7 Best Games Hidden Inside Other Games
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Some game developers aren't content with making just one game, and instead hide extra bonus games inside their games for curious gamers to discover. Watch on for our seven favourite games hidden inside other games, and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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Jane's quip about the two guys colaborating to grow one beard absolutely killed me.
Same! I had to rehear it again to fully appreciate it because I died the first time. 😂
Some of the best games can't be played anymore. I'd love to see you do a video on the best Abandonware out there.
They’ve done some of those, “games you can’t play because lawyers” but I wouldn’t mind a part three
Oooh, Abandonware specific would be great
Funhaus did a whole series on abandonware games if you like their style of content
@@jillie_chan That's a different category. BuildinWings is talking about amazing games so old they can't be played on modern hardware. But the criteria can get tricky considering most can be played via VM or DosBOX or such.
The whole video would be Mike playing arcade racers.
2:30 What I love about this Tim Curry scene is that this was his first take. You can see him trying to hold back his laughter over the ridiculousness of his line and it works perfectly with his character.
The first time I discovered something like this was when I found the first Maniac Mansion game completely playable via a computer inside the sequel Day of the Tentacle :D
Was literally going to put this myself.
'What's a tentacle?' 😂
Same here
Heartily thirded - it blew my little preteen mind that a developer would stick their entire prior game in there for free! 🤯
My first one too
Jane mentioned every mini-game inside A Way Out except the most compelling one: Connect Four. I can't tell you how many hours I and many others spent on this one mini-game alone. The fact it's a near perfect 1:1, 3D representation of the real thing is why it's so compelling and nostalgic.
How is Day of the Tentacle missing from this list, Andy? It literally allowed you to play the entire previous game on Weird Ed's computer. You could be playing a computer game as Bernard Bernoulli playing a computer game as Bernard Bernoulli. It's the pinnacle of gameception!
I’ll put in my B-movie plug here for _Them!_ It’s the movie that inspired _It Came From Red Alert,_ it’s unnecessarily good for a giant-ant movie, and it, uh, ‘inspired’ James Cameron’s _Aliens,_ too
This is the one that came to my mind as well. Maniac Mansion is so good.
The answer is that sadly, DotT is not an Xbox game.
@@byuflash2 DotT is on Xbox, you even get achievements for playing Maniac Mansion inside it.
@@byuflash2 The remaster is...
I think.
"I created this easter egg for a certain kind of person...
"To hurt them."
LOL That cracks me up every time!
Kind of surprised Geometry Wars didn't get mentioned. It was originally a minigame hidden in Project Gotham Racing 2 and went on to become its own entire series.
I was wondering the same. We only had Sonic 2006 and that racing game. I discovered Geometry wars and suddenly everyone in the house started trying to beat each other's high scores. Freaking loved that game.
Geometry Wars was so good!
Agreed. When I saw the title of the video that was the first one that came to mind.
The same Developers of A Way Out also made It Takes Two. That game is full of fun games inside of it. There even is an achievement finding them all.
So, the reason Minesweeper was on every Widnows PC was because it was trying to teach people about the right-click left-click use of the mouse. Likewise Solitaire was put on to show that you could execute commands with a double click.
I don't really know if it counts as hidden or not, but Arcomage from the Might and Magic games (specifically VII and VIII) was definitely one of the most addictive minigames in videogame history, eventually earning its own PC standalone release.
My personal favourite game within a game was in Celeste, it was hidden in the hotel level in a secret room, it was just a mini platformer but I still really enjoyed playing it since it was much easier than the actual platforming I was supposed to be doing
I loved this game, but the mini game was still very hard.
As bizarre as it felt at the time, I had more patience for finishing the mini-game low-res Celeste than I did for finishing the actual game.
That wasn’t a mini game, that was the original Celeste!
I really liked the hidden twin stick shooter in Black Ops 1. I feel like I played that more than the actual campaign
Dead Ops Arcade was a bunch of fun. Didn't play much of the first one, but I did play 2 and 3.
There was also a text adventure game you unlocked the same way.
@@RJtheCoolGuy I believe it was the original Zorc on that PC.
Except that one isn't "hidden" in any way. You can unlock it through normal gameplay, it's a normal entry on the list of zombie maps, it's easy to access it completely by accident and it's impossible to miss when it's unlocked.
An early version of this is the entirety of 'Maniac Mansion' being playable in 'Day of the Tentacle'.
Hah, you beat me to it. xD That was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the title.
This was my first thought as well! Happy to see that others know too.
Stardew Valley has two games inside its main game; Junimo Kart and Journey of the Prairie King. One's a shooter and the other is kind of like the Donkey Kong mine cart levels.
They are also bastards
Legally Distinct Smash TV is great.
Donkey Kong Country Minecart Level, not so much.
Wait, where is the Mario kart one?
@@joshp8535After you reach the bottom of the mines, you get the Skull Key. In addition to unlocking the Skull Cavern in the desert (and earning one point toward Grandpa's evaluation at the start of Year 3), it unlocks the previously locked arcade machine in the tavern next to the Journey of the Prairie King machine (over by the Joja-Cola machine where Sebastian, Abigail, and Sam hang out on Friday nights.)
@@joshp8535 Both are arcade cabinets next to each other, though one requires the skull key as I remember, but it isn't mario cart, it is donkey kong minecart.
Homefront hiding TimeSplitters 2 is probably the big one for me. RIP Free Radical you shall be missed.
not only TS2, but a high-res, upscaled, version. Shame it's not playable, but I am constantly surprised that it's not been re-assembled by some enterprising netizen.
There's an access code you can use while in TS2 ingame to access the entire game, cause they literally hid the whole upscaled game inside. @@paultapping9510
I commented the same!
You could then in theory find and play anaconda, a snake clone Easter egg inside TS2. A true matryoshka of Easter eggs
@@paultapping9510 It is playable, you just have to put in a bunch of codes. But it's accessible in every version of Homefront: Revolution, and the literal only reason to ever play that awful game.
I’ve always loved Journey of the Prairie King in Stardew Valley, I spent a lot of time playing that. Junimo Kart can get lost though.
Absolutely agree! 😅
The opposite for me.
Oh my god! I can’t believe you guys didn’t mention Day of the Tentacle. The sequel of Maniac Mansion has the entire previous game hidden in it if you search Weird Ed’s desktop computer! It not just a game within a game, it’s the previous game playable within its sequel, which just raises all kinds of questions!
Day of the Tentecle is full of those jokes. You even get money for the diamond by mailing in Dr Freds signed contract for Maniac Mansion from the past
Meta-level like Fallout 4 having all the previous games in it (it doesn't)..
Well, I mean... The Maniac Mansion is an actual game in universe, so...
TimeSplitters 2 is the only thing keeping Homefront: The Revolution from fading into obscurity.
All the arcade and Mega Drive games you can play in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series could be a list by itself.
Yeah I was surprised Yakuza was not mentioned but I guess the mini games are not hidden per se. I spent so much time playing Virtua Fighter in Yakuza even though I own the game lmao
They covered those in other videos. They're also more of a main activity than a hidden game
In Gotham Knights, your headquarters in the game, The Belfry, has an arcade cabinet of the classic 8-bit game Spy Hunter.
Did you know that the Persona games from 3 on each had a full blown RPG hidden inside their life/dating sims?
Wait, what?
Edit: Oh. Haha.
You mean I could have been killing gods this whole time? And here I was just trying to romance a hot goth doctor while ignoring the ethics of said doctor having a relationship with someone who's both underage and a patient.
@@PhoenicopterusR In all fairness, you are less a patient and more of a test subject who she sells unregulated drugs to.
@@PhoenicopterusR Counterpoint she's a hot goth doc handing out stat buffs.
got ya lol dont worry it got me as well @@KeybladeMasterAndy
in Prince of Persia; Sands of Time finding out that there is a hidden original 1989 Prince of Persia clone unlockable in one of checkpoints was so nice... Cleared it again for old times sake when I found out...
Not just that, but you can play a 3D remake of the first level of the first game by putting in a code.
And apparently the Xbox version of Sands Of Time Prince Of Persia 1 and 2 to unlock.
I loved playing the original donkey Kong inside of donkey Kong 64
You forgot Roach Race in cyberpunk 2077. Which is surprisingly addictive. Also. I need a list of card games in video games cause Gwent and Pazaak deserve a list.
Don’t forget Triple Triad in Final Fantasy VIII and Tetra Master in Final Fantasy IX
@@rickimaru915Caravan in New Vegas, though it's a much simpler affair, Arcomage in the Heroes of Might and Magic. Resident Evil 7 had a very fun variation of Blackjack, with special cards, though I'm not sure if it would count since it's a separate minigame not accessible during the main campaign.
@@elgerifico 21 in RE7 is fucking amazing, I played the shit out of it. I didn’t really understand Caravan in New Vegas lol
@@rickimaru915I would genuinely love to have another game with a game similar to 21, where you can build your own deck of special cards.
Caravan was weird, and takes a little to learn, but it's not really that bad. I just think that Obsidian missed the mark in making card collecting and deck building exciting.
Both Roach Race and Trauma Drama in Cyberpunk were so much fun
I remember Uncharted 4 surprised everyone when they snuck in the first level of Crash Bandicoot into it. I personally hadn't got to play the game on its own but knew what it was and enjoyed getting to try it as a game within another game. It was a fun Gameception! The characters' commentary was awesome too.
Man, I loved Jane and Andy's play-through of a way out.
I'll never forget Jane's "You go connect with your son. I'll connect with your wife - but not like that" 😅👌
In Celeste there's a pc in the hotel where you can play the original Pico-8 version of the game
I wonder if Rapunzel from _Catherine_ counts.
Or Demon Destruction from 2016's _DOOM._ Speaking of, you can unlock the entirety of not only the first but also second classic _Doom_ game in _DOOM Eternal._
I remember playing Rapunzel and thinking wow, this mini-game is.... a lot like the main game. There's sort of a reason for that, and for why it's not exactly well-hidden, but that's Spoiler Territory.
*Tim Curry:* "The one place not corrupted by capitalism...SPACE!!!"
*Real World Billionaires:* "Wait, you mean there are places we _haven't_ ruined yet? DIBS!"
Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos: "And we took that personally."
In the base campaign of Starcraft 2 (the human one) in your cool spaceship you get an arcade machine where you can play a 16 bits era shoot-them-up created entirely with the in-game engine.
It showed what you can do in the map editor and its name was a callback to an old Blizzard title : The lost Vikings.
Yeah, I was able to do the 250 000 point achievement, but not the 500 000 point one.
It took far too long to find this comment.
What about Turbo Turkey Puncher in Doom (2016). May not be the most elaborate in-game game.
Or, that you can play the entirety of Doom (1993) and Doom 2 while playing Doom Eternal. These aren't the most well hidden. But these are some of the most influential games in the FPS genre.
The Doom II port is the funniest gag in all of Eternal for me, because, in the grand tradition of OG Doom ports for console, it is _bafflingly_ terrible
Doom being playable on Doom...
Truly the best culmination of this list
I'm pretty sure there's a Turkey Puncher game in Doom 3 as well.
@@HelpTheWretched There is. But we don't speak of the red haired step child that is Doom 3.
Day of the tentacle is the OG here, putting the whole Maniac Mansion game into itself
Oh my god. I've played Hitman for like 2,000 hours and I did not know about that. Thank you so much.
Same. That game [series] has SO MANY easter eggs and some of them are just bizarre. I imagine 47 is the absolute *bomb* at minesweeper.
"Spaaace!"
"Any Reason"
Ran outta tissues on that laugh 🤣😂
The Grognak rpg in Fallout 4 is an insanely good time waster. So many settlements went unhelped because I was too busy adventuring with Grognak and friends
I liked in Pokemon Yellow if your Pikachu knew Surf you could play the Surfing Pikachu minigame if you entered the house just South of Fuchsia City. It was just an ExciteBike clone, but you were Pikachu instead of the biker, and you were flipping off waves instead of dirthills. I probably played that more than the actual game tbh.
I am surprise that the original Spy Hunter being in the hideout in Gotham Knights wasn't mentioned.
I always found the weird little mini game they added into borderlands 3 so addicting for some reason
There's also a rather fun retro game about Dracula hidden in the Observer by Bloober Team, it was genuinely joy to discover it as a playable thing :3
I poured so much time into that minigame, was weirdly compelling trying to do all the levels
Personally I was a fan of the Trauma Team-flavoured Metal Slug arcade game in Cyberpunk 2077, it felt very much like it should.
So the Red Alert one is based on the old amiga game It came from the desert right?
That is what I think. The Font and screen looks a lot like the old Cinemaware game
And the actor in the clip, Barry Corbin, says "I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good," a line from his dialogue in the movie WarGames playing the NORAD commander (General Berringer).
Holotape games in Fallout! Specifically Grognak And The Ruby Ruins in 4 and Wastelad in 76. Those aren't just classic arcade reskins; they're entire turn based RPGs!
Another game from Hazelight Studios, It Takes Two, is absolutely stuffed full of minigames too, Whack-a-Cody and Track Runner being 2 of my favorites.
My favourite examples of this are the Frog Fractions games:
- The first was a browser game that started normally and just got progressively weirder. Fine, good.
- The entirety of Frog Fractions 2 is only available by finding it hidden in the game Glittermitten Grove.
- They released a "game of the decade" edition of the original Frog Fractions on Steam, but if you buy DLC that gives the frog a hat what you're ACTUALLY buying is step one of the secret method to unlock Frog Fractions 3.
Timesplitters 2 had a playable version of Snake available in the story mode once you find a hidden card in the first level.
As mentioned in other comments, a HD remaster of Timesplitters 2 is hidden in Homefront: Revolution too.
There are two other games hidden in other levels.
I loved the Anaconda music
I need to see an RTS game where Tim Curry's Anatoly Cherdenko's USSR goes up against Raul Julia's M. Bison's Shadoloo. The Soviets' *SPAYCE!* capabilities against Bison's *_Perfect Genetic Soldiers!_* The cutscenes would be epic.
What, no mention of Day of the Tentacle from 1993? It managed to include the full, playable version of the original 1987 Maniac Mansion, accessible via an in-game computer (probably a first in computer games).
I remember the minigames in TimeSplitters 2; any time, any level, you could just open your Temporal Uplink and play one of three games (assuming you'd found the game cartridges for them). Anaconda (an almost-clone of Snake), Retroracer (a top-down racing game) and Astrolander (try not to crash your spaceship as you land it).
Didn't Fallout 4 have mini-games on the pipboy?
I definitely spent more time playing space harrier at the arcade in Shenmue than I did the actual game.
What?? I'll have to play Shenmue just for that. I couldn't get enough Space Harrier when it came out in the arcade, especially the big sit-down cabinet version!
Hang on a sec, Andy had the chance to pull out Maniac Mansion from inside Day of the Tentacle and didn't?
I call shenanigans!
On a lower-stakes scale, there's a working billiards table in Duke Nukem 3D. I say "working", it's hard to tell how hard they actually tried to simulate the physics, but the balls do shoot where you point them, so to speak.
Speaking of Pong, there's an arcade cabinet with Pong in the headquarters in Ready Or Not
Prince of Persia Sands of Time on the PS2 let you unlock the original prince of persia by breaking a specific wall shortly after the prince says something along the lines of "this castle was built on the ruins of a much older castle".
Also:
The Dig by Lucasarts has a moon lander game on the pda you use in the game.
Not sure how much it counts, since it's since become a well-known part of an annual festival in April, but the Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2 is a pretty clear homage to N64-era games (e.g., Mario 64).
Ultrakill’s got a bunch of secret missions that are all separate minigames, ranging from a dating sim to a fishing game to an ultrakill-styled recreation of crash bandicoot
Tiger! Tiger! inside Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Finally someone said it nothing like playing a scavenging game inside a video game in the style of classic arcade games just to upgrade your 3 maid robot girls.
My choice would be from Eastward; within the main game, you can find arcade cabinets for Earth Born, a an old school JRPG style rogue-lite. It's very quick, but you play it over and over to improve on your previous attempt, and in the main game you can use gachapon machines to get more upgrades and consumables. It's a brilliantly executed way to make it feel like a big epic RPG, and you can lose hours to it!
(Also they are about to release a DLC which is essentially a third game, a full size Stardew-esque farming sim called Octopia. It looks super cozy, and I need it after the trauma of the main story 😅)
Was hoping they'd mention Eastward and Earth Born. I never beat it, but it was a lot of fun using the tokens to get the little figurines.
Arcomage from Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor and Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer. So popular it got a stand-alone release and multiple fan remakes over the years.
Might i suggest how you could play Time Splitters 2 in Homefront the Revolution, and subsequently in Time Splitters 2 you could play Anaconda, Retro Racer, and Astrolander
A game within a game within a game
Jane had me at Adventurer Cat.
How could you not mention Black Ops and the entire hidden twin stick shooter Black Ops Arcade game
Black ops also allowed you to play zork
I love it whenever some brings up Tim Curry's "Space!" scene from Red Alert 3! If I can recommend two instances: It would be the text adventure in Saints Row 3-4 and the Text adventure Corgi Quest in A Hat in Time.
The Yakuza/Judgement games can fill this list up alone. I especially love the boxing side game in Judgement 2 because of how engaging the mechanics were. Legendary series😤
the kings of games within games have to be the yakuza or like a dragon series. There are at least a couple dozen clasic games games you can play across the entire series, plus several that were created specifically to be put inside of the club sega arcades. And thats not to mention the other minigames; like pocket circuit, cabaret clubs, baseball and dragon karts.
An Ant Game in Red Alert?!?
What is this, Insection?
Many puns bug me. That one does not. 😆
Everyone in OXBoxtra besides Ellen, probably: "Booo! Boo!"
Mine Haunt seems like just lode runner, one of my childhood favorite games.
Witcher 3's Gwent minigame is easily the best. So good they expanded it into a standalone multiplayer game.
Speaking of CD Projekt, I recently replayed Cyberpunk 2077 and found an arcade machine where you can play an endless runner where you control Geralt's horse, Roach.
And of course, the Yakuza series has so many excellent minigames, it would take ages to list them all.
I love playing a retro 2D shooter and a cart game in the middle of my chill farming simulator
I remember Pong was also hidden inside of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
Had to search the comments to make sure somebody noted this one down. Took forever to get there, but it was worth it to do once.
In the Wii version of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings you could unlock the game Fate of Atlantis.
Timesplitters 2 was a fantastic game overall with plenty of different modes.
It also had game cartridges you could find and play something like Snake which was great fun in multiplayer
While I could bring up any of the arcade games in Yakuza 0, the most surprising is the fact they have a classic version and a more balanced version of Virtual fighter.
Command & Conquer wasn't known for the hammy acting until Red Alert 2. Honestly not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Also, the original Red Alert ant missions didn't have cutscenes if you had the original on Windows 95 or DOS. Which I did. Still got my CDs :D
It was a good thing up until RA3 jumped the shark, really.
I'm actually quite shocked nothing from Sega is on here. I mean they love putting old arcade games in their new games. Shenmue had an arcade you could visit with full versions of Super Hang-On, OutRun, Space Harrier, etc. & Lost Judgment has it's own arcade that you can visit, although I don't know what's in it. I'm also aware of another game (not by Sega) that includes remakes of the entire TimeSplitters trilogy, though I don't remember the name of the game. Lastly, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War includes something like 20 classic Activision arcade games that you can unlock through the story or multiplayer.
I remember a game, Contra: Legacy of War on the PSX which I felt was highly underrated. And it had a very fun, Pacman-esque game thrown into the 2nd level.
I can think of a number of mini-games within other games that I sunk hours/days into.
Certainly in Final Fantasy 7, the Golden Saucer’s mini-games, like Hologram Boxing, were one.
In FF X, I spent a couple weeks literally just playing Bliztball.
I know Gwent in The Witcher 3 can be quite addicting.
Probably the first mini-game I ever got sucked into was back on an old Apple computer game called the Fool’s Errand. It consisted of a series of puzzles, mostly involving solving jumbled images, navigating mazes and the like, but there was one game where you played against an opponent using a set of Tarot Cards and you had to beat them by getting a higher score based on matching them into sets (like The Emperor, The Empress, and The Fool being a set). It was called the Game of Thoth, and I actually had to take the time to figure out all the matches in order to beat the mini-game.
I think Blitzball was a better game than FF X
Only reason I can think of why Blitzball wasn't listed is because it isn't hidden. You are forced to play it once to progress the story.
no mention of Timesplitters 2 in Homefront: The Revolution?
The best game inside another game!
How about System Shock 2? It had a GameBoy like handheld the GamePig with multiple game cartridges you can find around the game including an 80s RPG style game similar to Ultima that took hours to beat.
Pong was actually my first video game I've ever played when I was 9 on a TV in 1979. -- Time surely flies. 😮
Thumbs up for any Tim Curry appearance.
It's not hidden, but Eastward has a whole other RPG called Earth Born in the game, with accompanying gacha machines which give you amiibo-esque figurines you can use for aid.
There's nothing I love more than videogame videos that cut to the face of some random commentator with a really bright white background. Keep it up.
The old SvR games had the apartment with a pool table, darts, good change of pace.
Not a full game per se, but Crash 3 had a demo for Spyro the Dragon you could play if you input the Konami code at the title screen. (And Spyro had the same feature, where Crash 3 was the playable demo)
Before there was Gwent, there was Archomage
Might and Magic 7s cardgame. Build your tower or destroy your opponents. Heavily addicting, even without the deck building
I spent so much time on the arcade games in cyberpunk 2077. Especially that stupid roach race. Now that was a fun time
The Red Alert one is a nod to the game, It came from the desert. An old point and click game about giant ants in the desert....now i wanna go play it.
Warframe has its own little Flappy Bird-inspired minigame called Flappy Zephyr. You do need the warframe Zephyr to get access to it, however.
There's also the fighting game inside the game called Frame Fighter.
...Warframe is *weird*.
Very weird
Keep your Tuesdays with Morrie, I will stick with Thursdays with Andy and the rest of the Oxbox crew
If Morrie had something to say about Arthur Morgan's character development, maybe Mitch Albom would've had more entertaining Tuesdays to write about.
Night in the Woods was such a good game, and Demon Tower took so much of my time
In Timesplitters 2, there was a game called Anaconda on the in-game map/PDA device. Me and my friends spent more time playing that than the actual game. That song has played non-stop in my head ever since.
That clip of Tim Curry trying to hold it together while he delivers to most hilarious line in gaming history will live in my head rent free for all of eternity. Every time it shows up in one of these vids I have to take a minute to break down laughing and re-watch it a few times.
You gotta include Geometry Wars “hidden” inside Project Gotham Racing 2.
The Ants in red alert was a bit of nostalgia trip. That was a fun memory 😍
“Any excuse.” Got me bad, excellent delivery, love how often Space Curry comes up.
Came for the SPAAAACE and once again, OX does not disappoint.
Commentators version of this should include the full game of Wolfenstein 3D inside Wolfenstein.
Also an idea for the next video, "games so buggy, the developers had to apologize" or something like that
Funny how old school games inside modern high-tech games are still the most compelling part 😆🤷♀️
Of course they are! Everyone bought Hitman thinking : "Hell yeah, Minesweeper"
@@ayaku2253 😂
*heavy breathing*. SPAAACCEEE
😂 Love that guy.