- This article is about video game references on the show. For a list of the South Park video games, see Portal:Games.
Many episodes of South Park revolve around either video games or video game consoles.
Fictional Games[]
Chinpokomon[]
Chinpokomon is a parody of the real franchise, Pokémon. In "Chinpokomon", the cartoon, video game, and toys are used as tools by the Japanese to recruit children into bombing Pearl Harbor a second time. Through the use of an actress within the game, she hypnotizes the boys with flashing lights while teaching them commands in broken English.
Terrance and Phillip Give Us Your Money Mobile Game[]
"Terrance and Phillip Give Us Your Money Mobile Game"
A game app for smart-phones originating from Canada appearing in "Freemium Isn't Free". It is a pointless game wherein the player collects and buys "Canada-dough" on the screen in order to buy buildings thus fueling the real Canada's economy. The game was created by Canadian Minister of Mobile Gaming, who turned out to be the Canadian Devil, Beelzaboot. The game is believed to be a parody of mobile games such as "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" and "Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff", as the logo, title screen, and interface are nearly identical.
Real Games[]
Batman: Arkham City[]
The cover of this game is shown in "1%", when Cartman is looking for his Clyde Frog, after he finds out that someone broke into his room.
Call of Duty: World at War[]
World at War in "The Ungroundable".
Everyone is playing it at the start of the episode "The Ungroundable".
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare[]
Seen in "#REHASH" when Gerald asks Kyle if he wants to go to the bowling Alley, he refuses and wants to instead play Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare with Ike.
Ike is more engaged in watching YouTube commentator PewDiePie play Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare than actually playing it with his brother Kyle.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
In "Margaritaville", Cartman betrays Kyle for the game.
Dragon Age: Inquisition[]
In "#REHASH", Kyle wanted to get Ike out of his room, so he invited Ike's friends over for a slumber party to play Dragon Age: Inquisition. Instead, they watched PewDiePie playing Dragon Age.
Grand Theft Auto V[]
The game was mentioned by Cartman in "Let Go, Let Gov", when he went to Amazon to see if they had a copy of the game.
Butters compares virtual reality and Grand Theft Auto while rampaging through town in "Grounded Vindaloop".
Guitar Hero[]
Guitar Hero is the main plot device for "Guitar Queer-O". Stan and Kyle attempt to become superstars in the game.
L.A. Noire[]
Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are shown playing L.A. Noire on Xbox 360 in "You're Getting Old", shortly after Stan is diagnosed with cynicism.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain[]
In the "Black Friday" three-parter, the PlayStation 4 "Brack Friday Bunduru" includes a pre-order coupon for this game.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate[]
Tweek Tweak and Craig Tucker are seen playing this together in "Tweek x Craig".
Minecraft[]
Minecraft is part of the main plot in "Informative Murder Porn".
Fortnite[]
Various costumes from "The Scoots" resemble outfits from the Battle Royale mode of the game, which was previously mentioned by Cartman in "Dead Kids".
Rock Band[]
Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny playing Rock Band in "Whale Whores".
Stan is upset about the slaughtering of whales and tries to recruit his friends to help stop it. Uninterested in his endeavors, Cartman ridicules Stan while singing Lady Gaga's song "Poker Face", modifying the lyrics to insult Stan and his cause.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11[]
PGA Tour 11 in "Sexual Healing".
Cartman and Stan are seen playing a fictional version of this game in "Sexual Healing".
The game mirrored the real life incidences of Tiger Woods' life, ranging from the fight with his wife to reconciliation, and his eventual return to golf. After the fighting part of the game ended and the golf part began, Cartman and Stan proclaim golf games to be boring again.
The Settlers of Catan[]
Shelly and Larry playing the game in "Broadway Bro Down".
The Settlers of Catan is a strategy farming board game. The goal of the game is to build settlements and acquire resources; the most productive settlement with the most land wins. Shelly Marsh and her new friend Larry Feegan are seen playing the game during the Season Fifteen episode, "Broadway Bro Down".
World of Warcraft[]
- Main article: World of Warcraft
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is the main plot in "Make Love, Not Warcraft".
Counter-Strike[]
Kyle, Tolkien, Butters, Clyde, Craig, Jimmy, and Stan going to a cabin to play Counter-Strike with Eric Cartman.
In "Skank Hunt". Stan, Kyle, Tolkien, Butters, Craig, Clyde, and Jimmy invite Cartman to play Counter-Strike with them because they think Eric is skankhunt42. That results in Stan, Kyle, Tolkien, Butters, Clyde, Craig, and Jimmy breaking all of Eric Cartman's electronics.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege[]
Butters and Cartman, along with Kenny and Kyle, are seen playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at Kyle's house in split-screen on Co-op mode (which is not included in the real game) in "Hummels & Heroin". Stan ended up blocking the TV screen behind as he having a conversation.
Red Dead Redemption 2[]
In "Time To Get Cereal", Red Dead Redemption II is part of a running gag, as the game is mentioned multiple times throughout the episode.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order[]
In "Turd Burglars", Harriet Biggle asks Kyle to get some of his mother's feces so she can perform her own fecal transplant in exchange for a copy of the game. Later, Mr. Mackey offers to give Stan, Cartman, and Kenny all their own copies of the game in exchange for some of Sheila's feces. The game was released less than two weeks prior to the episode.
Fictional Game Consoles[]
Unknown Game Console[]
Seen in "Chinpokomon", resembles a Model 2 Sega Genesis.
Okama GameSphere[]
- Main article: 2001 Okama Gamesphere
First seen in "Towelie" as a gift from Sharon to the boys. It has made rare appearances throughout the series. It appears to be a parody of the Nintendo GameCube. The only game mentioned for the system is called Thirst for Blood. The console appears as a junk item in South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Trivia[]
- "Okama" is Japanese for "gay person" or "male transvestite".
Prominence[]
- "It's Christmas in Canada" - Seen in the window of a store.
- "Goobacks" - Seen in the window of a store.
- "You Got F'd in the A" - Seen at the arcade during the pizza party.
- "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - In the background of Jenkins apartment.
- "1%" - Tolkien Black has one in his room when Eric Cartman stays the night.
Okama DreamBox[]
This console appears as an artifact in South Park: The Fractured But Whole, it is a parody of the Sega Dreamcast.
Real Game Consoles[]
ColecoVision[]
This console appeared in "Chickenpox" at the McCormick Residence. It is an older console from the early 1980s.
Nintendo DS[]
Never seen, but Cartman owns one as he wanted Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Nintendo GameCube[]
In the Go God Go two-parter, the science museum that Cartman goes to in the future has a Gamecube to the left of the Wii, despite the fact that previous episodes have used the aforementioned "Gamesphere" instead.
Wii[]
Cartman waits for a Wii to come out in the two-parter, "Go God Go" and "Go God Go XII".
PlayStation[]
In the Mandarin Chinese and Polish dubs of "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", the Dreamcast references were changed to PlayStation. It is cited in the Polish dub that no one in Poland knew what a Dreamcast was.
Never actually seen, but the boys wanted to buy one in the Mandarin Chinese and Polish dubs of "The Tooth. Cartman had come up with the idea, and the boys had become extremely crazy about it. The whole episode revolved around them getting it, but could not raise the money.
PlayStation Portable[]
The PlayStation Portable (also known as the PSP) appeared in "Best Friends Forever". It was apparently sent down to Earth by God to find the next Keanu Reeves.
Sega Dreamcast[]
Never actually seen, but the boys wanted to buy one in "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000". Cartman had come up with the idea, and the boys had become extremely crazy about it. The whole episode revolved around them getting it, but sadly they could not raise the money.
Xbox[]
- Main article: Xbox
Xbox is a gaming console brand created and owned by Microsoft. Xbox 360 appeared in "Tsst" and Xbox One had a major role in the Black Friday trilogy along with PlayStation 4.
Xbox One vs. Playstation 4 Wars[]
In the three-part episode "Black Friday" the towns children are divided between which will be the better gaming system this holiday season. A war ensues pitting the friends against each other, but in the end, Xbox wins. However, the boys are distraught by the brutality of the war and decide that playing outside is better than video games, in general.
Oculus Rift[]
- Main article: Oculus Rift
The Oculus Rift is the main plot of "Grounded Vindaloop" where the boys are stuck in the game and trying to decide if their world is real or not.