- Bonus Material: Athena: Full Throttle has a section of bonus art that can be unlocked.
- Follow the Leader: Athena was SNK's attempt to get into side-scrolling successes like Super Mario Bros.
- Fountain of Expies: Along with Lum, Athena codified the "cute magical girl wearing just a bikini" archetype popular in Japan during the '80s.
- Milestone Celebration: The sequel, Athena: Full Throttle, was made to celebrate the original game's 20th anniversary.
- Revival by Commercialization: SNK Arcade Classics 0, a pre-Neo Geo games compilation released for PlayStation Portable, was the first time the arcade version of Athena was re-released outside of Japan, which piqued some interest in Athena's arcade origin after her appearances in SNK Crossover Fighting Games.
- Sequel Gap: Thanks to her newfound popularity from SVC: Chaos and NGBC, SNK Playmore decided to make a sequel to the first game... 20 years later! The game, named Athena: Full Throttle, was released to i-mode Mobile in 2006, and has similar gameplay and artwork to the original.
- What Could Have Been: Some ads for the Famicom port stated that the game would be released for the Disk System add-on, but it ended coming out on a regular Famicom cartridge. The conversion seems to have been done somewhat hastily, as the cartridge version still has load times.
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