List of video games in the fictional world with references to other games

Many video games have cameos to bring the game to a bigger audience.

This is meant only for fictional games.

Generation 3 (1983 - 1990)

 * Classic Games - One of the Games reference Real Games.
 * Hyper Amy Sisters on NES - The player can find a secret room with Mario. If the previous character is already met, it will change to another character in this order: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Goomba, Bowser. Once all characters are spoken to, it will go on again but with different dialogue. once they are spoken to 6 times they will go away and the secret room will become locked. [[File:HAS NES Mario easter egg.png]]

Generation 4 (1987 - 1995)

 * Fishing Simulator - Catching Fish plays the First 3 Notes of the Super Mario Bros. Theme.

Generation 5 (1993 - 2001)

 * To Heart - One of the Arcades in the cutscenes has Real Arcade Cabinets (including Pac-Man and Donkey Kong).

Generation 6 (1998 - 2009)

 * Hoshi No Kabyi 4 (Prototype) - Kirby was used as a placeholder
 * ME-Tan's Roleplay - Due To The Game being originally pitched to Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi, There are References to Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Earthbound, and many more, Here's The Following:
 * Most Samples/Instruments are Reused from Other Games, The Creator of the Samples/Instruments are Even Credited.
 * By Changing the Color Palette in the First Background Layer at the Naming Screen, Mario could be seen.
 * There is a poster on the Cinema that says ME-Tan for XXBM, Changing the XX to SS Results in SSBM, A Reference To Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Japanese Version renders it as ME-Tan for S**SH DX, in which Changing the ** to MA will result in SMASH DX, A Reference to the Japanese Name of said Game.
 * ME-Tan has Twins Called WE-Tan, LE-Tan, and WEA-Tan (Known as WIA-Tan in Spanish), This Referenced Lucas and Claus from MOTHER 3, Which is in development at the time, So The Reference is in Reverse.
 * The City Arcade is a Reference to The Onett Arcade from EarthBound.
 * One of the Default Names for ME-Tan is Ms. Uranus, a Reference to Mr. Saturn.
 * There is an Enemy in the Cave Called the Nessy Ant, referencing Ness from EarthBound.
 * A Gray Scale version of Kirby appears at the School in the Famicom (Disk System) Prototype, Due to Legal Issues, It Was Removed in the Actual GBA Release as well as the Super Famicom Prototype.
 * WE-Tan mentions how he played a black and white game with a stickman, which was a reference to Stickventures.