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Splatoon 2
Splatoon 2 (2017)
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Attachment In the Octo Expansion, during the cutscene where Telephone assembles all the Thangs, a distorted set of screams can be heard. Reversing the audio for these screams reveals that it's actually a group of people counting down from 10 and shouting "Happy New Year!", with each word in the audio clip being individually reversed so it still forms a normal countdown.
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person sp1oo calendar_month October 28, 2024
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Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion cutscene reversed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBPg4OYN5k

Separated audio comparison:
https://x.com/ardnin_/status/1414335638799794176
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior II (1987)
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Attachment In an interview with the game's designer and writer Yuji Horii published in the 1987 GSLA, he discussed the memory limitations that his team faced during the development of the Famicom version of Dragon Quest II, leading them to remove some elements from the final game, including:

• Large, kamishibai-esque pictures meant for cutscenes. Horii noted that one of these images was quietly preserved in the story section of the Dragon Quest II instruction manual, appearing in black and white instead of color.
• An expanded scenario involving a full-size image of Rhone’s landscape, visible from the top of a lighthouse. This image would have featured a single sparkling point of light in the sea, marking the location of the sunken treasure required to get the Echo Flute. However, due to memory constraints, the image had to be cut, and the scenario was subsequently changed.
• A more humorous idea they had to abandon was the "Abunai Mizugi" (Scandalous Swimsuit). This piece of armor, intended to be as strong as the Mink Coat and extremely expensive, would have caused the Princess of Moonbrooke's character sprite to change to reflect her wearing it. While it was cut from the Famicom version of the game, it was included as equippable armor for the Princess in the MSX version. It was slightly modified from the original idea, where every enemy has a 1/8th chance to be stunned by her beauty while she wears it.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Manual, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Storage/Memory, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic
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Yuji Horii 1987 GSLA interview:
https://shmuplations.com/dragonquestii/

Dragon Quest II (MSX) - Abunai Mizigi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlSMGVEXJA
Amanda the Adventurer
Amanda the Adventurer (2022)
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Skip and Chip, the main characters of Chip's Tips (a point-and-click FMV game released as part of Dread X Collection 3), make a cameo appearance at the end of the hidden red tape as part of a commercial break.
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Cameo, Easter Egg
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Amanda the Adventurer - Red Tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nieeqsQD6vM#t=467s

Chip's Tips gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmZ-knbmQLo
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (2024)
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James Marsters, who has voiced Zamasu in the franchise starting with the English dub of "Dragon Ball Super", previously played Piccolo in the infamous 2009 live action film "Dragonball Evolution". Marsters since expressed regret over his performance in the film, and stated he took on the role of Zamasu in an effort to "redeem himself with the Dragon Ball Z community". As a reference to this, at one point when using Fused Zamasu's Divine Hammer rush attack in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, he quotes one of Piccolo's lines in the movie: "Human power has failed before, as it will AGAIN!".
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Easter Egg, Inspiration, Multimedia Adaptation, Reference, Voice Acting
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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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Artwork/Illustration, Asset Reuse, Backstory/Lore, Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Leak, Reference, Similarities, Sprite/Graphical Animation
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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
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition (2003)
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By inputting a secret combination on this game's version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the player can unlock a secret credits screen for engineering (showing the people responsible for developing the Nintendo 64 emulator that allowed the game to run on the GameCube). This secret went unnoticed until 2024.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message
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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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Easter Egg, Reference
person Dinoman96 calendar_month October 10, 2024
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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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Complaint, Easter Egg, In-Joke, Model, Reference, Unused Graphic
person VinchVolt calendar_month October 9, 2024
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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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Celebrity, Character Design, Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Real Life, Reference, Remake, Similarities, Suggested
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Hard Time III
Hard Time III (2024)
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Celebrity, Character Design, Easter Egg, Legal Affairs, Parody, Real Life, Reference, Similarities
person VinchVolt calendar_month October 3, 2024
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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
Alan Wake
Alan Wake (2010)
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Attachment In Episode 5, on the second floor of the bookstore, a poster can be found on a wall reading "How to catch the legendary Dopefish", featuring an image of the Dopefish from Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy!, who has made cameo appearances in many other games since his first appearance.
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Cameo, Easter Egg
person Q_CooL calendar_month September 24, 2024
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Street Fighter III: New Generation (Game), Street Fighter 6 (Game)
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Attachment 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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April Fools, Artwork/Illustration, Bonus Content, Cameo, Complaint, Easter Egg, Hoax, In-Joke, Inspiration, Magazine, Misconception, Mistranslation, Regional Difference, Rumor
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Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue #033, April 1992 (page 60 in the magazine):
https://www.retromags.com/files/file/2823-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-033-april-1992/

Electronic Gaming Monthly's 1992 Video Game Buyers Guide (page 22 in the book):
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthlyBuyerSGuide1993/page/n21/mode/2up

Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue #093, April 1997 (page 80 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_93_April_1997_U/page/n85/mode/2up

Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue #095, June 1997 (pages 102-103 in the magazine):
https://www.retromags.com/files/file/3685-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-095-june-1997/

Capcom Sheng Long 2008 prank:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080405021441/http://www.capcom-fc.com/sf4/2008/04/post_19.html

Capcom Sheng Long 2008 prank origins blog posts:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080405154132/http://www.capcom-fc.com/sf4/2008/04/41.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080616135049/http://blog.capcom.com/archives/1106

Capcom Sheng Long 2017 prank:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170330210110/https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/131583
https://www.capcom.co.jp/sfv/sp/160225_interview_02.html

Sheng Long in Street Fighter 6:
https://www.thegamer.com/street-fighter-6-things-only-fans-noticed/
https://www.ign.com/articles/30-years-later-street-fighter-6-finally-gives-sheng-long-the-canon-appearance-he-deserves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fvYor_MVts

The Video Game History Foundation video on stories from Electronic Gaming Monthly's run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l_ACqlxrvI

GameSpot article on the history of Sheng Long:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090404063051/http://www.gamespot.com/features/vgs/universal/sfhistory/char_sheng_long.html

Supplementary Wikipedia article for more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Long
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
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Sheik's Spoiler:true identity as Princess Zelda is hinted at during Sheik's Theme. If you listen closely, you'll hear the notes to Spoiler:Zelda's Lullaby, but played faster and on a harp instead of an ocarina.
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Easter Egg, Music, Similarities
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Persona 3 Portable
Persona 3 Portable (2009)
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During the "Operation Babe Hunt" scenario, the player must talk to various women to progress the story. One is a voluptuous woman named "Woman of Questionable Age." This is Noriko Kashiwagi from Persona 4, Yu's homeroom teacher and teacher of biology.
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Backstory/Lore, Cameo, Easter Egg
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Road Fighter
Road Fighter (1984)
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Driving for a certain period of time without crashing will make Konami's mascot Konami Man appear, awarding the player 3000 points in the arcade version and 1000 points in the NES/Famicom version.
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Console Difference, Easter Egg, General
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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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Adaptation, Easter Egg, Meme, Mistake, Reference
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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/
Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment "Meatophobia", the ominous background music that plays when approaching Pillar John and activating Pizza Time, features a timestretched version of the same hip-hop orchestral hit sample used in the Small Graffiti sound effect from Jet Set Radio.
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Asset Reuse, Easter Egg, Music, Sound Effect
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Sound effect comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A5F38fa6fg

Jet Set Radio soundtrack - S.E. GRAFFITI SMALL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btMWxLSrzg

Pizza Tower soundtrack - Meatophobia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_y3PLiCa6A
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989)
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When the title screen menu cursor points to the "START" option, press B on Controller 2, then press Up/B/Right/Left/Down/Right/Left/A/B/Right/Select/B/Down/Start on Controller 1. This code unlocks a pair of debug features that can be used on Controller 2 during gameplay by pressing either A to skip the current level (up to the ending sequence), or B to switch between the Jekyll and Hyde modes.
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Cheat, Debug, Easter Egg, Secret
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Jak 3
Jak 3 (2004)
subdirectory_arrow_right Jak II (Game), Naughty Dog (Company)
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Attachment Naughty Dog's name was inspired by their first company mascot Morgan, a Labrador/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix born in 1989 who was the pet dog of co-founder Jason Rubin starting with the development of Rings of Power. During the development of Way of the Warrior, Morgan lived with both Rubin and co-founder Andy Gavin in poor living conditions and she was often fed some of their meals from the fast food chain McDonald's. While she first appeared in a game as a Special Thanks credit in Rings of Power, Morgan technically became part of the company when she was given her own photo ID card after Naughty Dog moved onto the Universal Interactive Studios premises for the development of Crash Bandicoot. She was credited as a member of Naughty Dog on their four Crash Bandicoot games and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. She died in 2002 at the age of 13 during the development of Jak II, and several tributes to her were put into Jak II and Jak 3.

Jak II's manual and end credits feature a standard In Memoriam dedication for Morgan, but there are two more hidden tributes in the game. There is a green neon sign spelling Morgan's name written in the Precurian language inside the Hip Hog Saloon located to the left from the door. Additionally, in the Power Station in New Haven City, a set of random scrolling Precurian messages can be found on the large computer monitor. Translating these to English will reveal the following:

• "Morgan I miss you"
• "Morgan"
• "Thirteen years hard time"
• "There will never be another"
• "Good dog"
• "I will always love you"

Another message can be found on computer screens you can view at eye-level, which reads "Morgan is still missed even after a year has passed". These computer screen messages are re-used on the monitors in both the Power Station and the Freedom League buildings in Jak 3. Since Morgan's death, Naughty Dog have credited more pets as members of their team and/or company mascots, with the first successor being a Labrador puppy named Osiris who first appeared in the credits of the first Jak and Daxter game alongside Morgan.
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Corporate Affairs, Credits, Crunch/Overwork, Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Inspiration, Manual, Mascot, Passed Away, Real Life, Title, Tribute
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