Old games that pay tribute to an even older gamethere aren't many that come to my mind,the nostalgia pandering wasn't as strong back then Pic related is Mario Bros 3 battle mode ,a tribute to the arcade game Mario bros
nigga i completely forgot this mode was a thing, you just unlocked a dormant part of my brain
Major Havoc making references to breakout
Gradius 3 referencing the previous 2 games and salamander/life force
Pc 98 evo having a creature based on the composer and playing the Dragon Quest anthem but off key
>>12130864Doom II having a pair of secret levels based on Wolfenstein 3-D, plus some shootable Commander Keen dolls in the second of them.
>>12130896me and my sibling never making any progress as we keep drawing each other into the battle minigame over and over
Action 52 genesis including pong as "first game"NBA jam having Mortal Kombat charactersHidden "galaga" game in Mortal Kombat 3Pacman symbols in Mortal KombatJill of the Jungle having a message saying "ZZT forever"Donkey Kong country having classic Donkey Kong referencesDay of the Tentacle having Maniac mansion hidden in the game
Leisure suit Larry 1 having a death where you see other game protags The king's quest death in Space quest 1The end part of Leisure suit Larry 3The part in Space Quest 4 where you can go back to Space Quest 1, and the part where you can go back and die in Space Quest 3Monkey Island having a fake out death that makes fun of Sierra games, if that counts
Megablast features the Bubble Bobble dragon as a bossLots of Data East games like Joe & Mac and Trio the Punch feature Chelnov as an easter eggMost old Konami games feature the Gradius moai in some wayZone of the Enders 2 features the Vic Viper and has a secret game mode for it called ZoradiusBattle Garegga features all the Sorcer Striker characters with respective ships as a hidden bonus, and Batrider features both the Sorcer Striker characters and the Garegga onesVideo System games, especially Sonic Wings all feature crossovers and references to each otherOutZone references Zero Wing and other Toaplan gamesThe list is endless
Rise of the Triad's dopefish modeDuke 3d having a suffering doom guyQuake 3 Arena having doom guy and quake 1 guy iircOutrun 2 having the course that references Sega model 3 racersSonic Riders having the Sega reference courseYeah, 6th gen is retro
Making reference of the competitors isn't what i'm looking for (many FPS of the time do that but it's not for nostalgia )I'm looking for vr games with nostalgic levels or characters Stuff like the Mario 64 level in Mario Galaxy 2 or the Shadow moses sequence in MGS4
the kirby's dream land level in kirby's adventure
The Smash power-up in Kirby Amazing Mirror surprised me quite a bit. The fact that Lololo is a boss in the first game and acts just like he did in the MSX, I guess Sakurai had a knack for referencing games he liked even before Smash.
>>12130946Jill of the Jungle is pretty wacky.
Super Mario Land 2 tribute to Balloon Fight's balloon trip mode
Tempo on the 32X in the Hi-Fi Performance stage features a bunch of very retro enemies in one section of it(space invaders, Head-On cars)The 8bit Mario transformation in Mario RPG.Modern homebrew stuff, but on first boot up, Paprium on genesis features a fake, low-quality beat em up game, though it may be more a reference to just very basic hobbyist games for retro hardware All the Nintendo character cameos in Kirbys Dream Land 3The Flickies becoming Sonic characters, and also the Flicky section of Gunstar Super Heroes.Buncha stuff in Mother 3 referencing the first two games.
>>12130864Zombies Ate My Neighbors has a secret level where the main enemy is the titular tentacles from Day of the Tentacle. The legit way to find it is to get a bazooka or monster potion from a random item spawn on Level 1 and use it to break a hedge holding the secret level icon. Otherwise, there's a password to start the game on it.
>>12130971>quake 1 guyHis name is Ranger.But yes you are correct.
The arcade in EarthBound samples sound effects from Space Invaders, Sheriff and Xevioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-TF48JoNA
>>12130864you could play Galaxian on the Ridge Racer loading screen on PS1
From Cameltry/On The Ball
>>12130864DK64 had Jetpac to unlock and I think I played that more than the actual game
>>12130864>Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Prime having the original NES game as an unlockable>Battletoads, when pixelated Space Invaders appear and try to steal your life meter>Mega Man X8's secret Cut Man fight in Optic Sunflower's stage, done up in Paper Mario-styled graphics. It needs MMX Command Mission save data but can also be enabled with a code.
>>12130957wasnt there a part on monkey 2 or 3 that had a dream/flashback with the much simpler monkey 1 guybrush sprite?
>>12131297DK64 also has arcade DK, which for years and years was the only official port of it until I think Switch got it as an arcade classic release.
Timesplitters 2 has some old arcade games in it.
*tropical arrangement of the OG super mario bros theme starts playing*
At one point in King's Field 3 you go back to the map of KF1In Dragon Quest 3 you travel the world and can traverse the map of DQ1The Police Station in Resident Evil 2is the same entire layout of the Mansion from RE1Several retro Kirby games have a level made in honor of the first game starting from the second game onwards, making the palette B&W and changing the artstyleIn every Disgaea you can recruit characters from older Nippon Ichi titles
>>12131862Strangely DK arcade had complicated rights issues. Nintendo didn't have the full rights to the code or something along those lines.
Donkey Kong '94 (the Game Boy game) introduces DK Jr. partway through the game to sabotage you on certain levels. One of the final levels in the game is caging Jr. in a recreation of the final level of his arcade game.
It's not really a "reference", but I think Galaga '88 was the first major game to really market itself entirely on nostalgia (for a 7 year old game).
>>12133178Gonna use this to say that Galaga '88 is one of my favorite games of all timesI love everything about it
>>12133178I think one of the later space invaders did it first.
Xyzzy in zork
Elevator action (full arcade game) hidden in elevator action returns on saturn.the most amazing taito exemple is hiding and packing the FULL arcade game space invaders and colour variation on the black and white game boy space invaders cart, when it's played on the super game boy on snes. <3
