E2L2, "Incubator", has at least two occurrences of the number 1138.Later on, the player encounters Hannibal Lecter standing in his prison cell.The poster in one of the cells covering a tunnel to the outside is a reference to The Shawshank Redemption.The bar music sounds a bit like the Mortal Kombat theme and is named "Mortail Wombat".On the TVs in the bar area of the strip club is OJ Simpson's white Bronco.The "innocent?" billboard at the beginning of the level is reportedly also referring to OJ Simpson. A Balls of Steel pinball machine in the arcade (Apogee would later release Balls of Steel for Windows).A Duke Nukem II game in the arcade (the previous game in the series).It's a reference to the song "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. 867 5309 written on the wall in the cinema restroom.The level is based on Escape from New York.In the leaked beta, there is a mention of a level named " Apogee Arms Hotel".According to a script file in the leaked beta, one of the levels was going to take place on the Santa Monica Pier.As seen in the concept art, a "Caterkillar" (a play on the tool and machine manufacturer Caterpillar) laser chainsaw was intended to be one of the weapons.This is a reference to the slasher movie genre. One screenshot has the main entrance of a cinema with the movie title "Slashmaster II".Some development screenshots, released concept art and the leaked beta version also have some which never made it to the final game:.One of the levels (E2L1) partially takes place in the Los Angeles River.Hollywood Boulevard, Vine Street and part of the Hollywood Walk of Fame all appear in the game.An overview of Los Angeles (based on real photograph(s)) is shown in end-of-level graphics of E2 when the debug mode is off.The Capitol Records building is featured in E2L4.A trap which periodically shoots flames (it is also fully functional in the final game but unused).Two pieces of music: "Goin' down the Fast Way" and "Mist Ache".Some assets are also from Rise of the Triad which was also under production at the time:.Some elevators in E1L7 play Van Morrison's "Brown-Eyed Girl".There are True Lies posters in one level (E1L6).One level (E2L4) also has a window with the text "Cola-Cola" painted on it. They refer to similar health items in the first two Duke Nukem games, and their brand name is "Cola-Cola" which refers to the real-world drink Coca-Cola. There are health-giving cola cans as single items and as sixpacks scattered around the game world.LameDuke, an old beta version of the game, has a few:.
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