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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
In Wade's hideout there's a Nintendo lunchbox (haven't managed to catch the game)
There's also a crushed Carl's Jr cup
There's a bunch of stickers near these but I've only made out the Oasis sticker so far
Entering the Oasis, we first see Minecraft World
Henry and Em's house from The Wizard of Oz in Hurricane World
1989 Batman climbing on Everest
Planet Ludis flashes by, 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 Voorhees
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
World of Warcraft female orc?
There's a guy behind the orc that looks like one of the Daft Punk guys but he turns his head and looks like a skull with a helmet on
Doc Brown
Movie note: 1972 is the mint 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 which is draped with a flag of the Federation of Planets similar to how Spock's casket appeared in the same movie.
Halliday sits up in his casket - this seems to mimic Dracula sitting up in his coffin in the old Beli Lugosi Dracula movies but I can't find a reference
Liberty Island Race
I Hate Myself for Loving You by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts playing
Mad Max's car
Batman 60s TV series car
Speed Racer's Mach 5
Ryu from Street Fighter?
Car from Christine?
Movie note: Nolan is such a dick, his tie has “NS IOI” on it, his name and his company
Aech's truck is a modified Bigfoot 3 (the monster truck) from 1984
Parzival's car is the original (pre-future mods) Delorian time machine from Back to the Future but has KITT's “eye” on the front, mentioned in the book, only seen in the movie
Art3mis' motorcycle is Kaneda's bike from AKIRA
Movie note: the race is a race to Central Park
Is the Formula One race car a reference?
The A-Team's van is seen briefly
Sho is driving a black Trans-Am, possibly Smokey and the Bandit?
The semi that comes from a side street and blocks the race is The Porkchop Express, Jack Burton's truck from Big Trouble in Little China
Movie marquee advertises “Schwarzenegger [as] Jack Slater” which is the in-movie fictional hero in Last Action Hero
Tyrannosaurus Rex likely from Jurassic Park
King Kong is hanging onto the top of the Empire State Building, classic scene from many of the older King Kong movies, while being buzzed by planes
The Silvercup Studios sign - references are too many to list here
Aech's workshop
Pee-wee's bike from Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Iron Giant from the movie of the same name
The Galactica from Battlestar Galactica
Sulaco from Aliens
Valley Forge from Silent Running
The TARDIS
Parzival mentions a Harkonnen dropship that can fold space (?) from Dune
Eagle-5, Lone Starr's RV spaceship from Spaceballs
The EVA pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Viper fighter from Battlestar Galactica
Goldeneye videogame
Hot Pockets
A quote from the Superman movie
Art3mis calls Parzival “McFly” before she disconnects, another reference to Back to the Future and possibly channeling Biff?
Halliday Journals
Faith by George Michael playing
Galaga? Galaxian? poster on the wall of the cafeteria
Halliday wearing a Space Invaders t-shirt
Parzival wearing what looks like a Han Solo gun belt with a ThunderCats logo on the buckle
Parzival wears black Canvas Hightops sneakers
I can't find a reference for the sword on the back of his denim vest - possibly just a reference to his namesake knight?
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