10 Amazing Pieces Of Video Game Foreshadowing

10. Funeral March For Queen Berri (Conker's Bad Fur Day)

Rare's foul-mouthed scuridae-sim isn't shy about parodying Hollywood, albeit with an extra layer of profanity, spoofing everything from Blue Velvet to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. So it's unlikely anybody batted an eyelid at the intro during their first playthrough, an almost direct rip of A Clockwork Orange's famous milk-sipping curtain-raiser.

The opening of the Kubrick classic is overlayed by Wendy Carlos' electronic interpretation of Henry Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary, written in 1696 as a sepulchral dirge for the deceased Mary II. The piece has no special significance to Alex DeLarge, but its mournful lugubriousness has added meaning in Conker.

At the end of the game, the scatological squirrel's would-be bride Berri is rather carelessly killed and then sucked into space. Suddenly, the game's exordium - which takes place at the end of the story - adopts a whole new, infinitely more depressing meaning.