10 Video Games That Roasted Themselves

Here's a joke so incendiary it actually ended up being removed from future releases by Lucasfilm Games - not because it's so flatly offensive, but because it caused mass confusion in 1990, an era long before the Internet was widely adopted.

The Secret of Monkey Island famously shipped on a staggering eight floppy disks, and in order to make fun of this, the game includes a fake "insert disk" prompt.

In a forest, players will stumble across a stump which hero Guybrush Threepwood believes will lead to a new area, at which point the player is asked to "insert disk 22" in order to continue.

The player will then be further prompted to insert disks 36 and 114 to continue, before Guybrush quips, "Oh well, I can't go down there. I'll just have to skip that part of the game."

Despite being obviously tongue-in-cheek in a series famous for its in-jokes, baffled players called the LucasArts hotline - remember hotlines? - to ask about the disks they were missing.

As a result, the joke was jettisoned from subsequent releases despite being extremely funny.