History YMMV / GadgetPastAsFuture

** In one unsettling EasterEgg that many players are unlikely to find, after opening the door of your hotel room, walking as far as you can without leaving the room, then turning around, you'll find one of the scientists, Charles Reif (the one who handles the hotel's Sensorama) having [[MindScrew appeared suddenly in the room]], sitting in a chair, surrounded by fog. It can make for quite the startle if you're not expecting it. If you get up close to him, he says something to the effect of "It's okay. There's no activity here", and then he disappears after you turn around again. Considering that this happens at the very start of the game before you're even given your mission to track down the scientists, and that you're supposed to meet Charles, who doesn't bring this appearance up with you, later at the Museum of Science, there are many potential implications to be had. Is the Charles Reif in your room a Sensorama hallucination? Is this a flashback your character is having? Is this the "real" Charles momentarily reaching out to you while the other Charles, and by extension the other characters, aren't real? Interestingly, at one point in the final act of the game when you're travelling with the scientists on the train, you see Charles in the back with the Sensorama where he repeats the same line as in the beginning, though it's uncertain what that means.

** In one unsettling EasterEgg that many players are unlikely to find, after opening the door of your hotel room, walking as far as you can without leaving the room, then turning around, you'll find one of the scientists, Charles Reif (the one who handles the hotel's Sensorama) having [[MindScrew appeared suddenly in the room]], sitting in a chair, surrounded by fog. It can make for quite the startle if you're not expecting it. If you get up close to him, he says something to the effect of "It's okay. There's no activity here", and then he disappears after you turn around again. Considering that this happens at the very start of the game before you're even given your mission to track down the scientists, and that you're supposed to meet Charles, who doesn't bring this appearance up with you, later at the Museum of Science, there are many potential implications to be had. Is the Charles Reif in your room a Sensorama hallucination? Is this a flashback your character is having? Is this the "real" Charles momentarily reaching out to you while the other Charles, and by extension the other characters, aren't real? We'll probably never know.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Although the character models look primitive by today's standards, the rest of the artwork from the designs of the world and objects to the atmospheric lighting still capture a feeling of isolation and uneasiness that permeates the entire game, and it has a unique blend of liminal Art Deco influences and psychedelic imagery.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In one unsettling EasterEgg that many players are unlikely to find, after opening the door of your hotel room, walking as far as you can without leaving the room, then turning around, you'll find one of the scientists, Charles Reif (the one who handles the hotel's Sensorama) having [[MindScrew appeared suddenly in the room]], sitting in a chair, surrounded by fog. It can make for quite the startle if you're not expecting it. If you get up close to him, he says something to the effect of "It's okay. There's no activity here", and then he disappears after you turn around again. Considering that this happens at the very start of the game before you're even given your mission to track down the scientists, and that you're supposed to meet Charles, who doesn't bring this appearance up with you, later at the Museum of Science, there are many potential implications to be had. Is the Charles Reif in your room a Sensorama hallucination? Is this a flashback your character is having? Is this the "real" Charles momentarily reaching out to you while the other Charles, and by extension the other characters, aren't real? We'll probably never know.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In one unsettling EasterEgg that many players are unlikely to find, after opening the door of your hotel room, walking as far as you can without leaving the room, then turning around, you'll find one of the scientists, Charles Reif (the one who handles the hotel's Sensorama) having [[MindScrew appeared suddenly in the room]], sitting in a chair, surrounded by fog. It can make for quite the startle if you're not expecting it. If you get up close to him, he says something to the effect of "It's okay. There's no activity here", and then he disappears after you turn around again. Considering that this happens at the very start of the game before you're even given your mission, and that you're supposed to meet Charles, who doesn't bring this appearance up with you, at the Museum of Science, there are many potential implications to be had. Is the Charles Reif in your room a Sensorama hallucination? Is this a flashback your character is having? Is this the "real" Charles momentarily reaching out to you while the other Charles, and by extension the other characters, aren't real? We'll probably never know.

* SignatureScene: Slowslop announcing the arrival of the mothership above the Earth as orbs of light from the giant Sensorama cascade around him. It first appeared in a page of ''Inside Out with Gadget'', then was put into the redone cutscene with Slowslop in ''Past as Future'', for which the scene also provided the European cover art for, the English DVD for the movie ''Mindscapes'', and finally for ''The Third Force''.

* SignatureScene: Slowslop announcing the arrival of the mothership above the Earth as orbs of light from the giant Sensorama cascade around him. It makes an appearance in ''Inside Out with Gadget'' and provided the cover art for the European release of ''Past As Future'', the English DVD for the movie ''Mindscapes'', and for ''The Third Force''.

* SignatureScene: Slowslop announcing the arrival of the mothership above the Earth as orbs of light from the giant Sensorama cascade around him. It makes an appearance in ''Inside Out with Gadget'' and provided the cover art for the European release of ''Past As Future'', the English DVD for the movie ''Mindscapes'', and the cover for ''The Third Force''.

* UncannyValley: The odd lighting, [[CreepyCleanliness sparce decoration]], and zombie-like expressions of the characters have led some reviewers to call this game a "nightmare".

* FollowTheLeader: According to Marc Laidlaw, who wrote the tie-in novel "The Third Force", [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 the G-Man, Alyx, and the Combine]] were partly influenced by Gadget.

* UncannyValley: The odd lighting, [[CreepyCleanliness sparce decoration]], and zombie-like expressions of the characters have led some reviewers to call this game a "nightmare".

* HilariousInHindsight: According to Marc Laidlaw, who wrote the tie-in novel "The Third Force", [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 the G-Man, Alyx, and the Combine]] were partly influenced by Gadget.

* UncannyValley: The odd lighting and zombie-like expressions of the characters have led some reviewers to call this game a "nightmare".