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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKoahtmcHY&feature=PlayList&p=UdMzgejDH1w This] 'What if video games were real' sketch features a joke based on Metal Gear Solid, in which Snake is instructed to "Infiltrate Otacon's new base". For those not versed on the MGS series, Otacon is pretty much the only character who is always on the same side as the player. Nor has he ever had a base.

** For that matter, the joke is that hiding using a cardboard box is fairly ridiculous, and so the guard responds appropriately and shoots Snake. The joke falls flat due to this being how guards already react in the game. They even recognize boxes in inappropriate settings (a random box out in the jungle for instance.)

* The early-morning show on the [http://www.midwestradio.co.uk/ Midwest Radio] station in the UK is rife with this, usually whenever the bumbling DJ presenting the show presents listeners with a game-related competition. During one such competition, in which one lucky listener could win a copy of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', the question was "What occupation does [[The Hero|Mario]] have?" the answer of course being "Plumber". When the answer was revealed, the DJ and his co-presenter claimed that you could tell that Mario was a plumber because "he carries a spanner (aka a wrench, to those across [[The Pond]]) around with him in the games". Um... no he doesn't (and most people who have never touched a ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'' game in their entire life probably know this!).

* The early-morning show on the [http://www.midwestradio.co.uk/ Midwest Radio]{{Dead link}} station in the UK is rife with this, usually whenever the bumbling DJ presenting the show presents listeners with a game-related competition. During one such competition, in which one lucky listener could win a copy of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', the question was "What occupation does [[The Hero|Mario]] have?" the answer of course being "Plumber". When the answer was revealed, the DJ and his co-presenter claimed that you could tell that Mario was a plumber because "he carries a spanner (aka a wrench, to those across [[The Pond]]) around with him in the games". Um... no he doesn't (and most people who have never touched a ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'' game in their entire life probably know this!).

** In another instance, during a competition to win a copy of ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', the same DJ referred to the game - ''constantly'', and presumably never realising his mistake and/or not having any of his colleagues point it out to him (either that, or he did realise and just hoped that no-one would notice) - as "Mass 2 Effect".

* Although it's not the focus, an article about 1988, the last time the University of Florida lost three straight games, came out with this gem: "Nintendo released Tecmo Bowl." Putting aside the fact that the arcade version was released in 1987 and the NES version was released in 1989, most actual experts agree that it was ''Tecmo'' that released Tecmo Bowl.