History VideoGame / TyTheTasmanianTiger

* TakeYourTime: Near the end of ''Night of the Quinkan'', you learn that [[spoiler: the Quinkan are destroying much of the land and resistance that remains to prepare for the Quinking's arrival to finish the job, then later you have to find the Shadow Stones that got separated while you found the Shadowring and have to find all three of them before it's too late]]. Of course, even knowing this, you can take as much time as you want and [[spoiler: the portal to bring the Quinking to the real world]] will not happen until you unlock and activate the mission.

** The Doomerang in the first game, obtained during the last stroke of the final battle and used to direct a boomerang through Cass's ruined mecha. In later games, it's a more conventional upgrade.

** The Shadowrang in ''Night of the Quinkan'', like the Shadow Bunyip, is only available for the final mission and will easily defeat everything in that mission.

In March 2016, it was announced that Krome will port the first game in the series to Windows and [=macOS=] with HD graphics, and have the released the other two subsequent years after. September 2019 saw the Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign of the first game's remaster coming to current gen consoles, with additional skins to boot. Backers will also receive a free digital comic penned by the co-creator himself. The console versions were released in the summer of 2020 as ''TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD''. A Kickstarter campaign for an HD remaster of ''TY 2'' for the [=PS4=], Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch was held in January 2021, achieving its target goal in just 8 ½ hours. The remaster was released in Q2 2021.

--->'''Fluffy''': I thought this was going to be dangerous

*** Somewhat similarly in the Third Game, during the mission where Ty and Fluffy [[spoiler: find the Shadowring and the Shadow stones to fight the Quinking]], Ty at one point says "Don't count your chickens." [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Fluffy thinks he's calling her a chicken]].

** In the First game's opening, once the Tasmanian Tigers are sucked into the portal to the Dreamtime, one of them uses his Doomerang to dislodge the talismans and causing an explosion. Afterwards, [[Film/BackToTheFuture The Doomerang spins on the ground and lays face down]].

* TakeThat: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzsC1qSqFDo This commerical]] has Ty beating up Sonic, Crash, and Spyro.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first game was limited in character animations and TY himself rarely had any speaking lines aside from his exclamations after completing missions and his facial rig was rather stiff. The later games had improved presentation and gave TY more personality and dialogue.

* InspirationNod: There are quite a few nods to one of series creator Steve Stamatiadis' previous works, ''Flight of the Amazon Queen.'' It's mostly little things, like hair and clothing designs, or names, however Karlos' plan in the third game shares more than a few things in common thematically with a similar scene early on in ''FotAQ''.

* MiniMecha / PoweredArmor: The Bunyips from the sequel.

* MeaninglessLives: At least in TY 1, it's near-impossible to run out. Not so much in the sequels, where you effectively have unlimited lives.

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[[caption-width-right:350: He's a Wonder from Down Under! [[note]] From left to right: Maurie, Professor Julius [=MacGuffin=], Ranger Ken, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Dennis, Shazza the Dingo, and Duke. [[/note]]]]

* ThreateningShark: Present in all games, becoming less threatening with each incarnation. They're pretty rare in the first game, but are invincible otherwise. In the second game, they're a bit more common, especially during the submarine missions where you can blast them at will. In the third, they're at their weakest and can be dispatched easily with your regular attacks, but compensate by being very fast and numerous in the places they're found.

* ThreateningShark: Present in open enough waters in the first 3 games, becoming less threatening with each incarnation. They're pretty rare in the first game, but are invincible otherwise. In the second game, they're a bit more common, especially during the submarine missions where you can blast them at will. In the third, they're at their weakest and can be dispatched easily with your regular attacks, but compensate by being very fast and numerous in the places they're found.

* ThreateningShark: Present in open enough waters in the first 3 games, becoming less threatening with each incarnation. They're pretty rare in the first game, but are invincible otherwise. In the second game, they're a bit more common, especially during the submarine missions. In the third, they're at their weakest and can be dispatched easily, but compensate by being very fast and numerous in the places they're found.