In XCOM:Enemy Unknown, you play as "The Commander" and not XCOM This is because the original XCOM died in the first game, when he missed 3 99% shots in a row

There's a guy you can talk to in Pokemon Red where Giovanni lets you join Team Rocket and then you can go catch the Pokegods

You can build air units from airports in advance wars.

Super Mario Brothers 2 was actually a reskin of a japanese game called doki doki artichoki

>>1224406 What's an airport again?

>>1325027 >loser calling another loser unfunny

>>1201663 In Xenoblade Chronicles, the Monado used to be called the Xenoblade but they changed it after the Japanese VAs had trouble pronouncing the X The title still stuck though, because it sounded cooler than "Monado Chronicles"

In the third game of the Duke Nukem series (otherwise known as Duke Nukem 3, or Duke Nukem 3D: Full Version) interacting with some mirrors makes your reflection speak to you.

Doki Doki Literature Club isn't actually a romance visual novel, it's a horror game!

If you put the Fatal Racing 1995 Bri'ish 3D racing game for DOS, released in the US as "Whiplash" in 1996 CD-ROM into drive E instead of D, a different track plays during the race end/statistics screen. Before modern-day surround with discrete channels was a thing, analog surround sound using standard 2-channel audio but with an additional 2-4 channels mixed into the track using patented autism technology was a common feature in movies, TV broadcasts, anime and 4th-6th generation video games, though it was rarely advertised as such prior to 2000 due to licensing autism. (You) can get a decent-ish reproduction of this without paying a dime to Dolby laboratories by connecting headphones to you're PC and using HeSuVi (Wangblows) or Pipewire (Linuchs) to create a virtual surround sound speaker setup with a HRTF file of you're choosing, which usually results in objectively superior quality than gay nigger virtual surround found in gaymur headset drivers. The SNES was kind of notorious for having games intentionally or unintentionally employ off-phase samples to create an analog surround effect, most anime be they films, OVAs or TV broadcasts also employed surround mixing so (You) might enjoy rewashing them with headphones on after learning the Nipponese. Of note is that these effects still sort of "work" by playing the audio over a regular stereo speaker setup, your brain just interprets the rear channel frequencies to be located in the back of your head. Silent Hill 2 on the PS2 has an option for headphone audio, but instead of just slightly adjusting the stereo panning it instead enables a full-blown spatial audio renderer that in spite of having no settings has remarkably accurate positioning with very little coloring of the final output.

>>1201663 In Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny, at the beginning of the game you seek out assistance from an elder god named the Draracle, who lets you use his magic mirror to teleport to a jungle where you continue your quest. Behind a curtain in the mirror room, however, is a museum area with a dozen unique items to collect, one of which is a broken sword. If you hold onto that broken sword to the jungle and give it to a mystic unprompted, he will cast a repair spell, mending it. The sword has no special powers, however, and is still weaker than another prismatic sword you can find in the museum. There is also an item called the power orb which must be given to a cleric to progress in the main quest, but unprompted you can kill him and retrieve the ostensibly now-useless orb. By about the 75% mark of the game you go to an alien citadel and use a control room and stone to unlock prisoners and continue your quest. Unprompted, if you use the power orb on the repaired sword at that same control room, it will imbue the sword to become a very powerful weapon with life and mana leech.

Ryan Max has some cool secrets in super mario to show us

>>1204206 Did you know? Gacha games are shit and niggers who play them are less than animals, because animals contribute to the ecosystem and are vital to our world.

Hardly known fact, but DMC1 was supposed to be Resident Evil 4 originally!

>>1495499 And Dead Rising started out as a sequel to Shadow of Rome which makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

>>1495540 >In Sonic 3D Blast, if you punch the Sega Genesis while playing, the game will congratulate you and you'll activate a secret level select menu.

In the Etrian Odyssey games there are often joke events made to waste your time, resources, or otherwise in order to make you think more carefully about interacting with event spaces in dungeons. They usually go away after the failed or bad interaction though. Etrian Odyssey IV has a notable exception with the Crawfish, a water tile event with a crawfish you can try to catch over and over again. You have to attempt it at least five to eight times before having a chance of catching the bugger, taking notable damage each time from it attacking whoever tried to catch it, until finally you succeed and your party lets out a cheer only for you to get nothing as your group realizes the pointlessness of the whole mess and tosses it back. Think it's just there to fuck with the player. Like the party tripping balls off of mushrooms in EOV with unique effects based on player race (The humans get hot and bothered, Beastkin get clingy and touchy, elves get sleepy, and I think the halflings just have an acid trip) with surprising detail before skipping ahead 12 hours to the aftermath and deleting all your TP, all but forcing you to leave. Sadly I've never found fanart of this one, probably because of all the variance limiting how meme-y it can be. Before this there's also a batch of mushrooms in a different stratum that are just a full party heal, and this one is a full party heal too until six steps later when the effects start hitting.

In Rune Factory 4, you can give monsters items to increase their attributes. This means that, theoretically, you can make a Wooly solo the game for you! And with a cute little friend like that by your side, nothing is impossible!

In Street Fighter II, if you get all perfects in the tournament (This includes any player 2's jumping in), then you time out 3 times on M. Bison, you face a secret boss who has the moves of every World Warrior

>>1201663 Pac-Man's original name was Fuck-Man. They changed it because they were worried pussies would change the F to a P.

Using the Original Renewal Pack 3 for STALKER Call of Pripyat, if you order a custom G36 from Nimble you'll actually be given an XM8. It's pretty much a reskinned G36 with better stats and a better scope, but damn is it cool once you you open your package.

In Rugrats: Search For Reptar, if you go to the mini-golf stage, "Ice Cream Mountain," (based on the episode of the same name,) Hole 8 has a pyramid feature as decoration. The actual course doesn't interact with the pyramid, and you have no reason to actually approach it, but you can, and if you do, you can find a tunnel to get inside it. If you venture all the way to the deepest part, you'll find a mummified version of the scary robot Mr. Fiend (from the episode "The Mysterious Mr. Friend"). Mr. Fiend will chase you, and if you lead him all the way out into the sunlight, he explodes.