How did a cult-classic Xbox game sneak onto a Netflix show?

Music used:
A Familiar Place (Plains Tutorial) - Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon OST
Everything Else Will Follow - Trevor Kowalski
The Awards Show - Patrick Smith
Paradigm Shift - Gavin Luke
Innuendo - Phello
Zen Den - Auxjack
Atlas 17 - Ooyy
Hanu Dixit - Realization
eerie - pearlescent sands (free)
Rise Of The Jinx - Rannar Sillard
fjaril - bomull
Meanwhile Uptown - Dusty Decks
Flower Burst - Giants' Nest
Worn Down (Scholar's Retreat) - Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon OST

Videos used:
The 94th Annual Academy Awards
Elite, S2 E04 - "59 hours missing"
The Sopranos S1 E4 - "Meadowlands"
Ozark, S2 E03 - “Once a Langmore…”
Breaking Bad, S4 E07 - "Problem Dog"

[Cimlite]

_"Why does the Netflix logo fly towards you? Why is it red? I couldn't stop thinking about it... I had to know... so I booked a flight to Japan."_ - Nick Robinson, probably

[Gameboygenius]

Basically, it will be so insignificant that no one in their right mind should care about it. Yet, I will be fully emotionally invested in it and almost cry at the end.

[GhostsGraveyard]

I almost cried a little when you showed it to the creator. He looked so happy

[EroticWhale]

This is why we love Nick, he will turn reviving dead pokemon into a half hour epic, but digging for 2 years on why an obscure game's pause menu shows up in a Spanish teen Netflix drama is just 14 mins. Spectacular lmao

[Owlero]

The thing I'm most impressed with is that Nick's average video production is measured in *years* not days, or weeks.

[Ikcatcher]

Nick Robinson on his way to blow my mind and get me emotional with his perilous journey to solve a mystery no one even considered until now

[thenarrator]

This man is probably the only person who could get me interested about this topic

[lordkanti]

I got some more lore to add to the phantom Dust rabbit hole.
Back when Microsoft announced the remaster of PD but before the trailer was shown at that games conference. A radio station was hosting Vincent Gallo on one of their shows. The DJ was named Brian, or Ben, something simple. I don’t remember the name of his show but it was late evening, 11p or 12 am idk.
They were taking calls and you could ask questions. So when I was able to make it through, I first shared my appreciation for his art but followed up my question with; if he remembered phantom dust. I then told him that they were making a remaster and asked if his music was going to be used in the games credits again. He said he didn’t hear anything from Microsoft or knew anything about a remake but he said he was onboard if they wanted his music for the credits.
Then shorty after it was announced that phantom dust was on hiatus. Then all the other things about the development team.
I always tried to find that broadcasting but that was almost 10 years ago now. Just a cool moment to speak to the guy who was apart of my favorite game.

[boahneelassmal]

working on various movies on set I learnt two things:
1) budgets are tight, therefore production is cheap where-ever it can be
and 2) there are massive geeks working on movies that will hide easter eggs to their cultural upbringing when-ever they can but it is extremely difficult.

meaning: any live gaming you see is in 95% of the cases a youtube video with the mouse and keyboard disconnected (yes, we did exactly that and yes, even pause screens, because this will cause the least potential issues).
such dominant shots are rarely gonna contain something someone on set is a massive geek of. These are going to be hidden much more subtle because you should not visibly influence the chracter's personality and properties. in other words: the personality of a character is defined by the script, not by set designers. hiding small items in the background is rarely an issue though, so this is where you'll find little items placed by on-set crew sometimes.

[BlazeArceus]

If I had a nickel for every time there was an inexplicable and prominent appearance of a multiplayer Xbox One game based on a decades-dormant piece of
IP revived decades later by Microsoft as a
Free-to-Play game developed under the
supervision of Ken Lobb in
Season 2 of a Netflix Original Series, I’d have 2 nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[z-beeblebrox]

Asking Yukio about it was totally a win-win question. You got to capture his reaction to seeing the pause menu, which was totally great, but had you shown it to him and he had said "Oh yes I know about that", it would've ALSO being an astonishing moment.

[urielruiz]

Nick is still, somehow, going to end up in Japan

[GrimmShane]

"in order to find out who and why this game appeared on this show, I booked a flight to spain."
- Alternate timeline Nick

[officialblimp]

I love how the creator of the game didn’t even know about his game’s appearance in Elite

[RyutaShinohara]

Élite is known in Spain because of how incongruous its argument is, apart from being one of most mainstream Spanish shows nowadays. This is definitely the cherry on top.

[cymbrol]

This is like the time Cave Story was being played in the background on an episode of Suite Life on Deck.

[Problematist]

Like Nick said in his last video "Everything about Phantom Dust is an anomaly" and it seems like it will continue to be.

[tim.martin]

Setup for the killer instinct line was pure genius.

[Cyranek]

surprised nick didn't fly to japan to meet the guy who's game recording was used in the show

[Lost_n_Found_]

"Very skinny, very feminine boys, " had me rolling, lmao.