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Ready Player One Movie Easter Eggs
I've seen a few articles that have a list of “all the Easter Eggs” but aren't even close. Here's an attempt to catalog as many as possible
Opening Scene (lots of references to fill in here)
Jump by Van Halen playing
Nintendo lunchbox
Carl's Jr cup
Minecraft World
Henry and Em's house from The Wizard of Oz in Hurricane World
1989 Batman on Everest
Ludis, a reference from the book which is otherwise completely absent from the movie
DC's The Flash
Ray Harryhausen Cyclops from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Borg? (off to the left of the cyclops)
BattleToads?
RoboCop
Marvin the Martian
Mortal Combat guy? Can't figure this one out - right before Parzival changes his hair
Sonic the Hedgehog lining up for the gate
Tracer from Overwatch
Hello Kitty, Badte-Maru, and Keroppi
First zooming in on Planet Doom, it looks like a battle between giant scorpions and pegasai possibly from Clash of the Titans?
Freddy Kruger
Duke Nukem
Some kind of Smiley Face guy
EM-1 Rail Gun from Eraser
Blob?
Raynor from StarCraft
Donkey Kong Jr poster on the wall behind the girl
Jason Vorhees
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
World of Warcraft female orc?
One of the Daft Punk guys
Doc Brown
Neat note: 1972 is the date on the quarter in focus on Halliday's eyes and is also Halliday's birthday. The quarters in the book were minted in 1984 but no reason is given for this date.
In the funeral scene, Halliday is wearing a Simon pin
Halliday's funeral is a Star Trek themed funeral
Halliday's casket is a MkII photon torpedo from Star Trek II
After the First Key
Zemeckis Cube: this one is a twofer; Robert Zemeckis wrote and directed Back to the Future and was involved in the story and directed the other two movies in that series. The Cube is a reference to the Rubik's Cube, a 3-dimensional puzzle game that debuted in the 80s.
Goro from Mortal Combat
Chestburster alien from Alien
Clark Kent, secret identity of Superman; it's a reference to the dubious premise that he takes of the Superman suit and puts on glasses and no one recognizes him
Sorrento and Ir0k
Distracted Globe
Wade is wearing the suit Buckaroo Banzai wears in the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Staying Alive from movie of same name playing
Ate3mis' rifle is an Armat M41A Pulse rifle from Aliens
Interview with Nolan Sorrento
Many of these references are explained in the scene