Which elevator is the AKIRA reference?

[Dark Redshift]

TV tropes says the elevator in Unforseen Consequences is based off on it but I've never seen the show nor read the manga so I don't know what one they mean. Is it the glass elevator leading down to the test lab, the spinning elevator to the test chamber's main floor or is it the inclinator with the headcrab ambush?

[SURVIVOR-DUP]

Uh?

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Teabλg Johnson:

Uh?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HalfLife

Under shout out

[pakika]

It's that slow sloping elevator with all the headcrabs sliding down it. As you can see in this picture, they look nearly identical- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOaMpHTm_xk/maxresdefault.jpg

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Spookikakiker:

It's that slow sloping elevator with all the headcrabs sliding down it. As you can see in this picture, they look nearly identical- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOaMpHTm_xk/maxresdefault.jpg

Ah I see now, thanks. The one in Lambda Core and the expansions must have been patially based on it too. Granted, inclinator elevators really do exist and not just in the form of stair lifts:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRwhC9xXIAEXz79.jpg

https://sourceable.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/tube-escalator.jpg

By extension, the "giant meat grinder" in the water below Half Life's "AKIRA inclinator" is most likely the machinery's pulley, similar to how furnicular trams work.