Easter egg

Easter eggs are intentional inside jokes or hidden messages scattered within various forms of media. The Ace Combat series contains a large number of Easter eggs within its games, typically referencing other Ace Combat games or Namco properties.

List of Easter eggs
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 * In Donet City, there are several advertisements, some of which display.

List of Easter eggs
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 * In the mission Jewel Box, there are several advertisements in buildings throughout Port Edwards. They include:
 * The  series' mascot,
 * , a Ridge Racer vehicle manufacturer
 * The (incorrectly spelled as "Istanet"), a vehicle from 
 * Almighty Human Project, an arcade racing game released in 1998
 * "WonderPage", the original name for Namco's official website at http://www.namco.co.jp/
 * A Cessna-like light aircraft with water pontoons, an aircraft that appears repeatedly throughout the Ridge Racer series
 * (incorrectly spelled as "Terazzi"), a Ridge Racer vehicle manufacturer and an in 
 * AERO, a COFFIN model
 * A Port Edwards restaurant named "KFO"
 * A Port Edwards hotel named "G Room"
 * A musician named "GNO"
 * A Port Edwards welcome sign
 * Two unknown images and the number 1000 below each, supposedly items from some video game
 * Namco Plug-in-Days, likely a reference to
 * Something referred to as "Kantalis CS.D.Dept.e-3"
 * In the same mission, Jewel Box, a building with the word "Namco" on top appears near the enemy unit farthest to the south.
 * The enemy targets in Cuckoo's Nest, on Hard difficulty, make the shape of on the radar.

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 * -|Ace Combat Infinity====Ace Combat Infinity===
 * Two times during the teaser trailer, the 1983 arcade game Mappy is referenced. During the first half of the trailer, someone is humming the theme song to the Mappy game. For a split second in the second half, a pair of wireless headphones are displayed, which have a digitalized white silhouette of Mappy himself on the right side.
 * Infinity has already made numerous references to other Ace Combat games. They are as follows:
 * The space object hitting the Earth in the trailer is reminiscent of the Ulysses (AC04 and AC6).
 * Images were displayed of structures that look familiar to Stonehenge (AC04) and P-1112 Aigaion (AC6).
 * Both Edge (AC5) and P-1113 Kottos (AC6) were mentioned in the teaser campaign.
 * Original aircraft such as the ASF-X Shinden II (ACAH) and CFA-44 Nosferatu (AC6 and ACAH) were seen in the trailer as well.

Outside Easter eggs
Other franchises have made references to Ace Combat through Easter eggs in their media as well.

Ridge Racer
The Ridge Racer series repeatedly makes references to Ace Combat. Many games feature vehicles with custom decals of groups and technology, such as the ISAF and the Arkbird.

Tekken
In Tekken 6's scenario campaign mode, a number of CFA-44 Nosferatu can be seen parked in area G Security Service, Operations Headquarters.

Battlefield
The old map of Strangereal is displayed as part of an advertisement for a dinosaur museum in Operation Métro, a DLC map in Battlefield 4.

Sword Art Online
Advertisements for Ace Combat Infinity can be seen in the first scenes of episode 1 and 8 of Sword Art Online II anime.

Taiko no Tatsujin
Several song from Ace Combat series are playable in the game itself, such as "In the Zone" from Joint Assault, "Night and Day" from Ace Combat 2, "Fighter's Honor" from Assault Horizon Legacy and recently Comona from "Shattered Skies" was announced as a playable song in Taiko no Tatsujin V version for PSVita.