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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that cows are a long-standing pinball EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...

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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', ''Pinball/Breakshot1996'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that cows are a long-standing pinball EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...
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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows are a long-standing pinball]] EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...

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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows are a long-standing pinball]] pinball EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...
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* Mr. Gore, the ManBehindTheMan of ''VideoGame/CrueBall'', is based on Al and Tipper Gore's founding of the Parent's Music Resource Center, which infamously crusaded against metal bands and other "scandalous" acts in the 80's.
* The playfield for ''Pinball/BoneBusters'' shows a massive sinkhole with a stretch taxi that's fallen in, a subtle dig at Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}.''

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* Mr. Gore, the ManBehindTheMan of ''VideoGame/CrueBall'', is based on Al and Tipper Gore's founding of [[MoralGuardians the Parent's Music Resource Center, which infamously crusaded against metal bands and other "scandalous" acts in the 80's.
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* The playfield for ''Pinball/BoneBusters'' shows a massive sinkhole with a stretch taxi that's fallen in, a subtle dig at Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}.''
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* The playfield for ''Pinball/BoneBusters'' shows a massive sinkhole with a stretch taxi that's fallen in, a subtle dig at Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}.''
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* ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers'' takes aim at SEGA machines, in this case ''Twister'', when Bud yells "Everybody underground now!" during the multiball restart.

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* ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers'' takes aim at SEGA machines, in this case ''Twister'', when Bud yells "Everybody underground now!" during the multiball restart.restart.
* Mr. Gore, the ManBehindTheMan of ''VideoGame/CrueBall'', is based on Al and Tipper Gore's founding of the Parent's Music Resource Center, which infamously crusaded against metal bands and other "scandalous" acts in the 80's.
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* ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers'' takes aim at SEGA machines, in this case ''Twister'', when Bud yells "Everybody underground now!" during the multiball restart.
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* ''Pinball/DrDude'' boasts its [[EleventyZillion Gazillion]]-point jackpot as a jab to Williams, who incorrectly claimed that their ''Comet'' pinball had the first ever million-point shot.

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* ''Pinball/DrDude'' boasts its [[EleventyZillion Gazillion]]-point jackpot as a jab to Williams, who incorrectly claimed that their ''Comet'' ''Pinball/{{Comet}}'' pinball had the first ever million-point shot.
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* The VideoMode for Creator/DataEast's ''Pinball/LethalWeapon3'' is a shooting gallery game. A cow occasionally appears as a target worth one million points; some have interpreted this as a Take That against Creator/WilliamsElectronics, who started the [[EasterEgg "Hidden Cows"]] tradition in pinball games.
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** Creator/GregFreres admits the faces on the Stiff-O-Meter are his former elementary school teachers (except for "Smarkey"; see ShoutOut, above).
** One of the videotapes on the backglass is "Black Thursday" by "UM", a reference to a day when everyone at Williams was laid off ''en masse.'' "UM" refers to "upper management".

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** Creator/GregFreres admits most of the faces on the Stiff-O-Meter are his former elementary school teachers (except for "Smarkey"; see ShoutOut, above).
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** One of the videotapes on the backglass is "Black Thursday" by "UM", a reference to a day when everyone at Williams Creator/WilliamsElectronics was laid off ''en masse.'' "UM" refers to "upper management".
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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows are a long-standing pinball]] EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...

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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows are a long-standing pinball]] EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...Creator/WilliamsElectronics...
* ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'':
** Creator/GregFreres admits the faces on the Stiff-O-Meter are his former elementary school teachers (except for "Smarkey"; see ShoutOut, above).
** One of the videotapes on the backglass is "Black Thursday" by "UM", a reference to a day when everyone at Williams was laid off ''en masse.'' "UM" refers to "upper management".
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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', executing a "Capcombo" (Bank Shot or left Super Cue followed by right orbit) shows an animation of a moose kicking a cow. Now remember that [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows are a long-standing pinball]] EasterEgg originating from competitor Creator/WilliamsElectronics...
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** Subverted; it doesn't actually reveal a video mode, but a different secret instead.
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* In ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'', one of the random signs in the window of Bob's Bunker is "Secret Video Mode", a mocking reference to the missing "secret video mode" from ''Pinball/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' game.
* ''Pinball/DrDude'' boasts its [[EleventyZillion Gazillion]]-point jackpot as a jab to Williams, who incorrectly claimed that their ''Comet'' pinball had the first ever million-point shot.

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