
Subspace doors) first appeared in Super Mario 64.
When Scott's sister, Stacey Pilgrim, is introduced, the rating under her information is "T for Teen." Coincidentally, the book is also rated T. When Ramona Flowers explains Subspace Highways to Scott, he replies "Is it like in Super Mario 2?" Mario 2's definition is actually pretty darn close to it despite Ramona disagreeing. This is a reference to games like River City Ransom where a player gets coins for defeating an enemy. When Matthew is defeated, Scott receives a prize of coins. Scott "air juggling" Matthew could be a reference to the air juggle that's common in many Beat 'em Up games. The number '64' could be a reference to the Nintendo 64 console. Scott gets 64 hits total on his air juggle.
Scott uses a reversal and later a Shoryuken (dragon punch) from the Street Fighter games on Matthew during their fight. During the battle with Matthew, Scott's group uses a dance sequence from Space Channel 5. Matthew Patel's demon girls use fireballs as an attack, which is a common attack in video games. The said arcade at Pacific Mall does exist and does have the DrumMania game. The drummer of Crash and the Boys, Trisha "Trasha" Ha, is said to be discovered by the other two members of the band seeing her playing DrumMania at the Pacific Mall Arcade. The band that plays before Sex Bob-Omb, Crash and the Boys, is named after the game Crash 'n the Boys Street Challenge, a sports game for the NES. Scott says that he would like to "turn into a morphing ball and roll to the bathroom," which is a power of Samus Aran from the Metroid series. When Scott has lunch with Wallace and Other Scott, Scott can be seen wearing a shirt with the Sonic and Knuckles logo on it. the World the term is used again by Tamara when referring to Knives' decision to bleach her hair. This is a reference to the enemy featured in Mother 2 / Earthbound as well as the term "fresh off the boat" since Knives mentions him being an immigrant to Canada.
During Scott's first outing with Knives, she uses the term "Fobby" to describe a boy at her school.
The band Sex Bob-omb is named after an enemy in the Super Mario series called Bob-omb. The consoles that Wallace has are what looks like a PS2, an NES, and an SNES. The character Stephen Stills is a reference to Stephen Stills from Crosby, Stills and Nash who performed the second song on the Nintendo released album "white knuckle scorin".