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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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725015820/http://www.midwestradio.co.uk/ Midwest Radio]
** 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.
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