The game's villain, Leona Humpford, is an obvious parody of real estate investor Leona Helmsley, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1989. At one point in the game, Leona explains her responsibility to "little people", a reference to the "Only the little people pay taxes" quote that was attributed to Helmsley. Also, Leona Humpford's husband, like Helmsley's, was named Harry.
The Nintari videogame is a portmanteau of Nintendo and Atari.
In the town there is a building of Dyna-Mix software company - a pun on the game developer Dynamix Inc.
Among the toys in Brianna's room there is Darbie and Ken playhouse - a pun on the fashion dolls Barbie and Ken.
When Willy puts the tape-recorder at the phone booth, he can listen to various radio shows by pressing on the buttons, one of them is the Lush Limberger show on KTOK - a parody on the conservative American talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh.