User blog:KingOfSpriters13/Video Game Shared Universe Theory

A while back I was making a thesis about how all Capcom franchises are actually in the same universe (Because Final Fight characters are in Street Fighter, Captain Commando takes place in Metro City from Final Fight, etc.). Today, I was trying to expand the paper a little bit, when I noticed something peculiar; Megaman Battle Network crosses over with Boktai, which itself has ties to Metal Gear Solid. This is important because Metal Gear Solid characters have been in precisely everything (Super Smash Bros Brawl, Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Yu-Gi-Oh to name a few). So I thought, could all video games be connected in some way or another? Let's take a look.

We've already talked about Snake's many cameos in other games, but there's one that's particularly interesting: DreamMix TV World Fighters. It's a Smash Bros clone with Konami, Hudson Soft, and Takara characters in it. This means that Transformers, Gradius, and Adventure Island are all part of the universe. Another character in that game happens to be Bomberman. This oddly-poportioned... thing has had his own crossover with, oddly enough, Wario. Wario happens to be a staple of the Mario Kart franchise. Mario Kart happens to be our connection to Pac-Man, as in Mario Kart Arcade Grand Prix 2, you have the option of playing as Pac-Man, Mrs.Pac-Man, Blinky, or even a Tomagotchi. Nintendo must've really been out of ideas. Pac-Man, interestingly enough, has been in ANOTHER kart-racing game known as Pac-Man World Rally.One of the unlockable characters in that game is Mr.Driller, son of Dig-Dug. Mr.Driller has appeared in another Namco game known as Tales of the World: Nakiri Dungeon 3. This Tales connection brings us all the way back to Capcom, since Tales characters have appeared in Project X Zone (A crossover between Sega, Namco, and Capcom).

I could go on about Namco's Tekken having characters in Naruto which has ties to Jump Ultimate Stars, but this seems like a nice place to end. So yeah, enjoy the rest of the day.