10 Video Games You Didn't Know Were Hidden In Other Games

2. Yakuza 5 - Virtua Fighter 2

It's Sega again, but in this instance it was one-time Yu Suzuki underling Toshihiro Nagoshi at the helm, squeezing a full arcade port of the sublime Sega AM2 beat-em-up Virtua Fighter 2 into 2012's Yakuza 5. This was even more delighful than finding Mortal Kombat 2 in your MK: Shaolin Monks, especially in the Yakuza franchise's homeland Japan, where Virtua Fighter 2 has always been considered one of the greatest games ever created. Sega, you do realize that we would have been satisfied with tacky renditions of some of your old back-catalog games, right? But hey, we weren't going to complain. Unlike nostalgia trips like Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter 2 has aged well - it's still as tight, as polished and infinitely playable today as it was back in the mid-nineties. To sweeten the deal, as if it needed sweetening, this game within a game featured not only 2-player combat but an actual online mode too. So you're playing Virtua Fighter 2, within Yakuza 5, against other people, who are also playing in the in-game arcades, inside Yakuza 5. It's just too much to bear.