History ShoutOut / ReadyPlayerOne

* At one point, the elections in the OASIS are held and Creator/CoryDoctorow and Creator/WilWheaton are re-elected as President and Vice-President. This becomes doubly funny when you realize that the audio book is narrated by Creator/WilWheaton himself.

* The mechs at the end include Mechagodzilla, Gundams, Voltron, Evangelions, and tons of other classic giant robots.

** The Beta Capsule appears as a InfinityPlusOneSword, turning its user into Series/{{Ultraman}} for three minutes.

The novel ''Ready Player One'' is filled to the brim with references to other works of fiction.

For shouts out in the Film Adaptation, [[Shoutout/ReadyPlayerOne2018 See Here]]

Like Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit and Disney/WreckItRalph, Ready Player One is filled to the brim with references to other works of fiction, whether as a cameo, plot point, quote, background event or even just a poster hanging in a room.

This is an attempt to catalogue them all, along with their usage in the book and film. Outside of being a shout-out and a description of it, please leave the regular trope entries to the respective Literature and Film pages.

LateArrivalSpoiler, ItWasHisSled and Unmarked Spoiler warnings.

For the Film Adaptation, [[Shoutout/ReadyPlayerOne2018 See Here]]

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* Anime/{{Akira}}: Cameo of Kaneda's Bike in the first test.
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* Film/BackToTheFuture:
** Cameo of the Deloran in the first test. Its flying mode proves quite useful in a regular race.
** [[spoiler:The director's name is also dropped as part of the name of a time-resetting item]].
* Film/BillAndTed: Plot Point [[spoiler:and reference in how to defeat the first test]].
* Film/KingKong: Cameo of Kong in the first test, starting off as the iconic building climb, then racing with the players, and ending as an obstacle near the end of it.
* Film/JurassicPark: Cameo of Rexy in the first test, as an behind-the-racer obstacle, referencing the infamous chase scene.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The idea of a game developer holding a contest themed around solving a series of puzzles to find an EasterEgg in his games is cited in-universe as being inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Swordquest}}''.
* VideoGame/{{Adventure}}: Plot Point [[spoiler:in that the third test is literally finding the first Easter Egg in Video Game History]]
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* Wade's second passphrase is [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful."]]
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* A computer named [[Series/KnightRider KITT]] (complete with flashing light), an [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension oscillation overthruster]] and Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} decals plastered on the side.
* The Beta Capsule appears as a InfinityPlusOneSword, turning its user into Series/{{Ultraman}} for three minutes.

This is an attempt to cataloger them all, along with their usage in the book and film. Outside of being a shout-out and a description of it, please leave the regular trope entries to the respective Literature and Film pages.

puter named [[Series/KnightRider KITT]] (complete with flashing light), an [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension oscillation overthruster]] and Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} decals plastered on the side.
** The Beta Capsule appears as a InfinityPlusOneSword, turning its user into Series/{{Ultraman}} for three minutes.
** The mechs at the end include Mechagodzilla, Gundams, Voltron, Evangelions, and tons of other classic giant robots.
** Almost all of the planets are shout-outs themselves. Creator/{{G|aryGygax}}ygax is a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' world, [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Azeroth]] exists as does [[VideoGame/EverQuest Norrath]].
** Wade has two space vessels on his asteroid base: an [[Franchise/StarWars X-Wing]] and a Series/{{Firefly}}-class ship.
** At one point, the elections in the OASIS are held and Creator/CoryDoctorow and Creator/WilWheaton are re-elected as President and Vice-President. This becomes doubly funny when you realize that the audio book is narrated by Creator/WilWheaton himself.
** Sorrento's employee number, 655321, is Alex's prison number from the film version of ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. In the audiobook, Creator/WilWheaton even pronounces it "Six Double-five Three Two One" like the film.
** Wade's alias Bryce Lynch is a young hacker character from ''Series/MaxHeadroom''. While living under this alias, he uses Max Headroom as a virtual servant.
** Wade's IOI employee aliases are Sam Lowery and Harry Tuttle, from ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', who also fight a massive bureaucracy.
** Wade's first passphrase to access the OASIS is [[Film/TheLastStarfighter "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."]]
** Wade's second passphrase is [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful."]]

* Film/JurrasicPark: Cameo of Rexy in the first test, as an behind-the-racer obstacle, referencing the infamous chase scene.