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Pokémon HeartGold Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon SoulSilver Version (Game)
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Attachment During the Sinjoh Ruins event, in which Arceus creates a Lv. 1 Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina, a magic circle appears beneath it during the corresponding cutscene, remaining in place for most of the sequence. The layout of this circle is identical to a chart that Game Freak co-founder and prominent series staffer Junichi Masuda created during the development of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in 2005, detailing the lineage of numerous Legendary Pokémon from the first four generations. This chart did not become publicly available until it was included in the Teraleak, a large-scale leak of internal server data from Game Freak in 2024.
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In-game footage of the Sinjoh Ruins cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi6WyRP6Cog

Twitter post by Centro Leaks (an account documenting material from the Teraleak) showcasing Masuda's lineage chart:
https://x.com/CentroLeaks/status/1845289910321762652

YouTube video discussing the Teraleak, including coverage of Masuda's lineage chart and the Sinjoh Ruins cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQs80F0dDdI
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game (2024)
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Patrick's costumes in the game are all references to episodes of the SpongeBob SquarePants show:

• "Under Construction" is a reference to the episode "My Pretty Seahorse".
• "Elastic Man" is a reference to the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V".
• "Marching Band" is a reference to the episode "Band Geeks".
• "Hot-Rod" is a reference to the episode "Driven to Tears".
• "Gorilla Suit" is a reference to the episode "I Had an Accident".
• "King" is a reference to the episode "Rule of Dumb".
• "Captain Scarfish" is a reference to the episode "Pull Up a Barrel".
• "Patrick-Man" is a reference to the episode of the same name.
• "Glove World", "Barnacle Boy", and "Goofy Goober" are all based on recurring outfits seen in the show.
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Thank Goodness You’re Here!
Thank Goodness You’re Here! (2024)
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Barnsworth, the game's setting, is loosely based on Barnsley, a market town in South Yorkshire, England and the hometown of the game's developers Coal Supper.
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Star Fox 64
Star Fox 64 (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox: Assault (Game)
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Attachment Some lines in the opening prologue stage for Star Fox: Assault contain allusions towards dialogue from Area 6, one of Star Fox 64's final stages. In the latter, Caiman says near the end that "The last line has been breached!", and the Area 6 commander will respond with "These guys are crazy!". In the Japanese version of Star Fox 64, the latter instead says "こいつら、化け物か！" (These guys are monsters!)

In Star Fox: Assault's prologue, one of the ape soldiers apart of Oikonny's rebellion will similarly shout that "Our final line of defense has been penetrated!". Oikonny in response says "Is this guy some kind of demon?". In the Japanese version of Assault, he instead says "コイツら化け物か？" (Are these monsters?), which makes it much more clear that it's meant to be a callback to Area 6's dialogue. This intention was confirmed by producer Takaya Imamura in a 2005 Nintendo Dream interview with Star Fox: Assault's development team.
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Japanese dialogue from Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Assault:
https://sfxlines.xxxxxxxx.jp/64/area6.html
https://sfxlines.xxxxxxxx.jp/assault/m01.html

Nintendo Dream interview with Star Fox: Assault developers:
https://shmuplations.com/starfoxassault/
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 (2024)
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Attachment If you clip the camera into the ranch house at the start of the game, you can find a copy of the "SILENT HILL RANCH" sign with the text written in Comic Sans. This references an alteration from the Silent Hill HD Collection port of Silent Hill 2 which was widely derided by fans due to the casual and childlike connotations of the font clashing with the bleak atmosphere of the series.
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Cuphead
Cuphead (2017)
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The Latin American Spanish translation of The Delicious Last Course DLC changes The Pawns mini-boss death quote to "Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito, me llevo la victoria, poquito a poquito". This is a reference to a line from the song "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee: "Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito, nos vamos pegando poquito a poquito."
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Astro Bot
Astro Bot (2024)
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The V.I.P. Bot "Robotic Sucker" (based on the titular character from Mister Mosquito) is depicted irritating Astro Bot as he is trying to take a bath. This appears to be a reference to Stage 4 of Mister Mosquito, which infamously involves the player attempting to suck blood from Rena Yamada as she is trying to take a bath.
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Cameo, General, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities
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Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Silent Hill 2 (Game)
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Attachment While it's not known to have been explained by the developers, Maria's outfit in the original game bears a near-identical resemblance to one worn by American pop singer Christina Aguilera at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards, which were held in August 1999, two months after the game began development. Further suggesting this connection, Maria is also Aguilera's middle name. Maria's outfit would be redesigned for the game's 2024 remake, but the original outfit still appears during a brief scene where she finds it while raiding a closet and asks James if she would look good in it, to which he hesitantly responds: "Umm... Sure."
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Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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In Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comics, the G.U.N. Commander (who was unnamed in the games) was given the name "Abraham Tower". According to writer Ian Flynn, the reason he was given a name was because he "didn't want to be trapped by calling him 'Commander' or 'sir' every stinkin' time". The name (originally used by a character from a fan-made comic that Flynn never finished) was meant to evoke an idea of authoritative power: "Abraham", whether in regards to the biblical figure or the U.S. historical figure, lends itself to the notion of an influential leader, and "Tower" was in reference to how he was "tall, rigid, standing over all others". Although the name was exclusively used in the Archie comics, it would later be made canon to the game continuity when it was used for the character in the webseries "Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings", which was also written by Flynn.
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Ian Flynn statement:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151102103058/http://bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42114&;highlight=#42114

Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings - "Finding the Way":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coN_xKNg0rs

Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings - "To the Ark":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2d9sS-muqI
Hard Time III
Hard Time III (2024)
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Celebrity, Character Design, Easter Egg, Legal Affairs, Parody, Real Life, Reference, Similarities
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Mortal Kombat 1
Mortal Kombat 1 (2023)
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Easter Egg, Reference
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Homelander's "What Happens If?" Brutality when performed on Kenshi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq5b4G-l38M

Homelander's "What Happens If?" Brutality when performed on anyone else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmA0wCv8EJ8

The Boys - Blindspot death scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhs_huLw8L0
Astro Bot
Astro Bot (2024)
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Attachment The V.I.P. Bots "Dad of Boy" and "Boy" (based on Kratos and Atreus from God of War respectively) are named in reference to the "Dad of Boy" meme, where following the release of the 2018 God of War game, many players began making jokes about the amount of times Kratos referred to Atreus as "boy" in the game.
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Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Antonball Deluxe (Game)
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Attachment Pizza Tower first saw attention with the demo released in the fan-run Sonic Amateur Game Expo (SAGE) 2018. To coincide with the expo being themed around Sonic the Hedgehog, a temporary joke character named "Snick the Porcupine" was added, with a backstory detailing how Peppino (dressed in blue like Sonic) had intended to go to SAGE, but ended up at the "Snick Amateur Games Expo" and instead made do with Snick's games (Pizza Tower levels). Upon clearing the SAGE demo, Snick will then turn into "Snick.EXE", a parody of the Sonic.exe creepypasta, starting an exclusive mode called "The Snick Challenge" where Peppino must evade Snick.EXE while playing through all 3 stages in the demo in order. The completion reward is a fully playable Snick with a unique moveset and animations, with taunts referencing a set of YouTube Poop music videos by user iteachvader that were based on the animated series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Snick would later make a cameo in the SAGE 2020 demo for Antonball Deluxe - a game with connections to Pizza Tower - bringing back the same setting, playable Snick, and The Snick Challenge, but with Snick.EXE instead chasing the player through the regular demo playthrough and the requirement to collect "Ruckus Rubies" to unlock Snick. Since Snick was also not meant to appear in the final release, the Ruckus Rubies use directly-ripped sound effects from the Sonic series.

Despite his removal, Snick still makes many cameos in the final version of Pizza Tower. The tiles for the Slum hub area feature a Missing poster inquiring about Snick's whereabouts, the Refridgerator-Refridgerator-Freezerator stage features a similar Wanted poster on the side of a milk carton, one of Gustavo and Brick's taunts has Brick turn into Snick, and the Pizzaboy's Wash N' Clean area has Snick covered in a freshly-washed blanket, making him appear like a ghost. Peppino's blue outfit also returned under the name "Sage Blue", which can be unlocked by clearing Floor 1 in less than an hour.
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PT SAGE Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpJbtbKypx8

Snick's taunts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0iI0fZPtO0#t=844s
Notable timestamps:
Manual with backstory: 0:09
The Snick Challenge: 22:58
Playable Snick: 28:44

AB SAGE demo Part #1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL6y4QgCeiw

AB SAGE demo: unlocking Snick as Paul in the Snick Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68UY9u4r770

AB SAGE demo: Snick in the Snick Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_vCs77pbI

All secrets in Pizza Tower final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6g2eED-pZU
Notable timestamps:
Snick missing poster: 2:34
Wash N' Clean: 4:19

Gustavo & Brick's Snick taunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIRGBlwn5W0#t=75s

Snick's missing carton on Freezerator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDr0-qaASg#t=243s

Sage Blue Outfit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHLf-PWrFA#t=28s
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Moon (Game)
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Artwork/Illustration, Backstory/Lore, Crunch/Overwork, Development, Downloadable Content (DLC), Early Idea, Ending, Inaccessible Area, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities, Suggested, Theory, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (2006)
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Attachment If you beat Story Mode and then play through it again, the captions for Jonathan's response to Dio kicking his dog Danny in the jaw are slightly altered. Instead of reading "何をするんだ" ("What the hell are you doing?!"), it will now read "何をするだ" ("What the hell you doing!?"), which is identical in meaning, but omits the hiragana character "ん". The typo in the second playthrough is deliberate and references a mistake made in that scene when it was published in the manga's original 1987 print run. This typo stuck around in reprints for almost 15 years, becoming a meme among Japanese fans for making the intended line sound like a "country-like scream", until it was finally corrected in a paperback release in 2002.
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First playthrough cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rw5ATapxYE#t=721s

Second playthrough cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83YvsCVLro#t=1261s

Japanese article about the typo's correction:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240525194032/http://atmarkjojo.org/archives/71.html

Masahiro Sakurai Famitsu column Vol. 178 (supplementary source where he mentions this Easter egg):
https://sourcegaming.info/2016/04/11/mediabizarresakurai/
MySims Kingdom
MySims Kingdom (2008)
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Early on in the game, after finding out the town was ruined during the night, King Roland wonders if Buddy, Lyndsay and "their friend" could come help, but concludes that they are too busy elsewhere. This is a reference to the Wii version of the game, where Buddy, Lyndsay, and the player (the aforementioned friend) travel across the various islands in the kingdom to help solve their problems, implying that the events of the two versions occur simultaneously.
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Thank Goodness You’re Here!
Thank Goodness You’re Here! (2024)
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Attachment When traversing the drainage pipe that leads to Barnsworth, the player can spot graffiti that reads "PAY NO POLL TAX" and "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!" These reference slogans from opponents of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

The former references the Community Charge, a controversial policy of the Thatcher administration that resulted in her 1990 resignation following widespread protests (it was ultimately replaced by the Council Tax three years later). The latter message references a campaign by anti-Thatcherites following her death in 2013 to inflate the chart position of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", a song from the 1939 film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, under the pretense that the BBC would be forced to play it over the radio. The network ultimately compromised by including a brief snippet in a news report about the campaign. The presence of both references ties in with the game's setting in Northern England, where anti-Thatcherism is particularly pronounced.
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The Ultimate Challenge from Beat Takeshi
The Ultimate Challenge from Beat Takeshi (1986)
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Attachment After obtaining the map from the karaoke bar, if the player selects the "じっとみつめる" ("Stare") option and waits on the resulting screen for an hour, a text box will appear mimicking the sign-off messages used by Japanese TV channels before the screen goes black. Waiting an additional three hours brings up a series of SMPTE color bars, and waiting one more hour brings up a second text box which simply reads "おはようございます" ("good morning"). Following this, the player is returned to the karaoke bar, with their progress reverted to before obtaining the map.
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Sonic X Shadow Generations
Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024)
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Attachment One of the pre-order bonuses for the game is a skin for Shadow that is based off an early concept version of him from Sonic Adventure 2 named Terios. The name comes from the Greek term "telos", referring to an end, fulfillment, completion, goal or aim.
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Video explaining Terios:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTF8SgV0Tws

Costume in Sonic X Shadow Generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJ_WfDO9vk

Definition of where the name originates:
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/telos/v-1
Zenless Zone Zero
Zenless Zone Zero (2024)
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Jane Doe's name has two different references in it. The first and most obvious one is a reference to the term "Jane Doe", a placeholder name used in cases where a female individual's real name is either unknown or intentionally concealed (ironically, her Spoiler:New Eridu Public Security (NEPS) Consultant Card implies that her name really is Jane Doe rather than an alias). The second reference is found in her last name "Doe", which is what female fancy mice (domesticated breeds of common house mice) are often referred to as. Both of these references are fitting for Jane's character as she is a mouse Thiren with prominent ears and a tail, and because Spoiler:she works for NEPS as a consultant, specializing in criminal psychology and infiltrating dangerous groups.
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