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* How do you vent your frustration over ''[[Mega Man 2]]'s'' [[That One Boss|Air Man]]? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLouGft9kY Put it in the form of a music video].
* The game ''[[Audiosurf]]'' generates levels based on audio files. You're able to induce this effect yourself once you realize that not only can you give the same effect to less energetic song, but for ''any'' audio file, from speeches, to a recording of [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|the Argument Clinic sketch]], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_b9YOPzhiU John Cage's 4'33''].
* One of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'''s early cutscenes is of a ''satellite dish being turned on''. It gets the full [[FM Vs|FMV]] treatment: dramatic camera motion, gratuitously complex machinery at work, the whole nine yards. It even finishes by beaming a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|frickin' laser]] into space.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' features the same fetch quests that so dominate the RPG genre, save that this time they're all completely goddamn extreme. Complete with Charlie's Angels poses.
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]'', [[Final Fantasy VIII/Characters|Laguna]] calls his own [[Limit Break|Perfect EX Burst]] "[[Shameless Self Promoter|The greatest attack ever!]]"