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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.

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}}.

The [[Marathon]] series began and ended before Oni's release, and was a major source of new Bungie fans in the ten years before Bungie released Halo.

The first Oni trailer featured [[wp:Marathon (video game)|Marathon]] symbols {{Hover|on the crates|image=1998 trailer 73.png}}. In-game, the Marathon symbol can be seen on the hull of the [[TCTF]] computer [[Damocles]] in [[{{C6}}]] and [[{{C13}}]] (see texture TXMPTC_SHCOMP2 as well as [[:Image:Damocles 1.jpg|this concept art]]). Fans certainly did not miss this, so Harry brought it up in [http://oni.bungie.org/special/part1/alex.html his interview with Alex Okita]:

A weapon called "Wave Motion Cannon" was seemingly [https://marathon.bungie.org/story/weapons.html cut from Marathon]. Like Marathon's other joke weapon, "Pirated [[wp:Copland (operating system)|Copland]] beta", it is just a string in the resources, not a usable weapon. As we know, the [[Wave Motion Cannon]] is the biggest weapon in Oni, and the only one with two firing modes. The Marathon weapon in turn references the primary weapon of the ''Yamato'' in the [[anime]] "Space Battleship Yamato".