{"id":1605,"date":"2008-04-16T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:38:55","slug":"four-five-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"Four-Five-One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In System Shock, the very first keypad-controlled door you encounter has an access code of 451.<\/li>\n<li>In System Shock 2, the first keypad-controlled door you encounter has the access code of 45100.<\/li>\n<li>In Deus Ex, the first keypad (for the little com station just outside of UNATCO headquarters) is 0451.<\/li>\n<li>In Deus Ex &#8211; Invisible War, the game was simplified so that you no longer entered keycodes. (One of many concessions made on behalf of console players, alas.)  But you begin the game in room 451 of Tarsus Academy.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><table width='256'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/deiw_451.jpg' class='insetimage' width='256' alt='Deus Ex Invisible War &#8211; Room 451' title='Deus Ex Invisible War &#8211; Room 451'\/><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class='insetcaption'>In the second Deus Ex game, you begin the game in room 451 of Tarsus Academy.<\/td><\/tr><\/table>These games are loosely related, in that they had many of the same developers and designers over the years, even as the company behind the games changed.  So I suspect this is something done intentionally and not just a random numeric fluke.  But I still don&#8217;t get it.  Is there something special about the number 451 that I&#8217;m missing?  Is this somehow a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a> that I&#8217;m not seeing?  <\/p>\n<p>For those that played Bioshock &#8211; did this number appear anywhere in the opening scenes of the game? Does the number 451 pop up in the opening scenes \/ tutorials of any other games? <\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Zerotime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deusex-machina.com\/articles\/makingofdeusex.asp\">comes up with the goods<\/a> in the comments below. 451 was originally a Fahrenheit 451 nod, and is now perpetuated for its own sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve noticed: In System Shock, the very first keypad-controlled door you encounter has an access code of 451. In System Shock 2, the first keypad-controlled door you encounter has the access code of 45100. In Deus Ex, the first keypad (for the little com station just outside of UNATCO headquarters) is 0451. In Deus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[76,46],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-deus-ex","tag-system-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}