Shout Out / StarTropics

• Mike's uncle is an archeologist named Doctor Jones.
• Nav-Com, the robot that pilots Sub-C, looks like Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy.
• In chapter 6 of the first game, to Robinson Crusoe of all things. You can find his skeleton, although Mike thinks the initials RC must stand for "Rob Crusocola".
• Coralcola's chief looks suspiciously like a certain Nintendo mascot. To add to speculation, he refers to Mike as a "power player" and later proves himself to be quite the Tetris maestro.
• If you don't want to listen about the ABC's of fishing the NPC states: Are you Nester?
• Likewise, the chief of Bellcola is rail-thin and sports a curved mustache like Luigi. (Guess that makes Wario the chief of Miracola?)
• The Egyptian pizza delivery man rides a Koopa Troopa on horseback.
• The sequel contains a major Shout-Out to Tetris, (all the plot coupons are magic Tetris pieces!) although it was removed for the Virtual Console release.
• The trap-filled Captain Bell's Cave in the first game, with collapsing floors, spear-shooting walls, and giant rolling bowling balls, feels like something right out of an Indiana Jones movie.
• In the second game, Leonardo da Vinci gives you a katana (which he claims he got from Marco Polo, of all people).
• Zoda's Gas Mask Mooks look a lot like Zakus.
• Also in the second game, Zoda-Y fights you by Teleport Spamming and firing bats and fireballs in sets of three. Further, you fight him in a Transylvanian castle?

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