- Some of his Shout Outs are particularly subtle; for instance, the PC in Red Steel 2, who wears a bright red cowboy hat and trenchcoat is greeted by "Are you that vampire guy?"
- He has referenced Back to the Future several times, usually when talking about Time Travel.
- Almost all instances mentioning time travel have a picture of the TARDIS, as well.
- Yahtzee casually quotes Eddie Izzard in a few reviews—he is a self-admitted fan. He's also quoted Seanbaby at least twice.
- Any time he says "battle royale," somebody onscreen gets killed by an exploding collar.
- The first ship seen in the Dead Space review is the Pyro-GX from Descent.
- The entirety of his review for 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is filled with subliminal shots with the phrase "NOT A RACIST."
- One of the lines in his review of Final Fantasy XIII is: "Yahtzee, please take your dick out of my eye socket!", which appears to be a reference to A Serbian Film (seeing as the video came out at around approximately the same time the movie did and generated a great deal of controversy).
- In the same review, he complains about Lightning's loud footsteps because "It's like someone's running along just out of shot banging coconuts together."
- The God of War III review has Yahtzee point out how Kratos was the closest to relatable in the first game, while in the third, he's channeling Judge Death.
- One of the dungeons in NieR takes the form of a text adventure game, illustrated with "This dungeon has been replaced by a series of twisty text screens, all alike."
- In his review of Red Dead Redemption, he at one point calls the game "Purple Monkey Dishwasher".
- Yahtzee, during his review of Catherine, surmises that perhaps the large amounts of angst in Japanese video games and culture may be due to anime fans "liking their protagonists angsty and ineffectual, and given to wanking off over unconscious women."
- He references it again in his Haze review, where he has the main protagonist quote Shinji's Madness Mantra.
- Used again as a joke at the start of his Papers, Please review.
- Yahtzee starts his Dead Rising 2 review with "Once upon a time, there was a game called Dead Rising that coined the phrase 'when there's no more room in hell, the NPCs will walk into walls a whole bunch.'"
- The credits close out with a line from Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier": "There shall be / In that rich earth a richer dust concealed."
- He comments that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is "the most grossly offensive and mishandled application of intellectual property since the Schindler's List Easy-Bake Oven!"
- At the end of his The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass review, he suggest for the next game that Nintendo get rid of the princess, change the hero to a dog, change the setting to feudal Japan, and replace the weapons with magic spells cast with a paintbrush.
- When describing Travis Touchdown as a massive nerd, he's shown lusting over Haruhi Suzumiya.
- In Thief: The Dark Project, one of the badly done guard sprites goes DRR DRR DRR.
- In his review for Thief (2014), Yahtzee says, "The first thing we do... is to isolate everything that gave the original its unique appeal, edge, and soul, put on our big boots and stamp and stamp and stamp..." Cue the guy putting on Mario's Kuribo Shoe.
- "Then there's the villain, the Thief-Taker General, whose only role in the plot is to occasionally show up and victimize Garrett in an operatically evil manner, like Dick Dastardly chasing the pigeon..."
- "And no-one says 'taff' anymore; they say 'fuck'. That's not fun; Errol Flynn swinging off a rope onto a pirate ship is fun, but if the enemy crew just tells him to fuck off, it'd completely kill the mood!"
- "I've heard people say Prince of Persia (2008) is too easy, which honestly bewildered me, because I died more often than The Nameless One in a smoothie maker".
- The ending credits comic for his Killzone 3 review features one of the Helghast going for a haircut only to have the imp barber slash at his neck with his hair-cutting tools.
- A blink and you'll miss it reference to The Pixies is in the Yakuza 4 review, where a car is shown playing "Here Comes Your Man."
- To the Kaiser Chiefs, his Wet review introduces the heroine Rubi like this: rubirubirubiRUBI!
- In his review for inFAMOUS 2, Yahtzee says that Cole MacGrath has to go to New Marais "in order to build his power level back up to nine thousaaaand". ZP Cole even acts like Super Saiyan Goku!
- Yahtzee even refers to Cole's good and evil sides as Cole MacGallant and Cole MacGoofus.
- From the end credits: "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy."
- "[Singularity's] even got those cute, '50's public information cartoons that BioShock ripped off from Fallout. It's like a magnificent Human Centipede stretching back through gaming history."
- Singularity has "more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire". The plot of
- The Duke Nukem Forever review (the real one, not the parody one) gives us ALBATROSS'D!
- In the review for Shadows of the Damned, Yahtzee says that "It's disappointing short and doesn't quite have the wealth of imagination one would expect from its heritage. Ooh, listen to me. I think I'm the Antiques Roadshow now."
- Speaking of Antiques Roadshow, in one review of Alien: Isolation, he says that Aliens: Colonial Marines "was as entertaining as pushing a television aerial into your nasal cavity and tuning it to the Antiques Roadshow." Cue the announcer's voice saying, "What a sterling set of milk jugs you have."
- In his review of Red Faction: Armageddon, he says that the title "was the first telltale heart murmur."
- In one of his Extra Punctuation articles he offhandedly refers to a generic supervillain minion as "Longshoreman X".
- The very first video for The Escapist refers to the fact that Halfbrick Studios, like Yahtzee, happens to be based in Brisbane.
- In the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review, one of the monsters "borrowed from European folklore" is a Moomin.
- Says Twisted Metal's Calypso could only more obviously be Satan "if he had horns and was idly chewing on Judas Iscariot."
- In his Guild Wars 2 review, Yahtzee makes a reference to a man sending gazpacho soup back to be warmed up.
- In the Hitman: Absolution review, mocking the point system: "100 points from Gryffindor!"
- In his Paper Mario: Sticker Star review, he comments on the game not seeming like a true Paper Mario title, despite having the look and "skin" of one:
- Mention of the Alternate Universes in Bioshock Infinite is illustrated by a chart with the home timeline in the centre and two other branches labelled "616 Universe" (the Marvel Universe) and "Alternative 1986" (from Back to the Future Part II).
- In his review for Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Yahtzee says that the game is not like Zork Nemesis when it comes to puzzles, although they are reminiscent of the Gobliiins franchise.
- In his review for Ride to Hell: Retribution, Yahtzee described one sex scene as "a brief blank-eyed, Thunderbirds-are-go hump with a random trollop before being dropped right back into the mission as if nothing happened."
- In Yahtzee's review of Dark, he mockingly compares the protagonist's name "Eric Bane" to the pseudonym under which "a struggling author writes erotic Twilight knock-offs". For bonus points, Yahtzee's fake paranormal romance novel cover is highly Lovecraftian in design as a nod to the Viridian Saga.
- The same review also later has a Visual Pun where Yahtzee's penis is depicted as the face of Dick Van Dyke.
- In his review for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: "I'm reminded of that line from Heath Ledger's Joker: "I think you and I are destined to do this forever"; a line that proved slightly ironic for Heath Ledger..." ["Well, that was tasteless."]
- "...but frankly, if I didn't feel the need to collect the unlockable sea shanties so my crew would sing some new ones for a fucking change..." Cue the pirate imps toasting the glasses of beer and singing "Poker Face".
- "...because I spent the majority of my time sailing rather than running through a city shoulder-clocking motherfuckers like I'm the music video for 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' on fast-forward."
- In Yahtzee's review of Beyond: Two Souls, one of his alternative titles for the game is "Despite Ellen Page, I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage".note
- He also describes Heavy Rain's random shifts in tone and gameplay as "Like if someone intercut Dragon's Lair with security footage from my living room on the morning of a major deadline."
- In the review for Knack, Yahtzee says, "The onus of the next-gen launch title is partly to sell the graphical capability of the console, standing atop it like Salome doing a little volumetric lighting Dance of the Seven Veils. This is more like Dance of the Seven Smallpox Blankets!"
- In the same review, he says that "Every enemy can slice off your health bar like a fat bridesmaid left alone with the wedding cake"; scene cuts to the fat imp in a bridal gown on the table while "I Will Always Love You" plays in the background.
- In his review for Dark Souls II, Yahtzee imagines himself hacking off the limbs of a "dude in armor", then puts on a wallpaper of dudes in armor while the imp hacks off the limbs of another dude in armor in a manner that makes him look like the Black Knight.
- "And instead of the game starting with only one path and then opening up when you're going after the four Lord Souls..."
- In his review of Titanfall, Yahtzee praises the epic Pilot vs. Titan fights as "mecha-Tom and Jerry."
- His review of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII makes reference to Futurama's "I'll make my own [X]. With Blackjack. And hookers." Running Gag.
- The South Park: The Stick of Truth review has a Zero Punctuationized Kyle climb into a person shaped hole in a wall, declaring: "This hole was made for me."
- In the review for Wolfenstein: The New Order, Yahtzee pictures the Nazi space wizard as a human in a wizard hat and robe riding on the Hitler version of Bowser's Koopa Clown Car.
- Also, he describes BJ Blaskowicz as "The Beej" and "Tintin on protein shakes".
- Yahtzee says that Shovel Knight is "like the fucking Captain Planet of NES games: 'By your powers combined, I will now bleep like someone doing squeaky farts in a tin elevator!'"
- Yahtzee says the plot of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is "like Calvin and Hobbes, if Calvin was a piece of wood with a frowny face drawn on it, and Hobbes was another piece of wood with a frowny face drawn on it."
- "Not only does this keep you invested in not being killed (blimey, that was a weird sentence) but it creates an environment for organic storytelling." Flower says, "Are you sitting comfortably?"
- "Come, Mister Talion, tally me banana."
- In his review for Sonic Boom, Yahtzee says that "The gameplay is based around switching between the four marginally different playstyles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo."
- He calls Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme".
- "Getting sniffy about random quips not meeting your comedy standards again, are we, Yahtzee?"
- In the credits, he makes a reference to the theme from Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
- In the "Top 5 Games of 2014", Yahtzee says "...it’s time to make like Sesame Street and learn how to count to five!"
- In his review of Elite Dangerous, Yahtzee (as "Space Commander Yahtzee: Hero of Space") sees a report on "Zarniwoop."
- "Maybe they're constantly gathering data on who's the best pilot so they can pass the details on to those aliens from The Last Starfighter."
- Yahtzee calls The Order: 1886 "another fucking cover-based shooter spiritually akin to Space Invaders, except at least the aliens got faster in Space Invaders as you thinned their ranks."
- In the review for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: "Gerald is one secret makeout with Harry Potter away from being a self-insert fan fiction character."Fanfic Writer: And that's when the Backstreet Boys came out of the sauna!
- "If a boss was proving hard, I'd just cast the Jedi mind-trick stun thing for a free hit..."
- "The Witcher 3 example is all about showing over telling, which is probably for the best, because whenever anyone tells us anything it's usually in an exaggerated regional British accent that turns even the most dramatic scene into Monty Python Does Westeros."IT IS A DEAD KING
IT HAS CEASED TO BE - "...there was something endearingly blue collar about calling on villagers like a traveling chimney sweep and tracking down the beast with a bit of CSI: Narnia."
- In his review of Hatred, Yahtzee says of "Jeffrey Cuddletrousers": "But I don't see how anyone can take him seriously long enough to be disturbed, with his Cookie Monster voice and his 'Cousin Itt from The Addams Family' hair."
- "...interpreting the [monochrome] visuals can sometimes be like trying to read a Sin City comic that's been photocopied twelve times."
- In his review for SOMA, Yahtzee mentions the game "where you can't fight and spend half your time crouched in shadows avoiding looking at monsters". One of them is a giant imp wearing the mask of the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz.
- Also, he makes a few mentions of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Rene Descartes, along with Markiplier's quote "Ah! It's so existential!"
- In the review for Alone in the Dark: Illumination, Yahtzee describes the "monsters being vulnerable in light" plot as complicated: "But the enemies constantly respawn and you're not going to be completing the current arbitrary fetch quest standing under a streetlight like a mournful hooker in a gritty musical." Cue Yahtzee dressed as Fantine from Les Misérables, standing under a streetlight singing "I Dreamed a Dream".
- While reviewing Tembo the Badass Elephant he comes up with the term "presiphant", eventually leading to the final Credits Gag "My girlfriend is the presiphant."
- The end credits for the Everybody's Gone to the Rapture review state, "Still, check out the game if you're wondering what that bloke from Goodnight Sweetheart is doing with his time these days."
- He also describes the experience of the game as "The Archers meets Quartermass and the Pit," and then lampshades what an obscure reference he's making.
- The end credits for the Halo 5: Guardians review have the lines "Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me Cortana."
- In Just Cause 3 he uses: "Wait! This doesn't look like a trigger bomb, (the character has a grenade while clinging to a propane tank) but that looks like (the tank has exploded, sending the character flying) my left leg drifting off into the sunset!"
- The end credits of the "Top 5 of 2015" video have the first part that says "Bland on the Run".
- In the review for Salt and Sanctuary, Yahtzee says that the Mire of Stench was "not so much" of a good name because "it's kind of redundant and immediately reminds me of that David Bowie film."
- In the review of Titanfall 2 and Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare, Yahtzee says that the Call of Duty series "decided to start doing games about modern warfare for a while, but for now the series is like the brooms from The Sorcerer's Apprentice that kept doing that because no one told them to stop, and things have reached the inevitable conclusion with [Infinite Warfare] suddenly being IN SPAAAAACE! like it's a fucking Saturday morning cartoon adaptation" (referring, of course, to Gilligan's Planet).
- He also says that the lads of Infinite Warfare "start getting picked off with the laughable regularity of a game of 'This Little Piggy'."
- "The Man from Mars Who Eats Guitars."
- During Yahtzee's review of Superhot, he says, "The aesthetic deliberately goes for the retro computer look, so the menus are all in ASCII and there is added scan lines, bloom and curving at the edges to look like it's on a CRT monitor, a style that is just now veering over into being prevalent enough in indie games to start trying my patience." During the time he says it, an Apple III appears in front of him and the screen becomes distorted a bit.
- Speaking of Apple III, in the review for Metroid Prime: Federation Force an Apple III appears to Yahtzee in the cave and says "Mash your hand on this or something."
- "Why must we play as a midget inside a robot suit, and since the missions are spent more or less entirely inside the robot suits, why even establish that we are actually tiny Rice Krispie Elves, except to make things all the more humiliating?"
- Yahtzee says he should have called this game Tangential Metroid Universe Thing Starring the Cast of Willow.
- "Still, that Mario iOS game shows that Nintendo has some perception of what consumers want, or at least what they wanted six or seven years ago."
- In the review of Doom (2016), Yahtzee says that "most of the NPC dialogue sounds like they are trying to do an impression of Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget."
- In the review of the PlayStation VR, Yahtzee says that the PSVR is "a device for lonesome spods to find more lasting escape from a cruel reality"; cue the lonesome guy in a VR under a streetlight singing "All by Myself".
- Yahtzee complains in his mini-review of Windlands that merely turning his head in the game "felt like my brain was attached to my eyeballs with partially melted Slinikes."
- In the review for Far Cry Primal, Yahtzee called the game The Land Before Plots.
- "I mean, where did the creators of Breaking Bad get off telling me I should watch Season 1 before Season 2?"
- "Oh yeah, you can tame animals, which is sort of the compensation for not having guns, 'cause rather than sniping all the guards from a nearby hill, you just deploy a giant bear and throw bees at the survivors. You don’t fuck around in my Hundred Acre Wood!"
- "We'll Have a Gay Old Time"
- Yahtzee calls Dead Rising 4 "The Dead Rising Holiday Special".
- "Recurring Dead Rising hero Frank West recurs once again, now sporting a slightly different face and voice and having apparently devoted his life to becoming a faintly desperate tribute to Bruce Campbell's career-making performance in the Evil Dead films."
- "But you'd get the same experience from pouring 5000 baby chicks into a meat grinder and putting on It's a Wonderful Life in the background."
- Yahtzee's reaction to the ending: "Frank West dies at the end. Yes, that lovable original Dead Rising protagonist so popular they had to do a version of Dead Rising 2 with him literally patched in to replace the other dude who was even in Marvel vs. Capcom once, which was a little bit weird but nonetheless fun. This game features his canon death. Great! Might as well have hit him with a bus in the end credit to the next Phoenix Wright."
- In the review of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Yahtzee points out that the policy "if at first you don't succeed, give up and do something else... worked for Resident Evil 4, when Capcom said to itself, 'Hey, we're shit at writing story and dialogue that always comes across as laughable and slightly camp. Let's just play that up and make the combat not so much like trying to teach the elderly how to dance to Stayin' Alive.'"
- "The game stops being scary when it loses The Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe and becomes... well, becomes a Resident Evil game, I suppose. It's not very long, since it takes place almost entirely on the set of Little House on the Prairie and everything..."
- "[The Molded] lurch towards you slowly enough that you've got time to lay a trigger bomb in their path, back off to a safe distance, and read another chapter of Of Mice and Men."
- The Yooka-Laylee review contains a brief reference to This Very Wiki (at about 0:55). It is appropriately meta, with a nerdy figure popping up in the background to lampshade that this is, indeed, a Shout-Out.Yahtzee: You know what? Let's forget about examples; This isn't fucking TV Tropes!
- The end credits of the review for The Surge say "Smack my glitch up."
- Speaking of The Prodigy, in the review of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, Yahtzee says "Seems like every single person we shoot is a bald, bearded Russian with angry domestic violence eyes." Said Russian quotes The Prodigy in saying "I'm gonna smack my bitch up."
- "I think his in-game character profile says it best: 'North is a firm believer in America's role as World Police.' [file says, "North is a hum de ham de hom de haw"] Wait, what?! So our protagonist watched that Team America film, and didn't realize that it was a satire?" (TV says, "America, Fuck Yeah")
- In his review of Cuphead, Yahtzee says that "it's deliberately fashioning itself after retro animation, in the style of Max Fleischer or very early Disney, and pulls that off with quite remarkable success!" While he is speaking, the game becomes Felix the Cat, with both Fleischer mascot Bimbo and Walt Disney pop up, and Yahtzee says, "Gawrsh", just like Goofy.
- In the review of Hob and A Hat in Time, the bed that the ZP Hat Kid sleeps in kinda resembles a Disney Princess bed that has the Anna and Elsa characters from Frozen.
- Yahtzee says that Outlast 2 is like The Passion of the Christ: VR Edition.
- "There are one or two bits where you have to search a cornfield for the exit while being hunted by multiple rednecks that's about as much fun as playing Pac-Man blindfolded in a sports bar where the power got cut halfway through the Super Bowl."
- "Every time I'm chased into another non-obvious dead end, it's annoying in the same way as losing another round of Connect Four to a hyperactive twelve-year-old with poor sportsmanship."
- Near the end of his review for Fortnite: Battle Royale, Yahtzee justifies reviewing an early access game because "...as a great YouTube channel once said, "Fuck you, it's January."
- A slide from his Agents of Mayhem review included a sign that said, "I got Seoul, but I'm not a Seouldier."
- In his review of Doki Doki Literature Club!, at the mention of Sayori’s death an imp appears, holding a gramophone that plays the song “Hurt”. It appears twice with different lyrics.
- In the review of Shenmue, Yahtzee tells about the combat that is so complicated that "in the end, all you can do is get out the old steak tenderizer and do the Monster Mash."
- He also says that the experience of playing the game is "like having two perfectly good eyeballs and using them to watch Destructoid videos!"
- In the review for Star Control: Origins: "Hesitant as I am to complain in this age of patching it in post, which means it might be fixed after this comes out or the entire game replaced with eighteen hours of The Hampsterdance."
- The final stinger in his review of Blood: Fresh Supply was "Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough."
- In his review for Acclaim's "Hall of Shame", Yahtzee talks about the promotion of Turok: Evolution: "Now, one might reasonably say at this point, 'Surely, it wasn't a serious offer to let new parents cash in on their future bullying victims! Surely, these were just shock tactics to grab headlines, the way a graffiti artist just wants attention and doesn't literally want to fuck the police! I mean, to be serious, there aren't enough hours in the day.'"
- Acclaim: "Scheme, scheme, plot, plot."
- "And you know what? Dave Mirra's heart grew three sizes that day. (Beat) Nah, I'm just kidding; he sued their bollocks off."
- From the end credits for the review of Remnant: From the Ashes:
- In his "Top 5 of 2019", we get this when Yahtzee's complaining about Wolfenstein: Youngblood:"It's true what they say, isn't it? You either die Spec Ops: The Line or you live long enough to see yourself become the Call of Duty."
- In the Dreams review:
- At one point, Dreams takes flight and drags Yahztee along with it a la Peter Pan.
- Yahtzee also claims that "the invention of creativity occurred in 1988 when Robert Zemeckis directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
- Yahtzee's "swear matrix" has "Calculus" ranked as one of the most generally offensive swear words possible, likely as an allusion to how the American editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy claimed "Belgium" was one of the most offensive swears in the Universe.
- The sarcastic remark about how Dreams is an "Objectivist utopia" has Dreams suddenly sprout the head of Andrew Ryan.
- According to Yahtzee, he hasn't logged into Second Life "since the last time flying penises swarmed over it like a lesser known plague of Egypt."
- He then ends the review commenting on how disappointing it can be "...when someone makes twice as much money as you just from drawing nipples on Princess Sally Acorn."
- Black Mesa is depicted as a serious-faced Walter White with a bike horn in his hands, commenting "I am the one who honks."
- When he comments on how he views the Hunters from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis as The Scrappy, he depicts them as Leonardo.
- Yahtzee starts out the review of Maneater half-heartedly singing "Uh oh, here she comes. Watch out boys, she'll chew you up!"
- The jarring Mood Whiplash of "Serious" Sam Stone showing sadness over the death of an ally in Serious Sam 4 is compared to "watching Barney the Dinosaur trying to play Macbeth."
- When describing how Hades is a hands-off parent, Yahtzee remarks that Hades spends most of the game "sitting in his armchair watching Inspector Morse".
- Apparently, Remothered: Tormented Fathers has the "most awkward fucking title outside of Japanese games and Philip K. Dick novels." He also comments that the protagonist of Remothered: Broken Porcelain looks like Jodie Foster.
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon is called both "Yakuza: Like a Rolling Stone and Yakuza: Like a G6."
- Yahtzee calls Immortals: Fenix Rising "the faintly sinister cheaply-made knockoff of a Disney film hoping to sucker in a few elderly relatives in time for Christmas."
- "...every now and again, [the NPCs will] comment on your actions like Statler and fucking Waldorf, and it's like they're auditioning for How I Met Your Mother: Classical Antiquity Edition."
- One critic calls Yahtzee "Priscilla, Queen of the Snooty Internet Piss-Grumps".
- "...the parry window is roughly the length of an episode of The Great British Bake Off."
- And at the end of the review, Yahtzee tells Ubisoft, "Do you have anyone left there who knows anything about human emotion?"Ubisoft: Sure we do! Um... it was a song by Smokey Robinson, wasn't it?
- The description of Demon's Souls' Hub Level-based design is compared to "Mario 64 if Princess Peach had had her eyes waxed shut."
- "Returnal is a nice chunk of good old hard sci fi that plays like a Rogue-lite version of Metroid Prime by way of the movie Prometheus."
- "...speaking of things that never get old, Five Nights At Freddys is about children getting murdered by pizza restaurant animatronics that go mad when night falls. Step 2: question mark. Step 3: profit."
- The Stinger of the Hitman 3 review is "Shot a man in Reno just to get the achievement".
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