Post some callbacks in /vr/ games. I'm a sucker for this shit.
air zonk has a section in the final stage thats a callback to bonkthat final stage is honestly one of the best in all of gaming. 15 minute long monster of action and setpieces
>>11512865Thanks for posting this OP. When I was a kid I got really psyched when I found the secret room in this level. First game I ever 100%'d kek
Dragon Quest 3's penultimate (iirc, might be the very last one) area is just the entire map of Dragon Quest 1
>>11512932They should've made the entirety of Sonic 1 playable like that because unlocking that shit is no small feat
>>11512865The end of Mother 3 has a callback section
>>11512932That felt really special in 2001 but not anymore because SEGA has been shoving GHZ into every fucking game since Generations
>>11512940That's okay, but nothing compared to randomly running into Alfegard in Dragon Warrior 2. Absolutely blew my 11 year old mind.Going to the dragon lord's castle, seeing someone sitting on his throne and wasting all kind of herbs, etc to full heal, in preparation for the battle, just to get dialogue was amazing also.
>>11512953Ohh right, it was also in 2, completely forgot about that>Going to the dragon lord's castle, seeing someone sitting on his throne and wasting all kind of herbs, etc to full heal, in preparation for the battle, just to get dialogue was amazing also.kek
Bordering on non-/vr/ (2008 on both PS2 and Wii) but still
>>11512925Smash is easy mode for this thread but I especially loved the visuals of the Melee stages.
>>11512865StarTropics II's final chapter takes place on the island where the first game started off and has a recreation of the first dungeon, and the giant snake boss returns midway through as a skeleton zombie.
>>11512932Admit it, this wasn't a satisfying reward. Especially after the car level.
>>11512865super mario rpg, paper mario 64, and paper mario ttyd have sections where you (and your partners in ttyd) can turn 8 bit.
>>11513028I remember the SMRPG one, but not the rest. Are they only from the remakes?
>>11513040no they're in the original. in ttyd you have to drop down from the rightmost grate in the x-naut base's attic, and in 64 you have to jump inside a vase in boo's mansion.
>>11513040They were in the original games, too. Was something of a tradition until the Wii game.On a similar subject, the Viruses from Dr. Mario appear in M&L: Superstar Saga appear as enemies in Hoohoo Hooniversity. They change colors when you hit them and matching all of them to a color kills them instantly.
>>11512865Was this the first meta callback? As in this case, not just referencing a previous game in the series, but referencing that fact that the previous games were on a monochrome console.
>>11512865Super Mario Bros. 3 has a two-player battle mode that is literally the original Mario Bros. arcade game. The Shellcreepers are now Spinies to warn you not to jump on them, but otherwise plays exactly the same.
Never played Banjo Tooie. Were there any good callbacks to Banjo Kazooie?
I had no idea GTA III was referenced in SA so when I beat SA for the first time last year I was really surprised.
>>11513597You mean that there's a mission set in the mafia section of Liberty City lol?
Wizardry 4's city/castle at the end of the game is the place where your party worked out of in Wizardry 1, and you can visit the locations you only saw as menus in the first game.Pitfall : The Mayan Adventure has the original Pitfall game hidden in the game.Day of the Tentacle has the original Maniac Mansion playable on an in-game computer.Donkey Kong(94) on the Game Boy has the original arcade's Donkey Kong levels for the first few levels, then the rest of the game is original.Mega Man 3 brings back the Yellow Devil from the first game and upgrades him.Hitman Contracts is a giant callback, reusing and modifying a large chunk of levels from the first Hitman game. Namely Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and the hotel level. The first level is also a reworked version of the last two levels from the original, with a greatly expanded basement. Only now you are going in the opposite direction.The first level of Frogger on PS1 is the original Frogger level but in the new game's 3D engine. The rest of the game is everything after you manage to beat that, similar to Donkey Kong on GB.FF9 is full of callbacks to previous FF games. Garland, Princess Cornelia, Hilda, Cid, Guy, the four elemental guys are named Maliris(Kary in the FF1 english translation, Marilith in the JP), Tiamat, Kraken, and Lich, the Invincible, Namingway, and Cloud's Buster Sword in that one weapon shop.
Gameboy Donkey Kong (the one you play as Mario)
>>11512953Something about the Dragonlord's grandson being a pacifist that just sits in his castle enjoying life without assaulting the rest of Alefgard is unendingly amusing to me. Guy has a cool ass castle and doesn't need much else, I respect that.
>>11513551No. The Lucasarts PC games had been doing that sort of humor fro a while. Day of the Tentacle is full of goofy meta jokes about the first game being on the Commodore 64 (IIRC, at one point there's even a joke where a character is making a reference to the first game, and an unnecessary screencap of it appears on-screen as a visual aid, despite the two games' art styles looking nothing like each other).
>>11513609>Mega Man 3 brings back the Yellow Devil from the first game and upgrades him.And had the bosses from 2 as fights
Subspace in SMB 2 has SMB 1 music
>>11513609>>11513734also the copy robot.
King's Field first floor at the end of King's Field III
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>>11512973>advertising Saturn, Genesis AND Megadrive all at the same timeDoes not compute
>>11512865Sonic Adventure 1, when you visit Eggman's base, you'll see Mecha and Metal Sonic in capsules. You can play as the latter if you'll collect all emblems. At the start of the Amy's story, she remembers events of CD, albeit retconned a little. The music for Windy Valley and Twinkle Circuit also references 3D Blast.
>>11513591Yes, the whole Spiral Mountain.
>>1151292520 years before this game came out the year was 1981. Super Mario Bros did not exist and neither did the NES.Melee turns 24 years old this year.Crazy to think about.
>>11513765You can even jump on the Goombas Mario-style for a heart pick-up. There's also Piranha Plants, Thwomps, Shy Guys, Bob-Ombs, Kirby for some reason, and even Wart as a guest NPC.
>>11514142Forgot Chain Chomp and Yoshi (as a doll)
Rainbow road in f-zero x
>>11515256I always forget that the F-Zero series is actually older than Mario Kart
Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears and Beginning rearranged.I think the Haunted Castle game already did that too? At least with Bloody Tears, but the use of the old tracks rearranged during the last levels on IV was extremely effective. After that it became a staple of Castlevania to reuse those 3 themes.
>>11515271Bloody Tears, a very rare callback in the series indeed>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrxOKpGHw3I>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtR94bqABzk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJLwbwOk08>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8FH8NI4U4Y>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-iZpbN63I>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWW0PTkjR8
>>11513791https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW25LsLmOTsTwinkle Park's main theme is a remix of an unused 3D Blast track too
>>11515271>>11515284Oh shit nevermind you mentioned that it became a staple, I'm a retard. Still, enjoy this collection of Bloody Tears
>>11515285Never knew that. Interestingly they use the intro 'cutscene' theme from 3D Blast in that racing part before the actual stage
>>11515271They even had vampire killer in cv3 before that too
>>11512993That was incredible playing StarTropics 1 & 2 back to back.
>>11514142>Kirby, Wart.What do those two have in common, I wonder?
>>11515256https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqJEEAA-swIn the 64DD version it had the music remixed, too.
>>11512865In MGS on the GBC you can find the wreckage of the original TX-55 Metal Gear in the same spot from MG1, since the game also takes place in Outer Heaven but years later.
>>11515285Wow, that's really cool. Pleasure Castle's theme is one of my favorite SA1 tracks
>>11516484Kirby would kick Wart's ass for messing up dreamsWart and Dedede would probably get along and visit each other's royal tea parties until they won't share a cookie and ban each other from visiting forever
Every 9-Volt sequence and all microgames are callbacks
The last chapter of Dragon Warrior 3
>>11513591plenty. also you have all the unlockable moves from the first game at the start.
One of my favourites is how the poem from Kingdom Hearts 1s opening (when you leave the title screen on) is repeated by Kairi at the end of KH2.
The Tower of Druaga is in Baten Kaitos for some reason
>>11517145Well, Monolith was part of Namco at the time or at least Namco used to publish all of their major games
https://youtu.be/g2wzMZzdNJA
>>11517150I know but it comes out of nowhere in a game that was never 8bit. Literally one screen from this. Now that I think about it the one wing representing incompleteness is from Xenogears and there's a boss named after the Gnosis.
>>11517156Dropped picture
Did anyone post super Metroid yet?
>>11516493Not enough people talk about this game.Even if Kojima wasn't involved, it's a better follow up to classic Metal Gear than Solid ever was. Nojiri and Fukushima clearly had a very deep respect for the series.
>>11514142You forgot Richard.
>>11517259It was just MGS1 with the cast and setting rearranged, with implication that it's all just Raiden in VR Training doing a fictionalized semi-retelling of Shadow Moses before he does the real thing in MGS2.
>>11517137This reminds me, wasn't there a similar thing in Shenmue 2? In the first game, it remembers which photo you take and in the next one, character will show it to his friend
>>11517540>It was just MGS1 with the cast and setting rearrangedYou've described MGS2 through 4, but not Ghost Babel.
>>11517834man Simon was a midget
