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See also [[Embedded Precursor]] for those sub-examples. Also see [[Show Within a Show]].
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* ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'' had the Captain Qwark Vid comics, which are a side-scroller similar to ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''.
** The newest of the series, ''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]'', features ''My Blaster Runs Hot'', an arcade game you can play.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' had clones of ''[[Tempest (video game)|Tempest]]'', ''[[Asteroids]]'' and ''[[Defender]]''. You could also play billiards at one of the local bars.
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' had the classic first generation side-scroller ''[[Dragon Buster]] ''as an unlockable bonus.
* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' had several with names like "Nut Shots", "Monkey Fling", "Consumo" and "Future Street Race".
* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' had a number of classic NES games ranging from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' to ''[[Donkey Kong]] Jr Math''.
* ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'' had a ''[[Final Fight]]'' or ''[[Double Dragon]]'' like beat-em-up called ''Armies of the Night''.
* ''[[Pitfall]]'': The Lost Expedition had both the original ''Pitfall'' and Pitfall II the lost caverns as bonuses
* In ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'', you get trapped in Murderworld for one level. During said level you get to play games like Pitfall and [[Breakout]].
* ''[[Shenmue]]'' had ''[[Space Harrier]]'' and ''[[Hang-On]]'' in it. ''Shenmue II'' had those two with ''[[After Burner]] II'' and ''[[Out Run]]''.
* You can go into the main character's crib in ''[[Saints Row 2]]'' and play a console video game called Zombie Invasion.
* ''[[Club Penguin]]'' spy missions are all minigames anyway, but in one mission, an arcade game was yet another minigame, making it a game within a game within a game.
* NASU (the most depressing game in the universe) for the NES in ''[[Yume Nikki]]''.
* The 'Raising Hell' expansion pack of ''[[Overlord]]'' had a section where you had to play miniature golf, and then Break-Out, with a fat halfling as the ball in both cases. The first was annoying, but the second was hilarious.
* ''[[Project Gotham Racing]] 2'' had ''Geometry Wars'' in it.
* ''[[Time Splitters]]'' had three games that could be found (via cartridges hidden in levels in story mode) that could be accessed by pressing the reload button with the Temporal Uplink out.
* ''[[Second Sight]]'' had two games (which could be played on the PDA/Pause Menu), one found as a cartridge and another by playing on an arcade machine.
* Occurs in ''[[No More Heroes]]''; whilst travelling via train during one of his missions, Travis pulls out a hand-held console and starts playing Pure White Tiny Giant Glastonbury (which itself is a spin-off of a fictional anime Travis is obsessed with). Once the game is complete, the mission continues and the game is unlocked at his home for future playing.
** The sequel gives us "Bizzare Jelly 5", also a spin-off of the anime, that you can play from the start of the game.
* Tin Pin Slammer in [[The World Ends With You]]
* The Xbox360 version of ''[[Ghostbusters the Video Game]]'' allows the player to play ''Q Bert''. It's one of the arcade machines at the firehouse.
* The [[Nintendo Wii]] version of ''[[Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings]]'' has the [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eao7qZjmuYA The Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3] (which uses the same graphics/sprites as the original ''Doom'') arcade machine in ''[[Doom]] 3''.
* ''[[An Untitled Story]]'' has a computer and several arcade cabinets with mini-games that you can access by buying them for your house from the store in Sky Town.
* Hero 3D in ''[[Iji]]'' is accessed from an in-game computer terminal.
* The Funmachine in ''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'' plays a different game in every episode. It occasionally even factors into the plot.
* In ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', you can buy a Game Boy off a guy in Mushroom Kingdom and start playing ''Beetle Mania''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[La-Mulana]]'', by equipping certain ROM combinations with the MSX2, you can play ''PR3'' and ''Mukimuki SD: Memorial''. The former is a parody of ''[[Parodius]]'' for the [[MSX]], and getting a certain score in it is required to progress at a certain point of Hell Temple. The other begins sort of like ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'', but then drops its [[Dating Sim]] mask and {{spoiler|turns into a variation of the "Snatcher Headhunter" game mentioned below}}.
* In the Xbox 360 game ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'', you can go to Klungo's Arcade and play his masterpiece, "Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World", an eight-bit [[Self-Insert Fic|Self Insert]] platformer where the ''entire'' control system is a single button. And it [[Stylistic Suck|regularly crashes]], prompting Klungo to appear and reboot it for you.
** According to some, this is better than the actual game.
** A later DLC pack unlocked the sequel: "Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh Universsse", which added a gun to Klungo's arsenal.
* In ''[[System Shock]]'', the [[Player Character|PC]] finds some memory sticks with useful programs ? and games. Just plug one into your interface and play. In ''System Shock 2'', you can hack the game device to get access to all the games.
* [[
* ''Anachronox'' has this in the form of game cartridges that can be played on a machine back in Boots' office.
* ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' has the original Prince of Persia available to play as a special bonus if you break through a certain wall and go up a staircase.
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* ''Xenosaga Episode III'' had HAKOX, an arcade game. The player is required to play it for a while at one point of the game for the main story to progress.
* In the [[Point and Click]] room-escape ''[http://neutralxe.net/esc/lights_play.html Lights]'', you have to complete a handheld LCD game about chicks crossing bridges to get a code.
* [[
* "Captain Square" in ''[[Live a Live]]'' is an interesting twist - it's ostensibly an arcade game, but it plays exactly the same as normal battles do.
* The [[Deus Ex]] mod [[The Nameless Mod]] included several minigames, like Tetris and Breakout, that you could play on in-game computers.
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* Most [[Humongous Entertainment]] games would have at least one. Occasionally they would even factor into the plot.
* ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' for the xbox has an arcade machine that can play the old [[Ninja Gaiden]] trilogy, if you can find the cartridges, that is.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' contains the Command Board, which takes all of the gameplay and rules of Square Enix's Itadaki Street boardgame videogame series and mixes them with this game's characters and settings.
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]: Dear My Friends'' had three unlockable minigames.
* ''[[SD Snatcher]]'' features "Snatcher Headhunter", a Whack-A-Mole arcade game, which needs to be played for [[Plot Coupon
* ''[[Catherine]]'' has ''Rapunzel'', an arcade game in the Stray Sheep with eerily similar mechanics to the nightmares but the time limit replaced with a movement limit. {{spoiler|In fact, it's similarity to the nightmares is why it was put there.}}
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has the arcade games found in the [[Minigame Zone|Gold Saucer]], some of which curiously parallel events that actually happen to your team. For example, there's a motorbike racing game, which uses the exact same graphics as an actual motorbike chase that your team goes through earlier in the game.
* ''Dynamite Deka'' included the old [[Sega]] arcade game ''Deep Scan'', points from which could win more credits to play the main game. ''Dynamite Deka 2'' did the same thing with ''Tranquilizer Gun'', another old Sega arcade game. The [[
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'' one of the computers has a text adventure game called "Reign of Grelok" on it that you can play.
* In a couple of the ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' games, Nancy has to access a suspect's computer by solving or scoring points in their laptop's casual games. The
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