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[[File:mitsukniR_konami_shoutout_4202.png|link=Mitsumete Knight|frame|Can you recognize all [[Konami]] characters present in this Purikura sequence of this [[Mitsumete Knight|Konami game]]?<ref>Counter-clockwise : [[Ganbare Goemon|Goemon]] ; [[Gradius|Moai Head]] ; [[Tokimeki Memorial|Shiori Fujisaki, and Saki Nijino]] ; [[Twinbee]] ; [[Parodius|Takosuke, and Koitsu]] ; [[Azure Dreams|Kewne]] ; [[Ganbare Goemon|Ebisumaru]] ; [[Twinbee|Madoka]] ; [[Live Powerful Pro Baseball|Powerpro-kun]] ; [[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night|Alucard]] ; [[Suikoden|Tir McDohl]] ; and [[Gradius|Vic Viper]]. And, as an extra subtle [[Shout-Out]], the things Goemon, Alucard and Tir are riding are the arcs of [[Logo Joke|the Konami Logo]].</ref>]]

 

* ''[[Pokémon/Shout-Out|Pokémon]]''

* ''[[Portal (series)/Shout Out|Portal]]''

* ''[[Resident Evil/Shout Out|Resident Evil]]''

** ''[[Resident Evil 5/Shout Out|Resident Evil 5]]''

* ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity/Shout Out|Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]''

* ''[[RuneScape/Shout Out|Runescape]]''

* ''[[The Sims/Shout-Out|The Sims]]''

* ''[[Skullgirls/Shout Out|Skullgirls]]''

* ''[[StarCraft/Shout Out|Starcraft]]''

* ''[[Super Cosplay War Ultra/Shout Out|Super Cosplay War Ultra]]''

* ''[[Team Fortress 2/Shout Out|Team Fortress 2]]''

* In the visual novel ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' (a game arguably already full of shoutouts to old legends and myths), there are skits that you earn depending how many "Bad Ends" you receive. The second of which features [[Tsundere|Rin Tohsaka]] and [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Sakura Matou]], two of the game's heroines, in a rather blatant [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Touhou]] series, complete with danmaku patterns and parodies of the Spell Card activations.

* Every single game in Namco's [[Tales (series)]] have shout outs to each other (with the exception of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', which is the first game and therefore has nothing to shout out to). In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', various other Tales characters are Bonus Bosses; in another Tales game, a character has a Mieu keychain (Mieu is the cute annoying creature from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''); in ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', the character Klarth from ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' makes a cameo; and so on. A fan favorite is the Indignation spell which has appeared in every game in the franchise, with nearly the same casting incantation. The first scene where Indignation appears (the intro to ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'') can be replicated almost exactly in ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'' if you know when and where.

** In ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', Cress can equip a set of ten items from ''[[The Tower of Druaga]]'' to receive the title "Gilgamesh." The same title and a similar set of items exist for Zelos Wilder in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''.

* ''[[Wario Land]]: Shake It!'' has a level call "Wreck Train"—the music of this level seems to have a shout to [[Indiana Jones]].

** Playing "I Am the Walrus" leads to a shout out to the sequence with the song in the ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' film.

* Speaking of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]], you can find a [[Yellow Submarine]] in Ricco Harbor from ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''.

* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' has a shout out to ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', another of Bioware's games. In ''Jade Empire'', the recruiter at the arena remarks something along the lines of "you are indeed mysterious, stranger." In ''KOTOR'', Mysterious Stranger was the codename given to the player character when (s)he participates in the Duel Ring.

* ''Knights of the Old Republic'' has a few of its own. The most obvious one is Bastila, who is a slightly more developed version of Aribeth from [[Neverwinter Nights|an earlier BioWare game]].