strange tv and radio broadcasts in games. maybe emails/websites/etc. could also be counted for games that have internal fake internets?
i only know of two examples of this, but i’m hoping you can name more?
animal crossing has the alien tv show that only appears if you turn on your tv at 3:33am on certain days.
let it die has radio yotsuyama, a strange radio station that has nothing but a robotic voice repeating various lines over and over, with a beep between each line.
i think it’s really strange that considering how important radio use is in the 3d fallout games, and how they have other paranormal and conspiracy related stuff in them, that none of them have featured a numbers station or similar mysterious broadcast.
Doesn’t PT have a weird numbers station, but the numbers don’t actually inform the puzzle or anything at all? I read this somewhere here but refuse to do any research.
One time I was playing Crazy Taxi and I started hearing a bunch of weird voices, sounded like they were coming from some staticky radio station. Talking to each other. Never got an explanation for that one (probably my TV picking up a nearby CB radio??). Anyway I think that counts
In Oxenfree you tune a handheld radio to listen to some looping historical stuff about the island the game is set on, and you also tune the radio to interact with paranormal things. But there are several frequencies that are constantly broadcasting public programming in various languages. And some frequencies have noise and sounds that are pretty mysterious and even creepy while being (I think) unrelated to the plot.
Mgs 4 has a weird broadcast. It’s been awhile, so I’m unsure of its exact content or nature. But there is one of something! I don’t mean a codec call. It’s a shack/small cabin with like an old radio in it.
Pokemon gold and silver have a radio that picks up strange broadcasts in the unknown ruins. That shit creeped me out as a kid. I always used to turn on the Lucky Channel to listen to the music so that weird static freaked me out
i love this kind of stuff and i’m kinda surprised i can’t come up with many examples right away. was going to mention pokemon g/s/c which is the first thing that came to my mind. also i’m pretty sure there’s something related to this among the submachine games but i can’t quite place it right now.
also i assume any fan games related to the scp foundation wiki should have this in spades.