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Sonic Battle
Sonic Battle (2003)
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Although the game makes no mention of it, completing each chapter again after finishing Emerl's episode will reward the player with a page from Spoiler:Professor Gerald Robotnik's journal which documents Spoiler:his discovery and subsequent experiments on the Gizoid.
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Backstory/Lore, Bonus Content, General, Hidden Message
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Bayonetta
Bayonetta (2009)
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At the start of Bayonetta, a funeral is held for a notorious criminal known as "Eggman the Destroyer". This, to a Western audience, seems like a very obvious reference to Sonic the Hedgehog's main antagonist Dr. Eggman, as Bayonetta was published by Sega. However, series creator Hideki Kamiya claimed that he randomly chose the name Eggman and was not aware that there existed a popular Sega character with the name, choosing to leave it as is in the hopes that fans would "get a kick out of that".
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Coincidence, Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (2010)
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Attachment By standing idle in the mobile version of Episode I, Sonic will pull out an iPhone, hold it up to his ear and spin around in place.
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Console Difference, Easter Egg, Secret
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Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki (2004)
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Within the Underground World (a hidden area in the Dream World only accessible by sleeping in one of five replicas of Madotsuki's bed, randomly chosen each time she falls asleep) is a large corridor full of fire. Normally, this room requires Madotsuki to obtain and equip either the Snow Woman or Umbrella effect, which produces precipitation that puts the fire out and allows her to proceed into the Storage Room. However, if she enters this area as a snowman (by equipping the Hat & Scarf effect and pressing the 1 key in the Snow World) and stands next to the fire, she will slowly melt into a puddle of water; pressing the 1 key while in this state reverts her back to human form, as with the un-melted snowman.

While Madotsuki can also become a snowman in the blizzard generated by the Snow Woman effect, the weather would carry over to the corridor and extinguish the fire immediately upon entering. Consequently, Madotsuki can only access this Easter egg via the blizzard that appears by default in the Snow World.
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Easter Egg, General, Secret, Sprite/Graphical Animation
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For Honor
For Honor (2017)
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Attachment The male Berserker class in For Honor was voiced by Stefán Karl Stefánsson, an Icelandic actor best known for portraying the villain Robbie Rotten in the live-action children's series LazyTown. The character was the subject of various internet memes throughout the show's run, the most popular of which being the song "We Are Number One" from the episode "Robbie's Dream Team". Following Stefánsson's widely-publicized death from bile duct cancer, a pair of Robbie Rotten references were added to the game as a tribute. These include:

• An emote named "Number One", where the Berserker transforms into a statue raising a finger upwards, resembling a pose Robbie Rotten does leading into "We Are Number One", with the caption "In Memoriam - to our Number One villain".
• A bot named "RobbieBotten" who plays as the Berserker and wears blue and red stripes, a similar but not exact proximity to the color scheme of Rotten's outfit.
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Competitive, Credits, Easter Egg, Meme, Passed Away, Reference, Tribute, Voice Acting
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New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019)
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In this version of the game, the Spin Jump button is the same button as the Jump button. This is a first for the series, where the Spin Jump is usually performed by pressing the trigger buttons or shaking the controller. However, on the title screen, if you hold down the left stick for 3 seconds and press L and R, the Spin Jump button will be reverted back to the triggers, and the Jump button can no longer be used for it. Nabbit's voice will be heard when going to the main menu if the control switch is successful. This control option was not advertised or mentioned at any point by Nintendo, and appears to be an Easter egg.
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Controls, Easter Egg, First, Menu, Secret
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Franchise: Yakuza: Like a Dragon
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Throughout several games in the Yakuza series, songs from Sega franchises will play in businesses like convenience stores and karaoke bars. While an official list of every song and where they were used throughout the series has not been finalized, some known examples include songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the Phantasy Star series, Jet Set Radio Future, Nights into Dreams..., Clockwork Knight, and Space Channel 5: Part 2 among others.
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Easter Egg, Music
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YouTube playlist featuring a list of most of the convenience store songs used throughout the Yakuza series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUNg56HR93De2SELMNHpgnyod3h7QMf6j

Yakuza 4 - Several songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series including "Dreams of an Absolution" from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy9TXjwhJy0

Yakuza 5 - The Concept of Love from Jet Set Radio Future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCC1y_g7qxs

Yakuza 5 - Live and Learn from Sonic Adventure 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpFdVakIXo
Another Crab's Treasure
Another Crab's Treasure (2024)
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Just before fighting Spoiler:Praya Dubia towards the end of the game, the background music that plays in the lead-up to the boss fight is a song titled "Crab Grave". The title of the song and its core notes (while not sharing the exact same melody) are a reference to "Crab Rave", a house song composed by Irish electronic music producer Noisestorm and accompanied by a CGI music video depicting crabs dancing on a remote island that later became a meme.
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Easter Egg, Meme, Music, Reference, Similarities
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Another Crab's Treasure - Crab Grave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR66yjbmZkY

Noisestorm - Crab Rave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDU_Txk06tM

Another Crab's Treasure - Boss fight lead-up with Crab Grave song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1PtWzjPGw

KnowYourMeme article:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crab-rave
Another Crab's Treasure
Another Crab's Treasure (2024)
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After passing through the Shallows and New Carcinia, Kril will enter an area called The Sands Between, an homage to The Lands Between, the main setting of the game Elden Ring.
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Easter Egg, Parody, Reference
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Another Crab's Treasure
Another Crab's Treasure (2024)
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Attachment In New Carcinia, there are many cardboard boxes featuring a QR code. When scanned, it will link the player to a YouTube re-upload of a Rickroll-style meme called "You just got Coconut Mall'd", referencing a track from the game Mario Kart Wii.
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Easter Egg, Meme, Secret
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VeggieTales: The Mystery of Veggie Island
VeggieTales: The Mystery of Veggie Island (2002)
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The television in the Observatory plays black and white clips of various "Silly Songs With Larry" segments from the VeggieTales TV show, specifically "The Hairbrush Song", "Love My Lips", "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything", and "The Water Buffalo Song".
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Adaptation, Easter Egg, General, Music, Reference
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Observatory area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdFJua3wQ8k#t=1490s

VeggieTales - "The Hairbrush Song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHr7gluh08

VeggieTales - "Love My Lips":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1FGaCNN1aw

VeggieTales - "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWU1CmrJNc

VeggieTales - "The Water Buffalo Song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltG37Bbx1qk
Gex: Enter the Gecko
Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998)
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Attachment In the bonus level, "Chips and Dips", developer photos with humorous text can be found across the stage. A photo of producer Jeffrey Zwelling was found during gameplay by accident, and to date, the criteria to activate the picture is uncertain.
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Bonus Content, Cameo, Development, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, In-Joke, Level Design, Secret, Unsolved Mystery
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Jak X: Combat Racing
Jak X: Combat Racing (2005)
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The series' in-universe Precursor language appears in several instances throughout the game, most notably in a series of Story cutscenes. During news broadcasts covering the racing tournament, a news ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen produces a developer message from Naughty Dog when translated. The message says hello to the player and alludes to save data-based unlockable contents. However, an as-of-yet undiscovered secret is explicitly shared; the message does offer an input code, but to date, no use or purpose for it has been found.
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Bonus Content, Cheat, Easter Egg, Hidden Message, Secret, Unsolved Mystery
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Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki (2004)
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Attachment One room that Madotsuki can encounter in the FC House's basement is a blue, castle-like area populated by several goblin-like creatures. The design of these characters appears to reference the Famicom version of Bokosuka Wars, which features a similar monster on the "you win" and "you lose" screens.
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Cameo, Easter Egg, General, Reference, Similarities, Sprite/Graphical Animation
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Vinesauce Joel highlights video featuring clips of Joel comparing the goblins in Yume Nikki to Bokosuka Wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUj67tB01ww

Bokosuka Wars playthrough video showcasing the win screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6lMYLXsk4

Direct comparison of the two games' sprites:
https://www.deviantart.com/dexter-the-scorpio/art/Bokosuka-wars-X-Yume-Nikki-GIF-580943480
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Legacy (2023)
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The plot of Hogwarts Legacy was purposefully set in a time period where many pre-established characters from the Harry Potter franchise (such as Newton Scamander or Harry Potter himself) are not around. According to lead writer Moira Squier, this was done in order to provide the player with a unique world. As part of this, the writing team focused on creating a diverse collection of characters for players to potentially identify with:

"All the writing team got together and would pitch ideas. We wanted a diverse collection of professors, students, vendors in the shop, etc. People called upon their own experiences. Hopefully you play the game and see a character and go "That's like my sister", or an uncle, or anything like that. And we really wanted to tie it to the familiar world – so you'll hear there's a Weasley, a Rookwood… Professor Black is a known character as a portrait in the books, so fleshing him out, we really loved."

However, while main characters from across the franchise are not present, selected minor characters (such as Nearly Headless Nick and Peeves the Poltergeist) are still present in the game.
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Adaptation, Backstory/Lore, Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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MultiVersus
MultiVersus (2024)
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When putting The Joker against Black Adam, the former will mockingly ask "Weren't you supposed to be 'rearranging the hierarchy' or something?". This is a jab at the 2022 film "Black Adam" starring Dwayne Johnson in the titular role. In the lead-up to the film's release, Johnson released a series of real life promos in which he declared that Black Adam would "change the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe". This quickly became an internet meme, and was poked at even further after the film bombed at the box office (the film had grossed $390 million, but needed to reach $600 million in order to break even).
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Celebrity, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Meme, Multimedia Adaptation, Real Life, Reference
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Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki (2004)
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Attachment Whenever Madotsuki turns on her TV in the dream world version of her room from Version 0.06 onward, there is a 1/8 chance that the view will cut to a full-screen event in which two rows of Paracas-esque figures scroll across the screen. "KALIMBA", the theme song for this event, was originally uploaded on Kikiyama's players.music-eclub.com profile on January 13, 2004, almost five months before Yume Nikki first released. This version of the song is substantially longer than the one that would ultimately be included in the event, clocking in at eight minutes instead of several seconds. Additionally, the cover art for the full-length version features the same rows of figures depicted in the event, albeit with a slightly duller color scheme.

Due to a lack of public statements from Kikiyama, it is unknown if the song was composed with Yume Nikki in mind from the outset or if the KALIMBA event was included as an Easter egg referencing their non-game work.
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Artwork/Illustration, Asset Reuse, Development, Easter Egg, Music, Reference, Release Difference, Secret, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Update Difference
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Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki (2004)
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Attachment The earliest builds of the game only contained 20 effects, missing the Witch, Oni, Squish-Squish, and Traffic Light. These four were not added until Version 0.05, as evidenced by the changelog provided in both the game's README file and Kikiyama's official website.

Of particular note is the Squish-Squish effect, which is provided by interacting with an amorphous, blue-gray figure with a single, large eye. In Version 0.06 (the earliest available build to feature all 24 effects), the figure was present in a shack in the Barracks Settlement that Madotsuki could not enter in previous versions. In Version 0.08, the figure is moved to FC World B; however, a copy of it is still present in its original location in the Barracks Settlement, where it is being fed on by the newly added Seahorse. In Version 0.09, the Seahorse's design is updated to change its skin from purple to orange and add four hornlike structures to the top of its head. Version 0.10 removes the version of the figure that the Seahorse fed on.

This sequence of events gives the impression that the Seahorse's development was a direct result of feeding on the figure, thus providing the only known instance of the game's updates appearing to convey a narrative within the Dream World.
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Development, Easter Egg, Update Difference
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017)
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Various Easter eggs are hidden in the game's character files, most of which require their extensions to be manually altered:

• If the player changes the extension for Monika's character file to .png, the resulting image depicts a square of white noise inside a ring of fire and cracks. Converting the white noise to binary gives a text message encrypted in Base64. Decrypting it reveals what appears to be a monologue from Monika, who mentions a "Third Eye" that causes "some kind of deja vu," which is how she and the other girls are able to perceive alterations to the game's data.
• If the player changes the extension for Natsuki's character file to .jpeg, the resulting image file depicts a painting of a white-haired girl with blank white eyes. The image is heavily distorted, requiring the player to invert its colors and change its rectangular coordinates to polar ones in an image editor in order to view it properly.
• If the player changes the extension for Sayori's character file to .ogg, the resulting audio will become a discordant shriek, similar to that normally heard when converting a data file to audio. However, running sayori.ogg through a spectrograph reveals a QR code which, when scanned, leads to a fictitious examination report for a character named Libitina; her last name and a procedure administered to her are both redacted with a series of X's. Of note is that like Monika's hidden monologue, the report repeatedly mentions a "third eye."
• If the player opens Yuri's character file in a text editor, the result will be a message encrypted in Base64; the file extension does not need to be modified in order to do this. Decrypting the message reveals that it's "I Found a Box Containing the Story of a 19-Year-Old Girl Who Killed a Random Person for No Reason", a creepypasta that was anonymously posted on Thought Catalog in June 2015, over two years before Doki Doki Literature Club's release. In a Twitter reply, developer Dan Salvato confirmed that he was the creepypasta's author and the one who hid it in the game.
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Creepypasta, Easter Egg, Filename, Hidden Message, Secret, Website
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The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club!#Characters_Folder

Hidden website in sayori.chr:
https://projectlibitina.com/

Tweet from Dan Salvato confirming his authorship:
https://www.twitter.com/dansalvato/status/911627120132055040
Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.
Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. (2020)
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Attachment One of the Sleep Mode screens, which depicts Mario and Luigi having a picnic in World 4-3, is based on a piece of concept art originally drawn for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and was included in this Game & Watch over two years before the film's 2023 release. The original image is showcased in one of the bonus features on the film's home media release, "Meet the Cast: Charlie Day as Luigi". Among other differences, the concept art features Mario & Luigi sitting on mushrooms instead of blocks and wearing their modern outfits instead of ones matching their in-game sprites.
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Artwork/Illustration, Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Multimedia Adaptation, Reference
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