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PaRappa the Rapper 2
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (2001)
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During development of PaRappa the Rapper 2, the Boxy Boy tutorials at the start of each stage were referred to as "Rodney Levels" in reference to character designer Rodney Greenblat's difficulty playing Um Jammer Lammy. Greenblat has said that Masaya Matsuura intended it as a compromise after Um Jammer Lammy proved to be too hard for the children it was aimed at, but he still wanted to implement complex button patterns.
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Development, Difficulty, In-Joke
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment One of Ren's voice lines on Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, used for his and Stimpy's grounded down strong attack where he slams down Stimpy as if he were a hammer, is a reference to the streamer CONEY, who in his post-launch NASB gameplay referred to the move as "the STEEEEEEEEEEEMPY", with Ren's second original series voice actor Billy West replicating the cadence of CONEY's scream.
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Freddy in Space 3: Chica in Space
Freddy in Space 3: Chica in Space (2023)
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Attachment The boss Buff Helpy is a reference to an infamous moment from YouTuber Dawko's video "FNAF MEME REVIEW 2.0".
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Easter Egg, In-Joke, Inspiration, Meme, Reference
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Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Unleashed (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic Unleashed (Game)
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Attachment The music track "Rooftop Run (Night)" in Sonic Unleashed contains a well-known and common jazz lick (1–2–♭3–4–2–♭7–1) which would go viral and become known as "The Lick" in 2011, three years after Sonic Unleashed's release.
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In-Joke, Meme, Music, Reference
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Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right Bubsy (Collection)
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Bubsy's catchphrase, "what could possibly go wrong?", originated as a self-deprecating catchphrase from the Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind development team when the game ran into issues. Another phrase in consideration was "Whatever blows your hair back!", which Bubsy would say in the opening to Chapter 4: Fair Conditioning in the final game.
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Franchise: Five Nights at Freddy's
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Matthew Patrick (or "MatPat"), a YouTuber known for making a multitude of Five Nights at Freddy's analysis videos throughout the series' history for his series "Game Theory", makes a cameo as a waiter in the 2023 "Five Nights at Freddy's" film. The coffee shop that he works at is named Sparky's (a nod to Sparky the Dog, one of the series' earliest fan-made hoaxes). MatPat's character's name as seen on his name tag is Ness, which, according to series creator Scott Cawthon, is a reference to a 2016 Game Theory video where MatPat theorized that Sans from Undertale was Ness from EarthBound. MatPat's final line in his scene is "but that's just a theory", a portion of his catchphrase used in the majority of his videos.

A pinned comment left by Cawthon on a "Film Theory" video where MatPat goes into further detail on his cameo in the film claimed that the packed theater Cawthon watched the film in "ERUPTED in cheers" when MatPat appeared.
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Five Nights at Freddy's MatPat cameo scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni0fTBaREGc

MatPat Film Theory video going into detail about his cameo in the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzwEzpec7CA

Game Theory "Sans Is Ness" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdDUXyFocY

Article about Sparky the Dog:
https://fnafinsider.com/characters/sparky-the-dog-fnaf/
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998)
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Polybius
Polybius (1981)
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The earliest known mention of the mythical video game Polybius was an article on the otherwise legitimate arcade gaming fan site Coinop.org posted on August 3, 1998.

The article was edited on May 16, 2009, after the "game" had achieved viral popularity, to inform readers that the site hosts had received new information about the game and were flying to Kyiv, Ukraine to investigate the title, which they would update the page on when they found out. No news has been recorded on Polybius since, but the website would have new games added to its database up to 2021.

Kurt Koller, the webmaster for coinop.org, would later claim in 2021 that he planned to go to Kyiv in 2009 to see Chernobyl, but his friend from Ukraine refused because he was expecting a child, meaning that the "Polybius update" may have just been an in-joke related to this visit.
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)
subdirectory_arrow_right Rayman (Franchise)
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Captain Laserhawk: Blood Dragon Remix - Rayman footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlO628wQ5LM

Rayman Origins - The Lum King:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lgiym-g8aI
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Black Lantern Studios (Company)
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Attachment Inside the files of the US Wii version of Deal or No Deal is a crude edit of the Black Lantern Studios logo, renamed "Beagle Lantern Studios", with a stock photo of a beagle.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Saves the Day!
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Saves the Day! (2019)
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Attachment In Mrs. Puff's sprite sheet for SpongeBob Saves the Day!, an image can be found of an unnerving semi-realistic CGI character, internally called "Yummer". The character's unsettling design, combined with an image present in the code of Sandy's torn-up scuba suit, caused a lot of speculation about the image's potentially macabre origin. The original creator of the graphic eventually came forward and revealed that the character was simply a developer in-joke from the late 2000s used as a placeholder for a scrapped feature where an undecided character would peek from the back of one of the Krusty Krab's poles. The character's name is also not "Yummer", but rather simply "Yum", named as such because "that's the opposite of what you'd use to describe him". The torn Sandy suit was part of a puzzle where SpongeBob would need to wear one of the treedome's helmets.
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The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/SpongeBob_Saves_the_Day!

Video on Yummer history:
https://youtu.be/OK0gaJtgKN4
SoulCalibur
SoulCalibur (1998)
subdirectory_arrow_right SoulCalibur VI (Game), SoulCalibur II (Game), SoulCalibur (Franchise)
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In the first, second and sixth SoulCalibur games, the classic numeric input for Ivy's notoriously difficult Summon Suffering throw is 376231A+G (Attack + Guard). This number combination actually holds significance as it appears to be a reference to the former phone number for Namco's headquarters from before they were acquired by Bandai, being 03-3756-2311.

Allegedly, the developers used the phone number as the basis for the input as a reaction to an in-joke among Tekken and Soul Edge arcade communities, who would react to degenerate or weird stuff in the games with "gonna call Namco about this". The joke being: "If you can't do the throw, go call Namco about it." However, since this input was brought back in SoulCalibur VI long after the phone number stopped being used by Bandai Namco, this adds an additional (albeit probably unintended) layer to the joke: "Go call Namco about it. Oh wait, you can't."
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (2004)
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In Hyrule Town, three travelers in the lobby of the Happy Hearth Inn, named Din, Nayru, and Farore, are the same characters as the Oracles from The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. They are each looking for new homes to move into, which is the basis of an optional side quest that can be started after completing the Fortress of Winds. Gorman will now be renting out a house to tenants, and Link can convince one of the travelers to move in and obtain a Charm from that traveler. Afterwards, if Link fuses Kinstones with Bremor, Mutoh will become motivated to build a second house for Gorman to rent out. Link can then convince one of the remaining two travelers to move in, and will obtain their respective Charm. Each of the two houses built have a red roof and a blue roof, reflecting the color schemes of Din and Nayru respectively. However no third house can be built in the game, leaving the third Oracle homeless and stuck in the inn's lobby. In the European version of the game, Gorman makes a comment about wanting to build a house just south of the Royal Hyrule Library, on a plot of land occupied by cats, but he never does. This comment was removed from the North American release of the game which came out two months later.

Although the choice of who will remain homeless is entirely up to the player, the most probable canonical traveler to remain homeless is Farore. This is based on the lack of a green-roofed house to reflect her color scheme, her figurine description noting that she is bothered by people who "take advantage of her kind nature" (unlike Din and Nayru's descriptions which only point out where they are from and are looking for a new home), and by the development history of Oracle of Ages and Seasons, which was originally planned to be three games with each focusing on a different piece of the Triforce represented by a different Oracle, although only two games centering on Din and Nayru would ultimately be developed.

It's unknown if this incomplete side quest was an oversight, or if it was an intentional in-joke by Capcom, who developed both The Minish Cap and Oracle of Ages and Seasons.
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Video on the incomplete side quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-60ytqd_Q

Farore's figurine description:
https://youtu.be/U8wa7506yRk?t=495

The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia (Page 255):
https://archive.org/details/TheLegendOfZeldaEncyclopedia/page/n244/mode/1up?q=oracle
The Incredibles
The Incredibles (2004)
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Attachment During Dash's first level, in which he is racing to school, the Pizza Planet truck and the Eggman Movers truck from Toy Story both make appearances. The Pizza Planet truck cameo is especially notable, as The Incredibles itself is the only Pixar movie without a confirmed sighting of the truck as an Easter egg.
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