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This is usually (but not always) a hard-to-find special bonus, often an [[Old Save Bonus]] or [[New Game+]]. Additional rewards may be offered for beating the embedded game.
For technical reasons, this tends to be limited to games which have a very primitive previous incarnation. The earliest (known) example of this is ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', which included a complete, playable version of its precursor ''[[Maniac Mansion]]''.
Subtrope of [[Game Within a Game]]. See also [[Nostalgia Level]]. Has nothing to do with [[Precursors]].
== Video game examples ==
* Sega Smash Pack: Volume 1 for the Dreamcast doesn't include any older games per se, but it does [http://dcemulation.org/files/emulators/esmpkrl/ECHELON.TXT secretly include an entire Genesis/MegaDrive emulator], allowing hundreds of old games to be played on the Dreamcast.
* One of the bonuses for connecting ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' to ''[[Metroid]] Fusion'' was a playable copy of the original ''Metroid''. And after beating ''[[Metroid|Metroid Zero Mission]]'' once, the original ''Metroid'' was unlocked on the options menu.
* ''[[Pitfall!]]: Mayan Adventure'' has a hidden copy of the original ''Pitfall'' hidden inside it.
** So did ''[[Pitfall 3D:
*** And ''Pitfall: The Lost Expedition.'' Hell, this trope might as well be called "Pitfalling."
**** ''Pitfall: The Big Adventure'', a remake of ''The Lost Expedition'', takes it one step further by having ''both'' the original [[Atari 2600]] ''Pitfall'' games as unlockables.
* The 2010 version of ''[[Splatterhouse]]'' includes the original original arcade game and both Genesis sequels.
* ''[[Donkey Kong 94]]'' has levels from original ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' as it's first four levels.
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong]] 64'' features working arcade machines on which the player can play the original ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' and ''Jetpac'' (Rare's first game back when they were named "Ultimate Play the Game") to win a reward token.
** These tokens are actually necessary to beat the game. Which, when considering that Rare was sold to Microsoft since, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|might be the reason why the game has not seen a release on the]] [[Virtual Console]].
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros 3|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', players collect cards at the end of most levels. In a two-player game, if one player is on the same square in the map as the other player, either player can press a button to enter a fight. This fight is played as a round of a slightly modified version of the original ''Mario Bros''. The player can steal cards from the other player to earn 1-UPs, and the winner gets to go to the next level.
** One particular "feature" of this system is that the person who's currently waiting for his turn can initiate the versus battle, win, and get a new turn immediately. When playing against [[Jerkass]] brothers who are ''really'' good at the versus battle, this can result in a two player game being 100% completed by ''one player''.
*** ''[[Compilation Rerelease|Super Mario All-Stars]]'' also included said battle mode as a separate mode on the title screen of ''SMB3''. And let's not forget that '''every goddamn single''' '''''[[Video Game Remake|Super Mario Advance]]''''' '''game''' (as well as ''[[
* ''[[Mario Kart]]: Super Circuit'' for Game Boy Advance contained every track from the original SNES game. ''[[Mario Kart]] DS'' and ''[[Mario Kart]] Wii'', in turn, contained a selection of tracks from every previous game in the series.
** ''[[Mario Kart]] 7'' also has selected track returning from the previous game (
* ''[[
* The 1990s PC version of ''[[Space Invaders]]'' lets you play the original Space Invaders once you've beaten the game on Hard.
* ''[[Sonic Adventure]] DX'' for the [[Game Cube]] and PC has every single ''Sonic'' [[Game Gear]] game released, from the original 8-bit ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' (acquired by collecting 20 Emblems) to ''[[Sonic Blast]]'' and ''Tails Adventures'' (acquired by getting all Emblems and completing Mission Mode).
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* Not exactly a copy, but in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', there were two scenes from the first game as easter eggs.
* ''[[Panzer Dragoon]] Orta'', the fourth game, contains an unlockable port of the first.
* ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'' was the sequel to ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' and (as noted in the main text) has a fully playable version of it in the game. Just like the original version, it only had one save slot.
* A minor selling point for ''[[Rogue Squadron|Star Wars: Rebel Strike]]'' (It was mentioned on the back of the box) was the fact that an almost complete version (minus the Empire based bonus missions) of the previous game, ''Rogue Leader'', was available for co-op play. The game also includes ports of the Atari arcade games ''Star Wars'', ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi'', which can be earned through game play and/or by pass code.
* ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead
** Sadly, the Dreamcast version of ''House of the Dead 2'' was supposed to include an [[Video Game Remake|Enhanced Remake]] of the original title, but it wasn't implemented due to time constraints.
* Not exactly embedded, but the pre-order bonus for ''[[Shadow Hearts
** Considering the fact that ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' had a limited release, this is actually a big deal. Until you realize that ''Covenant'' had an ''equally limited release''. '''Brilliant!'''
* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'' managed to parody this quite well. The game contained a few, animated, cartridges of the original game ''Banjo Kazooie'', that your character would have to break open to get special hidden items from the first game, to unlock hidden features. Originally, this was intended for "Stop 'n' Swop", where the player would turn off the system, swap cartridges, and turn the system back on with the DRAM not fully decayed, but changes made to the Nintendo 64's memory controller late in the life of the system made this impractical: when Stop n Swop was conceptualized, if a cartridge was removed the RAM would persist for 10 seconds, more than enough time to switch cartridges before it was wiped, but a later revision to the hardware (made before the release of ''Banjo-Tooie'') reduced this time to 1 second.
* Speaking of ''Banjo'', pre-ordering ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts'' gave you a code for the Live Arcade re-release of the original game three weeks early.
** Likewise, the [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|Hardened and Prestige Editions]] of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' include a free redemption code for the [[Xbox Live Arcade]]/[[Playstation Network]] port of the first ''[[Call of Duty]]''.
* ''Tetris Worlds'' contained a re-creation of the original ''[[Tetris]]'', prior to the [[Executive Meddling]] that introduced infinite spin and T-spin triples, complete with monochrome blocks made out of bracket characters.
* Not exactly the same, but ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' features the ability to unlock several games from the various video game franchises represented. These are all timed demos though due to the existence of the Virtual Console. (In fact, people complained about the demos being merely advertising for the VC when they were revealed.) With Wii modding, it is possible to play these games not as timed demos, but as full games. Ooooohhhhh...
** Similar to ''[[Mario Kart]]'' above, it also has a selection of stages from the previous games, and the music from the missing stages can still be unlocked to play on the stages that are available.
*** ''Most'' of the music. For some reason (presumed to be legal ones), there are ''zero'' songs that originated in ''[[
*** ''Brawl'' contains ''Melee'''s physics, after a fashion. In Special Brawl, set gravity to "heavy" and damage ratio to 1.2.
* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
** The second disc of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence]]'' includes the original ''[[Metal Gear
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes]]'' for the GameCube was also sold in a special console bundle in Japan that included a bonus game disc featuring the Famicom version of the first game.
** En route to its [[Nostalgia Level]], ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' fades out and the heliport stage from ''Metal Gear Solid'' loads up. Upon completing it, modern-day "Old" Snake snaps awake. It's presented as a recurring dream of his.
** While technically not a video game, the ''Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinée'' DVD in Japan includes a fully voiced version of the original ''Digital Graphic Novel'' that was released for the PSP.
* While not technically the same game, the Collectors Edition of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The
** On the used video game market, this second disc usually sells by itself for
* ''Contra 4'' for the Nintendo DS features the NES versions of ''[[Contra]]'' and ''Super C'', but they're only available after completing 4 and 8 stages respectively in Challenge Mode. They play almost exactly like the original NES games, right down to having the same cheat codes, except there's no proper 2-Player mode in either game. Instead, both characters are mapped to the same d-pad, but their firing and jumping buttons are mapped differently (Y and B for Player 1, X and A for Player 2).
* In something of an inversion, ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'' had the final boss fight from the [[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood|preceding game]] as the opening level (although it's referred to as "Bloodlines" in the English localization). Furthermore, the player's performance in the flashback level determines Alucard's starting stats and items.
** And then ''The Dracula X Chronicles,'' the PSP remake of ''Rondo of Blood'', contains both ''Symphony of the Night'' and the original ''Rondo of Blood''.
** ''Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness'' allows the player to unlock remixed versions of Reinhart's and Carrie's quest from the previous ''Castlevania'' game for the [[Nintendo 64]], complete with cut-scenes and everything, but only after completing the main quest with Cornell. However, since Cornell's portion is technically a [[Mission Pack Sequel]] to the first N64 ''Castlevania'', ''Legacy of Darkness'' as a whole is really more of an [[Updated Rerelease]] of the first game than a sequel.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] :[[Updated Rerelease|Final Mix+]]'' has a [[Video Game Remake|remade]] midquel given almost equal billing to the game itself, ''Re: Chain of Memories'', which takes the GBA sprite game and turns it into a full-fledged 3D [[
* Pre-ordering ''[[Command
* Pre-ordering ''[[Command
* ''[[
* ''Rodland'' is perhaps the strangest inversion
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|TMNT2: Battle Nexus]]'' and ''TMNT3: Mutant Nightmare'' include (arguably [[Porting Disaster|butchered]]) ports of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game|the original arcade game]] and ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time|Turtles in Time]]'' respectively.
* The [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|Premium Pack/Kollector's Edition]] of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: Deception'' has the original ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks'' has ''Mortal Kombat II'' as an unlockable (relevant, as ''Shaolin Monks'' is essentially a retelling of ''MK2'') and looking at the pattern, you can tell what the Limited Edition of ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'' includes.
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia|Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X]]'' (PSP) features (an updated version of) ''Tales of Phantasia'' in the same UMD.
* The Wii version of ''[[Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings]]'' includes the PC game ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'' (voiced version).
* The [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|metal cased-special edition]] Xbox version of ''[[Doom
** The Xbox version of the stand-alone expansion, ''Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil'', included the above, in addition to the ''Doom II Master Levels''.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]: Assault on Dark Athena'' contains its Xbox predecessor ''Escape from Butcher Bay'' with enhanced graphics.
* Not exactly the same series as the only connection between the two games is that they are boxing games, but the [[Game Cube]] version of ''Fight Night: Round 2'' includes the SNES version of ''Super [[Punch
* The [[
* ''[[Wrecking Crew]] '98'' for the Super Famicom includes the original NES game.
* The arcade version of ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]] 3rd MIX'' has a hidden "2nd Mix" mode that allows you to play songs from DDR 1st and 2nd Mixes, with the exception of "Strictly Business". And much thankfully, with 3rd Mix's difficulty selection method so you don't have to [[Guide Dang It|enter a code]] for Another or Maniac difficulties.
* In ''[[Kirby
* ''[[Tekken
** You can also unlock the full version of Namco's old space shooter [[Star Blade]] by finding the spaceship from that game in one of the stages of Devil Within. Usually you get to play the first part of the game when Tekken 5 itself is starting up.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Mystery of the Emblem]]'' had this in a sense. It contained both a remake of the first and its sequel, though both were available from the beginning.
** In turn, its remake ''New Mystery of the Emblem'' contains remakes of the obscure ''BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia Saga'' [[Satellaview]] games as unlockable bonuses.
* The Xbox version of the remake of ''[[Spy Hunter]]'' included the original ''Spy Hunter'' [[Arcade Game]].
* ''[[Nintendo Wars|Super Famicom Wars]]'', much like ''Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo'', has all the maps from the original ''Famicom Wars'' in addition to all the new ones made for the game.
* Unusually for a current-gen precursor, the entire (slightly-altered) Story Mode of ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' is included in its sequel.
* A visual novel example, ''[[Narcissu]]'' is added as an embedded package to its prequel, called "[[Narcissu:
* ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' includes a high-definition port of [[American McGee's Alice|the original game]] as a bonus to players who are willing to pay extra, or those who preordered the game in advance.
* ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' includes a port of the original 16-bit ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' as a bonus.
* Early copies of the [[Play Station 3]] ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' come with a download voucher for ''Twisted Metal Black''.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' now contains ports of all the campaigns from the first ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''.
* ''[[Tron 2.0|Tron 2.0: Killer App]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] incorporates the old ''Tron'' [[Arcade Game
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Tabletop Games]] example: the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' boxed set ''Return to the Tomb of Horrors'' had a copy of the original module S1 [[Tomb of Horrors]]'' included in it. The original Tomb was placed within the larger adventure and could be entered and explored.▼
* The Commodore 128 turned itself into a [[Commodore 64]] if you typed "Go 64." The [[ZX Spectrum]] did the same thing (the +2 had a 48K mode, selectable from the startup menu) for the exact same purpose: [[Daddy System|backwards compatibility]].▼
* [[Leonard Bernstein]] wrote a sequel to ''Trouble in Tahiti'', the full-length opera ''A Quiet Place'', which in the end included all seven scenes of ''Trouble in Tahiti'' as a pair of [[Pensieve Flashback|Pensieve Flashbacks]] in the second act.▼
* The Brazilian publisher of Disney comics released a collection to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their [[Donald Duck]] comic. A fac-simile of ''The Donald Duck #1'' (yes, the first issues had an article) came along with the first issue.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
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▲* [[Leonard Bernstein]] wrote a sequel to ''[[Trouble in Tahiti]]'', the full-length opera ''[[A Quiet Place]]'', which in the end included all seven scenes of ''Trouble in Tahiti'' as a pair of [[Pensieve Flashback
=== Other ===
* The Commodore 128 turned itself into a [[Commodore 64]] if you typed "Go 64."
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