Super Smash Bros.
This main boss of the Super Smash Bros. series has appeared in every game, sometimes with his Crazy brother.
Who is: Master Hand?
This is the only game in the series to have 5 tracks per grand prix, as opposed to 4.
What is: Super Mario Kart?
This character in the F-Zero series is a reference to Star Fox.
Who is: James McCloud?
If you come across this pun-loving skeleton, you're gonna have a bad time.
Who is: Sans?
Devil May Cry series protagonist Dante and his brother, Virgil, are known as half-demons. Their father, this man, gave them their demon blood.
- Zalarox
Who is: Sparda?
This is the only stage in the Super Smash Bros. series that appears in every game with the same name.
What is: Final Destination?
(FD and Battlefield technically appear in every game, but Battlefield is known as Duel Zone in Smash 64.)
This side series of Mario Kart games were made by Namco, rather than Nintendo.
What is: Mario Kart Arcade GP?
Prosecutor Edgeworth from the Ace Attorney series is one of the many characters who has his own unique speech bubble and callout, being this.
What is: Eureka?
In the hit farming simulator, Stardew Valley, the player starts their farm with 15 of these seeds as a gift from Mayor Lewis.
What are: Parsnip seeds?
The SNES version of F-Zero features the track Silence, which resembles this human tool.
- Lozzu
What is: a Pistol or Gun?
This popular fan game, based on the Smash series, was made by McCleodGaming, creators of upcoming crossover platform fighter, Fraymakers.
What is: Super Smash Flash?
Despite fan favorite character Waluigi not appearing in a playable fashion, his stage, Waluigi Pinball from Mario Kart DS did show up without him in this game.
What is: Mario Kart 7?
In the vehicular combat series, Twisted Metal, this man grants wishes to the winner of the tournament in a monkey's paw like way. He also thanks you for playing Twisted Metal.
Who is: Calypso?
Dead Cells has had many crossovers over the last 5 years, with the most recent one being with this popular, long-running series with a similar gameplay style.
What is: Castlevania?
In the game StarCraft 2, this unit used to summon a Nuke on the battlefield.
- Rikka
What is: a Ghost?
In its infancy, Super Smash Bros. for the N64 didn't have any Nintendo characters at all. Gameplay was still the same, but it used generic models and went by this name.
What is: Dragon King: The Fighting Game/Fighting Game Ryu-Ou
This was Mario Kart 64's name while in development.
What is: Super Mario Kart R?
In South Park: The Stick of Truth, players add this former vice president of the United States to their friends list on Facebook, later leading to a half-man, half-boss, half-fight.
Who is: Al Gore?
In Terraria, the Zenith is the ultimate sword, made up of 10 different swords. Name 5 of them.
What are: The Terra Blade, Meowmere, Star Wrath, Influx Waver, The Horseman's Blade, Seedler, Starfury, Bee Keeper, Enchanted Sword and Copper Shortsword?
In Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door, there is only one place in the game where you can find and talk to an adult Yoshi. You can find him in this place.
Between soup and curry, he personally prefers curry.
- Kamek
What is: The Excess Express Buffet Car?
The “Masterpieces” in Smash Bros Brawl are actually the legitimate, full versions of each game. Just with a time limit. Efforts have been made to speedrun these games within that time limit, with one for this first party Nintendo game being completed in 2021.
- MegaShadowFist
What is: Ocarina of Time?
Mario Kart Super Circuit is the only game in the series that allows players to do this with the Red Koopa Shell item.
What is: set it behind you and have it start chasing when someone passes it?
This boss from Resident Evil 1 poisons Richard Aiken, leading the player to have to quickly find a serum before Richard dies.
Who is: Yawn?
Released in 2022, this isometric action-adventure puzzle game sees players collecting the pages of the game's manual, trying to discern the meaning of the pages, which are in a neography, or constructed writing system.
What is: Tunic?
Of Cave Story's many available weapons, this one is the only one to weaken as it levels up.
- Mecha
What is: Nemesis?