F-1 Race (GB)

Cross-Series (Various): Before you challenge each course, except the first, you are greeted by a range of Nintendo heroes. Course 2: Toad, Course 3: Luigi, Course 4: Peach, Course 5: Link, Course 6: Mario, Course 7: Samus, Course 8: Pit (Kid Icarus), Course 9: Donkey Kong. You drive past all of the characters again during the ending. Bowser, not in the original lineup, also joins in. (Credit: Mark Kelly)
Status: Unverified

Fallout (PC)

Products (Coca-Cola): Everyone's favourite drink, Coca-Cola, is in the game, renamed as Nuka-Cola. Like its real life counterpart, it's also addictive, it literally acts like a drug in-game and has a chance of giving you the 'addicted' status. You can also find a tipped-over Nuka-Cola truck as part of a "special encounter." (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (South Park): There's a South Park reference, but you need to literally break the law to see it. If you're not so inclined, SAVE BEFORE DOING THIS. Go to the Hub City police station, look for an officer named 'Kenny'. Once you find him, go into combat mode and gun him down. You should get an "Oh my God! You killed Kenny!" message in your console. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Robin Hood): The master of the thieves' guild is called Loxley. Loxley is the legendary Robin Hood's family name. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (Guns & Ammunition): Books you can read include "Guns and Bullets", an obvious parody of the real life "Guns and Ammunition" magazine. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Miscellaneous: You also can encounter a crashed UFO with dead, Area 51 style, aliens nearby. Apparently a reference to the Roswell incident. In this encounter, you can also find a picture of Elvis. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Wasteland): When talking to the leader of the Blades in Adytum (Christine), you can get an interesting conversation path:
"C D E D B D Ducks"
"M R Not Ducks!"
"O S A R! C D E D B D Wings!"
"O I B! M R Ducks!"
Note: approximate the letter sounds for the words closest to them to decipher this message. This conversation also appears in Wasteland, an older CRPG also set in a post apocalyptic world. (Note that Fallout was once touted as "the sequel to Wasteland"). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Godzilla): You can also sometimes come across a giant reptillian footprint that can only belong to Godzilla. Check the corpse of the person for a Stealth Boy. Ironic...the beast can't see him, but got him anyway. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Fallout 2 (PC)

Cross-Series (Magic: The Gathering): Seems that Magic: The Gathering survived the apocalypse as "Tragic: The Garnering". Get Wooz in Gecko to teach you how to play. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: One of the conversation paths that you can get with the ghost girl in Den (Anna) goes, "I think you need to turn off your Stealth Boy, ma'am." This is a reference to a serious bug in Fallout 1, where if you save and reload your game while your Stealth Boy is activated, the device may randomly get replaced with a Geiger Counter, effectively making you a permanent ghost. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Dungeons & Dragons): Sometimes, if you take Vic into a cave environment, he'll talk to you about his days in college playing Dungeons & Dragons. He'll even ask you to take him back to the first level where all the Kobolds are. Kobolds are low level monsters in D&D 2nd Ed, usually used as enemies in beginner campaigns. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Final Fantasy 7): Cassidy randomly (quite rarely) says "I wish I had a Limit Break" during combat. Apparently, he's been playing Final Fantasy 7 or 8. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Star Wars): When Myron gains a level, he sometimes says "I sense a disturbance in the Force...as if I have gained (random obscenely large number) experience points." Corruption of a famous line in Star Wars "I sense a disturbance in the Force..as if a million souls cried out in pain...then silence." (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Star Trek: TNG): Marcus does a mean Worf (the Klingon security officer in Star Trek: TNG and DS9) impersonation. He randomly says "I am NOT a merry mutant!"; a variation of what Worf said in a certain TNG episode where the godlike Q turned the crew of the Enterprise into Robin Hood and his merry men. On a side note, it shouldn't be suprising. Marcus's voice actor is Michael Dorn, who played Worf in Star Trek: TNG. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Mike Tyson/Evander Holyfield): Two of the boxers in the New Reno boxing ring are the Masticator (who WILL bite your ear off if he manages to hit you one too many times in combat, causing a -1 Charisma loss) and one Evan Holyfield. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, anyone? (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Pinky & the Brain): Somewhere in Gecko is a talking lab mouse called "Brain" who laments about his insane counterpart. This is a reference to "Pinky & the Brain" from the now defunct Animaniacs cartoon, from Warner Bros. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (South Park): The Brain happens to love Cheezy Poofs, the generic snack brand in South Park. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Austin Powers): There's a grave marker in Golgotha that says that its occupant was done in by "ill tempered mutant sea bass". Seems that Doctor Evil's (Austin Powers) ridiculous execution technique does work after all. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: Unverified

Specific Reference: Somewhere in the desert, you might come across the "Cafe of Broken Dreams", one big cameo of the former game in the series (Fallout 1). The layout of the building itself is straight out of the bar in Hub city, and statues of your followers in that game line the outskirts of the map. Personalities from Fallout 1 also appear in the bar, including the original Tandi, though she is already aged and a Mayor by this game. You can even find Dogmeat the dog here and get him to join you, although he's horrendously lousy in this game as compared to his last appearance. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Star Trek): Somewhere else in the desert, you'll also find a "Guardian Gate", which takes you back into the past. This gate is an analouge of the "Guardian of Forever", as seen in an episode of Star Trek (original series with Kirk as the captain). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: The Guardian Gate also takes you back in time to a VERY familiar vault. To return, meddle with the console deep into the facility. You'll break the water chip, then get teleported back to the present immediately after. Congratulations. You've just set off the events in Fallout 1. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Monty Python & the Holy Grail): Still somewhere else in the desert, you'll also come across a band of soldiers in Power Armor, labeled "King Arthur and his Knights", who are looking for the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch". Definitely, definitely Monty Python and the Holy Grail material. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Monty Python & the Holy Grail): Another Monty Python & the Holy Grail reference: Still elsewhere, you may come across a yawning chasm that has a bridge across it, and a guy in robes guarding it. He's the bridgekeeper. He won't let you cross unless you answer his "questions 3". To avoid the risk of getting insta-killed, remember how Arthur outsmarted him in the movie. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Monty Python & the Holy Grail): Yet another Monty Python & the Holy Grail reference: sometimes, when you stop in a random location in mountainous regions, you'll see a cave. You're able to enter it, but it's not recommended if your levels are too low. Why? Because it may contain a high level enemy that could tear your entire party to pieces in a few rounds. To complete the scene, you'll sometimes see a fallen Powered Armor guy or two around. I don't think you'd want to re-enact the "Great Beast of Arrgh" scenario, because no artist is going to die of a heart attack here to save you. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Comics (Spider-Man): At some point after you get Cassidy, random text will appear over his head, one stating "My father named me after a bad assed comic book character", obviously referencing "Carnage" of Spiderman fame having the real name "Cledus Cassidy". (Credit: Robert Bowman)
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Character Cameo: One of the side quests in Marcus's home town requires you to retrieve a number of items for a ghoul, one including a blow up doll named Tandy I. Tandy was a girl in the first town of Fallout 1. It even states in the Cafe of Broken Dreams when speaking to Tandy that she is "Somewhere in this game". (Credit: Robert Bowman)
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Fallout Tactics (PC)

TV Shows (The Simpsons): If you got the bonus limited edition disc (or did a subtle .ini file change), you'll be able to take a mission that sends you to Springfield. Naturally, it contains a reference to the Simpsons. Somewhere deep into the town, you can find a wrecked house that is flooded with radioactive goo; behind it is the silhouette of a Nuclear Power Plant. In one early episode of Simpsons, it is revealed that the Simpson house is VERY NEAR the power plant. (Note: supposedly, the entire mission is a reference to the Simpsons, but this is the only in-joke I can find.) (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO. Numerous sources confirm it.

Products (Coca-Cola): Nuka Cola (that analogue of Coca Cola) now comes in multiple flavors (including Diet, Cherry and Vanilla, also Coke flavors). They still are addictive like in Fallout 1, but the different ones (not the original flavored one) now actually BOOST YOUR STATS. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Diablo): Sometimes, in the desert, you can come across a run-down gas station. It doesn't sell any gas, but the store's still up, run by an old woman. Among the items sold is one '"Elixir of Vitality" (raises Endurance permanently by 1 point). This shopkeeper apparently is a vastly older version of Adria, the potion salesperson and resident town witch in Diablo 1. Even the Elixir of Vitality costs exactly the same (5000 ringpulls vs 5000 gold). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Diablo): If you end up at an encounter labeled "Bazaar Day", be sure to look out for another Diablo reference. On one of the tables for sale is the DevilThorn Coat, which also appeared in Diablo (as the DemonSpike Coat). Even the requirements and stats are the same (required Str 75, 100AC, +10 Str, +50 Resist Fire, All damage to wearer -6, Indestructable, costs 24,000). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Commercials (Energizer/Eveready): You may also come across a bunch of invisible people on the map, who keep on saying that the non-existant "Evereddy Bunny" keeps "going and going and going". No bunnies in this encounter, but it spoofs popular battery brands Eveready and Energizer. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Pitch Black): You might suddenly find yourself in a completely dark place (and I MEAN completely dark, only patches of light at certain intervals). If you have anyone with good perception and any dark seeing perks, you'll be able to see that you're nearly surrounded by Deathclaws. A guy named Riddick would be here, and he'll start heading off in one direction, suggesting that you follow him. Go in the direction he heads, along the lights, to avoid the 'Claws and get to the only exit grid in the area. This encounter parallels the events in the movie "Pitch Black", a thriller where a space ship crash lands, stranding its crew on a planet full of hostile lifeforms that only come out in the dark; shortly after they land a total eclipse starts and they're forced to rely on this murderer (also named Riddick) because he's the only one who could see in total darkness, due to an eye surgery. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Miscellaneous (Riverdance): You could also come across a stage full of Reavers that look like they are walking in place; pun on the famous Irish stepdance show "Riverdance" (Reaver Dance). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (The Terminator): You might also come across a factory setting; wandering around it is a half robotic cow labeled as the B-1000. Reference to Terminator (whose designation is T-800). T-800, in the first Terminator movie, was stopped in exactly the same environment, under a metal press; this factory's full of 'em. Also, T-1000 is the Terminator sent to kill John Conner in Terminator 2. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (The Sixth Sense): You might also see a group of invisible cows with one visible talking cow in the center. The visible cow is called Cole, and he tells you that he "sees dead brahmin (cows)". Sixth Sense, anyone? (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Mythology (Biblical): You can meet the mythical 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the desert. Course, in the Fallout universe an apocalypse has already passed, so they're now jobless and complaining about it. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Planescape: Torment): Another cameo character appearance found in the desert is a familiar talking, wisecraking, floating skull named Morte. Morte was the companion of the Nameless one in Planescape: Torment, and is also a floating, bodyless skull. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy): You might also end up seeing a dead carcass of what is apparently a giant whale, which looks as if it had fallen from a great height. Reference to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; the whale in question was transformed from a guided missile by a wish machine (another got transformed into a flower & pot). The last thought of this newly conceived lifeform was whether the ground, rushing up to meet it, would be its friend. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Star Trek): A crashed Star Trek (original series) shuttlecraft lies somewhere in the desert. From the bodies of its crew you can salvage a small quantity of Starfleet issue hypos (Hyposprays), which heal better than Stimpaks. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Miscellaneous (Various): Other out of place stuff you can see in the desert are:
The MIR Space Station
The Titanic, complete with dead body that HAS to be Jack.
A crashed plane; the encounter is labeled 'Amelia', as in Amelia Earheart, the missing pilot. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: Unverified

Products (Super Soaker): One of the weapons in the game is a Super Soaker. Yes, the pump-action watergun. Only this one's modified to shoot acid. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
Status: Unverified

Fatal Fury 2 (Multiplatform)

Music (Mozart): Wolfgang Krauser's stage uses Mozart's Requiem for the music. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: TRUE www.vgmusic.com proves it.

Fatal Fury Special (Multiplatform)

Cross-Series (Art of Fighting): In Fatal Fury Special and Fatal Fury Wild Ambition, Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting is a hidden boss. To fight against him, you must complete the entire game without losing a round (in Fatal Fury Special, you can lose your current fight if you lose a round, and then continue and win that fight the next time without a losing a round, but this does not work in Wild Ambition). In Fatal Fury Special for SNES, there is also a code to access Ryo. This code is as follows: rotate the controller down, down/right, right, then down, down/left, left and press X at the Takara logo. Do it more than once if you want insurance that you've done it right, since it will not mess up the code. If the Fatal Fury Special appears blue, then you know you did it right. (Credit: Mike Waters)
Status: TRUE: Multiple sites confirm it.

Fatal Fury Wild Ambition (Multiplatform)

Cross-Series (Art of Fighting): (See Fatal Fury Special for more) In Wild Ambition, Ryo is called Mr. Karate, which may lead some to believe that it is Takuma, Ryo's father, and not Ryo, who is the hidden boss, but it is indeed Ryo. Takuma was called Mr. Karate (or Karate) in the first Art Of Fighting, and he wears a red mask with a big nose similar to one Ryo puts on in a victory pose, but this is Ryo. For one thing, he is blonde, and for another, I read in a profile that this Mr. Karate's hobby is motorcycles (or one of his hobbies anyway), and Ryo rides a motorcycle in the first Art of Fighting arcade game to get from location to location. Need I say more? (Credit: Mike Waters)
Status: Unverified

Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (PS1)

Music (Macarena): The dancers in the Wing Chune building are doing the Macarena. (Credit: ShadOtterdan)
Status: Unverified

Fester's Quest (NES)

Cross-Series (Blaster Master): Some of the enemies are small versions of some of Blaster Master's bosses, like the purple brain and the frogs.
Status: TRUE: Screenshots prove it: (Purple Brain Pic) (Frog Pic)

Fighter's History (SNES)

Cross-Series (Karnov): Karnov is the final boss.
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Fighter's Megamix (Saturn)

Cross-Series (Out Run/Afterburner 2): The music for the name entry screen is Last Wave from Out Run, the original version. The music for the Records screen is a song from Afterburner 2. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Afterburner): Sometimes the plane from Afterburner flies over Tokio's stage. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Virtua Fighter Kids): Secret characters: Kids Akira/Kids Sarah from Virtua Fighter Kids. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
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Cross-Series (Fighting Vipers): Secret character: URA Bahn, alternate version of the hero of Fighting Vipers. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
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Cross-Series (Virtua Cop 2): Secret character: Janet, heroine of Virtua Cop 2. The music from the first level of Virtua Cop 2 is her stage's theme. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Sonic: The Fighters): Secret character: Bark, a dog character created for Sonic: The Fighters. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
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Cross-Series (Dynamite Dux): Secret character: Bean, the hero of DYNAMITE DUX! Yes, he can throw bombs. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
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Cross-Series (Rent-a-Hero): Secret character: Rent-a-Hero, main character of the Megadrive action RPG of the same name. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Virtua Fighter): Secret character: Siba, a Virtua Fighter 1 character that never made it past the prototype stage. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Cross-Series (Daytona USA): Secret character: Hornet, one of the cars from Daytona USA. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Fighting Vipers (Multiplatform)

Products (Pepsi): Pepsiman was a character in the original Fighting Vipers. (Credit: Yashiro Nanakase)
Status: Unverified

Final Fantasy (NES/PS1)

Cross-Series (Dragon Warrior): "Here Lies Erdrick" is written on a tombstone, which is a reference to the hero of the Dragon Warrior games.
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Cross-Series (The Legend of Zelda): The Japanese and Playstation Origins versions of the game say "Here lies Link" on the tombstone, referring to the Legend of Zelda character.
Status: TRUE: Verified by Crawl and 1000.

Music (Rimsky-Korsakov): The music in some of the caves uses Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee".
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Miscellaneous: In Final Fantasy, the Excalibur weapon was introduced. Since then, it has been in almost every FF game. It is, of course, named after the legendary sword of King Arthur. (Credit: Joe Cottle)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO. FO's Note: I'll accept this entry for this game only once. Please don't submit the Excalibur entry for the other Final Fantasy games.

Cross-Series (Dungeons & Dragons): There are a lot of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons references in this game. For instance, the Mages (Picowizards) look like Mind Flayers (Illithids). Also, Bahamut and Tiamat are part of the AD&D pantheon. (Credit: Crawl and 1000)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Final Fantasy 4 (SNES/PS1)

Real Place (Mars): There is a "rock" located somewhere on the moon that looks like the legendary "Face on Mars", originally photographed by Viking Orbiter 1. This face has also appeared in other Squaresoft games.
Status: TRUE: Pictures prove it: (FF4 Face on Mars Pic) (The Actual Face on Mars)

Real Place (Mars): There is also a rock-and-crater formation on FF4's moon in the shape of a smiling face, probably inspired by the "Happy Face Crater" on Mars that was also photographed by Viking Orbiter 1. (FF4 Screenshot) (Happy Face Crater Pic)
Status: Unproven: This one's a little more questionable than the Face on Mars entry, since it doesn't look exactly like the real Happy Face Crater, however, note that the crater right above the Big Whale in the FF4 screenshot also bears some resemblance to the Happy Face Crater; it has the lopsided "eyes", it's just missing the "mouth".

Music (Khachaturian): The music that plays when you talk to the dancers is Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance".
Status: TRUE: (Midi of Sabre Dance) and (Final Fantasy 4 SPC) prove it.

Final Fantasy 6 (SNES/PS1)

TV Shows (The Three Stooges): The three dream stooges, Larry, Curly, and Moe, are named after the Three Stooges. (Credit: BJ Strykes)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Movie (Star Wars): Biggs and Wedge, the two soldiers in the beginning of the game, are named after Star Wars characters. (Note: Biggs is called "Vicks" on the American SNES version.) (Screenshot)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO. This is further evidenced by the appearance of Piette, another Star Wars guy, in Chrono Trigger.

Movie (Star Wars): The scene where Locke rescues Celes from the cell in South Figaro is a direct take-off of the scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker rescues Princess Leia from her cell in the Death Star. It even has the same dialogue. But you must be wearing the Soldier uniform when you enter the room to trigger this specific dialogue.
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.

Movie (Friday the 13th): Sometimes when Edgar uses the chainsaw, he dons a hockey mask, a reference to Jason of Friday the 13th.
Status: TRUE: (Screenshot) proves it.

Mythology (Various): FINAL FANTASY 6 ESPERS MYTHOLOGY