.htm can be found here]].

* {{Konami}} makes multiple references to their past games, the most memorable being in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', where Psycho Mantis will comment on your love of Konami (or Nintendo games, if playing on the [=GameCube=]) games by name as a show of his powers before the big fight with him. He's reading your memory card: for more details, a guide about the Konami games detection mechanics for the Japanese PS1 version of ''Metal Gear Solid'' [[http://acenoctali.free.fr/f-fe4/mgs1_psycho_mantis.htm can be found here]].

** ''Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius'', particularly its ''[[UpdatedReRelease Forever With Me]]''-port for PlayStation and Saturn, is full of Mythology Gags and references to other Konami games, like ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'', ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'', ''Lethal Enforcers'' and ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial''. Sadly as it's Japan-only, many miss the references and parodying jokes poking fun at the games. One guy seemingly tries to cover them up with his own response to ''History Behind Smash Bros'' with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA247C0247B91796 History Behind Parodius.]]''

** The cover for the first ''Metal Gear'' was based on a promotional still of Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) in ''TheTerminator''

* Another one from ''Portrait of Ruin'', one hat you can get is a Fedora, which [[IndianaJones "Feels just righ with a whip"]].

* In the turned based RPG Suikoden, one of the characters, Phan, has a rune attack that looks JUST like [[VideoGame/{{StreetsOfRage}} Axel Stone's]] movment "A" attack