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A common bonus feature or [[Easter Egg]] in later installments in a [[Video Game]] franchise is to hide a copy of an earlier game from the series in the current game.
This is usually (but not always) a hard-to-find special bonus, often an [[Old Save Bonus]] or [[New 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]].
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** En route to its [[Nostalgia Level]], ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (Video Game)|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 Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' included a second disc with a port of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', as well as the ''Master Quest'' version of the same game.
** On the used video game market, this second disc usually sells by itself for 2 or 3 times the price of the Wind Waker disc. In the United States, this disc was a [[Preorder Bonus]] for ''The Wind Waker'' rather than bundled in with a collector's edition.
* ''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).
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