Game-inna-game

[Lee__Kanker]

The best famicom rpg, Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2, begins with you playing a dragon quest-esque rpg on your computer; where it's a recreation of the the first game. You even get a fake game over screen, with your friend mocking you if you die!

This has got to be the oldest game where Ive seen the game-inna-game thing

But 1990 isnt THAT old, what about the 80s? Has anyone seen an older game do that?

Minigames dont count, its gotta be A Videogame! Even if it has simple gameplay like a minigame, it has to be Your Character playing a videogame in its own world.

Let's say board games count too, while playing my beloved Siren and feeling anxiety like a darth vader was force-strangling my lungs; the last thing I expected was randomly finding a board game on the ground and being able to play it in the main menu. But it happened!

 

[DieselBrand]

I only know this site here with a lot of 80s games https://www.top80sgames.com/site/

 

[Tonberry]

Not 80s (or, well, the game does take place in the 80s), but still.

 

[JPchicre]

I think the one of the most famous examples were the NES roms in the GameCube Animal Crossing. As a kid i loved the concept, it felt like getting double the game (or more) for the price of one. One bad example (IMO) is in Kingdom Hearts 3, there were cool Arcade like games, mimicking the Game & Watch, in the game. But they were way too simplistic for anyone to bother booting KH3 just to play them.

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The GTA San Andreas Arcade minigames did the concept better, i think