Helios: I always wondered at the logic of Daedalus + Icarus = Helios. The show, and it's mascot (a small blue mechanical cat of the same name) were very successful over there at one point.
Doraemon is a popular cartoon/anime created in Japan in the late 60's. His login is YIkagi, and the password is doraemon. If you hack the computer, you will see by the emails that this computer is operated by a guard or scientist named Yushio Ikagi. Minor Login Reference*: (Thanks to a friend of mine for pointing this out) In the OceanLab, there is a security room in the bulkhead between the flooded area with the transgenics, and the large cavern with the drilling machines (Where Simons appears) This contains a desk with a computer and a broken power-light which is emitting lethal arcs of electricity. I was certain this was a reference, because I had never heard the name Kaplan used anywhere outside of that film, but last year I discovered that it is, in fact, a genuine surname, albeit a somewhat rare one, so it could be a coincidence. Tech Sergeant Kaplan at UNATCO HQ: I used to think this was a reference to Hitchcock's classic thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant plays a New York advertising executive who is chased all over the US by a sinister group of criminals all because he was accidentaly mistaken for a CIA agent who was investigating the criminals. ICE is now used in real life.Ī very interesting thread, with a lot of great info: ICE (intrusion countermeasure electronics) and ICE breaker are both terms invented by William Gibson in Neruomancer. You might have noticed that in the game when you hack it is called ICE breaker. Neuromancer had a vast Internet (I believe it was the first mention of an Internet of any kind in history, I'm not sure though) called the Matrix which people could jack into. William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, the book that started the "cyberpunk" genre of which Deus Ex is a part. Murder of Crows did a game (never finished) which "had an interesting aesthetic that we dubbed "techno-occult," a bastard child of William Gibson and Umberto Eco." Note that a murder of crows is a group of crows, like a gaggle of geese.
Wade Walker formed Murder of Crows was formed in 1997. Syd did the visuals in Blade Runner.Ĭhris Todd and Dr. Nick Pausback (Page's clone), is a good friend of Chris Todd (guy who wrote in game text.) I don't think it's been mentioned but it's so small I might have missed it if it was:
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