Company Cameo - TV Tropes

• Logger Vick's Swiss army flag in The Adventurers 2 has series company Fantawild Animation's logo, a square with multiple colors and a T in white, on the actual flag.
• In The Adventurers 2 episode 35, wondering what would happen if he found the monster said to be nearby the forest, Logger Vick imagines he is being interviewed by multiple news reporters, one holding a microphone with Fantawild's logo on it.

• If you look to the left of the MFC restaurant in "Diet Doc", there is a building with a sign reading "Inspidea", the name of the company that Lamput has its animation outsourced to.
• A sign near the beginning of the episode "Origins" reads "Inspidea".

• It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie: When Daniel asks how Karen Bitterman could own so much property in the Kermit-less universe, Kermit remarks "Corporate synergy, it's out of control", as he lifts his flipper to reveal the logo of producer and broadcaster company NBC on the sole.
• A deleted scene from Muppets Most Wanted features a group of Disney Channel stars showing up to Kermit and Miss Piggy's wedding and proclaiming that they are the "Disney synergy invites".

• The first film has Daffy Duck proudly declaring that his butt is "Property of Warner Bros."
• The sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy features an introduction to the Warner Bros. Server-verse through a reverse shot of the 2021 Warner Bros logo.

• In the episode "Olive and Otto in Shmumberland", the publishing company of the Shmumberman comic series uses the logo of Sinking Ship Entertainment, one of the companies that produces the show.
• The 100th episode of the show, "The Sandwich Project", has the Mobile Unit agents visiting Pittsburgh, which is the home base of Fred Rogers Productions, the other company that produces the show, although they don't visit the studio (presumably because it's not open to the general public).

• A Freeze-Frame Bonus in the first episode of Transformers: Energon reveals that High Wire's motorbike mode is manufactured by franchise co-producer Takara.
• The first issue of The Transformers: All Hail Megatron shows a wide-shot of Times Square, including shops adorned with the logos of franchise producers Hasbro, Takara, and Tomy^note .
• An issue of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye includes a young kid named Brandon wearing a t-shirt with Hasbro's 80's-era logo on it who filmed Grimlock's rampage in Amarillo, Texas. He also compares Grimlock (a robot dinosaur) to a Zoid^note .

• Coins in Jetpack Joyride occasionally appear in a formation that spells out "HB", short for Halfbrick Studios. Arcade port of the game features two additional coin patterns that spell out "Sarbakan" and "ADRENALINE" (for "Adrenaline Amusements"), who developed and published it respectively.
• Jetpack Joyride 2 has a similar coin formation that spells out "HALFBRICK".

• Donkey Kong Country:
  • Cranky Kong's cabin prominently has the Nintendo logo hanging on the front.
  • The Giant Bananas recovered after beating a boss all have stickers with Nintendo's logo on them.
  • Millstone Mayhem has a bonus level where you have to spell out "Rare" for an Enguarde Token, while Slipslide Ride has one that makes you spell "Nintendo" for an extra life.
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest:
  • Starting with this game, Diddy Kong's red cap has consistently been depicted with a Nintendo logo on it.
  • The title screen shows Diddy and Dixie opening a chest full of loot. Among that loot is the golden R that was part of Rareware's logo at the time (long before it eventually returned to an update of that logo).
  • Cranky's Monkey Museum contains the logos of both Nintendo and Rare among the various objects in the background.
  • The Giant Bananas with Nintendo's logo return from the first game. One appears in Swanky's Bonus Bonanza, and a few appear in the final boss arena, the Flying Krock.
• The backs of the cards in Donkey Kong Land III's memory match minigame have Rareware's R on them.
• In artwork for the original Diddy Kong Racing, Timber's hat has the golden R of Rareware's logo on it. In the DS remake it instead has the Nintendo DS logo on it, though Timber's Balloon Pop, a Flash game formerly hosted on Nintendo's official website, instead gave it a Nintendo logo similar to Diddy's cap.
• Donkey Kong 64:
  • The small arches leading to Tiny Kong's racing mission in Frantic Factory have Rareware's golden R in the middle of them.
  • Throughout the game you collect blueprints that you trade to Snide for Golden Bananas, and when visiting him you can look at the full diagram which is filled out based on which ones you return and from what levels. Chunky Kong's Fungi Forest blueprint has the Rareware logo on it when added to the diagram.
  • Two major collectibles that are required to reach the Final Boss are the Nintendo Coin, which has the N64 logo on it, and the Rareware Coin, emblazoned with the company's golden "R" logo (unlike the Rareware Golden Banana, it doesn't have the blue box surrounding it). Both items are hidden in Embedded Precursors of games made by the companies earlier; Nintendo's is rewarded for completing round 2 of Donkey Kong (1981), while Rare's randomly spawns as a pickup when you earn 5000 or more points in Jetpac, a game made by Rare back when they were known as Ultimate Play The Game.
  • The secret 201st Golden Banana, hidden in a room next to the Banana Fairy Queen's throne room, has a Rareware sticker on it. (The other 200 Golden Bananas spread throughout the game instead have stickers with the Nintendo 64 logo on them.)
  • The final boss battle is a boxing match stated to be "brought to you this evening by Rare and Nintendo in association with K.Rool Enterprises." The arena you fight the final boss in also has the Rareware logo and Nintendo 64's N-cube logo on the sides.
  • The unlockable Rambi Arena and Enguarde Arena minigames take place in stadiums with Rareware and Nintendo's logo adorning the sides.

• There's an ad for HAL Laboratory on a billboard in Threed and a building in Fourside booked for a meeting about the creation of EarthBound 2. Only APE Software Development team members are allowed inside, though.
• In the Japanese version of the game, one of the default names you can pick for PSI Rockin is "APE".

• The first game references its publisher Sega a handful of times:
  • The semi-trucks have mudflaps reading "SEGA".
  • Grind City has signs advertising sega.com.
  • In the HD rerelease, you receive five bonus graffiti tags to customize your spray with for unlocking the final Secret Character, and the Large one is a stylized Sega logo.
• Smilebit, the team that developed the game, can be seen being advertised on a billboard in Grind Square.

• A recurring Easter Egg throughout the series is the HAL Room, so named because it contains those three letters built into the room itself. Other games that don't have such rooms will often find a way to hide the letters elsewhere, such as Kirby's Blowout Blast having coins appear in three separate locations of the final level that are arranged to spell "H", "A", and "L".
• Starting with Kirby Super Star Ultra, one of the possible transformations of the Stone ability is a golden box with HAL's logo, the Dream Hatcher, on the front of it.
• In Kirby's Return to Dream Land and every later main Kirby title, another possible Stone transformation is HAL Laboratory's Yamanashi R&D Center (with Mt. Fuji in the background). After Kirby repairs the Lor Starcutter, Magolor takes them to his home planet Halcandra, which is named after HAL.
• Kirby: Triple Deluxe:
  • One of the collectible Keychains depicts a "Golden Egg Statue", which is the HAL Laboratory logo as it appears in its Stone transformation in Super Star Ultra.
  • Any Keychain that's big enough to fit HAL's logo on the back will have it if you turn it around in the Keychain Collection menu.
• Kirby: Planet Robobot has HAL's Dream Hatcher as a collectible sticker that can be placed on Kirby's Robobot Armor, and the villainous Haltmann Works Company is named for them.
• In the Japanese version of Kirby Star Allies, the Jambastion is called "Jamahalda", and the larger Jambandra Base is called "Majuhalgalor".
• The three corporations in the background of Kirby and the Forgotten Land are called Holine, Alivel, and Lightron, which spell out "HAL".

• LEGO City Undercover: In the mission "High Steal", one of the Police Shield fragments is earned by building three builds in one of the areas. One of the builds is the current Traveller's Tales logo.
• Lego The Hobbit: In the mission "Barrels out of Bond" from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug story, one of the obtainable items is the Traveller's Tool, which is in the shape of the current Traveller's Tales logo and it awards more loot when mining with it.
• In LEGO The Incredibles, one of the Family Builds in downtown New Urbem is for the current Traveller's Tales logo.
• LEGO Jurassic World: In the mission "San Diego" from The Lost World: Jurassic Park story, Ian and Sarah find the escaped T-Rex at a Traveller's Tales Fusion gas station.

• The headquarters of Game Freak, the company that makes the Pokémon games, appears in several mainline titles. It's often loaded with Creator Cameos.
• Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Game Freak logo appears on Leon's cape as one of his many sponsors.

• In the original game, the King has a pile of literal half-bricks, which he often ties messages to and uses them as a means of delivering letters to his servants.
• As a reference to the above, one of the attacks King has in the crossover game Battle Racing Stars is a Brick Throw, where he throws said bricks forward. After upgrading them to level 3 they start resembling Halfbrick's logo, though they're not cut in half like the actual logo is.
• Magic Brick Wars: In the Mines sections of the game, a Halfbrick logo can be randomly found on the floor.

• A recurring bonus area is the Insomniac Museum, so named for Insomniac Games, which appears in Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, A Crack in Time, and Ratchet & Clank (2016). In the first three games, the location's layout is based on the studio Insomniac worked in, and gives information and tidbits about the development of those games, including design choices, concepts, and Dummied Out or otherwise unused content. In the 2016 game, it's instead a warehouse that's host to a bunch of assets, props, pictures, and more from across the franchise's at-the-time 14-year history. In Up Your Arsenal and A Crack in Time, its planet model (and map icon, for the latter) are also based on the full moon that was Insomniac's logo at the time.
• Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal have a video game console called the Insomniac Game Pyramid◊, based on Insomniac Games. As its name implies, it's a small pyramid with Insomniac's full moon logo on the sides. In the former game you can find it in Clank's Megapolis apartment, where you can use the Dynamo on it to play Sheep Invaders prior to unlocking the minigame in the Extras menu, or destroy it to get 1024 bolts. In the latter game it appears in the Insomniac Museum, where you can play the unused Vid-Comic and Vid-Comic 1 Special Edition on it.
• In Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal, you can earn new paintjobs for Ratchet's Star Explorer by getting Skill Points. The last one you unlock is entitled "Insomniac Special", which is black with blue and silver accents and Insomniac Games' full moon logo on the nose and wings.
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank were developed by High Impact Games rather than Insomniac. They have their own take on the Insomniac Museum called the High Impact Games Treehouse, based on the treehouse from their old logo.

• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus:
  • The Spinning Paper that shows up in the cutscenes upon completing the first four worlds is "The Sucker Punch Daily", with their logo as part of the title. Right next to the title is "Est. 1997", the year Sucker Punch was founded.
  • The racetrack level "At the Dog Track" has a billboard with the logo of developers Sucker Punch right after the first turn.
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Sanzaru Games' monkey head logo makes several appearances throughout the game, ranging from an insignia on Sly's backpack, to an unlockable Paraglider reskin, to the brand of a collectible branding iron treasure.

• Sonic Adventure 2 contains many advertisements in the first level of the Hero story, City Escape; among them is one with Sonic Team's logo and website URL.
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has the Race of Ages track and the AGES vehicle, both nodding to Sega and one of their old tag lines for the Sega Genesis: "To be this good takes AGES. To be this good takes SEGA."

• Super Mario Bros. Special, developed by Hudson Soft, has the bee that serves as the company's mascot appear in World 1-1 as a collectible item, which awards 8000 points.
• Several Mario Kart titles feature advertisements for Nintendo on tracks, particularly in stadiums that make sense to have advertisements in them. Mario Kart 64's renditions of Luigi Circuit and Mario Circuit and the Luigi Circuit in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! are but a handful of examples.
• Mario Party:
• In Mario Superstar Baseball, Mario Stadium prominently features Nintendo's logo on the girders behind the foul lines. As in some other instances, the logo is blue in the Japanese version, and red internationally.
• Luigi's Mansion 3: Floor 11 of The Last Resort has three ghosts as the boss. In many languages, their names start with the same letters as the game's developers, Next Level Games — among others, they're Nikki, Lindsey, and Ginny in English and French; Nova, Luz, and Gala in Spanish; and Nina, Loes and Guusje in Dutch.
• Wario Land 4: The news article read by the black cat at the beginning of the game is from a newspaper named "The Nintendo News".
• In Yoshi's Story, the levels "Jelly Pipe" and "Torrential Maze" have newspaper clippings making up the background. In addition to the several Company Cross-References that they contain, such as the names of Wario, Zelda, and Pikachu, you can also spot Nintendo's name in them.

• The first game has a stage that's the logo of Sega, laid out horizontally so that your monkey rolls around on the "front" of the letters.
• 2 has a level where the website URL for Amusement Vision, the division of Sega that produced the series, is on a wall that pops out and can push you off the level.

• In general, it's not uncommon to find random halfpipes, quarterpipes and kickers with Neversoft stickers on them throughout the series.
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4:
  • One of the NPCs is outright named "Neversoft Skater", and boasts their logo on his shirt.
  • The museum in London has banners with Neversoft's name on them hanging out front.
  • The Zoo stage has a Neversoft banner in the area with the birds.
  • Carnival has a gap named "Almost Never Soft".
  • Chicago has posters with Neversoft's name on one of the buildings.
• In the first Tony Hawk's Underground, the Slam City Jam stadium has banners with the logo of Neversoft among the various other real-life companies adorning the fences and walls.
• In Underground 2, the chainsaw used for a prank near the beginning of the game has Neversoft's logo on it.
• Tony Hawk's Project 8:
  • The Capitol area has a shipping crate with Neversoft's name on it in a fenced-off area at the edge of the map near the water.
  • The currency, Stokens, is more-or-less just a recreation of Neversoft's iconic impaled eyeball symbol.
• In Proving Ground, the bridge under construction has a Neversoft billboard near it.

• In a broad sense, the protagonist of the series nods to them via sharing their initials: Nathan Drake.
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune has "Naughty Dog Drake" as one of the very first unlockables, which gives Nate a shirt with said company's logo on it.
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End references them in the game's epilogue:
  • You can have Cassie hold and look at the case for the original Crash Bandicoot (1996), which has their logo on it.
  • The license on Nate's truck is "ND1984"; Naughty Dog was originally founded as Jam Software in 1984.

• Each non-boss level has five Platinum Coins which have Platinum's logo on them. Find all five and you'll get an item.
• The supercomputer that controls the forcefield protecting Earth, Mother Platinum, is stylized after the star in Platinum's logo.
• Finally, after completing the game, a special Unite Morph called Platinum Forever is unlocked, which, when used, turns the team into Platinum's logo and fires a giant beam at the foes.

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