15 Video Game Easter Eggs That Reference Other Video Games

In todays video I wanted to take a look at video game Easter eggs that reference other video games. All of these Easter eggs reference other popular games in some form or another so I hope you enjoy.
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[@iamcapman]

The name of the achievement in the goat simulator easter egg: "sandcastles in the sand" could be a reference to the episode "Sandcastles in the Sand" of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and it's infamous Robin Sparcklez song with the same name

[@galacticnerd758]

It also says Enter Sandman which is a reference to Metallica's song under the same name.

[@wandergaming7936]

Also the spongebob episode

[@knightsurda]

S3 EPI16 to be specific of How I Met Your Mother.

[@The_Ostrlch]

Happy thanksgiving give all off you

[@jelqballs]

I thought that originally was a reference to the legendary SpongeBob episode

[@IlSevenlI]

I feel like the first easter egg was a two for the price of one considering there was a super mario easter egg to the left as you approached the vault door

[@idv22]

also, the tapping of the frogs feet is the battletoads pause theme from NES. A game where you play as toads in a sewer.

[@xxmaddiegirlxx6012]

Yeah, I believe the frog game is packed with easter eggs that reference other games and media, you can even get costumes that reference other media, for example there's an outfit that is supposed to be a Ninja Turtle :p

[@supercharged5-39]

I mean there’s also a hog that you can ride that seems like an Easter egg

[@thegameplayers494]

@@supercharged5-39 hog rida-a-a-a!!!!!!

[@meiskeferunike7230]

Amogus

[@markroden]

That dark souls Easter egg is even cooler bc it references a specific boss battle from dark souls 3 called “the abyss watchers”, there’s 3 of them and when you walk into the arena they spawn out of the ground in that exact same way. Such a cool reference to one of the best boss fights in souls games imo

[@drewhalcro6082]

The castles in the sand and enter sandman feels like it is a reference to the songs of the same name. Castles in the Sand by Thunder and Enter Sandman by Metalica.

[@rairai9382]

Sandcastles in the sand is a reference to a song in How I Met Your Mother.

[@frijuhtomucko]

Mr. Sandman is also a boxer in the punch out series.

[@CR1SPYofficial]

Ok that is actually really sick that you can find the baby and the man him self in cyberpunk... Awesome stuff

[@Pudding175]

Hey Cap, long time viewer here. I just wanted to say thanks for all the fun videos, but more importantly. Thanks for introducing me to some games that I never would have found without your videos. Cheers brother!

[@squindigglyjigglybop1300]

The de_dust2 is not actually a reference to cs:go, but instead classic cs 1.6, as it even has the same crate textures

[@jimbob15515]

Was looking for this comment. Made me feel old when he called it a CSGO reference.

[@hunterstults5210]

In Mortal Kombat X, if you do Jason vs Jason one of them will have Roy's mask from Friday 5.

[@skypiratecloud19]

I just finished goat simulator. The amount of game references and movie references are insane. One of my fav is on the left side of the map there is an area called "Quiet Hill" inside is a P.T remake. In the lava part of the mountain, there is a lord of the rings reference with an Eye of Sauran pickup and you can enter an area where you can throw the ring, another with a major spoiler to the games ending is a Super Mario reference but you need to beat the gama first. There is wayyy more but thats for you to find.

[@grenouillesupreme]

How can you finished goat simulator ?

[@SoupyMittens]

@@grenouillesupreme If you do enough events it unlocks a door in the goat castle where you can beat a final boss that unlocks a special goat that lets you place random blocks everywhere

[@Plurmple_]

Goat simulator 1 or 3

[@spiffychewie7143]

I'm pretty sure that the tower at the beginning of goat sim 3 is a reference to assassins creed. Hence the "synchronize".

[@yummyteeth7021]

In the Simpsons RoadRage for the Ps2 if you play the game on certain holidays you can play as a special playable character ex. Today (Thanksgiving) you can play as Marge in a Canynaro with turkey(blue hat) with a bib that says help! Also on the side of the SUV it says Happy Thanksgiving! Was playing it today it was a nice surprise, I miss the days when games had this feature and not had to have “updates” for a holiday event.

[@ozziebadger8889]

I did that goat simulator 3 sandcastle quest last night, the game is just filled with references and Easter eggs to just about everything I love it, even the descriptions of the items are sometimes references, it’s just a really fun game and keep up the amazing work Cap!!!

[@Drace90]

"Sandcastles in the sand" might also be a reference to the song with the same name from the show "How I Met Your Mother".

[@stevebaez2207]

I love your vids man! I’ve been watching for so damm long!

[@Atraks-1_MILF_Exo]

Pretty sure the biggest reason cyberpunk got a massive rise in player counts is because of the edgerunners series.

[@gensane7537]

A hidden game detail i found is on Apex Legends, if you finish a Bangalore as NewCastle instead of doing a normal finisher you will just laugh and wave your finger at her. It is because they are actually brother and sister

[@Phantom_of_the_Operator]

A small detail: in Ready or Not if you have the combat mandible on it will muffle your characters voice

[@beneveratt5713]

I love you Mr Eggman

[@frozenfoxgames5300]

I have to admit I'm a bit proud of the fact that I recognized the csgo reference. I'm assuming that asking myself "why does that look like csgo" counts as recognizing it.

[@ericklvf1025]

I too

[@chillmushroom6016]

Glad he's able to upload on a Thanksgiving day, this is a blessing 🙌

[@mateuszburak5119]

I'm not sure but I think he may be British.

[@gamewithgreg]

We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving or anything even remotely similar here in the UK. In fact, we don’t celebrate anything. We’re miserable

[@voldrik1364]

I recently picked up Shadow Warrior 2 and Lo Wang sometimes also says "what are ya sellin" when you talk to a merchant.

[@planescaped]

Goat Simulator 3 in particular really reminds me of Tony Hawks Underground.

[@alexanderlevi3]

Merry almost Christmas😹

[@christiankrenek7689]

Amazing video! You find the best Easter Eggs. :) I have to wonder, though--who is the David mentioned on the cake? A developer?

[@aviaretubbs2340]

In midnight fight express, there are a lot more references. Some of them are in the form of certain enemies in the game.

[@CT-fives5555]

Another Easter egg in Cyberpunk that i found, you can find a body in pacififca with a balaclava (or how you say it in English) and two batons beside him, this is probably a reference to "kick ass" plus you can find a shard that says something about "butt kicker"

[@neonicon8500]

Thank you for uploading today! Hope you as well as anyone reading this has a Happy Thanksgiving. I have a game Wishlist and you introduce me to many games on that list like Ghostwire and Midnight Fight Express Is Weird West only on PC?

[@SonicGaming6]

1:53 i heard the click than got an ad, pretty good timing

[@brogamin179]

I'm so glad amazing frog is getting attention nowadays. Had it on the ouya, remember that damn thing? Dude at my high school talked me into one. Amazing front is good fun with multiplayer.

[@Rubix003]

That goat simulator easter egg is from the first counterstrike game. Its a replica of part of the Dust map... complete with the spray paint on the wall.

[@mrvorhehees8902]

in goat simulator you can boost jump like Mario 64 i didnt know if that was a reference or not, love the vids too man

[@Madmario2006]

I’ve played hell let loose before, and yes I do agree it is really hard, but it can sometimes be fun depending who you play with

[@therealyoshikagekira]

I really felt the emotion at 10:58 Real gut wrenching stuff

[@brickpuncher1429]

At the Goat Sim 3 section, when you start fighting the sand people, I saw 2 references (one to "The Ring" and the other to "Punch-Out!") One sand person was named "Sandako" (The Ring reference) and another was named "Mr.Sandman" (Punch-Out! reference). Also, the achievement you get when you make the sand castle is a reference to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica.

[@Eternalorex]

I dont know if u have covered it in "movie references" but the game Sly 2 has a Shining reference in a cut scene.. Scared the shit out of me as a kid 😂

[@p4ladin167]

Midnight fight express actually has a boatload of references to ther games. From the top of my mind, the cake from portal is in the room of the game's final boss, you can dress up as Jacket from hotline miami if you complete some challenges in certain levels and there's a character called BoJacket in one of the russian levels, literallt wearing a horse mask and and a varsity jacket

[@needausernamefitforachicken]

Cyberpunk also had an easter egg in Death Stranding. Although I can't remember all the details, but there are side quests where you have to find chips (like in Cyberpunk). You can get skin mods, a bike with one of the factions' motif on it, and others. I could be wrong on some of the details, but yeah.

[@Rouge_7]

Merry Xmas Captain.

[@blakekelley9637]

I love your videos captain eggcellent

[@lonewolffang]

Captain Eggcellent: I'm going to take some time from Pennywise easter eggs. (Sees a ballon easter egg) Captain Eggcellent: Again!? Dammit!

[@LadyBern]

Was that flag always in front of the sandcastle? Gives me a super Mario vibe.

[@luzvimindacaligagan5892]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS EVERYDAY❤️

[@ThatOneMexicanMK]

Hey cap I've been watching u for a while I hope u have a good day

[@juliuskaufmann9011]

Also as you finished the sand castle in goat simulator 3 there was a message wich said enter sandman. This is the name of a popular song by metallica but maybe it's just random.

[@titan-gx7tf]

@captainEggcellent I think that Sand Castles In The Sand is a reference to How i met your mother, Robin had a song called that

[@cd31000]

Not sure if it's been covered before but there's a secret fight against plaga dogs in RE4 by backtracking after you've beaten the giant fish boss, I want to say there's even a cutscene included.

[@saturniidspectre]

Does anyone else remember the Minecraft Easter egg in Borderlands 2? It was in the Caustic Caverns, at the end of the minecart track you could find some cubic rock formations to your right, with Minecraft dirt blocks that you break with melee attacks. There were even Creeper enemies and Minecraft heads for each Vault Hunter.

[@CaptainEggcellent]

Already covered 👍🏻

[@vibrantfox9563]

The Hard Mode final boss of Sonic Frontiers is one big Ikaruga reference.

[@winterfuze]

im surprised you didnt mention the hotline miami reference in midnight fight express

[@tovact]

Look around in that midnight fighter game, there definitely has to be a hotline miami reference somewhere

[@Inputlag893]

Intresting detail i found in spiderman was that fisk can knockout his own men

[@sygiliph2495]

There's this cool nod to older Pokemon games in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet that could be cool to bring up in a video. In one of the towns, there are these giant square murals. These murals depict the old sprite art for Pokemon that were in your party's main menu, in the overworld or were in a box.

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

This would make for a good series.

[@BallisticsGaming1]

the description of the goat sim easter egg read “enter sandman” which i believe is a metallica song

[@det3ctive_w4lrus41]

The way they jumped to goat simulator 3 reminds me of how it was done the same with the ThanksKilling movies

[@catto-cj7mg]

I was surprised that nobody was talking about the hello neighbor reference in kill it with fire

[@deversftw1160]

Just seen your a patreon member on pixelsquads channel, your the dude

[@CaptainEggcellent]

yeah I support quite a few different channels, particularly ones I enjoy

[@Mewtwo573]

As soon as I saw the cake I knew what it reference to portal

[@DCGMatthew1]

I knew that was Postal just from the thumbnail. Nice.

[@Regenherz1553]

Sandcastles in the Sand could be a reference to how i met your mother in the Show Robin was an Pop Star who made some Songs and one of them was sandcastles in the sand

[@surf3524]

In splatoon 3 head pieces you get from salmon run have been references to back to the future.

[@manosanest5525]

In killzone shadow fall there are some, like at the beginning playing as kid Lucas you can find an early dishing of a robot from Horizon ZD and more

[@mrbaconbear99]

That house from hell let loose,it looks like a house from modern warfare 2. The WW2 game

[@ChadOnSnoop]

There’s an Easter egg in goat simulator 3 by the construction site with a tent, 4 people and a car in the water. A rare inbetweeners reference.

[@carlosajames]

Brilliant videos and in goat simulator 3 if you look on the map a challenge in suburbsville called the big red button. It's a Easter egg to fallout.

[@Justsomedude_867]

You’re welcome for the Christmas present. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄

[@dpopsicle18]

Speaking of Dark Souls Easter eggs, in Call of Duty: Mobile in one of the battle royale maps you can find an axe in a bonfire

[@CaptainEggcellent]

already covered 👍🏻

[@dpopsicle18]

@@CaptainEggcellent ok

[@santocomet]

I don't know much about Amazing Frog and maybe I am bugging but doesn't his footsteps sound like the Battletoads pause music. I'm sure it was intentional I just think it is pretty cool.

[@kaceisahuman]

Amazing frog has a lot of game references

[@parker2009]

I am sick and this video made my day

[@abdulmohsenalhumaidi4975]

In goat simulator three theres a house next to the starting point with a cellar, if you manage to get the cellar open theres a whole minigame thats a reference to the first doom

[@SleeprunnerInc]

I'd say no mans sky has done the biggest comeback out of sheer willingness, followed by FFXIV which pretty much sunk during its first iteration launch. Cyberpunk was backed up by Warsaw I think and if CDProjekt red didn't want to get permanently screwed they had to keep updating it and make stuff for it to keep it going.

[@jebalitabb8228]

Pretty sure they published/made cyberpunk all on their own, that was the whole point of the “it’ll be ready when it’s ready” thing. They released it way too early to avoid cancelling a deadline they set after multiple delays already, not because they owed anything to anyone else

[@SleeprunnerInc]

@@jebalitabb8228 False, they got about 9 million from Polands research funds for the game and to research multiple aspects like online etc. Which never saw anything in the game,.

[@justsomecanadiandude]

In goat simulator 3, you can drop a nuke on the town Haven’t played it yet so I don’t know the specifics, but there’s a control room in a tower that shouldn’t have a control room mess with the buttons enough, and a nuke will drop you’ll get a fallout uniform for your goat

[@kelvin4185]

You also have a wolfenstein Easter egg / reference in Goat simulator 3 it’s in the basement of the grandma that shoot balls at the player

[@idk-js9or]

Easter egg "Sandcastles in the sand" Has a quote which reads "Enter, Sandman" which is a reference to Metallica's famous song under the same name

[@K.RoolsDaBanana]

It also says enter, sandman which is a reference to the metallica song, enter sandman

[@paxi_boi_gaming4201]

I found two Easter eggs that reference the shining one of them in 12 minutes and the other in happyhills homicide

[@mupnup99]

Don’t know if anyone has said this or if it was in a vid already but the name of an achievement/trophy in saints row 2 is called hello 47.

[@coroniam]

Sandcastles In The Sand is a Robin Sparkles reference.

[@mrpickle4976]

Hey Captain Eggcellent, I believe that the lizard in the minecart behind Donkey Kong in Kingdom Rush was meant to represent K.K Rool.

[@ericklvf1025]

Nope, that lizard just is on the minecart stage trying to kill you, k roll doesn't have anithing to do with it

[@ericklvf1025]

Ps: is on the donkey kong country 1

[@Wyatt_2_fine]

The music with the among us body was very unexpected 😂

[@truepickle4956]

In first map of "Kill it With Fire" there is a box in the closet with a PS4 Controll, XBox Controller and a Nintendo 64

[@VaibhavShewale]

i thought amazing frog? & goat simulator were in same universe!

[@byronjlloyd]

Bruh 10:46 literally xqc in Internet simulator should be an easter egg on its own 😂😂

[@oozee69]

I thought you would have mentioned that in the postal part of the video you're in the milk man world from the first pyschonauts game

[@Emogamer-tp8vo]

In Duke Nukem forever at the start of one of the levels (I don't remember which level) inside one of the vans there's a power armor suit that is a reference to Halo. There's other Easter eggs in Duke Nukem Forever but that's the main one I remember

[@S1eepy0w1]

Did you know in Mgs 3 when your first meet vamp/the end you can kill the end early using the svd

[@jisibat3515]

3:48 already knew this and also played hello neighbor

[@practicallyfrosh6973]

In Lego marvel super heroes 2 if you collect a minikit piece as Thor he will say "this piece. I like it another!" that being a reference to thor the movie when he drinks the coffee and smashes the mug saying "this drink. I like it another!"

[@_Skullie_]

The sand castle from goat simulator 3 if you saw it. it said enter sandman which is a Metallica song

[@Kirbman]

That Goat Simulator easter egg looks closer to Dust 1 from the original Counter Strike.

[@PowerPlay-the-SussyStickgirl]

The Among Us Easter Egg plays the Among Us drip theme!😂

[@hallucinationthoughts]

You should do an IRL easter eggs video for 1 million subs

[@the-protogen-of-the-sky]

Near the LOL vault, there's a mario pipe you missed

[@bobfinster2babybob285]

In Gary’s mod in gm_construct below the ramp there’s a gape if the crouch and go in it you can go through the wall into a secret room

[@paulgreen7138]

Another amazing video as always.

[@antonaintthere]

the reason why you cant shoot the cake : its made of nokia

[@chaoslordlordofchaos]

Goat Sim 3 actually has a unique IT Easter egg. More details than other ones.

[@trinity3631]

Kingdom of Loathing is filled with video game references

[@midnight_dream2925]

At 10:31, you can still see the diamonds, but the diamonds are red, not green like the bodies in the house