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A console cameo is where the game system on which you're playing (or another by the same company) appears in some form in the game you're playing. Developers, when looking for inspiration for a fictional gadget, enjoy modeling amazing pieces of technology on the console that the player is using. This not only makes the interface really easy to design, but also makes the game just a bit more immersive in that respect. Less common is modeling an object off another console by the same company.
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* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
** An MSX computer and cartridge appears in ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]''.
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has a blocky [[
** The [[PlayStation 3]] makes a cameo in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''. There's one on the upper deck of the plane, and the controller for the Mk. 2 is modeled after a PS3 controller. The original PlayStation can also be seen in a flashback as part of the encounter with Psycho Mantis, and Sunny is seen playing a PSP multiple times.
* A battle stage in ''[[Mario Kart]]: Double Dash!!'' is a giant [[Game Cube]]. The DS version featured a giant original Nintendo DS.
* In the first ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' game for the GBA, one of Crash's idle animations involves playing a GBA.
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* A partial case occurs in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', where the Stone of Agony, a device that lets you use the N64's Rumble Pak, is shaped like... the N64's Rumble Pak.
** Similarly, the Tingle Tuner in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', which lets you interface with the Game Boy Advance, is basically a Game Boy Advance.
* In one level of Army Men: RTS for the [[
* In ''[[Resident Evil 1|REmake]]'', the MO disc readers look exactly like GameCubes.
* The Game Boy Horror (a modified [[Game Boy Color]]) in ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]''.
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* Dee Ess Island in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass]]'' is shaped just like it sounds like it should be.
* The resort on Sirena Beach in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' is shaped like a GameCube controller.
* [[
* One level in ''[[Breakdown (video game)|Breakdown]]'' contains an [[
* ''[[Katamari Damacy|Beautiful Katamari]]'' lets you roll up [[
* In ''Cyber Troopers: [[Virtual On]]'', all of the mecha have [[Sega Saturn|Sega Saturns]] attached to their backs. In ''Oratorio Tangram, they were upgraded to [[Dreamcast|Dreamcasts]].
* ''Populous DS'' has a tileset that straddles both examples - settlements start out as a Game & Watch and become more advanced Nintendo consoles as their population increases, culminating in the Wii. The second-largest settlement is an original [[Nintendo DS]].
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** In [[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts]] Kazooie is seen playing both an Xbox 360 and Nintendo 64. Later, one of the levels is called LOGBOX 720, which is modelled after the interior of an Xbox 360.
* In Midtown Madness 3 for the original Xbox, you can see pedestrians holding boxes with Xbox logos on them.
* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' contains an [[
* NESes appear in ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
** In ''[[Animal Crossing]]: Wild World'', there is a furniture item (pink box?) that if you look hard enough, has a Gamecube on one of the shelves.
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* In the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' games, the Wii, GameCube, Super Nintendo, and DS all make appearances. The GameBoy Advance also shows up in ''Battle Network 5''.
* In the game ''[[Elebits]]'', Wiis and Wii remotes appear as objects scattered throughout the game.
* In the subway multiplayer map for [[Perfect Dark]] Zero, there appears to be a [[Nintendo
* ''[[F-Zero]] GX'''s Port Town circuit has a giant ROB.
* ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'': The supercomputer which Dash Rendar is tasked to steal from the frigate ship ''Suprosa'' is modeled after an N64 with the ''Shadows'' cartridge plugged in.
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** In the later versions of ''Snatcher'', Metal Gear Mk. II is rebuilt at the end as the platform the game is running on (i.e. in the Sega CD version, Metal becomes a second model Genesis with a Sega CD attachment).
* The Genesis version of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has tons of said systems in the background of the level taking place inside Genie's lamp. [[Justified Trope|Justified,]] considering [[The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson]].
* Some of the weirder enemies you can fight in ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' are murderous [[
* ''[[Pushmo]]'' has a giant [[Nintendo 3DS]] puzzle.
* One of bosses in ''[[Hyper Zone]]'', an early SNES game by HAL Labs, is shaped like the face button layout on the SNES controller.
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