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hello Internet welcome to Game Theory
successfully dodging the CIA since
August of 2012 now I'll be the first to
admit here on Game Theory we have a
habit of overanalyzing video games and
the comment I see more than any other is
who cares who cares that star Fox's team
is doing Aeron roles instead of barrel
roles who cares if you're committing war
crimes in the Call of Duty games who
cares if my shiri's boobs are real or
fake well never mind people actually did
care about that one go figure in general
it all boils down to five words it's
just a video game but after today
claiming video game logic is no longer
an option because I'm going to prove to
you how practically every video game is
interrelated sharing one Collective
universe and that Universe just so
happens to be ours Our Story begins with
one of my personal favorites Super Mario
RPG plumber sets out to save kidnapped
Princess plumber finds princess's Vibe
scepter hidden beside the fireplace
plumber finds Intergalactic Bounty
Hunter sleeping in princess's bed any
Nintendo fanboy worthy of Moto's
blessing can identify that as Samus
Aaron which means that when Mario looks
up at the Mushroom Kingdom sky at night
somewhere out there he should be able to
see Metroid infested planets like zebus
and Sr 388 while he's stargazing he
should also be able to see the planet
pop star Kirby's home world since in
Kirby's Dreamland 3 Kirby must fight off
several of Metroid signature space
jellyfish only to find samis blonde and
beautiful at the end of the level in
fact if there was any doubt about the
Mushroom Kingdom pop star connection
there's evidence that Mario has actually
been there as he appears in the audience
of both the Megaton punch tournament and
the battle against King DDD in Kirby
superstar in other words it would have
been 100% legitimate to have Mario
jumping on CCO and headbutting Mother
Brain during his Interstellar travels in
Mario Galaxy and we're not talking about
fantasy crossovers here this would be
perfectly established within the cannon
of all three franchises but it doesn't
stop there while he was Planet hopping
in this fanfic version of Mario Galaxy 3
Mario and Kirby could spend a few
minutes fighting off a zerg rush as
metroids have infiltrated the distant
galaxies of Starcraft 2 but if Samus is
really going to quell the Metroid
outbreak she'll also have to swing by
Angel land home to kidicarus leaving the
door open for a pit versus protas
Showdown down now there's a brawl I'd
pay to see revisiting Super Mario RPG
also connects the Mushroom Kingdom to
Hyrule as Mario finds Nintendo's
favorite fairy Hey listen favorite fairy
boy sleeping in a hotel bed 2 years
later in 1998 the connection between the
two Realms was further solidified in
Ocarina of Time where Mario Bowser and
Luigi appear as portraits in Zelda's
Castle could Hyrule and the Mushroom
Kingdom be one and the same that's the
question for another theory but one
thing's for sure Nintendo's biggest
Heroes definitely share the same Planet
so we've United most of the main players
in the Nintendo universe but how do we
jump from this proverbial Nintendo Land
to the real world well we do some
digging around and find an obscure
Japanese title named captain rainbow
which stars Berto The Ambiguously Gay
Dino and former World Boxing Champion
Little Mac who earned his crown by
toppling the one and only Iron Mike
Tyson thus we have our bridge to the
real world not just some madeup video
game version of Earth but the real world
with real life ear biters Mike Tyson key
to the universe but before we explore
this little tangent one more word about
punch out in the version for the Wii
little Max spars with the modern tie
wearing version of Donkey Kong pulling
in the whole Donkey Kong Country series
as well as everyone's favorite be and
bird combo Banjo Kazooie
how by the power of beavers beavers
beavers naughty is recurring boss in the
first Donkey Kong Country who when he's
not hiding in piles of bananas
apparently makes his living in click
clock wood waiting for Heroes to release
him from his Dam but back to the real
world connection Street Fighter was the
first game I remember that actually flew
you around the map of the real world to
fight in different locations even down
to the Cold War era USSR which was
awesome but if we want to get really
picky about whether this Street Fighter
world is the real real world or a video
game Real World in the original Street
Fighter there was an African-American
who happened to be a boxer that also
happened to be named Mike Mike Tyson
round round get around he gets around
anyway we could talk about Chun Le's
Cameo and Breath of Fire and all the
connections from there but being a young
geeky male I always preferred Cammy the
wedgie Warrior but did you know that she
also had a crossover with baby Bonnie
Hood from darkstalkers King Arthur from
ghosts and goblins and Mega Man from
Mega Man it's a shooter called Cannon
Spike for the Dreamcast and it means
that stuff like this and this also
connect to the real world through this
now I ask you between the two which is
more exciting exciting or no dark
stalker's Morgan is more than just
vampiric eye candy this Sexy Succubus is
the connection drawing in the
Castlevania franchise the Dreamcast game
gunbird 2 featured her as a hidden
character alongside son of Dracula alard
a staple in the vampire hunting series
since Castlevania 3 and in a crossover
that seems too bizarre to be true it's
Castlevania that links us up to Contra
not once but twice in Contra hardcore an
optional battle features a rather hip
looking Android wielding the vampire
High killer Whip and hitting candles for
powerups but in an even more obscure
Connection in the game snatcher for the
Sega CD you run across Dracula a Belmont
Lance and Bill from Contra and even
sparkster the rocket Knight in a bar
called outer Heaven you'd think that the
outer Heaven reference would be a direct
connection to metal gear but not quite
yet for solid proof we need
to at the end of Yu-Gi-Oh Reef of
Destruction you play your m magc card
game against series antagonist Pegasus
beat him and he summons a giant Mech how
a large robot could possibly help him
win a glorified version of my
grandmother's game of bridge is beyond
me but that's not the point the mech is
actually Gan impact from the extremely
famous Gman series while this opens up a
whole new world of crossovers the
important one for now is gan's
connection to sparkster in ganare Gan 2
sparkster leads to Gan leads to Yu-Gi-Oh
which lead leads to solid snake yes
Solid Snake from the metal gear
franchise actually appears in a Yu-Gi-Oh
title in Yu-Gi-Oh seven trials to Glory
a mysterious figure hiding under a box
reveals that he is in fact a spy sent
there to study of the shadowlands but
he's also connected to the crazy monkeys
from AP Escape which through hot shot's
Golf Links him to Jack and Daxter
Ratchet and Clank and the God of War
himself Kratos so that super Mario
Brothers 2 to Captain rainbow to punch
out to Street Fighter 2 to dark stalkers
dark stalkers to gunbird 2 to
Castlevania to snatcher to Contra Contra
to Rocket KN Adventures to ganbare Gan 2
to Yugio to Metal Gear Solid and ape
Escape to Hot Shots Golf to God of War
because we're running out of time that
seems like a good place to leave that
chain this is all without mentioning the
game connections I've run out of time to
talk about like Laura Croft and Duke
Nukem which also features Doom guy
linking it up to the Tony Hawk Pro
Skater series which then includes Call
of Duty Spider-Man the entire Star Wars
franchise then Tony Hawk also has
Wolverine who finds the Lich King sword
pulling in World of Warcraft and
speaking of enormous RPGs the Elder scr
series is connected to Nintendo through
Pokémon specifically marind where you
can collect a Marowak spine marind also
happens to be the final resting place of
the Indiana Jones which opens up a whole
realm of movie crossovers as well as
final fantasy's second most infamous
villain KFA and this Final Fantasy
connection brings us all the way back
around to Super Mario RPG and its secret
boss clex so in the end there's a lot of
untapped crossovers here people Mega Man
in Call of Duty Kratos in Starcraft SEO
and Skyrim even when you ignore obvious
franchise crossovers like Super Smash
Brothers braw the video game universe is
still incredibly small and it's also
intrinsically linked to our real world
through figures like Mike Tyson and Tony
Hawk thus by doing the research and
thinking about these games as though
they're real we're giving a medium we
love the legitimacy and credit it
deserves now I challenge you to go out
and complete the web I started see just
how far we can take this thing huh at
this point it seems like all that's left
would be puzzle games like Tetris but
it's not like a game about falling
blocks could ever have any sort of
connection with oh my God but hey it's
just a theory a game theory keep an eye
out for other epic crossovers in the
coming weeks
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