Real-world References

The world of Steins;Gate contains many references to real world subjects or people. This page contains all references found in both the game and the anime series.

List of references

 * John Titor was the username of a real-life blogger who posted on various threads and pages in 2000, claiming to be a time traveller from 2036 trying to travel back to 1975 to find an IBM5100 personal computer. The real-life Titor also made various predictions of future events, however none of those has actually happened.
 * IBM_5100_-_MfK_Bern.jpg IBN 5100 is an almost direct parody of the real-world IBM 5100 (both in name and appearance) produced by IBN in 1975 and discontinued in 1978. Like depicted in Steins;Gate, the real IBM 5100 supports APL and BASIC programming and offered 3 problem solving libraries.
 * The organization SERN was most likely based off of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a.k.a CERN.
 * The past-altering D-mail is shortened from "Delorean Mail". Delorean is the name of the time-travelling car from the Back to the Future series. The series is mentioned by Kurisu Makise and Itaru Hashida in the game.
 * The Upa toy series is based on the fictional RaiNet Access-Battlers game, which later receives a (fictional) anime series. RaiNet Access-Battlers features elements from Pokemon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh! in general and the main character of the RaiNet anime was an Upa called Kakeru-kun, who were based on a "mouse-like electrical creature" (a.k.a. Pikachu).
 * The RaiNet game heavily resembles the playstyle from Yu-Gi-Oh! and Duel Masters.
 * @channel was based on the real-life 2channel.
 * The CRT Store and Yuugo Tennouji's nickname of Mr. Braun is a direct reference to the real-world inventor of Cathode Ray Tubes, German Physicist Ferdinand Braun.
 * The Future Gadgets drew inspirations from fictional anime series, which are in turn parodies of real-world anime series:
 * FG#1: "Bit Particle Cannon" - was inspired by the series "Mobile Brave Gunbam", which is a parody of "Mobile Suit Gundam".
 * FG#2: "Bamboo-copter Camera' Alternative edition Ver.2.67" - was inspired by the anime "22-emon, which is a parody of "Doraemon".
 * FG#4: "Moad Snake" - was inspired by the by fictional stealth game "Metal Moar Solid; Rising", which is a nod to the then-introduced Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
 * FG#5: "Once Again I've Connected Something Useless, by Goemon" - was inspired by "Lupants the 3rd", which is a parody of "Lupin the 3rd".
 * The name of the gadget is a reference to Goemon in Lupin, who was supposedly a great swordsman and could cut everything with his sword, except jelly. He would usually say "Once again, I've cut something useless".
 * FG#6: "Cyalume Saber" - was inspired by the "Spark Wars" game from Chaos;Head, which is a parody of Star Wars.
 * FG#7: "Active-Shell Optical Camouflage Ball" - influenced by the fictional manga "Ghost in the Squad", which is parodied from "Ghost in the Shell".
 * Various Nordic mythological terms were used as "operation names" by Rintarou Okabe.
 * The video streaming website featured in Steins;Gate is called MewTube, a parody of the real-world YouTube.
 * In episode 18 of the anime, when Kurisu brings Rintarou some new clothes for his date, the bags she brings back are from UNIQLO, a real clothing chain that has many stores around the world.