The early Animal Crossings had working NES games in them you could get as in game items. Back before Nintendo learned they could endlessly monetize them. There’s an update for the latest Animal Crossing that adds them in, but they require a Nintendo Online subscription to play them, because if you aren’t paying rent for 3 decade old video games, what are you even doing?
Lots of devs do this. Naughty Dog, who for a long while was exclusive to Playstation, loves to put Playstations in their games.
Ubisoft put an entire mission in Watch Dogs 2 about uncovering and leaking details about a game in development by Ubisoft.
Reminds me of Uncharted Thief’s end. At the end of the game you can play Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 (or PS2) in the game itself. So a game in a game.
The early Animal Crossings had working NES games in them you could get as in game items. Back before Nintendo learned they could endlessly monetize them. There’s an update for the latest Animal Crossing that adds them in, but they require a Nintendo Online subscription to play them, because if you aren’t paying rent for 3 decade old video games, what are you even doing?
You play it at the beginning, as well!