Code Shifter. nice lil 2D plat where you're literally part of a cartoonish virtual dev team tryin to debug n refine their game before they hit the deadline (but ofc, something shady happens). in the 'breakroom' you can play a 2D fighter mini-game with the various nicely-sprited-or-imported franchise guest-stars such as a dude from Kunio~kun series, Sol Badguy, etc. a great lil game but my progress on SteamDeck did not carry over to the Steam cloud's save storage on PC for some irritating reason
also, even those this doesn't quite qualify for bein what the thread topic is lookin for... in Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle 2 you can punch arcade cabinets for fruit power-ups n rudely interrupt Galsia/Garcia from playing whatever game Mr. X would shoot him for doing while he's supposed to be a generic roaming antagonist who's only deadly when he holds a knife in front of him. he doesn't even extend his arm to stab you so one might conclude that knife is mad sharp
also, even those this doesn't quite qualify for bein what the thread topic is lookin for... in Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle 2 you can punch arcade cabinets for fruit power-ups n rudely interrupt Galsia/Garcia from playing whatever game Mr. X would shoot him for doing while he's supposed to be a generic roaming antagonist who's only deadly when he holds a knife in front of him. he doesn't even extend his arm to stab you so one might conclude that knife is mad sharp
