When wearing the NieR: Automata Nano Suits added in the crossover DLC with the game, if you attempt to move the camera to look up Eve's dress, a special animation will play where she notices and violently kicks the camera back away. This animation can only be triggered while wearing the NieR: Automata suits and none of the default suits in the base game, and acts as a reference to secret achievements in NieR RepliCant and NieR: Automata for trying to look under Kainé and 2B's clothes respectively.
Despite being largely forgotten in favor of its sequels, the original Age of Empires remained popular decades later in Vietnam, due in large part to pirated copies of the game being bundled in Vietnamese computers and a long history of LAN matches dating back to the 1990's. Modern Vietnamese players often use custom rulesets, and top players have earned tens of thousands of dollars in tournaments viewed by audiences as high as the hundreds of thousands.
In 2023, this popularity in Vietnam was formally acknowledged by Forgotten Empires, the modern developers of the series, in their "Return of Rome" expansion for Age of Empires II, which ported and updated content from the original Age of Empires to Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. The expansion included a new faction, Lac Viet, "in honor and recognition of ["The Rise of Rome" expansion from the first Age of Empires game's] phenomenal popularity in Vietnam."
One of the oldest and most well-known rumors in the game was that the Iceberg to the northeast of Club Penguin Island could be tipped over if enough penguins stood on one side of it, or if enough penguins used the Jackhammer 3000 on the Iceberg by wearing the Hard Hat. However, this rumor was false and was never actually implemented into the game for most of its run.
From January 31 until the date of the game's shutdown on March 30, 2017, the Waddle on Party was held. As part of the celebrations, the developers decided to actually program and code the Iceberg so it could tip over. This was hinted at by one of the game's community managers, who revealed in the comments section of a blogpost detailing the Waddle on Party that "penguins could discover a special secret". The Iceberg could be tipped if at least 5 players in the room were wearing the color Blue, walking a Blue Puffle or any of its variants, and dancing while wearing a Hard Hat. If only 2 to 4 penguins fulfilled this criteria, the Iceberg would just shake. When enough penguins manage to tip it, the Iceberg would completely flip over, revealing a large dance floor, a bin of free Iceberg Tipper hats, a buoy numbered 11 frozen in the ice, and a plaque surrounded by many carvings and an inscription on it that read:
"Together, we can build an island, create a community, change the world... and even tip an iceberg. Waddle on."
The Japanese version of the game features a unique location west of Mt. Glom, a small riverside woodland simply called "?". This area is only accessible if the player patches their memory card using a CD distributed with volume 147 of Dengeki PlayStation. The primary feature of ? is Dengeki-ya, a Special Store containing a lottery, a shop, and a free Rusted Sword. Despite tying in with a magazine published exclusively in Japan, the files for ? are still present in the US release's data.
During the game's fifth mission, if you complete the Sniper's Last Stand level on Hard mode, the player will be brought to the second part of the level to play a hide-and-seek minigame. You are given 60 seconds to find a safe hiding spot, and then the "Bazooka-Med", a medic carrying a bazooka, will start to hunt you down until he finds you and shoots you with it. There is no reward for winning this minigame.
In the "Blood and Wine" expansion, one of the fist-fighters Geralt must defeat in Beauclair is a man named Mancomb who can be found near the Nilfgaardian Embassy marker in the south. Mancomb is described as an experienced fighter, but instead of fighting in hand-to-hand combat, Geralt must instead fight Mancomb by verbally roasting him. This entire sequence is a reference to the Monkey Island series, with Mancomb's appearance being modeled after series protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, the name "Mancomb" already belonging to the Monkey Island character Mancomb Seepgood, and the fight itself referencing the recurring Insult Sword Fights throughout the series.
In 2023, a previously undiscovered Easter egg was found in the secret level "The Abyssmal". However, while it is possible to activate this secret legitimately, the steps to do so are uncertain as to how many are really needed to activate it. In order to make it appear, Gex needs to whack all 6 pearls, whack all 7 mines in a specific order, whack every fish, whack the turret without activating it, and whack the target inside of the sunken ship. Another possible step is going inside of the ship's funnel, but it's still unknown if this is supposed to be an invisible trigger for something or if it's unnecessary for triggering the Easter egg. When all of these steps are completed, a spinning cube with pictures of three family members of the developers will appear on top of the Deep Sea Explorer. Destroying the cube will award you with a Star Token for the Vault.
The appearance of Blanka's (a guest costume from the Street Fighter series) alternate style "Blanka Delgado" was based on Boman Delgado from the Rival Schools series.
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.
Due to the success of the Croc games, Fox Interactive considered creating an animated television series based on them. A show bible was written by Flint Dille complete with backstory and six episode synopses, but plans for the series were scrapped. These documents were considered lost for over 25 years until 2024, when Argonaut Games announced that the show bible (as well as accompanying meeting notes) would be included in the remaster of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos as part of the game's Crocipedia.
In the English release of Street Fighter II, one of Ryu's quotes to defeated opponents is "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance." "Sheng Long" is a mistranslation of Ryu's flying uppercut move Shōryūken (昇龍拳) stemming from the first two Japanese characters meaning "shēng lóng" in Chinese pinyin. As a result, players mistakenly thought that Ryu was referring to a person named Sheng Long instead of his Shōryūken, and that he was a secret playable character.
Amidst a swarm of fan mail to gaming publications asking how to unlock Sheng Long, the American magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly published a guide to fight him as a secret boss for their annual April Fools' prank in 1992. Photoshopped screenshots of Sheng Long fighting Ryu were created by editor Ken Williams, who also wrote "ridiculous requirements" to find him that were meant to imply he was not real, but were actually attempted by players. In response to complaints, they revealed at the end of the year that Sheng Long was a hoax, and expressed surprise over it gaining worldwide coverage as other publications in Eurasian countries reprinted the guide without their permission.
Sheng Long was brought back for a second April Fools' prank in 1997 in response to rumors that he could be in Street Fighter III, creating hand-drawn art of him and claiming he was the localized version of the real non-playable character Gouken. Despite adding more obvious clues to it being a prank, according to the magazine's June 1997 issue, this second prank was so convincing that Capcom of America allegedly fell for it and called their Japanese headquarters to ask why they were not told he was in the game.
Sheng Long left a continuing influence on video game hoaxes and the Street Fighter series, leading to a scrapped official appearance in the game adaptation of Street Fighter: The Movie, and Capcom pulling their own Sheng Long pranks in 2008 and 2017. In 2023, Sheng Long made his first canonical appearance in the series in Street Fighter 6 as a non-playable opponent using Ryu's fighting style, and can be fought in the World Tour mode after completing the game.
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On the title screen, if you press the Run button at the exact moment when Momo changes from her civilian form to her powered-up form, a hidden options menu will appear that functions as both a sound test and a level select. The top half of this screen depicts Momo lounging in a bathtub, with a caption below reading "MOMO IZIRI". The latter is a play on words referencing the screen's contents, as it can be translated as either "tinkering with Momo" (i.e. playing around with in-game settings) or "groping Momo."
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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In the Japanese release of the Sega CD version, if the player beats the game on Hard difficulty and waits ten minutes after the credits, the game will display a bonus image depicting Reika topless, with the screen cropped to just barely hide her nipples from view. This Easter egg is removed in the international release.
There is a minigame Link can play with a Cucco in the Hidden Village towards the end of the game called Cat Hunt. The object of the minigame is to find 20 cats hidden throughout the village, and Link will be rewarded with a Piece of Heart. In the English translation of the game, the cats have no names and all say "Meow! What fun, meow!" when caught, but in the French translation they each have personal names and custom dialogue.
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.
Generica's holiday outfit is a reference to the outfit worn by Jack Skellington, the main character of the 1993 stop-motion animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". When given said outfit, she'll state "What's this? What's this? This outfit reminds me of a nightmare I had once, just before Christmas.", which not only alludes to the film's title, but also to the song "What's This?" from the film, which is sung by Jack when he first arrives in Christmas Town.
The "Sausage" and "Legendary Sausage" weapons in Holocure: Save the Fans! are based on the mobile games Sausage Legend and Sausage Legend 2, which are known for being played on livestreams by Hololive talent Oozora Subaru and her viewers. According to developer Kay Yu, he was granted permission by the Sausage Legend developers to reference the game via these weapons and its collaborations. In 2023, the references culminated in Hololive working with the Sausage Legend developers to release special skins for Sausage Legend 2 based on Subaru and fellow member Hakui Koyori.
While the other Code Monkeys games featuring mockbuster films used images from the films themselves for their sliding puzzle and coloring minigames, Lion and the King instead uses unauthorized frames from the 1965 anime adaptation of the manga Kimba the White Lion. Coincidentally, TV and film adaptations in this franchise have also been used in various plagiarism allegations relating to Disney's 1994 film The Lion King, the movie that Lion and the King plagiarizes.
Despite being largely forgotten in favor of its sequels, the original Age of Empires remained popular decades later in Vietnam, due in large part to pirated copies of the game being bundled in Vietnamese computers and a long history of LAN matches dating back to the 1990's. Modern Vietnamese players often use custom rulesets, and top players have earned tens of thousands of dollars in tournaments viewed by audiences as high as the hundreds of thousands.
One of the oldest and most well-known rumors in the game was that the Iceberg to the northeast of Club Penguin Island could be tipped over if enough penguins stood on one side of it, or if enough penguins used the Jackhammer 3000 on the Iceberg by wearing the Hard Hat. However, this rumor was false and was never actually implemented into the game for most of its run.
The Japanese version of the game features a unique location west of Mt. Glom, a small riverside woodland simply called "?". This area is only accessible if the player patches their memory card using a CD distributed with volume 147 of Dengeki PlayStation. The primary feature of ? is Dengeki-ya, a Special Store containing a lottery, a shop, and a free Rusted Sword. Despite tying in with a magazine published exclusively in Japan, the files for ? are still present in the US release's data.
In the "Blood and Wine" expansion, one of the fist-fighters Geralt must defeat in Beauclair is a man named Mancomb who can be found near the Nilfgaardian Embassy marker in the south. Mancomb is described as an experienced fighter, but instead of fighting in hand-to-hand combat, Geralt must instead fight Mancomb by verbally roasting him. This entire sequence is a reference to the Monkey Island series, with Mancomb's appearance being modeled after series protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, the name "Mancomb" already belonging to the Monkey Island character Mancomb Seepgood, and the fight itself referencing the recurring Insult Sword Fights throughout the series.
In 2023, a previously undiscovered Easter egg was found in the secret level "The Abyssmal". However, while it is possible to activate this secret legitimately, the steps to do so are uncertain as to how many are really needed to activate it. In order to make it appear, Gex needs to whack all 6 pearls, whack all 7 mines in a specific order, whack every fish, whack the turret without activating it, and whack the target inside of the sunken ship. Another possible step is going inside of the ship's funnel, but it's still unknown if this is supposed to be an invisible trigger for something or if it's unnecessary for triggering the Easter egg. When all of these steps are completed, a spinning cube with pictures of three family members of the developers will appear on top of the Deep Sea Explorer. Destroying the cube will award you with a Star Token for the Vault.
The appearance of Blanka's (a guest costume from the Street Fighter series) alternate style "Blanka Delgado" was based on Boman Delgado from the Rival Schools series.
In the English release of Street Fighter II, one of Ryu's quotes to defeated opponents is "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance." "Sheng Long" is a mistranslation of Ryu's flying uppercut move Shōryūken (昇龍拳) stemming from the first two Japanese characters meaning "shēng lóng" in Chinese pinyin. As a result, players mistakenly thought that Ryu was referring to a person named Sheng Long instead of his Shōryūken, and that he was a secret playable character.
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.
Generica's holiday outfit is a reference to the outfit worn by Jack Skellington, the main character of the 1993 stop-motion animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". When given said outfit, she'll state "What's this? What's this? This outfit reminds me of a nightmare I had once, just before Christmas.", which not only alludes to the film's title, but also to the song "What's This?" from the film, which is sung by Jack when he first arrives in Christmas Town.
