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===Old Man Murray=== | {{Anchor|OMM}} | ||
===Old Man Murray and fake Sean Connery=== | |||
[[Image:Penny_Arcade_-_EvilCorp.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Not an Easter egg, but very apropos: a [[wp:Penny Arcade|Penny Arcade]] comic about crates and Oni.]] | [[Image:Penny_Arcade_-_EvilCorp.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Not an Easter egg, but very apropos: a [[wp:Penny Arcade|Penny Arcade]] comic about crates and Oni.]] | ||
Old Man Murray was a gaming blog with feisty criticism of the industry; its writers would later work on [[wp:Psychonauts|Psychonauts]] and the [[wp:Portal (series)|Portal games]]. In [https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html one of their most famous articles], they suggested that the ultimate quality of a game could be judged by a single measurement called "Start to Crate": the amount of time from the start of the game until the first crate (or barrel, etc.) is sighted. The smaller the time, the worse the game, as the use of crates to adorn a level demonstrates that the developers have run out of ideas. | Old Man Murray was a gaming blog with feisty criticism of the industry; its writers would later work on [[wp:Psychonauts|Psychonauts]] and the [[wp:Portal (series)|Portal games]]. In [https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html one of their most famous articles], they suggested that the ultimate quality of a game could be judged by a single measurement called "Start to Crate": the amount of time from the start of the game until the first crate (or barrel, etc.) is sighted. The smaller the time, the worse the game, as the use of crates to adorn a level demonstrates that the developers have run out of ideas. | ||
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Oni's first level is a warehouse and it is literally ''full'' of crates, barrels and containers. You can see a stack of crates right from where you start the level (there are also crates in the training course, but not in the first room). On one of the first crates you see in the Warehouse, there's a self-deprecating label saying "-OMM- TTC 1.1" or, in other words, "-Old Man Murray- Time To Crate 1.1 [seconds]"; a pretty bad score, needless to say. | Oni's first level is a warehouse and it is literally ''full'' of crates, barrels and containers. You can see a stack of crates right from where you start the level (there are also crates in the training course, but not in the first room). On one of the first crates you see in the Warehouse, there's a self-deprecating label saying "-OMM- TTC 1.1" or, in other words, "-Old Man Murray- Time To Crate 1.1 [seconds]"; a pretty bad score, needless to say. | ||
Underneath this is written "THE DAY IS MINE!!" While Oni players will see this as a reference to the cheat code for activating [[Developer Mode]], it should be noted that the "thedayismine" cheat was never intended to be published or present in the shipped game, so there was little point in writing this cheat code (with different spacing and punctuation) on a crate. Most proximately, this label text should be seen as a quote from Saturday Night Live's [[wp:Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live)|Celebrity Jeopardy!]], where "Sean Connery" says this as a catchphrase, and the cheat code "thedayismine" is merely another manifestation of the same quote (which must have become an office in-joke). A second reference to Celebrity Jeopardy! is found below under {{SectionLink||Febtober Striker}}. | |||
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===Forklift Striker=== | ===Forklift Striker=== | ||
However a special mention goes to the secret [[Striker]] in [[{{C1}}]]. If you pass the first door, then take the stairs to the top floor, and jump onto the cabin of the forklift, a Striker will appear (see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4T1Qpu-8U this video]). When killed, he drops 3 items (hypo spray, phase cloak, force shield). The phase cloak and the force shield are otherwise not encountered before [[{{C3}}]], and the secret Striker comes before the first Striker you see normally (after you find [[Chung]]). The very improbable encounter and its extraordinary reward | However a special mention goes to the secret [[Striker]] in [[{{C1}}]]. If you pass the first door, then take the stairs to the top floor, and jump onto the cabin of the forklift, a Striker will appear (see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4T1Qpu-8U this video]). When killed, he drops 3 items (hypo spray, phase cloak, force shield). The phase cloak and the force shield are otherwise not encountered before [[{{C3}}]], and the secret Striker comes before the first Striker you see normally (after you find [[Chung]]). The very improbable encounter and its extraordinary reward distinguish this secret Striker as Oni's most complex Easter egg. | ||
===Febtober Striker=== | ===Febtober Striker=== | ||
A trigger volume in [[{{C2}}]] has the name "febtober", which is a reference | A trigger volume in [[{{C2}}]] has the name "febtober", which is a second reference (after [[#OMM|-OMM- TTC 1.1]]) to the Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches on Saturday Night Live. In one sketch, "Sean Connery" guesses that the month of the year starting with "Feb" is "Febtober". Any possible additional in-joke at Bungie concerning this "month" is unknown. Triggering "febtober", which is done by jumping off the walkway with the turret at the end, spawns a Striker with a plasma rifle who patrols the corridor near the turbines seen in the [[:Image:CHAPTER_02_._ENGINES_OF_EVIL.png|level's splashscreen]]. | ||
===Happy Bomber=== | ===Happy Bomber=== | ||
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===Cleam air=== | ===Cleam air=== | ||
[[Image:TXMPPOSTER4.png|right]] | [[Image:TXMPPOSTER4.png|right]] | ||
An in-game poster found in [[{{C4}}]] depicts cartoon children frolicking in a city while wearing heavy-duty masks. The caption reads "CLEAM AIR HAPPY". | |||
The | The in-joke behind this misspelling of "clean" as "cleam" just so happens to have a public explanation at the 16'45" mark in [http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/Bungie%20Related%20Movies/MWSF%202000/Bungie%20TV/MWSF%202000/bTV_day2_big.mov this video tour] of Bungie West, when Dave Dunn points to a [[wp:My Neighbor Totoro|My Neighbor Totoro]] poster on the wall of their office with this [[wikt:Engrish|Engrish]] text at its bottom: "CLEAM AIR OF THEIR NEW HOME". | ||
===VI-AG crane=== | ===VI-AG crane=== | ||