The Beatles' Influence On Popular Culture - Video Games

Video Games

• One of the NPC's in Final Fantasy X says "I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in," a direct quote from the lyrics of Fixing A Hole
• The Beatles: Rock Band, developed by Harmonix Music Systems, was released 9 September 2009.
• In EarthBound, there are various references to The Beatles throughout the game. Shigesato Itoi, the game's creator, has stated that he was a huge fan of the Beatles, and APE, the company that created the game, cited John Lennon as an inspiration for the game's music. Here are some examples:
  • Various people in Moonside will say "Hello! And... goodbye!", a reference to the song "Hello, Goodbye".
  • In the Japanese version, John (for Ness), Paul (for Jeff), George (for Poo), and Ringo (for King the dog) are included as "suggested names" (included by the developers if you do not want to create names yourself). Yoko (as in Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon) is also a "suggested name" for Paula. Additionally, "honey pie" is a suggestion for your favourite food, and "love" is a suggestion for your favourite thing.
  • A yellow submarine can be seen inside Dungeon Man. The description for the sub also bluntly states "the color is completely coincidental".
  • One of the Runaway Five members can be heard singing "Money (That's What I Want)" to himself.
  • Bits of Beatles melodies are scattered in the game's music. For instance, part of the opening to "All You Need Is Love" can be heard in the Cave of the Past, and part of Tessie's song references "Strawberry Fields Forever".
• In Worms & Reinforcements United, one team of worms is known as "The Fab Four", and its worms are named "John", "Paul", "George" and "Ringo".
• In Curse of Enchantia, there's a music band of humanoid slugs called "The Slugs".
• In Guitar Hero 3, Xavier Stone's 'Captain X' costume is available in four styles, three of which are named after members of The Beatles: John, Paul, and George, respectively (the fourth is named Larry). The costume is also similar to the uniforms on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
• The Star Fox 1992 comic makes a reference to Sergeant Pepper by Fox making a pun by saying "General Pepper? Hmm...I thought he was only a Sergeant."
• On the Internet website Neopets, there is an item on the site called the "Strawberry Fields Forever Paint Brush", named after the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" written by John Lennon.
• Issue #2 of the Official UK Nintendo Magazine spoofs the album cover of Abbey Road with a cover of Animal Crossing: Wild World.
• In the PC game Warcraft III, if you click on a Crypt Lord unit many times, he says "I'm the fifth Beatle" in an English accent.
• The original trailer for the Wii game No More Heroes featured the main character, Travis Touchdown, battling an assassin named "Helter Skelter." This encounter is not seen within the game, but mentioned as a prologue. The sequel, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, featured Skelter's brother "Skelter Helter" as the game's first boss.
• In the videogame Left 4 Dead 2 there's an achievement called A SPITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS, a reference to The Beatles' song "With a Little Help from My Friends", said achievement is loosely based on this video.
• Throughout the Call of Duty series, several NPC's in the games are named Sgt. Pepper,
• The game Fable III features a weapon called "Beadle's Cutlass", which contains an upgrade titled "Dayripper".
• The game Fallout: New Vegas there's an achievement called "Day Tripper" A reference to The Beatles song of the same name.
• In the official Player's Guide in Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, for world 3-5 they say "you can even dive down as a yellow submarine" despite the submarine in the level being cyan.