History Trivia / SpyFox

** Monkey Penny is voiced by Gina Nagy in every game except in ''Operation Ozone'', where she is voiced by Anita Montgomery, [[TalkingToHimself who also voices Poodles Galore in said game.]]

* DummiedOut: As with almost every Humongous Entertainment game, messing with the INI files accesses some unused content.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only the first game in the series ever got a re-release onto the Wii, along with the first VideoGame/FreddiFish and VideoGame/PajamaSam games. It was a direct copy and literally nothing had been changed.
** Now averted as the entire series has been re-released on Steam in 2014.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece
** In ''Dry Cereal'', SPY Fox is given some drachmas needed to buy things. It wouldn't be until 5 years after the game was released that the Euro replaced drachmas as Greece's official currency.
** Along with the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies, these games exist in the waning years of the original campy ''Franchise/JamesBond'' franchise and effectively made it so that nobody could every take them seriously again. The last game was released a year before ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', the last campy Bond film before the series got a DarkerAndEdgier reboot.
** A cut scene in ''Hold the Mustard'' has a shut-down screen that has a black background with orange text that reads "It's now safe to shut off the city." This is a clear parody of Windows 95 and 98's "It's now safe to turn off your computer" screen, something that already was on its way out when the game first released thanks to the rising dominance of the ATX form factor that rendered this screen obsolete, and is now all but an artifact of mid-90s computing.

** Monkey Penny is voiced by Gina Nagy in every game except in ''Operation Ozone'', where she is voiced by Anita Montgomery, who also voices Poodles Galore in said game.

** Monkey Penny is voiced by Gina Nagy in every game except in "Operation Ozone", where she is voiced by Anita Montgomery, who also voices Poodles Galore in said game.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There was a minor rumour (which seems to have been perpetrated at a time before the games were re-released on Steam, meaning it couldn't be easily tested) that there was a third ending to ''Some Assembly Required'' where you could flush Le Roach down the pipe leading to Fiji (rather than the one to Spy Jail), but you can't.

* WordOfGod: When asked by a fan, animator Brad Carlton confirmed on the Humongous Entertainment Alumi page that the main character's real name ''[[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep is]]'' [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Spy Fox]] ("Spy" being his first name) and that it's just [[RuleOfFunny part of the overall joke of the game]].

** There is a parody of Moneypenny named Monkeypenny. Had it been released after ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', the character would be a different animal since Moneypenny was played by a black actress.

* WordOfGod: When asked by a fan, animator Brad Carlton confirmed on the Humongous Entertainment Alumi page that the main character's real name ''is'' Spy Fox ("Spy" being his first name) and that it's just [[RuleOfFunny part of the overall joke of the game]].

** A computer the size of a wrist watch that can communicate with a video screen from far away? Nonsense! ...well, at least until smart watches became a thing. These days, the Spy Watch seems ''quaint'' by comparison: only communication to one place, and only one game can fit on it at once. It couldn't even tell time until the third game![[note]][[Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams Where have we heard that before?]][[/note]]

** A computer the size of a wrist watch that can communicate with a video screen from far away? Nonsense! ...well, at least until smart watches became a thing. These days, the Spy Watch seems ''quaint'' by comparison: only communication to one place, and only one game can fit on it at once. It couldn't even tell time until the third game![[note]][[Film/SpyKids Where have we heard that before?]][[/note]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The teaser for the game in ''VideoGame/Freddi Fish 2'' indicates that SPY Fox was originally going to have dark brown fur and his car would have been black instead of white.

** A computer the size of a wrist watch that can communicate with a video screen from far away? Nonsense! ...well, at least until smart watches became a thing. These days, the Spy Watch seems ''quaint'' by comparison: only communication to one place, and only one game can fit on it at once. It couldn't even tell time until the third game![[note]][[Film/SpyKids Where have I heard that before?]][[/note]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Played straight and parodied in Spy Fox 2.

** This was also arguably the last time a parody of classic ''Franchise/JamesBond'' could work in a mainstream video game, let alone several, before the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies ensured that nobody would ever take them seriously again (coincidentally, the first two games were released the same years as the first two ''Austin'' movies). The last game was released a year before ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', the last "traditional" Bond film before the series got a DarkerAndEdgier reboot.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In ''Dry Cereal'', SPY Fox is given some drachmas needed to buy things. It wouldn't be until 5 years after the game was released that the Euro replaced drachmas as Greece's official currency.

** A computer the size of a wrist watch that can communicate with a video screen from far away? Nonsense! ...well, at least until smart watches became a thing. These days, the Spy Watch seems ''quaint'' by comparison: only communication to one place, and only one game can fit on it at once. It couldn't even tell time until the third game![[note]][[Film/Film/SpyKids Where have I heard that before?]][[/note]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In ''Dry Cereal'', SPY Fox is given some drachmas needed to buy the jar of trinkets. It wouldn't be until 5 years after the game was released that the Euro replaced drachmas as Greece's official currency.