Have you ever snuck game references into school-work?

As a current high-school student, sometimes I like to throw a game line or two into essays and the like. Recently, I had to do a script for a news-report in my history class based on a made up World War 3, and I named the Prime Minister of Egypt Sante Destroi, a misspelling of the city No More Heroes is based in.

I was wondering if any of you guys had done this in the past, or if you think it's really dumb.

I've never had to, because video games are a huge part of my culture. Then again, that much should be obvious.

One time our teacher assigned an essay where the prompt was to tell a story from first person that takes place in only one location.  So I facetiously wrote an essay about a rather epic halo 2 match I had been in the night before.  I got an A, no lie.

I'm sure my English teacher would give me an A just for something like that.

i wrote an essay about whether violent video games should be banned.  (answer was no)

One time I had a math assignment and I turned in Sonic/Shadow slash fiction.

Got an A. Odd because we usually didn't use a letter grade system and everyone else got numbers.

In an easy on Lord of The Flies in high school, I snuck in a reference to Tales of Phantasia, quoting the opening.

No, but I was similarly inspired by this xkcd comic to use the verb form of "effect" in an attempt to trip up professors grading my papers. It's worked twice! I'm such a loser.

No, that would strike me as unprofessional. 

I aced creative reading by just copying videogame stories.
The teacher was like 70 they knew nothing about videogames.

No that just seems incredibly stupid IMO.

never thought of that

I wrote an short story once in class that was more or less the plot of Persona 4.

Many MANY times. Most recently I used TF2 as a metaphor for capitalism, which I'm pretty sure was the designers intent.

I wrote an entire ISP for Philosophy using the Mass Effect universe. I think I somehow connected the loyalty missions of ME2 into what I would like the world to be run and what an ideal world would look like. Got high 90s, felt like a total boss.

I had to do dozens of story graphs for english class in 8th grade, where we read a book and then plotted out all the important events on a graph

i wrote an essay about whether violent video games should be banned.  (answer was no)

but it sucked because i wrote it last minute.  got an F.  teacher was a bitch though.

I snuck some Portal references into some of my college work. I felt pretty good about it.

No because that's dumb.

I wrote a story about a GDI Titan pilot for an English exam back when Tiberium Sun came out, got 94/100 which I was fairly stoked about, especially as I met the page requirement but didn't finish the story.

Teacher left me a comment asking for me to find them and tell them the ending haha

I also used the Myth 2 PDF manual as the basis for an essay on medieval weapon and armour, which was a riot.

Snuck them in?  When I did, I made them overt to the point of putting in footnotes.

References? Sneak? HA!

In college I wrote an essay on industrial structure in entertainment and talked about Video Games a lot in that. I'm using video games in my dissertation on censorship in film as part of a comparison on modern day censorship in different artistic mediums.

I wrote an entire essay that was based off of Fallout 3

When I was younger I outright plagiraized scenes from games (elementary).  As I got older they were just refrences to mechanics or a line here or there.

I've never had to, because video games are a huge part of my culture. Then again, that much should be obvious.

No. I once snuck in pun of sexual nature, though.

Actually, you know... I probably have, but just not in essays.

In French class, we had to write a story. I dressed up as Mario and took pictures so I didn't have to draw the hero the characters. Does that count?

I know I've referenced games in some essays, but I couldn't tell you exactly now. It's been a long time... How have you been?

I never used game material,  but when I was in high school I would randomly insert the word helicopter to see if the teachers were really reading my work. it was only caught a few times.

There was one weird assignment one of my college professors wanted us to do. We were imputing data into excel, and he wanted us to put the names and phone numbers of 3 of our friends into some mock contact list. I thought that was weird, so I listed Frank West, Albert Wesker and Nathan Spencer as my friends, and made up some phone numbers for them.

In an essay I was writing for a film paper, I had to write about a guy called Frank Krutnik.

So in one of the footnotes (which was linked to some random piece of work I was citing) I wrote "Frank Krutnik = Dr. Robotnik!?!?"

I haven't got the mark back yet, so time will tell if my fabulous wordplay will lead to success or failure

There was a pedobear on a piece of Psychology work I did once.

When I worked at  a doggy day care I convinced someone to name their puggle (pug/beagle mix) puppy Dig Doug.  

I don't sneak in references.

I had an assignment in business management which i had to pick a person who has impacted an industry. I chose Miyamoto and the Nintendo franchise, got an A on that assignment and passed my class

I ended my A-Level comparison between 1984 and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest with a reference to Half Life 2.

In my university Poetics class, I wrote a paper on my favourite James Joyce story, "The Dead."  I usually titled my papers with a smart-ass title followed by a description.  That paper was called "Knee Deep in The Dead: An Examination of" ... something or other, I don't remember.  Anyway, I'm not sure if my prof caught the DOOM reference, but I don't think she did.  She was also stunningly beautiful.  Good times.

i wrote an essay about whether violent video games should be banned.  (answer was no)

I used a few lines of dialogue from Metal Gear Solid. Can't remember which though.

I did a presentation on video games and how they're not as bad as they appear. Got full marks for it, which was pleasing to say the least.

Snuck them in?  When I did, I made them overt to the point of putting in footnotes.

I have many times.

Once used Enter the Matrix as a source for a quote from Hume

sometimes I say "is a lie"

I used the Civilization series' in game wiki (called civilopedida) a lot to copy/paste info from. Never got caught obviously. But this doesn't count right?

I was once working on an essay for a 20th Century History class, while joking around with a friend and we were writing dumb shit in our essays.