Having read the Akira comic books in my teenage years, I never knew that this is the origin of all those diagonal elevators in games. I just assumed them to be a thing in the real world and never questioned that up to now.
Crazy that so many games adopted it. The comments on YouTube mentionmany more games than featured in the video.
I checked it out. I stopped after one and a half minutes because I didn't have a clue what's going on. I only then saw that I am looking at part 2 of a series. I suggest to make that clear, when you post a link here.