Running Jokes in Video Gaming

[Agent X]

Street Fighter Alpha 3 also has some choice quotes with clever references to either earlier games, or certain techniques or aspects of them. Here are a few good examples:

Sakura: "I like street fighting better than sparring in rival schools!"

Charlie: "I'm sorry... Are you mad at me? Did I 'tick' you off? Ha! Ha!"

Cody: "After waiting so long, it feels good to do more than two moves!"

Cody: "With so much riding on my fists, this will not be my final fight!"

Guy: "You know what...!? I've you on a chain!! Ha! HA! HA!"

Zangief: "I'm like a cyclone... If you get too close you'll be sucked in!"

Guile: "No handcuffs!? Fighting isn't what it used to be!"

Balrog: "If you fight like that again, I'll bite your ear off!" (Not necessarily a game reference, but humorous when you think about who inspired the Balrog character.)

[James]

Really, truly a running joke- Finding Max (of Sam & Max) in just about any Lucasarts game you care to mention. I'm not sure he's been in every single game (feel free to list his appearances if you know) but he's usually somewhere.

James

[Regus]

Really, truly a running joke- Finding Max (of Sam & Max) in just about any Lucasarts game you care to mention. I'm not sure he's been in every single game (feel free to list his appearances if you know) but he's usually somewhere.

James

I know he was in Shadows of the Empire.

Vice City is full of little in jokes that reference other games in the series, far too many to list.

[Josh]

Hey, who's that in your av? Looks familiar...

Casey Fucking Jones.

[Shine]

Howabout Square and their constant use of certain names like 'Biggs and Wedge', an homage to Star Wars, and Cid (though the reason behind this one illudes me.)

[Omni]

Howabout Square and their constant use of certain names like 'Biggs and Wedge', an homage to Star Wars, and Cid (though the reason behind this one illudes me.)

Every Final Fantasy has a character named Cid. Producer Hironobu Sakaguchi describes Cid as "the Yoda of the Final Fantasy series." He's a little bit older and wiser than the rest of the team and usually a bit crustier. Whatever the circumstances, Cid's character is almost always an engineer or mechanic. Cid was a playable character in Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VII.

There ya go.

[Shine]

Thanks for that (there 4 fucking words are you happy now?)

[Tain]

Finding Max (of Sam & Max) in just about any Lucasarts game you care to mention. I'm not sure he's been in every single game (feel free to list his appearances if you know) but he's usually somewhere.

Yeah, Shadows of the Empire, Day of the Tentacle, Jedi Knight... And probably every other older LucasArts game.

[Dolemite]

Casey Fucking Jones.

Shit, that's right. It's a dark shot, hard to see him. He owned TMNT.

[Shapermc]

Well there is the Rasin thing that carried over from Toplan games to the Cave games.

Also I cannot express the ammount of time I have seen something relating to "All your base are belong to us." I have even seen grafiti of it while in the city.