Unlockable games
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The term unlockable games refers to full video games that can be unlocked within another videogame, often as easter eggs. Often these unlockable games are earlier entries of the series of the game in which they are hidden, such as NES Ninja Gaiden series in the Xbox version of Ninja Gaiden, which become available after beating the game with certain requirements.
- See also: Minigame
[edit] Examples
- In Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, you can unlock the original Pitfall game.
- In Tekken 5 you can play the first Tekken to Tekken 3.
- In the PC game Day of the Tentacle by LucasArts you could play Maniac Mansion, the predecessor to Day of the Tentacle.
- Animal Crossing features nineteen unlockable NES games.
- In Donkey Kong 64, the games Jetpac and the original Donkey Kong can be unlocked in Kranky Kong's lab and Frantic Factory respectively.
- In Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, the arcade versions of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back can be unlocked by meeting certain requirements.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus features the TMNT arcade and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare features TMNT: Turtles in Time.
- Metroid was an unlockable in two different games: by finishing Metroid Fusion and connecting it to Metroid Prime with the Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable; in Metroid: Zero Mission it becomes available after beating the game.
- In House of the Dead III for Xbox, House of the Dead 2 can be unlocked after you beat the game.
- In Prince of Persia: Sands of Time players can unlock the original Prince of Persia.
- In Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, players can unlock 12 Sega Game Gear games: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Drift, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Spinball, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Drift 2, Tails' Skypatrol, Sonic Blast and Tails Adventure.
- In Pac-Man World 2, Players can Unlock 4 classic Pacman games in the arcade by collecting a certain amount of tokens. The games are Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Mania.
- In Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the original Wolfenstein 3D is unlocked after the player completes the game.
- In the Saturn release of Duke Nukem 3D, Death Tank Zwei can be unlocked either by shooting out every toilet in the game, or by having a save file from another game by Lobotomy Software on your memory unit.
- In Project Gotham Racing 2, Geometry Wars is unlocked by entering the garage, entering walk mode, walking to an arcade machine, and pressing A.
- In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Snakes Nightmare is unlockable by saving and loading your game while in the prison cell. While this is not a full fledged game, it is reminiscent of many other video games.
- In Sonic Mega Collection players can unlock 5 more games by playing games a certain number of times (7 in the Japanese version including The Ooze and Comix Zone): 3 lock on games, including Blue Sphere, Knuckles in sonic 2, Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and 2 Sega Genesis classics (Ristar and Flicky)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl has a feature called Masterpieces that allows the player to play demos of the characters Games of Origin. For example, you can play Super Metroid (one of Samus Aran's Games from the Metroid series), but the demo has a strict time limit after which the game resets and returns to Brawl. The demos can be started over and played as much as the player wants but will still have the same time limit.
- In Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, versions of Centipede and Missile Command can be unlocked by finding their arcade machines in the game's levels.
